The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1808-05-10 00:00:00

Mem. 622a Bontlett, 6095
Important State PAPER.
FROM MR. MADISON, TO MR. ROSE.
Department of State, March 5, 1808.
Sir—I have had the honor to receive and lay before the President, your letter of the 26th January, in which you state, that you are "expressly precluded by your instructions from entering upon any negotiation for the adjustment of the differences arising from the encounter of his Britannic majesty's ship the Leopard, and the frigate of the U. States, the Chesapeake, as long as the proclamation of the President of the 2d of July, 1807, shall be in force."
This demand, sir, might justly suggest the simple answer, that before the proclamation of the President could become a subject of consideration, satisfaction should be made for the acknowledged aggression which preceded it. This is evidently agreeable to the order of time, to the order of reason, and, it may be added, to the order of usage, as maintained by G. Britain, whenever in analogous cases, she has been the complaining party.
But as you have subjoined to the preliminary demand, certain explanations, with a view, doubtless to obviate such an answer, it will best accord with the candor of the President, to meet them with such a review of the whole subject, as will present the solid grounds on which he regards such a demand, as inadmissible.
I begin with the occurrences from which the proclamation of July 2d, resulted. These are in general terms referred to, by the instrument itself. A more particular notice of the most important of them, will here be in place.
Passing over then, the habitual but minor irregularities of his Britannic majesty's ships of war, in making the hospitalities of our ports, subservient to the annoyance of our trade, both outward and inward, a practice not only contrary to the principles of public law, but expressly contrary to British ordinances enforced during maritime wars, to which she bore a neutral relation, I am constrained, unwelcome as the task is, to call your attention to the following more prominent instances.
In the summer of the year 1804, the British frigate the Cambrian with other cruisers in company, entered the harbor of N. York. The commander, Capt. Bradley, in violation of the port laws, relating both to health and revenue, caused a merchant vessel, just arrived, and confessedly within the limits and under the authority of the U. States, to be boarded by persons under his command, who, after resisting the officers of the port, in the legal exercise of their functions, actually impressed and carried off a number of seamen and passengers into the service of the ships of war. On an appeal to his voluntary respect for the laws, he first failed to give up the offenders to justice, and finally repelled the officer charged with the regular process for the purpose.
This procedure was not only a flagrant insult to the sovereignty of the nation, but an infringement of its neutrality also, which did not permit a belligerent ship thus to augment its force within the neutral territory.
To finish the scene, this commander went so far as to declare, in an official letter, to the minister plenipotentiary of his Britannic majesty, and by him communicated to this government, that he considered his ship, whilst lying in the harbor of New York, as having dominion around her, within the distance of her buoys.
All these circumstances were duly made known to the British government in just expectation of honorable reparation. None has ever been offered. Capt. Bradley was advanced from his frigate to the command of a ship of the line.
At a subsequent period, several British frigates under the command of captain Whitby, of the Leander, pursuing the practice of vexing the inward and outward trade of our ports, and hovering for that purpose about the entrance of that of New York, closed a series of irregularities, with an attempt to arrest a coasting vessel, on board of which an American citizen was killed by a cannon ball which entered the vessel, whilst within less than a mile from the shore.
The blood of a citizen thus murdered, in a trade from one to another port of his own country, and within the sanctuary of its territorial jurisdiction, could not fail to arouse the sensibility of the public, and to make a solemn appeal to the justice of the British government. The case was presented moreover to that government by this, in the accent which it required; and with due confidence that the offender would receive the exemplary punishment which he deserved. That there might be no failure of legal proof of a fact sufficiently notorious of itself, unexceptionable witnesses to establish it were sent to Great Britain at the expence of the U. States.
Captain Whitby was notwithstanding honorably acquitted; no animadversion took place on any other officer belonging to the squadron; nor has any apology or explanation been made since the trial was over, as a conciliatory offering to the disappointment of this country at such a result.
A case of another character occurred in the month of September, 1806. The Impetueux, a French ship of 74 guns, when aground within a few hundred yards of the shore of North Carolina, and therefore visibly within the territorial jurisdiction and hospitable protection of the United States, was fired upon, boarded and burnt,
from three British ships of war, under the command of Captain Douglass. Having completed this outrage on the sovereignty and neutrality of the United States, the British commander felt no scruple in proceeding thence into the waters near Norfolk, nor in the midst of the hospitalities enjoyed by him, to add to what had passed a refusal to discharge from his ships, impressed citizens of the United States not denied to be such, on the plea that the government of the United States had refused to surrender to the demand of Admiral Berkeley, certain seamen alleged to be British deserters; a demand which it is well understood your government disclaims any right to make.
It would be very superfluous to dwell on the features which mark this aggravated insult. But I must be permitted to remind you, that in so serious a light was a similar violation of neutral territory, by the destruction of certain French ships on the coast of Portugal, by a British squadron under the command of admiral Boscawan, regarded by the court of Great Britain, that a minister extraordinary was dispatched for the express purpose of expiating the aggression on the sovereignty of a friendly power.
Lastly presents itself, the attack by the British ship of war Leopard, on the American frigate Chesapeake; a case too familiar in all its circumstances to need a recital of any part of them. It is sufficient to remark that the conclusive evidence which this event added to that which had preceded, of the uncontrolled excesses of the British naval commanders, in insulting our sovereignty, and abusing our hospitality, determined the President to extend to all British armed ships, the precaution heretofore applied to a few by name, of interdicting to them the use and privileges of our harbors and waters.
This was done by his proclamation of July 2, 1807, referring to the series of occurrences, ending with the aggression on the frigate Chesapeake, as the considerations requiring it. And if the apprehension from the licentious spirit of the British naval commanders, thus developed and uncontrolled, which led to this measure of precaution, could need other justification than was afforded by what had passed, it would be amply found in the subsequent conduct of the ships under the command of the same captain Douglass.
This officer neither admonished by reflections on the crisis produced by the attack on the Chesapeake, nor controlled by respect for the law of nations, or the laws of the land, did not cease within our waters to bring to, by firing at vessels pursuing their regular course of trade; and in the same spirit which had displayed itself in the recent outrage committed on the American frigate, he not only indulged himself in hostile threats, and indications of a hostile approach to Norfolk, but actually obstructed our citizens in the ordinary communication between that and the neighboring places. His proceedings constituted in fact, a blockade of the port, and as real an invasion of the country, according to the extent of his force, as if troops had been debarked, and the town besieged on the land side.
Was it possible for the chief magistrate of a nation, who felt for its rights and its honor, to do less than interpose some measure of precaution at least against the repetition of enormities which had been so long uncontrolled by the government whose officers had committed them, and which had at last taken the exorbitant shape of hostility and of insult seen in the attack on the frigate Chesapeake? Candor will pronounce that less could not be done; and it will as readily admit that the proclamation comprising that measure, could not have breathed a more temperate spirit, nor spoken in a more becoming tone.—How far it has received from those whose intrusions it prohibited, the respect due to the national authority, or been made the occasion of new indignities, needs no explanation.
The President having interposed this precautionary interdict, lost no time in instructing the minister plenipotentiary of the United States to represent to the British government the signal aggression which had been committed on their sovereignty and their flag, and to require the satisfaction due for it; indulging the expectation, that his Britannic majesty would at once perceive it to be the truest magnanimity, as well as the strictest justice, to offer that prompt and full expiation of an acknowledged wrong, which would re-establish and improve both in fact and in feeling the state of things which it had violated.
This expectation was considered as not only honorable to the sentiments of his majesty, but was supported by known examples, in which, being the complaining party, he had required and obtained, as a preliminary to any counter complaints whatever, a precise replacement of things, in every practicable circumstance, in their pre-existing situation.
Thus in the year 1764, Bermudians and other British subjects, who had according to annual custom, taken possession of Turk's island for the season of making salt, having been forcibly removed with their vessels and effects by a French detachment from the island of St. Domingo, to which Turk's island was alleged to be an appendage, the British ambassador at Paris, in pursuance of instructions from his government, demanded, as a satisfaction for the violence committed, that the proceedings should be disavowed, the intention of acquiring Turk's island dis-
claimed, orders given for the immediate abandonment of it on the part of the French, every thing restored to the condition in which it was at the time of the aggression, and reparation made for the damages which any British subjects should be found to have sustained, according to an estimation to be settled between the governors of St. Domingo and Jamaica. A compliance with the whole of this demand was the result.
Again—in the year 1789, certain English merchants having opened a trade at Nootka Sound, on the north west coast of America, and attempted a settlement at that place; the Spaniards, who had long claimed that part of the world as their exclusive property, dispatched a frigate to dispossess them, and to seize the two English vessels engaged in the trade, and broke up the settlement on the coast. The Spanish government was the first to complain, in this case, of the interruptions committed by the British merchants. The British government, however, demanded that the vessels taken by the Spanish frigate should be restored, and adequate satisfaction granted, previamente a any other discussion .
This demand prevailed; the Spanish government agreeing to make full restoration of the captured vessels, and to indemnify the parties interested in them for the losses sustained. They restored also the buildings and tracts of land, of which the British subjects had been dispossessed. The British, however, soon gave a proof of the little value they set on the possession, by a voluntary dereliction, under which it has since remained.
The case which will be noted last, though of a date prior to the case of Nootka Sound, is that of Falkland's Islands. These Islands lie about one hundred leagues eastward of the Straits of Magellan. The title to them had been a subject of controversy among several of the maritime nations of Europe. From the position of the Islands and other circumstances, the pretension of Spain bore an advantageous comparison with those of her competitors. In the year 1770, the British took possession of Port Egmont in one of the islands, the Spaniards being at the time in possession of another part, and protesting against a settlement by the British. The protest being without effect, ships and troops were sent from Buenos Ayres by the governor of that place, which forcibly dispossessed and drove off the British settlers.
The British government looking entirely to the disposition by force, demanded as a specific condition of preserving harmony between the two courts, not only the disavowal of the Spanish proceedings, but that the affairs of that settlement should be immediately restored to the precise state in which they were previous to the act of dispossession. The Spanish government made some difficulties; requiring particularly a disavowal, on the part of Great Britain, of the conduct of her officer at Falkland's Islands, which, it was alleged, gave occasion to the steps taken by the Spanish governor; and proposing an adjustment by mutual stipulation in the ordinary form.
The reply was, that the moderation of his Britannic majesty having limited his demand to the final reparation he could accept for the injury done, nothing was left for discussion but the mode of carrying the disavowal and restitution into execution; reparation losing its value if it be conditional , and to be obtained by any stipulation whatever from the party injured.
The Spanish government yielded. The violent proceedings of its officers were disavowed. The fort, the port, and every thing else were agreed to be immediately restored to the precise situation which had been disturbed; and duplicates of orders issued for the purpose to the Spanish officers, were delivered into the hands of one of the British principal secretaries of state. Here again it is to be remarked, that satisfaction having been made for the forcible dispossession, the islands lost their importance in the eyes of the British government, were in a short time evacuated, and Port Egmont remains with every other part of them, in the hands of Spain.
Could stronger pledges have been given, than are here found, than an honorable and instant reparation would be made in a case, differing no otherwise from those recited, than as it furnished to the same monarch of a great nation, an opportunity to prove, that adhering always to the same immutable principle, he was as ready to do right to others, as to require it for himself?
Returning to the instructions given to the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at London, I am to observe that the President thought it just and expedient to insert as a necessary ingredient in the adjustment of the outrage committed on the American frigate, a security against the future practice of the British naval commanders, in impressing from merchant vessels of the U. S. on the high seas, such of their crews as they might undertake to denominate British subjects.
To this association of the two subjects, the President was determined—1st, by his regarding both as resting on kindred principles; the immunity of private ships, with the known exceptions made by the laws of nations, being as well established as that of public ships; and there being no pretext for including in these exceptions the impressment (if it could be freed from its enormous and notorious abuses) of the subjects of a belligerent by the officers of that
belligerent. The rights of a belligerent against the ships of a neutral nation, accrue merely from the relation of the neutral to the other belligerent, as in conveying to him contraband of war, or in supplying a blockaded port.
The claim of a belligerent to search for, and seize on board neutral vessels on the high seas, persons under his allegiance, does not therefore rest on any belligerent right under the law of nations, but on a prerogative derived from municipal law; and involves the extravagant supposition, that one nation has a right to execute at all times and in all cases, its municipal laws and regulations on board the ships of another nation not being within its territorial limits.
The President was led to the same determination, 2dly, by his recollection of a similar incident into an occasion for retaking another and more extensive source of danger to the harmony of the two countries: and thirdly, by his persuasion, that the liberality of the propositions authorized with this view, would not fail to induce the ready concurrence of his Britannic majesty; and that the more extensive source of irritation and perplexity being removed, a satisfactory adjustment of the particular incident would be the less difficult. The President still thinks that such would have been the tendency of the mode for which he had provided; and he cannot, therefore, but regret that the door was shut against the experiment, by the peremptory refusal of Mr. Canning to admit it into discussion, even in the most informal manner, as was suggested by Mr. Monroe.
The President felt the greater regret, as the step he had taken towards a more enlarged and lasting accommodation, became thus a bar to the adjustment of the particular and recent aggression which had been committed against the United States. He found, however, an alleviation in the signified purpose of his Britannic majesty, to charge with this adjustment a special mission to the U. States, which, restricted as it was, seemed to indicate a disposition from which a liberal and conciliatory arrangement of one great object at least might be confidently expected.
In this confidence, your arrival was awaited with every friendly solicitude; and our first interview having opened the way by an acquiescence in the separation of the two cases insisted on by his Britannic majesty, notwithstanding the strong grounds on which they had been united by the President, it was not to be doubted that a tender of the satisfaction claimed by the U. States for a distinguished and an acknowledged insult by one of his officers, would immediately follow.
It was not, therefore, without a very painful surprise that the error of this expectation was discovered. Instead of the satisfaction due from the original aggressor, it was announced that the first step towards the adjustment must proceed from the party injured; and your letter now before me, formally repeats, that as long as the proclamation of the President, which he issued on the 2d July, 1807, shall be in force, it will be an insuperable obstacle to a negotiation, even on the subject of the aggression which preceded it; in other words, that the proclamation must be put out of force before an adjustment of the aggression can be taken into discussion.
In explaining the grounds of this extraordinary demand, it is alleged to be supported by the consideration that the proceeding and pretension of the offending officer has been disavowed; that general assurances are given of a disposition and intention in his Britannic majesty to make satisfaction; that a special minister was dispatched with promptitude, for the purpose of carrying into effect this disposition; and that you have a personal conviction that the particular terms, which you are not at liberty previously to disclose, will be deemed by the United States satisfactory.
With respect to the disavowal it would be unjust not to regard it as a proof of candor and amity towards the United States, and as some presage of the voluntary reparation which it implied to be due. But the disavowal can be the less confounded with the reparation itself; since it was sufficiently required by the respect which Great Britain owed to her own honor; it being impossible that an enlightened government had hostility been meditated, would have commenced it in such a manner, and in the midst of existing professions of peace and friendship. She owed it also to consistency with the disavowal on a former occasion in which the pretension had been enforced by a British squadron against the sloop of war Baltimore, belonging to the United States; and finally to the interest which Great Britain has, more than any other nation, in disclaiming a principle which would expose her superior number of ships of war, to so many indignities from inferior navies.
As little can the general assurances that reparation would be made, claim a return which could properly follow the actual reparation only. They cannot amount to more than a disposition, or at most a promise to do what the aggressor may deem a fulfilment of his obligation. They do not prove even a disposition to do what may be satisfactory to the injured party, who cannot have less than an equal right to decide on the sufficiency of the redress.
In dispatching a special minister for the purpose of adjusting the difference, the U. States ought cheerfully to acknowledge all the proof it affords on the part of his Britannic majesty of

his pacific views towards them, and of his respect for their friendship. But whilst they could not, under any circumstances, allow to the measure more than a certain participation in an honorable reparation, it is to be recollected that the avowed and primary object of the mission was to substitute for the more extended adjustment proposed by the U. S. at London, a separation of the subjects as preferred by his Britannic majesty, and you well know, sir, how fully this object was accomplished.
With respect to the personal conviction which you have expressed, that the terms which you decline to disclose would be satisfactory to the U. States, it is incumbent on me to observe that with the highest respect for your judgment and the most perfect confidence in your sincerity, an insuperable objection manifestly lies, to the acceptance of a personal and unexplained opinion, in place of a disclosure which would enable this government to exercise its own judgment in a case affecting so essentially its honor and its rights. Such a course of proceeding would be without example; and there can be no hazard in saying that one will never be afforded by a government which respects itself as much as yours justly does; and therefore can never be reasonably expected from one which respects itself as much as this has a right to do.
I forbear, sir, to enlarge on the intrinsic incongruity of the expedient proposed. But I must be allowed to remark, as an additional admonition of the singular and mortifying perplexity in which a compliance might involve the President, that there are in the letter of Mr. Canning, communicating to Mr. Monroe the special mission to the U. S. pregnant indications that other questions and conditions may have been contemplated which would be found utterly irreconcilable with the sentiments of this nation.
If neither any nor all of these considerations can sustain the preliminary demand made in your communication, it remains to be seen whether such a demand rests with greater advantage on the more precise ground on which you finally seem to place it.
The proclamation is considered as a hostile measure, and a discontinuance of it as due to the discontinuance of the aggression which led to it.
It has been sufficiently shown that the proclamation, as appears on the face of it, was produced by a train of occurrences terminating in the attack on the American frigate, and not by this last alone. To a demand therefore that the proclamation be revoked, it would be perfectly fair to oppose a demand that redress be first given for the numerous irregularities which preceded the aggression on the American frigate, as well as for this particular aggression, and that effectual control be interposed against repetitions of them. And as no such redress has been given for the past, notwithstanding the lapse of time which has taken place, nor any such security for the future, notwithstanding the undiminished reasonableness of it, it follows, that a continuance of the proclamation would be consistent with an entire discontinuance of one only of the occurrences from which it proceeded.
But it is not necessary to avail the argument of this view of the case, although of itself entirely conclusive. Had the proclamation been founded on the single aggression committed on the Chesapeake, and were it admitted that the discontinuance of that aggression merely, gave a claim to the discontinuance of the proclamation, the claim would be defeated by the incontestible fact, that that aggression has not been discontinued. It has never ceased to exist; and is in existence at this moment. Need I remind you, sir, that the seizure and asportation of the seamen belonging to the crew of the Chesapeake, entered into the very essence of that aggression, that with an exception of the victim to a trial forbidden by the most solemn considerations, and greatly aggravating the guilt of its author, the seamen in question are still retained, and consequently that the aggression, if in no other respect, is by that act alone continued and in force?
If the views which have been taken of the subject have the justness which they claim, they will have shown that on no ground whatever can an annulment of the proclamation of July 2d, be reasonably required, as a preliminary to the negotiation with which you are charged. On the contrary, it clearly results, from a recurrence to the causes and object of the proclamation, that, as was at first intimated, the strongest fashions of G. Britain herself, would support the demand, that previous to a discussion of the proclamation, due satisfaction should be made to the U. States; that this satisfaction ought to extend to all the wrongs which preceded and produced that act; and that even limiting the merits of the question to the single relation of the proclamation to
the wrong committed in the attack on the American frigate, and deciding the question on the principle that a discontinuance of the latter required of right a discontinuance of the former, nothing appears that does not leave such a preliminary delict of every foundation which could be assumed for it.
With a right to draw this conclusion, the President might have instructed me to close this communication, with the reply stated in the beginning of it; and perhaps in taking this course, he would only have consulted a sensibility, to which most governments would, in such a case, have yielded. But adhering to the moderation by which he has been invariably guided, and anxious to rescue the two nations from the circumstances, under which an abortive issue to your mission, necessarily places them, he has authorized me, in the event of your disclosing the terms of reparation, which you believe will be satisfactory, and on its appearing that they are so, to consider this evidence of the justice of his Britannic majesty as a pledge for an effectual interposition with respect to all the abuses against a recurrence of which the proclamation was meant to provide, and to proceed to concert with you, a revocation of that act, bearing the same date with the act of reparation to which the U. States are entitled.
I am not unaware, sir, that according to the view which you appear to have taken of your instructions, such a course of proceeding has not been contemplated by them. It is possible nevertheless, that a re-examination, in the spirit in which I am well persuaded it will be made, may discover them to be not inflexible to a proposition, in so high a degree, liberal and conciliatory. In every event the President will have manifested his willingness to meet your government on a ground of accommodation, which spares to its feelings, however misapplied he may deem them, every concession not essentially due to those which must be equally respected: and consequently will have demonstrated that the very inelastic posture given to so important a subject in the relations of the two countries, by the unsuccessful termination of your mission, can be referred to no other source, than the rigorous restrictions under which it was to be executed.
I make no apology, sir, for the long interval between the date of your letter and that under which I write. It is rendered unnecessary by your knowledge of the circumstances to which the delay is to be ascribed.
With high consideration and respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, (Signed) JAMES MADISON. George H. Rose, Esq. His Britannic majesty's minister, &c. [TO BE CONTINUED.]
National Legislature.
TENTH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, APRIL 25. The Speaker laid before the house a letter from the Secretary of the treasury inclosing a report from the comptroller relative to the mint establishment. Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Newton submitted a resolution directing the Secretary of the treasury to lay before the house at the next session an account of the fees and emoluments received by the collectors, and whether in his opinion it will be proper to encrate the same—Agreed to.
Mr. Smilie presented a petition from persons who were summoned on BURR'S TRIAL, praying compensation. Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Clark observed that as he had made certain statements to the house concerning Gen. WILKINSON, he begged leave to lay on the table the correspondence which took place between the Spanish officers, relative to the receipt of money by General Wilkinson. This statement and documents were read.
Mr. Randolph moved that they be printed. Mr. Smilie opposed the motion. Mr. Randolph called for the ayes and noes. They were taken and it was carried, ayes 52, noes 30.
On motion of Mr. Kelley, the papers were ordered to be transmitted to the President of the United States.
Mr. Holmes, from the committee of claims, to whom was referred the petition of Eugene de Beaumarchais, made a report thereon, which contains a request that the committee be discharged from the further consideration thereof. Agreed to.
Six o'clock P. M. The house met agreeably to adjournment, and took up the bill for empowering the President to suspend the operation of the non-importation law. It was moved to postpone it indefinitely—carried—57 ayes—29 noes.
Mr. G. W. Campbell moved for the appointment of a committee to unite with one from the Senate, to wait on the President and inform him of the intended adjournment of Congress. Agreed to.
Mr. Bibb said that notwithstanding the difference of opinion which had taken place occasionally between the members of this House, during the present session, on questions of policy, he was pleased to perceive that no difference of sentiment existed in regard to the injuries done us by foreign nations. He believed that but one spirit animated the people of the U. S.—That they were attached to their country and to their country alone. He wished not only by professions, but by practice to shew foreign na-
tions that we can live without them. He therefore offered the following resolutions: Resolved, That the members of the house of Representatives at their next meeting, appear in clothes, the manufacture of their own country.
After some discussion, Mr. Bibb withdrew his motion, and offered the following in its stead.
Resolved, That the house of Representatives are fully impressed with the necessity of encouraging home manufactures, and that it be recommended to the members of this house to appear at the next session of Congress, in the manufactures of their own country. This he also withdrew.
The following bills were postponed indefinitely: An act supplementary to an act fixing the military peace establishment.
An act for registering claims to land in Tennessee.
An act for the punishment of certain crimes and offences against the U. States.
An act to revive and continue in force the 19th section of an act to ascertain and fix the military peace establishment.
The committee on public lands were discharged from the further consideration of the British claims to land in the Mississippi territory.
A resolution was agreed to for remunerating the several attendants of the house for extra services; and fifty dollars voted for each.
Mr. N. R. Moore, moved to compensate the door keeper (Mr. Claxton) for their services to the house. Assented to, and 100 dollars voted for each.
Mr. Bibb renewed his resolution relative to home manufactures; but the house refused to consider it—40 to 32.
Mr. Campbell, from the committee, informed the house that the President had been waited upon agreeably to order, and that he had no further communication to make to the house.
The Speaker, (Gen. Varnum)—Permit me gentlemen, to wish you a pleasant journey home, and a happy meeting with your families and friends. This house is adjourned till the first Monday in November next.
BY THE MAILS.
BALTIMORE, APRIL 27. WORTHY OF IMITATION.
A meeting of all men who love their country and respect its laws, is requested at Peck's Hotel, this evening, at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of entering into some resolutions to prevent violations of the several acts of Congress laying an Embargo, which, it is believed, are trampled upon by a few individuals, who love gain more than their country.
The substance of the resolutions intended to be proposed for adoption, is to have watches kept for the purpose of giving information to the revenue officers of every attempt to violate a law, which, all reflecting men believe to have been enacted for the general good, and should not be trampled upon for the benefit of a few individuals deserving the detestation of their countrymen, and violating a most important regulation. A MERCHANT.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of respectability, dated, Kingston, (Jam.) March 29, 1808.
"There is not any arrivals from your quarter.—We now begin seriously to feel the effects of your embargo. Flour is now retailing at 50 dols. per barrel; corn meal at 16 dollars; rice 12 and 13 dollars per 100 lbs. The latter article was sold yesterday at 11 1-2 by the 50 tierces!! What we will do here shortly, God only knows. Nothing is the theme at present, but war between America and England. I cannot allow myself to think this is the case, though it seems the general opinion. Yesterday a new Governor arrived (say the Duke of Manchester) and London papers as late as the 26th ult. They are silent as to the differences between your country and Great Britain. A cargo of lumber would now sell well. Shingles, in particular, would pay handsomely. I would advise you to send a cargo of them the very first opening. Corn and fish are the only articles that do not rise rapidly. This is to be accounted for from the great quantity at market, and the abundant crops of provisions."
Extract of a letter, dated St. John's, Antigua, April 2, 1808.
"According to your wishes for my return home, I left Pointe Pierre the 25th ult. in the sch. Mary Ann, Capt. Barney, bound for N. York; and on the same day, 10 A.M. was captured by the British man of war brig Express, of 20 guns, Capt. Dowers, and in sight of it sail more, who lay at anchor off Marigalante and Daffadea, which islands they took on the 2d March, and still hold; he sent his boat on board, took all the papers and letters, and carried us all prisoners on board his ship; he then manned the Schooner himself, and ordered her for Antigua, keeping us on board 4 days cruising; and on the 5th day captured the American brig Margaret, bound for Baltimore, and put on board the brig myself and the crews of the Schooner, and ordered us for Antigua. We fell in with an English frigate, who ordered the captain of the brig Margaret to proceed in his voyage to America; the captain of the Margaret gave us his small boat and provisions enough to last us to Antigua, and we reached here this morning after rowing 22 hours, but have not found our Schooner, suppose her gone for Dominique or Monserat, whither we shall proceed as soon as we hear of her. I think before I go to sea again there will be some little better regulation between us and the English at the sea; or better stay at home."
"A number of American vessels condemned and others standing trial."
In pursuance of a decree issued by the viceroy of Italy, Venice is to be opened as a free port, from the first day of April ult.
NEW YORK, APRIL 29. ELECTION.
A GREAT AND GLORIOUS VICTORY.
Last evening the election in this city for members of Congress, for the Senate and for the Assembly of the state, closed gloriously for the republic. The votes were but partially canvassed when this paper went to press, and the canvassing will not be completed until this morning; but the state of the poll is sufficiently ascertained to warrant the assertion that the Republican candidates for the Assembly are elected by a majority of from eight hundred to one thousand votes. The republican candidates for Congress and for the Senate are elected in this District by a much larger majority. Last year the republican Assembly Ticket succeeded by a majority of but four hundred and twenty-four. So much for the Embargo, on which the federalists have been distinctly met and gloriously defeated.
The city, during the night, was all animation. Nothing was heard but huzzing for the Republican Ticket and the Embargo. The rejoicing was however entirely innocent. No injury was attempted, for in the midst of victory, republicans, regarding their own rights, know how to respect the rights of others. [Citizen.]
RIOT AND OUTRAGE!
Yesterday a parcel of British sailors from the British Packet, marched up to the Sixth Ward Poll, with the American flag flying, shouting—no Embargo—no Republicans—down with the Jacobins—the American ticket forever, &c.—Republicans, having violated your flag on the ocean—after murdering your citizens, contemning your laws, and violating your sovereignty, you here behold British Sailors, parading at your Polls that very American Flag which they have trodden on—and this to influence your election! Can you bear this? A battle ensued, in which the British Sailors were well and deservedly drubbed—But in the fight the American flag, thus polluted by British Sailors, was accidentally torn—torn from the hands of your impudent and insulting enemies—You will bear a federal cry about this—but you will know how to treat it—Republicans; will you suffer British Sailors to interfere in your elections? Rise in your might, and triumph over all opposition. ibid.
A Nova-Scotia Tory.—One Davenport, a Nova-Scotia Tory, yesterday offered his vote in the SEVENTH WARD, but his allegiance being challenged, he refused to take the oath. This fellow is for the "AMERICAN Ticket!" he afterwards made a noise about the Poll of that ward—bullied the Republicans—cursed Jefferson—hallooed for KING GEORGE, and shouted for the Tories. If the Republicans had plunged the dirty fellow in the River as they were about to do, they would have served him right, although all sorts of violence should be avoided. Federal examples are too bad to be followed. ib.
From the New York Aurora.
Every true friend to liberty and his country may rejoice at the downfall of federalism. The result of our election has shown that the public are yet virtuous, and while they remain so, we may safely bid defiance to the world.—The power of British agency in this country must cease; since the free and independent sons of America disdains their power and their corrupt gold. The arm of government will now be nerved with the strength of a Colossus—the farmer, the mechanic, the sailor and the republican merchant, are all united in one common interest—each class having proved they know their true interest and their rights. Let the enemies of the country continue to rail at the embargo, and charge the government with being under the influence of Bonaparte. Resurgent light has burst forth, the people see, and have judged and acted correctly—reason has combatated error—the contest was long and the victory great.—Let each friend to the rights of man, shout for joy—our country is saved, our rights are secured—the sun of federalism has set, to rise no more—the treasures of our country and the lives of our citizens are secure, our flag will be respected by foreign powers—agriculture commerce and manufactures will again flourish—the illustrious Jefferson watches over the destinies of five millions of freemen, as a father watches over his children. An experiment has been tried; a government founded on justice, virtue and moderation, supported by reason and philosophy, has stood a firm and sufficient barrier against the intrigues of European courts, where reason is left unenlightened to combat sophistry and error. The result must be glorious to liberty.
From the Baltimore American, April 25. EXECUTIONS!
This Day, at about the hour of twelve, William Robinson, William Morris, Daniel Dogherty, and Caleb Dogherty, in fulfilment of the violated laws of the country, for the murder of Mr. Workman, were launched into an awful eternity. The multitude assembled to witness their solemn exit, was immense. The conduct of the culprits was decent and becoming. They were attended by clergy of different denominations, who administered necessary consolation to their departing spirits. They had nearly effected their escape a morning or two previous to their execution, by cutting the floor of their cell and burrowing under the prison wall. They were discovered by a sentinel who fired and wounded Caleb Dogherty in the groin. Morris appears to have been a man of some acquirements: But the best of talents are often prostituted to the worst of purposes.
The following is a letter from one of the unfortunate men lately executed at Baltimore:—
Dungeon, 15 at night, April 13, 1808. My dear Sir—My death-warrant was read to me this evening. What an awful thing it is to reflect, that at a given moment I must be cut off from the world, never more to behold the face of man: particularly too, when I have not one single friend to console me under my load of affliction.—O Sir! how sweet, how consoling would be the tear of sympathy to my burthened beating heart. But alas! I am denounced to the world as a murderer!—The tear of pity, the plaintive accent is, therefore, no more for me: why should I then regret parting with a life so miserable? Why should I despair at leaving a world fraught with wretchedness and woe? Ah! the thought of eternity, dreadful eternity, rattles back upon my heart, and chills my soul with horror! Could I for a moment disbelieve the immortality of the soul, how cheerful, with what rejoicing would I mount the scaffold and look death in the face with defiance. But notwithstanding the dreadful reflections on eternity, I can meet my fate with manly fortitude. I am confident that many will say I die an impenitent wretch; I assure you, sir, I have often when reflecting on my cruel destiny, wet my pillow with tears, proceeding from heartfelt sorrow; but I cannot affect that which I really am not. Heaven forbid that I should die shedding tears and venting signs of hypocrisy.
I have, it is true, erred from virtue's paths, and have transgressed the laws both of God and man. For those errors, I can, according to my own feelings, urge necessity as a plea; but I well know that the bulk of mankind will say that necessity can plead no excuse—Be it so. I trust and firmly believe, that God will pardon me. I beg you sir, and your friends to believe, that when I assented to assist those unfortunate men to escape from bondage, I never, never for a moment, contemplated or thought of the murder of any one, nor did I suppose that any with whom I was concerned, possessed a heart so wicked as to commit it. I would however, rather than ten thousand worlds, die as I do, innocent of the murder of Workman, than die with his blood upon me. I hope, sir, you will excuse my giving you such frequent trouble. The unfortunate WILLIAM MORRIS.
F. Price, Esq.
DANVILLE, (VT.) APRIL 25. Perseverance Rewarded with Success.
On Sunday evening last, about half an hour past 8 o'clock, Seth Paine, a convict, and Allen Bryant, Nathan Stearns and Timothy Prince, who were confined with three others, in the dungeon below stairs in this place, for the fashionable crime of counterfeiting bank bills, rose upon the keeper and his assistant, and escaped.
The circumstances of their escape, which are related for the purpose of operating as a caution to gaolers, in like cases, are as follows:—The Gaoler, having occasion to remove a prisoner, who had been permitted to remain in a room in the chamber through the day, went into the gaol for that purpose, with one assistant, and after being locked within the entry, by a person on the outside of the entry door, ventured to remove the prisoner as above; and after having taken him to the lower dungeon, while engaged in searching the gaol, as was his usual custom, the above named persons rose upon the assistant, as he was standing in the door, knocked him down, rushed out, shut the door and confined the gaoler and the three remaining prisoners within the dungeon. They were then at liberty to unbarr another door which leads out of the entry through the back side of the gaol, which having done, and making a faint attempt to liberate three others, confined in the chamber, but not daring to spend time to effect it, escaped. The three remaining, it is said made no attempts to escape, who it is supposed were either petrified with fear, at so daring an undertaking or deterred from a want of faith in the success of the measure. Within ten minutes from the time of the escape, nearly 20 persons were collected from the neighborhood. But the extreme darkness of the night, accompanied with a storm of rain, rendered all search and pursuit fruitless. Dispatches were, however, immediately sent to guard the passes to Canada on the North, and to Connecticut River on the East. Fortunately, the next morning it was discovered, by their tracks, that they started their course Westward. At 8 o'clock four persons from the neighborhood, started westward, and being joined at Hardwick with a young man from Greenborough, unrelentingly pursued their course westward, encountering much fatigue and danger, through the forests of the river La Moëlle, until they surprised the fugitives in their encampment in a small log house in Hyde Park, at about 4 o'clock Tuesday morning; where they arrested them, and brought them safely back, and lodged them again in gaol, by 12 o'clock on Wednesday.
MORE CANADA EMISSION.
On Wednesday the 20th instant, Ephraim Libbey, said to be from Gilmanton, in the state of New Hampshire, was arrested in the woods in the town of Morgan, Orleans County, and on Friday last was committed to gaol in this town by virtue of a warrant from Herbin Robinson, Esq. of Holland.
There was found in his possession, about 20,000 dollars in counterfeit bills on different banks.—The prisoner has acknowledged, we are told, that he was employed by a wholesale dealer in this traffic (the person not known) to carry this money to New Hampshire, for a reward of 100 dollars.—Libbey is supposed to be about fifty years old, and the poor ill-fated wretch has now his reward in a Dungeon.

BOSTON, MAY 6. LATEST NEWS. Last evening arrived the ship Thomas, Capt. Manior, in 55 days from Palermo, Sicily. The French Toulon and Rochefort squadrons united, constituting a fleet of 18 sail of the line, had arrived at Porto Ferrajo, in the island of Elba, not far from Leghorn. Ad. Collingwood had heard of the situation of the Frenchmen, and failed from Palermo, two days before the Thomas, with 16 sail of the line, to blockade them—and the Thomas spoke the fleet after failing.
The French had made no attempt on Sicily. American cargoes were unseafaring at Malta and Palermo.—The Thomas did not stop at any port on her return. On the 21st of April, Capt. Manior spoke the brig Prudence, 21 days from Bordeaux for New-York. A Mr. Williams, a passenger, informed Capt. M. that the French Emperor was at Madrid; that the King of Spain had been deposed, his son placed on the throne, and the Prince of Peace sentenced to be beheaded; that all the American vessels and property which had been arrested, continued so, and was to remain in that situation till it was known whether the United States would or would not declare war against Great Britain.
OF SWEDEN. LONDON, MARCH 24. We last night received a Gottenburgh Mail, and Ministers had dispatches from Stockholm. The Danes, have declared war against Sweden, and Prussia has joined in the declaration of hostilities. The Swedes are abandoned to their own efforts, and we have no doubt, from a review of all the circumstances, that they have been before this time compelled to submit to the dictates of the confederacy. Nothing of this kind, however, appears in the papers from Sweden.—They appear to have placed their dependance on the co-operation they were to receive from this country, in consequence of the promises they received from our Ministers. We understand, however, that most of the ships which were ordered for the Baltic are countermanded, and that no troops are to be sent into that sea.
OF AMERICA. A Gentleman who came passenger in the vessel from Holland, which, a few days since arrived at Harwich, states that Gen. Armstrong had informed him at Paris, that he had recently received the personal assurances of Bonaparte, that none of his Decrees relative to Commerce were intended to operate against America; but, yet we have seen a letter received yesterday from Spain via Holland, which states, that an American vessel had been just condemned at Alicante, in consequence of her having been found to come from an English port. It is, however, known that this vessel had English goods on board, and may have been condemned on other grounds than those stated in any of Bonaparte's late Decrees.
[Morning Chronicle.] The situation of Spain and Portugal are convenient for the invasion of Ireland. It is recorded in the Irish history, that in the earlier ages the West of Ireland was repeatedly devastated by the expeditions from Spain; and it is notorious, to those versed in the popular antiquities of Ireland, that in some of the south western provinces, traces of these defeats are still remaining. We will not go so far as to say that Ireland was once conquered by Spain; but this we will assert, that the Spaniards have left their descendants, some of their customs and more of their language, in so many parts of Ireland, that it is very difficult not to believe that they were originally very strong in that kingdom. It is a singular occurrence in the history of the present times, and after all something creditable to the character of Bonaparte, that he is every where endeavouring to dissolve that unnatural connexion which heretofore subsisted between the church and the state. He has lately commanded the king of Spain to give every toleration to the Jews, where, formerly, they were so cruelly persecuted; and to grant them the rights and privileges of citizens. We believe if this spirit of universal toleration was more general, and that the injudicious distinction of a privileged class in every state was dissolved, it would ultimately redound more to the true interest of religion and morality. We are certain, at least, it would often be the means of increasing the strength and resources of the state. [London paper.]
An article in an English paper suggests that Napoleon by the movement of his Fleet, has some other object than Sicily. That he finds he can collect on the coasts of the Archipelago and in the Greek Islands any number of excellent seamen that he can want.—That he is determined upon the experiment. Our own seamen have often paid high compliments to the Greek seamen, for their skill, their enterprize, and their fidelity upon their voyages, and Napoleon has seen the Greeks in the ports of Italy.
FIRE AT ST. CROIX. The New-York Gazette, in announcing the arrival of the schr. Rover, from St. Croix, says:—"Our boatmen were informed by the crew of the Rover, that a great part of the town, (whether Bays or West End, not known) had been laid in ashes, and 150 persons perished in the flames."
Portsmouth, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1808. By the last arrivals from Liverpool, we have an account by private information of the increasing distresses of the inhabitants of that city, in consequence of the total stagnation of business. Thousands of people of all descriptions having nothing to do, and no bread to eat, are constantly clamoring against their administration who have brought these troubles upon them.
The haughty ministers of St. James, with their corrupt majority in Parliament, will not be able much longer to turn a deaf ear to the united complaints of a distressed, hungry, and oppressed people. They may endeavor to hide themselves under the robes of majesty, but the time will soon come when they can no longer deride the calamities of an oppressed nation, or "mock when their fear cometh," and their "destruction approaches like a whirlwind." Let the citizens of America persevere with patience and firmness, in the measures of their Government, or the British Faction in this country will sacrifice America to make peace for Britain. [Chronicle.] If the Federalists were now in power, which, thank God, there does not appear to be any probability of at present; their prejudices and avowed partialities are such in favor of Great Britain, there is no doubt that an alliance, offensive and defensive with her, would be concluded. A war with France, and indeed with the whole world besides, would follow of course. The consequences of such disastrous policy would be too terrible even to think of. [Rep. Spy.]
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Extract of a letter from a respectable gentleman, received at Baltimore, by the ship Protection, dated Belfast, (Eng.) March 20, 1808. "Our ministry are determined to maintain their orders in council, and I calculate you will maintain your embargo of course—Until one of the parties gives way, there will be no adjustment of the differences between the two governments. The opposition to the orders in council increases daily, and I am inclined to be of the opinion, that it will become so powerful, as to oblige our ministry to yield. And I think that your embargo, if maintained will, more than anything else, dispose the nations in Europe to a general peace." "A war with America is much deprecated here, and numerous petitions are going to Parliament against it, from the various counties in England."
We are told that the petitions in England have increased and have become alarming.—Liverpool evidently suffers by withdrawing so large a portion of trade as that with America. It is believed much can be done, if the Americans will persevere a little longer in that wise policy which has adopted of living without other nations till they can live quietly with them. [Effex Reg.]
From a late London paper. The following is submitted to the serious consideration of Parliament, and the merchants and manufacturers of Great Britain:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. From authentic documents appears, that in a period of twenty years the population has increased nearly THREE MILLIONS. The dwelling houses have increased in the same period from 640,000 to 1,225,000! The number of horses increased from 600,000 to 1,200,000; the horned cattle from 1,200,000 to 2,950,000; the merchant vessels have increased from 250,000 to 1,207,000 tons! The imports have risen from 11 to 30 millions of dollars. The exports of domestic production have increased from 9 to 42 millions of dollars; and the exports of foreign goods from 1 to 36 millions. The national revenue has increased, in a period of twelve years, from 8 to nearly 17 millions of dollars, while the expenditure, making an allowance for the extinguishment of the public debt, has been nearly stationary. The specie in circulation has increased, in the period of twenty years, from 10 to 17 millions. In the state of Massachusetts alone there are seamen employed in their fisheries, foreign & coasting trade, at least 30,000, and in case of a war, these men are ready for national or private armed ships; and in the various other ports on the coast to Georgia, there are an equal number.
GREAT BRITAIN. The Newfoundland fishery at an end, for want of a market. The West India planters in a state of ruin. The Mediterranean, Italian and Turkey trades nearly annihilated. The Dutch, German, Spanish and Baltic trades are prohibited by the decrees of the enemy. The East India ware houses cloaked up with goods, and the company forced to borrow 2,000,000 pounds lately to pay their dividends. The manufacturers in various parts discharging their workmen. The mercantile shipping in a great measure out of employ. The cost of the navy, army, ordnance, &c. &c. exceeds 40,000,000. per annum. The interest of the national debt is nearly 30,000,000. per annum; and other expenses for 1807, are full 10,000,000 more—in all, 80,000,000. at least; and in 15 years, our taxation has advanced from 17 to 67,000,000. per annum. In this state of things, and with such a contrast, we are forcing the United States of America to war, by our orders in council, and thereby shutting up the only channel of trade that remains. A MERCHANT.
Mr. MADISON's Letter to Mr. ROSE. THE concerns of our own country command a preferable attention to those of foreign nations. In order to give as early as possible the important documents laid before Congress by the President, we are constrained to omit much matter of minor consideration, when compared with the full and comprehensive view of our foreign relations, thus seasonably and prudently unfolded to public view. The letter from Mr. Madison to Mr. Rose, ( published in this days' Gazette ), does him immortal honor as a Statesman and as an American. The grounds on which the conduct of Great Britain is most perspicuously exhibited, are in a style which has been seldom equalled in the diplomatic world for pith, elegance and sound reasoning, so well supported by precedent deduced from the conduct of the assaulting nation. No American can read this masterly production without glowing indignation at the hostile conduct of Great Britain, and a becoming pride that America possesses such statesmen as Jefferson and Madison.
The contrast between the conduct of the present and a former administration in negotiating with that over-bearing government is most conspicuous, and there is no man whose veins are swelled with American blood, but who will approve the manly & dignified attitude assumed by the latter. While the schismatics are so industriously engaged in the minor considerations of electioneering intrigue, it is highly gratifying to see, the man selected by the great body of the republicans of the union, so calmly and dignifiedly engaged in supporting thus manfully the great concerns of a great and free people, and passing over their impotent and ignominious conduct in silent contempt.—Mr. Madison has been acknowledged by the votaries of faction to be a great statesman, but they express a wish that his republican principles were better known. The even tenor of his conduct through life has always exhibited the stern, the consistent, the inflexible republican. After the publication of this masterly production, we presume that every candid unbiased citizen will be proud of his becoming the first magistrate of a free people. [Baltimore American.]
GREAT REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH! The New-York Election is over, and the Democrats of the City (from which only we have heard) have obtained a most decisive, glorious, but to the federalists heart-rending victory over the forces of toryism and England! The Republican majority is about TWELVE HUNDRED! A great increase from the last year! What will the Pickersoon say of the Embargo now? Ægi.
We have lately seen a speech delivered in Congress by a Mr. Key, from Maryland. This federal rant is but an epitome of Mr. Pickering's violent, disorganizing pamphlet, against the embargo law. Mr. Key's production does not deserve notice, it is not worthy a newspaper paragraph; but the pains taken to give it currency really excites our attention. Every federal press in Boston issued an extra sheet, on the head of which was emblazoned in capitals, "Mr. Key's Speech—Eloquence—Reason—Demonstration—&c. &!" But who is this wonderful man? Why is he eulogized as the oracle of truth, by the federal party? These questions are solved by recuring to one or two facts.
When the form of war threatened us with destruction, when the blood-hounds of Britain were let loose on the innocent inhabitants of America, this same Mr. Key, this idol of federalism, forsook his bleeding country and joined her enemies. He tarried with the British until the great events of our revolution were over, and the Independence of America secured; he then returned in season to save his property from confiscation. Since that time, he has been a Pensioner of the British government. This last fact he confessed in the late session of Congress. Such are the materials of which federalism is composed. Such are the men whose sentiments are said to be friendly to this country. The character of America is sunk forever, and the proud feelings of the genuine patriot are no more, when the voice of such hypocrites shall influence the Councils of our Nation. [Salem Reg.]
Mr. Adams is daily receiving the tribute of thanks throughout the union for his seasonable declaration respecting the public measures, at a time when every attempt was made to spread the vilest misrepresentations! It must be an ample reward to that gentleman to have essentially served the cause of his country, and we hope no opportunity will be neglected to give him his full share of praise, not because it would be peculiarly pleasing to him, but because such an example cannot be too dear to mankind. lb.
At a meeting of the Republican Young Men of the City of New-York, on 21st of April, they expressed the highest approbation of the present administration. The address is spirited.—The men against whom ye are to stand forth, are 'the same whom your fathers combated with success, in that revolution which made us FREE.' The many meetings promise the Republicans much in New-York, and the example will undoubtedly be followed through the Union, when its true interest appears, and the mists of faction pass away. ibid.
The English papers speaking of the petitions, say, that for peace from Manchester was signed by 35,000, chiefly manufacturers, and that the Leeds petition had above 28,000.—That from Liverpool was equal to both. Of the Leeds petition it is said, it was upon 74 skins of parchment, each having seven columns of names, and extending 56 yards. And yet it has been said in America the Embargo will excite no alarm, and answer no purposes but to oppress our own citizens. ibid.
We learn (says the Aurora) that orders have been issued to liberate all American vessels carried into the ports of France, and her allies, excepting such as had taken out licenses from Great Britain.
WORTHY OF REMARK! It is, we are assured, (says the Worcester Agis ) a well authenticated fact, that the late President Adams and his Son, who was formerly a member of Massachusetts Legislature, resolutely refused to support with their votes, the Federal Ticket for Governor, &c. Upon being asked the reasons of his conduct, the elder Mr. Adams declared that the EMBARGO was a wise and salutary measure—that the opposition raised to it was factious and unreasonable, and that he would never vote for men who assisted in such opposition.
Federal Gospel!
Mr. PARISH, the Minister of Byfield, delivered a sermon on Fast day, in which he attempts to persuade his hearers, that our temporal and eternal salvation depends on going immediately to war with France—whom he styles Antichrist.
He says that more than half the American nation are in friendship with this Antichrist. That they join him hand in hand, "and a covenant with hell is confirmed," and that "as devil with devil damn'd firm concord holds," so these maintain a horrid combination of spirits, and bid defiance to conviction!
After giving a highly exaggerated description, in the most exaggerated style, of French aggressions; and after simulating the American people in terms similar to those above mentioned, he turns, with softening tones, to his beloved nation with the following words. "The mother country," the best land of our forefathers sepulchres! Great Britain, has nobly dared to wage a just war with this blasphemous power. What have been the consequences? Her fields have never been trod or defiled by the troops of Napoleon; they have never spread desolation along the fair coast of England; they have never profaned her churches, nor dragged her sons into their bloody armies; the natives of England ride triumphant in every sea; they chastise her enemies; they waste her ports the comforts and luxuries of every clime.—Such is the fruit "of coming on" from Anti-Christ; while we and other nations, like MOLES AND BATS, crawl at the feet of the Conqueror; like Serpents eat the dust of his feet, or are chained to his car to swell the splendor of his triumphs. Our incalculable sacrifices, our loss of ships, our tribute, our suspension of commerce, are entirely the fruit of our friendship to Anti-Christ."
To this sermon are very properly annexed, notes, consisting mostly of extracts from Baruel and the Panoplist . It is in fact a raving, antichristian thing, both in matter and manner; replete with abuse against republicans, and the government; as full of toryism as it is of falsehood (which is saying enough.) He recommends the revival of political preaching—and, what is curious enough, he gives a very broad and palpable hint to the rich, to encourage no poor people except such as are federalists. Precious christianity! A fine specimen of federal religion! [Boston Democrat.]
INSTALLATION. —On the 27th ult. the Rev'd JAMES MILTIMORE, formerly of Stratham, N. H. was installed to the pastoral care of the church and society in the new meeting house at Belleville, in Newbury.—The introductory prayer, by the Rev'd John Andrews.—The Rev'd Joseph Buckminster, D.D. of Portsmouth, delivered a discourse from Luke v. 5.—"We have toiled all night and caught nothing, nevertheless at thy word we will let down the net."—The inducing prayer, by the Rev'd C. W. Milton.—The charge, by the Rev'd Elijah Parish, (the political preacher above alluded to) of Byfield.—The right hand of fellowship, by the Rev'd Daniel Dana.—The concluding prayer, by the Rev'd John S. Pophin.
GOSPEL. —A pitiful fellow in Boston, by the name of Gardner, a native Englishman, wearing a black coat, and calling himself a minister of the gospel, but really more fit for some drunken-club declaimer, has uttered and published in the form of a fast-day sermon, a "false, scandalous, and malicious," as well as a most vulgar and indecent libel upon the government of the nation; for which he deserves a criminal prosecution before a Court of Justice, or a criminal tarring and feathering by a more popular tribunal! or if he is too contemptible for the jurisdiction of either;—the jurisdiction of a good horse-whip might not be unserviceable if he should attempt to profane the pulpit again! [National Regis.]
MARRIED. In this town, Capt. John Bowles to Miss Sally Roberts.—Mr. Thomas W. Welden to Miss Elizabeth Nutter.—Mr. Wm. Kenner to Miss Mary Martin.—Mr. Owen Davis to Miss Mary Libbey.—Mr. Michael Whidden to Mrs. Eliza Hart.
DIED. At Biddeford, (Maine) the Hon. RICHARD JORDAN, Esq. in the 80th year of his age.—He was the oldest person born in said town.
The subscribers for forming a MARINE SOCIETY, are requested to meet at the west chamber of the State House on Thursday next, 12th inst. at 12 o'clock at noon, to choose a Committee to arrange the business of said society. Portsmouth, May 10, 1808.
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.
To Let —A Dwelling-House which may be taken possession of immediately, with a large Garden—situate below the South School-house—for terms, apply to THOMAS MANNING,  May 10.
To be sold at Public Vendue, by virtue of a licence from the Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, at the dwelling house of the subscriber, inholder in Kingstown, in said county, on the twenty-third day of May current, at two of the clock, P. M. So much of the Real Estate of JOHN CALER, late of said Kingstown, inholder, deceased, as will amount to the sum of five hundred dollars. Said estate is situate on the Plain in said Kingstown, near the meeting-house, and on the East side of the road leading to Haverhill, and consists of part of a Dwelling-House, an out House, Mowing and Tillage Land. JOSEPH LOVEREN, Administrator of said Estate. May 7, 1808.
Notice to Mariners. Those Masters and Mates of Vessels in Portsmouth, who for some time past have had it in contemplation to form themselves into a company by the name of the Portsmouth Sea Fencibles, and having enrolled themselves for that purpose, are desired to meet at Jefferson-Hall, TO-MORROW, at 3 o'clock, P.M. for the purpose of choosing Officers, and transacting any other business which may be laid before them. May 10, 1808.
In a few days WILL BE OPENED AT DRAPER'S CHEAP CASH STORE, a very extensive variety of the most Fashionable, Fancy, and Staple, PIECE GOODS, suited to the present and approaching season. [Particulars in our next.] May 10.
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.
Dixville Road Lottery. THE subscriber informs the public that he has opened a HAT Store in Buck-street opposite Capt. Treadick's shop, where he offers for sale a general assortment of HATS, viz—mens black, brown and white HATS; likewise military HATS for cash. Cash given for Hatters Furs. May 10.  SAMUEL FERNALD.
SCHEME OF THE FIRST CLASS. 12000 Tickets at 5 dols. each are 60000 dls. 1 prize of 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 7 - 26145 4004 52645 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 dols. 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, - 10000 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 thirtieth 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 Coös; 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 to many of their lots as they shall make equal 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.
Gentlemen's Silk HATS. MARY BRYANT, HAS a neat assortment of Silk HATS, purchasers are requested to call and look at them.

Miscellaneous Repository.
For the N.H. GAZETTE.
Written at Sunset.
SEE that resplendent orb of day Skirts yonder hills with deeper red; And, as his flanking beams decay, A still more lively brightness sheds.
We publish the following Anecdote in hopes it will yield that pleasure to our readers which we received at its recital. The source from whence it comes leaves no doubt of its authenticity:—
Impressed Seamen.
It has been represented to the Secretary of State, that Nathan Thompson, Thomas Williams, Benjamin Bagnell, Joseph Setta, Joseph Cox, Charles Redding, Samuel Henshaw, A. Girdon, Samuel Chaplin, William Thompson, John Brant, Thomas Wibben, Matthew Soderhorn, F. Race, George Smith, William Bence, Robert McCord, William Price, Henry Mullen, David Porter, Benjamin Young, Charles Anderson, Isaac Gaines, Thomas Cook, Wm. Jones, John Galaway, Peter Lewis, Thomas Marcum, John McEvilly, Daniel M. Hogan, James Bogg, William Tiel, John Jahn, James Carney, John Lemont, William Lindley, Nicholas Miller, John Porter, Peter Murphy, James Peterson, John Skinner, Thomas Allen, Christopher Styon, J. C. Brecket, John Swaine, John Jarvis, William A. Jennings, Theodore Young, James Hoyt, Joseph Rosey, John Till, Joseph Halweil, and John Williams, who call themselves American citizens, have been impressed and are now detained in the British service.
Department of State, April 13, 1808.
Division Orders.
THE Major General of the first Division of Militia in the State of New Hampshire, impressed with the importance of a well organized Militia at all times, and more especially in times of danger, and willing to convince the enemies of our Country that the Militia, when well armed and disciplined, is our pride and bulwark—that it is not a dead body, but a living and efficient defence,—He therefore considers it his duty to order out the division which he has the honor to command, to appear in Battalions, that a full inspection and complete return may be made to him;—and he hereby directs and orders the commanding officers of each regiment in his division to make return to him of the number of their Men, Arms and accoutrements, that he may be enabled to make an accurate return of the same, when required by the Captain General.
The Major General has strong confidence in the promptitude and alacrity of all his Officers & Soldiers, to yield ready obedience to his orders, and he trusts that the plea of not being fully Officered, will not prevent any of the Battalions or Companies from appearing agreeably to this order, as the senior officer in such cases must take the command.—The first Battalion in each of said Regiments is hereby ordered to parade for Inspection, on the 25th day of May next, and the second Battalion on the day following at some convenient place within their respective Battalions.
By order of the Major General of the first Division, DAN'L PEUMER, Aid de Camp to Gen. HENRY BUTLER.
April 23, 1808.
Thomas Morton,
HAS removed to his new Store, west end of the Court-house, on the fourth side of Congress-street, Portsmouth parade, lately occupied by Mr. S. Newhall, where will be kept constantly for sale, a general assortment of articles in the West India Goods & Grocery Line, among which are,
Teas, Wines & Spirits, of every kind, rose and cinnamon Cordials per measure; West India do. various kinds, per bottle; draught and bottled Porter of a superior quality; Loaf, India, Havana, and Brown Sugars; Pepper; Spices various kinds; Lemons and Oranges; fresh box and cask Raisins; Almonds; mould and dipt Candles; Spermaceti Oil; Sweet Oil in flasks; Indigo; Rice; Flower and Cotton; real Spanish, Baltimore and Boston Cigars—Also, many other articles, too numerous for so advertisement—All which he warrants to be as good and as cheap as can be bought in town, and if any of the above articles should prove on trial different from what they are recommended, they will be taken back and the money returned.
Said Morton mixes and retails Liquors and Wines of all kinds, to suit those who may please to call, as good, and at about half the price that is charged at any public house in town. And his store is so calculated that people who wish to be by themselves, can be handsomely accommodated.
Attendance from sun-rise until 9 o'clock evening. All favors thankfully received. Portsmouth, May 3.
I. L. CROSS,
Respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has taken the store at the corner on Spring Hill, lately occupied by Mr. Ebenezer Chadwick, where he offers for sale on the best terms for cash, or short approved credit, a complete assortment of
W. I. Goods & Groceries;
Also, Country produce, viz. Wheat, Rye, Corn, Beans, Peas, Grass-seed, &c. with a few Bbls. excellent Cranberries—Has also a consignment of a few boxes Spanish Cigars, which will be sold very low by the box, or cask. May 3. 1808.
MEDICAL.
THE Fellows of the New Hampshire Medical Society, are informed, that the annual meeting of said Society will be held at the house of Thomas Folsom, inn-holder in Exeter, on the last Wednesday of May instant, at 10 o'clock A. M.
L. SPALDING, Secretary. Portsmouth, May 3, 1808.
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.
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, corbean and other fashionable colour'd Broad Cloths and Cassimeres; 1560 yards Flannels and Baizes of all colours; 850 yards of best black, olive, and other fashionable colour'd Velvets, Corderoys & Thicksetts; 1000 yards twill'd Nankeens and cotton Cassimeres; 750 yards Jean and Marceilles 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 Ginghams; 500 yards plain, changeable, plaid cotton Chambray; 380 yards elegant silk Chambray; 500 yards common and best cambrick Dimoties; 350 yards tambor sprig'd Mullins; 400 yards lace cambrick Mullins; 250 yds. plain white cambrick Mullins; 100 yards leno Mullins; 200 yards sprig'd and dotted book Mullins; 170 yards plain book Mullins; 200 patent sprig'd mullin Caps; 300 patent sprig'd mullin Shirtees and Hks.; 250 yds. lace mullin Trimmings; 2000 pieces India yellow Nankins; 4000 yards India 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 Tammys; 800 yards Russells and Callimances; 700 yards Shallons of all colours; 1000 yards Irish Linens; 500 yards British cotton Shirlings; 200 yards Diapers and table Linen; 500 yards brown Linens; 250 elegant mullin and cambrick Shawls; 300 black, white & colour'd camels hair Shawls; 250 chintz and chambray cotton Shawls; 150 damask and fancy silk Shawls and Handks.; 650 yards blk. and colour'd Lustings 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 worked 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.
At a meeting of the committee of the subscribers for re-building St. John's Church, held on Thursday the 28th of April, 1808—
VOTED, that an assessment (being the twelfth,) of Fifty five dollars, on each and every share, be and is hereby made; payable to the agents, or their order, on or before the twelfth day of May next. Attest, WILLIAM GARDNER, Chairman
FIFES and DRUMS
Best black ebony & satin-wood Fifes; excellent Drums, and Music Books—For sale at C. PEIRCE's bookstore.
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 armorers 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 creditable 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,
Secretary of War. [April 15.—6w.]
To be sold at public Vendue at the dwelling-House of Thomas Jennett, Esq. innholder in Deerfield, in said county, by virtue of a licence from the Judge of Probate for said county, on the seventeenth day of May next, at ten o'clock in the afternoon, About forty acres of Land in the town of Brookfield, in the county of Strafford—being part of the lot numbered fifty-three, drawn to the original right of John Cook, and now belongs to the estate of Nath'l White, late of said Deerfield, Esq. deceased. RICHARD JENNESS, Adm'r. Deerfield, April 28, 1808.
Garden Seeds
A general assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, kept constantly for sale at C. PEIRCE's Book-store, Daniel-street, Portsmouth.
Quaker Garden Seeds.
WM. WALKER has received one case containing an assortment of real Quaker Garden Seeds raised at Canterbury and warranted of the last years growth,—which are for sale at No. 1, Bow-street—Also as usual, English, Dutch & American Gunpowder, Patent Shot, West India GOODS, GROCERIES, &c. &c. April 12, 1808.
The subscriber informs the public, that he has lately opened a TAVERN in this town near the Bell Tavern in the House lately occupied by Mr. BENJAMIN HILL, and likewise for BOARDING—He flatters himself that such attention will be paid as will be acceptable to his customers. GILMAN FOLSOM. Portsmouth, April 16, 1808.
NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of each of the following original proprietors rights of land in the town of ORANGE, in the county of Grafton, and State of New Hampshire, viz—the rights of Isaac Fellows, Roswell Morgan, Daniel Foster, Rev. Abiel Leonard, Ebenezer Craft, George Hodges, Andrew Spalding, Oliver Spalding, Daniel Warner, Esq. and Daniel Rindge, Esq.—will be exposed for sale at public vendue at my dwelling house in said Orange on the 13th day of July next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, as will raise the sum of two dollars on each of said rights with all legal costs; and also on the following right, one dollar and fifty cents, viz. Rev. Abiel Leonard,—unless said sale is prevented by previous payment, for collection of two proprietary taxes voted at legal meetings of said proprietors on the 19th day of September A.D. 1804, and on the 12th day of August, 1807; said taxes were each of them duly assessed and committed to me to collect, and I have advertised for payment for each of them, as the law directs. THOMAS WOOD, Proprietors Collector. Orange, March 16, 1808.
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscribers have been duly appointed Executors of the last Will and Testament of
ICHABOD WEEKS, late of Greenland in the county of Rockingham, physician, deceased, and have taken upon them that trust by giving bonds as the law directs—All persons having demands upon the estate of said deceased are requested to exhibit them; and all persons indebted to said estate are called upon to make payment to BRACKETT WEEKS, and STEPHEN M. WEEKS, Executors. Greenland, April 20, 1808.
THE Subscribers being appointed by the Hon. Stephen Thacher, Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of York, commissioners to receive, examine and adjust all the claims of the creditors to the Estate of JOEL FERNALD, late of Kittery, in said county, blacksmith, deceased, represented intestate; do hereby give notice that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their respective claims; and that we shall attend said service at the dwelling-house of Capt. Enoch H. Lewis, in said Kittery, on the first Mondays in May next, and the five following months, from three to six o'clock P.M. on each of said days. WILLIAM CUTTS, } Commissioners. ELIAS MAIN, } Kittery, April 19th, 1808.
John Connor's Estate. THE Subscriber being appointed administrator de bonis non, upon the Estate of JOHN CONNOR, late of Exeter, yeoman, deceased, requests all who have demands upon, or are indebted to said estate, to call on him, the said administrator and settle immediately. DAVID SANBORN. Exeter, April 20th, 1808.
NOTICE is hereby given, that MARY MOORE has been duly appointed administratrix of the estate of
SAMUEL MOORE, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, and has taken upon herself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs;—All persons having demands on the estate of said deceased, are required to exhibit them, and those who are indebted to said estate are called upon to make immediate payment to WILLIAM WALKER, Attorney to MARY MOORE, Administratrix.
State of New Hampshire, Grafton ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of ORANGE, who have not paid their county, town, school, and highway taxes for the year 1807; that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes, and incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 19th day of July next, at my dwelling-house in said Orange, at ten o'clock, in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
Table with 5 columns: Name, Acres, Town tax, School tax, Highway tax. Lists tax amounts for various individuals like Daniel Rindge, Daniel Foster, Rev. Abiel Leonard, Samuel Emerson, Elnathan Blood, Abner Keyes, Garbom Hobart, Garbom Hobart, Levi Merrill.
REMOVAL. WM. R. HARDY, Tailor, INFORMS the public that he has Removed to the chamber over Mr. Edw'd Parry's store in Market-street, where he will attend to his friends in the line of his profession. N.B. Broad-Cloths, Cassimere, fancy Vesting, &c. for sale as above, Portsmouth, May 3, 1808.
REAL SHAKER
Garden Seeds
Warranted of the last year's growth, and best quality,—just received and for sale at THOMAS & TAPPAN'S Bookstore. Portsmouth, April 26.
FOR SALE BY
Jos. & Benjn Swett,
In the store opposite Messrs. N. A. & J. H. 20 hhds. Retailing SUGARS, 15 bbls. ditto, 10 hhds. RUM, 40,000 lbs. Carolina COTTON, of superior quality. Portsmouth, April 26, 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.
PEWS in St. John's Church,
On Thursday 19th of May inst. 10 o'clock, A.M. Will be sold at St. John's Church, at Public Auction, all the PEWS in said Church,—Conditions to be made known at the sale, S. LARKIN, Auc'r.
The delinquent Proprietors will please to take notice, that by an unanimous vote of the subscribers at their meeting held 28th ult. payment of the arrearages due on assessments, will be coerced unless immediately discharged. Portsmouth, May 3, 1808.
On MONDAY 23rd, May next,
at 12 o'clock, (If not previously disposed of at private Sale.)
Will be Sold at AUCTION—
A COMMODIOUS and roomy Dwelling-House, pleasantly situated at the head of Vaughan-street, having on the first floor, a handsome dining room, parlour, two kitchens, pantry and sink room; an excellent cellar, and smoke house, and the Aqueduct in the cellar and sink room; five chambers on the second floor; in the upper story, one large chamber and three smaller ones; a Barn, handsome front yard paved, a back yard and garden, with a never failing well of excellent water, &c.—For further particulars enquire of April 26. S. LARKIN, Auc'r.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
AT a meeting of the Board of Health of the town of Portsmouth, held April 14th, the following rules and regulations were adopted, which are to take effect after twenty days from their publication, agreeably to a law of this state passed in June, 1799, (together with an additional act passed in June, 1803) entitled an act empowering the inhabitants of the town of Portsmouth to appoint Health Officers, and for preventing nuisances in said town.
As every individual must consider himself interested in the preservation of Health in the town; the Board presume the acknowledgment thereof will be discovered, by readily aiding in the execution of, and in conforming to said rules and regulations.
ART. 1. Waste water of houses, yards, &c. shall be directly conveyed into a sewer, or vault.
ART. 2. No person shall be allowed to throw any dead animal, or offals of animals, or any vegetable matter into any street, alley or dock, or upon any wharf, but shall bury, or throw them into the river beyond low water mark.
ART. 3. The Board do order all sellers of fish at the Markets in this town, not to leave the offals of fish in any street, lane, alley, or any dock, or upon any wharf; but that these be thrown into the river beyond low water mark.
ART. 4. Persons vending meat at the stalls, shall not be allowed to leave any offals of animals over night;—Persons vending vegetables, or in any other way of the markets, shall not be suffered to leave any refuse thereof, but shall deposit it in some place directed for nuisances generally.
ART. 5. The contents of vaults and privies too near the surface, must be removed.
ART. 6. The offals of animals must be removed from slaughter-houses and the yards connected therewith, once in twenty-four hours.
The Board give notice that neglect in complying with the above rules and regulations will be prosecuted as the law directs. Portsmouth, April 23, 1808.
BENJAMIN SHERBURNE, } Health JAMES H. PIERREPONT, } Committee. SAMUEL JONES, } State of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss.
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 the 15th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1808.
SAMUEL PENHALLOW, R. CUTTS SHANNON.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber having been duly appointed administrator on the goods and estate of GIFT HUNT, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, and having taken upon himself that trust and given bond as the law directs, calls upon all persons having demands against said estate, to exhibit the same for settlement, and upon all indebted to it, to make payment,—and all persons having in their possession any property, papers or securities for money, belonging to said estate, are hereby notified and required immediately to deliver up the same to said administrator, otherwise the effectual measures pointed out by the law will be taken to obtain them. JOHN GIBSON, Administrator. Portsmouth, April 26, 1808.