Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser — Portland, Me., 1810-04-16 00:00:00, page 1

rORTL„ GAZETTE,
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PORTLAND* PUBLlSftJ&D BX ARTHOk 6H/HJ l \ ... . i'lSU-STIir.ET.
. , r„i. >:in.i • Monday, april 16, isio. [ivhoie v„ «25.
0 c fy till 1 € .me *
i* a fin. The man who willingly
L jKj!r, f'heu lie myh? ciuatry thing for the
[ r^nrove’-ien' of hi* mind, Jiff 1'upport of him
* I and funity, or the geuera! good of nnu*
tnml. »* richly deferring of heavy ptiirflitnem
■The benevolent saviour guve many precept*
r , men to di'icrerrce. He well knew
I vt,tt %VNM*n mm ; am: hi* gofpel was adfflira
h^Wv ca'cuUted to catch the attention oi men as
t tj,py j,re, us, well as to feed and non rift* the
Ift-alsof men a« they fhouM '#e. “ Occupy till
| } eo.He" i* equally applicable to the fpirrua',
las the natural man Induftry in the various
| ratting* *f life. bring* wi hit its own regard
M phe hand of the diligent tnakeih rich,” fay®
Rioru m ; and it is obfervable, that induftry
L af)(t frugality fcldom fail of adnmiiftering to
I their votaries a competent portion of the good
| thing* of tIris life. Hut we are created ration
! ® beings capable of moral adVor., and there
[ f->re accountable for our conduct* The great
[truths of religion invite the niceff inveftiga
| lion ; and the man who fufTers himfelf to be
' igoorsnt of the dodlrine* <>f the gofpel, mer
its the chaftifemcnt of whips and fcorpions.
When we conftder that the feripture* incul
cate but one kind of belief, and that amidft
■ the multitude of religion* denominations one
■ only can be right, that men fhould feel fa lit.
I tie folicitede to be eflablilhed in the right
way, is a matter of aftonifhment. This dufy of
examining religious truth is p refit ng on the
I young, and ail fuch as have not yet an tftab
L iifhed belief, We ought to beaftxamed of ig
| norauce in this, as iu any thing elfe; whereas
E many young men, in thefe degenerate day-»>
| make a boaft of being igoorant of the f >blime
1 truths of revelation. The natural abilities of
man were bellowed for the Left of purpofe*.
Every faculty of the foul was given for im
provement ; and we have every rtafon to fup
pofc.thata mi (improvement cf the natural en*
|«iow;nent» will be hereafter puxufhed with a
r Take ye the unprofitable f*»vaxjt, and caft
him into ouur darkoef*.”
1 • 4 •
*
CcmmoR&caltfj df ^>affaefjufett$.
h the "ear of our Lord, one thoufand
eight hundred and ten.
AN ACT
; To regulate the manufacture and in
fpecfcion of Stone Lime, and
Lime Cafks.
Sec. i . BE it enacted by the Senate
end thvfs of Representatives in Gene
ral Court ajfcm Ldt and by the authority
of the fame. That from and after the
| lirft day of June next, no Stone Lime
| manufactured within this Common -
I wealth, *i!»aU be foM or expofed to
Lie, or fhtpped on board any vefTel,
in Cu'.bs, but fuch only as lhall be
we’l burnt and pure, and contained
in good and lutlicient new casks, to
contain fifty gallons each, or one
hunched gallons each, made of well
ieafoned heads and ftaves, with ten
good and fuiiicient hoops on etch
cask, well driven and fufliciently le
cured with nails or pins.
Sect. 2. Be it further cnaFicf
That there (hall be an inspector for
the town of Warren, Thomaltan, Sf
Camden, in the County of Lincoln,
torefide in one of the faid towns, 10
be appointed by the Governor, with
the advice and confent of tiie Coun
cil, and to be by them removeable at
p ?alure, upon misbehaviour in faid
office ; who, before he lhall enter
upon the duties thereof, (hall give
bonds, wi.h fufficient furety or lure
ties, to the Treafurer ol thU Com
monwealth, in the Imn of one thou
sand dollars, conditioned for the
Dirhfu’ performance of the duties of
the faid office, which bund lhall be
by the Juft ices of the Court of
Common Picas for the County of
Lincoln ; and the faid inlpeclor,
'‘'hen f> qualified, fhall have power
Tj> appoint in each of the towns a
h>re!aid. as many Deputy Inlpeftors
“i he lhall judge neccflary ; for whole
good conduct, in tbe dilcharge of the
du ties of their refpeitive offices, he
lhall be anfwerable, and lhall take
hon.Js from them to himfelf, and his
lucceli >r in office, with fufficient fure
l,ts, in a penal furr>, not exceeding
two thoufand dollars ; and the laid
Deputy InfneCfbrs lhall alio be 1 worn
t!-w faithful ddcb*rgeof their duty.
^lct. 3. tie it further wafted, That
it (hail be the duty of the faid lufpec
tor, cither by himfeif or his Deputy,
to infpeft all Lime which (had be
manufactured in either of the laid
towns, when put into cade?, and to
lie that the laid Lime and Cades do,
in all rrfpcfts, conform to the pro
j viflon* of this aft ; and to brand
| each of fnid cafks with the name of
the town where the Lime was burnt,
j and the first letter of the Christian
name, and the furname at length, of
the Inlpeftor, who infpefted the
; fame, with the word Infpefted.
Sect. 4. Be it further grafted,, That
i the Infpeftor, or his Deputy, ap
pointed bv virtue of this aft, (hail be
p ud be the manufacturer or owner
* of the faid Lime, fix cents for each
j cask of Lime fo infpefted and braud
j ed ; and the faid Infpeftor (hall be
entitled to receive from any Deputy
j he may appoint, one cent and a half,
for f 1/ cask faid Deputy (hall in
fpeft and brand according to thia
aft.
Sect. 5. Be it further enacted, That
there may be chofen in each town in
this Commonwealth, where Lime if*
imported by water, at any annual
meeting, one or more infpe&ors of
| Lime, who may, at the expenl'e of the
| purchafers, inspect all Lime import
; ed into or fold in their refpective
towns or harbours ; and fuch Infpec
tor {hall have a right to demand and
receive of every fuch purchafer four
cents, for every cask of Lime fo in
fpected.
Sect. 6 Be it further enabled, That
i each town within this Common
wealth in which Lime is manufac
tured, except the towns of Warren,
fhomafton, and Camden, ihall, at
fheir annual meetings in March or
April, choofc one or more Infpetft
i>rs, whofe duty it Thallbe to infpeCt
-nll*Jnme manufactured within kid
town, at the time it is filled at the
kiln, and brand each cask in which
the fame is put, with the word “ In
fpecicif and the firlt letter of his
Chriftian name, and his furname at
length, with the name of the faid
town ; and he fhall receive from the
manufacturer or owner cf the faid
Lime five cents, for each cask fo in
fpeCted and branded.
Sect. 7. Be it further enaUedy That
if any perfon lliall prefume to fell, or
expofe to fale, or fhip, or receive 011
board any vefTel, in casks, any Lime,
other than fuch as fliall be contain
ed in casks made as aforefaid, and
having the aforefaid marks or brand,
as required by this acl, refpedlively,
the offender or offenders (hall incur
the pena ty of otic dollar And fifty centst
for each cask fo fold, or offered for
• fair, cr (hipped or received on board
any veil'd, to be fued for and recov
ered before any Justice of the Peace,
or Court of Common Pleat, as the
cafe may require, by action of debt-,
and all fuch Lime and cask or casks
ihali i>e forfeited to the ufe herein af
ter provided. And it lliall be law
1
ful for any Juftice of the Peace, up
on information given, of any fuch
cask or casks of Lime, fold or expo
t fed to fale, or put or received on
board any veffel, to iff ue his warrant,
directed to the Sheriff or his Depu
ty, or Conllabie, requiring them, rel
i peclively, to make feizure of any fuch
• Lime, fold or expofed to ia.e, or
j lhipped or received^on board any vef
I fel, and not made and marked as a
forefaid, and to lecure the fame in
order for trial : and fuch officers are
refpeiflively authorized and required
to execute the fame.
Sect. 8. Be it further enaBed, That
if, after any cask or casks containing
Lime fliall have been branded as re
quired by tiffs a<ft, any perlon lhall
prtfume to (Lift the contents of faid
ca?k or casks, and put therein any
other Lime with a dehgn to fell the
| lame, fuch perfon fo offending fliall
I forfeit and pay the fum of one dollar
f and fifty cents for every cask of Lime
fo lh if ted, to be recovered in man
ner as aforelaid.
Sf.ct 9. Be it further enaBedy That
the Infpeclors and Deputy Inipecl
ers, appointed or chofen by virtue of
■kr »nr m~ r ~ i ■ m \ ■ m— mmmmt* \ i n — wmtm m ■ ■ —
this ad, b-fi re they enter upon the
duties of their office, {hall be fworn
‘ to the faithful performance of the
trull repofei in them refpedively.
Sect. io. Be it further enabled,
| That all penalties and forleitures in
curred by virtue of this ad, (hall be,
one mciety to the ufe of the town, in
i which the offence fhall be committed,
1 and the other moietv to him or them
who fhall inform or hue for the fame.
Sect i r. Be it further enaftedt
That all laws heretofore made, rela
tive to Stone Lime, or Lime Cask?,
be, and they hereby are repealed,
from and after the firft day of June
nexr. Provided nevcrthelefs—That
nothing in this ad {ball be conllru.
ed to rellrain any manufadurer of
Lime, or other perfou from retail
: ing Lime by the bufhel, or other
; quantities, not in casks.
Feb. 27, 1810—Approved.
C. GORE.
CfctscfUanp.
Double Dealings.
[Ttfe contents of the following letter are
of so extraorninary a nature, that we hard
ly know vrhat to think. If it is not true, the
i administration will certainly at once disa
vow it; otherwise we suppose an enquiry
will be instituted b> the Representatives of
the People. This is the first intimation we
have had of an American minister at the
court of King Joe. Nor do we recollect of
any such nomination !>cing submitted to the
Senate.)—Ed. Freeman's Journal.
' Extract of a letter from an American gentle
man in Cadiz, dated 17th January, 1810.
“ I have just seen Madrid dates to the
31st instant, and cannot avoid relating to
I you a curious fact mentioned in a letter un
der that date, from a person of respectabil
ity—** Yesterday, (the 30th Dec.) the
I “ criminal court, appointed by the benevolent
\ “ intruder, King Joseph, took cognizance of
i “ the cause of an Irish clergyman, who acts
“ as C'.arge des Affaires of the United States
“ in this capital, and who has been impris
“ oned upwards of two months by order of
i “ the usurper.” Until now, it was not
known here that the present American ad
ministration was plating a double game in
Spain ; and that whilst they gave orders to
Mr Erving to follow the Spanish Central
Junta in the character of their representa
tive, they also had another agent near the
Court of the intruding Monarch. The few
Americans here have seen with deep regret
this double game, and cannot help drawing
, a comparison betwixt the legislative gov
: ernment of Spain and that of the usurper.
I The Junta treats Mr. Erving with all pos
; sible respect und attention, while King Jc
j seph imprisons and ill treats the agent, rep
resenting near his person, the American
government. Since this circumstance has
transpired, I blush to meet mv Spanish
friends: however, I am glad to observe
they discriminate between the act of a set
of men who would wish to favor French
usurpation and tyranny, to answer their
private views, and the wishes of all ’.rue
Americans who surely never can approve,
j they say, an attempt against the libel ties of
i a great and independent nation.”
Extract ft cm the same person, dated 24 th fan"
“ Since the defeat of the French in the
passes of Sierra Morena, ali is again in con
; fusion in Madrid. We have just learnt that
K.’u g Joe the Barbarian, has ordered the
beautiful customhouse, post office, and
otliet public buildings in Madrid, to be im
mediately demolished ; by this time I sup
pose those elegant edifices no longer exist.
Joseph consulted fits friends respecting the
demolition of the magnificent new palace he
inhab its, but this has been suspended for
the present. Meanwhile his rapacity and
that his myrmidons is beyond conception ;
they tub ami plunder the plate, jewels and
other valuable effects of the churches, con
i
vents and individuals, and such is their a
viditv for gold that they even scrape off the
gilding of picture frames and columns, and
burn every rav of tissue they meet with.
This conduct of the French induces the
Spaniards to believe their visitors arc about
quitting that q&pital. God grant they may,
and the kingdom too, far as long as a French
man remains in Spain there will be no peart
or happiness.'*
What has become of the Gig Luxe, so
called i It has been liing -1 »rm.*nt for ma
ny weeks, almost as unnoticed r»s »f it had
never been known. Perhaps no rule of the
House, resolution, nor bill, was ev;r in
I more direct and evident oppoatitwi to the
i
r
Constitution. The motive for its adoption
w;ih quite apparent. It was to stifle the mi
nority ; that the majority might pass any
bills they chose, with just as much debate
ks they thought proper. Three or four days ;
were lost in discussing this iniquitous rule, j
at the i ate of about 2(K>0 dollars a day. lis
unconstitutionahty was so apparent, that its
friends at last consented to abandon it a* a
shameful thing. Indeed it could never be
carried into eflect. Nothing but main force
could have prevented the minority from
speaking ; and the Speaker would not have
! dared to order the Sergeant at Arms to en
i force silence. Had such a rule be en brn’t
| forward by the federalists in 1798, the same
men wrho have advocated this rule, would
have been ten times as violent against it
as they were against the sedition act.
Independent American.
“* The Tories he Tories /”
T he following unquestionable fact9 ate
stated by a writer in the (N. Y ) Orange
County Patriot.
“ Revolutionary officers, whose white
hairs and scarred bodies, bear testimony to
tfieir hard du.y in the service of their coun
try, have been branded with the name of
Tory, by young men, who were not quick in
their mother's wombs—when the persons
they stigmatize, were exposing their bodies
to the point of the British bayonet, Mon
who fiave not resided five years in the coun
try, have been heard to vent the epithets of
Tory and British Bartizan, againstthose vet
eran soldiers who, when England was en
deavoring to rivet her chains on us, stood in
the breach, and faced the Hash of the Brit
ish cannou. The term has been applied to
men who marched at the side of Washing
ton, in the most disastrous days of our dubi
ous warfare—against men who, in the face
of a superior av my, without cloathing, and
sometimes without food, in the hour of trib
ulation, and in the moment of peril, breast
ed the shock of war, and stood unappall’d
amidst die din of battle.—Against men, e«
qu.d'y superior to British violence and Brit
ish cor: upturn.
“ I lie author of these remarks, has heard
at the polls of an election in New-Yoik,
Edward Dujiscomb, an old American of
ficer, called Tory, by a boy of sixteen—He
has heard, in what is misnamed the Repub
lican (it should be the Clinton) party, a bak
er, who was during the war a sergeant in
the British army, singing ihe praises of lib
erty and challenging men for Tories, whose
ancestors died fighting by the side of VV ash
ington, on the Plains of Monmouth, and un
der Greene, and Eutaw.”
Eccentric Matrimony.
[From Dr. Franklin's paper offline 20,1751 ]
** Jamaica, Jan. 19.
“ There was some time since a marriage
negotiated by a bill of exchange, in one of
the English islands of America ; the cir
cumstances of which are so whimsical, that
I believe such of my readers as have not al
ready heaidit will be diverted with the
relation.
** A merchant originally ft cm London,
having acquired a fortune in the island con
cluded with himself he could not be happy
in the enjoyment of it, unless he shared it
with a woman of merit, and knowing of none
to his fancy, he resolved to write to a worthy
correspondent of his at London. H-^ knew
no other style than he used in trade ; there
fore treating affairs of love as he did hii
business, atter giving his friend in a letter,
several commissions, and defering this for
the last, he wc*ntonthus—Item, seeing that
I have taken a resolution to inarrv, and that
1 do not find a suitable match for me heie,
do not fad to send me by next ship bound
hither, a young woman of the qualifications
and form following. As for a portion, I de
mand none ; let her be of an honest family.
between tcu ana zo years ot aye, a miacio
stature, anti well proportioned, her face
must ire somewhat agreeable, l.er temper
mikl, l.er character blameless, l.er health
good, and her constitution strong enough to
bear the change of climate, that there be no
occasion to look for a second through lac e
of the first as soon as she comes to hand,
which must be provided against as murh as
possible, considering the great distance and
the dangers of the sea, If 'lie at r ives and
conditioned as above said with the present
letter endorsed b\ you, or at least an attes
ted cooy thereof, that there maybe oomis
take or imposition, 1 hereby oblige and cn
gage rm self to satisfy the said letter, by
marrying the bearer at 15 days sight. In
witness I subscribe this, &c.”
The London correspondent read over and
over the odd article, which put the future
spouse on the same footing with ihe bales
of goods he was to send to his friend, and
after admiring the prudent exactness of the
American, and his laconicst)le menumera
ting the qualifications lie insisted on, he
endeavoured to serve him to !us mind ; .md
after many enquiries, he judged he had
found a lady fit lor his purpose, in a young
person of a reputable famil’ , but co fortune,
of good humour, and of a polite education,
well shaped, ami more than tlerabiy hand
some ; he made the proposal to her, as his
fuend bad directed ; and the ) >ung gentle
woman, who had no subsistence but iroin a
* OjS old aunt, who gave her a great deal
of uneasiness, accepted it. A ship bound
for that island was then filing out at Bristol ;
! the gentlewoman went on board ike same,!
{ together with Lie bales of goods, being weh |
j provided with all nectssa. ie*>, ai d par lieu
i larly with a certificate in due form, ami en*!
dci ced t.y the correspondent. Sue was a I I
: 'o included in the invoice, the last an. cie ot j
j which ran thus ;—
“ Item, a maid of 25 years of age, of the
qvtali!) and con.1.tinned us per «iutr, as *p !
pi at8 #y c srtiii ,vi $ at d ceiufi.au.» she
has to produce. Writings w k were
thought nt*ct ssary to so cx*ct a man as the
future husband, were an extract of the par
ish register, a certificate of her character,
signed by the curate, and attestation
ot her neighbour*, setting forth that
she had lived for the spare of three year#
with an old aunt, who ums intolerably pee
vish, and had n >t, du ing dl that tune, gi
ven her said aunt the least occasion of com
plaint. And lastly, the goodness of her
constitution was certified, after consolation,
by four noted physicians.
Before the t mule woman's departure, the
London correspondent sent se veral letters of
advice by o he, ships to his friend, whereby
he informed bi n, that per such a ship, he
sent lum a youug woman, of such an age,
cli tracter and condition, Sic. in a word, such
as he desire <1 to marry. The letters of ad
vice* the bales and gentlewoman, came safe
to the port ; and our American, who hap
pened to be one of the foremost upon the
pier, at the lady’s landing, was charmed to
see a handsome person, who, having heard
him called by his name, told him—Sir, I
have a bill of exchange upon you, and as von
know that it is not usual for people to carry
a great deal of money about them, in such a
long voyage us I have made, I beg the fa
vour you would be pleased to pay it. And
she presented him his correspondent’s letter
on the back of which was writ, the bearer of
this ts the spouse you ordered sue to se~>d you.
tla ! madam, said the American, 1 never
yet * tillered my bills lo be protested, and I
swear this shall not be the first : I shall n c
kon myself the mo*i fortunate of all men, if
you allow me to discharge it_Ye*, sir re*
plied she, and the more willingly, since I
am apprized of your character ; we had sev
[ eral person# of honour on board our vessel,
who knew you, and who, during iny passage,
have answered all the questions I asked
them concerning you in so advantagous a
manner, that it has raised in me a perfect
esteem for you. This first interview was in
a few days after, followed by their nuptails,
which were very magnificent. The new
I married couple are satisiied with their hap
I py union, nude by & bill of exchange, which
was the most fortunate that had happened
I in the island for many years.
Established Religion.
This charge wnich democrats every
now and then bung up against the fed
eralists, is started atresh by some parson
i somebody, probably of the family of
crazy Davis or Stanley Griswold, a
I gainst Gen. Cobb, the Lt. Governor of
i Massachusetts. Gen. Cobb was one of
Washington’s Aids during the revolu
tionary war, and a most intrepid sol
dier ; he was also the Judge who, on the
bench at Worcester, when the insurgents
under Shays surrounded the court
house and declared there should be no
court, replied he would either hold
court as judge, or die at the door of the
court house as colonel of militia, arid
caried his point. Such a character the
democrats must necessarily dislike, and
as they delighted in calumniating
Washington, so they are now very //«/.
fly in defaming his companions and fel
low soldiers.
A party headed by Th : Jefferson,
William 15. Giles and Stephen Rowe
liradley, must be very much alarmed
with the name of an established religion
or any other religion_Trent, l’ed.
LONDON ARTICLES
Charles IV.—It has been Hated
that this unfortunate monarch is now
obliged to leil his diamonds tor ibb«
fiftr-nce, Bonaparte having refufed to
pay the pemlon which he promifed.
Hus ftatement is in fubftance correct,
but it is not true that Charles IV as
has been all’erted, is in pcfltfTmn of
diamonds to an imrrenle arao;:!::.
When he quirted Spain he had dia
monds to the value of four millions
fterling, but Bonaparte faid they be
longed; to the crown of Spain, ami
I therefore took them to himldf. The
I few jewels which the on^e powerful
i monarch of Spam has been forced o
fell at Maifeiiles, were thofe viddi
belonged to the queen.
V/orJen Urit.—To nothing im;s
this quality attach lo ftrongly as to ,»
chair. If there is a difpute, in any
alien bly, the cafe is always referred
to this wooden inipiry j and eveiv
body fets up a cry of cnair ! chair !
— In the Dme manner thanks aie re
turned to the chair—the chair is Did
to be facetious ; to be dignified, or
to be getting drunk ; till at laft every
body is called upon to lbpport the
chair, as if it were too weak to ftand
upon its legs. So again of the table.
The head of the tabse can no more
do wrong than the head of the na
tion ;—and what is very remarkable,
the worft joke in the world is hire
to be a good one, and to .oake every
body die with laughter, provided it
comes fiora the chair.