Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser — Portland, Me., 1810-09-17 00:00:00, page 2

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I.C\P2X, Jitf% 24.
Th* reinforcements go ng out to
* $m**t*vi Wellington, we umLrlUnd, a
rt'Ou. r to 10,000 men. It is
|.Untight that 111 the event of the
--mbt o
Bpi'ififli army being obliged to cvac
*or.* 1 Virtu ell* ’t will uot reforn to
7 % 1 in ’. he Kindt d upon feme
m'kt p^rt of the IVjvnfu'.a.
* hr. e hundred hoifes were on the
10rH O* M.iv cklhrovetl at K#whau
4 4 m
1 • , in him gaiy. by the ez pi oh on of
a powder magazine. E'gjity perfons
iou rieir lives ami near 2co were
du > out of the ruins, alive, but nui
ttjiated cx dreadfudy bruised.
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“it-ron, July 29. A fkirmifh
tak n place oil the frontiers,
when an active war is about com.
nencmg Gen. Crawford, '1 des
perate partizan o/Jicer) h is lately
!<»ft fomc valuable officers and men,
in an attack he made with his cav
a’ry on a fo lid body of French in
fantry. .Since tiien he has an affair
of more importance. It appears he
had it in orders from Lord Wel
ling ton not ro rilk the lofs of ma
ry men in any conteft againft fupe
rior numbers : but to fail back on
the main army.— 1 his he refufecl
to do; and has been attacked by a
fupetior force, has loft 300 men,
and 25 officer", and ^ngeked ti re
treat.-* - his hft {nrt cular is con
t "a iicted bv the Liibnn paper of the 3 1 fl,
which fiatcsy that the French retreat
ed.] After this llcp, Lord Wel
lington made every preparation
againft an attavk on iris H. Qj- Let
ters fro n -hcanv fay, that Mas
sen a will cxeit all bis forte in an at
' tack on our troops ; and that he has
been joined by King Jo from M idrii,
with a body of imperial guards —
/.II the French want are provifions
Should ti e/ compel the allied army
fo retreat to the ieaboard, ffili thev
will rind an impediment in the scar
city of provih >u». In this city we
ha'-'* not two months ermfumption.
— What will be its fituation if the
port is blockaded. My fears are,
that tiit* great fupenority in numbers
of the French, must compel the Ln
ghffi to embark.—God grant thofe
fear- may be groiindlefs ? In the
actions which have taken pace the
Portuguese troops have behaved
well ; fhouid this conrinue fume
Lope my be mingled vvirh our ap
pithcrrions But Portugil though
overrun, will ftilf, 1 ke Spain, keep
up a long predatory mountain war
fare.—Cadiz is not tangible.
“July 31. We have now the
of the late action. 1 he French
Iofs mnft have been great JVom the
o ftinacy of the defence. Telegra
phic a counts have been received
from camp as late as yefterday morn
ing— t hey announce that the fight
ing continued.—A general action is
expected.—We are full of hopes and
fears - —! he Portcguefe continue
to act well.—Of thefc events you
wiil have various accounts—No re
liance can be placed on vrlrut the
ReuiiciS of News arc in the habit
ot ti;cuiating„ The b-.ft informed
ir.cn here rind it very difficult to
form correct opinions. I wo officers
have arrived in town from Gen.
Hill’s H. Qjnear the idgvs. They
left them on Saturday, and fay (hat
the divirion was watching tlie mar
ches and counter marches of Gen.
Regnier. I lit Germans continue
fo defert. Thf f rench would, if they
were not fo often murdered by the
patriots.”
BOSTON, srrr. II.
LATEST FROM SPAIX.
Capt. C Stewart, who came paf
frnger in the fchr. Tranfir, capt.
Read, arrived at Philadelphia in ^ i
diviho > Ayamotne, 83 miles N.
. of Cadiz, {bates that affairs in
Spain continued without any materi
al change from tne Uft accounts.—
Ring J >feph had been at Seville the
beginning of Ju!y, but had returned
to RauriJ. Capt. S. alfb {fates that
he was informed a few days previous
to ! is foiling tha* the Gov. General
h id received accounts of • * e difalfcr
vrhich befe! ( »tn. Crawford, who as
forinrrlv reported, had foll.-n in with
? Urge divilion of the French, but
had with a great gail&mry extricated
hnwfeit, alter lohng 3000 of ins men.
Lord Wellington’s force amounted
to 7c,coo ;bit of Muiicna, to qo,oco
only,
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i rxTMrr or A rrrjrrc.
*' (.‘f.t'jj urifty (jSlornvff't) ‘jttfff 9
“ 1 he privateers arc again cruizing
I nut of Norway in greater numbers
j than ever ; they arc determined to
| leraiu every American vriTT 1 they
j meet, and have fent into Norway a,
number of American (hips. There,
iare ! c or 1 2 fail fent into Fahefund j
t and Cariftianfam!. I am apprehen
iive their depredations will be greater
! this funimcr than lab. I enclofe you
Uhe revv Danifh privateer lav.s for
ycur government. There are ten
lail captured and detained at Copen
hagen. The privateers out of Den
mark are riot fo bad as thofe from
Norway, the former have permitted
many Americans to pafs, but thofe
our of Norway are but little fhort of
pirates, for they will capture all they
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Extract jrcm an intercepted letter, da
ted Madrid, Alay 28, authenticated
hy Col. Carrol.
ihe inhabitants of Algocloiiales be
ing in a (late ot infurreciion, & having
fortified their houfes, and having re
jected all the propolitions that were
made ta them to return to their dutv,
Marfhal Sou‘t ordered a colume to
march agaiult them, who deitroyed
ail their habitations, and reduced the
town to a heap of ruins ! A Itroug
party of the inhabitants of Gravu
ierna has a id been deltroyed. The
Marfhall declares, that other places
lhall ihoriiy undergo the fame pun
llhmenr, if they do not halten to fub
mit to King jofeph. ! he Matflial
pubiilhed a proclamation the 7th of
this mouth, by which the nature of
tne war in the South is quite chan
ged. He declares that there exifts
no other army of Spain but that of
King Jofeph, and that confequentiy •
all ihe parties which exiit in the pro- i
voices, whatever may be their num
ber, and whoever may command
them, fnall be treated as banditti, who
have no ocher ubj :ct but that of deal
ing and allalTmaiing. Ail the indi
viduals of tfcefe oauds, who fhall be
tak r: wau aims in their hands, lhall
be iaot, and their bodies expofed on
the highways ”
NEW- LONDON, SEPT. 12.
FRuM PR.AA!CFI.
On Sunday lait arrived at this
port lhip Ann, Prendergall, from
St. Jean de Luz, (12 miles from
Bayonne ) in 63 days, bound to New
^ 01 k, with a load of American vic
tims to French perfidy.
Vv m. Lee, tiq U. S. Cummer*
mtrcial Agent at Bordeaux, Mr.
John Barney,of Baltimore, ike. are
palleugcrs.
Mr- Lee, the day before his de
parture from France, received a let
ter irom Gen. Armltrong, at Paris,
in Which he informed Mr. Lee, that,
from prefent appearances lie Ihould
not be able to leave France in fix
months , that as loon a$ tiie report
of the reptal of the noE-inttrcourle
law had readied Paris, the Duke of
Cadorc adrirelied a note to him,
“ marked with an vnifual degree of
anxiety to have afeertained the Jcut cj
the rcr£at.’ A few days alter, the
American cargoes fequeltered in
bpain were aiivei tiled to be told in
Bayonne, at auction on the xll of
Augutt; ana thcfe feized in Hol
land and the north of trance, were
fold at Antwerp ui June. I he pro
bable proceeds would amount toei ht
Aiillhns cj Uo.iars.
Mi- Lee was the bearer of impor
tant delpatchcs to our government,
which were forwarded to \\ ulhing
ton by yeltcr Jay s mail.
Among the pallcngers in the Ann
are the following mates of American
fccjucltercd veflcls Daniel Bean,
HughCogu, Gccfge Brown. Win.
Rav, Chailej Porqutt, Piince Bun
ker, hoah bid ith, Stephen Forman,
l‘>.ilip i.elcvre, of New Yoik,
Charles fines, Daniel Jcwet, Benj
Nuve, Edward 1 aylor, jalperMoy
Icn, Henry Harr’ sam Bdhop, Ala
.tSmith, John Gibm, of Philadelphia,
jjk>iin Gavot. Jolm Neai, i'humas
i'homas, of Baltimore, Benj, Ham
mond, of ballon,-John Sage, James
Jones, oi Aalctu, Bamucl Cux, of
Beverly, Philip White, of Mar
blehead, and 6ne bundled andfifty fa
meu /
Extract of a letter from Egix'O y, (a
l.hinffo y laee, ai 'ut 6c miles A. iir.
oj CLnJhanfuid,J dated Jure 8,
i Bio.
41 After a paflagc of 40 days from
Bo lion, we arrived here on the cth
init. bung brought in by a Llaiiilh
j privateer, uho boarded us about 5
ft
heroes from ti»‘* place, and Jim
looking over our papers, oblerved j
•ve had no Clatter Frutjy and mufti
>e carried into port for further ex
amination* The next day we were
carried into Forfundy (i few miles
hom this,) and examined. We then
applied to the agent of the priva
teer, and like wile to the captain,
for the caufe of our detention, but
could learn" none_We were how
ever, informed by the Americans
here, (of whom you have a lift at
foot,) that we (hall be tried by the
Prize Court here. We lhall, of
courfe, conteft everv thing with
them, and you may depend upon our
exertions to do the belt we can. We
have written to Mr. Il'aacfon, at j
Chriftianfiindy for advice, and
lhall write you every opportuni
ty.—The {hip Minerva, Baker, of
Portland, carried in with the above
mentioned veil'd, was left a: Kgwog,
June 3.
A vjuafter-matter, who deferted
from u»c French fcrvice in confe
^u.nccot being degraded, it is faid,
has put himklf at the head of bet ween
four and five hundred Spaniards, and
deserters from the French army ;
and with that force he occupies fev
tral paffes on the road between Bur
gos and Vittona, and has been very
lutcefsiul in cutting off convoys and
intercepting communications of ev
ery defer lption. 1 his O^uarter
maflcr, who was a lv>ember"of the
hegion of Honour, and is defcribed
as a man of great courage and en
ierprize, has, lor months, eluded the
vigilance ot llrong patties lent to ar
retl him j and though a reward of
20.000 livres hu been offered for his
head, no one has been Dale enough to
betray him.
I '15y thr flails*
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BOSTON, SEPT. 13.
Our offdii s with England.
Two very important circumtian
ccs, in our relations with Great-Bri
tam, are communicated in the Jail
National Intelligencer, and enable us
to anticipate, amidlt the daily ac
cumulating injuries and inj 11ft ice
! which we receive from the continen
; tal tyrant, that a mutual fyftem of
forbearance, lenity and conciliation
will be eitablifhsd between England
and ouricive*. The circumilances
i
An American veil'd, not a cartel,
has arrived from France, ohe brings
highly inter effing inieiligencc.— The
pith ot it is, that Bonaparte is not
lo liberal to his privateerfmen as he j
is to himfelf.—White he keeps ail •
he grabs, he allows tnem to hold on
ly half they have piltereJ.— There
may be fume truth in the report of
an arrangement, but it is probable
that which has been announced,
permitting ao Licenfcd American vcf
Ids to import into France cotton,
cochineal and indigo,—and nothing
eltc.—He is enemy enough to the j
American “ Carrying Frads' to
make luch an arrangement to injure
it.—Bojton Centitlel.
Traveling Anecdotes of Bona
parte. |
Bonaparte, during his late journey,
did not allow his new wife more reft !
than what he himfelf took ; lcarceiy
was lhe arrived into a town, than he ■
compelled her, however tired, to get
a barouch, and to vilit with him for
tifications, dock yards, bafons, canals
&c.— There is naroly any doubt but
he will ere long make her leape dit
ches with him, was lhe even to break
her neck in that exercnc, as did Gen. I
Bertrand. Jc is thus that man (hews !
his love. Among otntr mttances, |
in Dunkirk, where he arrived at one 1
o’clock P, M. he flattened to get in- I
to a baroche with her, and vilited,
always with her, all the works in the j
hat hour and on the fortifications, till !
half palt iix in the evening ; lhe was
then compelled to hear part of ihe
fpeeches of die diffciem authorities ; i
and at nine o clock at night, after
allowing her one hour to dinner and
drefling, he ient to her to allilt at a
Jets which the town had prepared in
honour. Buch is nearly every day
the life cf that young Frmceis. Na
poleon did not aifiit at theJctc pro :
pared ter him by the City of Burges,
but aa uluai, he feat thereto the Am
prefs, who by the amenity ot her
manners made the good Flcmiih j
people forget tier huiband’s unpo
iitcncfs.
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to which we mr-re fwrt»c::*a.- «’*•.«i"?
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are the fending a perfonal letter from
the King of Great-Britain ro the!
Prefnlent of the United States, an
nouncing Mr. Jackfon’s recall; and
the official adinillion from Lord Wel
lelley to the fecretary of State, that
a luccellbr to Mr. Jackfon will here
after be fent to this country. 1 his
hate of things, the true patriot will
always be happy to greet with fenti
ments of the moll animating encour
agement ; fmee it cannot even grati
ly the malignity of party alperity, to j
found a tempoiary fuccefs, upon the}
continuation of the prelent ill contri-1
ved iituation of affairs between the
two nations, whole evident interdi it
is to be united, & whole tics of con
languinicy, of language, and trade,
iliotiid forever reliil the inftru-j
ments which threaten to cut them a
lunder.—Bojl, Gaz
France.
The arguments of many perfons,
feem to be, that becaufe Napoleon j
has fuffered one or two veffels to j
compromile with their captors, and *
leave France with part of their car- i
goes, that he will ultimately hod it
convenient to fuffer all the veffels to
leave his ports, and perhaps lthl fur- {
ther encourage . merican commerce.1
Let us not “ lay this flattering unc- j
tion to our fouls j” if this apparent ■
lenity intends any thing, it it intend-)
ed as a trap for lcizing many more
vtffels and their cargoes. i/Lke a
true gamefler he fuffers the lofer,
occaiionaliy, to win bac< a little, that
he may induce him to rifle his
whole iortune upon the next flake.
But the infoknee of thofe who
pratie Napoleon for this a£fc, is tru
ly affonifbing. lie has feized, fe
queffertd, and lold, millions of A
merican property 5 has required our
public agents to purchafe fume of
the condemned American fliips, to
iranlport the crews back to tbcir na
tive country
4
Has broken oath on oath—
“ Committed wrong on wrong”—
and now that he fuffers a few little j
cock boats, with only half their car-1
goes, to get away, he is pratfed as a |
being of infinite benevolence, juttice j
and magnanimity ! ! Shame on the {
Americans, who can be fo loflto)
their own reputation, or their >
country's rights, as to reafou
thus ! Ibid.
JACKSON’S RECAL.
The rccai of Mr Jacklou has been announ- ’
red to our government in a lettet from Hi*
Britannic Majefty to the B.didcnt of the U.
States.
The appointment of Mr. Moriitr as his
Britannic Maj-fty’s Secretary ot Legation to
the U. S. has been announced ic a letter from
Lord Welleflty to Mr. ccreury Smith, nub,
the further infoimatton that Mr. Moricr
would adt in the character of his Majefty’*
Charge des Affairs until the appointmeut of
Mr Jackfon’s lucccfTor.—Nat.Jut.
Navy of the United States.
We underhand that the following
is the employment of our public vef
fels of war at this time.
The frigate Preildent Commodore
Rogers, is ftationed at New-York :
the Conftitution Capt Hull in the
Delaware bay ; the brig Argus at
Bofton ; and fchooner Revenge at
Newport Rhode Ifland—with orders
to make fliort cruifes and return to
their refpt£live (tations.
The frigate United States, Com
modore Decatur, and the frigate Ef
fex, Captain Smith, are ftationed at
Hampton Rhodes; the John Adams
| Capt Dent at St Mary's, the fhip
Wafp, Capt. Jones, and the brig Fer
ret, Lt. Gadfden, at Charlefton, S.
Carolina ; the brig Siren, Capt. Tar
1 bell, at Savannah j the brig Kautil
; lus at Wilmington, N. C. with limi
ter orders. v
I he brig Hornet, Capt hunt, is cn
t foreign ftrvice ; and the brig Vixen,
i Lt- Bavnbndge, and the fchooner En
terprize, Lt. Read, are ftationed at
Nevv-Orleans, where thr’re are about
20 gunbo, ts alfo ftationed.
The frigate United States, the
W afp, the S rcn, and the Ferret, are
now cru ling near our Southern ex
tremity. All the Britifti armed vef
Ids lately about Amelia Ifland, have
! difjppeared and gone, it is believed,
■to Hallifax.
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wr«i wKmmiummrm
j Every arrival brings accounts of the
depredations upon our commerce, and
• the losses ol our merchants, and what
i they must expect. All this while our
. rmers are pel iectly supine, and wholly
I indifferent to the rum which threatens
* *r€ sufferers (taught by experience)
I make no application to their Govern
ment. “For why,” say they,“should
| ve upply tu those who have ever turn
eli ft & .;f ear to err crrnp’ ’ t: ■** jf
we ask of tlitni liili, they give tit i* |
serpent—A+nisUercourse. If we ask
bread, u.cy give us a stone—Fn bur go.
' i fiey smile at our r -iarr ities—they
mock at our sufferings 1 The destruc
tion of our commerce appear* to be
their delight 1 * Truly, we are in n
most ck-;.if .ruble state ; and may be
come, like the poor Hollanders, ti e
scorn and contempt of live nations up
on eatti». But the people have gone
astray—they have made unto th m
selves a molten calf, and have fallen
down and worshipped him. They
have deserted their true fricfult, and
have followed strange god*, and the^e
heathenish indols have proved their dts*
true lion.—Falla dm m.
The Chronicle ascribes enmity to the
Emperor and King Napoleon, to an
ungrateful spirit auiorg some of the
merchants ! It is not enough, that for
years the French have sported with A*
merican property at sea, at 57. Domin
go, in Holland, in Spain, and in France,
but merchants must be expected to be
grateful for their losses l
The Chronicle says, that every thing
stated by the Federalists on the subject
ot Gen. Armstrong’s being about to
leave France, that a vessel was given to
him for that purpose, ixc. was to deceive
the people !
Gen. Armstrong said in an official
letter, dated April 7, 1810. “The
Emperor left Faris two days ago.
1 lie day belore he set out lie gave me
a e/iip to carry myself and family to ths
U. S ”
Every yelper in the democratic pack,
from the full toned Intelligencer, down
to the marling l'atrioty ^ur.d lower they
could not go) has been incessant in hi»
cry, to drown the voice of merited and
indignant reproach, so justly brought
upon them by the swindling practices,
and notorious defalcations of their prof
ligate and abandoned leaders.
Aware that an appeal and ar adher*
avee to/am, would, at once, seal their
lips in eternal silence ; they have, on
these occasions, recourse to their usual
shuttling.—Bidwell, it is true, say th'.v^
is an abandoned wretch ; but Bidweil,
some sixteen or eighteen years ago was
a federalist.—Admit the fact—*So were
the great body pf American citizens, ex
cept Jefferson, and a few Virginia Na
bobs, who organized an opposition ter
the poli ics of Washington, those poli
tics which gave form and consistency to
the chaotic mass of governmental mate
rials, which were, disconnectedly, float
ing through the country at the close of
our revolutionary snuggle; thwarted
and counteracted his plans and opposed
his principles ; held forth a language
/official and a language confidential; anti
finally erected, on the ruins of the wise
and energetic plans of their predeces
sors, the tabric of their own blundering
zigzag policy of time serving estfiedi
ems.—At that time, to have been a fed
eralist was no uncommon thing—B’jt
times were approaching calculated to
try men’s souls—times calculated to
separate the chaff from the wlual ; the"
dross from the fine gold.— Bidwtll of
course could not start! the trial. His
sordid mercenary mind had no affinity
with honesty and integrity—“ He fled
to an union with kindred souls.” Like
Lucifer lie tell and his fall from every
thing upright, honest or honorable was
the signal lor the promotion wi’h those
ol his own 4 leather.9 He was accord
ingly promoted—he was the idol of his
parly—the backstairs counsellor and
confidential adviser of Mr. Jefferson
and secret manager of “ his Majesty’s
House of Commons.” His villany is
now detected and exposed, and he is de
nounced and atiatht malized ; not because
lie is a villian ; for that must have been
long known to his friends and suppor
ters ; but because he is now f.ubuny
known to be so. Such straws howev
er as these cannot save their sinking
cause in New England —Where infor
mation abounds, Democracy must hide
her head in A ro\Ju ion shame and des*
fiuir—•Constiiu’ionakst,
The Massachusetts democrats, find
ing Mr. Bid well's case tather unman
ageable, give him up,and agree that l:e
has turned out to be a rt true. Ilut, in
j order to shift off all interest in his ro
guery from the party of which in that
State he was a leader, they take < uvi
■ CHS ground l ir t, they s*y, some
federalists have proved to be rogues—
and secondly, that j* .dwell himself,
: when he was appointed to his office or
County Treasurer, was a federalist.
In order to establish the fi< - t grout'd,
they say that Andrew D.xter, who
played such pranks with the Kbodt -
Island Gloucester Bank, anti Bro
the Collector at New-Orieotir, v
lv»th fcdetaii>ts. Allowing that Lex
ter was a federalist, (a point ?. m -
which we ore not informed) *; will Lt
somewhat difficult to make any very
striking resemblance betwixt a ca?e o:
private swimUiug, and a series of trout
practised by a « ubUc ©fiktr. in ah. < fi
i