Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1799-05-06 00:00:00

JENKS'S PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS, BY ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 54.]
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1799.
[VOLUME II.]
War Department.
MARCH 21, 1799.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Department of War, until the expiration of the 25th of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of October, 1799, to the thirteenth day of September, 1800, both days inclusive, at the places and within the two districts herein first mentioned; and also that separate proposals be received at the said office until the expiration of the 25th day of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required as aforesaid, from the 14th day of January, in the year 1800, to the thirty-first day of December, in the same year, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the several states herein after mentioned, viz.
First—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Oswego; at Niagara; at Presqu'ille; at Michilimackinac; at Fort Franklin; at Le Boeuf; at Venango; at Fort Defiance; at any place below Defiance, on the Miami river, to Lake Erie; at Knox, and Onontagon, on the river Wabash; at Vincennes; at any place or places on the east side of the Mississippi, above the mouth of the river Ohio, and the Illinois river.
Second—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at any place or places, on the east side of the Mississippi river, below the mouth of the river Ohio, to the southern boundary of the state of Kentucky, and within the said state; at Knoxville; at all other posts and places within the state of Tennessee; at South West Point; at Tellico Block house; at St. Stephens, on the Tombigby, and any other place or places within the state of Tennessee; below the southern boundary of the state of Tennessee, and within the boundary of the said state.
Third—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Point-Petre; at Coleraine; at Savannah; at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Georgia; and at all other places in the Creek nation, within the limits of the United States, where troops are or may be stationed.
Fourth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Fort Johnson; at Fort Pinckney; at Charles-town; or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, in the state of South Carolina.
Fifth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at the fort at Wilmington, Cape-Fear; at Beaufort; at Newbern; at Fayetteville; at Wilmington; at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the state of North Carolina.
Sixth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Norfolk; at Portsmouth; at Kempville; at Charlottetown; at Winchester; at Staunton; at Richmond; at Alexandria; at Leesburg; at Fredericksburg; at Carterville; or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, in the state of Virginia.
Seventh—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Fort M'Henry; at Baltimore; at Annapolis; at Frederick-Town; at Leonard-Town; at Hagerstown; at Bladensburg; at George-Town; at Harper's Ferry; at East-Town; at the Head of Elk; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of Maryland.
Eighth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Fort Mifflin; at Philadelphia; at Darby; at Lancaster; at Wilkes-Barre; at Reading; at Bristol; at York-Town; at Carlisle; at Lewis-Town (Mifflin county); at Bedford; at Greensburg; at Washington; at East-Town; at Wilmington; at Chillicothe; at Dover; or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of Pennsylvania and Delaware, except the posts within the state of Pennsylvania, enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Ninth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Hackensack; at Elizabeth-Town; at New Brunswick; at Burlington; at Woodbury; at Trenton; or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of New Jersey.
Tenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at New-York; at West Point; at Poughkeepsie; at Albany; at Stillwater; at Newburg; at Albany; at P'keepsie; at Cherry Valley; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of New-York, except the posts within the said state, enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Eleventh—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Hartford; at Hebron; at New-London; at Middletown; at Windsor; at Litchfield; at Guilford; at New-Haven; at Fairfield; at Danbury; at Middlesex; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of Connecticut.
Twelfth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Fort Wolcott; at Britton's Point; at Newport; at Providence; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of Rhode Island.
Thirteenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Portland, in the district of Maine; at Gloucester; at Cape Ann; at Salem; at Marblehead; at Boston; at Springfield; at Uxbridge; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of Massachusetts.
Fourteenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Portsmouth; at Exeter; at Windsor; at Bennington; at Rutland; or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of New-Hampshire and Vermont.
The Ration to be supplied, is to consist of the following articles, viz. Eighteen ounces of bread or flour, or when neither can be obtained, of one quart of rice, or one and a half pound of sifted or bolted Indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh beef, or one pound of salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted pork, and when fresh meat is issued, salt, at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations, soap at the rate of four pounds, and candles at the rate of a pound and a half for every hundred rations.
It is expected the proposals will also extend to the supply of rum, whiskey, or other ardent spirits, at the rate of half a gill per ration, and vinegar at the rate of
two quarts for every hundred rations. The proposals will specify the price of the several component parts of the ration, as well as those of substitutes or alternatives for parts thereof.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Oswego, for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required.
It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places, or posts, to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper. It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses, sustained, by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the price of the article captured or destroyed, on the deposition of two or more persons of credible character, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles, for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be referred to the United States of requiring, that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts shall be issued, until the supplies which have or may be furnished under contracts now in force have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the Sea-board or Indian frontiers not exceeding three months.
James M'Henry, Secretary of War.
Sales by Auction.
On THURSDAY, the 9th of MAY, To close the Sales of the STOCK IN TRADE of a Gentleman lately deceased,
Will be sold at the Auction-Room in FISH-STREET, the following articles:
14 pieces Tammy, 6 pieces Durants, 8 pieces Calimancoes. A variety of Calli- coes, Everlastings, Muslin Handkerchiefs. Black Silk do. Black Modes, Women's Silk Gloves and Muffs. Cambricks, Sprig'd Muslin Aprons, Mus- ket. Large Baking Pan, Indigo, with various other articles.
Sale to commence at 10 o'clock. EDWARD OXNARD, Auctioneer. Portland, April 27, '99.
Samuel H. Walley, Having commenced business in Boston, at STORE No. 34, LONG-WHARF, Begs leave to offer his services to the public in the Commission Line,
to which his attention will principally be devoted— He will advance Cash on Goods consigned him, and use every exertion for the interest of his employers. HE HAS NOW FOR SALE,
A few pipes of excellent PORT WINE, Fresh LEMONS, Boston Duck, Nos. 1 and 2, Beit Dutch 3 threaded Seine Twine, par- ticularly intended for the Salmon Fishery. Boston manufactured GLASS of every size (which can be cut) on terms as liberal as can be obtained at the works.
A few Casks of excellent Bohea TEA, &c. &c. &c. Boston April 24, 1799.
Bowdoin College.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that the semi-annual meeting of the board of Overseers of Bowdoin College, will be held at the house of JOSEPH STOCKBRIDGE, Innholder in Freeport, on the third Wednesday of May next, being the 15th day of said month; at which a general attendance of the members is requested.
Mark Langdon Hill, Sec'ry. Georgetown, 15th April, 1799.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hun- dred and ninety nine.
AN ACT, limiting the time within which Petitions for Wages which have been drawn by forged Orders, shall be sustained.
BE it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same. That no petition for Wages which have heretofore been drawn by Forged Orders, shall be hereafter sustained, unless such Petition shall be present- ed within TWO YEARS from the passing of this act; and, on failure thereof, the Petitioner, Applicant and Clai- mant shall be forever excluded and barred from any claim or demand against this Commonwealth for or on account of any Wages so drawn, or alleged to be drawn, by virtue of any such Forged Order. And the Secretary is hereby directed to cause this Act to be published in the several News-papers printed in this Commonwealth for three months successively.
In the House of Representatives, Jan. 29, 1799. This Bill having had three several readings passed to be enacted,
EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. In Senate, Jan. 28, 1799.
This Bill having had two several readings passed to be enacted,
SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. January 29, 1799—Approved.
INCREASE SUMNER. True Copy—Attest,
JOHN AVERY, Sec'ry. To be published three months successively, in the several News-papers printed in this Commonwealth.
JOHN AVERY, Sec'ry.
BUONAPARTE'S LETTERS.
[IN CONTINUATION.] No. I. TRANSLATION.
Alexandria, July 6th, 1798.
To Citizen Joseph Buonaparte, Deputy to the Council of Five Hundred, &c.
WE have been in this city, my dear brother, now four days; it was taken by assault. I will at- tempt to give you some account of our operations not as a professional man, but as they appeared to me.
At day break, on the 1st of July, we discovered the coast of Africa; which had been seen, & announced to us the evening before by signals. We were presently off the Iles des Arabes, about two leagues from Alexan- dria, where the Juno frigate, which had been dispatch- ed to bring the French consul on board rejoined us.
We learnt from the consul that an English squadron of fourteen sail of the line (of which two were three deckers,) had appeared off Alexandria, sent letters on shore to the English consul, and informed the merchants there of the capture of Malta; that it had then made fail for Alexandria, concluding, as it was supposed that we had gone there to disembark our forces, and proceed to India by way of B. Sora.
This squadron had indeed been seen by the Justice, after our departure from Malta; and yet it had the audacity, or the stupidity to miss us! The English must be quite furious. It required, I think no common degree of courage and good fortune, to run through a numerous fleet, with inferior force, a convoy of four hundred transports; and to capture on our passage, partly by force, and partly by negotiation such a place as Malta.
Till this day I had always a fancy that fortune might one time or other turn her back upon my brother; now I am persuaded, that she will never desert him, provid- ed the troops retain but a little of that national spirit which has hitherto animated them.
The Mameloucs had been informed three weeks be- fore, by some merchant vessel belonging to Marseille, of the embarkation of our troops: when, therefore, they saw the English fleet, they concluded it was ours, so that when we actually appeared, they were prepared, for us. The sea run so high that day that the officers of the marines would not permit the troops to disembark. The vessels therefore came to an anchor about two leagues from the shore: the day was spent in pre- paration; and at length, about eleven at night, were put on board the boats of the fleet, with a rough sea and a very blowing wind.
We marched that night with two thousand* infantry, and at break of day invested Alexandria, after driving into the town several detachments of cavalry. The en- emy defended themselves like men; the artillery which they had planted on the walls was wretchedly served but their musketry was excellent. These people have no idea of children's play: they either kill or are killed. The first inclosure, however, that is to say, that of the city of the Arabs, was carried; and soon after the second, in spite of the fire from the houses. The forts which are on the coast, on the other side of the city, were then invested; and in the evening capitulated.
Since the 2d of July we have been engaged in disem- barking the troops, the artillery, and the baggage.— General Desaix is at Demanhur, on the Nile; the rest of the army is to follow him.
The place where we disembarked is about two leagues from hence, at the tower of Marabouh, or the Iles des Arabes. The two first days we had a number of frag- ments cut off by the Arab and Mamelouk cavalry. I imagine that we had lost about one hundred killed, and as many wounded. The generals Kleber, Menou, and Lefevale are wounded.
I send you the proclamation to the inhabitants of the country, and three others to the army. The first has produced an effect altogether astonishing. The Bedou- ins, enemies of the Mameloucs, and who, proper- ly speaking, are neither more nor less than intrepid rob- bers, sent us back, as soon as they had read it, thirty of our people whom they had made prisoners, with an offer of their services against the Mameloucs. We have treated them kindly. They are an invincible people, inhabiting a burning desert, mounted on the fleetest horses in the world, and full of courage. They live with their wives and children in flying camps, which are never pitched two nights together in the same place.— They are horrible savages, and yet they have some no- tion of gold and silver! a small quantity of it serves to excite their admiration. Yes my dear brother, they love gold; they pass their lives in extorting it from such Europeans as fall into their hands: and for what purpose! for continuing the course of life which I have described, and for teaching it to their children. O Jean Jacques! why was it not thy fate to see those men, whom thou callest "the men of nature," thou wouldst sink with shame, thou wouldst startle with horror at the thought of having once admired them!
Adieu, my dear brother let me hear from you soon. I suffered a great deal on our passage; this climate kills me; we shall be so altered that you will discover the change at a league's distance.
I am not well at present, and shall be obliged to stay here a few days longer if every body else goes to mor- row. Adieu, I embrace you with the sincerest affection. Remember me to Julia, Caroline, &c. and to the legisla- tor Lu-ien. He might have failed with us to advan- tage: we see more in two days than common travellers in two years.
The remarkable objects here are Pompey's columns, the obelisks of Cleopatra, the spot where her baths once stood, a number of ruins, a subterraneous temple, some catacombs, mosques and a few churches. But what is still more remarkable, is the characters and manners of the inhabitants. They are of a sanguineous absolute-y- atouinishing. Nothing agitates them, and death itself is to them, what a voyage to America, to the English.
Their exterior is imposing. The most marked physi- ognomies amongst us, are more children's countenances compared to theirs. The women wrap themselves up in a piece of cloth, which passes over their head, and de- scends in front to the eyebrows. The poorer sort cover the whole of their face with linen, leaving only two small apertures for the eyes; so that if this strange veil happens to be a little shriveled, or stained, they look like so many hob-goblins.
Their forts and their artillery are the most ridiculous things in nature; they have not even a lock, or a window to their houses; in a word, they are still involved in all the blindness of the earliest ages.
* This is inaccurate. It appears from several of the letters, that a great portion of the army was engaged in the attack on Alexandria. † See the appendix.
† It appears from Bourrienne's letter (see No. 14) that he was still there on the 27th of July.
‡ This word is marked in the original, and evidently alludes to a piece of private history.
§ Meaning probably, a matter of little importance; but an expression near-ly resembling this, is proverbial amongst them.
Oh! how many misanthropes would be converted if chance should conduct them into the midst of the deserts of Arabia.
Adieu my dear brother, Yours entirely.
L. BUONAPARTE.
P. S. I beg, my dear brother, that you will let the female citizen Couppry, my good old land lady, Rue St. Honore, No. 27, pres le passage des Feuillans, know how and where I am: tell her that I have not yet had time to write to her, and that I des'ed to be remembered to her.
No. II. TRANSLATION.
L'Orient, off Aboukir, July 8.
From JAUVERT, Commissary, &c.
HERE we are, my dear Jaubert, on the coast of Egypt. Our brave troops have already got footing in its territo- ries, and every thing announces that ere long the im- provident despotism of the Mameloucs, and the apathy of the Egyptians, will be succeeded by a creative govern- ment, and by a spirit of emulation hitherto unknown to its inhabitants.
We are masters of Alexandria. On our march we seized on Aboukir and Rosetta, and are consequently in possession of one of the principal mouths of the Nile.— Thou mayest trace our route on the chart of Savary's voy- ages which I suppose thou hast before thee.
At six in the morning of the first instant, we were within six leagues of Alexandria. The Juno was dis- patched to the port with a letter to the French consul.— This was the ostensible motive, but her secret orders were, at all events, to bring him and all the French in the city on board the fleet. Every thing there was in confusion. A French invasion had been openly talked of for the last two months, and measures taken (as mea- sure usual y are taken by the Turks) to prevent it.— The appearance of an English squadron of fourteen sail on the 25th of June, and which the governor obstinately maintained to be ours, had redoubled the terrors of the city and rendered the situation of the French residents there, more and more critical. The consul however, obtained permission to go on board the Juno, on his promise to return in three hours; and the frigate direct- ly put to sea with him. On his arrival on board the L'Orient, the necessity of immediate measures became apparent, not only to anticipate the English in getting possession of Alexandria, but to shelter our fleet from an engagement, which must be evidently on unequal terms, in the confusion of a first anchorage on unknown ground.
The English fleet has played with ill luck on its side —first it missed a convoy of 57 sail coming from Civita Vecchia, with seven thousand troops of the army of Italy on board. It did not arrive at Malta till five days after we left it; and it arrived at Alexandria in two days before we reached it! It is to be presumed that it is gone to Alexandria, under an idea that the army is to be disembarked there for the conquest of India. We shall certainly see it at last, but we are now moored in such a manner as to bid defiance to a force more than double our own.
Such, however, was our critical situation on the morn- ing of the 6th, that in spite of the promptitude with which we disembarked, we might have been uprooted by the English in the midst of our operation. Apprehen- sive of this, the commander in chief, with his staff, was in his galley by four in the afternoon, surrounded by the boats and chalups of the different vessels, and full of troops, and ready for the descent.
On the morning of the 2d, a landing was effected at Marabouh, two leagues to the westward of Alexandria —not the slightest resistance! not even a piece of can- non at Marabouh! the army then advanced in platoons toward the city; the fraggers, and those who marched at any distance from the main body, were attacked by parties of Arabs, and a few scattered Mameloucs, who hovered about us. There were also a few partial en- gagements in which we lost some men. On our arrival, the entrance of our brave troops was opposed. A few three or four pounders, (observe that we had no artillery with us) carabines, stones, &c. announced a resolution to defend the city. General Kleber was wounded in the head, and General Menou in divers places: but by eleven o'clock we were in possession of Alexandria.— The awkward musketry which attempted a defence by firing from the windows, all hid themselves, or were killed. The Mameloucs, and a vast number of Arabs, took refuge in the desert. The few inhabitants who re- mained were exceedingly astonished at finding we did not cut their throats, and read with transport of joy, the proclamations, which the commander in chief had previously printed in Arabic, and which you will long before this have seen in the public papers.
This proclamation has given birth to two very singu- lar circumstances. The evening before, we had seized a few Turks and Arabs, and carried them on board of the fleet. The question was to calm their apprehen- sions, and make them our apostles. A Maronite priest from Damascus (a christian like ourselves) was ordered to read it to them, and to comment on it as he proceeded. When you consider the proclamation, you will judge how well the part he played became him!
* It appears from the next letter, which is under the same fig- nature, and which the reader will find well worthy of his ser- ious attention, that Jaubert was so convinced of the power of this letter as either to mislead, or to be probably ad- vised by his brother, one of the generals of the French army in Ita- ly.
† In the original it is "Savary's or some other"—what- ever Jaubert might allude to we know not, nor perhaps the writer himself; but certainly Savary's is good for nothing.
It is this man's rhapsodical and delusive panegyric on Egypt which appears to have endeared, in a considerable degree, the old bias of the French government towards the seizure of that coun- try; it also seems to be the only Vide Mecum of the Savans, and leader of the expedition, who appears to have placed an im- plicit confidence in it. The former, at least as far as we know, have not made any advances towards a recantation of their credu- lity; for, as the great Ransloff well observed, when he first cut his left tooth in the hospital, "it does not become a philoso- pher to change his opinion" but the latter have loudly and frequently declared their sorrow and indignation at having been so miserably misled.
‡ The astonishment of the remaining Alexandrines, at finding the French did not cut their throats, may be tolerably accounted for (no offence to Mons. Jaubert's sagacity!) by a slight perusal of citizen Boyer's long letter to his father (see No. XXII.)— After an indiscriminate massacre of these unoffending people (un- less it be an offence to dispute the possession of their lives and prop- erties with a rapacious and blood-thirsty horde of strangers) "for the space of four hours;" the remaining survivors might reasonably wonder, at their being spared, and read with pleasure (or, if Mons. Jaubert will have it so, "with transports of joy,") any thing that promised a temporary cessation of the "wan- ton cruelties of their invaders."
§ See the appendix, No. 1.
¶ Jaubert would have us do no bad coadjutor to Herbert, the original Pere du Chene. The same impiety, the same disre- gard of decency, and the same readiness to adopt every prejudice

The day we landed the Turkish vice-admiral who was in the port of Alexandria with the Caraval (a large vessel belonging to the Grand Seigneur) declined to collect the tribute of the army, sent his flag officer on board the L'Orient with a present of two sheep, and an order to inquire into the destination of our armament. We gave him the proclamation to read; he executed it on his ignorance, and it was read to him. every paragraph that touched on the insolence of the Mamelouks made him sweep with joy. He asked for some proclamations to disperse, and assured us that the vice-admiral, who represented the person of the Grand Seigneur, would give a general order for the friendly reception of the French. At length, after drinking a cup of coffee and eating some sweetmeats, he retired extremely well satisfied. The Caraval is still in the port with the admiral's flag flying.
I landed at Alexandria on the 1st, with the admiral. Those of the inhabitants who had remained, as well as the Arabs of the neighbourhood, appeared to be tolerably well recovered from their fright, and in a way of acquiring a little confidence. There were in the Bazar (market place) sheep, pigeons, tobacco, and a number of barbers; who place the head of their customers between their knees; and who, at first, seem rather preparing to twist their necks off than to shave them; they have, however, a very light hand, and go through their business deftly. I saw also some women; they were muffled up in long vizards, which left nothing to be seen but the eyes; a mode of dress which put me in mind of the penitents of our southern provinces.
This city, which is said to contain 100,000 inhabitants, has nothing of the ancient Alexandria but the name; the Arabs, indeed, call it Scander . The ruins of its former circuit announce that it was once a most extensive place, and might well contain the 300,000 people which historians have given it. But the despotism and stupor which follow war, that period, and the discovery of the route to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, have successively reduced it to the miserable state in which it now lies.
It is a mere heap of ruins, where you see a paltry hovell of mud and straw stuck against the magnificent fragments of a granite column! The streets are not paved. This image of desolation is rendered the more striking by being within view of two objects, which have passed uninjured through the lapse of ages that has devoured every thing around them. One is what is called Pompey's Column, but which was raised by Severus; this I have only seen at a distance, the other, which is called Cleopatra's Needle, I have examined closely. It is an obelisk formed on a single piece of granite, exceedingly well preserved. As far as I could judge from my eye, it is about 72 of our feet in height, 7 feet square at the base, and 4 towards the summit; it is covered with hieroglyphics on every side. A few date trees are scattered here and there about the country. It is a melancholy looking tree, which, at a distance, bears some resemblance to a fir that has been stripped of all its branches to the top.
Such is the coast of this country, so fertile in the interior! and which under an enlightened government, might once more revive the age of Alexander and the Ptolemies.
Arrived at head quarters, which are near the northern extremity of the city, we found an activity, an appearance of life which we had not been used to for a long time, some of the troops disembarking, others preparing for their march across the deserts of Rosetta—Generals, soldiers, Turks, Arabs, Cames—all together formed a contrast which presented a very lively picture of the revolutions which was about to change the face of the country.
In the midst of this confusion appeared the commander in chief, regulating the march of the army, the police of the city and the precautions to be taken against the plague; tracing out new fortifications, combining the operations of the fleet with those of the army, and expediting, in conjunction with the Arabs who had submitted to the proclamation, to the tribes who had taken the arms. A most striking example was made at this instant: a soldier was brought in, who had stolen a poignard from a friendly Arab; the fact was ascertained, and the culprit was instantly shot on the spot.
In consequence of this, an entire tribe of Arabs, consisting of 3000, sent deputies the next day to the commander in chief, to swear a lasting friendship between the two nations under pain of damnation! They brought with them some prisoners, among whom was one of our women, whom they had beaten. This tribe will furnish us with armed soldiers; other will assuredly imitate their example. War with the Mamelouks, peace with the Arabs! such is the cry which will swell our armies, and sweep before us the oppressors of this part of the world.
I am obliged to break off—the vessel is going. I have not time to read it over, to see if it be correctly copied; this must be my excuse. Adieu. JAUBERT. (To be continued.)
of the people for the sake of turning them to the purposes of pillage and proscription.
Hypocrisy of every kind is bad; but the hypocrisy of atheism is monstrous! it adds cowardice to guilt.
Now we are on this subject, it may not be amiss to mention that the passage before us puts the authenticity of Buonaparte's proclamation out of dispute. Our readers cannot have forgotten with what studiousness the opposition writers (out of a tender regard, we suppose, for the pious memory of their favourite chief) just maintained that it was fabricated in this country, and ben when it appeared in France mutilated and disguised (as on account of Spain an open profession of Mahometanism is not yet, perhaps, thought prudent)—with what veracity they recited round, and allowed that Buonaparte had, indeed, published a proclamation, but that it was only to be found in its genuine state in the French papers!
We enter into no contests with these gentlemen. Our translation is made from a faithful rendering of the original Arabic, by the Dragon of our Embassy at the Port, and the reader who turns to it, will readily comprehend the force of Jaubert, at the part played by the Mamelouks or Christian priest!
We have given Buonaparte's address to the Vice Admiral in the appendix; it is in his usual style of insolence. With respect to the farce played on board the L'Orient by the Turkish mis-lander, we do not believe a word of it; this bonjour, is certain at all events, that if any such mummerery took place, it was not the Turk that was duped by it.
This is no bad picture of the restless spirit of those people—Whether abroad or at home, their expectations are the same. In every chance medley they discover the design of empires; and a confusion of any kind (though but of men and camels,) is to them the certain pledge of approaching revolutions!
Fresh Foreign News, Received by capt. Frott, arrived at Boston from Liverpool, in 36 days. London papers to March 21.
LONDON, MARCH 19. LAST night the Paris Journals from the 12th to the 14th inst. inclusive, were received in town. They contain more important intelligence than has lately come from that quarter. On the 12th and 14th inst. the Directory sent messages to the two councils, containing a formal requisition that
A DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE EMPEROR AND THE GRAND DUKE, might be declared by the French nation. None of the journals that have arrived contain full copies of these important documents; but the following extract from the Patriote of the 14th, will enable our readers to form tolerably correct ideas of them.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED—March 13. Delbel, the Secretary, read several Messages from the Council of Elders, containing the resolutions of that Council on the subject of the message of the Directory, stating that the French Republic IS AT WAR with the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and with the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
The Directory has explained at length in its message the contents of the republic against those two powers. It declares with respect to the Emperor, that the treaty of Campo Formio was misunderstood in its principle, and not carried into effect in one of its principal articles; and that the conduct of the Austrian Cabinet has been always in opposition to peace. It adverts to the cold reception of our ambassador Bernadotte, at Vienna—to the affront offered to him there—to the hypocrisy of that court in the negotiations of Rastadt, which was the more evident, because Baron de Degallman did not repair to Paris—to the sending of Count Cobenzel to Berlin and Russia—and to the difficulties raised at Vienna to receive the Cisplaine ambassador. It finally demonstrates the hostile disposition of the Emperor with respect to the march of the Russian across Moravia and Austria, which are on the confines of Bavaria, already occupied by an army of 100,000 Austrians.
The Directory in the same message accuses the Grand Duke of Tuscany of perfidy towards the republic and of connivance with the enemies of France. It exposes his secret negotiations with the Cabinet of St. James's, particularly by the possession of Leghorn by the English, against which he merely opposed ill-digested efforts. The Message concludes with a formal proposition of declaring War against the Emperor and the Grand Duke. It was ordered to be printed, and was received with shouts of 'Long live the republic!'
HOSTILITIES. Already have the French begun their operations. The Patriote of the 13th, gives the following account of their first successes:
"We joyfully announce a happy prelude of success on the part of our armies. A courier just arrived from Switzerland brings intelligence that the troops under the command of Massena, and another General, have taken four thousand five hundred Austrians, together with the commandant of Coire (Chur) the capital of the Grison country, and all the staff of that army."
The same paper states, That the Austrians had passed the Lech, had advanced beyond Ulm, and that in a few days the two armies would be in sight of each other.
A French column under Gen. Bernadotte, crossed the Rhine at Mannheim, which he took possession of, and summoned Phillipburg to surrender; which the Governor refused. This column rapidly marched by Homburg and Heilbronn in order to be beforehand of the Austrians, and form a line from Philipgen to Heilbronn, along the Neckar. Gen. Jourdan's army goes direct into Suabia, leaving a garrison at Offenburg. On the 5th his head quarters were at Villingen, in the Black Forest. On the 6th Gen. St. Cyr has entered Wirttemberg and taken possession of Stuttgart.
Pichegru, who had been for some time at Hamburg, was very near being arrested by order of the French Legation. It is reported that he continues to reside at Brunswick.
MARCH 21. An account has been received by the Hamburg mails, of a proclamation by the Archduke Charles, in which he declares his intention of immediately marching to the attack of the French, in consequence of their having crossed the Rhine.
BUONAPARTE. At Milan it was reported, that a letter had been received from general Lannus, stating that the Pacha of Syria, at the head of an army of 60,000 men had been defeated in a general engagement, by Buonaparte, who had in consequence penetrated into Syria, leaving general Kleber in command of the other forces in Egypt.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 23. The Sun of last night, says, "The Report of the Secret Committee of the House of Commons will prove the most important and interesting that ever engaged the attention of the British nation." It will (if the Sun is not misinformed) appear that a plan was very near execution for massacring the Members of both Houses of Parliament, and afterwards attacking the King's Palace! This was to have been executed by United Irishmen, 50,000 of whom are supposed to be now in this country.
Summary.
The London papers received by Capt. Frott, from Liverpool, contain interesting intelligence of late dates. The most prominent articles are those which relate to the renewal of hostilities between France and the Emperor of Germany, which appear to be inevitable:—the governments and people of Europe were to merely indebted to Peace for their happiness, they must now be contented to owe their safety to their military energy; it is however consolatory, that the Emperor is in a situation to maintain this military energy, for besides the 24,000 Russians who are now rapidly marching towards Upper Austria, 16,000 more are following at the distance only of a few days march; 45,000 more, are, it is said, to enter Germany by the South of Prussia, and according to accounts under the Constantinople head, a considerable body is to embark on the Black Sea to join the Turkish fleet, and to make a diversion in Italy. The Emperor of Russia, has thus entered spiritedly into the coalition against France, he has besides insisted on an express declaration on the part of Prussia, for or against France; and has sworn to re-instate the King of Naples on his throne. The corps of Condé is, to join the Russian troops in Germany. The ratification of the triple alliance between Great Britain, Russia and the Porte has been celebrated at Constantinople with great éclat. One of the first acts of the French after taking possession of Naples was to levy a contribution of 2,500,000 ducats on the rich inhabitants of that city; but such was the scarcity of money, that it was found very difficult to levy the contribution. Gen. Championnet, the conqueror of Naples is put under arrest on the charge of infringing upon the constitutional power of the Civil Commissioner, Paypoult, who acted with the army. The Elector Palatine, of Bavaria is dead—Great and affliction sufferings, have been occasioned by the ice and the overflow of the Rhine, the Danube, the Mein, the Neckar, the Rhone, and of all the principal rivers of Germany and France. The contemplated union between Great Britain and Ireland has been much debated in the English parliament; but the measure is to be laid aside for the present.
Sir Sidney Smith, who is appointed to superintend certain naval operations in the Mediterranean, arrived safe at Constantinople.
The French are exerting themselves to the utmost to equip a fleet at Brest. There has been a general press of sailors in every seaport in France.
A Barbary fleet of 2 sail of the line appeared off Cadiz Feb 3, were joined by British ships, and shaped their course to Minorca.
Hon T Grenville, passenger in the Proserpine frigate, arrived safe at Berlin.
Admiral Nelson, is furnished with Turkish and Russian troops, is to make a descent on Calabria.
Telegraphs are establishing to convey information from Egypt to Constantinople.
The Spaniards are very industrious at Cadiz in equipping a fleet. One rumour is, that it is designed to reduce to Order the blacks of St. Domingo.
Portland, Monday, Mar 6, 1799.
At length I am enabled to lay before my readers, some late and very interesting Foreign News.
Advertisements, &c, omitted this day, shall appear in the next Gazette.
Being disappointed in obtaining paper of a better quality, I am obliged to issue a part of this day's impression on some of an inferior kind.
Capt. SAMUEL PARKER, of this town, is appointed a Lieutenant in the Navy of the United States.
Some of the French West India islands have declared war against the United States.
On the 20th ult. a house belonging to Mr. Julius Soper, of Penobscot was consumed by fire. It caught by some shavings in one end of the house, while the family were at tea in the other.
From Philadelphia, April 26.
The Grand Jury of the Circuit Court of the United States, now sitting in Philadelphia, have found bills against the following persons:
FOR TREASON. John Fries, Frederick Heany, Anthony Stahler, Conrad Morks, John Gottman, Valentine Kender, David Shaefer, Jacob Klien, and Philip Disk.
FOR MISDEMEANOR. Morris Llewellyn, James Jackson, George Britton, Samuel Young, and Archibald Mentges.
DIED—In this town, on Thursday last, Mr. SAMUEL BRADBURY, in the 70th year of his age.
Portland, May 4, 1799—Yesterday departed this life, DANIEL FRES, Esquire, in the 60th year of his age. He was a son of Daniel Fries, Esq. late of Danvers, in the county of Essex. Educated at the University in Cambridge, where he made great improvement, he was graduated in the year 1758. He married the eldest daughter of Charles Foss, Esq. of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, deceased. Devoting himself to God in church communion, early in life, he has walked steadily in the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. With remarkable equanimity, his manners were polished; and his conversation entertaining, useful and serious. Fitted by his piety, ingenuity and learning, for important public employment, he sustained several offices of great responsibility, which he executed with punctuality and faithfulness, till declining health rendered his personal attendance impracticable. By a general decay his life by gradual decay, without fever, or much pain; for more than a year; during which he discovered consummate patience, and resignation to the will of heaven. Not terrified with the idea of his approaching change, he most willingly resigned himself into the hands of God, with an unreserved trust in his mercy, through the Redeemer. Thus terminated an immaculate and exemplary life as we have known it: But to the unspeakable life and glory of his Saviour and partner, and his only child; and to the deep regret of all who had the pleasure and advantage of an intimate acquaintance with him.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace.
BARNSTABLE, April 26.
On the 27th inst. departed this life, the Hon. DANIEL DAVIS, Esq. Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and Judge of Probate, in the county of Barnstable. A gentleman, who, in the course of a long and very useful life, has sustained a uniformly good character, and enjoyed a large share of public confidence and private esteem; and whose death, notwithstanding his age, is sincerely and extensively regretted.
An agreeable disposition and native politeness of manners, springing from a social disposition, and peculiar mildness of temper, improved by the opportunities which he had enjoyed of mixing with good company, and dignified and ennobled by good sense and decent cheerfulness, rendered him, to his latest years, a pleasing companion both to old and young.
A sound judgment, exercised with calmness and deliberation, and aided by a respectable degree of acquaintance both with men and things, enabled him to discharge with honor to himself and the general acceptance of others, the duties of the most important of those numerous offices, with which, at different periods of life, he was invested.
The various lot of his busy and mild was various in an uncommon degree, and his usual exertions, in his various offices and employments, with but few exceptions, until his last short but distressing sickness, which he bore with Christian patience and fortitude, and the issue of which he contemplated with calm resignation, unshaken faith and joyful hope.
Marine Articles.
PORT OF PORTLAND.
Friday last arrived here brig Katy. Capt. David Higgins, of Boston, 37 days from Surinam. Sailed on a convoy of about 80 sail of American vessels. Among them, Captains Ilsey and Stover of this port. Left the convoy in lat. 24, long. 60, 30. W.
The brig Jane, Robison, failed about the 3d March from Liverpool, for Portland.
Ebenezer, May 3.—The Annubis, Bridges, on her passage from hence to Madeira, saw the wreck of the Polly of Portland.
FRESH GOODS.
JUST RECEIVED FOR SALE, By JOSEPH CROSS, At his Store in Fore-Street, a large assortment of
English & West-India Goods.
Calicoes—Copperplates—
Ginghams—Plain Nankins—Striped Fustians—Janes—Dimities—Mouselinet—Jocot Mouselins—Jappan'd, Check'd, Bock, Shear, Sprig'd, and spotted ditto—Muffin Shawls—Purple and Silk ditto—Muslin Handkerchiefs—Lawn ditto—Luhvings—Sattins—Modes—Sassenets—Bandanna Handkerchiefs—Veil Shapes—Pocket Handkerchiefs—Moreens—Durants—Shallons—Cotton Hose—Silk ditto—Velvets—India Cottons—Diapers—Linen Cambricks—Bed Tickings—Check'd Linen—Broad Cloths—Cashmeres—Carpeting—Women's long and short Gloves—Men's ditto—Russia and Ravens Duck—Looking Glasses—Dressing and pocket ditto—Knives and Forks—Jack and pen Knives.
W. I. & N. E. Rum—
Brandy—Gin—Wines—Molasses—Brown and Loaf Sugar—Bohea and Souchong Tea—Coffee—Chocolate—Ginger—Pepper—Allspice—Cinnamon—Nutmegs—4d, 6d, 10d, and 20d Nails—Glass—Lemons, &c. &c.
April 22, 1799.
JUST RECEIVED FOR SALE, By William Hudson At his STORE in FORE-STREET, 30 tierces of Fresh RICE
MAY 4.
Francis Morris,
Has the pleasure of informing the citizens of Portland, that his DAN SCHOOL is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at o'clock till sunset, at Dr. COFFIN's Assembly-Room. King street. He proposes to commence an English School, for the purpose of teaching ladies and gentlemen who are desirous of perfecting themselves in the accomplishment of dancing Cotillon, Country-Dance, Minuets, &c. as soon as a sufficient number shall be engaged.
MAY 4.
JUST RECEIVED FOR SALE,
At E. A. JENKS'S Book-Store
THE HISTORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE
HELVETIC UNION and LIBERTY.
By J. Mallet Du Pan.
Also—Southey's Poems
For Sale as above.
An assortment of BLANKS,
SHIPPING PAPERS—MANIFESTS—CHARTE PARTIES—BILLS OF LADING—BLANK NOTES—JUDGEMENTS—DEEDS—BONDS, &c. &c.
Entertainment.
Sylvanus Cushman
WISHES to inform his acquaintance and the public in general, that he has taken Mr. THOMAS WEBSTER'S Brick-house in Middle Street, in Portland, where he intends to open a PUBLIC HOUSE, next week. He flatters himself that he will be able to give those gentlemen of the town or the country, that will please to call on him, satisfaction.
April 27th, 1799.
FOR SALE,
A Very valuable FARM
about two miles from Back-Cove Bridge, on Presumpscot river—containing about Ninety acres, up-land and marsh, with a good Dwelling-House, Barn—Also a good Orchard, with Stock and Utensils. The purchaser may know the terms of payment by enquiring of the Printer.
Portland, April 27th, 1799.
FOR SALE,
A pleasant situation
opposite Mr. JENK'S Tavern in New Gloucester—consisting of about a quarter of an acre of Land, on which is erected a large Building, convenient for a family store, being calculated for that purpose—For apply to
Thomas Webster, Thomas Beck.
Portland, April 15.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the subscribers appointed administrators
Estate of David Dennison
late of Freeport, Yeoman, deceased, and have the Bonds as the law directs. All persons indebted to the estate, are requested to make immediate payment to all those who have demands, as desired to exhibit same for settlement.
James Dennison, Timothy Dennison.
Freeport, 16th April 1799.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice that he has been duly appointed Administrator on the
Estate of Andrew Campbell
late of New Gloucester in the county of Cumberland, Trader deceased, and given Bond as the law directs. He therefore, as such, hereby calls upon all persons who have claims against said Estate, to exhibit same and those who are indebted to said Estate, to make immediate payment, to
Andrew Campbell
New Gloucester, April 18, 1799.
List of Letters remain
in the Post-Office, Kennebunk, April 18th, 1799.
 Enoch Kendall—Call.  Samuel Campbell,  George Fletcher,  Joseph Fuller,  Capt Alexander Gould,  John Gowen—11 els.  Shadrach H. upon,  Charles Huff, jun.—Arundel, 2.  Gideon Larabee,  David Mattson—11 els.  Mr. Patgen,  Joshua Thomas, Esq.  Benjamin Smith,  Capt. James Snow,  James Snow—Waltham,  Benjamin Willson. 
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