Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser — Portland, Me., 1810-04-16 00:00:00, page 2

iDli frvl*
for thf g azette.
To At.V riter in a vrcklv Journal
GO or, my friend, wuom yet unknown,
High on the iaued lift, I i wo ;
l hy path, though wow, fid is great,
It p* inu us to an endleft ftate.
1 II no: fujtpofe, that bufy ma*,
R*1 :A» thy pion*, uieful pl-n ;
0 , whde he turns the vanru« pave
1 H»r m^rks ilos (tra&ge and u< vt age,
Will pals thv timely warnir g bv,
So nt to ca'ch his roving eve.
Should we fo auxiouflv inquire.
V ho ma-ried laft, or who eiiure,
Yet never aik, what man and wife
Muff do to lead a happy life ;
Or, wU-tf concerns us more to kuow,
Negictft <he duties Were below,
13y wnicli atone, through grace divine
V'e hope above, as ftars to thine ?
i .i^e courage then, the caufe i? good; I
Thy table fprea 1 with wholeiome food;
't he thought wi h re.don’s arm enforce,
Drawn forth from Scripture, (acted fource ;
Vith fpeech cor re (ft, inftrmftioA plain,
Prefer*e thy patriotic fl.-aia ,
A work like this, demand? tiie fruit
Of patieut tod, and warm pu fuit.
Fmergd from this my lov’d red eat, -
1 fh uld not fetk rby eye to meet
Had uot events engagd my heart,
The modeft pen mud not impart.
r\nd yet I know, if not profound,
bo weii the make of public ground,
This effort ftill would want excufe,
I,om other, than vour friend Reclufe.
April II, »810. X.
tforctga 'Intelligence.
?»!n9tJ from tur Southern papet j—containing ti*
lattfi Europt*n Intcihgcnid.
ENGLAND.
The rupture wuth Mr. Jackfon had
Dot occafioned any difcutTion in par
liament ; but Lord Grey in the
House of Lords, Feb. i, had called for
the correspondence, since April l&st>
between Mr. Canning and Mr. Ers
kine, which the Marquis of Welles
ley said should be produced, togeth
er with any other papers, if neces
sary. In the House of Commons Feb.
6’h, Mr. Whitbread moved for pa
pers relative to Mr. Erfkine ; and ?v3r.
Canning made no objec ion ; but be
observed, that that mini tier had total
ly disobeyed his inftru&ions. Mr.
Percival “ though? it his duly to de
clare, that the inductions were
observed neither in substance nor
spirit*’
The profprrity cf the foreign
trade of Great-Britain never was
greater. Her exports in 1809, as
hated bv Earl Bathurft, amounted to
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upwards of 173 millions of dollars.
It is faid the Toulon fleet has ven
tured to fea, and Lord Collingwood
is in poiTbflion of their movements.
A dreadiul accident occured at
Liverpool on the nth of Feb. at the
Pardh Church of St. Nicholas, few
moments before divine service,
the kevftone of the tower gave way,
a.;d t. e N E corner thereof, com
priiing the x*. a; d !i. wans with the
spire come down, and with a trem
endous crash broke through the roof,
tailing along the centre aide, till it
reached near the communion rails,
and its, carrying with it the whole
peal of bells, the W. gallery, the or
gan, and Clergyman’s reaping deik, to
tally ctemolifhed them. Many of the
congregation were buried in the ru
ins, 19 of whom were dug out dread
fully mangled.
FRANCE
Orders had arrived at Bayonne to
make evert preparation for the Em
peror's journey to Vitroria. Re
lays of liurfes were placed according
ly though it is not thought Napoleon
will depart for Spam before the mid-,
die of April. An Embargo was laid in
the French ports along t>hore tor some
days. A fquadron is said to be fitting
out at Dunkirk.
FRENCUjmTICB.
The following article is copied,
from a London paper of the 14 Feb
and is said ta be received in a letter
from Rotterdam :—
“ In my lad I informed you of the
confiscation of the American proper j
tv at Naples and in the Spanish ports
This is confirmed. I have now far- j
tber to inform you, that in confe
quence of rhe interference of the
French Ambaftadcr at Amsterdam,
the American vefscls lately arrived
with cargoes of produce m the Tex
cij and winch had obtain d permu
sionfrom our Ooverr.metit to dif
iharge, have got pofitive orders to
put to sea again. From iht» we infer
*•*»>••]»■ J'ret ch Government have
’• 'ohed upon the general exclusion
of he American lir.g from the Con
J tit ft t.K
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I Irrport ant.
The XfT S' ork. Evening PoH, of
' prii r, gives the following article
! u der head of
“ Private Ccrrefpondence.
“ In a krrer rec ived this morning,
by the cefpatch vtlFe! arrived at Nor
folk, from a highly rcfpedtable Amer
ican, who h d an interview with Mr.
Armitrrng at Paris, the 17th Jan. it
is Hated, that
“ The French Government had re
FuFed to mak« any kind of fettle ment
with America at prefent.—Orders
have already been fent to Naples and
.Spain, to feqnefter and confilcare all
American property in rhofj King
doms, or that may arrive there. At
Naples they have taken polFclFion of
the proper y, and begun to sell it at
auction. 1 hefe orders, it was ex
pected, would be put in force in
trance and Holland whithin a few
days. The French Government ap
pear determined to take into their
pofleflion all American property
within their grafp, and keep it till
a further determination.
Latefi, direfl.from France.
The Fame, Capt. Stone, has arri
ved at Norfolk, from Calais, (France,)
with defpatches to our government.
Capt Stone, who left France, Jan.
22d, informs, that there is no truth
in the intelligence received by wav of
London, that General Armilrong
had adjulled our aftiairs with the
French government ; luch a report
was circulated about the beginning of
Jan. but it was foon contradicted,
by more fevere meafmes againil the
American veflels, which with their
cargoes in the ports of Spain and Ita
ly have been frqueftered.
Hie Fame was bound from this
port to Fonningen, and was captured j
as we mentioned in our papers about ;
lix weeks fiiice. The vefTel and car- J
go were American, and had not been
boarded, nor other wife liable to cap
ture under the French decrees. On i
the arrival of the Fame at Calais,
the Ciew v ere font to prifon, and the
cargo taken out and depofued, by I
the owners of the privateer, in their i
own (lores. Capt. S. went to Paris
to obtain red refs, but feeing no hope
of obtaining it, or of being brought
to trial in any reafonable time, or if
ever, he was induced to make the
bell terms he could, by giving up a
part of the property to lave the re
mainder, and which are the only
means by which '.he citizens of this
country can fave any part of thtir
property, which falls into the hands
of the French cruifers. The treat
ment of the Americans in France is
fhameiul, and demands the interooft
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tton of out government. The crews
are ltnprifoned on thtir anival ; by
hiort a do wart cc and cloie confine
ment, they are too, frequently indu
ced to enter on board cf French pri
vateers in order to get liberated. The
commiflary of prifoners receives from
twenty to thirty guineas from the
owners of the privateers for each
teaman difeharged from prifon —The
confcquence of this m iv be forefeen *,
the poor fellows are captured by
iiritilh cruifers, when they are con
fidcred as prifoners of war, to efcape
from that f.ruation they enter into
the Britiih fervicc, and are thus loft
to :heir friends and their country.
The f .ip huz rn, Hatton, and iiiiza,
Vickery, both of Ncrfulk are full de
tained in France, waiting trial
Captains £dwa:d> and Lovitt of Vir
ginia, were (till in clofe prifon, with
out any hope of releafe. We with
the government of this country would
lav before the nation Mr. Arnmtron^’s
defparches refpecting the treatment
of our countrymen in i ranee, which
if he has done his auiv he has not
4
failed vO communicate. It is hoped,
if this is net done, that fome indepen
dent m.mber of Congreis will move
for information from the Executive
upon a fubjeft fo highly intereffing
to the mtereils and ho.;or of the
country.
4
A’^erii in Seamen in France.
I.t iddifioa to the above, Capt. Stone ftates
“ H»at the praifb’ce cf selling Americans
ii conducted in Freuch ports with a> much
publicity an 1 form, as any fate at auction;
an l t&.tt the prailice ua; weil kuown to Geu*
er»! —rh u (con a* an American
i veflel arrives, the crew, ami ftuAclimes the of
ficer* and the matter, are fent to jo!. The
men are matt rtgorr ully confined and fed uu
bread and m iter, unril they will content to
enl.ft ca bta d of a pr'vateer, which, from
l
the m,»ny captures made liy :1 e B*stiJfh, are
greatly in want of (eamcn lor ihele -Mr.
Commiflary of prifonerb ye>'» from 20 to 33
guineas each— that in forae inftauces the crews
a^-e marched through the flreets, tuJ together
like fe'ons, and put into prifon, where they
are fed on bread and water ouly.
HOLLAND.
The fate of Holland has at length
been finally decided. By a decree
of Napoleon of Jan. 20, the coun
' try between the Meux & theSchcld
j is taken into the pofleflicn of the
1 French troops, under the Marfhal de
j Reggio ; and, it is reported, that king
» Louis is under an arreft, for daring
to remonltrate againft the occupation
of his kingdom. The pofftfling ar
my is called the army of Brabant.
They have taken pclieflion of Bricl
and Helvoetslys.
POSTSCRIPT.
Very Late A'eivs.
1/
On Thursday last, the ship Juno arrived
at Boston, in the short passage of 28 days
from Portsmouth, and furnisher London
dates to March 12th.
The ship John Adams was ready to sail
for the U. S. but would touch at France to
receive Despatches from Gen. Armstrong.
It is said she will bring propositions for a
settlement of our differences with Great
Britain.
An Order of Council has been issued for
continuing open the \V. I. ports to the U.
S. wherever the Governors think proper,
’till after a European Peace.
On the 28th February Cadiz had 20,000
troops within its walls, and was well sup
plied to sustain a long seige.
It was reported that some misunderstan
ding had of late taken place betwixt Bona
parte and Alexander, and that he refused
his sister in marriage with Bonny.
The revival of the Kingdom of Poland un
der a King of Bonaparte's manufac'.tuv, is
spoken of.
Some changes are expected in the British
Ministry* It is said Canning will be intro
duced again
Bonaparte 13 making arrangements to cut
off the American trade in the North of Eu
rope.
The Senates Consultum for uniting Rome
with France, has been published.
tW — —■ m mi ■
interesting political episcellanp.
To establish and support a dirty
cause, requires dirty meat s and dirty
instruments. When a low bred fel
low, to gratify the mean propensities
of his nature, wishes to bespatter bis
neighbor with filth, he employs, as as
sailants in the business, those whose
habits are not opposed to the underta
king, and whose clothes will not be
soiled in the execution. Those only
of the lowest origin, who have been
employed in the most servile offices, Sc
whose ideas and prospects extend no
higher than the dunghill, can be per
suaded to engage in a work of this
kind ; and these would rummage a
jakes, with the same readiness that they
would decorate a parlour, and wallow
in the shambles with as much pleasure
as in participating of a splendid festi
val Decent people, whose habiliments
and hands are clean, are shocked at
such impurities, and with horror fly
from the pollution. As the external
actions and appearance may he debas
ed, so the temper and qualifications of
the mind are often correspondent. We
find some possessing neither taste, sen
sibility, nor shame, incapable of a man
ly sentiment, prone to sudden gusts of i
passion, disgusting those near them i
with their ribaldry, obscenity and pro
faneness, venting their impotent mal
ice in a torrent of vulgar abuse, bestow
ing unmeaning epithets, and railing in
discriminately at all around them.
These observations forcibly apply to
the system of democracy now ravaging
| and demoralizing tins country, and
threatening to lay waste all that is de
| cent, orderly, and of good report. Tt
avoids decorum, urbanity, and veracity,
! as instinctively as the owl flees the
I taunts of men by day. It cherishes an
I implacable animosity against the vir
tues which are esteemed sacred by ci
j vibzed society. The leaders, early
i convinced that talents, integrity, and
; u deviating rectitude would, if uiire
1 strained, be the ruin of the party, em
ployed unremitted efforts to eradicate
! them from the earth. The means they
employed w*re calculated to produce
1 the intended cbect. Not u W arrior or
S alesman, who had been eminent! v
useful to die Country, by the most
j meritorious services, but-were p.
i Scribed, slandered, vilified, and exc. 1
led. Characters the most unsullied
‘and unimpeachable, were noseemm,
ag'dnst the assaults of these tpidn. gb
1
assassins. The savage a.!acl*s hi the
j Aurora, upon the spotless fame of
Washington, on the day he quitted the
Presidency, is not forgotten ; nor the
, still more horrid blasphemies of Calltn
1 der against him, for which the infa
mous libeller was handsomely paid by
Jefferson. Nor were Jay, Ellsworth,
j Pickering, and a hundred other wor
thies omitted in this general destruc
l lion of character. Distinguished ex
cellence has drank deep of the bitter
cup of democratic frenzy.
To accomplish their wicked purpos
es, they ha.e sacrilegiously profaned
the inestimable privilege of the free
dom of the press, benevolently U wise-(
Iv intended to promote the general fe-'
licily. Iiy the misapplication of this
sacred franchise, they have given false
information, and deceived the public,
inculcated tenets and principles hostile
to the genius of our constitution, and
depraved the morals and taste of the
community. They have confounded,*
as far as in them lay, all correct ideas j
of the true policy of the Country, and j
have arrayed the citizens, in a hostile •
attitude, against each other, and threa
ten to disturb the general tranquillity. ■
Despairing of finding native citizens,,
to fill their editorial department, ofsuf-'
ficient atrocity to give an aspect and di- I
lection to their Gazettes conformable
to their views, recourse was had to ien
egadoes, outcasts from other nations,
to superintend the presses devoted to
their cause. These illiterate and nee- J
dy foreigners, having fled from the l
grasp of justice, in their respective!
countries, and obtaining an asylum in
this once peaceful and happy land, are
now striving, with all their“ energies,”
in return for the misplaced hospitality
with which they hud been received, to
destroy our liberties, and reduce us to
wretchedness. It is a well known fact,
that a large proportion of the presses,
advocating the cause of democracy and
tyvauny in these States, are managed
by Aliens, who are ignorant of our'
manners, our customs, our language,
our institutions, and the genius of our
government, and are just competent to
cry u havoc” at the word of command.
\et with ail their ignorance, these fel
lows have the audacity to dictate to the
People, and to the Government; not
in the dignified language of gentlemen,!
or of polished society, but in tiie bar
barous dialect of an Indian powow, the
bacchanalian revels of an ordinary, or
tiie midnight orgies of a brothel ; from
some or ail oi which, it is presumed, I
they imbibed their taste, their breed
ing, and their language. They boast
that the potency oi their influence is so
KlCat> ‘■hat customs sanctified by time,
and institulionsteacred as human hap
piness, must be abolished at their
frown, and cease forever. Not con-!
tent \vi‘h the general devastation of!
public habits and institutions, these
miscreants intrude into the sunctuaiies
of domestic retirement, and scatter poi
son in families. Nay, in moral turpi
tude, so far beneath the savages are
tney degenerated, that the female part
of society are not exempt from their
malignant aspersions. This fair and
amiable portion of our species, the part
neis of our lives and fortunes, who nat
urally loo!; to us for guidance and pro
tection, and which none hut a brute
would refuse them, must be contami
nated with the foul breath of these as
sassins, though shielded by the purity
of their virtue, their beauty of form, Sc
elegance of manners.
^uch are tlie men, fellow ciiizens,
or rather monsters, that undertake to j
direct your destinies, and to place your .
liberties at the disposal of the Corsican
tyrant. Ar.d are you ready to assume
the character which they exhibit ?
, \\ ill it conduce to your happiness, to
see decency of manners, civility of de
portment, and an easy obligingness of
I behaviour exchanged lor the rough, un
’ couth address of an irritated savage, or
the still more forbidding discourse of
an intoxicated clown ? If you do not
■ regard the public concerns of your
I ct .mtry, pieserve at least, the sem
r circles. If nothing else can move you,
let pride—let shame—let respect foi
you. selves prevail on you to abandon
a -v u v superlatively contctnp’ible,
jui:d ■!-. 11. c-en of candour, o!
\
Votes tor Gov r or.
I 8 I 0 .0 I
f ®Oft
Ijote. Gc rty, c ‘
YORK DTSTRIT. ' Ll^k
Lebanon, 78 |«6
Shapleigh, 92 151 ]J
Lyman, 103 48 l3l
Sanford, 73 107 '7
Alfred, 5,5 78 7$ 81
B'ownfield, 6 55 ^
; Hiraen, 11 52 j2 ^
Baldwin, 23 21 * ’
CUMBERLAND DISTRICT.
Albany, JO 8 v;
iiethe!, 32 70 20
Lovel!, 17 26 2,
Jay, 59 129 34 15
Livermore, 43 137 4
Denmark, ‘ « 56 0,
Turner, 27 138 3- *
Cornville, 32 30 4#
LINCOLN DISTRICT.
CaHiiie, 57 37 71
Penobfcot, 29 80
Sedgwick, 25 93 j$
Litchfield, 57 168 50
Camden, 102 III 94
Hope, 26 C9 2;
Frieudikip, 0 41 0
St. George, 8 56 2f
Drefden, 33 86 75
Edgecomb, 43 80 71
Moatville, 34 57 41
Whitefield, 13 96 16
KENNEBECK DISTRICT.
Norridgewalk, JO I 22 72 ^
Madifcn, 48 31 a
Fairfield, 49 1C4 72 jjt
Canaan, 58 4 1 is$
Strong, 30 81 £$
ValLtlboro’, 140 61 l£7
Winthrop, J 25 71 151
Gardner, 40 105 43
Pittfton, £4 81 63 ^
Waterville, 48 150 53 jtj ]|
W Pond, (p an) O 60 0 fi
Winfiow, 33 63 37
Sidney, 102 101 99 ^ |
New Sharon, 28 79 35 90
Read field, 77 90 |08
Vienna, 7 41 ]|
Mount Vernon, 19 122 26 117
Farmington, 117 150 lit
Leeds, 28 122 39 IS!
Be grade, 4 4 84 53 jij
Fairfax, 79 81 79 59
Temple, 29 49 27 .«
Harlem, 59 47 53 5T
$ lassdchusetts Senate.
We are satisfied, from the returns of the
votes, that at the commencement of the en
suing session, the Senate will be composed
of Twenty federal, and Nineteen democratic It
Senators.—The vacancy is Bristol district; j
where, we lament to atate, the scatterrd j
federal votes in one town would luve elec- I
ted the other federal candidate. We uiti. I
cipatc there will be some di^ulty m or. j
ganizing the Sena e ; and until it is organ
ized, the busings * the State cannot pro
ceed, nor can the votes for Governor, k.
be Of ened or counted. This w; if only hip
pen should the Hou«e he democratic ; snd
the vacancy in the Senate should be filled
by the democratic candidate. In that «•
vent, tfie Senate will be equally divided,
20 to 20. The party then which permits
one of its members to take the chair, will
become minority ; as the President cannot
vote unless when die Senate is equally di
vided. If the House should be federal,
and the federal candidate in Bristol elected.
there will be no difficulty in the organiza
tion ; as the Senate then, exclusive of the
President, will be 20 federal to 19 demo
cratic
From the above facts it will hr seen, tint
the federal towns are called upon by everv
principle of patriotism, and a regard fur »
due dispatch of public business, to do the'r
duty iu the choice of Representatives —CtM
- ■ i.
Through private letters, we learn, that E»i*
naparte lias become in the highest dtgtte
peevish and irrascible. A short time •£
Maret, his Secretary of Slate, on some trt*
fling occasion, gave him nftence, when •>«
struck, ami repeatedly kicked h n, c»ft
turning the table hy which lie *1
scattered his papers about the room.
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In the \ errnnnt Courier of the -Sth
ult. is a certificate signed John Htf
ter, of // «, accusing Dr. Samuel Shatr,
membei of Congress, of sayi»»g,M» the
spring of 1808, that he wished to hear
Bonaparte had conquered the British :
that he would give his farm, worth 400’1
dollars, to be assured the British
were destroyed from off the ha:c o< the
earth. A gentleman asked what would
be our situation? He answered, yoa
need not fear, read your bibles, Bot»>
parte is a favourite «f Heaven, and
not hurt us, if we behave right to him.
INDId GOODS.
wuxi am" swan,
No *, Ukm*1 ***'
y_J AS received eight bales of INDIA
1 1 conUltiogotGarrah,—V.amodies— Mu
Fanuahs-Chintz, &c. which will be »°
Boflon prices, and on a libera! credit —
Eng ijh and IVeft-India Good*,
as ufual. Afri1 Ib<
1 To Lease—for ens or more jss* ^
, A BOUT twenty acres of LAND, fd04’ ^
^ between Cumberland and
Streets arid Back Cove, in Portland —* ^ ^
term, apply to WILLIAM LOI'N- * >
Portland, or the fubltril er in W ind *•
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