Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser — Portland, Me., 1810-11-12 00:00:00, page 2

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L ucian Bottapa * tc.
London, sipt. 2; — A rrf.a’dla
hie Ain. I'oufe yclterJay
!tff rs tr»-m Paris, nati >g in poiliive
•frirvs, that I.ucitD Bonaparte bad
fmLa krd r.n board the American
Blip Hercules at l>*gh rn. and it was
prefumed that the deftmatron ot the
vclTel was t'ie United Males lie if*
accompanied by his w .fc and family ,
w;th a retinue, confiiting in the
whole cf forty pcrfjns, and he had
obtained, ii L added, paliports from
the Emperor to facilitate his delign.
Ly a ger who l as arrived from
this infcf.2 3tion is in a great
degree cot»8«med, and we learu that
it had long been the intention ol Lu
cian Bonaparte to quit the caitern
huniipi.erc where be could only be
feco/id to ids brother, whom he con
invtd in be fubotdlifate, and to he
indebted to him fur the Imperial Di
adem he tv ary It is repotted that
l.ucian had atnaflKl an immenfe trea
lure, a confiderable portion ol which
he has depot it e«l on biard the [Lip in
which he ukes his lhrcwelt of Lu
iope.
Subjugation cf the Northern Powers.
Sp’th of the private accounts re
cent by the Gotte-uburz Mail of
# # "
yeflerday, are highly interfiling It
appears certain rhat Napoleon had
actually applied to the lJanifh gov
ernment for permiflion to occupy
Zealand, not with 25,000 but with
30,000 men ; and it appears tcjualiy
certain rhat the king of Denmartc has
given a peremptory refufal. What
will this lead to ?
'that Napoleon ha? planned the
fiibj ugation of ali the Northern Po w
ers, or what amounts to the fame
thing, to fet afide the prelent reign
ing famili s, and to elevate F»is own
creatures to their f ncreignties, ha*
Jan;» been apparent to thofe who have
feudied hi* character and actions —
Will the refufal ot the King of Den
mark to permit the palTage of his
troops through HoUtein alter his
xiews ? We think not Indeed, by
the accounts brought by this mail,
this appears already to be the cafe
One of the letters obferve*, that
Frederick William, opprefled with
the humiliating tlate of dependence
to which he was reduced, had actu
ally prop* fed to Napoleon to relign
his crown; to which moafurc, it is
laid, the French Kuler was not pre
pared to accede.
Infur re Elion in Ireland.
sept. 2f»—We underfland that a
letter has been received in London
from Ireland, written by a high au
thority in that country, hating, that
a very unpleafanr tranfacLon had oc
curred mere, on which it had been
deemed neceflary to publifh a Ga
N zette extraordinary, from the Callle
of Dublin. Ir was that the Donegal
regiment of Midtia had had a feverc
engagement with a large party of the
rhiafhetSy near J uam, the iclult of
which had been, that the populace
had ultimately been difperfed, but
not before many lives had been loll,
and among them from 20 or 30 of
the Militia.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The UnLed States Hoop of war
Hornet, Captain limit, Jailed cn Fri
day morning from Cowes, with the
American meffenger Mr. Spence, en
trufted with defparches from Mr.
Pinkney for Hampton,* preparatory
to the meeting of Congrcfe* 1 he
Hornet is to call at Havre de Grace,
to tike on board Gen. Armftiong’r,
MelTcnger, hut has, it is faid, pe
remptory orders to qait that port at
the end of 24 hours, whether the
MtiTcOger appear or not.
in confequence of the domiciliarv
vtfits, which have been larety madi
in Holland, by the French, two of
the Gallo-Cutlom cSccrs have been
killed by the popnlace
It is reported that the -King of
Sweden is dead ; ro mention is
however made of the manner in
which he died t
it ha# bten, we think, erfone^uflv
flared, that Sir Francis daring (who
died ;:i England 1 tth Sept.) left a
for ane of I>. 10,^00,000. A Lon
don paper fays he was nF?t worth
more than a million Helling—fay
near D. 5,000,000.
Two polices were opened at
Lloyd's on Tliiirfday; or.qf ot them
. tn pay j cc gtiocas for 25 down,1!!
C.rtise furremtrrs to the enemy before
. that day twelvemonth } the ot^sr to
I pay 100 (or 49 guineas down, if
j Peace be ratified between Great Bri
j tain and France on or btlore that day
into vea:s.
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. JEy ffc flails.
NIW YORK, OCT 31, l8lO.
I Ails from France.
THIS day two veiTels have arri
ved here in lhorc paflugea from
France!! On board one of them
Mr. Leonard Jarvis, 3d, of Bolton,
came paffen^er. He is the bearer
of difpatche* from Mr Armstrong,
which he received in Paris about the
' Ur September ; and with w’hich he
immediately let out for Walhington.
Mi J. was employed as an agent in
France to recover fame American
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property confi cated ; and left that
country, becaufe he was allured by j
Mr. Armstrong there was then
(the full September no hopes of an
early reltifution of that property !
The day before Mr J left Bayonne,
letters had h*en received there from
Bordeaux, which gave the report,
that on the tve of the depa’rture of
Mr. Armstrong from Paris he re
ceived a note prom the Duke de Ca
PoRE, dating, that if the Government |
tf the United States -would pafs a Liw j
far the restitution oj all French property
fequejlered wider the Non-Intercourse
Lain, then the Emperor would pafs a
decree for the rejlorathn of all the rimer- j
ican property fequejlered by his orders j
in trance. Such was the repoit , J
but we are allured Mr. Jarvis pi iced :
no confidence in it, in the extent icpor- !
ted — Another Rumor was, 1'hat Bo- j
naparte hid ordered, that after de- j
ducting the amount oj f des of American
fequejlered property, the rejidue, if any,
fbouldberejlored A third Rumor was j
that the letter of the Duke de Ca- |
dire to Mr. Armstrong was dated
the 12th September Such were
the rumors l'he tadls by thefe ar
rivals are out few They arc, that
the defpatches by Mr Jarvis cannut
relate to the redoration of the fe
qu Itered American property .
i’hat ALL the American veiT~!sand j
cargoes fcqueftered in Bayonne had
been sold, and the proceeds depoll
t-d in the Caiffe cTAmotijJement: —
That Gen. Armstrong left Paris
the 13th September, arrived at Bor
deaux the 25th, and was to embark
immediately for the U. States, in the
Saliy, Capt. Scott :-That two
or three American vtfifels, which
failed after the repeal of the Non
Intercourfe Law, had arrived in Bor
deaux, and wou’d be allowed to fell
their cargoes, on the payment of the
enormous neve duties :-l hat Jona- ,
than Russell. Efq. of Providence,
was to refide in Paris, as Charge des
Affairs ; and Mr M’Crea, ol Vir
ginia as Counful-General, vice Mr.
W arden, who probably comes home j
with Gen. A.-That 30,000 frelh i
troops had recently pa (Ted through St.
Sebaltians’s, for Spain :-And
that Col. Burr was at Pam.
remarks.
GjT WF. mud add, that not one of
the hundred rumors circulated on the
fubjccl has been mjre abfurd or ridicu
lous than the above. CADORR'i letter
is [aid to have been dited on the i2<h
.September, and the vejfels -which
brought the rumor about it did not fail
from Bayonne until the i It October,
(eighteen days after) and yet Bayonne
it hut i?. 5 miles from Paris! Had a
favourable left r been ft nt to Gen. Arm
strong at the time Jiatedfifty copies
ot it -would hive reached Bayonne a
fortnight before the vcffel failed. Be
fides, feivral Captains of ftqucflcrtd
vejfels have returned in the/e vtftfels —
If o'dd tf*ey} ha i there been the leajt pr f
peEt of a r for at ion of their property?
| id e do not beLcve any prowife of Iron
efi ref oration has been made, much lefts
that the Duke Da Cadore has been fo
great an ignoramus as to talk about the
ref oration of French property fcquejler
ed in the United States : —Cent.
New Mini Her from England.
A letier received in this town from
an American ^emieman, new in Lon
don, dateu s;th Sept, dates, “ That
' j r.ciw Minfer -ivas to be immediately
appointed and Jcr.t out to this coun
try."
* ——
rreficenPs Proclamation.
Dj Prcfhlent g/ t!v U.dtfi Stales,
A PAOUtAMA LION.
, Whereas by tic 4th fiction cf
act, parted May i, iSi--). [Here the
title 0/ the and the fetlion are re
cited.]
And whereas ir has been officially
ma le known to this government that
the edicts of France violating the
neutral commerce of the U. Stares
have beer, fo revoked as to ceale to
have efieft on the firft of’the prefent
month : Now therefore, 1, Jamks
Madison, Prefident of the TJ States,
do hereby proclaim that the faid e
. diets of France have been fo revoked
{ as that they ceafid on the faid firlt
t day of the pr-fent month to riolate
1 the neutral commerce of the United
i Stares ; and that, from the date of
thefe prefenrs, all the reflections ini
pofed by the aforelaid act (hall ccafe
, and be dlfcontinued in relation to
France and her dependencies.
In tejlimony whereof, &c. dated Nov
2, 1810*
JAMES MADISON.
(Cj*This Proclamation is accompan
ied by a circular from the Secretary
of the l rcalury, announcing the pre
fident’s Proclamation \ adding
“ French armed veflcls may now be
admitted into the harbours of the
U. States/’ And alfo a claufe ref
peenng the revival cf the Non In
tercourse Law, as it refpeeb Great
Britain if her Orders are not revo
ked before the 2d February next.
The Proclamation.
Our opinion was, on the promul
gation of the Due de Cadore’s letter,
that the Prefident would not then if
fuc his proclamation, opening the in
tercourse with France and not un
til af ter the time that Napoleon s decrees
Jhould ceafe to operate. As the cale
Hands at prefent, we mutt depend
upon Napoleon’s conHiuttion of the
phrafeoiogy of hia imniHei, but it
is clear he may make a handle of the
“ new principles of blcckcuic” which he
fays Gicdt-liritain has attempted to
eltabitHi, very much to our disadvan
tage
There ought to be no reliance pla
ced upon the llory, that Nopoleon
will relinquith our confifcatcd pro
perty } all the reports, and they have
been multifarious, which we have
hitherto received, have been proved
to be unfounded. If he delivers up
any property, formally, it will be for ;
the purpofe of loading it with duties
and expenles, which will ansount to
confiscation to the American owner.
It is of no conicquence to the lofcr,
whether his property has been taken
lorcibly from him by a highwayman,
pilfered by a thief, or Helen by a
pickpocket.
THE FACTION.
Why is the democratic party called
a faction ? This question we shall en
deavor to answer, in a manner, we trust,
that will convince and silence its min
ions in this part of the country, and
satisfy every honest mind of the justice
of the appellation.
At the time ol the adoption of the
constitution there were two parties in
this country, one consisting of the fed
eralists, the friends and advocates of
that compact, aiui the other of the anti
federalists, its enemies and opposes.
1 he federal party embraced nearly
three fourtlis»olthe freemen of the coun
try, and consequently, alter the consti
tution was adopted by the states, were
entrusted with the organization and ad
ministration of the government, and for
a scries of years conducted the national
affairs with consummate wisdom. In
toe mean lime the anti federal party
were engaged in encreating and streng
thening their number, to effect which
they employed all the arts and chican
ery ot the arch deceiver. Their oppo
sitions to the constitution and govern
ment at once stamped on iheir lore
heads the mark of the beast, and for
years doomed them to that obscurity
which their fell design richly deserved.
But assuming the popular, yet deccp
tive, garb ol republicanism, they step
ped out unbluslungly as the friends of
Me people and the champions of their
rights ; anti, like Satan in the days of in
nocence, infused poison into the public
muni. Washington was accused ol a de
sign to overturn our liberties, and those
associated with him—men who had
fought and bled for our independent*,
were represented as tones and British
urelings, aimed at monarchy, its blan
dishments, and distinctions. Yes, (our
blood warms in thc/efkction) yes, men
who had fought seven long years in the*
achievement of the blessings we now
enjoy, were accused of sedition, strata
gem and treason—of an intention to sa
c? Bice‘.he fruits of all their toils and
I sufferings to tiie enemy. It is well re
\ collected what abominable means as
| well as abominable instillments were
rjniHorcd i>v Uic democratic party tc
overthtow the Cderal administration
, In the i niional cabinet, ilwriiig the ad
! min istr aticn of Gen. Washing!on. Jet
| Person t ok a decided stand against tin
picbidti.t and other members of tlu
cabinet; and when the French revolt!
tin opened its terrors upon mankind
and dispatched Genet hither as tlie ruin.
| i ter ot its vengenre, Jefferson also tool
] a deep interest in having him ostcIUa*
t o isly received, not only by the pen
| eminent, but by tlie people. And af
J ter Genet commenced his indigni ics
and abuse against the administration
(to which the leaders of the party in
some measures instigated him) the pa
pers from Georgia to Maine, in the in
terest of Jefferson, took part with Ge
net in misrepresenting the measures ol
the administration, and went so far as
to insist on his light to fit out and man
priva eers in our haibois, and when
sent out on his authority, contrary to
the oldens of government, they applau
ded the additional insult. Nay, when
this demon in human shape, whose
touch is pollution and whose breath is a
pestilence, threatened to appeal from
the government to the people, and obli
ged the prudent \V ashington to sus
pend his functions, the democrats, with
Jefferson at their head, encouraged
this last abomination, and without re
serve denounced Washington, as the
“ cause of all our misfortunes.** Clubs
were instituted with the professed de
sign of spreading the seeds of discon
tent and opposition. The proclama
tion of neutrality was denounced as cal
culated to favour England, and injure
dear and beloved France, into whose
arms they were willing to rush for pro
tection and support. Nor did they stop
■ ri«i • _ .• • t
nerc. i ijc iinuMuuuu ui i cniisyiva*
nia was excited by the leaders of the
party to impede the wheels of govern
ment, and the taxes imposed, and the
commercial regulations adopted, were
pronounced oppressive and unnecessa
ry. In fine, no means were left uni s
sayed, however iniquitous, which they
conceived calculated to advance their
cause. Alas ! the pitiable condition
of our country proclaims the too fatal
consequences of these measures. The
people were deceived, and the demo
crats obtained the ascendency. Here
we stop for the present.
Now wt should ask, what name such
a party merit but that of Faciion?
And if they were a faction then, why
may they not with propriety be called
a faction now. Because they have suc
ceeded in their usurpations, their na
ture is not altered. They practise the
same arts to retain, which they employ
ed to obtain power. 1 hey are as over
bearing friends in France under Bona
parte as they were under the revolu
tionary demons—Troy Gazette.
Extract of a Inter from a gentleman in
Paris, to his correspondent in Phila
delphiai, dated Aug. 8, 1810,
44 The sale of American property
still goes on at Bayonne, and the mon
ey is applied to the use of the govern
ment, notwithstanding the repeal of tiic
Berlin and milan decrees.— t he pur
chasers at the sale on the 4th inst. at
Bayonne, have been obliged to pay the
new duties, although the law establish
ing them did not take place til! some
days after the sale, ami the prices Were
lower tlun those obtained some time
since, and are not expected to rise ;
the purchasers will therefore lose by
their speculations-1 cannot give
any encouragement to ship to this coun
try, where there is no security for the
merchants.
from the same, dated Paris August 17
“ I cannot tecommend to anv cf my
a t {
friends to ship to this country, in the
expectation of an amicalde arrange
ment between Fiance and the United
States. You may rely on the eerUiin
ty of another general seizure of Amer
ican property in tills country, and in
those under its influence, whenever
such a measure may he thought advi
sable. 1 hope my opinion may prove
erroneous, but am fearful the event
will shew it to he but too well founded.”
From the Philadelphia Evening' Star.
MURDER WILL OUT.
A man, who has long been an inhab
itant of this city, was arrested on Satur
day la*t by a warrant from the Mayor,
on a charge of having on the night be
tween the I5th and 16th Aug. 17,)2.
murdered a young woman naimd f it.
zuoeth Reeves. As there i* something
singular in a charge ot this kind b .ing
made about 18 years after the murder
was committed, >ur readers may be cu
rious to know how the prosecution o
riginated. VV e understand it was in
this fray : A s*ep mother of the accu
sed being sick and not expecting to
live,' told her triend* that she had some
thing on her mind which she wished to
communicate befot e she died, and could
mu die in peace till she divulged it.
A justice ol the peace was sent for, and
he took her deposition of the tacts re
i Uuve to ibe nnUtkr. She state*, liut
onlliCi/gUt cn which ITfth herm
, was rnurdcied, the accused came m j.i*
• father*!* house with i.i(Talus cohered
• with Wood, urd took off his shirt and
: threw Pinto a wash tdh, nnd washed
the Wood of! it — 1 hat he v.as lot some
• time after Wards very restless in hb
i sleep, nnd would sometimes make
■- frightful exrlsraad ms, In the dead
nt the night, soon after the murder oi
Mi'S Reeves, she, the step-mother,
heard him gtiKMi, arT<JTvih'nt up irrfHhls
l oom and asked him wlut was the mat»
ter, and lie answered, that a young
woman*had just been in the room whit
a lighted candle in her hand, that he
had his face towards her when she
, first entered the room, tut he turned
his back to her as soon as he saw her.
'1 hese, and some other occurrences,
had induced her to suspect the accused
of the murder, and she could not elits
in peace without xlhtifgiMg what she
knew respecting it.
The accused arserts his innocence*
and says that he can prove that he wj$
in the state of Virginia at the time
Miss Reeves w as murdered. Another
man wlm was with the accused at his
! lather’s on the night of the murder,
, and who does not n«>vv live in this stale,
! has likewise been accused, by the sime
woman, of being concerned with i in
! lb® murder, and we undetsuiu J ,t
! a stock buckle, which has found in e
r hand of the corpse, and which is i. *
in the possession of the Major, is
i marked with the initials of that man’s
! name.
| ^ c extract the following account of
j Miss Reeves's murder, froifi DunLifi's
' Hr.'ly Aih'crtiatr, of August 18, 1722.
“ On Thursday morning the corpse
of a young woman was Found in one of
the docks near Kensington; ;n in
quest sat upon the body, who brought
in a verdict that she had been wilfully
murdered by some person or persons
unknown. We shad scon be abletft
lay the particular* before cur leaders.
In the mean lime we cannot refrain
Irom communicating such intelligence
as has come within the range of our in
quiry.
Her name is Elizabeth Reeves, a
bout 17 years of age—handsome—ap.
prentice to a martua mak ", nrd cour
ted by a young tradesman in the \icin
itv to whom it was reported she was
shortly to be espoused.
“In the afternoon of Wednesday af
ter her day’s work was done, she had
requested leave of her mistress to take
a walk to market to purchase some
fruit, lor which purpose she had ob
tained liberty and a small sum of mon
ey from her mistress j who saw no
more of her till ycstcrcjpy ; when, as it
lias been traced, a boy being on the
fatal wharf at a very early hour, ob
served a man heaving stones §n some
, tiling which the boy soon discovered to
be the dead body of a man or woman,
he could net tell-which, that the in
stant the man saw the boy, be leaped
into a batteau and pushed off a lew
yards to a shallop that lay convenient,
to which he made fist the Intleau, and
then boarding the shallop, the latter
put ofl with the tide down the river,
which was favourable to the design it
this moment. *
l fie body of a fwtmlc, with g dd
ear-rings and some other marks of res
pectability, soon attracted the notice of
the citizens, and the noise reaching the
ears of her mistress, and an Uncle, (fpr
the unfortunate giil was an orphan) her
person was soon ascertained. A comb
uhich she wore in her hair, was found
at some paces distant, lying in Contact
1 "ith a man's black cravat, which has
been supposed to belong to-.
“ Humanity forbids our proceeding
farther in this horrid recital, except to
mention that soma officers belonging to
tke custom-house sent effa beat, as did
some ottiers, after the sliollop before
mentioned.
justice vacates took an acuvt part to
investigate & discover the perpetrator
of ibis deed. Professional persons ©f
l)o> h sexes were brought to examine the
bcKlv, and it was the opinion of the wo
im n that the unhappy girl had been vi
olated, and tl en murdered 11 lion© the
m«iks ot violence on her face and oili
er parts.
u Surely the eartii and the sea com
bined, could not hide a villiafi */ so
deep a die, as he who could have com
mitted a crime like this.—Lei him
t***e refuge in the hollows of the moun
tains or in the bottom of the deep
abyss, he must and will he vomited up
again to appease the justice of the vir
tuous living.**
In r>ur Ust wc noticed the death of Samuel
f rye, Esq. in a duel near the Natchez.
For the «<*: isfacnon ot fus relations, who
reside at Frycbj*rg# in tLi* District, we
extract the following comimiaication on
t!ie subject of that imhifipy iduir,
from a Natchez paper of the IstofOcu
ber
It often happens, that events of little
importance excite our most attentive
consideration ; wi ile others of the
most serious corstquer.ce in then • h -
mate operation, arc passed over w.VU
liult* notice or regard. But in tfte de
soLii vn of a province, or the slaughter
oi th* tented field } the r*al loss sn>