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PORTLAND, PUBLISHED SY,ARTHUR SHIRLEY.*. EISH-STRK&T.
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FOR THC FORTLAND CaFBTTF.
Afit Sh alkt,
THE following U a hafty, irregular 'and I
Itacw not what e'le) prodtnftion Phon'd
you think proper to condemn it, he aflu-ei,
Sou wiil no? thereby difturb the hj’m^y c(
ihe author's brains
WHIT E the founding chord* I meafure,
T*H me. minurk. j >y and pleafure,
Te I me, ?el! me wlifnee you come.
Striking ev’ry forrow tiumh ?
Maftck ! oh transporting treasure !
Heav’ulv art !
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Thou can't charm fh? foul from anguifh,
Make i’ langtiifh,
Without fcarce!y knowing why,
In the heart,
All the lad em jtion* die.
I never feel fac t joy as this.
Tell the fouce ?
Te’l me whence or what the blifs ?
Tit the f ree
Of tif f iat H>»‘ mitty,
lu its c turfe.
Wild aud f ee ;
*Tis the fweeteft luxury.
Thofe who love,
Feei if in a heft degree;
Hctv'i ab ve •
J> Httbir.g elfe bit TTi
\ BRUNSWICK BEAR.
from my cei, Feb. 1810
POA TUB PORTLAND GAttTTE.
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POET'S ENTHUSIASM.
THE hard like an e,f,
Ey Fancy when fir’d.
No more is hiirfelf;
But raptur’d, infpir’d.
H»s fpirit in trauee,
Wild in devotion,
Lila* funbeaui can danee
Earth, air and ocean.
Can leave earth behind.
Like eaglet's its wi<*w.
On wing* of the wind,
To pierce nature thro*.
Refinance can mock,
In erftacy borne,
Where light rephyrs rock
The cradle of morn.
I*:uck from the rainbow
A hear’nlter hue,
For tb’ images glow,
His bright pencil drew.
Can find tongue in tree,
Contemp ible clod,
In ev’ry thing fee,
And ice! there’s a God,
HOSEIN.
From the Latin of Buchanan.
THRICE happy It who views thy charms ;
But oh ! fuperior much In b!if* i»,
Who hugs thee in his circ'ing a-ms,
And ha f devours thee with his kifses.
Unearthy tranfport is hit Id*,
Whofe foul enjjys the eafy car’tire,
Who on thy bread, each care forgot,
Melting, mingling into raptu c.
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31nifU*grnce.
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Capture oj Gu.ni ibttpr.
Captain* Tcidan and F wlpr who have
arrived m New York from Gu*daV<u[,e, via
Barti, inform ;—That on the January
jhe Britiih under Gen Bicku-or i h, overed
fthe fleet under Ad Cochranc, complete-!
* fafe landing near BnTe;erre :—That on the
3d Feh. rhe Britiih attacked the French at JVTa
•couhac, fix miles from Bafieterre ; that the
at’Ie continued about N hour*, ceafsd ; aud
rf commenced next morning, aad continued
hours more, when the French hoilh-d
w ‘ite flags a* fignals for a cetfatioo of arm* :
That on the 4th Ad Cochrane landed,
a’}f“ proceeded into the French camp?, and from
thcaceon the 6:h to Badger re. wnerc, in the
prefence of Captains T. and F. he mentioned,
that the cap'tu'ation of the ifland had been «.
to l^at corning at 8 o'clock :—That the
lh lots was eft mated at 500 killed and
Wounded ; and as ||.e French pofts were ta»
. eu b7 tlorm with the bavonet, and the fight
*aS was defperate, the French lofs muft Islfo
. • been great; and that ot tliree compa
?***#of u g-emaJier iMvimuHei,'' only five tnen
survived .—That the French had 103 brafs
peices of artillery in the battle ; and tnat the
a Tailing force confided of between 7
$ >00 men, bclide* mariners and ftamen.
f he next objefli of the Britiih will be St
Martins, St Fu ta:ia, and Sabo, which muft
an ca^y facrifice ; and thus the haunts of
p-tva'ecrs antl pirates in the Weft ludia Teas,
,e Wholly brokeu up.— Centime/.
Freedom cf the Seas / / /
or practical
trench respect FOR NEUTRAL
RIGHTS.
Captains Teleord and Fowler, Mafters cf
American lhipt PLeiiii and Toutfa Cfce
Jia, of New York, have arrived there from
Gaulahvipe, and iuform, that they failed
f-'o n Nrw York early in November for Gjoo,
m Vaiu.»t»d Liftsm J uat ya the 53d and
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Sfi’h November, they were captured by four
French frigates from Nanfz, bound to Guada
loupe.—Thar the Louifa*Cece'ia was boarded
from La Clorenda frigate, Capt. fir Criqur,
the captain and rrew taken rut, fent on board
the frigate. SCUTTLED and SUNK with all
, her cargo on hoard. Capt. Fowier adds, he
wa* nut down in the fore-peak, under three
decks, to melt with the hoar Twain, and his
crew in the hole with Englilli prifotiers —He
i rvnja-ned in this dark filthy hole till the 7th
Dec. when h<mfelt‘ aud crew were put on board
Le Loire frigate, aud there put down between
j decks with other prifoners, where he remain,
ed four days, rilj after the capture of the
Eritilh frigate Junou, when, there uot being
room for a!l the prifoners, lie was permitted
by his prrfling folicitations, to go into the
guu room. On board the Clorenda, the
thirteen American prifor.ers were only aHowrd
| for their fubfiflence, what was given to feven
j Eng'ilh prifoyrs, which was 6 ounces ©f meat
a pound of bread, and a pint of water per
;—that while the Americans were treated
with crue'tv ar.d contempt, the F.nglifh cap
tains, mate, and pailengers, whom they had
taken, metfed mod fumprucufly with the
French officers. On the 17th December they
were landed at a fmal! place 15 miles to the
• northward of Baflererre, to which, they were
j marched a’ong flio'e. over hills, and acrofs
creeks—About a week after, the American
feamen were ail taken up and put in prifon,
bur the officers were paroled —The Englilli
otnrers wre allowed ha'f a guinea a dav to
fubfift on, while the Americans were refufed
a Gngle cent ; though they often applied for
i relief The fit nation of Capt. Telpord, and
1 the crew of the Phenix, was exactly Gmilar
! to that of Cap*. F. Thefe gentlemen remain
i *d Guac’aloupe until the ifland was capt a
red by the BritiHi, when they took paflage
for Antigua, and from thence came home via
St. Barts being compelled to leave their unfo*
tuna’e ctaws in prifon at Guadaloupe, hut in
the hope they would be releafed by the En
Captains Telford and Fowler add, that they
were informed by the Captain of the Clorenda
frigate, that the Emperor [Bonaparte] had iffu
ed his orders to DESTROY every American
veflel they met with, on fwin of deal, and faid
it was his determination to go to war with the
Un ited States, un'efs they dec'ated war a
gainft England—Ibid.
Eating onrt» own IVorda ! '
A few weeks ago, the Democratic Edl.
tors fell to-ah and nail upon Mr. Gallatin tor
shaking an empty national purse at
Congress. They called him the wily Gene
1 van, a mischief making foreigner, an intri
guer, an apostate, and various other appella
tions peculiar to ’that class of scribblers.
Latterly, however, ^in consequence it •» be
lieved ol orders from head-quarters) they
have begun to accuse themselves of uttering
falsehoods against this gentleman and, as
mig-lit be expected, are literally eating their
own words !—Freeman’s Journal.
A writer in the Virginia democratic Argus
asserts that Mr. Gallatin, since he iihs
been Secretary of the T/ejsury has amassed
a fortune of Two Hundred Thousand dollars
H j is also charged wi-h having lately tians
rnittf d the interest r* the Dutch loan in spe
ie, thereby furnuhng one of the Bo.na
Pvrtks w.lit bald money ; and that this
\as Contrary to the inclinations of the Pre
s dent* The author of the charges is
itiiow.t; and th; t he writes under the di
rection of a man high in office in Washing
tqm.
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Crtrirttriration.
FOR THE GAZETTE
, Wv / ’ *'T t her Farn>rSi
I AM a plain man. My kind par
ents taUi»h; me to read. 1 ha”e for few
, eral years read both a democratic and
a federal m ‘vfpaper. A s to writinp,
I believe I ihall n»rtke blunt work of
it, but l shall nor get a ilholir to
I dress it up—my own w ay of telling
a story is beil for me.
1 have been strongly inclined to
democratic principles — I believed
fome things wrong in the federal
policy of our National government
i am not now convinced thit all was
right. We have for eight years and
more had a democratic adminiftra
tion, and tried that. When I was a
boy, at the age in which boys are apt
to grow wiser than their fathers, I
fwapped Coirs, and mightily was I
ple-fed with my fwap. I pompous
ly boalled of my new colt. “ Child”
laid my father,mildly, “you will know
him etter when you have Jumme red him
an l wintered him. I never forgot the
j caution. It applies aptly to our two
| administrations. We have funimer
ed them and wintered th*;n.
A lavish txpence of public money
was thought one fufficicnt caufe for
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changing our rulers. Well, how is
it now ? 1 have read Mr. Gallatin’s
reports to Comjrtfs and find the an
! nual receipts of the ii itional treafury
! under the federal government were
! about 8 millions and a third of dollars
I take one year with anorner : Alio,
that with this income they laid up
14 million dollars. The annual re
ceipts for Mr. Jeffcrlon’s 8 years, not
withftanding the pull-back of the
embargo,are, take one year with ano
ther, about 12 million and a half of
dollars. In these 8 years the money
received into the treafury was above
33 million dollars more than had
before been received in an equal time.
If besides this, Mr. Jefferion’s ad
miniltration laid up money, at the
fame rate with the federalifts out of
an equal income, the amount is about
10 million more. If therefore the
federalists had continued in office,
thefe 8 years, and managed as for
merly, we should have in the treafu
ry 14, and 33, and 10, makes 57
million dollars. A decent fum this !
We farmers cypher fo little we
ought to remember that a million is
a tbo'Tand thoufand But the re
puui* ns we have a right to expect
nave done better than this. What
does Mr, Gallatin fay ? fay ! He fays
the treafury is a million dollars worfe
1 than nothing ; and for another year
! we muit borrow 4 million dollars at
least. That’s all we know about it,
1 only Mr. Madifon fays he thinks
there will be no difficulty in borrow
I ing what we may want. Are you
| aftonished ? fo am I. But one thing
is certain, the money is gone. What
has become of it ? That’s another
qt v.ton. I can tell but very little
about it
Federal falaries were high. Yes ;
but many have been higher since. I
have juft looked at the laws made
(oon alter Mr. JefFerfon become Pre
fident, and I find ten offices whofe
falaries were raifed 10,300 dollars a
year. The Secretary of State, Sec*
perary of War, Secretary of the
1 reafury, Comptroller cf the Trea.
fury, Auditor, 1 reafurer,Poftmafter
Getieral, Affift jn Poftmaiter-Gene
ral, War Accountant, and Attorney
General.
Gen. Wilkinfon has received 225
dollars a month as wages, and alfo,
within the fame time, day wages at 8
dollars, rations, ftabling, wine, fegars,
falary as Governour of Louifiana,
and lecrct fervice money befides his
monthly pay , above twice as much
more ; being 50,000 dollars for be
lu ecn 6 and 7 years.
Gen. Dearborn’s fon, a young
lawyer in Portland, in addition to
his law buGnefs, was employed by
his father to overfee the building
of a fort, at 3 dollars a day, and two
per cent on the money expended. In
6 month* and two thirds this amoun
ted to 1380 dollars 33 cents, and the
young man was allowed about double
the lawful wages of a Brigadier
General, for the fame time.
A few of the new made officers
have ufed the freedom to take leg
hail, or go to jail like gentlemen,
with a little public money unaccoun
ted for :
Mr. Li vingfton, Diftrift-Attorney
of N. York about ico,ooo dollars ;
Mr, Brown, an Irifhman, Collector of
New-Orleans, 150,0c® dollars ; Mr.
Clark, Collector of Old York, 3 1,500
dollars; Mr Skinner, the late 1 rea
lurer of this State, who fpent 72 000
of the date's money without giving
credit for it, had his bonds iued.
I he lawyer pleaded that the State
ought not to have their pay out of
Skinner’s edate, till the U, States
were paid what he before owed them
as Marfh.ti. How much he had
embezzled as Mardial, I have no
certain knowledge.
Gen Smith, a Senator in Congrefs
contrived to draw an order in favor
of the United States for, I think
300.000 dollars, but am not poGnve
as t- the particular fum, as I date
only from memory. This has never
been paid, and never will be. It
feems not perfc&ly fettled, as to the
Senator and the Secretary, who is
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fool and who is knave ; but it is a
greed on all hands that the Senator
has got the money and the U. States
have$lo(t it.
All this l may be told, amounts to
but little. I faid, 1 knew but little
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about the bufinefs. But undoubted
ly it is throughout the government j
like the fmall part which we know :j
if fo, in 8 years fuch fums will very
cafily amount to 57 million dollars
over and above the regular w*ages,
which are from 6 dollars a day up to
25,000 dollars a year.
On the intcreil and principal of
the public debt payments have been
made to the amount of above 33
million dollars. Public lands have
been fold to the amount of above 32
million. Add to the laft fum the
million dollars deficiency in the trea
fury, and €<ne will about balance the
other without confiderably affec
ting the 57 million.
As to the common fhnders of of-J
fice-hunters, I lay them afide ; I de-■
fpife them, and fo does every honeft j
man. As to men’s opinions, they are ;
all free alike, I have no bufinefs wiih j
them. But matter of plain fact will!
be unpleafant to none but party men. ?
j I have mentioned facts as they come
| to us in official forms, and from pub-'
lie records. They are few and fim
ple, but they exprefs a great deal.
They fpeak in a language loud and
unfwerable.
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embargo ana non-intcrccurje nave ,
done no good to us and little harm
to other rations. They have cut oft'
the labor and fupport of our o*n
citizens at a flroke, and driven our
bufinefs and our profits to Canada
and the eaftern (hore of the Schoo
dic. Among ourfclves, a few mer-,
chants of parry politics, who were at
the bottom of thefe meafures and
have been forcing the Embargo on
| others with all their might, but have
fomehrat kept their own veflels fafely
running at immenfe gain, have made
pretences ; have fattened on the ir.if
cries of the people.
Any clafs or combination of men,
whofe objedt is to ellablifh a name
and an influence to obtain the offices
and emoluments of government, are
! a party. The thing is tyranny ; no
I matter what the name is. It is mark
ing out one orderof men as honorable
and noble, and another as mean and
difgxaced. It is treachery to our ccn
ftitution. It is death to liberty.
This truth needs no proof. It can
not be proved. It is plainer than all
proof. It is felf-evident. They who
for party parpofes wifii to make one
half the people believe that the o.a
er half are plotting to deftroy our
freedom, have no honest ends m view
and ought to t>e watched. The dan
gers to a free government arife from j
a few felfith, artful, plauflbie, ambi- !
tious men. The queftion is who
thefe men are. We have nothing to
fear from honed citizens who have
been deceived, if we once find cut
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\ their deceivers.
One principal reafon why Pi*
fident JefFerfon, Lieutenant-Gover-J
nor Lincoln, and others like them,
were railed to their high Unions,
was that offices might be conferred 1
more emphatically than had been be- j
fore done. When elt&cd they ex-1
prefsly adopted the practice U pro
moting to authority and lai n its none
1 but their own party. Party has had ,
full range. What is :he confe
quence ? Government has b en a
continual fciamble for oflice and mo
ney. The yearly income of i 2 mil
lion and a half id dollars is (pent, and
14 million besides ; and the nation
al cheft is empty. Public officers
have become public fwindlers, iti the
way I have mentioned ; a way more
vile than that of the common thiei.
A Vice-Picfident of the U. Stites,
who was extolled to the skies as a
republican, haa been indicted (or a
horrid murder in a duel, and tri d
for treafon *, has fled his country and
become an abfrrring to aUjUsb L ib
erty has aimed v a milled l he ri^htt
of the people arc liifle more than a
nam<. Rulers trifle and do nothing. |
and wepav them.
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I da not like fuch roundabout in
fmuations and hard names as part/
men ufe. Politics ought not to be
a juggle, a trick. Honefty and com
mon fenfe in politics are the fame as
honefty and common fenfe in every
thing elfe. When the people are
profperous and happy, that is the
very thing we want. When they are
embarraft-d and wretched we have
no need of electioneering arguments
to'prove that poverty in the people
and fplen'dor in ru'en i? better than
iiberty and plenty. The way to get
at the truth is to eiamine things
which we undertlaud, and things
which are to the purpole. Now I
do not entirely umlerftand all which
has been faid about Jnfs treaty* right
offturch, orders in council, and the
like \ '.ut I perfectly understand that
at the very time when fo much was
faid about their ruuing our com
merce, commerce flourlfhed beyond
what was ever before known. Mer
chants grew tich. The people g:ew
rich. 1 he treafury grew rich. The
revenue arising from duties on com
merce inert afed from nothing to al
moft fixtecn million and a half of
dollars in a year ; and continued to
increafe till it was blafled by our own
embargo. 1 his is no cafe to argue
about. Words may conf und it ;
but words cannot make it plainer.
I do not entirely underhand all
which 1ms been faid about feder-1
taxes, federal tyranny, britiih influ
ence, and all that ; hut i perfectly
underhand that at the very time when
fo murh was faid about themi every
induhrious man cou’d comma.*11 n
ney, pay his taxes, eat and drink to
fulnefs, educate his family, live in
want of nothing, and 1 v up for a
time of need. Never under heaven
was a people more prosperous.
I do not entirely underhand all
which has, during the prefent nation
al policy, been faid about economy
in the expenditure of public money,
removing hosts of ufelcfs officers, re
flriftive energies, refufmg to take
bread from the mouth of 1 ibor, and
much more of that fort ; bait l per
fedlly underhand that in this time
the money of the country has in an
alarming degree fallen into the hands
of a few men high in the councils of
our government, and a few of their
connections, and the people are re
duced to abfolute dill.tfa and depen
dence And what are our profpeils ?
What are the times ?—At every mo
ment of every day ; when neighbors
meet and mention any labor, dury,
or object of foetal life, the anfwer
out of the fulhids of the heart, drop*
from the lips of every man, woman
and child, “ Hard tiroes / and n»
prof eft of b’tter?'
We well rvColiert tnoie Darter
times, when party did not triumph
over freedom To the principles of
thofr. times we mud return, gr ptrijh ;
principles fuch as thofe of Wash-*
ington, Strong and Gore ; princi
ples cxptefTed in our Conduction,
that 44 Government is ir.itnutcd for
the com non good ; not for the
44 profit, honor or private intcred of
44 any ciafs of men „• * that 44 all elec
41 tions ought to te free and all the
41 inhabitants of this Com non wealth
44 having fuch qualifications as they
14 {hall eliablilh by their form of*
44 government, have an equal ri_#lit
44 to cl-’Ct officers, and to be elected
44 for pubiic employments ” in this
wav, and in this only, we may, un
der GOD, reaf«v;ably hope to pre
ferve our liberty, and efcape a de
ftruilion, fudden & without remedy.
My feelings do not yet ceafe to
fwell with a min.'led aif chon and
pride at the name of my native
State She flood i.rll in eiiafiiilhinjr
our independence. Mie h*$ with,
but little faltering flood ftrong in
protecting it. i remember the Gen
eral Court of 74 and from whofe
face Hutchinfon ihrun<c Sr trembled,
dleiiings relt on every iegifiature
who, like them,4* fcoru to be lLves.*
Let fuch men continue to be tne mm
of our choice, and M ij^achufetii \*;ll
continue to be ddtinguilhed as the
friend of liberty, the friend of ber
,c.f. A F.\KM&K*