Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1800-11-10 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 133]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1800.
[VOLUME III.]
Miscellany.
POLITICAL.
TO THE PUBLIC.
IT seems to be the lot of our Independence that the French never will let us alone to exercise and enjoy it. They tampered with old Doctor Franklin, and coaxed and wheedled him till they got him willing to accept a scrap of it for the country—a little dirty scrap, for the terms would have been such as to keep us poor and dependent on France. It was her sly policy to let Britain hold the Western territory, as that would keep the United States afraid of the English, and often at loggerheads with them. We were to be denied the fishery, that silver mine of New-England, where every Cod Fish swims with half a pistareen in his mouth, that nursery of seamen, our naval militia, that is destined to defend our commerce against either France or Britain. The true patriots Jay and Adams, whom neither flattery nor gold could buy, spurned at the idea and insisted on independence absolute and unlimited first, and then on the Western Territory and the Fisheries. They prevailed; but France saw in our weakness and dissensions after the peace, the means of making us her colonies. Accordingly she fomented by her emissaries (of whom she had some pensioned in the town of Boston) all the discontents that the confusions and distresses of the war so naturally left to ferment in the first period of peace. It is known that the French Minister made the most he could of the clamour about the communication to the army, and that he was even heard to say, that certain members of the old Congress who voted for it, would be turned out, and that certain persons would be their successors. So in fact it happened.
It is also remarkable that when our many sufferings and fears led the people to adopt the new constitution, every Frenchman, and every man in any connection with or dependence on the French agents in this country was anti-federal. If the French monarchy had stood, it would have manifested the same spirit with the republic, to meddle with our politics, though it is probable the forms of decency would have been rather more carefully observed. But it is the character, the interest and unchanging policy of France, to attempt to acquire and to exercise a controlling influence in our affairs. Our weakness, our animosities against Great Britain, and our divisions and parties, afforded her "diplomatic skill," the temptations and the means to effect this design. No matter who rules in France, whether King or Mob, it is alike her plan, and her pursuit to stir up a faction here, and to raise that faction up to control the government.—Thus she expects to wound and weaken Great Britain in her trade, thus she expects to procure supplies and protection to the ever defenceless French Islands. Accordingly, Genet came here with war instructions in his pocket, and lying protestation of peace on his lips. When coaxing and blustering and stirring up mobs in all our seaports, had been tried with an unexpected bad success, Mr. Adet published his blunderbuss, note full of sophistry, lies and impudence on the very week before the election of electors in Philadelphia. Then it was said by all the Jacobins, and by many who have been heartily ashamed of it since, that France was displeased with us on account of the British treaty, and that we must choose a President who would have an influence with the directory, and who would be able to avert a war.
Shameful as these ideas are, they worked like hidden poisons, and certainly turned some hundreds of votes to the jacobin ticket. Some hundreds more were gained by openly marching a rabble of Frenchmen, sailors and wretches without property, principle or country, to the Election ground in the Liberties of Philadelphia. This was done while the French flag waved over the shabby procession. It is well known that the election in Pennsylvania was turned against the federalists by a few hundreds only. Thus in fact France very nearly chose a President, for the 15 votes of that state would have prevented Mr. Adams from being chosen, had not luckily one in Virginia, and one in North Carolina, unexpectedly turned the scale, and saved the country.
Now it seems the same game is believed by the sly Talleyrand to be worth playing over again, and with better skill and more caution, to avoid the blunders of the last. It is for that reason, we are told that the negotiation is broken off on account of the British treaty, and this was intended to be announced here at the very crisis of the election.
It is coming, but it is detected cunning, thus to time, and thus to frame the reasons for breaking off the negotiation. It is evident that King Bonaparte thinks it wiser to bestow his real friendship on a Jacobin Chief, than on President Adams. It is evident that he expects a state of hostility will work the desired change in the Chief Magistracy of the United States. It is equally clear, that he calculates that it is cheaper too, to wait until we also have a First Consul on the 4th of March next; than to negotiate and promise compensation for captures, as if a Jacobin President should then come in, France
can have no need to make even promises, light as she makes them, to pay money or redress our injuries. So far from obligating herself to pay a farthing, she rather expects the Chief Consul of the American Republic, one, free, indivisible, (though divided) and dependant, like her Cisalpine Republic, would nominate in March next, and before the end of March would send Citizen Monroe on a new mission, and to assure King Equality, that we consider the sacrifices we make with France, as made for the cause of liberty, as a part payment of the debt of gratitude, and a proof, as well as a new cement of the affectionate ties that bind us to our sister France. This is only saying over again Monroe's very words. And Bonaparte will reply as before, that Citizen Monroe carried with him, when he left Paris, the regret of that nation, and that he seems to speak of our government, although he repeats Barras' tender professions of regard for the American people. Then the Citizen could offer to make loans to France for the cause of liberty.
After a retrospect of the scandalous facts, it is incredible, that in case of a Jacobin Presidency such would be the mission, and such the envoy. His stile and sentiments are too remarkable to be forgotten.
What then has this nation to do, but to assert that Independence which has been so incessantly disturbed and usurped by France, and to convince her, that her favor is fatal in the opinion of our citizens to any candidate. Let the people mark the men who are tools to her, let none such be Electors. Bost. Com. Gazette.
Late Foreign News.
By an arrival at Boston from Scotland, London papers to Sept. 29 have been received.
Some prospect of Peace.
The General in Chief to His Royal Highness the Archduke John, Commanding the Austrian Army.
"Head quarters: Nymphenbourg, Sept. 18, in the 8th Year of the French Republic, one and indivisible."
"General in Chief—I have this instant received by the Telegraph the answer of the Government to the dispatches of which its Courier was the bearer from Vienna. I cannot communicate to you in a more satisfactory manner the orders which it has transmitted to me than by literally transcribing them. "Announce to the Commander in Chief of the Austrian Army, that the Emperor refuses to ratify the Preliminaries of Peace, and that you are compelled to recommence hostilities. You may, however, consent to an armistice for a month, if the enemy instantly surrenders to you places of security. M. de Lehbach is immediately to be furnished with passports." You see, General, that the intentions of the First Consul are conspicuously manifested in favor of peace, since the renewal of hostilities depends only on the ratification of the Treaty of Preliminaries concluded with M. de St. Julien; and that he thinks it his duty not to expose himself to endless diplomatic discussions without securities for the sincerity of our enemy's intentions. I have charged the General of Brigade Lahorie, to proceed to the advanced posts of the army under my command, for the purpose of requiring of you, the places of security for which new conjectures justify us in making the demand. Should the propositions which he has to submit to you be rejected, hostilities will be resumed after to-morrow, at break of day (the Third Complementary Day, Sept. 20)—I beg your Royal Highness will receive the assurance of the high consideration with which I am, &c, (A true Copy) (Signed) MOREAU.
Convention for a Prolongation of the Suspension of Arms between the French army of the Rhine and the army of His Imperial Majesty in Germany.
The Count de Lehbach, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Imperial Majesty, with his army in Germany, and the Baron de Lauer, General of the armies of his Majesty on the one part, and the General of Brigade of the French army of the Rhine, Victor Fancan Lahorie, on the other part, respectively charged with full powers necessary to conclude and sign a Convention relative to a prolongation of the suspension of arms, have agreed to the following articles:
Article 1. His Imperial Majesty and King, in consequence of the demand of the First Consul of the French Republic, and with a view of giving a proof of his desire to check the calamities of war, consents that the places of Philippsburg, Ulm, and the fortresses, which depend upon it, with the place of Ingolstadt, which are comprehended within the line of demarcation, fixed by the Convention of the 15th of July last (the 26th Messidor) shall be given up to the disposition of the French army, as a pledge of his intentions.
2. The garrisons in the places shall freely depart with every thing belonging to them, and join the Imperial army in Germany.
3. The evacuation of the above places, both with respect to the troops and military stores of all kinds, is to take place within the space of ten days at farthest. For the purposes, there shall be furnished by the French army all the conveniences and facilities in their power to transport the articles of every kind, which shall be defrayed at the expence of his Majesty the Emperor and King.
With respect to the possession of the places, there shall be delivered to the disposition of the French army in the course of five days, one of the posts on the grand communications—The choice shall be determined by Delegates who shall be immediately sent with the utmost dispatch, to ascertain the state of it.
4. The military stores, provisions and the military waggons shall be equally evacuated, as shall the artillery, with the exception of that of the Empire. The latter will be ascertained and certified by Deputies named to the effect.
5. The mode of the conveyance and evacuation of these places shall be determined with the shortest delay by a particular Convention, as well as the evacuation of the sick who cannot be sent off with the garrison.
6. In order to carry into effect the above mentioned regulations, there shall be a prolongation of the armistice, and suspension of hostilities between the army of his Imperial Majesty and King, and his allies, and the army of the French Republic on the Rhine, of forty-five days, to commence from to-morrow, in which are to be comprehended fifteen days, to serve as notice for the resumption of hostilities, should they take place.
7. The Commander in Chief of the army of the Rhine engages to procure the immediate cessation of hostilities, with respect to the army of the French Republic in Italy, should the renewal of them have taken place.
8. The line of demarcation fixed by the Convention of the 15th of last July (26th Messidor) is preserved in all its details under the modifications in the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th Articles as before and hereafter recited.
9. The French army of the Rhine shall fall back and take a position between the two banks of the Iser, and the Imperial army of Germany shall take post on both banks of the Inn, each at the distance of 3000 toises, whether from these rivers or the places situated on their course. A chain of advanced posts shall only be placed on the line of demarcation, as fixed by the Convention of the 15th of last July (26th Messidor.)
10. The dispositions of the said Convention shall be executed in every arrangement that is not contrary to the present. The 8th Article of the Convention of the 15th of July, is not only applicable to the inhabitants of the places above mentioned in all its points, but the Commander in Chief is at the same time invited to take into his consideration the situation to which the inhabitants have been reduced by the calamities of war.
11. The present Convention shall be dispatched by couriers to all the Commanders of the Corps of the respective armies, both in Italy and Germany with the greatest expedition, that hostilities may not only be and continue suspended, but that the articles of it may be executed immediately within the term absolutely necessary, with respect to the different distances.
12. Deputies shall be appointed by the Commanders in Chief of both armies, in order to carry into effect the Articles of the present Convention.
Concluded, duplicates being interchanged, at Hohenlindem, the 20th September (third Complementary Day of the year 8.) (Signed)
Count DE LEHBACH, LAUER, Gen. of his Imperial Majesty. V. F. LAHORIE.
PARIS, SEPT. 23.
Note communicated by the Minister of the Interior to the Citizens assembled in the Temple of Mars, for the purpose of celebrating the festival of the Republic.
The First Consul to the Public Functionaries, sent from the Departments.
"Preliminaries of Peace were signed at Paris on the 28th of July, between Citizen Talleyrand, Minister of Exterior Relations, and the Count St. Julien. These were ratified within twenty-four hours by the Consuls. Citizen Duroc was charged with conveying them to Vienna. The intrigues of the Faction hostile to Peace, which still appeared to enjoy some credit there, prevented the Emperor from ratifying them. The motive of this refusal was stated to be that of a Note from the King of England, demanding to have his Envoys admitted to the Congress of Luneville, conjointly with the Plenipotentiaries of the Emperor. From that moment the government was obliged to break the Armistice and the remainder of the autumn might not be lost in idle conferences. General Moreau was ordered to acquaint the General of the enemy with the preliminaries, the same that appeared in the Official Journal; and to inform him, that if they were not ratified within twenty four hours, or if the Emperor wanted further explanations, the three garrisons of Ulm, Ingolstadt and Philippsburg, should be given up to the French Army, otherwise hostilities should be recommenced. The government has also informed the King of England that it sees no inconvenience in admitting his Envoys to the Congress of Luneville, if he should consent to a maritime truce, which presents to France the same advantages which the Emperor enjoys by the
continuation of the Continental Truce. The government has received by the telegraph the news, that his Majesty the Emperor has consented to deliver up Ulm, Ingolstadt, and Philippsburg, which places are now occupied by the troops of the Republic; and that Count Lehbach, furnished with the necessary powers from his Majesty the Emperor, is at the headquarters of Altoffing, with orders to repair to Luneville. The difficulties naturally arising from the conditions of a Maritime Truce, must necessarily cause some delay; but if the two governments should not agree to the conditions of this Truce, in that case France and his Imperial Majesty will treat separately for a peace, on the basis of Preliminaries. And if the English party (which there is no reason to suppose) should again be able to influence the Ministers of Vienna, neither the snow, nor the rigour of the season shall then retard the progress of the troops of the Republic; but they will prosecute the war to the utmost extremity, during the whole of the winter, without giving the enemy time to form new armies. These are the principles of the government; extreme moderation in its conditions; but a determined resolution specially to pacify the continent. The most vigorous measures are taken to second the will of the people in this essential object. These are all the secret politics of their government."
Who could describe the transports produced by the reading of this Address? Who could give an idea of the shouts of "Vive la Republique Vive BONAPARTE!" which resounded from every quarter?
Preliminaries of Peace between France and Austria.
HIS Majesty the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, &c, and the First Consul of the Republic, in the name of the French People, equally animated with the desire of putting a term to the evils of the war, by a prompt, just, and solid Peace, have agreed upon the following articles:
Art. 1. There shall be peace, friendship, and good understanding between His Majesty the Emperor and King, and the French Republic.
II. Until the conclusion of a Definitive Treaty, the armies both in Italy and Germany, shall respectively remain in the position which they are, without extending their positions more to the south of Italy. On his side, his Imperial Majesty engages to concentrate all the forces he may have in the States of the Pope, in the fortress of Ancona; to put an end to the extraordinary Levy which is making in Tuscany; and to prevent all dearktion of the enemies of the French at Leghorn, or any other point of the coast.
III. The Treaty of Campo Formio shall be taken as the basis of the definitive pacification, excepting however the changes become necessary.
IV. His Imperial Majesty does not oppose the French Republic keeping the limits of the Rhine, such as they were agreed upon at Rastadt, i. e. the left bank of the Rhine, from the spot where the Rhine leaves the territory of Smisserland, to the point where it enters the territory of the Batavian Republic; and engages moreover to cede to the French Republic the Sovereignty and property of the Frickthal, and all that belongs to the house of Austria between Zurach and Basle.
V. The French Republic is not understood to keep Cassel, Kehl, Ehrenbreitstein, and Dusseldorf. These places will be razed, of condition there shall not be reared on the right bank of the Rhine, and for the distance of three miles from either of them, any fortifications, either in stone-work or in earth.
VI. The indemnities which his Imperial Majesty the Emperor and King is to have in Germany, in virtue of the secret articles of Campo Formio, shall be taken in Italy; and therefore it shall be reserved until the definitive treaty, to agree on the position and the quota of the said indemnities: nevertheless it shall be established as the basis that his Imperial Majesty the Emperor and King shall possess, besides the country which had been granted to him in Italy by the treaty of Campo Formio, an equivalent to the possession of the Archbishopric of Salzburg, the river of the Inn and the Sbra, and the Tyrol, comprising the Wallerburgh, on the left bank of the Inn, within a circuit of 3000 toises, and the Frickthal, which he cedes to the French Republic.
VII. The ratifications of the present Preliminary Articles, shall be exchanged at Vienna before Aug. 15.
VIII. Immediately after the exchange of the ratifications, the negotiations for a definitive peace shall continue: both sides shall agree upon a place for negotiations; the plenipotentiaries shall be there in twenty days at the latest after the exchange.
IX. His Majesty the Emperor and King, and the First Consul of the French Republic, reciprocally engage their word of honor, to keep the present articles secret till ratification.
X. The powers of M. de St. Julien being contained in a letter from the Emperor to the First Consul, the full powers invested with the usual formalities, shall be exchanged with the

ratification of the present preliminaries, which shall not bind the respective governments till after the ratification.
We the undersigned have agreed upon and signed the present preliminaries, at Paris, July 28, 1800.
(Signed) COUNT DE ST. JULIEN. C. M. TALLEYRAND.
Fresh Foreign News.
By the arrival of the ship Nabby, capt. Crandal at this port, in 28 days from Liverpool, we have received the London Observer, of Sept. 28, and the Star, of October 2d. six days latest; from which the following interesting extracts are made. We leave the reader to make his own comments.
FRANCE.
ACTS OF GOVERNMENT.
2 VENDÉMIAIRE. SEPT. 26.
Bonaparte, Chief Consul of the Republic, decrees as follows:
I. Citizen Clarke, General of Division, is appointed Commandant Extraordinary of Luneville, and of all the department of la Meurthe.
II. In all public affairs concerning this District he shall correspond directly with Government.
III. Measures shall be taken that a correspondence may be carried on with Luneville by means of the telegraph.
IV. General Clarke shall repair immediately to Luneville, and take the necessary steps for the holding of a Congress.
V. The Minister at War is charged with the execution of the present decree.
The Chief Consul, (Signed) BONAPARTE. By the Chief Consul, (Signed) H B MARAT. Secretary of State.
PARIS. SEPT. 24.
It is worth while to remark, that, on the 1st Vendémiaire, there were not at Paris more than 2500 troops of the line, including the gendarmerie, yet no circumstance could have afforded more food for public curiosity, attracted a greater crowd nor given rise to larger assemblies. More than 200,000 spectators were collected in the amphitheatres of the Champ de Manoeuvres, without the least tumult, or the slightest accident having disturbed the games, or occasioned a tear to be shed amidst the public joy. The same calm, the same order subsisted the evening before, when all the theatres were opened gratis. The Chief Consul was at the Theatre de la République, where it was supposed there were not less than 15,000 persons in the Theatre, the corridors and under the porticos.
The people saw with much satisfaction that the Consuls and their suite were on horseback at the gate, instead of being shut up in carriages. If they had not known that those who governed them were labouring for their good, they would have been very indifferent about the manner in which they appeared in public.
The august manner in which the Chief Consul contemplated for some minutes the remains of Turenne, when he was going out of the Temple on the 1st Vendémiaire, did not escape the public attention. It was remarked that this movement of magnanimous virtue made such an impression upon some of the soldiers that they spontaneously fell upon their knees. It is generally allowed that the mausoleum of Turenne is better seen than at St. Denis. The rapidity of the execution has not injured the perfection of the work.
We learn that the Spanish Government has imposed new restrictions and duties on foreign merchandise.
An account from Bourdeaux, dated the 21st, mentions, that 27 ships have arrived there from several parts of the coast, bordering on that port. They were loaded with corn, flour, iron, and other articles. The approach of the equinox has caused the English ships to keep away from that part of the coast.
In addition to the contribution of 500,000 Livres imposed on the Palatinate, Moreau sent an order, a few days ago, to the Elector's Council to provide for the subsistence of the 10,000 men forming the blockade of Philipsburg. The prolongation of the armistice will, however, relieve the Palatinate from this burden; and it is truly fortunate, both for the inhabitants of the Electorate and the garrison of the place, that the armistice has been prolonged; for the latest accounts state, that for two days the fort was very closely blockaded, that the post was not permitted to enter, that from 30 to 40 of the besieged died every day, and that about one half of them were sick and unfit for service.
SEPT. 27.
We have received from our Correspondent at Calais a letter, dated the 23d, containing the following particulars:—Yesterday, at twelve in the morning, an English flag of truce brought over two dispatches, the one directed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the other to the Minister of Marine. They were instantly forwarded to Paris by a Courier Extraordinary, who will reach that city this evening. Nothing has yet transpired respecting the subject of these dispatches.—Journal de Commerce.
ing has yet transpired respecting the subject of these dispatches.—Journal de Commerce.
We learn from Reims that some Chouans have again made their appearance in several Cantons, but they do not appear to reckon on the success of new enterprise.
We are informed by letters from Madrid, dated 20th Fructidor (Sept. 7) that General Berthier arrived there on the 16th, at ten in the evening. As he proceeded to the hotel prepared for his reception, he was followed by an immense concourse of people, all eager to see him, and martial music played as he alighted from his carriages. He left Madrid next day, to go to St. Ildefonso; as he passed thro' the city shouts of applause resounded from every corner. On his arrival at Ildefonso, he was presented by the Ambassador Alquier, to M. d'Urquijo, Chief Secretary of State, who has on every occasion shown himself a steady friend to the French. General Berthier then went to Court, and was presented to the King and Queen, by both of whom he was received with the most distinguished marks of honor.
CORUNNA. SEPT. 5.
The English, after having made truce at tempis on Ferrol and Corunna, at length appeared before Virgo. They entered the bay, and cannonaded the forts; but the resistance which they met with was such as to defeat their intention of landing. The privateer la Guepe, of Bordeaux, was under the protection of the batteries; but at night she was attacked by a number, against which she fought desperately, and was at length boarded, and carried off. The English squadron and convoy are still off the Bay, to the number of 87 sail.
STOCKHOLM. SEPT. 7.
The courier who carried to Copenhagen the answer of the Court of Peterburgh, passed through Stockholm. It was then that the Swedish Cabinet had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the ideas of PAUL I. respecting the quarrel between England and Denmark. His answer was not as reported, recommending a pacific disposition or a slow cautious conduct. On the contrary, he advised Denmark to remain firm, and to put itself at the head of an armed neutrality in the North. Almost at the same time we received an account of the condescending transaction which Denmark had concluded with the English Ambassador. This intelligence, so different from what was expected, has occasioned here great uneasiness, and even some displeasure: our young Monarch appears to be much affected by it.—Journal des Défenseurs de la patrie.
HAGUE. SEPT. 22.
They work with redoubled activity in all the ports of the Batavian Republic, upon the arming and construction of new vessels of all rates. The Dutch marine will soon be upon a more formidable footing than at any former period. It is true that these labours produce a considerable increase of expense, and of course of taxes; but what proves that public spirit is yet far from being extinguished among the Dutch is, that the taxes, burthen some as they are, are paid with equal zeal and exactness.
STUTTGARD. SEPT. 17.
Last night a French courier passed through Kandal, on his way from Kehl to Bavaria. It is reported that he carries the First Consul's answer to the last declaration of the court of Vienna, which Montague, the Cabinet messenger, carried to Paris. He likewise brings orders for Moreau, conformable to the nature of the answer. We learn from Kempten, that General Lecourbe arrived there from Straubing on the evening of the 14th. The garrison of Ulm consists of the two Austrian regiments of Kerpen and Lurray, four battalions of Bavarian Palatines, two regiments of the circle of Suabia, one of Cologne, a part of the regiment of the circle of Baden, some squadrons of cavalry, and corps of artillerymen, sappers, miners, &c.
ENGLAND.
LONDON. SEPT. 28.
The Mail of Friday possessed us of letters from the combined British and Turkish fleet, off Alexandria, dated the 9th July. Sir Sidney Smith had sent Lieut. Wright, of Le Tigre, to Cairo, charged with dispatches to Gen. Menou, and the Allies waited with solicitude the answer.
The Grand Vizier was encamped with about 30,000 men at Jaffa, and was actively engaged in preparations to advance against the enemy, should the mission of Mr. Wright fail to induce them to evacuate Egypt.
The most friendly and cordial intercourse subsisted between the British and Turkish forces; the Captain Pacha and some of the principal Officers of his fleet, spent the greater part of the 8th July on board Le Tigre. Sir Sidney Smith had only two English ships, but two others were hourly expected to join him.
We some time since announced that several districts in China had been inundated by the overflowing of the Tay and Kiam Rivers; our recent accounts state the consequences to have been most calamitous. The vast quantities of slime and mud left on the subsiding of the water, and the accumulation of putrid bodies with which its surface had been covered, had occasioned a malignant epidemical disorder, which had proved fatal to upwards of 100,000 persons.
Some alarming commotions had taken place amongst the Eastern Tartars, in consequence of which the troops in the districts of Fayunen and Singan were ordered towards the frontier at Sochow.
It was yesterday currently reported, that Government had consented to the Maritime Ar-
mistice proposed by France, on condition that the Spanish squadron should be suffered to return to Cadiz, and that the British fleet should be dismantled. It was added, that a Messenger with dispatches to this effect had been sent for France on the breaking up of the Cabinet on Friday; and it is said that the advance of one per cent which then took place in the price of Stocks, resulted from this resolve. A number of respectable names were connected with the report, and tended to obtain for it currency, and, in many instances, belief.
LONDON. OCT. 2.
The reports in circulation respecting the state of our negotiations with France, are various and contradictory. It is plain, however, from the price of our funds, as well as the fall in that of the French, that the terms of the proposed Naval Armistice, are accompanied with some difficulties.
VIENNA. SEPT. 13.
After his Majesty the Emperor, with his Royal Highness the Archduke John, had arrived on the 7th in the evening at the head quarters at Alt Oettingen, he, on the next day, published the following order:
"His Imperial Majesty, though he has put himself at the head of his brave troops, has conferred the real command of the army on his Royal Brother the Archduke John, and he requires the whole army to obey his order. His Majesty declares that he has constantly laboured to procure a durable peace for his kingdoms, provinces, and people, but the French government, notwithstanding his late endeavours for the same purpose, has declared the armistice at an end.—If, therefore, hostilities must again commence, his Majesty will employ every means in his power for the protection of his hereditary States and people.—His Majesty, therefore, requires that all the Generals, Staff and other Officers, as well as all the troops shall strenuously make every exertion in their duty enjoined, to procure an acceptable peace. His Majesty at the same time expressly declares that all conduct prejudicial to the service, or neglect of duty, from officers of the highest rank to the private soldier, shall meet with the severest punishment, as an example to others; and every meritorious act be honourably rewarded in the view of the whole army. Should there be any one in the army, whether General, Staff, or Subaltern Officer, who shall be unable to fulfil these first orders, either from ill health or any other cause, it is the will of his Imperial Majesty that he should leave the army, that his Majesty may not be under the disagreeable necessity of inflicting punishment."
ANOTHER LETTER. SAME DATE.
The Archduke John will retain the command of the army till the Archduke Charles is able to take it; the latter is now recovering and on the 9th was no longer confined to his bed.
In Hungary, the general insurrection which is now to be carried into effect, meets with the public approbation. Twenty five thousand infantry, and 20 squadrons of light cavalry will immediately be formed.
The armistice in Italy has been prolonged for a short time as well as that in Germany.—We are fearful, however, that it will not be followed by a peace.
Yesterday notice was published here, the purport of which was, that "the departure of his Imperial Majesty for the army, and the example he has given, must inspire the courage of the brave Austrians, and inspire them with the resolution as faithful children of the father of their country, to oppose the enemy with arms, in their hands, till they should obtain just and honourable conditions of peace; and though the present circumstances do not render necessary a general levy, like that in the year 1797, yet it is the will of his Majesty that lone light battalions of volunteers, similar to the Tyrolese riflemen, shall be raised immediately in his capital of Vienna, and sent to the army. The organization of these battalions, which will consist of several thousand men, is confided to Prince Ferdinand of Wurtemberg."
Private letter same date.
Yesterday afternoon a courier arrived here from the head quarters at Alt Oettingen, bringing official intelligence of the prolongation of the armistice for an unlimited period, which caused a rise of two per cent. in Government paper.—The Minister with the army, Count Lehrsach, has had a conference with General Moreau, after which, it is said, he set out for Paris, charged with delivering to the French Government the moderated conditions of peace of the Emperor, and the assurance that his Majesty, moved by the horrors of war, would do any thing to spare human blood, and to stop the universal devastation; and that only this real love for the general good had induced his Majesty to make these moderated conditions of peace; that, therefore, it only depended on the French Government whether a stop should be put to the calamities of war, or whether Europe should continue to sigh under a general devastation.
The return of Count Lehrsach is now looked for with anxiety, as it depends on the issue of the negotiations at Paris, whether Europe, and Germany in particular, is to have peace; or whether war shall continue to rage. In the latter case, the army in Germany is well prepared, and animated with fresh courage to meet the enemy. Our account from Old Oettingen states, that his Majesty's arrival there had created inexpressible joy.—An eye witness assures us, that, if it should be attempted to describe the manner in which the whole army expressed their joy at the arrival of their beloved
Chief, it would appear improbable. The tidings spread from cantonment to cantonment, as far as the advanced posts, and the privates literally shouted. A more beautiful spectacle could not be seen than that, when his Majesty reviewed the army, and many veterans shed tears of joy. His Majesty's address to the army, in which he reminded the warriors of the courage, bravery, and fidelity, with which they had so often conquered the enemy, and with which he hoped they would further meet him, not only excited the most lively joy, but also the highest resolution in every individual. The whole army were afterwards informed, that for three days their pay would be doubled, and the review being over, they returned to their cantonments. This great agitation, and the feu de joie of the army being observed by the French, their General sent to enquire what was the meaning of this unusual movement? and was informed of the cause of it. On the 11th, his Majesty set out from Old Oettingen for Innsbruck, where it was expected he would arrive this day. During the Emperor's absence from the army in Germany, the Archduke John will transact every part of the business.
On the 4th inst. a courier arrived here from General Melas, at Verona, with intelligence that on that day the French had given notice of the termination of the armistice, and that hostilities should recommence on the 14th of September. In consequence of this, the necessary preparations were immediately made in the army, and the troops concentrated; since which, however, the armistice has been prolonged there as well as in Germany, but it is apprehended, that peace is yet at a great distance.
From a London Paper—Sept. 25.
A naval gentleman, we understand, has discovered a method of conveying intelligence by sound or speech to any given distance with more secrecy and certainty than can be done by the telegraph, and at the rate of ten miles per minute. Last Monday Admirals Young, Mann, and Gambier, together with the Hon. Spencer Percival, had the inventor the honour to inspect at one of the Inventions showing the apparatus he has constructed to illustrate the principle on which his plan is founded, and the effect it is capable of producing; and they were so much convinced of the practicability of the scheme, that they were pleased to express their approbation of it. By means of this invention, an answer to any question might be obtained from Portsmouth in a quarter of an hour. The expense of the apparatus is inconsiderable, when compared with its utility; it will, it is said, not exceed an hundred pounds per mile, and when once constructed, will last for ages.
October 2.
In addition to the account we gave last week of the new discovery for superceding the Telegraph, we have to observe that this method of conveying intelligence can be employed not only in thick haze, or rainy weather, but even in the night. The ingenious Gentlemen, in the course of his researches, has discovered certain means founded on Philosophical principles, which may have a wonderful effect in preventing persons from being drowned when they have the misfortune to fall overboard, particularly during the time when a ship is lying at anchor in a harbour. These means, for the good of Society, he has communicated to the Admiralty and the Humane Society, in order that they may be subjected to trial.
By the Mail.
NEW YORK. OCT. 27.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at Fort Wilkinson on the Oconee, Georgia, to his correspondent in Philadelphia, dated Sept. 27 1800.
"All appearances still hold with the Indians at an end. They are coming in as usual to trade with us. I asked some of them what had been one of Bowles, they answered, He is gone off the Indians all talk out with him, he sell them big lie, they find him out; but Colonel Hawkins tell them true, they like him."
"The Indians have lately committed some depredations on the Spaniards, two persons of that nation have been killed."
In the ship Maryland arrived here yesterday from London, came passengers the two gentlemen who went from this city to England some time ago to superintend the construction of floating engines, for the purpose of extinguishing fires, as practised with good effect on the River Thames. They have brought with them two of those engines, which are mounted on carriages with six springs; they are said to be an improvement on the English plan; and we are happy to learn that they have arrived in excellent order.
Important!
BOSTON. NOV. 6.
Arrived at Marblehead, on Tuesday night last, capt. Swan, in 22 days from Biliboa.—He informs, that our Commissioners to France had settled their business, with the French government—were to dine with the Chief Consul on the 2d October, and leave Paris for Havre the next day.
This intelligence is corroborated by capt. Young, arrived here yesterday from Lisbon. He states, that 12 days after leaving Lisbon, he fell in near the Grand Banks with capt. Trevel of the brig Mentor, who sailed in company with him from Lisbon, and was informed, that the

previous capt. Trevel spoke a ship from London for Philadelphia, the capt. of which reported, that he left London Oct. 14, and that intelligence had been received there of a treaty having been made between France and America; and that the Commissioners had departed the United States. Capt. Young further advises, that intelligence had been received at Lisbon, of Commissioners having gone from England for France.
Portland,
Monday, November 10, 1800.
Federal Representatives For Maine.
On Monday last, the people of this District, met for the purpose of choosing members to represent them in the Seventh Congress of the United States.—We have not yet heard the result of votes in any of the towns in the Eastern District.—In the Second, Mr. Dyer has almost the whole of the vote.—In the Third, we have not received accounts sufficient to determine whether Mr. Thatcher, the present representative, or Mr. Cutts, a Jacobin candidate, will be chosen;—Some opinion, however, may be formed from the following statement, which we believe is pretty accurate.
   THATCHER. CUTTS.     Biddeford, 12 24   Pepperellborough, 1 141   Buxton, 38 80   Wells, 115 6   Limerick, 74 0   Limington, 23 8   Parsonfield, about 80 0   Berwick, out of 50 votes 37 rest seat.   Kittery, out of 50 votes 42 rest seat.   Fryeburg, 30 10   Total, 410 311  
The Legislature of this State will meet at Boston tomorrow: And the Electors of President and Vice-President will be chosen on the Thursday following, by joint ballot of the Senate and House of Representatives.
The famous Thomas Cooper, punished for sedition, is at Newyork, it is said with a design to procure the indictment of Alexander Hamilton for a libel on President Adams.
Porcupine has advertised in a Newyork paper, that he shall commence the publication of his paper on the 1st of November, in London, and offers to supply any Gentleman in America, who chooses to become a subscriber,
MARRIED —In this town, Capt. John M'Lean, to Mrs. Mehitable Davis
DIED —On board the brig——, capt S M'Lean, his son George Motley, son of Mr. Thomas Motley of this town.
On board the Nabby, on his passage from Liverpool, Mr. Joseph Graffam, aged 27.
At Falmouth, last Friday, Mrs. Susannah Noyes, wife of Mr. Peter Noyes
A variety of local and other articles prepared for this day's Gazette, are omitted to give place to the Foreign News.
Marine Articles.
Port of Portland.
Wednesday, Nov. 5. Arrived ship Nabby, capt Crandal, 23 days from Liverpool. Left there the 6th of October, ship Rose, Jones, Philadelphia; Swanwick, Kirkbridge, do to fail 6 days; Commence, Chew, Newyork; Polly and Mariot, Noble, Boston for Savannah, one day; Juno, Owens, from Rotterdam for Norfolk, 8 days; brig Union, Leonard, Alexandria; Ranger, Morgan, Wisbeach, for Boston; Swift, Rogers, Newyork; Mary, Hunt, Portland, to fail in 6 days; Fox, Waite, do. 6 days; Reward, Wedgery, Portland, for Boston, 6 days; Mars, C. George, Philadelphia, to New Orleans, in company; Polly, Hancock, Savannah; Pomona, Merill, Philadelphia, for Newyork, 10 days; Citizen, Blake, Newyork, 26 days; Friendship, Patterson, Kennebec, for Boston, one day; President, Pinkham, Newyork, for Newbedford, 6 days; Lydia, M'Kray, Wisbeach, for Boston, 1 day; Wexford, Bin, Walhingham; Three Sisters, Murphy, Plymouth to fail in 20 days—Nov. 3, within sight of Cape Elizabeth, spoke ship Florio, J. Haskell, master 25 days from Malaga, all well. On the 12th Sept. took up a boat belonging to the Newport, of Boston, westward of the Grand Bank with a considerable quantity of tobacco afloat.
Friday, Nov. 7. Arrived sloop ——, capt. Moses Freeman, from Mar-tinique.
Saturday, Nov. 8. Arrived brig Martha, capt. Dyer, from Liverpool—Sailed in company with capt Crandal.
Same day —Arrived brig —— capt. Samuel M'Lean, 23 days from Grenada. Spoke the 3d inst capt. M'Lean of this port. Capt. M'Lean brought home Captain Young and crew, who had been taken by the French.
Postscript!
Yesterday arrived a packet in a short passage from Boston. A gentleman who came passenger has obligingly furnished us with the Centinel of Saturday last, which contains intelligence from Europe four days later than received here—London dates being to the 6th of October. We have not room to detail. The most important article to Americans is the conclusion of a TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND COMMERCE between the United States and France; which was signed at Paris, at midnight, between the 30th September and the 1st of October, by the French Ministers Plenipotentiary Joseph Buonaparte, C. P. Claret Fleurieu, and Roderrer, and the American Commissioners Oliver Ellsworth, W. Davie and W. Murray. No details of this treaty have been published—A French Gazette announces the event as auspicious, and pro-nounces it an ample consolation for the loss of MALT A, which is officially announced to have been taken by the English on the 4th Sept.—The intelligence of the treaty appears to be received with regret in England.
Great preparations were making for the Congress, which was to meet immediately at Luneville [in Lorraine, about 200 miles North east of Paris]; and which is to adjust Peace between France and Austria. We have no accounts, that Commissioners will be chosen on the part of England to assist at this meeting; nor does there appear any inclination of a naval armistice between Great-Britain and France. Our opinion now is, that Peace between France and Austria will be concluded; but that the war between Great-Britain and France will continue.
Report says that the English have recently cut seven French sail of the line out of L'Orient—We know not the foundation of this report. We hourly expect intelligence of the arrival of the Portfmouth frigate, Capt. M'Nee, with the Commissioners from France.
MAINE, ss. NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of a writ from the District Court for this District, forty freebags of Coffee will be sold by public auction, at the Custom-House in Portland, on Tuesday the twenty-fifth day of November instant, at twelve o'clock (noon.) A sample of the Coffee may be seen any time previous to the sale, at the Custom House—Conditions of sale will be made known at the time and place thereof. Isaac Parker, Marshal.
MAINE, ss. BY virtue of an order from the Hon. Judge of this District—Notice is hereby given, that a libel is filed by the Attorney of said District, in the Court thereof for the United States, against the Brig Ranger , burthen about 110 Tons, her tackle, apparel, furniture and appurtenances, for an alleged breach of the revenue laws; and that a hearing will be had thereon before said Judge, at the next District Court to be held at Portland on the first Tuesday of December next, at which time and place persons in interest may appear and contest the forfeiture of said Brig. Isaac Parker, Marshal. Portland, 8th Nov 1800.
Cyrus Johnson. Respectfully informs his friends, and the public in general, that he has taken a Store, lately occupied by Mr. William Shaw, near Stroudwater Bridge; where he has a general assortment of English & West-India Goods , Which he is determined to sell as low as can be purchased in the town of Portland. Nov. 10. (15)
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE, By Alexander Baker, At the head of Col. Waite's Wharf,
HADLEY'S Quadrants, Brass and Wood Compasses, Scales and Dividers, Spy-Glasses of all kinds, Hamilton Moore's Navigation, Daily Assistant, Seaman's Journal, American Coast Pilot, Charts to different parts of the world. Together with a variety of other articles, too numerous for an advertisement. Quadrants and Compasses repaired at the shortest notice.
Tinman's Business carried on as usual. Portland, Nov. 10.
THE subscribers, having been appointed Commissioners, by the Hon. Edward Cutts, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills &c. for the county of York, to receive and examine the claims of the Creditors to the Estate, (represented insolvent) of Dan Page, late of Pepperellborough in the county of York, Cordwainer, deceased; hereby give notice, that six months from the 27th day of October last, are allowed to said Creditors, to exhibit and prove their claims to said Estate, before said Commissioners; who will attend for that purpose, at the dwelling house of the widow of said deceased, in Pepperellborough aforesaid, on the second Monday of the present, and of the five following months, from three to five o'clock P. M. of said days. SAMUEL PEIRSON, { Commissioners. CYRUS KING, { Pepperellborough, Nov. 3, 1800.
To the Honorable the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, holden at Topsham, within and for the county of Lincoln, on the second Tuesday of September, A. D. 1800.
COMPLAINS John Dugan of Topsham, in said county of Lincoln, yeoman, that Samuel Thompson, late of said Topsham, Esquire, intestate, deceased, at said Topsham, on the eighteenth day of June, A. D. 1784, by his bond of that date, duly executed and in court to be produced, did for a valuable consideration, bind himself, his heirs and assigns, to give unto the said John Dugan a good deed with warranty of a certain tract, piece or parcel of land, particularly mentioned and described in said bond.—Now your complainant avers that the said Samuel did not give him the above mentioned deed, being prevented by said Thompson; wherefore your complainant prays that after due and proper notice given to all persons concerned in the estate of said deceased, that your Honors would authorise and empower the Administrators of the goods and estate of the said deceased, to make and execute such good and sufficient deed of the premises unto your complainant, as the said Samuel in his life, might have made and executed. By PETER OLIVER ALDEN, his Attorney. A true copy—Attest, JONATHAN BOWMAN, jun. Clerk.
LINCOLN, ss.—Court of Common Pleas, at Topsham. September Term, A. D. 1800.
Upon the complaint aforesaid, Ordered , that the said John Dugan notify all persons interested therein to appear at the next Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at Warren, within and for the county of Lincoln on the second Tuesday of January next; by publishing an attested copy of said complaint, and this order thereon, three weeks successively, in the Gazette printed in Portland, by Elezer Alley Jenks, the last publication, to be three weeks at least before the sitting of said Court; also by posting two attested copies of said complaint and this order thereon, in public places in said Topsham, and one attested copy of said complaint and order thereon, in a public place in Bowdoin, in said county, three weeks at least before the sitting of said Court; that they may then and there appear, and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest—JONATHAN BOWMAN, jun. Clerk.
Cow-Pox. Doctor Kinsman, Inoculates for the Cow-Pox, at Mr. MOTLEY'S. Doctor Coffin, continues to inoculate for the Kine-Pox.—Price Two Dollars. Nov. 3. Dr. Varnum, continues to inoculate with the Kine-Pox matter. He will inoculate persons at their own houses, or at Mr. Cutter's Columbian Tavern, on the most reasonable terms. Nov. 3. Dr. Samuel Bellard, is about to inoculate with the Kine-Pox matter, for a very moderate consideration. He will be alternately at Mr. Cutter's Tavern in Portland, and at his Lodgings at Cape-Elizabeth. Nov. 3.
TAKE NOTICE. BY mutual agreement, the firm of WILLIAM LORD & COMPANY, is this day dissolved. They request all persons who are indebted to, or have demands upon said firm, to call on William Lord for settlement. WILLIAM LORD, THOMAS HODGKINS. Portland, Oct. 28, 1800. The business is carried on as usual by said LORD; who keeps constantly for sale, English & West-India Goods, Groceries, &c.
FOR SALE, A Store Lot, IN a valuable situation in the center of business, a little below the Market-House, Middle-street. Said Lot will contain 24 feet on Middle-street, and runs back 50 feet.—Whoever wishes to purchase a valuable stand for business, will apply to the subscriber, now living on the premises. NICHOLAS BLASDELL. Portland, Nov. 5.
FOR SALE, By Andrew Campbell, At his Oil Mill in Newgloucester, LINSEED OIL. Cash given for Flax-Seed. ALL persons against whom he has any demands, which have been due more than six months, are requested to make immediate payment. Newgloucester, Oct. 27, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administratrix testamenti to annexo of the Estate of JOHN CHOAT, late of Ballstown, in the county of Lincoln deceased; and has undertaken that trust by giving bond as the Law directs:—All persons 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. SALLY CHOAT, Administratrix. Ballstown, Oct. 8, 1800.
Village Harmony. JUST PUBLISHED (price to Dollars per dozen, and one Dollar single) and for Sale, By STEPHEN PATTEN, No 3, Fifth-Street, A New edition, being the fifth of THE VILLAGE HARMONY, or Youths Assistant to Sacred Music; containing—A concise Introduction to the Grounds of Music; with such a collection of the most approved Psalm Tunes, Anthems, and other Pieces, as are most suitable for Divine Worship. Designed principally for the use of Schools and Singing Societies.
The proprietor of the Village Harmony has taken great pains to improve this Fifth Edition. In some instances he has set out pieces, and compressed others, to insert in their room such music as is best calculated to please the taste of those who possess the delicate taste and the nicest ear. It is not an easy matter to please every body His principal design is to please as many as possible, and leave the others to please themselves. The Village Harmony is so well known, and so generally used, that it needs no comment to recommend it to the public. It contains as good an assortment, and as rich a variety of Music, as any book in the United States. Its Rules are plain, concise, and easy for beginners. The greater part of the music, is easy and animating, and will be found to be extremely well calculated for Divine Worship.
Also, Blunt's Second Edition of the New Practical Navigator. Price 15s. Oct. 27, 1800.
To be Sold, A Small FARM, containing about Seventy five acres of Land, with a House and Barn thereon—situated on the main road through the town of Livermore.—Said Farm has Mowing Land whereon seven or eight tons of Hay can be cut. It is in good order for planting and sowing Land the next season—Any person who may wish to purchase said premises, will have good terms of payment by applying to the subscribers in Livermore. Isaac Starbird, Moses Starbird. Livermore, October 20:
NOTICE. ALL persons claiming Land on Crocker Island , so called, now in possession of the subscriber, are requested to show their claims, as he will not have his right separated immediately. Peter Coombs. October 20, 1800.
To the Honorable Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Pownalborough, within and for the county of Lincoln, on the first Tuesday of June, A. D. 1800.
BY Benjamin Hasey their Attorney, complains Meriam Orr, and Elizabeth Orr, both of Topsham, in said county of Lincoln, singlewomen, that Samuel Thompson, late of said Topsham, Esquire, deceased, intestate, on the eighteenth day of September, A. D. 1794, by his bond under his hand and seal, for a valuable consideration to him made, did bind himself and his heirs to make and execute to the said Meriam and Elizabeth, a good deed of fifty acres of land, situate in Topsham aforesaid, as particularly described in the bond aforesaid, when said deed should be demanded. Now your complainants alledge, that afterwards, and often in the life time of the said Samuel, they demanded of him a deed of the above mentioned premises, but the said Samuel, being prevented by death, has never made to them the deed aforesaid; wherefore your Complainants pray that after due notice given to all concerned in the estate of the said Samuel deceased, your Honors would grant licence to and empower the administrators of the said deceased, to make and execute to your Complainants such good deed of the premises as the said Samuel, when in full life, ought to have made and executed. BENJAMIN HASEY. A true copy—Attest, JONATHAN BOWMAN, jun. Clerk.
LINCOLN, ss.—Court of Common Pleas at Topsham, September Term, 1800.
Upon the complaint aforesaid, Ordered , That the said Meriam Orr and Elizabeth Orr notify all persons interested therein to appear at the next Court of Common Pleas to be holden at Topsham, within and for the county of Lincoln, on the second Tuesday of September next, by publishing an attested copy of said complaint, with this order thereon, three weeks successively, in the Gazette printed in Portland, by Elezer Alley Jenks—the last publication to be three weeks at least before the sitting of said Court; also by posting an attested copy of said Complaint, and this order thereon, in some public place in said Topsham, three weeks at least before the sitting of said Court; that they may then and there appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest—JONATHAN BOWMAN, jun. Clerk.
LINCOLN, ss.—Court of Common Pleas at Topsham, September Term, 1800.
The said Meriam Orr and Elizabeth Orr, having neglected to notify, agreeably to the order of Court at the last term, they are now ordered to notify all persons interested in said complaint, to appear at the next Court of Common Pleas to be holden at Warren, within and for the county of Lincoln, on the second Tuesday of January next, by publishing an attested copy of said complaint, with this order thereon, three weeks successively, in the Gazette printed in Portland by Elezer Alley Jenks—the last publication to be three weeks at least, before the sitting of said Court; also by posting an attested copy of said complaint, with this order thereon, in some public place in said Topsham, three weeks at least before the sitting of said Court; that they may then and there appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest—JONA BOWMAN, jun. Clerk.
To the Honorable Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Pownalborough, within and for the county of Lincoln, on the first Tuesday of June, A. D. 1800.
BY Benjamin Hasey his Attorney, complains David Doury of Topsham in said county, husbandman, that Samuel Thompson, late of said Topsham, Esq. deceased, intestate, on the sixteenth day of April, A. D. 1797, by his bond of that date, under his hand and seal, for a valuable consideration to him made, did bind himself and his heirs to execute to your Complainant, within one year from the above date, a deed of one hundred acres of land, situate in Topsham aforesaid, as particularly described in said bond; now the said David avers that the said Samuel being prevented by death has never executed to him the deed aforesaid; wherefore the said David prays, that after due notice given to all concerned in the estate of the said Samuel deceased, your Honors would grant licence to and empower the Administrators of the said Samuel to execute to your Complainant such deed of the premises as the said deceased in his life time, ought to have made and executed. BENJAMIN HASEY. A true copy—Attest, JONATHAN BOWMAN, jun. Clerk.
LINCOLN, ss.—Court of Common Pleas, at Pownalborough, June Term, 1800.
Upon the complaint aforesaid, Ordered , That the said David Doury notify all persons interested therein, to appear at the next Court of Common Pleas to be holden at Topsham, within and for the county of Lincoln, on the second Tuesday of September next, by publishing an attested copy of said complaint with this order thereon, three weeks successively in the Gazette printed in Portland by Elezer Alley Jenks—the last publication to be three weeks at least before the sitting of said Court; also by posting an attested copy of said complaint and this order thereon in some public place in said Topsham, three weeks at least before the sitting of said Court; that they may then and there appear, and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest—JONATHAN BOWMAN, jun. Clerk.
LINCOLN, ss.—Court of Common Pleas at Topsham, September Term, 1800.
The said David Doury having neglected to notify, agreeably to the order of Court at the last term, he is now ordered to notify all persons interested in said complaint, to appear at the next Court of Common Pleas to be holden at Warren, within and for the county of Lincoln, on the second Tuesday of January next, by publishing an attested copy of said complaint, with this order thereon, three weeks successively in the Gazette printed in Portland by Elezer Alley Jenks—the last publication to be three weeks at least, before the sitting of said Court; also by posting an attested copy of said complaint and this order thereon in some public place in said Topsham, three weeks at least before the sitting of said Court; that they may then and there appear, and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest—JONATHAN BOWMAN, jun. Clerk.
BROKE into the inclosure of me the subscriber, on the first of October, a brown STEER, three years old last spring. The owner may have him again by proving property and paying charges. ABRAHAM BRACKET. Falmouth, October 1, 1800.

SELECTIONS.
THE NUN—A CANTATA.
RECITATIVE.
OF CONSTANCE holy legends tell The loveliest sister of the cell, None sent to heaven to sweet a cry, Or roll'd at Mass so bright an eye, No wanton taint her bosom knew, Her hours in heavenly vision flew, Her knees were worn with midnight prayers, And thus she breath'd divinest airs.
AIR.
In hallow'd walks and awful cells, Secluded from the light and vain, The chaste-eyed Maid with virtue dwells, And solitude and silence reign. The wanton's voice is heard not here, To heaven the sacred pile belongs; Each wall returns the whisper'd prayer, And echoes but to holy songs.
RECITATIVE.
Alas! that pamper'd Monks should dare Intrude where Sainted vestals are! Ah, Francis, Francis, well I wist, Those holy looks are all deceit, With flame the muse prolongs her tale, The Priest was young—the Nun was frail, Devotion falter'd on her tongue, Love tun'd her voice, and thus she sung.
AIR.
Alas, how deluded was I, To fancy delights as I did, With maidens at midnight to sigh And love, the sweet passion, forbid! O, father, my follies forgive, And still to absolve me be nigh; Your lessons have taught me to live, Come teach me, O, teach me to die. To her arms in a rapture, he sprung, Her bosom, half naked, met his; Transported in silence she hung, And melted away at each kiss. Oh, father, expiring she cry'd, With rapture I yield up my breath; Ah, daughter, he fondly reply'd, The righteous find comfort in Death.
IMPROMPTU.
On a young lady, who had passed some time in playing with a very young child. Why on this least of little Misses, Did Celia waste so many kisses? Quoth Love, who stood behind, and smil'd, She kiss'd the Father in the child.
A Crimp attempting to inveigle a young Shepard to enlist, by the false promise of making him a Sergeant, was archly answered by the latter, that he was already a field officer.
The late Lord Courtenay, who was one of the oldest families in England being married to a Miss Clack, who was much inferior, in point of birth, a conversation took place, on the disparity of the match. What's your objection? said the Bishop of Exeter to a lady, who took the principal lead in the conversation—want of family, my Lord—want of family, echoed the Bishop, why I'll prove her of a better family than his Lordship. He may perhaps, trace his ancestors, as far back as the conquest—but the family of the Clacks, are as old as Eve.
Singular Phenomenon, in the River DE LA PLATA.
In 1793, the waters of this river were forced in the month of April, by a most violent current of wind to the distance of ten leagues so that the neighboring plains were entirely inundated, and the bed of the river was left dry. Ships which had been sunk in the river for upwards of thirty years were uncovered; and among others, an English vessel, which was cast away in the year 1762. Several persons repaired to the bed of the river, on which they could walk about without wetting their feet, and returned laden with silver and other riches which had been long buried under the water. This Phenomenon which may be ranked among the grand revolutions of nature, continued three days; at the end of which the wind ceased, and the water returned with great violence to its natural bed.
LETTERS
Remaining in BRUNSWICK Post-Office.
James Hunter, Isaac F. Roth, John Small, James Sampson, Joseph Kilgore, Richard Knowles, John Fulton, Daniel Clark, Phiney Crawford, Joshua Gardau, Mary Stanwood, Charles Cowing, Capt. William Spear, Abraham Toothaker, Ezekiel Hall, Moses Hodkins, Winthrop Farren, William Gowell, Samuel Strong, Abraham Frost, Andrew Grover
Robert Dunning, P. M.
October 18, 1800.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Executrix to the last Will and Testament of
Andrew Duning,
of Brunswick, Esquire, deceased, and given bonds as the law directs.—All persons having demands on said Estate, are requested to exhibit the same for settlement; and those indebted to make immediate payment to
Elizabeth Duning, Executrix.
Brunswick, October 16, 1800.
Treasury Department,
Washington September 18, 1800.
Public Notice is hereby Given,
In pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 23d day of April, one thousand eight hundred, entitled, "An act to establish a General Stamp Office,"
THAT a General Stamp Office is now established at the seat of government, in the city of Washington, from whence there will issue, from and after the date hereof, (upon the application of the Supervisors of the Revenue, under whose management the collection of the stamp duties is placed) any quantities of paper, parchment and vellum, marked or stamped, and duly counter-stamped, with the following rates of duty which are amenable by law:
For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, upon which shall be written or printed any or either of the instruments or writings following, viz.
Table with 3 columns: Description of instrument, Rate of duty in Dollars, and C.M. (Cents and Mills). Rows include: ANY certificate of naturalization (5), Any licence to practice, or certificate of the admission, enrolment or registry of any counsellor, Solicitor Advocate attorney, or proctor, in any court of the United States (10), Any grant or letters patent, under the seal or authority of the United States (except for lands granted for military services) (4), Any exemplification or certified copy of any such grant or letters patent (except for lands granted for military services) (2), Any charter party, bottomry or respondentia bond (1), Any receipt of discharge for or on account of any legacy left by any will, or other testamentary instrument, or for any share or part of a personal estate, divided by force of any statute of distributions other than to the wife, children or grand children of the person deceased, the amount whereof shall be above the value of fifty dollars, and shall not exceed the value of one hundred dollars (25), When the amount thereof shall exceed the value of one hundred dollars, and shall not exceed five hundred dollars (50), And for every further sum of five hundred dollars, the additional sum of (1), Any policy of insurance or instrument in nature thereof, when the sum for which insurance is made shall not exceed five hundred dollars (45), When the sum insured shall exceed five hundred dollars (1), Any exemplification of what nature soever, that shall pass the seal of any court, other than such as it may be the duty of the clerk of such court to furnish for the use of the United States, or some particular state (50), Any bond, bill single or penal, inland bill of exchange, promissory note or other note (other than any recognizance, bill, bond or other obligation or contract, made to or with the United States, or any state, or for their use respectively); and any bonds required in any case by the laws of the United States, or of any state, upon legal process or in any judicial proceeding, or for the faithful performance of any trust or duty (10), If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars (25), If above one hundred and not exceeding five hundred dollars (50), If above five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars (75), Provided, that if any bonds or notes shall be payable at or within sixty days, such bonds or notes shall be subject to only two fifth parts of the duty aforesaid, viz. If above twenty and not exceeding one hundred dollars (4), If above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars (10), If above five hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars (20), If above one thousand dollars (30), Any foreign bill of exchange, draft or order for the payment of money in any foreign country (20), The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of exchange, without respect to the number contained in each set. Any note or bill of lading or writing or receipt in nature thereof, for goods or merchandise to be exported; from one district to another district of the United States, not being in the same state (4), If from the United States to any foreign port or place (10), The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of lading without respect to the number contained to each set. Any notes issued by the banks now established or that may be hereafter established within the United States, other than the notes of such of the said banks as shall agree to an annual composition of one per centum on the annual dividends made by such banks, to their stockholders respectively, according to the following scale: On all notes not exceeding fifty dollars, for each dollar (6), On all notes above fifty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars (50), On all notes above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars (1), On all notes above five hundred dollars (2), Any protest or other notarial act (25), Any letter of attorney, except for an invalid pension, or to obtain or sell warrants for land granted by the United States as bounty for military services performed in the late war (25), Any inventory or catalogue of any furniture, goods; or effects, made in any case required by law (except in cases of goods and chattels distrained for rent or taxes, and goods taken in virtue of any legal process by any officer) (50), Any certificates of a share in any insurance company of a share in the bank of the United States, or of any state or other bank; If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars (10), If above one hundred dollars (25), If under twenty dollars, at the rate of ten cents for one hundred dollars. (1)
That the power of the supervisors of the Revenue to mark or stamp any vellum, parchment or paper chargeable with duty, will cease and determine from and after six months from the date hereof, to wit, on the last day of February 1801.
That, if any persons shall, after the last day of February 1801, have in their custody or possession, any vellum, parchment or paper, marked or stamped by the supervisors of the revenue, upon which any matter or thing, charged with duty, shall not have been written or printed, they may at any time within the space of Sixty days after the said last day of February 1801 bring or send such vellum, parchment and papers, unto some office of inspection, and in lieu thereof, receive a like quantity or value of vellum, parchment and paper, duly stamped in pursuance of the act herein before recited. And in case any person shall neglect or refuse, within the time aforesaid, to bring or cause to be brought unto some officer of inspection, any such vellum, parchment or paper, it is hereby declared, that the same will thereafter be of no other effect or use, than if it had never been marked or stamped, and that all matters and things, which may after that time be written or printed upon any vellum, parchment or paper, authorized to be exchanged in exchange in manner aforesaid, will be of no other effect, than if they had been written or printed on paper, parchment or vellum, not marked or stamped.
And for the convenience of those persons who may be inclined to have their own vellum parchment and paper stamped or marked, it is hereby declared, that when any person shall deposit any vellum, parchment or paper at the office of a supervisor, accompanied with a list, specifying the number and denomination of the stamps or marks, which are desired to be thereto affixed, the same will be transmitted to the General Stamp-Office, and there properly marked or stamped, and forthwith sent back to the same supervisor, who will thereupon collect the duties and deliver the paper, parchment or vellum, to the order of the person from whom the same was received.
Given under my Hand, and the Seal of the Treasury (L. S.) at Washington, the day and year above mentioned.
OLIVER WOLCOTT,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Nov. 3.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, that having been duly appointed Administrator, with the will annexed, on the Estate of
REUBEN CARVER,
late of Freeport, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased: He has taken upon him that trust and given bond as the law directs: He therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's Estate, to make immediate payment; and those who, have demands thereon, to exhibit the same to
SETH CARVER.
Freeport, Oct. 27, 1800.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, that having been duly appointed Administratrix cum testamento annexo on the Estate of
JOB HOLMES,
late of Hebron, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, taken upon her that trust, and given bond as the law directs: She therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's Estate to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to
JUDITH HOLMES.
November 18, 1800.
At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace, within and for the county of Kennebec, begun and held at Augusta, in said county, on the second Tuesday of June, in the year of our Lord, 1800—
UPON the petition of JOHN CHANDLER, Esq. and others, representing that the county road leading from Hollowell to New-Gloucester, passes through an unincorporated plantation, called Littleborough—that the Post-road therein is very bad, and needs much repair for accommodating travellers, and the conveyance of the mail—that the land in said plantation, whereon the said road is, belongs to nonresident proprietors—and therefore praying that the Court would order a sum of money sufficient to thoroughly repair said road to be assessed on the proprietors of the land aforesaid; or direct such other means for repairing the road, as the Court shall judge proper, according to the law of this Commonwealth in such cases made and provided:
ORDERED, that the said petitioners notify the proprietors aforesaid, to appear at the next Court of General Sessions of the Peace, to be held at Augusta, within and for the county of Kennebec, on the second Tuesday of December next, by publishing the substance of said petition, and this order thereon, in the Massachusetts Mercury, and Jenks' Portland Gazette, three weeks successively; the last publication to be at least twenty days before the sitting of said Court—that the said proprietors may then and there appear, and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted
Barzillai Gannett, Clerk.
A true copy—attest, BARZILLAI GANNETT, Clerk.
At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace, within and for the county of Kennebec, begun and held at Augusta, in said county, on the second Tuesday of June, in the year of our Lord 1800—
UPON the petition of JOHN BLAKE and others, representing that the county road, leading from Eliphalet Smart's in Monmouth, through an unincorporated plantation, called Littleborough, to Gilbert's ferry, is extremely bad and almost impassable, in said Littleborough—that said road is upon land, which belongs to nonresident proprietors—and that, as a law of this Commonwealth makes special provision for the making and repair of roads, in such cases—the said petitioners pray the Court to direct a sum of money to be assessed on the proprietors of the land aforesaid, sufficient to effectually repair said road, agreeably to the mode prescribed by the law aforesaid, or order said road to be repaired, by such other means, as said Court shall judge proper:
ORDERED, that the said petitioners notify the proprietors aforesaid, to appear at the next Court of General Sessions of the Peace, to be held at Augusta, within and for the county of Kennebec, on the second Tuesday of December next, by publishing the substance of said petition, and this order thereon, in the Massachusetts Mercury, and Jenks' Portland Gazette, three weeks successively, the last publication to be at least twenty days before the sitting of said Court, that the said proprietors may then and there appear, and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted
Barzillai Gannett, Clerk.
A true copy—attest, BARZILLAI GANNETT, Clerk.
BLANKS
Of various kind, for sale at this Office.
Fresh Fall & Winter Goods.
NOW OPENING AND FOR SALE, By William Codman,
At his Store in Fifth-Street,
A General assortment of Fresh EUROPEAN GOODS; adapted to the present and approaching season—Imported by the last arrivals, With a great variety of HARDWARE, GOODS, PAINTS, LINSEED OIL, WEST-INDIA GOODS, GROCERIES, &c. &c.—All which will be sold on the lowest terms for cash—Wholesale and Retail. October 29.
Singing School.
MR. FORD, takes this method to acquaint the young Gentlemen and Ladies in the different societies in Portland, that he purposes, again, to open a Singing School in this town, if he shall meet with sufficient encouragement. His terms will be Two Dollars per quarter, if a sufficient number of scholars shall offer, to make him compensation—otherwise his terms will be Two and an Half Dollars. He proposes to have two schools—one, of those who have made some proficiency in Music; and the other of those who have never learned the Rules. The first to meet at Mr. Prentiss's School-House, on Wednesday and Saturday evenings; and the other on Monday and Thursday evenings. No spectators to be admitted, unless by particular invitations. Portland, 27th Oct 1800.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy hath been awarded and issued by the Hon. DAVID SEWALL, Esq. District Judge of the District of Maine, against PORTER LUMMUS, of Portland, in said District, Trader; and he being declared a bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners, named and authorised in said Commission, on the fourth and eighteenth days of November, and the fifth of December next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days, at the Auction Room of EDWARD OXNARD in said District; and in all things to conform to the directions of the Act of Congress, intitled, "An Act for establishing an uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States." At first of which meetings, the Creditors whose respective debts shall amount to Two Hundred Dollars and upwards, are to come prepared to prove their debts, and choose an Assignee or Assignees. At the second of which meetings all other Creditors of said Lummus are to come prepared to prove their respective debts. Given under our hands at Portland, this 23d day of October, 1800. EDWARD OXNARD, JAMES NEAL, THOMAS ROVEY
NOTICE is hereby given, That FRYEBURG ACADEMY continues to receive Scholars as usual, on the first day of November next. By order of the Trustees, MOSES AMES, Treasurer. Fryeburg, October 14, 1800.
To the Honorable the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, for the county of Lincoln, begun and held at Topsham, within and for the said county, on the second Tuesday of September, A. D. 1800—
THE subscribers humbly show, That part of the County road leading from Monmouth to Little's river, so called, through Thompsonborough runs through a place called Wales, in the said county of Lincoln; that the land in the said place called Wales, is owned by nonresident proprietors, and not within the limits of any town; that the said part of said road, which is in said place called Wales between Monmouth and Thompsonborough, is very bad, and ought for the safety and convenience of travellers to be repaired. We therefore pray, that your Honors would order the same to be amended and repaired by the owners of said land, agreeable to a law of the Commonwealth, entitled "An act in addition to the several acts now in force respecting highways," or otherwise give relief; and we, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
MATTHIAS BLOSSOM, WILLIAM BROWN, ANSEL BLOSSOM, JAMES HARVEY, JOHN CHANDLER, SIMON DEARBORN, J. H. EZEKIEL WICKWIRE, JEREMIAH CHANDLER, JOHN HOLMES.
A true copy—Attest, Jonathan Bowman, jun. Clerk.
LINCOLN, ss.—Court of General Sessions of the Peace, at Topsham. September Term, A. D. 1800.
Upon the petition aforesaid; Ordered, that the petitioners notify all persons interested therein, to appear at the next Court of General Sessions of the peace, to be held at Warren, within and for the county of Lincoln, on the second Tuesday of January next; by publishing an attested copy of said petition, with this order thereon, three weeks successively in the Massachusetts Mercury, printed in Boston, by Young & Minns, and in the Gazette printed in Portland, by Eliezer Allyn, Jenks; the last publication to be three weeks, at least, before the sitting of said Court; that they may then and there appear, and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
Attest,—JONATHAN BOWMAN, JUN. Clerk.
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