Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser — Portland, Me., 1810-10-29 00:00:00, page 2

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A Itc*- from an ifnCrT on board
Te Ureninaugbt, of <,8 guns, ini
Tau»ut Roads lta'es that tt*cv had
pckcd i^p a fT'.n; h boat, with two
Fruftim f>Mi?rs, bt ti<ngin to Boha
parte’* Colonial Corps who had de
ferred from lile d’Aix—1 hey ilatt
t at there are 12,000 French, and
6co other foldiers, row in garrilon
at Mle d’Aix, waiting to be embarked
for Smnh America. 1 luce Blips
c f the line are now lying ia the
CSt-'uirc, completely rigged ; and
io d’Aix, three frigate*, fight
brigs, two fchooners, one gafti«rt, and
Rxteen pinnaces.
The fall in the price of Fnglifh
cloth is perhaps the grtateft over
known. Fhc finer forts from Vi dr
ib ire, which la(t year were fold at
two guineas per ya»d, are not now
worth 38/ ; and at fome lure Tales
: t Auction Mart, f me of the t>eft
Yorkfliire clcth6 did not fetch ab<«ve
24s p*r yard ; fo beneficial has
tbeen the lute importation of bpahlih
wool
The Grand hignior has left Con
Aantinople, and placed himfclf at
the heud of his army, to contend a
gain ft the Ruffians.
The King of PrujJiSy it is faid, had
determiord to abdicate his throne,
l ut had bern difTuaded therefrom by
fome of his nobles.
A lady,.at the weft end of the
town, has carried her prudery 1 > far,
that fiie has fepnTatrd the writings
tA male and frtnah authors in her li
brary
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NATCHEZ, RFPT. 26, l8lO.
TROUBLES JN EMT FLORIDA*
AT a late hour laft night we re
ceived the fufcjoined extract of a let
tc , viz —
F'tnknexvffie* Sept. 25, 1810.
“WE have information direcily
from Baton Rc^ge, that on Saturday
right about 1^0 men, under the
command of Gen. '/Lomas, entered
the fort tf Bat.n Rouge. Young
Ur and ire, who commanded, gallant
ly attempted to defend it, and recei
ved a fevere wound in his neck, with
a broad fvvord. One of the guard
t red on the aflail mts, and was imme
diately (hot down by ene of Gapt.
'JcbnJords dragoons—another of the
hpanifh guard was woundtd, no
damage received by the troops of the
Convention. Having quieted every
thing in the Tort, ihey proceeded to
the houfc of I is Excellency [Dei.as
rur} dragged him out, and carried
him to the Fort, with two boxes of
money fcur.d in his room, a^d fol
ded him with irons—hut not with
out having to knock him down with
the butt end of amulket. The Con
vention had about ?co men in the
r iace when the mi llcnger left it, and
every thing was qui-t.”
We fur rher Uarn. that the Con
vention received intelligence that they
bad been betrayed, arid that Gov.
I’oi.ch had a galley at Cialvrrtoun, in
which he meant to embark the Con
vention lor FmjacUa, and that lie
himfeH was in the caltern part of rhe
province lowing dilfentioci. This
made the above prompt meafurcs r.e
Ctff iry.
DREADFUL FIRE!
Fxtraft cj a fetter frent Charlefijn, da
ted (Jet. 8.
Daft night af 12 o’clock, a fire
broke out in Church ftreet, continu
ed below the eld church, the wind
N. W and is this morning juft got
under. It has been dreadful, hum
4 to 500 honfes have been burnt
down, lay for ftVeral fquires, ail
burnt with few exception.—It is
burnt from Amen ftrtet, below the
old church, a td e«*u!d ;.ot be got
.under, till it reached Brond-hreer,
and has burnt.* >m ntar the Rate
1’auk, down to ti»r Fay, ad of the
4 w
hotiies, Mr. ftrenao’s included, as
v eil as the corner where Dr. Chauler
uhd to Jive ; R was fortunately
Hoped at Broad ftrrer, none of
the honfes were burnt on the
.South fide of Broad-ft reel—tlue
Qaktfsofhre flew% the wind beioj
nigh, and burnt Mr. Baker’s houfe
on the Bav, next 10 Mr. Cofmick’s—
« *■
the other b.ii.g <*ick neaped.—Mr.
Potter’s Store brine fire proof ran ko
riiJc. If the fire bail called Broad
A
Hreetit would have l/arur nearly all
! the city. !• ipht or ten houft3 along
Broad (Feet were b'«wn lip with
powder topreveY.t it extending acrofs
1 —*The ftref t, &c. are in a dreadful
firuatioYi. 1 tear many performs have
been burnt or killed.”
Robert Wharton, Ffq a fed ral *f
pubiican, is thoiun Mayor of l*Mam
dclpki i*
In an addiefi, to the llemocrats of
the county of Philadelphia, Duane
in a late Aurora makes the.folio wring
declaration —
“Fellow citizens—the democra- ,
tie party is on the eve of diilolu
tion” —
Heaven grant (fays the Bofton Re
pertory) Duane may have o.ice fpo
ken truth.
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Who V’tuM fuppofe, from the
d >!eful wadiiigt of the democrats
whenever they are unluccefsful in
an election, that rotation in office was
formerly their Handing maxim ?
That this doctrine was written, prin
ted and preached on every occafion,
as dbiolutclv elTential to a republican
government ? Yet fo it is. When
Mr. hppes firft offered himfelf as a
candidate to congrefs, he even pled
ged himfelf in a public a.ldrefsto ex
ert himfelf, if elected, fo have the
con dilution of the United States al
tered to this eff-£t. We do not re
coiled! the particulars of that ad
drels i nor do we recollect, although
Mr. Eppes has been a member of
congress ever lince, that he has bro’t
forward fuch a proportion.—We
mult conclude, therefore, that he
has forgotten his promise *, becaufe,
had he difeovered his error in ma
king it, he would no doubt have
made a pubiic recantation on fo un
important a point
The c!o£!ion in Philadelphii has
exhibited another feene of democrat
\erius democrat ; ot, to adopt their
newly invented phrale<*!ogy, of old
lchool verfus new fchool. Could a
ny thing in their conduct excite fur
prife, we ihould be aftonilhed to
find them abuling each other with
the moft rancorous malice. Al
though they both pretend to be pure
and genuine republicans, thty refort
to the lowed fcurrility in treating of
per fon a I character ; and in fad!
thefe*1 brethren of the fame prin
ciple” evince mere lorrow and mor.
tification at the fucceft of one of
their own kidney, than they would
at the promotion of the deadlied en
emy—yea, even of a federa id ! How
can honed men confide in thole who
have no confidence in each other ?
Hie National intelligencer lays
tliele *‘ Chisms” in Philadelphia are
“ perfetdiy unintelligible.” But
we can lee nothing “ unintelligible”
in the matter: All thefc friends of
the people hunger and thirl! after
office ; this is evident from their
condu£! as well as their declarations ,
to this end are all their tndeavors di
rected, and when difappointed, they
are compelled to vent their lorrows
iu lomc lhape or oilier.
Methodist*.—liy minutes of confer
ences ot the Society of Methodists in
the United Slates, u appears, that 1791
iIkv amounted to 76,153; and 1001,
10 72,87-**; in 1810,to 174,560,
Love for Love.
OR
T'apoleen'uijh Ajft {lions.
The i'rencfojicd children of De
mocracy are rapidly returning to
their “ iirlt love.’' Iready they ex
claim that thofe are traitors ro their
cour.try, and are fold to England,
who deny, or even doubt, M the in
tegrity and honour of the Emperor n
1 hey fay that it is proved conclu
five 1 y that he has always been the
friend of commerce, of America,
and Liberty ! Happily for our coun
try, we are ltill permitted to believe
that the great majority of the demo
cratick party are Americans at heart.
J 1 hey are not all Napoleot -‘es. iiu;
by far too many are fo, and, although
they for a time affect better things,
it ii now proper to fay of them, in
i the ilrong inguage of a venerable
volume,—the d,g ts returned 15 his
\ i*ii) and the few to her zi jJIou'ing in
, t ■ • . *-»
tin v.ire.
•—
A jural wit remarks, that thole
who paid a ihoufmh and eleven hun
i dred dollars a piece for Merino
Ratns% now hud, from ti er recent
i Er^c importations, that they arel
' likiy to turn cut Lens. — Cent.
Thm* is nctthlng like iaciF.
'1 he Editor of the Norfolk Ledge*
J some time siikc, published an accoutv
| of French an 1 British captures of A
merit ,*n property insured in the t ill «
of the Marine Insurance Companv.i'v
j Norfolk. The French exceeded the
Bt ilisb forty to one ! J he same inves
tigation has been made at Alexandria
in Virginia, at the Marine insnuiiucc;
Office, in that city, and with the fellow-1
ing result.
A mom . captured and con
demned by the French
and by Sp tin, while act
ing under French de
crees g 15-4,166
Restored AUTHIAfc
Amount raptured and co»
domned by the British -30,600
Restored,clear of expense 10,000
Recaptured from the French
and restored clear of ex
pense 2,500
/ .
Total restored 4 2,000
Retained by the English 15,100
The difference here is not so great as
at Norfolk, but is as eight and a half to
one—yet the resentment of govern
ment and its pai uzans is vented upon
England, as the tyrant of the seat, the
only impediment to American com
wurce.
1 -
( The rapid othI glowing sketch of af
fairs in Europe, which we have taken
from a Gei man letter, is worth peru
sal. 'I he wliter served in the un- <
iorttinate campaigns of the Austrian
and German armies, and afterwards
in the insurrection in Westphalia.
bait. Fed. hep.
F.xtract of a Utter dated Cadiz, August '
3d, 1810, from a German Field OJfi-1
cer in ttie timith service, to faxJ’ritnd <
in Baltimore.
Happy are you that you do net see
the wounds ol you countiy. Remain
in America until the sun of freedom
shall enlighten with new'day the deso
lated fields of Germany.—Bonaparte is
endeavouring to outstrip time and .to
annihilate every thing under the iron
weight of his crushing despotism
WiKieverhe strikes his foot there is
nothing hut confusion, and wherever his
hands ate laid ti.erc prevails the annihi
lation oi ail human lAvs, and man hirn
stlt sinks to a slavish brute, or if he
possesses too much native energy to
Ml so low he becomes a bandit and
robber. Rage aw ay, 1 y rant 1 Though
you strive to crush the spirit of the age,
il will freely pursue its course, and af
ter your death il not before, will fire
your structures with its never-extin
guished torch.
But whilst the wretched king of
Prussia Lit the brave Sciull and us in
the lurch, Bonaparte in order to reward
him, caused the Marks and Silesia tobe
occupied, and dethroned his majesty ol
Prussia, who may now, vvnli his ma
jesty ol Holland, purchase a farm for
hiniselt wherever he pleases.
\\ ould to God Bonaparte had treat
j «d the Gei mans as he did the Spaniards,
and taken away uil the piinccs i then
we should now be Germans, and cer
tainly mote mighty adversaries ot
francs than the bpanfords, whose cou
j luge a,'Q spit it have been depressed un
• dcr so many miserable governments
( following one alter the other. It is
I expected here, that nevertheless the
j Cortes will finally produce a saiulaty
revolution/
1 lie brave Tyrolese are again in
arms, and who knows what conse
quences tnen* great example may pro
once at the present period l
1 he Austrian Emperor is now en
tire y lost, as he is betel on aU sides by
hi* B oilier diaries, who is one of the
pn.iitpal cause* oj the dufivnjmt pf hu
tupc, and by piince Lichtenstein.—
Would to God, that he followed his
own head or. hi* brother John, and all
wculd be well.—Bui it appears as il
1 Napoleon was really the rod. of God's
anger agamsl otjf degenerate Prince*,
and I thcrelote wMi lie vyas done with
them, that he mignt cease to plague the
people. m ,r 1
J n R we den a formal breach is near
taking place between the, nobility, cit
izens, and farmers, an event winch has
long beer. desirable for Sweden, as the
nobility always made revolutions for
themselves, and «m opposed to every
popular king. Unsold und uhameless
uncle of the unfortunate Gusuvus, sent
the F.nglRh Ambassador home again,
because Rnghuid naturally espoused the
Cause t<l the j>t*ople.
Respecting Russia I am silent. For,
wind a wretched adversary is str/t an
Alexander l 1 he tail of Pi nice Kurakin
the Russian minister at Paris, from,
the stairs oi Scluvartzenbevg's Burn
ing Dancing Hall, is perhaps a type aud
forewarning of what i, to happen.
Rcch is tuaop*.
| - Natural Patriotism.—The follow in ;
t anecdote is extracted from a very iu
tVesting acrtMtyn of i^e late ii.sur.ee*
i
•ion 41 the Tyrol, h? Major Muller, one :
i the drpmies from that country to our
^otfcinwitnt—
Among tl»c prisoners who werefa
llen at Wegschaide, was the son it
ooimaijJcr Speckbacher, only 1
ytrars t»i age, who* when oidcrcd by his )
tattler to retreat, would not comply till
ie had shot the Bavarian general, who
was riding along the front of his army.
1 he youth and bravery of tlm boy ha
ving attracted the notice and admits*
tioti of the enemy’s officers, he w as pre-J
sented to the King of Bavaria,1 who ,
ktd him—“ VV’lll you shoot any more i
Bavarians?” The youth, vuth afl the 1
bluntness and intrepidity which charac* 1
terife las country, not only replied in 1
the affirmative, but added-*-“and you
too, if you come to the Tyrol.**
Connecticut Representatives.
The following gentlemen havs teen
elected Representatives from the Slate
of Connecticut, to the 12th Congress,
viz.—Hon. Lewis ft. Sturtyes, Jana O.
Mostly, Bevjumin f'allmAfge^ Efiafihro
ditus Champion, Timothy Vitkin, jr. Ly
man Law, and John Darvenport,jr.
The Hon. Ebentzer Huntington,
Esq. has been chosen Representative
to Congress, from Connecticut, to sup
ply the place of the Hon, S. VV. Dana,!
removed to the Senate.
A general revolution of government!
seems to be taking place in South A-j
merica. What forms of government,;
or teritorial divisions of sovereignties ■
will be eventually settled, time only
will ascertain. One great object of Bo
naparte’s invading Spain was the ex
pectation of swaying Spanish America.
In this he is compleatly disappointed,!
and without the least hope of its accom- j
plishment.—The conquett of Spain is *
now of comparatively little importance
to his empire : the shame of dtfeat in
his purpose more than the prospect
of advantage, causes the continuance of
the Spanish war.—[ALex. Gazette.
■ 11 Him * , .
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SOMETHING CURIOUS.
A new street has been lately opened
in the precincts of Baltimore. In com
pliment it has been called after Mr.
Madison. It commences at the Poor
1 louse, passes the Goal, grazes the
Penitentiary, and ends at Gallons
Hill. There is no offence in this ; it
was the eiTect of mere accident ; but
i how still more passing curious would
it be, before the completion of Mr.
Madison’s term of office to see his effi
gy carted through this Imperial City
and burnt on Gallows Hill. Such is
the “ tremendous stability of all human
grandeur.”
[ PROM SP. fl.Y.
Capl. Crowell, ofsoh. Regulator, 63;
days from Vakntia, informs, that the
day he sailed about i0,000 French
troaps had arrived within 5 miles of
that place ; 10,000 mote were expect
ed ; and it was thought when 25,000
more were collected, they would attack
the place : that Taragona was still in
possession of the Spaniards ? and it
was reported that a hard battle had ta
ken place between the French and
Spaniards, about 50 miles below Tarra
gona, in which the latter lost many men
and the French from 4 to 5,000.
[& . c .y/.p .]
[ From the National Intelligencer Extra ]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.
London
Sir,
Lord Wellesley sent ire, yesterday, his
»ns**-r u> ni) note of the 25.1, ulu respecting
the Berlin and Milan decices.
1 hasten to transmit a copy of it. A copy
• shall be sent without delay to General Ann
strong.
I have the honor to be kc.
W m. PINKNEY
Hon Robt. Smith, life. I5*c. i5“c.
V - ' * 1
(cofy)
Mr. Fin hie/s Jjtner to L.ntd WtHcdey
Great Cumberland Place,
August 25, l&ld.
My l ord,
1 luve the horotir t© s'.ete to vonr I.orcl
duptliat 1 have received from General
Armstrong, Minister PUn'ipoicr tiiuv ot ihc
l mud S’a.civ at Pat-in, a letter, bearing
date the <vh instant, in which he jiitomis
me that the government ot Fiance has rev©
ktd tiie decrees of Berlin and Milan, and
that he has received a written and oficial
not ice ot that tact, in die follow mg wotds —
“ ye suit axttwut a- votis decider man Jem,
rjue ies De c ers de Herd* et de Milan emj te~
votptn etqu' n Jater di hit Uvnnute iU ne
ter‘mt a'xa jur ieur ojttt."
I Uice for grained that the revocation
of the British orders hi Council r.f January
and Not ember 1807, and April fbdfc, and tt
all other orders dependent Ugn, anal >gous
to, arm execution ot' them, wi t h.uow t*l
course ; and 1 shall hope to be enabled by
your Lordship, with as title delay as possi
ble, io announce to ni) government that
such revocation has taken place.
I have the honor to be, with li'gh consi
deration, My Lord, Your Lmd li p*, most
•ibvdieut humbie acivant,
(.Signed) Wm PINKNEY.
The most noble
Tile Marquis Well sley, See. Sec. &c.
Lord IWJesley to Mr, Pink* y.
Sir,
J have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your let;* r under >r.*ie the *ith
uivanu
»J * S*r* cfTeb^jfiTy» iTrT !TV 4*s
t}'* m nUt'-r'/»i America det!«r d toth* guv
ciHtmcnt of the tJ .iied Sut-s, “ hi* mate* •
i)*-* earnest d~*ir« to see*the emu me ret #
tl»<*’world rtsiortd to list If***.km which
isi necessary for its nmsperity, and ins reset,
m*ss to alum Ion the sjrtft* m, wuich hiul been
forced tipon him, wherever the enemy
should retract the p< i.v.pks which had
iCndertd it
1 am comm»nd* tt by hi* mvesty to re
fill that declaration, and t«i *jt,,,ire vou
*ti*t wheti-ver the rej*« .1 ul Uk- Fr* ncii de
cries shall have actually taken effect, and
the commerce of neutral {rations shall have
been restored to the condition in which it
stood previously to the promulgation of
those decrees, hi** majesty will f el the
highest satisfactimi in relinquishing*a sys
tem, winch the conduct of the enemy com
pelled hinh to adopt.
I have the iionour to be, with the highest
consideration, sir, your most obedient *i4
humble servant.
(Signed) WFLLESLEY.
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5|)ortlan&,
Monday, October 29, 1310,
Letters, tiat#d London, August 29th*
mention that by the latest information
from France, there is little or no hopes
of a release of the American property’
which has been sequestcied in the
ports under the contrail! of Bonaparte.
Letters from Koningsburgh, the new
residence of the Prussian Court, state
that tht in habitants were in daily ex
pectation of the Vrivil of a F rench gar
rison, to take possession of the ship
ping the re One of the letters observes,
that Alexander Berliner, Prince of
Mcufchatel, was expected to be raised
to the Throne of Prussia, and Lite fam
ily of Brandenburg to be reduced to a
private station.
1 lie following is the extract of a let
ler from Palis, dated the 31st of Au
gust—
u Touche, once the terror of France,
is now a close prisoner at Marseilles.
He was arrested at Aix, which was his
Senetorerir.”
It *s said that the Ex-Empress is im
plicated in Touche’s tall, as that Lady
had been on a visit to the disgraced min
ister at Aix.
The Spaniards have lately intercept
ted some i tench despatches, which in
duce a belief that it is the intention of
the Emperor to annex Spain to France
in the manner Holland has been.
Accounts f.aiYi Lisbon to Septem
ber 25, have been received. >io gen
eral battle has taVen place, nor any
military event since the lull of Almti
da ; both armies continued in their old
position, and are said to be entrenching
themselves.
The French keep up the warfare in
Spain ; 10,000 French troops have
lately entered Badajoz Gen. Ilill has
a British corps in the vicinity.
"" I'l-* *-4 * W • £
It was reported at Gottenburg, Au
gust 27, that an embargo lias been
imposed upon all shipping in the Rus
sian ports.
A despatch f om the new gorerhmept of
Sajita Foe to the Junta of Cartbagena, rep
resents that South America is experitnc.njr
al! the horrors of a Civil W ar. 1 he city of
Quito in particular? has be^n'plundered, its
inhabitants murdered, and every species of
excess committed by tHe soldiers under the
Vice 'hoy.
On the 5kh of September 1(103 armed
volunteers marched from Cartbagena, for
the assistance of the people ot Quito. A
Jjfreat miutber of executions have taken
| place ol person!* friendly to the ntvv gi>v
ernmeiu.
In our preceding columns will bfc
found the official correspondence be
i twixt Mr. Pinkney and the British
i Government, on the subject of Bona
parte’s promised repeal of his Beilin
and Milan decrees. Lord Wellesley
j expressly states in behalf of his gov
i ernment, that should the French cease
I to violate neutral commerce, the Brit
ish Orders in Council will be ibundon
ed. _
Ccngrrssicnal Clrrtion.
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FED! UAL C ANDIDATES.
CUMBERLAND DISTRICT,
r rvr.'M \ t r\ic'T-r t o 'T'
KENNEBEC DISTRICT
Mr. Siurlky,
If the spirit of faction and the elec-,
tioneering pieces in the Argus, writtt"
bv some tool ot William Widgerv, 1/
promote his election cm deceive a ma
jority of the electors of this district, r
is possible the democratic ticket m‘*y
p: tvail. But is it possible that the
f armers tiud Mechanics of Cumber
land district can have io* gotten
losses, embarrassment* and pupation *
day evpttkboec dui mg the open