Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser (Portland, Me.), 1809-10-16 00:00:00

PORTLAND GAZETTE, And Maine Advertiser.
PORTLAND, PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR SHIRLEY... FISH-STREET.
No. 7, of Vol. XII.]
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1809.
[Whole No. 599.]
MODERN DEMAGOGUES: OR, The "great men" of Democracy.
FROM SALMAGUNDI. [Concluded from our last.]
TIMOTHY DABBLE was a young man of very promising talents—for he wrote a fair hand, and had thrice won the silver medal at a country academy—he was also an orator, for he talked with emphatic volubility, and could argue a full hour, without taking either side, or advancing a single opinion—he had still farther requisites for eloquence—for he made very handsome gestures, had dimples in his cheeks when he smiled, and enunciated most harmoniously through his nose. In short, nature had certainly marked him out for a great man; for though he was not tall, yet he added at least half an inch to his stature by elevating his head, and assumed an amazing expression of dignity by turning up his nose and curling his nostrils, in a style of conscious superiority. Convinced by these unequivocal appearances, Dabble's friends in full caucus, one and all, declared that he was undoubtedly born to be a great man, and it would be his own fault if he were not one. Dabble was tickled with an opinion which coincided so happily with his own—for vanity, in a confidential whisper, had given him the like intimation—and he reverenced the judgment of his friends, because they thought so highly of himself—accordingly he set out with a determination to become a great man, and to start in the scrub-race for honour and renown. How to attain the desired prizes was however the question. He knew by a kind of instinctive feeling, which seems peculiar to grovelling minds, that honour, and its better part—profit, would never seek him out; that they would never knock at his door and crave admittance, but must be courted, and toiled after, and earned. He therefore strutted forth into the highways, the market-places, and the assemblies of the people—ranted like a true cockerel orator about virtue, and patriotism, and liberty, and equality, and himself. Full many a political wind-mill did he battle with; and full many a time did he talk himself out of breath and his hearers out of their patience. But Dabble found to his vast astonishment, that there was not a notorious political pimp at a ward meeting but could out-talk him; and what was still more mortifying, there was not a notorious political pimp, but was more noticed & caressed than himself. The reason was simple enough, while he harangued about principles, the others ranted about men; where he reprobated a political error, they blasted a political character—they were, consequently, the most useful: for the great object of our political disputes is, not who shall have the honour of emancipating the community from the leading strings of delusion, but who shall have the profit of holding the strings, and leading the community by the nose.
Dabble was likewise very loud in his professions of integrity, incorruptibility, and disinterestedness, words which, from being filtered and refined through newspapers and election handbills, have lost their original signification, and in the political dictionary, are synonymous with empty pockets, itching palms, and interested ambition. He, in addition to all this, declared that he would support none but honest men—but unluckily as but few of these offered themselves to be supported, Dabble's services were seldom required. He pledged himself never to engage in party schemes or party politics, but to stand up solely for the broad interests of his country—so he stood alone, and what is the same thing, he stood still; for, in this country, he who does not side with either party, is like a body in a vacuum between two planets, and must for ever remain motionless.
Dabble was immeasurably surprised that a man so honest, so disinterested, and so sagacious withal—and one too, who had the good of his country so much at heart, should thus remain unnoticed and unapplauded. A little worldly advice whispered in his ear by a shrewd old politician, at once explained the whole mystery. "He who would become great," said he, "must serve an apprenticeship to greatness and rise by regular gradation, like the master of a vessel who commences by being scrub and cabin-boy. He must fag in the train of great men, echo all their sentiments, become their toad-eater and parasite—laugh at all their jokes, and above all, endeavour to make them laugh; if you only now and then make a great man laugh your fortune is made. Look but about you, youngster, and you will not see a single little great man of the day, but has his miserable herd of retainers, who yelp at his heels, come at his whistle, worry whoever he points his finger at, and think themselves fully rewarded by sometimes snapping up a crumb that falls from the great man's table. Talk of patriotism and virtue, and incorruptibility!—ret, man!—they are the very qualities that scare munificence, and keep patronage at a distance. You might as well attempt to entice crows with red rags and gunpowder. Lay all these scarecrow virtues aside, & let this be your maxim, that a candidate for political eminence is like a dried herring—he never becomes luminous until he is corrupt."
Dabble caught with hungry avidity these congenial doctrines, and turned into his pre-defined channel of action with the force and rapidity of a stream which has for a while been restrained from its natural course. He became what nature had fitted him to be—his tone softened down from arrogant self-sufficiency, to the whine of fawning solicitation. He mingled in the caucuses of the sovereign people, adapted his dress to a similitude of dirty raggedness, argued most logically with those who were of his own opinion, and slandered with all the malice of impotence, exalted characters whose orbit he despaired ever to approach—just as that scoundrel midnight thief, the owl, hoots at the blest light of the sun, whose glorious lustre he dares never contemplate. He likewise applied himself to discharging faithfully the honourable duties of a partisan—he poached about for private slanders, and ribald anecdotes—he folded handbills—he even wrote one or two himself, which he carried about in his pocket and read to every body—he became a secretary at ward-meetings, set his hand to divers resolutions of patriotic import, and even once went so far as to make a speech, in which he proved that patriotism was a virtue—the reigning virtue of a great man—that this was a free country, and he himself an arrant and uncontrollable buzzard!
Dabble was now very frequent and devout in his visits to those temples of politics, popularity and smoke, the ward porter-houses; those true dens of equality, where all ranks, ages, & talents, are bro't down to the dead level of rude familiarity. 'Twas here his talents expanded, and his genius swelled up into its proper size, like the loathsome toad, which shrinking from balmy airs, and jocund sunshine, finds his congenial home in caves and dungeons, and there nourishes his venom, and bloats his deformity. 'Twas here he revelled with the swinish multitude in their debauches on patriotism and porter; and it became an even chance whether Dabble would turn out a great man, or a great drunkard. But Dabble in all this kept steadily in his eye the only deity he ever worshipped—his interest. Having by this familiarity ingratiated himself with the mob, he became wonderfully potent and industrious at elections, knew all the dens and cellars of profligacy and intemperance, bro't more ne-
groes to the polls, and knew to a greater certainty where votes could be bought for beer, than any of his contemporaries. His exertions in the cause, his persevering industry, his degrading compliance, his unresisting humility, his steadfast dependence, at length caught the attention of one of the leaders of the party, who was pleased to observe that Dabble was a very useful fellow, who would go all lengths. From that moment his fortune was made—he was hand and glove with orators and lang-whanglers, basked in the sunshine of great men's smiles, and had the honour, sundry times, of shaking hands with dignitaries, and drinking out of the same pot with them at a porter house!!
I will not fatigue myself with tracing this catterpillar in his slimy progress from worm to butterfly: suffice it to say that Dabble bowed and bowed, and fawned, and sneaked, and smirked, and libelled, until one would have thought perseverance itself would have settled down into despair. There was no knowing how long he might have lingered at a distance from his hopes, had he not luckily got tarred and feathered for some of his electioneering manoeuvres—this was the making of him!—Let not my readers fume—tarred and feathered here is equal to pillory and cropped ears in England, and either of these kinds of martyrdom will ensure a patriot the sympathy and support of his faction. His partisans (for even he had his partisans) took his case into consideration—he had been kicked and cuffed, and disgraced, and dishonored in the cause—he had licked the dust at the feet of the mob—he was a faithful drudge, slow to anger, of invincible patience, of incessant assiduity—a thorough going tool, who could be curbed, and spurred, and directed at pleasure;—in short he had all the important qualifications for a little great man, and he was accordingly ushered into office amid the acclamations of the party. The leading men complimented his usefulness, the multitude his republican simplicity, and the lang-whanglers vouched for his patriotism. Since his elevation he has discovered indubitable signs of having been destined for a great man. His nose has acquired an additional elevation of several degrees, so that now he appears to have bidden adieu to this world, and to have set his thoughts altogether on things above; and he has swelled and inflated himself to such a degree that his friends are under apprehensions that he will one day or other explode and blow up like a torpedo.
Quackery. —A certain Italian nobleman had enjoyed good health, but not contented with that, he would needs swallow some quack medicines, to render his body more than well. The consequence was, that he pined with disease ever after, till the day of his death! Sensible at last of his folly, when it was too late, he ordered the following inscription to be put upon his tomb, "I was well, I would be better, and here I am."—Pretty much so it has been and is with the good people of this country—While the Washington system of policy continued, which was built not upon whim, but upon practical good sense, we flourished as a nation beyond all former example. But not satisfied with the enjoyment of good political health, and unexampled prosperity, there was a prevailing itch among the people for trying quack experiments. The followers of Washington were hurled from their seats, new men were advanced to them, men who had flattered the people that they would do infinitely better than their predecessors. A new system of measures was adopted and pursued—and, here we are—not quite in the tomb, but certainly in a very languishing and morbid political condition.
When Mr. Jefferson first took into his hands the reins of government, in 1801, he found the nation borne along on a full tide of prosperity; at peace with all the world, connected by treaties with the principal nations of Europe, its commerce immense and well-
guarded, its name and character respected over the whole earth. At that time, to be a citizen of the U. States, was a proud distinction, a passport to respect in foreign countries.—When he had finished his political career, March 4, 1809, the circumstances of our nation were completely reversed.
Here we are, despised and insulted abroad, and impoverished at home; our trade nearly annihilated, agriculture depressed, the difficulty of discharging debts becoming, every month and every week, greater and greater; & bankruptcy and poverty staring thousands in the face, who in ordinary times might have been in comfortable circumstances.
Mr. Madison came into administration under very unfavorable and embarrassing circumstances, for which we are ready to make every reasonable allowance: in the mean time we do ardently wish him to be fully sensible that such partial, time-serving, and popularity-hunting measures, as have brought us into our present difficulties, can never get us out of them; and that he may make the consistent and dignified conduct of the great WASHINGTON, the model of his administration.
Connecticut Courant.
Communications.
LITERARY.
NOAH WEBSTER, JUN. ESQ.
[CONCLUDED FROM OUR LAST.]
In the further prosecution of his design of establishing a Standard of American Literature, Mr. Webster is now sedulously engaged in the compilation of a Complete Dictionary of the English Language , a work of vast labor and expense, and intended as a valuable improvement of the best dictionaries now in use. The labor necessary to accomplish this work, on his plan, he says, is double to that which Dr. Johnson bestowed on his Dictionary. That his etymological inquiries alone, (a part of the subject on which Johnson bestowed no great pains, as he merely copied his etymologies from other authors), will probably incur as much labor as the whole execution of Johnson's work.
In a letter to Judge Dawes, of Boston, (dated at New Haven, July 25, 1809), on the subject of his proposed Dictionary, after mentioning the "mass of materials" which he had accumulated for the arduous work, Mr. Webster writes thus: "I consider it my duty, as it is my pleasure, to prosecute the work; provided I have health to sustain the labor, and property to defray the expenses of the compilation. But I fear my pecuniary resources will not be adequate; and that the past labor of some years will be lost, from inability to prosecute the design. Were I a single man, I should probably leave my country, and seek patronage in one where undertakings of this kind are never neglected, much less opposed."
In Europe, enterprises of this nature, have sometimes been patronized by government, and the execution made a national expense. And men of talents and ability rarely fail to meet encouragement and support, from the numerous enlightened individuals and incorporated societies with which that country abounds. And for the honor of our own country, we could wish, that tho' its citizens may be indifferent and ungrateful for a while, to the claims of one of its brightest ornaments, they will not eventually oppose the laudable designs of this their distinguished fellow citizen, and consequently their own ultimate honor and interest. We sincerely desire they may yield him countenance and support, which the magnitude and importance of his undertaking demand, and which he has a right to expect, not merely as a favor, but as his just due. We hope the time is not far distant when the film of prejudice, (like the scales from the eyes of Saul) may be removed from the mental eye of the public, whereby they may clearly discern not only their true interest, but the brilliant (though steady) light of genius, shining, not by borrowed.
* Even the definitions, which constitute the whole value of Johnson's Dictionary, Mr. Webster represents as "deficient in precision, beyond any thing he could have imagined, without a minute attention to the subject;" that "he [Johnson] has given currency to between two and three thousand words, which are not English;" and further, what he esteems a great evil, "great numbers of these illegitimate words, are copied into Entick, Perry, and other small Dictionaries, for schools;" that, (as modern lexicographers, since Johnson, have erected their works on the foundation which he, as a confessed "giant of literature," has laid for them; and, as mere copies after him and one another, have thus given currency to his errors, without taking the trouble, or not possessing sufficient knowledge, to know why or wherefore)—to expunge these barbarities, and supply the defects of the English dictionaries, occasioned by the great improvements in the sciences within half a century, to the amount of five or six thousand words, and which are not found in the best authors, is a very important part of Mr. Webster's design.
rowed, but inherent qualities. And we further predict, and confidently, that at that time, and a co-operation of more friendly circumstances, will place Mr. Webster, and other great American geniuses, in their true light, and cause their worth to appear. That though a Murray has sought patronage in a foreign land, & received the countenance and distinguishing compliments of the liberal and accomplished BLAIR, &c. and though a RUTFORD, had he continued in America, would have been Benjamin Thompson to this day; we hope our country will, ere long, be willing to pay a more proper respect to aspiring genius, and thereby prevent the misfortune of the further emigration of her most distinguished sons.
The writer of these observations, has no interest in the result of Mr. Webster's undertaking, separate from what he possesses in common with his fellow citizens, nor has he the happiness of the least personal acquaintance. Neither does he imagine himself qualified to do justice to his character or his writings; but he could not, without doing violence to his feelings, suppress his desire of offering this small tribute of gratitude and respect, to so distinguished a personage, and of recommending him, as far as his ability and opportunity would allow, to the notice and patronage of his fellow countrymen; especially as abler pens have moved so reluctantly to his well earned praise. He seriously believes, that the disaffected and disapproving readers of Mr. Webster, (if any) have only to become more wise, better acquainted, and less prejudiced themselves, to discover superior knowledge in, and admire him; and that he is pre-eminently entitled to the general patronage and support of United America.
A FRIEND TO MERIT.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
A piece published in the Freeman's Friend of the 30th ult. in the form of an extract of a letter from Boston, expressed an idea, that real estate, appraised and set off to satisfy an execution issued on a judgment obtained on an usurious demand, was only an assurance, and as such was made void by the statute of usury. That therefore the land was still liable to be attached by a bona fide creditor.
This idea has been pursued by a publication in the same paper of some of the reasonings, by which it is to be supported. With all the attention I have had time to give them, I have not been able to satisfy myself of their correctness. And in reply to the arguments, by which the opinion is maintained, I shall take the liberty to suggest a few considerations.
In the first place, it is natural to inquire, what sort of estate is finally acquired by the process, which vests the property in the creditor.
After the part of the appraisers is performed, the statute makes it the duty of the sheriff to deliver seisin and possession to the creditor. It then proceeds to describe the estate so vested, declaring that the execution returned with the doings thereon, and seasonably recorded, "shall make as good a title to such creditor or creditors, his or their heirs, or assigns, as the debtor had therein." This is a beneficial statute and has been liberally construed. The Supreme Court has decided, that the creditor is seized and possessed to all intents and purposes. That is, that he has the fee simple.
Upon this estate a right in equity to redeem is subsequently limited to the debtor for one year. The effect of this right upon the estate is very different. It does not make it an imperfect estate, to be completed by the lapse of a year and the silence of the debtor. But it is a perfect estate, only defeasible at any time within the year by the debtor's tendering the creditor, or the tenant under this title, the whole of the debt with interest down to the time of extending the execution and the necessary expenses beyond the income of the estate.
The next question is, whether this estate, legally executed in the creditor, is liable to any other impediment, than the year's right of redemption.
Nor is there any pretence of it, unless from the magical efficacy of the language of the statute of usury, which avoids all bonds, contracts, mortgages and assurances whatsoever made for the payment of money upon which above six per cent. has been reserved.
And here it is contended, that a title by the levy of an execution upon real estate appraised and set off to satisfy an usurious demand, and the execution and doings thereon returned and recorded, is such an assurance.
Then what is the peculiar energy of this word? Whatever it is, is very immaterial, as it is very certain the statute would have expressed itself very different from what it has done, if it had contemplated the destruction of a title from an officer of the law in the execution of the judgment of a court of justice. The phrase employed is "all assurances made." That means in general all contracts, whether under seal or not. Instruments are evidently intended, to which parties are necessary. And the party making is absolved from his obligation to the party, to whom it is made, in case the contract is contaminated with usury. A judgment is not made. It is rendered. An execution is issued.
All bonds, contracts, mortgages and assurances whatsoever, made for the payment of any principal or money lent, or covenant to be lent, upon or for usury. Here the mind, with which the assurance is made, is involved in the consideration of it. And are the judgment and the execution, the appraisement and the delivery of seisin, all, an assurance made for the sake of securing an usurious demand. This would be legalizing corruption with a vengeance.
Again. The statute of usury makes all these assurances absolutely void. I have always understood, that the judicial act of a court having competent authority was merely voidable. If the act is void the debtor is not bound by it. For all the proceedings subse-

...to the judgment as only fruits of it and not with it. The donor is not bound by it, if it is void; nor is there any need of waiting for a bona fide creditor to attach the property over again. He may take advantage of it himself. And it may any stranger.
But how was this matter raised? Lord Mansfield said it was the clearest thing in the world, that the merits of a judgment never could be impeached by an original suit, either at law or in equity. Till the judgment is set aside or reversed, it is conclusive as to the subject matter of all intents and purposes. And in an action of debt on judgment unless recovered in another state, the plaintiff is exempted from the pains of proving the original cause of action.
As to the execution, when the creditor's demand is satisfied by it, the satisfaction is to be entered of record, that the party may not be harassed a second time on the same account. But if, since judgment, the debtor has discharged himself by payment, or is in possession of a release, or is in any danger from neglect in the satisfaction not being entered of record, he may come with his complaint and be relieved.
But on the part of those, who insist on the inefficacy of a judgment on an usurious demand, they take care to beg one very important question—that the demand was usurious. When the judgment was rendered on the ground, that there was no usury in it. The question of usury is frequently a subject of no little delicacy and difficulty—many of the fairest transactions being susceptible of constructions the far-fetched from the meaning of the parties. And whether the transaction was fair, or whether the contract was only a colour for the usury, is, under all the circumstances, a matter for the jury under the direction of the judge, and subject to the discretion of the court afterwards.
These remarks, and may be very imperfect; but if they are extremely inaccurate, or if the opinion, of which they are the basis, is altogether incorrect, it is more than I am at present aware of. MERCATOR.
Foreign Intelligence.
French and Austrian Affairs.
HAMBURG, AUG. 10, 1809.
We learn, that the Archduke CHARLES has been removed from the command of the Austrian armies; that Prince JOHN of LICHTENSTEIN succeeds him; and that notice had been given to the French of the termination of the Armistice in 15 days:— French article.
MORAVIA, AUG. 1. We learn, that the Archduke CHARLES, owing to bad health, has resigned the command of the army; and that the Prince of LICHTENSTEIN has taken it, ad interim .— Austrian article.
LONDON, AUG. 23. It is now said, that Austria positively gave notice on the 3d August , that the Armistice should cease in 15 days:—and that the Archduke CHARLES had addressed the Austrian army on resigning its command; and spoken in the highest terms of Prince JOHN of LICHTENSTEIN, his successor. Some of the London papers have denounced CHARLES as a weak man; and led by a cabal of Generals; and that the Prince of LICHTENSTEIN is one of the most able men in Europe. We shall not copy such inconsistencies.
An appeal to arms has once more been resolved upon by Austria . An official communication announcing the change of the Austrian Commander-in-chief; and of the determination of the Austrian government to persevere in the contest at all risks, rather than yield to the arrogant demands of NAPOLEON, was on Sunday evening received by Mr. CANNING— The Day.
A Moniteur states, that the conscription for 1811 and 1812 has been ordered to be immediately enforced; if this be true, little doubt can remain of the continuance of the war.
AUGUST 21. The Austrian army it is said has been augmented to 350,000 men; and is posted along the Morava, in Moravia.
The reports of the renewal of hostilities between the French and Austrians was reported yesterday; and that Prince Hohremberg had acknowledged the receipt of private letters on the subject.
PARIS, AUG. 8. 1809. Munich letters of the 21st July , state, that the Austrians have formed an entrenched camp on the White Mountains, near Prague , in Bohemia ; to which the army will retreat in case peace should not be concluded. Prague is provisioned for six months.
PER CONTRA.
Paris letters of the 12th, state that Peace between Austria and France was signed on the 10th August .—Accounts from Vienne to the 12th, (two days later) positively assert that no such event had taken place. Had such an event occurred the guns on the coast of France would have announced it with a voice of thunder.
English Official Despatches.
DOWNING STREET, AUG. 19, 1809.
DESPATCH,
From Lord CHATHAM to Lord CASTERLEAGH received this day; dated, H. Q. MIDDLEBURGH, AUG. 16.
MY LORD—I have the honor of acquainting your Lordship, that, on the 13th instant the batteries before Flushing being completed, (and the frigates, bombs and gun vessels having at the same time taken their stations) a fire was opened at about half past one P. M. from fifty-two pieces of heavy ordnance, which was vigorously returned by the enemy. An additional number of six twenty-four pounders was completed the same night, and the whole continued to ply upon the town with little or no intermission, till late the following day.
On the morning of the 14th inst. about ten o'clock, the line of battle ships at anchor in the Dunebe passage, led by Rear Admiral Sir Richard Strachan, got under weigh, and ranging up along the sea line of defence kept as they passed a most tremendous cannonade on the town for several hours, with the greatest gallantry and effect. About four in the afternoon, perceiving that the fire of the enemy had entirely ceased, and the town presenting a most awful scene of destruction, being on fire in almost every quarter, I directed Lieut. Gen. Sir Eyre Coote to send in to summon the place; Gen. Monnet returned for answer, that he would reply to the summons as soon as he had consulted a Council of War; an hour had been allowed him for the purpose; but a considerable time beyond it having elapsed without any answer being received, hostilities were ordered to recommence with the utmost vigor, and about eleven o'clock at night, one of the enemy's batteries advancing upon the sea Dyke, in front of Lieut. Gen. Frazer's position, was most gallantly carried at the point of the bayonet, by detachments from the 36th, 71st, and light battalions of the King's German Legion, under Lieut. Col. Parke, opposed to great superiority of numbers; they took forty prisoners, and killed and wounded a great many of the enemy.
I must not omit to mention, that on the preceding evening an entrenchment in front of Major-Gen. Graham's position, was also forced, in a manner equally undaunted, by the 14th regiment and detachments of the King's German Legion, under Lieut. Col. Nicholls, who drove the enemy from it and made a lodgment within musket shot of the walls of the town, taking the guns and thirty prisoners.
About two in the morning, the enemy demanded a suspension of arms for forty-eight hours, which was refused, and only two hours granted, when he agreed to surrender according to the summons sent in, on the basis of the garrison becoming prisoners of war.
I have now the satisfaction of acquainting your Lordship, that these preliminaries being acceded to, as soon as the admiral landed in the morning, Col. Long, Adjutant-General, and Capt. Cookurn, of the Royal Navy, were appointed to negotiate the further articles of capitulation, which I have now the honor to enclose. They were ratified about three this morning, when detachments of the Royals on the right, and of his Majesty's 71st regiment on the left, took possession of the gates of the town. The garrison will march out tomorrow, and will be embarked as speedily as possible.
I may now congratulate your Lordship on the fall of a place so indispensably necessary to our future operations, as so large a proportion of our force being required to carry on the siege with that degree of vigor and despatch which the means of defence the enemy possessed, and particularly his powers of inundation (which was rapidly spreading to an alarming extent) rendered absolutely necessary.
Having hoped, had circumstances permitted, to have proceeded up the river at an earlier period, I had committed to Lieut. Gen. Sir Eyre Coote the direction of the details of the siege, and of the operations before Flushing, and I cannot sufficiently express my sense of the unremitting zeal and exertion with which he has conducted the arduous services entrusted to him, in which he was ably assisted by Lieut. Col. Wall and Officer, attached to him as assistants in the Adjutant and Quarter-Master General's department.
The other paragraphs of this despatch contain acknowledgements of the Commander in Chief, to the army and navy for the spirit and intelligence manifested by them. The corps distinguished, are, the Royal Engineers, the Royal Artillery, and a detachment of seamen, which worked one of the batteries. The officers named, are Col. Pyres, Lieut. Col. D. Arrey, Brig. Gen. M c Leod; and Captains Cockburn and Richardson of the navy. His Lordship also mentions the transmission of returns of the garrison of Flushing, deserters, &c. and adds, that besides the killed, upwards 1000 wounded had been sent to Cadsand previous to the complete investment of the town. The despatch was sent by Major Bradford first aid to Lord C.]
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) CHATHAM.
FROM HOLLAND—OFFICIAL.
AUGUST 24. The Gazette contains another letter from Lord CHATHAM, dated the 13th, in which he announces the surrender of Zeirekzee and Bowerhaven, Schouwen and Duiveland:—He also enclosed Gen. Monnet's return of the garrison of Flushing, amounting to 5803.—His Lordship adds, that the enemy's force opposed to him in Walcheren might be computed at 9000 men.
AUGUST 25. Letters from Flushing, of the 18th, state, that the Statehouse, a large church, and a great part of the town had been destroyed—that most of the English ships had proceeded up the Scheldt; that ten French ships of the line, 15 frigates, and about 50 gun boats, were beyond Fort Lillo.
Despatches from Lord Chatham to the 20th, have been received.—About 5000 men were left in Walcheren, under Gen. Frazer; the rest had landed on South Beveland; the whole fleet had assembled off Batha; and great preparations were making for the attack of Fort Lillo.
[From the Dutch Papers.]
Antwerp, Aug. 17. Reinforcements, to the amount of 800 men arrive here daily; the lines of Steinsbergen and low grounds of Bergen, are inundated. Gen. Gratien's corps (6000) has returned to Holland; and the Westphalian troops are advancing to it, by forced marches.
Paris, Aug. 1. The troops from Versailles and Paris, are concentrating in Picardy, and will march where danger calls them.
Rotterdam, Aug. 4. Gen. Chamberlach occupies the left of the Scheldt, with a strong army. He can easily pass to the right, as he acts in concert with Ad Quies-Miffiey. A great number of troops are on the march for the defence of Antwerp.
AMSTERDAM, JULY 29, 1809.
Royal Decree respecting Americans.
Louis Napoleon, &c. &c. "Until further orders, our decree of the 30th June, (No 1,) respecting the admission of American vessels into the harbours of this kingdom shall be repealed: and every thing relating thereto be placed on the same footing upon which it was before the promulgation of the said decree; so that no other vessels than those conforming strictly to the restrictions contained in our former decrees, shall be admitted. Those which shall not so conform shall be warned off."
Extract of a letter from Rotterdam, of the 25th of July—received in London Aug. 9.
"The news is known, that the Emperor has declared to the American Ambassador that he would not enter into a treaty until the United States declared war against England; this probably a war between France and America."
The British papers assert positively that our Ambassador to the French Government is at Amsterdam. The object of his visit is not absolutely stated, but is intimated to be to endeavour to prevent a further amount of American property from swelling the aggregate of French sequestration. His view however may also be to seek a passage to his own country, or a safe conveyance for important despatches. He has undoubtedly failed in the demands in behalf of American rights that he was directed to make on the Emperor Napoleon. Letters on the subject may be momentarily expected at Washington.
The British expedition having subdued all the islands at the mouth of the Scheldt, passed up that river towards Antwerp about the 21st of August. The troops had moved to the island of South Beveland, which stretches up the river to within 18 miles of Antwerp. The next object of attack was said to be Fort Lillo, on the main, commanding a narrow passage in the Scheldt 9 miles from Antwerp. If the British troops are landed on the main to attack the Fort, they will have to encounter a large body of troops who have been collected at Burgen-op-Zoom, as well as those who will be marched from Antwerp. In any event these troops will strengthen the Forts, annoy the English, and menace their forces in Beveland. Success in the ultimate object of the expedition is very doubtful.
Two uncommon papers on public affairs were published in the Court Gazette, at Amsterdam, July 25 and 29.
After depicting the horrors produced by the French Revolution, which is described as "that terrible convulsion, which spreads death, despair, and mourning, over the finest region of the world, and finally brought in their train that greatest of all misfortunes, a state of bankruptcy," the Dutch are stated to derive some consolation from the consciousness, that "they have not had to submit to the caprice of an arbitrary Government, nor to groan under the despotic insolence of a Conqueror." This language needs no commentator to explain it. They even go on to say, "The King (Louis Bonaparte) has already openly declared against the Conscription in the face of all Europe." Foreseeing and deprecating the punishment which is about to be inflicted on him for such an avowal, and anticipating his deposition, they add, "Let us, then, all unite our efforts, to shew our King that true Dutchmen wish to protect him, who labors for them! May we thus ever merit the care and the love of a King, who gives us unceasing proofs that he is less our Sovereign than our First Magistrate, and the man of the nation!"
By the Quails.
Extract of a letter, of a recent date, from New-Orleans to the Editors of the Freeman's Journal.
"I regret to say, that there is a faction here devoted to the views of the French government. At the head of this faction is —, Member of the General assembly. He came here with the French Prefect, and has never been naturalized.—You cannot have forgotten his publications in 1804, claiming the protection of the French government, in consequence of a seizure made at the customhouse. All circumstances combine to render it indispensable that our military establishment should be considerable, and the commander in chief, "not only chaste, but unsuspected."
A democrat of some candour.
Our politics can never permit us to wish the defeat of a people, who, in any part of the world are struggling in defence of their own laws, religion, customs and freedom. Had the Austrians penetrated France, spreading carnage and destruction for the sake of conquest, we should wish the French success in repelling them. The reflection, that the elevation of Bonaparte to the high pitch of power to which he has arrived, has cost millions of lives, and occasioned unprecedented miseries to the human race, leaves no very favorable impression on our minds, when we consider that those dreadful calamities were occasioned by the ambition, and for the glory of one man, it increases our detestation of a monarchical form of government.— Orleans Herald.
NEW-YORK, OCT. 10.
Yesterday morning, the new minister from Spain, left this city for the seat of government.
It is principally owing to the exertions of this gentleman, we learn, that the American property under detention in Spain, has been liberated. Thirty-seven thousand dollars, the amount of the cargo of one ship that had been condemned, has already been received by a Democratic house in this city, who has not heretofore been very friendly to the patriotic cause of that country.
A letter from the American Consul at St. Petersburg, dated the 30th July, mentions, that most of the American vessels bound there have been cap-
tured by the Danes, and that they are arrived.
Hypocrisy. —It was loudly boasted that our embargo would starve the West India islands. The thing was found to be impracticable; but the very intention to do it, had the essence of cold-blooded murder. What harm had the people of the West Indies done us?—None. They had no agency in the British orders in council, or in Bonaparte's decrees. They had been our commercial customers and friends. They had contributed immensely to our national wealth. They had taken our lumber and the produce of our land, at high prices; and most of the specie that is now in this country came from them. Notwithstanding all this, the intention to starve them was openly avowed.—And who avowed it this diabolical intention? Why the very same men who have been all along exclaiming against the inhumanity of England in the affair of Copenhagen; the same men who have violently urged that Mr. Jackson should be treated with insult, or immediately sent home, for having been the bearer of a message on the Copenhagen affair from his own government to the Prince Royal of Denmark.
Look at these hypocrites! Behold in their visages the evident features of that generation of vipers, the old pharisees, who strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel. They would have starved, had it been in their power, thousands of innocent people, men, women, and children. They exult in hearing of the necessities and distresses of those people. They would have exulted at hearing that they were dying of famine, by scores and by hundreds.—Yet these same men make a great shew of humanity when it suits their occasions. To excite indignation against England, they yet sob and blubber for sufferings that the Danes felt several years ago. What care they for the Danes?—Only let Napoleon declare war against Denmark, and they would shout aloud for joy, if he were to cut up the Danish nation, root and branch, man, woman, and child; they would then be as zealous for the destruction of the Danes, as they now are for the destruction of the Spaniards, of the Portuguese, and of the Austrians.— Connecticut Courant.
Portland,
Monday, October 16, 1809.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
BY an arrival at Newyork, the 10th inst. in 37 days from Liverpool, London dates are received to the 31st of August. The papers contain little official intelligence—but the reports in circulation are somewhat interesting. Much doubt prevailed in England of the success of the Expedition on the Scheldt. It was reported that Lord Chatham, the commander, had called a council of war to advise on the expediency of abandoning the project of attacking Antwerp, and the result was in favor of relinquishing the attack.—Ever since the English made their appearance in the river, the French have been indefatigable in their exertions to impede their progress. A powerful force has been collected in Holland and Brabant for the purpose of opposing any operations the English army might undertake by land. All the guns have been taken out of the French ships, & mounted upon the new batteries, in addition to those which before lined the banks of the Scheldt, and the French have floated their men of war some distance above the city, and extended booms and chains across the river. Should this account prove correct, and it was the general opinion in England, the great object of the Expedition will fail.
Of Austria & France.
Notwithstanding the rumours of a renewal of the war between Austria & France, the prevailing opinion was, that peace between those two powers would shortly take place. The Emperor Francis appeared determined to conclude one, at almost any sacrifice. The Archduke Charles entertains a different opinion from that of his brother the Emperor; and on that account had resigned the command of the Austrian army, and not on account of his wound. General Belgrade is appointed Commander in Chief.
The fate of Turkey is to be decided by the Congress which is to settle that of Austria.
It was reported in England, September 1st, that Gen. Armstrong had left Paris, and arrived at Amsterdam, and that his attempt to effect a good understanding with the French government had been ineffectual.
Some accounts mention that Boharte was at Paris, August the 14th, and that he would shortly set out for Spain, to assume the direction of the war in that country.
The intelligence from Spain, is not

so late as that received by former arrivals.
On the last of August, the situation of affairs between the United States & Great Britain remained without a change.
Another King & Kingdom.
The once free, independent, & happy Republic of Switzerland, is shortly, by the arbitrary mandate of Bonaparte, to be erected into a monarchy, and one of the Bonaparte family, Alexander Berthier, crowned tyrant of the same.
A great proportion of the inhabitants of Austria are now experiencing the severest distress and want, in consequence of the war, which has been wantonly kindled in that country, by the unbounded tyranny and ambition of Bonaparte. In the districts where the late battles took place, large villages remain deserted, some of them wholly ravaged, and their inhabitants compelled to remain in the woods and forests.
ENGLISH PARAGRAPHS.
In the districts of Austria, where the late battles took place, 27 large villages remain deserted, 17 of them are wholly ravaged, and the rest partially so. Many of the inhabitants remain in the woods and forests.
Between 2 and 3000 wounded Austrians, who remained in a field of rye, after the battle of the 6th ult. were burnt to death, in consequence of the rye accidentally taking fire.
Among the various marks of honor paid to His Excellency Marquis Wellesley, on his arrival in Cadiz, the people brought out a French flag, and spread it upon the steps of the landing place, in such a situation, that the first foot which His Excellency set upon Spanish ground must trample upon the colors of the most perfidious and cruel foe of the Spanish nation.
On Tuesday, 15th August, 1809, Flushing, surrendered to the British arms! On the same day, Napoleon Bonaparte attained his fortieth year!—From this period of time, Prophecies have declared his greatness will decline!
Copenhagen, Aug. 4.—A letter from Leghorn, of the 15th of last month, contains the following intelligence:—"The Pope yesterday left Florence for Pisa, without any public ceremonies, and under a guard. It is said he is going to Avignon in France."
Communications.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
Mr. PRINTER,
In looking over a late European publication, I found the following Story, which I thought applicable to so many instances in this country, that the cause of humanity may be promoted by its republication. A PARENT.
"HONOR thy father and thy mother," was the command of Him, who knew well the propensity in his sinful creatures, to neglect those, to whom they owe their being, when age and infirmities render them helpless. But, notwithstanding the solemn command of God, notwithstanding every principle honorable to human nature seems almost irresistibly to impel mankind to the observance of this most righteous command; how often do we see parents, who have devoted their whole lives, and exhausted their health and strength, to promote the comfort and happiness of their children, at least, when their faculties are impaired by age, and their frame enfeebled and tottering to its fall; when, in confident expectation of experiencing from them a return of the tenderness which they have made it the business of their lives to bestow, they have surrendered to their offspring the property which should have secured to themselves the necessaries and comforts requisite to support decaying nature, compelled to submit, in helpless misery, to cold neglect, heart-piercing ingratitude, bitter taunts and upbraidings, from those perhaps to whom they have been the most partial in the distribution of their favors, and from whom they have the most right to expect that kindness and attention which the infirmities of age require, and which the voice of God & nature loudly, solemnly demand. Nay more, stinted of the very necessaries of life, deprived of the comforts which habit has rendered indispensable to their health, and linger out a miserable existence, bearing their "grey hairs with sorrow to the grave."
I am led to these remarks, by a circumstance which lately occurred to my observation, and affected me exceedingly.—In one of my morning rambles, I called at the house of an aged friend, who had lately deceased, and left a widow, infirm and decrepit, bowed down with the weight of years, rendered more heavy by her recent loss. Her
husband had, in a long life of industry and prudence, accumulated a recent property, which he had bequeathed to his elder son; obliging him, however, to support his surviving parent, during her life. The son was married, and it was generally remarked, that the wife, as well as the husband, seemed an honorable instance of affection and respect for the parents. While the father lived, her deference and attention to him, were the theme of conversation in the village, and her filial piety towards the parents of her husband, was held up as a bright pattern for step daughters. But he had been dead a week—the will had been opened, and the estate devolved on her husband. I entered the house, prepared to offer the balm of consolation to the afflicted widow and children. In a corner sat the parent, weeping in the utmost apparent anguish, while the daughter, with a countenance and manner begging all description, was pouring on her a torrent of the most bitter invectives! Confounded at the sight, I would have retired, but astonishment fixed me to the floor. Regardless of my presence, she continued her reviling, until she seemed to have exhausted her powers of language. She taxed her recollection for years long past, and every circumstance which could aggravate and harrow up the feelings of the mother, was forcibly brought up to view. I at length ventured to inquire the cause of this heart-rending scene, and learnt that the helpless and infirm old lady had dared to ask for some trifling thing of her own, and of which, she at that time, happened to stand in need! Shocked and dismayed, I retired; and, in a few days, learnt the fatal catastrophe. Ingratitude fixed its envenomed sting, deep in the susceptible heart of the afflicted parent; the agitation of her mind produced a fever; the cup of life was exhausted of all its sweets, and, oppressed with grief and sorrow, she sunk to the grave!
FOR THE GAZETTE.
AMONG the means which have contributed to the late triumph of Democracy in this State, and more particularly in the District of Maine, there is one, not the least powerful, because it has operated in the dark, over the counter of a petty dram shop. In little parties where only two or three of the right kidney are met together, or, at farthest, in those more solemn coucuses, where the leader of perhaps one or two little villages has called together his satellites, to give them their lesson, "screw their courage up to the sticking place," and appoint them their field of motion for electioneering purposes. It has not therefore been so easily discerned, and little or no exertions have been made to counteract its malignant effects.
In most of the new settlements, and many of those of older date, correct political information is but scantily diffused, and from the industrious habits of the inhabitants, and the unremitting labor to which they are necessarily subjected, they find neither leisure nor disposition accurately to examine and compare the various and contradictory reports of men and measures which are occasionally circulated among them. Here are found some restless and aspiring ambitions of distinction, but fearing to move in spheres where their ignorance would be discovered, and their upstairs pretensions thrown into merited insignificance. These have chosen their scene of action among men whose limited means of knowledge renders them liable to imposition, and who consequently are easily led to look up for information to those who, with a plausible appearance, blend just truth enough with the falsehood they relate, to be able in some few particulars to prove themselves in the right.
Avoiding themselves of this trait in the human character, to believe any thing, however absurd, provided it is asserted with boldness, and pertinaciously adhered to as truth these demagogues travel from house to house, or plant themselves in taverns and grog shops, as their business or convenience dictate, and, after obtaining the confidence of the good folks, hesitate not to propagate the most gross falsehoods, confident that the means of immediate detection are not at hand; they venture to assert, with all the air of conscious truth, circumstances, which never had existence except in their own prolific brains, the best of patriots are accused of conspiring to subvert the fair fabric of liberty which they have, at the risk of their lives erected; "treasons, strata-gems and spoils" are represented as the employment and object of men whose life and talents have been devoted to their country's service; and all who refuse to bow the knee to the Baal of Democracy are stigmatized as being corrupted by Britain to assist in re-establishing the very tyranny which they have shed their blood and exerted every nerve to overthrow. The wondering auditors, amazed at the turpitude of the crimes thus exposed to their view, and convinced by the unblushing assurance of their oracle, that all he says is true as holy writ, look up to him as possessing a fund of knowledge and discernment, far transcending that of ordinary mortals, and reposing with full faith on his political creed, act as he acts, move as he directs, and when they are called upon to exercise the most important privilege of freemen they march up to the poll at their master's nod, and blindly contribute to lift men like himself into power. By means like these the intriguing leaders
of a faction mounts on the shoulders of the deluded people to the chair of State.
The history of the two or three preceding years verifies these observations; but, thank heaven, the spell of delusion cannot endure forever, the spell is broken, the mist is in part vanished; much however remains to be done. The enemies of good order, though defeated, are not destroyed! Like satan and his host, when hurled from the heights of which they in vain attempted to keep possession, are planning new schemes of mischief. New lies are to be invented, new slanders propagated. The old hacknied story of "British influence" and "separation of the states" is to be revived in a new form. The marvellous wonder-workers, "with Scottish gift of second sight," have already discovered, and are whispering about, with all the gravity of an old gossip, "that the Prince of Wales is to resign his right to the British Crown for that of Canada, and that the federalists of New England, with Timothy Pickering at their head, are combined in a plot to sever the northern States from the Union and annex them to the new kingdom!" Absurd and ridiculous as this is, it is a serious fact, that it is propagating in the little grog-shop caucuses in some of our country towns, with all its pretended corroboratory circumstances, with a zeal and confidence worthy of a better cause. It is believed too, by the ignorant and deluded people to whom it is thus communicated, and, full of horror at the deep laid and dangerous plots of the wicked federalists, they repeat and circulate the foolish calumny, 'till the hair is ready to rise at the frightful tale. Such are some, among the many artifices by which democratic chiefs have acquired their ascendancy over the minds of many well disposed men; who, could they strip from the wily demagogue his veil of affected patriotism, and view at once his selfish designs, would turn with scorn and indignation from the distorted pictures he is presenting to their view.
Republicans! Is there not among you, in each of your respective towns, some one to whom you look with deference for political information; who feeds your ears with tales like these, and urges you to rise in your strength and crush to the earth the men who dare to doubt the infallible perfection of his creed? Does not his zeal induce you to place confidence in him, and rest satisfied that he has talents to discover, and is honestly communicating to you the designs of the federalists, whom you are led to believe are seeking the subversion of your rights and liberties? Examine him well. Search his probable motives. Is he not promoted, or seeking promotion to office? Is it not certain that he cannot obtain it but directly or indirectly, through your suffrages? What then can be his object in persuading you to vote for the men whom he recommends? See, hear, compare and judge for yourselves.
Federalists! Is there a town or a village in this extensive district which has not such a demagogue as I have described? Are you not aware that he is ever on the alert to spread the poison of his doctrines and sharpen the arrows of calumny, when you are not at hand to detect him? Does not your duty to your country loudly demand of you to counteract his schemes? Arouse then. Hunt out these self appointed conservators of the liberties of the people. Expose their arts and intrigues to the view of their deluded followers. Scatter the light of truth through the mists of ignorance and misrepresentation in which they are endeavoring to involve your neighbors. So shall the cause of liberty and order be crowned with success, and your reward be glorious.
KATAHDIN.
READ BOTH SIDES.
The Editor of the Portland Gazette, republishes from last Monday's paper the notice it contained
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
24 per Cent.—We have lately received several communications on the subject of usury. Whether the authors of these pieces are actuated by private or public motives, is not for us to determine. But this we think we are at liberty to say, that we always have been, and still are of the opinion, that the transactions of individuals, as it respects their common business, are not proper subjects for newspaper discussion. Public men, and public measures are our game.
The last Argus, with its usual regard to truth, publishes the following card.
From last Thursday's Argus.
"A CARD."
"To the Editor of the Portland Gazette. "Sir.—As you formerly declared your paper entirely devoted to and for the public good, and that it should at all times give the alarm, why shrink when private robbery and individual injustice has now is making sad havoc on the industrious citizens of Portland; and to have the editor to acknowledge the receipt of valuable communications on the subject of usury; which is a species of villainy that ought to be hunted and punished wherever it is found; and at the same time, (to your eternal shame may it stand) you declare your paper to be a vehicle through which you will defame public men and public measures."
We might take the above as a specimen of the truth and candor which distinguishes the strictures frequently made in the Argus upon this paper. Like the card above quoted, they are made up of falsehoods and misrepresentation. The insinuation that our refusal to publish communications on the subject of usury, and that it is an abandonment of public good, is a base falsehood; and the assertion that we "acknowledged" communications "valuable" is equally destitute of truth. We gave no opinion of their merits.
Again—This manufacturer of lies, tells the readers of the Argus, that it is declared our paper shall be a vehicle for defaming public men and public measures. The allusion to them in the notice, does not warrant such a construction, but simply means as they effect the general welfare, they are proper subjects of remark, either of praise or censure.
But as the writer of the "Card" may wish to figure again as an author, we will dismiss this subject for the present with a word of advice. If you have hired money at 6, 10 or 20 per cent. go like an honest and honorable man and pay it (if in your power) and if you think the practice of giving more than 6 per cent interest, operates as a public evil, as it undoubtedly is a most destructive one, never do business in that way yourself, nor aid your friends in such illegal transactions.
On the other hand, should any one be of opinion that he can do himself or the public a benefit by pleading the statute in bar of a debt, we have not the least personal objection to his going into court and doing it. In that place, the circumstances relating to both debtor and creditor will be made to appear, and the injured party will not fail of obtaining justice.
But a discussion of the subject of usury upon general principles, is very different from personal, invective, and recriminations, when interwoven with private transactions.
KENNEBEC RIOT.
We understand that upon the high Sheriff of Kennebec county, having made application to Gen. Sewall for a military force to preserve the public tranquility, the men who had embodied to oppose the laws have mostly dispersed. When democracy held the government of this state, and the people were blessed with a democratic governor and council, a like attempt of the Sheriff of Kennebec, and the civil and military officers to preserve the peace, was deemed by the "people loving" rulers of that day, as evidence of corruption and want of patriotism, and sheriff Lithgow was dismissed from office for not countenancing mob-riotism.
It will soon be known whether Gov. GOSS and his Council will follow the patriotic example set by their democratic predecessors, and dismiss Sheriff Chandler and those who have assisted him, from office, because they have dared to support the laws of the state.
MILITARY.
On Friday last the Portland regiment, under the command of Capt. SAMUEL STEPHENSON, met on Fort-Hill in this town, for inspection and review. After a number of evolutions were gone thro' with, in which we learn much improvement has been made since the last year, and the troops inspected by Brigadier Gen. ALLEN, accompanied by other brigade officers, the regiment was dismissed to rest and refresh themselves. The officers and a number of invited guests, in the mean while partook of a cold collation provided for the purpose in the market. After which the regiment was again formed, the firings and other motions performed with much exactness, when the regiment was marched through the principal streets in town, and returned to the drill where, after receiving the thanks of the General and the commandant of the day, were dismissed at an early hour in harmony and with much apparent satisfaction at the proceedings of the day.—Thus terminated the first regimental review of the Militia of Portland, since they have been set off into a distinct regiment; and in a manner, too, highly honorable to its conductors.
What is a Tory?
The Aurora maintains that the selling of British Goods, is sufficient evidence of the vender being a Tory. Now let the rule work both ways. The editor of the Aurora keeps a bookstore, and vends British Books (certainly worse articles than dry goods) and it follows of course, that he must be a very great Tory.—Let the democrats consider the impositions practised on their understanding.— Freeman's Jour.
On Wednesday evening next, at 7 o'clock, a Discourse will be delivered before the Portland Benevolent Society, by the Rev. Mr. PAYSON, at Dr. Deane's Meeting-house—after which a contribution will be made.
No. 7, of the Monitor is received, but not in season for this day's paper. A Hint.—We would remind "A F—" who forwarded the military orders by mail from Brunswick, that we have no objection to receiving such papers provided he will not have the meanness to tax us with postage. We received the orders more than a week since in the Augusta paper, and the tenor of them was noticed in our paper of Monday last.
Married,
In Haverhill, (Mass.) Moses Merrill, Esq. of New-Gloucester, to Miss Rebecca Ingalls, of the former place. In Boston, Mr. William Simonds, editor of the Rhode-Island Republican, to Miss Clarisa Gardner.
Died,
At Concord, (N. C.) Dolly Udy, by hanging herself by a bandanna handkerchief to the limb of a peach tree. It appears that this unhappy girl was very young left an orphan, and without a mind fortified by education, was left to her own guidance. She became the victim of seduction, yet retained so much of the pride of human nature that when her situation could no longer be concealed, she declared her resolution of escaping the scoffs of an unfeeling world by destroying herself. Accordingly, soon after imparting this design, she was found in the situation we have described.
At Jonesborough, (N. Y.) JOHN THURMAN, Esq. killed by a bull while in the act of feeding him. At Salisbury (N. H.) Mr. JAS. JAMIESON, aged 20; by drinking a mixture of oil vitriol, instead of rum and water. In this town, Mrs. Dorcas Noyes, aged 28, consort of Capt. Nathaniel Noyes.
Wanted is Charters. A good SCHOONER, of from 90 to 100 tons, for a voyage to the Southward, to be employed 12 or 16 months. Any one having a burthensome vessel of the above size will please apply to CHARLES & JOHN FOX, Long-Wharf, Portland. Oct. 16.
Goods—at reduced prices.
T. & A. Vinton, BEING about closing their business in this place, will sell the remainder of their Stock in Trade, at prices which cannot fail to suit purchasers.
All persons indebted to them, are called on to make immediate payment, or they will be under the necessity of leaving their demands with an Attorney for collection—those persons to whom they are indebted will please to call and receive their dues. October 16, 1809.
Last night of Mr. Rannie's Exhibition.
THIS EVENING, October 16, Mr. RANNIE will exhibit a great variety of Deceptions, as well as exert his Ventiloquistic powers, in a manner surpassing any thing of the kind ever displayed in Portland—at Concert-Hall, Fore Street. [For particulars, see Bills.]
TO LET,
A LARGE and convenient Two Story DWELLING-HOUSE, with eight convenient rooms, a good well of water, and sufficient cellar room for storing Wood, &c.—Rent low—for particulars inquire at this office. Portland, Oct 16
STRAYED OR STOLEN,
FROM the subscriber, out of a Pasture owned by Nathaniel Robbins, near Winthrop Mills, a dark chestnut colored HORSE, about six years old, with three white feet, the left ear cut off; a natural trotter—middling size. Whoever will give information of said Horse, shall be well rewarded by WILLIAM SAWYER. Greene, October 24, 1809 (16)
LOST,
IN Windham, on Tuesday last, near the training field, a Red Morocco POCKET-BOOK, containing sundry Notes of Hand, Receipts and other valuable papers—as payment of the notes has been stopped they can be of no value to any one but the owner—Whoever may have found said Pocket-Book and will deliver it with its contents at this Office, or to the subscriber in Gorham, shall be generously rewarded for their trouble. CALEB JEWETT. Gorham, Oct. 16.
Will be sold at Auction by order of Court, on THURSDAY the 23rd day of November next, at 10 o'clock A. M. at the Auction-Room of E. GREELT & Co. Fifth Street, Portland:
THAT valuable Estate, situated at Gray's Corner, 18 miles from Portland; consisting of a very convenient Two-Story House; three Barns; Horse Shed; and other Out-Houses; an excellent Aqueduct of water, newly put down, with about fifty acres of good Land—being the same premises Daniel Haney built and occupied some years since, and now occupied by Rufus Stoddard, for the same purpose.
Terms liberal—only one quarter of the purchase required on delivery of Deed, and the remainder in two, three, and four years, secured by Mortgage of the premises, and interest paid annually. Possession given in December next. For further particular's enquire of SAMUEL PARKMAN, Esq. Boston—or at the subscriber's Office, Middle-street, Portland. NATHAN KINSMAN. October 16, 1809
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that she has been duly appointed and has taken upon herself the trust of Administratrix on the estate of ELISHA MILLS, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, trader, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs—She therefore requests all persons who are indebted to the said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to SALLY MILLS. October 16, 1809.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that she has been duly appointed and has taken upon herself the trust of an Administratrix on the estate of DANIEL MOULTON, late of Scarborough, in the county of Cumberland, gentleman, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs—She therefore requests all persons who are indebted to the said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon to exhibit the same to HANNAH MOULTON. Oct 12th, 1809.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of administrator on the estate of ABEL SPALDING, late of Buckfield, in the county of Oxford, gentleman, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs—He therefore requests all persons who are indebted to the said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to BENJAMIN SPALDING Jr. Administrator. Buckfield, Sept 25th, 1809 (016)
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administratrix of the estate of GIDEON LARRABEE, late of Topsham, in the county of Lincoln, Hatter, deceased, and has undertaken that trust by giving bond as the law directs—All persons, therefore, having demands against the estate of said deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement, and all indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment. LUCY LARRABEE, Adm. in fact. Topsham, October 24, 1809. (16)

POETRY.
Boney's Proclamation; or BAGTHEL JOEY OR I.
A NEW SONG.
IN BONY the Great, in my grand usurp'd state, I order by this here Proclamation; And thereby ordain, that the people of Spain, Shall submit to our Joe's usurpation. But if they refuse To accord with my views, And with regeneration comply; Then I'd have them know, Instead of King Joe, They shall have no King d—me but I.
When arriv'd at the crown, I'll vengeance pour down, And overwhelm them in torrents of evil, For by "the King," all Patriots shall swing, And the And the people shall find me a devil. That foundrel Cevallos, Shall go to the gallows, For exposing my plotting to fly; And their Nobles, God wot, When caught, shall be shot, For rejecting our Joey and I.
Those curs'd British clans, that mar all my plans And thwart e'en my deepest inventions, From Spain soon shall vanish, then I'll touch the Spanish, And punish them for their contentions. My wrath I will lease, On the vile Portuguese, For crossing my purposes high; And my object to gain, Make a desert of Spain, For despoiling our Joey and I.
Miscellaneous Selections.
Horrid Cruelty of the French.
Though much has been said of the atrocities of the French armies in the countries of which they have had a temporary occupation, the detail of their conduct would excite the utmost degree of horror, and almost exceed belief, notwithstanding all that is known of their depravity. — The excesses they committed in Portugal were, if possible, particularly flagitious. — Their behaviour at Oporto, of which we have seen an authentic recital, may be fairly considered as a sample of their conduct in general. In one house they deprived the master of all his property, and afterwards murdered him & his servants in cool blood, but not before they had committed the most enormous outrages on his three daughters. In another house, a girl of ten years of age, was the victim, of the horrible violence of a gang of these villains, but the circumstances are too shocking to be related. — An old Lady, who had not been able to leave her house, could not in age and infirmity find a protection against the capricious licentiousness of another herd of ruffians. — The chief part of the females deserted the city, and did not dare return, until they heard the French were driven away. Many Ladies, who never had walked a hundred yards in their lives once, sought a refuge in the woods from the wanton violence that assailed them, without shoes and stockings, and were lamentable spectacles when they durst venture home. The monsters tied the poor Portuguese back to back, and hung them on the trees by the road side. Even little children were not spared, but were, in barbarous sport, scratched and scored by their bayonets. Men were stripped naked in the open streets, and deprived of their clothes, yet were happy if they were permitted to escape with no worse a fate. In short, the town was given up to plunder for three days, and the miscreants made use of their power without any restraint of humanity. The wreck of furniture which they could not remove would have prevented a pitiable scene of devastation, if the minds of the unfortunate inhabitants had not been occupied by terror and despair. At one house the ruffians loaded themselves with copper, at another with silver, and another with gold, and where nothing more valuable could be found, they took bed linen, curtains, and indeed every thing that came within their reach, destroying whatever they were unable to remove, as if to leave the most dreadful impression, and which may serve as a tremendous lesson to teach the people courage to defend their country on all future occasions, particularly against the French. — Lon. Gap.
THE 5000 SEAMEN!
The French editors in their infamous attempts to justify their master Napoleon in plundering and burning our ships, imprisoning our seamen, &c. assert that British ships of
war have impressed and now have on board FIVE THOUSAND American Seamen! A curious kind of consolation this! But what a home insult these Frenchmen give the late administration. In the correspondence about a year since, Mr. Munroe, late minister at London, tells Mr. Jefferson in plain terms, that the British government made propositions, which had been accepted, would have both secured our seamen and been honorable to our country! Yet according to the Democrats, the administration have suffered 5000 of their native fellow citizens to linger out a miserable existence on board of foreign vessels of war, without making one generous effort to relieve them! What a fine government we must have! Five thousand of our countrymen forced into foreign service in defiance of a great, powerful, free and independent nation! What an honor to the democrats and the party in power! Who wants further proof of the wisdom and energy of Jefferson's administration? And to cap all, the cholera of the age arose so high, that he refused to obtain their release, even on honorable terms!
The truth is, British men of war have been suffered to impress too many of our seamen, though the number has been monstrously exaggerated. We justify neither British impressments nor French captures. Nor do we conceive that a wise government would so long have suffered them, when according to Mr. Munroe, impressments at least might have been so easily and honorably prevented. — Independent American.
Dean Swift had a great aversion against angling. Being asked by a little girl what a fish-rod was, he replied, "it means, my dear, a long stick, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other."
FOR SALE,
A PEW in Messrs. Kellogg & Payson's meeting house—For terms inquire at this Office. October 2.
FOR SALE,
A PEW No. 127, in the Gallery of the Rev. Doct. Deane's meeting house—For further particulars inquire at this Office. October 2.
WANTED,
A Steady YOUNG WOMAN, to do house work, to whom good encouragement will be given by applying to JOSEPH SHELTON. Portland, Oct. 2.
Hatfield Bridge Lottery. CLASS SIXTH.
12,000 Tickets, at 5 Dollars each, are 60,000 Dollars.   1 Prize of 8,000 Dollars, is dols. 8,000  2 do. 1250 are 2,500  2 do. 1000 - - - 2,000  3 do. 500 - - - 1,500  62 do. 100 - - - 6,200  66 do. 50 - - - 3,300  100 do. 20 - - - 2,000  200 do. 10 - - - 2,000  3,573 do. 7 - - - 25,011  4,009 52,511   Subject to no deduction, and not two blanks to a prize.—A part of the above prizes will be drawn in the following manner, viz.—  The first drawn blank on the 3d days drawing will be entitled to dols. 500   do on the 6th - - - 1000  do on the 9th - - - 500  do on the 12th - - - 1000  do on the 15th - - - 500   do on the 18th { to 250 Tickets from } 1250 { No. 1001 to No. 1,250, inclusive. }  do on the 21st { 250 Tickets from } 1250 { No. 6,001 to No. 6,250, inclusive. }  do on the 24th { 250 Tickets from } 1250 { No. 6,250 to No. 6,500, inclusive. }  Five hundred numbers will be considered a days drawing, and the above capital prizes determined accordingly.  The drawing shall commence in Boston in November next.  The Prize of 8,000 dollars shall be paid in ninety days; those over 100 dollars in sixty days; all others in thirty days, in bills usually current in Massachusetts.  Tickets will rise to five dollars and fifty cents, fifteen days previous to the drawing. Prizes not demanded in one year will not be paid, but be considered as generously given for the object of the Lottery.  SAMUEL PORTER, ELIJAH DICKINSON, ISAAC ABERCROMBIE, SAMUEL F. DICKINSON, JOHN HASTINGS, Jun. July 1809. [O 2]
THE Copartnership of CALVIN & DAVID FARRAR, was by mutual consent dissolved the 5th inst. — All persons indebted to the firm are requested to call on David Farrar, for settlement, who is authorized to adjust the demands against the firm.  CALVIN FARRAR, DAVID FARRAR, Waterford, Sept. 24, 1809.
David Farrar,
Respectfully informs the public that he has purchased the Stock in Trade of C. & D. FARRAR, and that business will be transacted as formerly. — He solicits a share of public patronage. G. 2.
ASA JORDAN, INFORMS his friends and the public that he has removed his Shop to the Shop lately occupied by Asa Foss, next door above the Maine Bank, where he intends carrying on the  Box and Shoe-Making Business, in its various branches. He warrants the articles which he manufactures to be as good as any in Boston or elsewhere. Portland, October 9, 1809.
DR. REES'
NEW CYCLOPEDIA, Vol. X. Part 1st and 2d, and Vol. XI. part 1st, are in the possession of the subscriber, and will be delivered to subscribers in the District of Maine, at Store No. 23, Long-Wharf.  THOMAS CROSS. Portland, Oct. 9, 1809.
Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Company.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. THE Stockholders of said Company are hereby notified, that the Directors have made an ASSESSMENT of Ten Dollars on each Share in their Capital Stock, which is to be paid to their Secretary, at their Office in Portland, at two installments, viz. Fifteen Dollars on each Share to be paid on or before the 4th day of September next, and the remaining sum of Twenty Dollars to be paid on or before the 4th day of November next.  By order of the President and Directors. ILLIA MORSE, Secretary. M. F. & M. Insurance Office. July 12, 1809.
Benevolent Society.
THE members of Portland Benevolent Society are hereby notified that their annual meeting for the choice of Officers, &c. is adjourned to Wednesday the 18th of October current, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, then to be held at the Office of the Hon. Samuel Freeman, Esq. in Portland; and an Oration or Discourse, will be pronounced, at 7 o'clock in the evening, by the Rev. Mr. Parsons, after which there will be a contribution for the benefit of the Society.  STEPHEN LONGFELLOW, Twn. S. y. Oct. 4, 1809.
NOTICE!
THIS is the last notice which will be given to those that are indebted to the firm of LITTLE & BARKER, either by note or account. They will be sued unless settled before the term of suing-time is expired at November term. This is the last time of asking.  CHARLES BARKER. Falmouth, Oct. 9, 1809.
WANTED,
A FEW tons heavy FREIGHT on board ship THOMAS, for Baltimore.—Apply at No. 12 Union Wharf.
TO LET,
The HOUSE in Middle-street adjoining Mr. Thomas Hopkins' and lately occupied by Mr. Thomas Webster. Also, the Eagle Tavern (so called) in Clay-cove, and a handsome two story HOUSE in Love Lane.—Apply as above. Oct. 9.
WANTED.
TWO good NEW MILCH COWS, for which cash will be given.—Also, two or three Hundred Bushels of good POTATOES. Enquire of CHARLES & JOHN FOX. October 9th.
GOOD QUARTERS.
TO Let—a HOUSE, conveniently situated on Pleasant Street, with a very large Garden, Yard, and suitable out Buildings—Rent low, and immediate possession given, by Oct. 9, 1809 N. KINSMAN.
POST-RIDERS NOTICE.
ALL those indebted to the Post-Rider, for postage of their Papers, on the route from Portland through Farmfield to Berwick, are requested to make immediate payment.  TOPPAN SAWYER. October 9th, 1809
A good Stand for Trade.
TO Let—The HOUSE & STORE, lately occupied by Wm. R. & C. Stockbridge, a few rods from the Wharves.—enquire of Wm. R. STOCKBRIDGE, on the premises! North Yarmouth, Oct. 9, 1809
Boarding Wanted,
FOR a Gentleman and his Lady, during the Winter, in some respectable private family.—A line directed to A. B. and left at the Gazette Office, and the terms, will receive due notice. Oct. 9th.
TAKEN up on the twentieth of September last, THREE STRAY OXEN, two of which are red, the other brownish, with a white face. The owner may have them by proving property and paying charges.  ANDREW HODSDON. Falmouth, Oct. 9th, 1809
WE the subscribers have been appointed Commissioners to examine and allow the claims of the several Creditors to the estate of the late  ANTHONY LIBBY, do hereby give notice, that we will attend that Service at the late Dwelling House of the deceased, in Scarborough, on the last Saturday of the six following months, from nine o'clock in the morning.  W. VAUGHAN, } Commissioners. MOSES LIBBY. September 27th, 1809 (O 9)
Batchelor Hussy
HAS for sale, on liberal terms, a quantity of Spermæti Candles & Oil, of a good quality.—Also, Whale Oil, by retail.  NATHAN KINSMAN. Portland, October 2.
WANTED,
AS an Apprentice to the Tailoring Business, a Lad of steady habits, from 13 to 15 years of age, to whom good encouragement will be given.—Apply to SAMUEL WATSON.  BOOKS. In the various branches of Literature, for sale at the Bookstore of ISAAC ADAMS.
NEW BOOKS. JUST received and for sale at the Portland Book-Store, No. 5, Middle's Row.  The Child of Thirty-Six Fathers—a serious, comic and moral romance—translated from the French.  Celebs in search of a Wife—comprehending observations on domestic habits and manners, religion, and morals.  Edgar Huntley—or memoirs of a night-walker.  Ramsey's Life of Washington.  Curran's Speeches—a new edition in two vols.—containing the Speeches of Grattan—Erskine and Burke—with a brief sketch of the History of Ireland, and a Biographical account of Curran.
ADDITIONAL LAW BOOKS. Judge Bay's Reports of cases argued and determined, in the Supreme Court of Law, in the State of South Carolina, since the Revolution—Vol. 1st, price 6 dols. in cash—also, Vol. 2d, Reports, of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Errors, of the State of Connecticut, in the years 1805—6 and 7—by Thomas Dey, Counselor at Law—price 5 dols. Saunders' Reports, and Chafe's Trial.  Maps of the United States, glazed and on rollers.
Dr. Rees' Cyclopedia. THE subscribers for Dr. Rees' Cyclopedia in the District of Maine, are informed, that DANIEL JOHNSON, is the only and exclusive Agent, by contract with the publishers, for delivering them to subscribers in this part of the State—and although THOMAS CROSS had advertised that he has the possession of three Half Volumes, which he will deliver, the subscribers are hereby notified, that should they receive the numbers of any other than the said Johnson, they must nevertheless consider themselves as bound to pay the amount to him, and that no other than his receipt, will be considered as exonerating them from a second payment.  Portland, Oct. 9, 1809.
E. Greely & Co. Horses for sale, 13 Cheeks Young Wagon TEA 17 do. Bales TEA 98 pieces Ravens Duck. October 2.
Excellent English Hats. William M'Lellan, Jun. HAS just opened for sale on very reasonable terms, a Box of English Hats. Likewise—A large assortment of gilt FRAMED LOOKING GLASSES—together with a general supply of English and European Goods, cheap for cash. October 2.
NEW GOODS. JUST received from Philadelphia, by HOW & EVANS, at their Store in Middle-street, 100 Boxes 7 by 9 Glass 55 cases 6d. 8d. 10d. 12d. 20d fine rope English Nails 2 bhd. Gals Ware 400 gals. Linseed Oil 20 casks White Lead 4 do Red Lead The above being a consignment, will be sold as low as can be purchased in Boston. Oct. 2.
Benjamin Whitwell. OF Augusta, having formed a connection in business with JOHN POTTER, gives notice, that all business entrusted to their care as Attorneys at Law, will be faithfully attended to by them at the Office lately occupied by Whitwell & Fuller. All persons who are indebted to the late firm of WHITWELL & FULLER, and all who have demands against said firm are requested to make immediate settlement at the above place.  BENJ. WHITWELL. Augusta, Sept. 21, 1809. (Oct 2)
SESSION BUSINESS. BY the direction of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cumberland, I hereby give notice, to all concerned, that at the next term of said Court they will not attend to any business common called Sessio Business, (viz such as respects Licenses, Roads, &c) until Wednesday in the second week of said term—Those persons, who may have such business at said Court, need not therefore, attend until that day.  SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk. October 2.
C. & J. Fox, OFFER FOR SALE, VERY LOW, 20 Hogheads first quality CODFISH, ready packed and in excellent order for shipping. —ALSO— Ship Chandlery and Naval Stores. September 11. (Gw)
To the Police of Portland. WOULD it not be well to cause some regulation whereby our night walking gentry might be taken care of? — These courageous, manly and heroic fellows, who nobly go about in the night time bearding Signs, taking down and misplacing them, taking Gascon from front yards, sneaking into a neighbor's Coach yard and drawing away his carriages and running them off of Wharves, girdling fruit and ornamental trees. Most noble fellows, you deserve well of your country, and no doubt will sooner or later meet with your reward in Newgate or the State's prison. To assist in the detection of these mean, cowardly, dirty, dastardly tricks, FIFTY DOLLARS is offered as a reward to any one who will furnish evidence whereby the villain or villains who took the subscriber's sign from his office on Saturday evening last, may be brought to justice.  NATHAN KINSMAN. Portland, October 2.
WANTED, AS an Apprentice to the Tailoring Business, a Lad of steady habits, from 13 to 15 years of age, to whom good encouragement will be given.—Apply to SAMUEL WATSON.
Doct. Ramsay's Lectures AT Bowdoin College. THE Trustees and Overseers having appropriated rooms in the College for the purpose, Dr. RAMSAY has consented to remove his Museum to Bowdoin and to give a course of ANATOMICAL LECTURES in the College. It is hoped that this singular opportunity of acquiring a minute knowledge of the structure and physiology of the human system, will be improved by every gentleman who may be desirous of acquiring a knowledge, or perfecting his researches in this important branch of science. The Lectures will commence on the 21st day of October next. Gentlemen who wish to become subscribers will apply at Capt. Ebbets' or Mr. O'Neil's Public Houses in Brunswick, where subscriptions are open.  The above Lectures will be completed in three weeks from their commencement. Sept. 1809.
FOR SALE, THAT valuable Estate situated in North-yarmouth, twelve miles from Portland, and about one hundred rods from the head of the tide in North-yarmouth, lying on the Post Road from Portland to Wiscasset, and has been occupied by the subscriber for a number of years past. Said Estate consists of a very convenient three-story House, a Stable, Barn, Shed, and other out houses, with a good well of water, and an aqueduct leading to the house, with about one hundred and ten acres of excellent Land, having a young Orchard on the same, said Farm is under excellent improvement.  —ALSO— A FARM in the town of Freeport, at Frost's corner, so called, within one mile of Porter's landing, consisting of fifty-four acres of excellent land, a convenient Dwelling house, Barn, &c. Said Farm is under good improvement, is well watered, cuts about fifteen tons of Hay, and has an Orchard which bears considerable fruit yearly, and is well situated, either for a Farmer, Merchant or Mechanic.  The above Farms will be sold together or separate as may best suit the purchaser. For terms (which will be made easy) please to apply to the subscriber at North-yarmouth.  SETH MITCHELL. North-yarmouth, August 21, 1809. (t. f.)
FOR SALE, IN GORHAM, A two Story DWELLING-HOUSE, with a Barn and Out-Houses, and from ten to twenty-five acres of good LAND, with a small Orchard and good water, adjoining Presumpscot river, eleven miles from Portland—a convenient stand for a tavern, tradesman, or Mechanic.  Also—a good SAW-MILL; —A part or the whole of said property will be sold, as may best suit the purchaser—for a small part down, and a credit of four or seven years will be given if requested, for the remainder.—For further particulars inquire of JOSHUA SWETT, in said Gorham. (t. f.) July 24.
COLLEGE LANDS.
THE subscriber offers for sale, the following Tracts of LAND, belonging to Bowdoin College, the title to which is direct from the Government, viz.
IN FRYEBURG, Lot No. 35 1st Div. 53 acres, interval. 18 2d do. 25 do. do. 22 2d do. 54 do. upland. 10 3d do. 50 do. do. — 4th do. 50 do. do. 16 5th do. 60 or 70 do. do.
IN TURNER, Lot No. 31, 185 acres. 86, 125 do. 166, 150 do. 272, 125 do.
IN PARIS, Lot No. 27, 7th Range, } 400 28, 7th do. } acres 29, 8th do. } in all.
IN LIVERMORE, Lot No. 78, 100 acres. 98, 100 do. 149, 100 do.
IN OTISFIELD, Lot No. 116, 3d Div. 100 acres. 1, 2d R. 4th D. 100 do. 5, 8th R. 5th D. 100 do. 15.
The above Lands will be sold on a liberal credit, and Settlers now on any of the Lots will be accommodated if they wish it. For particulars, apply to the Subscriber, at his Office, in Middle-street, Portland.  PRENTISS MELLEN. July 24, 1809. (t. f.)
Thomas Hunter,
Watch and Clock-maker—No. 72, Free-street, PORTLAND. HAS for sale, an English patent linen MANGLE, well calculated for Inns and Boarding-houses, saving all labour of ironing. A large quantity of Men's and Children's SHOES, at low prices. London patent liquid and cake Blacking, and English shoe brushes, of a superior quality. Spectacles, to suit all ages. Reading Glasses; Razors; warranted Umbrellas and Parasols, made and repaired. Also—The above Premises to be sold, consisting of a Store, a House and Barn. July 17.
A FARM FOR SALE,
IN the town of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, consisting of one hundred and five acres of Land, of which thirty is interval, and lying on Presumpscot River, and five miles from the town of Portland, and on the post road that leads from Portland to Augusta, and into many of the back towns. Said Farm is conveniently situated for a Public House, with a large two story House and Barn, with out houses. The soil of said Farm is inferior to none.—Inquire of  OLIVER WINSLOW. Oct. 17. (t. f.)
Joseph Shelton,
OFFERS for Sale, at the Brick Store, at the Head of Union Wharf, 50 bbls first quality MESS PORK, 200 Bushels Connecticut CORN. Also, Groceries and Provisions, at retail as usual. Portland, Sept. 25, 1809.