Jenks' Portland gazette. and Maine advertiser (Portland, Me.), 1803-08-29 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.  AND MAINE ADVERTISER.
Number 279.
PORTLAND, (MAINE) MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1803.
Volume VI.
Wholesale Prices Current at Boston.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
   From To Remarks   Del. Cts. Del. Cts.     ASHES, Pot, ton, 156 66—160   Pearl 155 60—160   Beef, mels, 200 lb. bbl. 16 50—17   cargo, No. 1, 13 15   do. No. 2, 13 13 25   refuse, 9 50—10   Bread, ship, cwt. 3 4   pilot, 5   Beans, wh te, 1 1 12   Brown, lb. 14 15   Butter, inspect. 1st qual. lb. 14 16   2d do. 13 14   Brandy, Fr. 1st proof, Gal. 2 20— 1 25   4th do. 1 35— 1 50   Cognac, 4th do. 1 75— 1 13   Spanish, 1st do. 1 8— 1 13   do. 4th 1 40— 1 45   Candles, tal. mo. Am. lb. 19 20   dipt. do. 19 14   Spermac. do. 48 50   Coal, pit, foreign, chal. 13 14   American, 13   Cocoa, Surinam, cwt. 21 24   Island, 18 19   Coffee, lb. 26 29 scarce   Cordage, American, cwt. 14 50— 15   Russia, 10 50— 11   Cotton, lb. 42 47 nominal   Ches. English 30   American 8 14   Chocolate, common, lb. 16   Welsh's, No. 2 to 1 25 30   Runney's, No. 2 to 1 25 30   Watts', No. 2 to 1 25 30   Coch, Ruffs, bolt 20   Ravens 13   Boarish vd. 36 44   Flh, Table, cwt. 7 10 scarce   Merchant 4 25— 4 40 do   Wethadia, mark. 3 67— 3 75   Scale 3 3 25   Salvage, bbl. 3 25— 3 50   Salmon 11 50 scarce   Herring 3 25— 3 50   Mackerel, summer 6 6 50   N. Scotia, fall.   Furs, Beaver pelt, sk. 1 75— 2 33   Bear, skin 3 6   Fox, cros 1 2 50   red 1 1 50   Mists 20 87   Musquash 10 37   Sables 20 79   Flour, Superfine bbl. 7   Five 6 50—   X Brand 5 50—   Middlings 5 25—   Rye 4 4 25   Country, cwt. 2 50—   Feathers, live Geese, lb. 67 69   Liber 18 20   Sea Fowl 40 42   Gin, Holland, 1st proof, gal. 1 20   41 proof 1 25   Glass, Brit. 10 by 8, box, 13   2 by 9 11 75— 12   Hamburg, 7 by 9 10   8 by 10 10 50—   Boston, 10 by 8 17   7 by 9 15   4 by 8 15   Grain, Barley, bush. 87 1   Corn, Indian, South 64 67   North 70 75   Rye 67 70   Oats 34 37   Hops, hbl, 12 feet, M. 25 26   Iron, Pig, ton 15   Philadelphia bar 100 103   Russia 100 103   Swedes 100 106   Spanish 96 98   Indigo, Carolina, lb. 1 50— 4 scarce   French 2 33— 2 50 scarce   Spanish 2 50— 4 75   Lime, half bhd. 2   Lemons, box 6 8   Leather, sole, dried, best, lb. 22 24   Lumber, Boards, clear, M. 18 19   merch. 9 10   Shingles 2 20— 3   Molasses, gal. 41 45   Nail-Rods, ton 120 130   Nails, 4d. { cutt 19 30   6d { wrought 58 60   8d wro. inspec. 1 30— 1 35   10d { do 1 47—   12d { do 2 9— 2 17   Sheathing { cut & 11   Drawing { wrought 11 12   Pork, Bone Middlings, bbl 20 21   Cargo No. 1 17 18   do. do. 2 16 17   Rum, Jamaica, 4th pr. gal. 8 1 12   St. Croix, 1 2   Antigua, & { 3d 95 97   similar forts { 4th 95 97   Tobago, { 3d 84 86   St. Vincents { 3d 88 90   Guillar forts { 4th 90 92   New-England 48 49   Russia Sheathing, piece 19 20   Rice, cwt. 6 6 50   Sugar, Havana white, cwt. 12 12 50   brown 12 12 50   W. India clayed 14 50— 15   brown 12 13   E. India white 12 50— 13   Salt, 8 bush. 4 50— 5 75   Steel, German, lb. 8 9   Tubb, 14 15   Blistered 40   Staves, W. Oak pipe, M.   head 16 17   head 16 17   R. Oak hhd 12   W. Oak hhd 1 75— 2   Tobacco, James River, cwt. 7 50— 8   Georgia do. 7 7 25   Tea, Hyson, lb. 1 33— 1 36   Young Hyson 1 8— 1 12   Hyson skin 65 70   Souchong 70 73   Bohea, best 28 40   Wines, Madeira, gal. 2 33— 2 75   Libbon 1 33— 1 37   Sherry 1 30— 1 33   Red Port, gal. 1 30— 1 33   Malaga, gr. cask 27 28  
Selected Poetry.
Sir Richard Fanshawe —was, born in 1607; was employed in several offices of trust by Charles I. and Charles II. and died ambassador at Madrid in 1666. His writings consist principally of translations—viz. The Pastor Fido of Guarini; a play, from the Spanish; and a latin metrical translation of Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess , under the Italian title of La Fida Pastora —The following extract is from his poems, published with Il Pastor Fido , 1648 and 1656. The four first lines are part of another sonnet.
THOU blushing rose, within whose virgin leaves The wanton wind to sport himself presumes, Whilist with their rifled wardrobe he receives For his wings, purple—for his breath, perfumes!  Blown is the morning, thou shalt die ere noon: What boots a life which in such haste forsakes thee? Thou't wondrous frolic, being to die so soon, And passing proud a little color makes thee.
If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives, Know then, the thing that swells there is thy bane; For the same beauty doth in snowy leaves The sentence of thy early death contain.  Some clown's coarse lungs will poison thy sweet flowers, If by the careless plough thou shalt be torn, And many Herods lie in wait each hour, To murder thee as soon as thou art born.  Nay, force thy bud to blow, their tyrant breath Anticipating life, to hasten death.
Opinions of late Monday.
FROM A LATE NEWYORK PAPER.
On preserving Cider. —The juice of the apple, were the best methods used in expressing and preserving it, as well as in bottling the fruit, might perhaps be rendered almost equal to the juice of the grape. The following method of preserving cider is mentioned in Deane's Husbandry. "An experiment, says a valuable correspondent in the county of Suffolk (Mass.) was made in the year 1764. Some iron bound casks of cider were placed in a cellar which was always so full of cold spring water, as to keep the casks constantly covered with the water running upon them continually. As the water was at all times equally cold it kept the cider not only from the influence of the air, but fermentations in liquor.—In which place it continued from October to May following. It was then drawn off into barrels, and was pronounced to be the best of cider, by very good judges." He adds, "In this manner the famous Falernian wine, so often mentioned by the Latin poet Horace, was kept, being sunk in the river Tiber, which washed the walls of Rome."
Denniston, lately co-editor, with Cheetham, of the Newyork Citizen, has commenced a paper at Newburgh (N. J.) entitled, " The Rights of Man. " But it is not so easy at present as formerly to cheat the people with names. This democratic paper, it seems, has not a very numerous list of subscribers; for, it is said, the uncle of the printer pays for 300. This is not the first democratic paper which has owed its existence to the liberality of a single individual, or a few persons.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Richmond, who not withstanding the following, it is said is a strong democrat.
"When I saw in a late publication that some persons called Trenton a madman , it reminded me of an anecdote of George the second when he ordered Wolf to America .—Some of his Ministers represented Wolf as a madman , "ah," said the old king, who doubted not the courage and conduct of some of his generals, "if he is mad , by G—d I will he would bite some of my officers."
PARIS, JUNE 25, 1803.
The French government has given notice that it will successively publish all the papers relative to the negotiations that have taken place between France and England: it began ere yesterday by publishing the declaration of H. B. M. with observations replete with energy, sense and dignity. All the grievances alleged by H. B. M. are summed up with precision, and repelled with vigor.— The shackles that France set upon the English trade, her pretended usurpations upon the continent, the military occupation of Holland, the act of mediation in Switzerland, the article in the Gazette of Hamburg, the report of Colonel Sebastiani, and the conversation of the First Consul , all these motives so grievous and so grievously expressed in the speech from the throne, are successively taken up and reduced to nothing. The want of room prevents us from laying these details before our readers; but these pieces belong to history and are doubtless more important than the long list of English birthday dresses.
Bonaparte is urging the Danes to shut the English out of the Baltic.
BONAPARTE'S ADDRESS,
Delivered to his Council of State, a day or two previous to his setting out on his journey, as mentioned in our last. It was translated from a French paper published in London—and inserted in the Star , which reproduces it by saying "We cannot ascertain its authenticity; but it is certainly much in the style of the First Consul, and the spirit it breathes is entirely his own."
"Before I commence one of the most important journeys ever undertaken by the Chief of an Empire, I think it necessary to inform my Council of State, that I am perfectly satisfied with their zeal and fidelity, on which I have still a farther reliance, particularly in my absence.
"A great enterprise occupies my mind, great ameliorations demand my attention. Without detailing to you at this moment a vast project in which I shall require the assistance of your knowledge and your efforts, I shall, however, describe to you the different subjects which I am desirous the Sections of the Council should deliberate without delay.
"We cannot conceal from ourselves, that our internal administration has not that unity and activity which distinguish our external relations. We are powerful and respected abroad, but at home we are timidly irresolute—obliged to consult public opinion, without, however, possessing at all times the means of controlling or directing it.
"Why is our progress thus embarrassed—whence these internal distractions? This I have not completely discovered. Perhaps enterprises which required boldness, have been conducted with too much circumspection—perhaps too much importance has been given to public opinion in circumstances in which it ought to have been opposed or disregarded. I know not, but it appears to me to be necessary instantly to break all the habits which great bodies of the people have contracted by the Revolution. Thus conducted to obedience by firm measures, they will feel less interest in the changes which the return of order requires, and we shall at the same time be more at liberty to attempt these changes.
"The French are in general of an unquiet and discontented disposition. That levity with which they were reproached, and which some selfish ministers have turned to their advantage, in establishing absolute authority, no longer exists. It is replaced by circumspection and reticence. I have received many reports on the manner in which the people view our administration, on what they hope and on what they require. I have almost always observed a discontent without any pretext, or by which those which existed were exaggerated. We have not yet advanced far enough from the chaos to which we succeeded, and the pretensions which contributed not a little to produce it are but too well recollected. Indeed, when I see the injustice with which our ameliorations are received, and the liberty which is taken with our conduct, I am compelled to ask myself whether we have not been too gentle, too conciliating and whether it is possible for this nation to accommodate itself to a temperate authority?
"I am pretty well satisfied with the rich proprietors. They have that respect and deference for the government which we are entitled to require of them. But perhaps they have not displayed sufficient confidence—perhaps they have shown little anxiety to involve themselves in its destiny—and finally, they have, perhaps, made too few sacrifices for supporting it in its embarrassments; but this is not the proper moment for investigating all these subjects of dissatisfaction. It is, however, necessary to discover the cause of this uncertainty and coldness in the public opinion, and to remedy it promptly by strong measures and vigorous institutions.
"I know that in general the new government is reproached for its expenses—if, however, the people could reason when their wants are in question, it would be easy to prove that the expenses that are so disagreeable to them, fall in very small proportion on the public treasury; but we well know that the multitude are incapable of entering into such details. The Revolution has rendered them jealous of every thing connected with rank and splendour; but to that it is proper their minds should be habituated. As to the burthen of taxes, I am of opinion that it is not sufficiently disguised, and that it may be augmented, without being so sensibly felt. It is the opinion of financiers, that too much is levied on land. We must have recourse to indirect taxation, but that requires an extended commerce; and this war, which I could neither prevent nor delay, has deranged all my plans for the restoration of our industry and navigation. I hope, however, that with the aid of some regular tributes which we have a right to require from our neighbours, either from the benefits they have received or which we grant them, it will be possible to diminish the public charges; but this resource is not yet fixed, though it has already produced much; but the measure, in the execution of which I have experienced real obstacles and open dissatisfaction, is my attempt to increase the army to that degree of force which is proportional to our influence in Europe, and the expeditions I am preparing.
"We cannot support our power without a great military establishment. We cannot remain formidable unless we present to astonished Europe a gigantic army. Military glory has raised us to our present station, and it is only by a display of military power that we can maintain ourselves in it.
"I confess, that for consulting this formidable support of our grandeur, I thought I perceived great facilities in the national character, in the warlike talents of the French people, and in their thirst of glory and conquest, which success only serves to stimulate. In this, however, I have been a good deal deceived. The conscription was at first effected with scarce any obstacle, but now with great murmurs; that institution, which peculiarly belongs to France, seems about to fall completely. There is no ardor in the youth, and much indisposition in the parents. The Government ought, therefore, to direct all its attention to an inquiry into the causes which have produced this apathy and resistance. Vigorous measures are necessary to remedy those evils, particularly if I do not succeed in the efforts I will intend to make in my journey for re animating that warlike spirit which seems about to be extinguished.
"I must next notice those scenes from which I have experienced an almost equal degree of anxiety, which fortunately, however, begins to diminish, I mean the crimes of every kind which some months ago still assailed us. That frenzy of vengeance and pillage has long given me great uneasiness, and the special tribunals will never be able to protect us from its attempts. Here I must observe that our judicial organization is bad; the judges are too independent of the government. Their places ought not to be for life, and we ought to possess more means of stimulating them when they are inactive or timid, or of punishing them when they misunderstand their duty. The institution of Juries, which I have preserved out of respect to those who founded it, rather than from any regard to the public opinion, is useless and can never be naturalized among us. Popular institutions will never exist in France. Every thing which approximates to the people soon becomes either the object of their contempt or indifference. We must have severe judicial forms and inflexible judges. Such a reform would be worthy of our meditations. You ought to pave the way for it by your speeches and your writings. Without it there is neither repose for us nor security for the people."
London, June 25. —The following transaction is said to have taken place immediately after Mr. Lisson delivered his note to the Dutch Government, proposing a state of neutrality with Great Britain: On this occasion it is known, that three Commissioners proceeded to Paris, and they are said to have made an offer to the First Consul of thirty millions of guilders per annum, during the war, to purchase the liberty of enjoying neutrality. The merchants of Amsterdam, offered to the First Consul of twenty millions of guilders, and the other mercantile towns were willing to add proportionable payments. These offers, however, were refused, and instead of receiving them, the French government communicated the following demands:
The Batavian Republic to advance thirty millions of guilders; to pay, annually, during the war, fifty millions, to provide nine ships of the line, and a proportionable number of frigates; and to furnish twelve thousand troops.
June 26.—Bonaparte sent over the recapitulation of Hanover for his Majesty's ratification, accompanying it with a proposal to restore Hanover for Malta, which was instantly rejected.
By our Falmouth letter it will be seen, that about a hundred and fifty Spanish vessels must, at this time be on their passage from La Plata to Spain, all richly laden.
July 1.—No ship of any description has been able to come out of Brest or go in since Admiral Cornwallis's fleet has been on that station. We understand that the French have, in that port 23 line of battle ships, completely ready for sea, besides a number of gun and flat bottomed boats.
Letters recently received at Falmouth, from Lisbon, mention, that the Portuguese had been requested by the French to allow 25,000 troops to enter that territory, which was positively refused by the prince of Brazils, who replied, that he would neither receive them as friends or enemies.

Be just, and fear not, Let all the ends thou aim'st at, be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's."
Louisiana.—The purchase of this vast wilderness is not so generally well received as the President's tools and flatterers endeavored to make it. The people seem desirous to pause, inquire and reflect on the subject, before they approve or condemn—without having it forced upon them as the matter of human wisdom. From the statements we have thus far seen, we deem it a bad speculation. But as it will soon meet the sanction of Congress, we will then give our readers an opportunity to avail themselves of the arguments on both sides of the question.
Fifteen Millions of Dollars for Louisiana!—This is a bargain that does not meet with unqualified approbation in the public papers. When the people seriously contemplate the payment of this great sum, they begin to think they do not stand much in need of that vast country, with all its Indians. They find, by looking at the map of the United States in its present limits, that they have millions and millions of acres of unseated land, more than they will populate for centuries; and that the purchase of more, can only have the effect to sink the value of what they now possess. What we stand in need of (the free navigation of the Mississippi, and a convenient place of deposit, for the benefit of our western brethren) we did own, by solemn treaty with Spain. That nation, with whom we have now a long unsettled account for the depredations of their gun boats on our commerce in the Levant, and the imprisonment and slaughter of our countrymen, dared (for, alas! our Washington was no more) to deprive us of the latter; and rather than claim our right, we suffer ourselves to pay tribute to the amount of Fifteen Millions of Dollars! Perhaps, indeed, our Senate may still prefer to be from this humiliation—they may still refuse the tribute, and demand our right—and should the government do this, with proper spirit, neither France nor Spain could withhold it from us.—Salem Gaz.
The country of Louisiana costs us fifteen millions of dollars, in the first instance, to France—but before we have a clear title to it, we must pay the Indians for it also, besides, probably, maintaining wars with them into the bargain. To preserve what we buy, we must establish a government in the country; and we must build forts, and raise troops to support that government. The fifteen millions of dollars, we apprehend, is the cheapest part of the bargain; as it is well known the defence and government of our Western Territory have been the heaviest bill of expense to us of any one article since the establishment of the Federal Constitution; and there can scarcely be a hope that the people of that country, when it shall contain a people capable of government, will not set up for independence, and form a separate nation. But before that time many a land jobber may have made his fortune by Louisiana speculations.—Ibid.
Liberty of the Press.—The case of Crosswell justly excites much interest in the public mind. From a recapitulation of his trial, by the editors of the Balance, we extract the following:
"It will be recollected that the charge in the paragraph selected from the Wasp, as a libel, originated in Richmond, Virginia, immediately under the eye of Mr. Jefferson and his officers; that a prosecution was there repeatedly and publicly challenged; that it passed through almost every federal newspaper at the southward; that in the northern states, prior to its appearance in the Wasp, it had been published in papers, whose circulation is ten times more extensive: Yet this little paper, limited in its circulation, remote from the scene of action, was selected for the victim, and a court chosen whose process could not reach the place where it was well known the witnesses resided.
It will also be recollected for what purpose the paragraph in question was inserted in the Wasp.—Holt, the editor of the Bee, had published a paragraph beginning with the following sentence:—"The burden of the federal song now is that Mr. Jefferson paid Callender for writing against the past administration." As the Wasp was established for the particular purpose of correcting Holt's habitual deviations from truth, it was thought proper to expose this most palpable falsehood. Accordingly the paragraph in question was published, viz.—
"Holt says, the burden of the federal song is that Jefferson paid Callender for writing against the late administration. This is wholly false. The charge is explicitly this:—Jefferson paid Callender for calling Washington a traitor, a robber, and a perjured man; for calling Adams a hoary headed incendiary; and for most grossly slandering the private characters of men, who he well knew were virtuous. These charges, not a democratic editor has yet dared, or ever will dare to meet in an open and manly discussion."
"It ought likewise to be known that the grand jury who indicted Mr. Crosswell, were almost to a man openly and violently democratic. And the public ought also to know the peculiar manner in which the grand jury was summoned; and the
time and place when and where the indictments were drawn. But—the truth cannot be given in evidence! The public must therefore, be content to remain ignorant of these particular's.
It will be recollected, that Mr. Crosswell was immediately arraigned, and tho' he requested copies of the indictments before he plead to the charges; they were refused, and he was compelled to plead without them; and his trial was pressed with such vehemence that a postponement was with difficulty obtained.
It will be recollected that a violent attempt was made to bind Mr. Crosswell in thousands, to his good behavior, and thus, in the very face of law and liberty, to impose "a previous restraint in the form of surety" upon the press, which, in England at this day, would doom its projector to execration and infamy."
Mr. Jefferson's consistency.—Mr. Jefferson is a consistent man—and so are all those democrats who wish to give the federal printers the lock jaw. No libel thus far, for there is no truth. We will not say that Mr. Jefferson and his partisans are inconsistent, but we will prove them so—libel or no libel.
On the 4th day of May, 1801, the following sentiments fell from the pen of the "greatest man in America."
"I am sensible with you of the distortions and perversions of truth and justice, practiced in the public papers, and how difficult to decipher characters through that medium. BUT THESE ABUSES OF THE PRESS ARE PERHAPS INSEPARABLE FROM ITS FREEDOM; and its FREEDOM MUST BE PROTECTED, or liberty, civil and religious be relinquished. It is a part of our duty, therefore, to submit to the lacerations of its flanders, as less injurious to our country than the trammels which suppress them."
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
In the year 1803, H. Crosswell had his trial for libelling the said Thomas Jefferson, by a publication, the truth of which he offered to prove, but was not permitted.—Now put this and that together, and learn to admire the consistency of democrats.—Balance.
The Attorney General of New York evinces his determination not to stop in his endeavors to destroy the liberty of the press. He has, in the case of Crosswell, obtained the decision of Judge Lewis, that the truth shall not be given in evidence on a trial for a libel; and the attorney is resolved to take the full advantage of the doctrine, particularly as it regards his own dear reputation. His determination, however, must eventually fail, for in this country the citizens have been so long indulged in the liberty of expressing their sentiments of public men and measures, that while truth is their guide, they will be supported. The trial will be a pretty severe one, and it is more than probable that many editors, and many men, will think at the outset, and many others will be ruined in the contest. But these will be but partial evils; for ultimately the truth will prevail, and to the perfect discomfiture of democracy and its adherents. The characters of the men in place shall be pouttrayed by the pencil of truth; the people shall know who and what these men are, who, by falsehood and calumny, have obtained the direction of the government, and would now stop an examination of their public conduct.—Gaz. U. S.
Latest News from Europe.
LONDON, JULY 12. The Brussels papers to the 9th, which we received this morning, have brought the important news that, as the king of England has refused to ratify the convention of Subingen, the French government have sent orders to dismiss the Hanoverian troops. For this purpose, the French army has been put in motion, and is to cross the Elbe inmediately to execute the orders of the First Consul. The Hanoverian troops are determined not to be disarmed without risking a battle, which is expected to take place as soon as the French have crossed the Elbe. They were expected to cross it on the 1st. The Hanoverians have erected batteries on the north bank of the river, and have taken very strong positions.
The Brussels papers contain also another piece of important news. It is that Alexandria has been taken by a corps of Albanians. These troops formed the flower and strength of the Turkish army. The withholding their pay produced a revolt, and they drove the Turkish commandant out of the city. This event has produced a great sensation at Constantinople.
The government are continually receiving addresses in support of the war, &c from every part of the United Kingdom, from all ranks and conditions in society breathing nothing but manliness and vigor. The following extract from sundry resolutions adopted by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen breathes the spirit that pervades every part of Great Britain:—"Resolved unanimously, that this Court, feeling with indignant pride the insulting views of inordinate ambition (though at the same time sensible how painful the necessity has been of engaging this kingdom in a destructive war, yet as this awful crisis exhibits to the view of the People, Freedom or Slavery, existence as an independent nation, or extinction and annihilation,) solemnly call upon their fellow-citizens, and every individual inhabitant within the metropolis, to enroll himself, in one of the clauses hereby recommended and specified, in order that all may be prepared and participate in the honor of chastising the insolence of an inplacable foe, should he ever dare to venture upon British ground. The Court take this opportunity of congratulating the country upon the present happy extinction of
parties, and upon the harmony and unanimity now existing in all ranks, being convincing proofs of the zeal and affection of all orders for our beloved King and glorious constitution, which must ever place the interests of the realm above the measures of any power that shall pretend to give laws, or prescribe limits to the policy and interests of this nation."
The new measure to be proposed by the Secretary at war, is, we understand, to extend to all parts of the kingdom, the plan recommended by the Court of Aldermen.
In the event of invasion, the King, it is stated will take the field in person, and will be assisted in the conduct of the war by a military Council—His Majesty certainly will, in the course of the autumn, review the various camps near London.
Capt. Maitland, of La Loire frigate, on the 27th ult. cruising off the isle of B-s, observed; 1 large French gun brig, moored within a cable's length of two heavy batteries, within the isle.
An attack being resolved upon, three boats were despatched the same night for the purpose, under the command of Lieut. Temple, assisted by Lieut. Bowen. One of the boats, rowing heavy, could not come up; but this circumstance did not deter the other two from proceeding to execute their project. On reaching the brig, they found all her crew ready to receive them. The British sailors immediately boarded, in the most undaunted manner; and after a desperate contest on deck, which lasted ten minutes, carried the enemy's vessel.
She proves to be the national gun brig Veneux; her length is 74 feet, carries 4 long 18 pounders, and 6 42 pound carronade; has a crew of 82 men, and was commanded by M. Montard, Lieutenant de Vaisseau.
Le Veneux lost her first and second Captains; all the other officers were wounded; and 17 of the crew were killed or wounded. None of the boats' people were killed; but the boatswain of La Loire, 4 seamen, and 1 marine, were wounded.
The number of French prisoners in this country, taken since the declaration of war, exceed, last week, 500.
LONDON, JULY 7. Letters from Guernsey, of the 22d, state that several dispositions have been made along the coast, for an invasion of those islands: the principal force was collected at St. Malo. St. James's Square has made the most judicious arrangement of his squadron to defeat the enterprise; and the troops, &c were held in constant readiness for service.
It is confidently stated in letters from Dunkirk, that three components are immediately to be formed along the coast from Cherbourg, and to extend into the Batavian territory. The first to be established at Cherbourg, is to consist of 60,000 men; the second at St. Omer, of 100,000; and the third in Holland, of 40,000 men.
The plan of the expedition against this country, will, it is said in letters from Brussels, receive much development from the tour which Bonaparte is making along the coast.
On the 9th, reading from Calais to the harbor is written "the road to London." Bonaparte read the inscription, but receded the journey!
Private letters from Paris, June 29 state—Every day couriers arrive from the First Consul and couriers are despatched to the First Consul; as Talleyrand has not yet left Paris, and the daily conferences continue between him and Count Marget, many flatter themselves with the hope that the mediation of Russia may yet be effectual; persons in the interests of the Consul's Government desire this opinion to gain ground, no doubt to quiet during Bonaparte's absence, the public, very much exasperated with the war. Bonaparte travels slowly to give certain indomitable Princes time to arrive at Briss and decoy him to a triumphal entry. Are, however, these Princes no more scrupulous as to gratitude, than they have been since in their honorable negotiations? The First Consul may be deceived in his most expectation. From our despatches we continue to hear of nothing but captures, losses, and failures; of a total stagnation in trade, and a great scarcity of money, of mistrust, confidence and deception. Government encourages as much as possible plays and panomimes, in which England is degraded, and the English nation abused. In every city where the Consul flaps theatrical dulness departmental meanness to flatter the Great Man, and to calumniate Great Britain. Notwithstanding all the active endeavours of our government, the building of gun boats goes on but slowly, and the subscriptions for building are so trifling that it would be a disonor to publish them, even in the official Monitor. We are generous only in words, and liberal only in our addresses; so far we repay our rulers in their own coin.
On the 24th June after the mass the First Consul left St. Cloud for Barbant and no sooner was he gone, than all the legions of the Police Agents and Spies here were put into unusual activity. The paid are doubled every where, and a company of the Consular Guards placed to protect the telegraph. General Junot, the Commander at Paris, has been ordered by the Consul to hold the patrol himself, every night during the Consul's absence. Domiciliary visits were made last night in the Palais Royal, and in all the hotels of the neighboring streets, and several suspected persons were taken and sent These measures of terror have been advised by the Grand Judge and the Senators Lucien Bonaparte, Fouché, Rœcherer, and Le Fevre, on a presented discovery of the united efforts of the Royalists and Jacobins to spread discontent and to propose a new Revolution. The Senator Sieyes, was told, on the 20th inst. by the First Consul, that a visit to Spa, for six weeks, would be very useful to his health, and he left Paris immediately to drink the Spa waters. Gen. Andreossi, has been ordered by the Government to remove sixteen leagues from the capital. He incurred the displeasure of the Corsican, from his honest refusal to become the medium of most gross and infamous falsehood respecting the situation of affairs in Great Britain. It is confidently said at Paris, that Joseph Bonaparte was very anxious to avert the renewal of hostilities with Great Britain, and after many vain exhortation to his brother concluded with solemnly predicting that if the latter obstinately persevered in reviving the
war with England there would not be a French party alive in France in the course of six months. Bonaparte is continuing his tour, amidst the addresses of Priests and Priests who vie with each other in the grossness and impiety of their adulation. But the Priest of the Pas de Calais seems to have borne away the palm from all his brethren. He tells Bonaparte, "that tranquil respect to our fate, we know that to ensure the happiness and glory of France, to render her people, the freedom of commerce and the peace of the Universe, and to fix as length peace upon earth, GOD CREATED BONAPARTE, and reigned him sober!" The Archbishop of Rouen uttered—"Let us beseech the Almighty that the Man of HIS RIGHT HAND (l'homme de sa droite) that man who under his direction and by his orders, has done so much for the restoration of his working and who purp ses to perform still more, may continue, like Cyrus to be the Christ of Providence. Flattery and impiety can go no farther."
Articles by the Wasp.
NORFOLK, AUG. 13. We hear dispatches were received by the collector of this port by the Mary, Capt. Howar, from Mr. Pinckney, our Ambassador at Madrid, addressed to the Secretary of State, which were forwarded to Washington by Thursday's mail.
PHILADELPHIA, AUG. 12. We have seen a letter from Cape Francois dated 25th July, from a very respectable merchant there, which states that several American vessels arrived to a very excellent market; but that the government instantly seized on their cargoes, for which they pay one third in produce, and the remainder in a new defcription of Bills. No individual can purchase: And, in consequence of these arbitrary and lawless acts of the government, all commerce in it was destroyed.
NEWYORK, AUG. 19. Settlements of American Claims on the Government of France.
The following statement is from a correct source, and may be relied on:—The 3,750,000 Dollars, that the United States are to pay France, is to be paid to the citizens of the United States for claims they have upon the French Government, embraced by the convention the 30th September by Elphinstone and Duvage. The second article of that convention is to be considered as null and void. The payment to the United States is to be made to the citizens thereof, in sixty days after the final ratification of the late convention by our government, and exchange of the same, which is to be done before the payment to be made by bills drawn by our Ministers in Paris, on the treasury of United States. Claimants are first to have their claims liquidated by the French Government, on which claims they are to be allowed 6 per cent. per annum from the time that the claimants respectively made their demands for payment. After their claims are finally liquidated, a board of three Commissioners, appointed by our ministers, are to sit in Paris, which are to examine these liquidated claims, to see if they properly are claims that are embraced under the convention of the 30th September. As soon as this is determined, the Claimants will receive their drafts, and they will be paid as they are preferred; and should the claims embraced by the convention exceed the sum of 3,750,000 Dollars, the remainder is a debt remaining due from France, and to be paid the claimants by that republic. It is understood that claims for supplies to the Windward Islands, demurrages on vessels from France, vessels taken and not restored agreeable to the convention of the 30th September, and supplies under contracts made by officers of the French government in the United States, are the proper claims embraced by that convention.
Capt. Nichols, from the Cape informs, that on the 28th of July, off that port, in sight of numerous spectators on shore, an English 20 gun sloop attacked a French 74, and a running fight continued for some time, when a 44 came up, poured a broadside into the 74 and the immediatey struck. There was another 74 and a frigate in company but they crowded all sail and made off, and were pursued by the British.
The two French 74 gun ships and a frigate, which were mentioned in our last paper as having escaped from Cape Francois, we learn were captured by the British squadron blockading that port, the day after they left the harbor.
BOSTON, AUGUST 25.
Among other articles of importance, we find a list of new and additional duties, that must affect the commercial interests of this country, in a material degree. The law, enforcing these duties was passed the 3d, and went into operation the 5th of July. By this new regulation, an additional duty of 3 per cent is laid on all British manufactures imported to any other than their own dominions; and an additional duty of 12 1/2 per cent. on all goods, wares, or merchandise, not the growth or manufacture of Great Britain; it also lays an additional duty on many articles of importation; Cotton will now pay a duty of 856. per 100 lbs.
The Schooner Two Brothers, capt. Blake, arrived at Norfolk on the 13th inst. 19 days from Cape Francois, had 40 French passengers on board, which were all landed at that place. Capt. Blake informs, that the Cape was blockaded by British ships, who had taken a brig belonging to Philadelphia and sent her for Jamaica, suspected of having French property on board. The passengers report, that a French 74 was taken off the Cape, and also sent for Jamaica.
There is scarcely an arrival from any of the French ports, on board of which there have not been more or less, French passengers. Captain Nichols, arrived at New York, from Cape Francois, brought 38 of them, among whom are several Generals, Colonels, &c.
The Legislature of Connecticut have offered a bounty of ten dollars on every ton of hemp which shall be raised in that state for the term of 3 years.

For the first day of May, 1804; and for the same period have exempted from taxation all lands on which hemp shall be cultivated. Extract of a letter from New York, received by Tuesday's Mail. The fever is rapidly increasing, and the inhabitants are flying in every direction. One third of the city is evacuated, and where, a few weeks since the din of labor and commerce was the loudest, is now as solitary as a desert."
Old Coppers turned out of office. —Agreeable to the act of Congress of the 8th of May, 1792, the Treasurer of the United States has given public notice that hereafter no copper coins or pieces whatsoever, except cents and half cents, pass current as money, or be paid, or offered to be paid, or received as payment for any debt, &c. under penalty of forfeiting the same, and a fine of ten dollars.
Portland, Monday, August 29, 1803.
From Europe. —The intelligence given this day is to the 12th July—received by the John Adams, arrived at Boston, and by an arrival at Wiscasset, from Dublin. The most important articles are given under their proper head.
Capture of the French Fleet from St. Domingo. —Capt. Small, who arrived here on Tuesday last, in 16 days from St. Croix, informs, that on the 5th inst. a British sloop arrived there from St. Christopher, with information that Admiral Jarvis had fallen in with the French Fleet from St. Domingo, and captured four sail of the line and five frigates.
New York Fever. —The last mails furnish the most distressing intelligence of the ravages of this dreadful disorder. By the papers it appears that on the 19th inst. there were 12 new cases and 8 deaths; on the 20th and 21st, 35 new cases and 16 deaths; on the 22d, 21 new cases and 7 deaths. The whole number of deaths in New York the week ending on the 23d inst. was 85, including 43 of the malignant fever. Among the deaths were 51 children.
From Newport—August 20. —Private letters from New York, represent that the greatest consternation prevailed among the remaining inhabitants of that devoted city. Out of fifty or sixty thousand persons, there was supposed to be not more than twenty thousand then in the city—and they were continually going out. Shops were generally closed, and business nearly suspended.
There are three packets at present performing the route in the cove, without the harbor, lately arrived here from New York, but no person is permitted to come on shore on penalty of the law; nor is any one suffered to go on board without a certificate from the town Council. There are upwards of 60 passengers on board the packets.
Letter from Lisbon. —Capt. Folger, in the brig Commerce, which arrived at Boston, Wednesday last, in 16 days from Lisbon, brings advice, that the British neutrality was observed by the government of Portugal, and that no French or English vessel of war was suffered to come above Belem Castle, or to use the power permitted to make any armaments in its ports. Capt. F. further advises, that the King of Spain had informed Bonaparte he should not permit the invasion of Portugal through his dominions; and in defence of this position if compelled to action, he would spill the last drop of the blood of his subjects!—Pal.
July 13, latitude 30, longitude 56, between 11 and twelve o'clock, p. m.—capt. Ansell saw a comet bearing nearly due east, and about 4 degrees above the horizon. In size it appeared about half as large as the moon at full, and produced a brilliant light; the horizon being cloudy, rising was obscured from us. It was in view about a quarter of an hour, and was then again obscured by clouds. From its direction, supposed to be the same which appeared in 1681 and was expected to appear again in 1789. From the beginning of July to the time of the comet's appearance, there was a constant succession of thick and rainy weather, with heavy winds, more like November weather than midsummer. On the day preceding the comet's appearance, an entire change took place with a clear atmosphere and mild weather.
A man by the name of Emerson, belonging to Boothbay, was pressed out of capt. Knight's vessel at St. Kitt's.
Talleyrand keeps in with Donaparte, and Donaparte keeps in with Talleyrand. Should they fall out, honest men would get their own.
The mail stage, in passing from Newburyport to Boston, was, on Tuesday last upset; E. St. Loe, Esq. one of the passengers, was considerably bruised on the arm and head, by this unfortunate circumstance; but we are happy to hear he is not considered dangerously wounded.
The Newburyport Turnpike Road, was commenced on Tuesday last. It is to run from the end of State street, in Newburyport, in as straight a line as possible to Boston.
Deaths. At Falmouth, by the Rev. Caleb Bradley, Mr. Joshua Shaw, to Miss Mary G. Laddell. At Billerica, Rev. Michael Blood, of Buckstown, Hancock co. to Miss Abigail Hill, of the former place. Died. In this town, on Tuesday night last, Mr. John Kent, aged 59 years:—He has been for many years a respectable merchant in this place. His prudence, economy, and professional industry, afforded a valuable example to society. Miss Mary Anne, aged 73. At Windham, very suddenly, Mr. Zebadiah Hunsdell, aged 93. At Wiscasset, Mr. Moses D. Eaton, aged 32 years. At Dresden, Mrs. Mary Parker, aged 12 years, the amiable comfort of Doct. Jona. R. Parker, and only daughter of the Hon. Jona. Bowman. At Waterville, Mr. Nathaniel Gilman, trader, late of Exeter, N. H. On his passage to Dublin, Joseph Harrington, aged 17 years—drowned. On his passage to Barbadoes, Jacob Rundlet—drowned. Drowned—At Falmouth, on Sunday last, near Pride's Bridge, Mr. Samuel White, aged 21—He went into the water for the purpose of bathing.
Port of Portland. Tuesday, August 23. —Arrived brig Ranger, capt. Alex. Small; 16 days from St. Croix.—Left there Feb. Lark, capt. Curtis, of Wells, to fall in 10 days.—Spoke August 13, lat. 30, long. 68, 40, brig Fly, 33 days from the Cape de Verds, bound to Baltimore—August 21, lat. 40, long. 69, 40, spoke ship Harriet, capt. Nathl. Knights, 18 days from St. Christopher, bound to Salem.—Markets dull. Wednesday, August 24. —Arrived ship Nabby, capt. Crandall, 48 days from Liverpool. Ship Mary, capt. Baker, of this port, was spoke August 4, in lat. 46, long. 35, for Liverpool, 15 days out.
Port of Wiscasset. Thursday, August 18. —Arrived ship Milford, capt. Sampson, 30 days from Dublin.—Left, brig Atlantic, M'Daniel, Damascotta, to fall in 15 days; brig Brown, Philadelphia, to fall in 15 days.—Spoke, July 13, lat. 31, long. 11, the ship Nancy, Marshall, of Wilmington, bound to Liverpool, out 47 days. July 14, lat. 49, long. 14, the brig Mary Ann, Wallace, Philadelphia, bound to Harre-de-Grate, out 14 days. July 18, lat. 44, long. 53, the ship Industry, Vickery, from Virginia, bound to Cork, out 20 days. Wednesday, August 24. —Arrived the ship Margaret, capt. Wm. Boyd, in 40 days from Dublin. Left, ship Fame, Portland; and brig United States, N. London, both just arrived. Spoke, brig Mary, Mackeneth, from Portland, for Liverpool, 16 days out. There were five Irish passengers in the Margaret. Same day—Left, Friendship, Rider, Barbadoes, 23 days. Left, ship Littlefield, of Calcutta, just arrived.—Spoke, Aug. 11, lat. 30, long. 68, 34, ship George, Townsend, from Wilmington, for Surinam, 6 days out. Aug. 22, lat. 37, long. 68, 34, ship Nancy, Rest, from Baltimore, for Jamaica. Aug. 19, lat. 41, long. 68, ship Three Brothers, of Newburyport, for Trinidad, 3 days out. Markets.—Flour 11 dolls. bbl.—Corn D 1 50 bush.—Lumber 24 dolls. M.—Provisions, dull, and produce high.
Portland Townships.
PURSUANT to an application made to me by five of the proprietors of the two townships granted to the Sufferers of Portland—I do hereby notify the said Proprietors to meet at the Chamber over my Office, in Portland, on Thursday the fifteenth day of September next, at four o'clock in the afternoon, to act upon the following articles, viz. 1. To see if the proprietors will grant any assistance to the inhabitants towards the support of schools and ministers, and the making and improving of roads and building of mills, in either or both of said townships. 2. To see if they will pay any part of the public Taxes assessed on said townships, or either of them. 3. To see if they will do any thing to promote the settlement of said townships. 4. To receive any report that be made by their standing Committee, and to act thereon as they shall see fit. 5. To receive accounts and allow the same if they shall see fit. 6. To revise their votes and pass any other vote or votes on the subject of them respectively which they may see fit. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk. August 27, 1803.
Maine Bank.
THE Stockholders are hereby notified that an installment of Six Dollars on a share has been voted, to be paid to the Cashier, on or before the 26th day of Sept. next—Also a further installment of Ten Dollars and two thirds of a dollar on each share, to be paid to the Cashier on or before the 22d day of December next. By order of the President and Directors. DAVID HALE, Cashier. August 29, 1803.
NOTICE! THE Commissioners in a Commission of Bankruptcy, awarded and issued forth against THOMAS GOODWIN, of Portland, in the District of Maine, Merchant, and the Assignee of his Estate intend to meet at the office of EARNEST MAZO, Esq. Fifth Street, Portland, in said District, on the fourteenth day of October next, at ten o'clock, A. M. then and there to make a dividend of the estate of said Goodwin—When and where those Creditors who have not already proved their debts, are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the benefit of said dividend. NATHAN KINSMAN, Assignee. Dated 29th August, 1803.
LOST , between Saccarappa and Gray's Rope-walk, in Portland, a Red Morocco POCKET-BOOK, containing 23 dollars in Bank-bills, and sundry papers interest only to the owner.—Whoever has found said Pocket-Book, and will leave it at this Office, or with SAMUEL PAINE, in Gorham, shall be generously rewarded. August 29.
A Pocket-Book was found, on Monday last, between Portland and Saccarappa, containing sundry papers, and a small sum of money. The owner may hear of it by applying to this office. Aug. 29.
A TANNER, who is capable of carrying on the Tanning business, is wanted to superintend a Tanyard near Portland. Good recommendations will be required.—Inquire of the Printer. August 15.
WE the subscribers, having been appointed by the Hon. WILLIAM WITMORE, Esq. to receive and examine the claims of creditors to the estate of JOHN JOHNSON, late of Sullivan, in the county of Hancock, deceased, represented insolvent—do hereby give notice, that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend that service at the house of Ephraim Dyer, in said Sullivan, on the first Monday in August, and the four succeeding months. EPHRAIM DYER, } Commissioners. EBENEZER BEAN, } Dated at Sullivan, June 29, 1803. (Jy18)
Cut Brads. THE subscriber informs the citizens of this town and the country, that he manufactures CUT BRADS, of the best quality—strong, and those who are building will find their account in purchasing said Brads, as they come much cheaper and much time is saved in not having to bore as is common for wrought brads. A considerable deduction is made to those who purchase by the quantity. NICHOLAS BLASDELL. Portland, August 29.
Dr. Rawson's genuine Anti-Bilious and Stomachic BITTERS.
Prepared by Thomas H. Rawson, M. C. M. S. New London, Conn. For which sole right he obtained a patent from the President of the United States, in July, 1802. THE vast demand for these bitters, and their efficacy are so universally known and acknowledged, that little need be said in an advertisement. Perhaps, no medicine in the world is so useful and proper for a domestic family medicine. They are the greatest restorative and corrector of the digestive organs, and purifier of the blood, of any medicine ever offered the public. The following are some of the most prominent complaints in which these bitters are so efficacious, and so universally admired. viz. Indigestion, debility, head-aches, jaundice, dizziness, faintings, tremblings, townness of spirits, palpitations, crownfiness, bilious congestions, colivene, diarrhoea, dysenteries, gravel, hysterical and hypochondriacal affections, worms, agues, &c. &c. The patentee, having an aversion, to pompous puffings and certificates of cures, accompanying almost every medicine offered the public, has hitherto strictly forbidden his agents the insertion of any of the numberless certificates and letters of uncommon cure of this medicine. But the following coming from such a source, and the character of the man who requests its publicity being so substantially vouched for by three respectable clergymen, a judge of the county court, and a number of characters of the first respectability, and countenanced by governor Trumbull, that he should think himself blameable in preventing its publicity. Doctor Rawson, East Haddam, April 8, 1803. Sir—Fulfil my two requests. My wishes as respects the one to which I have made bold, are sufficiently explained in the certificate. The other which respects my moral character, I might have equal publicity; for the benefit of those who labor under distressing and complicated bodily infirmities, and who, unacquainted with my character, might not give sufficient credence to my statement as to induce a trial of the medicine. I am, Sir, your's respectfully, WILLIAM BURKE.
I William Burke, of East Haddam, county of Middlesex, and state of Connecticut, hereby certify; that I was for about ten years laboring under distressing and complicated diseases of body, having frequent recourse to several of the best and most constantly in pain, either in my joints, bones or head of my back which was uniformly weak; my bowels unsteady moved by some gentle laxative, causing a slight nausea and a short interval so exercised with chills that I could not for days gather freighted myself; my stomach fear, and opposite work at the best; and to crown this catalogue of maladies I was frequently afflicted with that distressing and formidable disease the Gout. I found very little relief, and that but temporary, from medicinal applications, until urged by my friends, who from the complaints I had suffered in the use of Dr. Rawson's Anti-Bilious and Stomachic Bitters, I procured a box and began the use of them in a moderate manner, and soon experienced their good effects. I made use of no other medicines, and in a few weeks was restored to as good a state of health as is common to a man of my age, being about fifty years old. I know not for several months enjoyed my health; my appetite is remarkably good, and I eat any kind of food without reserve and digest it well, and I admire exercise to admiration without being fatigued. I further certify that I have voluntarily and unsolicited by Doctor Rawson or his friends, now am forward to make out to this certificate, hereby requesting the Doctor to give it as much publicity as possible—knowing an anxious desire that my fellow citizens, laboring under similar calamities, may make trial of a medicine, which thro' the blessing of God, has wrought so me such wonders. WILLIAM BURKE. Dated at New London, this 6th day of April, 1803. State of Connecticut, H. New London, April 6, 1803. Personally appeared William Burke, the signer of the above, and made solemn oath that the foregoing declaration by him made, is just and true in every particular, to the best of his knowledge and belief. Sworn before me, RICHARD LAW, Mayor of the city of New London.
East Haddam, Nov. 27, 1801.—We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of East Haddam in the county of Middlesex, and state of Connecticut hereby certify that we have long been acquainted with Mr. William Burke of said East Haddam, and that in our opinion he is a man of strict integrity and integrity, and as such, is a good member of society and a good citizen. Jared Spencer, a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex county; Isaac Spencer, Jan. Justice Peace, Middlesex; Timothy Gains, 3d. Justice Peace, Middlesex; Jonathan D. Mosely, Justice Peace, Middlesex; James Chapman, Justice Peace, Middlesex; Silvanus Tinker, Esq. Justice of the Peace; Elijah Parsons; Henry Chapman, of Guilford; Zebulon Ely; John Gurney. Lebanon, December 12, 1801. The subscribers are well acquainted with the character of the above signing gentlemen, and can cheerfully bear testimony to their respectability and veracity. JOSEPH TRUMBULL.
For Sale by S. LEVING, Portland.
Joshua Richardson,
HAS FOR SALE, Bbls. clear, bone middling, and No. 1 PORK, Fine and superfine FLOUR, Fresh Hyson, Shulan in chests of 12 lb. Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Suchong, and Bohea Bags India SUGAR, Quarter Casks Malaga WINE, BRANDY per pipe or bbl. 7 by 9 HAMBURGH GLASS, LOAF SUGAR; bags PEPPER, Fresh RAISINS per cask or box, Do. LEMONS per box, Straw CARPETS. ALSO, Fine India Cottons, per bale or piece. At Richardson's Wharf. August 8.
Willis & M'Kinstry,
Have just received an additional supply of FRESH GOODS, suitable for the season, which they are selling at a reduced price. August 8.
A Valuable Farm,
FOR SALE, in Tarner —situated on the Upper Suck, so called, one mile from the meeting house, lot 3; it contains one hundred and fifty acres of Land, with a new House, but small; a good Barn as there is in Maine, 72 feet long, 37 wide, well finished; a complete Corn-House and Orchard thereon; well wooded and watered, and well fenced with stone wall, and flanked under two rails; seventy acres under improvement. The terms will be one third cash down, and the rest as the agreement is made—Apply to LUTHER CAREY for information, or of SAMUEL PUMPHREY, on the premises. Tarner, August 13, 1803.
TAKEN up adrift, three logs of Wharf Timber. The owner may have them again by providing property and paying charges. Apply to Cape Elizabeth, August 20. JOHN HARMON.
SALES AT AUCTION.
Books at Auction.
On Thursday, the 1st of September next, will be sold at Public Vendue, without reserve, At DAVID PEASE'S Auction Room, First-street. A Valuable collection of Books, in the various branches of literature—containing of Divinity, History, Voyages and Travels, Novels, &c. being the whole of the books belonging to the Portland Union Library; the greatest part of which are valuable works, and very little worn—Catalogues may be seen on the day of sale—Sale to begin at 10 o'clock, A. M. Portland, August 20.
BY ORDER OF COURT,
WILL be sold at Public Auction, at the house of Capt. Benjamin Webb, landholder in Salem, on the 9th of September next, at even o'clock, A. M. the REAL ESTATE of ELISHA HARRINGTON , late of Salem, mariner, deceased—consisting of two parcels of Land lying in the town of Lincoln , in the county of Cumberland, viz. Lot No. 137, containing about One Hundred acres, and part of Lot No. 172, containing about Thirty acres; for the payment of said deceased's just debts and incidental charges. Martha Harrington, Administratrix. Portland, August 29, 1803.
TO BE SOLD, BY ORDER OF COURT,
ON Monday, the 3d of October next, the following LOTS OF LAND , lying in Poland and Mineo , belonging to the estate of Abraham Waldron , late of Portland, deceased. Lot No. 13, 100 acres—No. 100, 100 acres—No. 101, 100 acres—No. 38, 100 acres—lying in the second division, and undivided with Geo. Waterhouse. Lot No. 129, 9 acres—No. 122, 90 acres—143, 37 acres—bought at Sawell's vendue, and lying in second division, undivided with Geo. Waterhouse. Lot No. 40, 13 acres—No. 3, 17 acres—128, 18 acres—31, 7 acres—in first division, bought at John T. Merrill's vendue, and belonging to the heirs of said Merrill. Sale to be at the house of Daniel Jackson , in Poland, at ten o'clock in the forenoon—Terms to be made known at the above time and place. ABRAHAM WALDRON, Administratrix.
To be Sold at Public Auction,
ON Monday, the fifth day of September next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, on the premises, unless previously disposed of at private sale.
A Valuable FARM, lying in Standish, about one mile from the meeting-house, containing ninety acres of land, well watered; consisting of pasturing, mowing, plough land, a good orchard, and wood land, with the buildings thereon. Likewise, a Lot of Wild Land , in said Standish, containing a hundred acres of land—For further particulars, inquire of LUTHER TOPPING , living on the premises. Standish, August 9, 1803.
FOR SALE,
THE Hull of a Ship, now building at Bath, on Kennebec river; built of the best materials, all seasoned white oak timber, in her upper works, and grey oak below—dimensions, 71 feet keel length—keel 24 feet 11 inches—beam, 9 feet 5 inches—lower hold, 5 feet—between decks, will register 234 tons—can be launched in a short time.—For terms, apply to CHARLES CLAPP, of Bath. Bath, August 8, 1803. (6a)
LOST on Thursday evening, August 18, in Portland, a PORTMANTEAU , it being a second hand Mail, containing a red Morocco Pocket-Book, with a number of valuable papers of no use to any person but the owner, some cash, a number of lots of old paper, the shirts and handkerchiefs marked Z. H.—Whoever has found the same and will leave it with its contents at the store of AARON AUSTIN , or the Printer, shall receive a proper reward and the thanks of the loser. Portland, August 20. ZACHARIAH HALE.
TO THE RIGHT—DRESS! The standard of honor continues unspotted at Newburgh, for the reception of a few more of the youth of that and the adjacent towns, who can nobly aspire to the profession of the MILITARY ART. The articles of bounty, pay, provisions, clothing and quarters, which are provided by the United States for their acceptance, are liberal, substantial, elegant and commodious. To arms, then, COLUMBIAN SONS OF FREEDOM! and join in the glorious task of protecting and defending our beloved country. J. CROSS, 1st Lieut. Riflemen. Recruiting Rendezvous, Newburgh, August 1, 1803.
STOLEN from the subscriber, at Belfast , a black MARE , seven years old, with a square dock, her near eye out, hind legs galled a little, trail all—She was taken by one Samuel White; he was of a light complexion, about five feet ten inches high, dressed in a blue short jacket—Had in company with him, one Stephen Billing, who is supposed to be a confederate in fleecing said mare.—Whoever will take up said White and secure said mare, or the mare only, shall be handsomely rewarded by Belfast, August 1. (15) WILLIAM FITCHER.
STRAYED or Stolen from me the subscriber, in Gray , on the 17th of July, a red MARE , about ten years old, paces and trots, with a white stripe in her forehead, and two or three white feet—the top of her head, and a crack in one of her hoofs.—Whoever will take up said mare and return her to me, or give information where she is, shall be handsomely rewarded for the same. LEVI MORSE. Gray, August 5.
Stray Cow.
STRAYED from the subscriber, on the 3d inst., a small brindle Cow , about four years old, with a white star in her face, tips of her horns sawed off.—Whoever will return her shall be well paid for their trouble. Portland, August 12. JOSIAH TUCKER.
To all persons interested in the Pejepscot Claim, so called.
THE undersigned Commissioners, appointed by his Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council—pursuant to a resolve of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, passed the 29th day of June, 1796—hereby give public notice to all persons interested, that they the said Commissioners have appointed the third Wednesday of September next, to meet at the dwelling-house of John Harrick, Esq. in Lewiston, in the county of Lincoln, to perform the duties assigned them by the resolve of the Legislature aforesaid, passed 29th June, 1796, and March 5th, 1801: At which time and place all persons will attend if they see cause. NATHANIEL LUMMER, JOHN LORD, ICHABOD GOODWIN. Boston, June 13, 1803. (Jy19)

Bowdoin College. CANDIDATES for admission into Bowdoin College , this year, are notified that the President and Professor of Languages will be ready to examine them on Wednesday the seventh day of September next. JOSEPH M'KEAN, President. Brunswick, 1st August, 1803. N. B. The law of admission requires that each candidate should produce satisfactory testimonials of a good moral character.
THE Overseers of Bowdoin College , are hereby notified, that their semi-annual meeting will be held at Massachusetts Hall, in Brunswick, on Tuesday the 6th day of September next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. MARK LANGDON HILL, Secretary. Georgetown, August 8, 1803.
THE Trustees of Bowdoin College , are hereby notified that their next meeting will be held in Brunswick, at Massachusetts Hall, on Tuesday the sixth day of September next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. CHARLES COFFIN, Secretary. Brunswick, August 11, 1803.
Portland Academy. THE Trustees of the Portland Academy are hereby notified to meet at the Chamber over the Post Office, in Portland, on Tuesday the thirtieth day of August inst. at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to receive the Report of the Committee appointed to consider of Rules for the admission of Students, and Regulations for the Academy; and to act on such other matters as they may think proper. At the request of the Trustees, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Secretary. Aug. 22.
Dancing School. THE subscriber will commence a school for teaching the polite accomplishment of Dancing, at Mr. Huth's New Hall, on the second day of September next. The school will be opened on Tuesdays and Fridays, at four o'clock in the afternoon. A school will also be kept on the evenings of the same days, to begin at seven o'clock. Terms, Five Dollars a quarter—one half to be paid at entrance. Portland, August 15. WILLIAM B. PETERS.
Valuable Family Medicines. Dr. Lee's genuine Windham Bileous Pills , Prepared by Samuel Lee, Esq. of Windham (Con.) [The following description is published by particular desire.] THE usefulness and importance of these pills as this season of the year, when epidemic fevers are so prevalent, and when most constitutions from predisposition are rendered to bilious and inflammatory fevers, have been verified by an experience of more than 12 years. The early credit and universal demand for my pills, induced others to imitate them; among others one Samuel H. P. Lee, of New-London, from a similarity of names came forward with singular audacity, and has at length pretended to an origin in 1795, and Sam. H. P. Lee's in June 1799, more than three years after the date of my patent. This Sam. H. P. Lee has been in the habit of circulating tenacious letters and advertisements in different parts of the Union, respecting me and my pills, which have hitherto been looked upon by me as too contemptible to merit notice. I have however from the repeated solicitations of friends, been induced to state these facts, that those who use the genuine Bileous pills, may not be deceived by imitations. Each bill of the directions of the pills, will be signed by Samuel Lee, Esq. in the event, or they will not be genuine. —Retain this notice.
Dr. Rawson's genuine Anti-Bilious Pills , or FAMILY PHYSIC. Prepared by Thomas H. Rawson, Member of the Connecticut Medical Society. For which discovery, he has obtained a patent from the President of the United States, vesting in him the exclusive right of making and vending them. THE merits of these pills, the certainty of their operation, and the effectual manner in which they remove those bilious congections and crudities from the first passages (which are so immediately the cause of almost all those epidemics which at different times visit the various quarters of the globe) and that too without exhausting the strength of the patient, entitles them to the well earned reputation they have so universally gained. Families living remote from skillful physicians, by being supplied with these pills, have found that an early use of them, in sudden attacks of Fever, Dysenteries, Diarrheas, Cholics, violent Colds, &c. is of the first importance. Persons afflicted with jaundice, indigestion, irregular habits of body, &c. after making trial of these pills, will not easily be persuaded to do without them in their families. For Seamen—they are of the first importance to that valuable class of the community whose intrepid adventures, not only expose them to the severest hardships, but to sickly climates, and all kinds of contagion; as they are so effectual and salutary a purge in complaints to which seafaring people are exposed, and may be taken without hindrance of business.—Price 25 cents a box.
Dr. Cooley's Vegetable Elixir, or COUGH DROPS. A remedy for Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Spitting of Blood, and every disease incident to that organ of life, the Lungs. THE unrivalled efficacy of this medicine in the complaints above enumerated is so firmly established, that the support of a pompous advertisement is viewed as altogether superfluous. Its superior virtues are recommended upon the authority of long practical experience in their use; and they have been critically analyzed by physicians of the first eminence, in Europe and in this country, who acknowledge that there is no medicine extant that can vie with it for diseases of the Lungs. The great demand for it from every part of the continent has become so pressing that I feel it a duty incumbent upon me to make it as extensively known as it is useful. The public are conscientiously assured that this composition is of vegetable production only.—Prepared at Bolton (Con.) at the Dispensary of Dr. Samuel Cooley—Price 75 cents a bottle.
The celebrated Aromatic Paste, for the TEETH AND GUMS. The particular effects of it are as follows:—In a few times using it will be sensibly perceived to brace up and strengthen the fibres, and with a little continuance will perfectly cure the Scurvy in the gums, changing them from that livid disagreeable color to a fine pale red occasioning them to grow firm and close to the teeth, so that those teeth which before were loose, and ready to drop out, will become entirely fast and steady, and from being black and foul will make them appear white and beautiful; it likewise preserves the teeth from growing rotten, keeps such as are decayed a long time from becoming worse, and takes off all disagreeable smells from the breath, which generally arise from scurvy gums and bad teeth.—Prepared by Isaac Thompson—Price 50 cents a box.
Tyce's Patent Itch, or Beautifying Ointment. THIS Ointment is the most remarkable composition ever yet discovered, for cleansing and beautifying the skin. It removes all pimples, or defects from the face, and immediately cures all cutaneous distempers. The Itch is cured by it in a few days, with perfect safety and ease. It likewise prevents every kind of itching eruption of the skin, either from poison or obstructed perspiration. One box is warranted to cure a grown person in two children.—Price 50 cents a box.
The above Medicines are for sale by S. ERVING, Portland.
FOR SALE, At No. 3, Union Wharf, 25 barrels Pork Middlings, Crates LIVERPOOL WARE, and CORN. Portland, August 22.
Flour and Corn. 600 barrels fine and superfine Flour, and 800 bushels Corn, just received by the Schooner Betsy from Alexandria, and for sale by JOHN TABER & SON, Portland, 8th Mo. 20, 1803. No. 13, Union Wharf
Corn and Flour. 1800 bushels of Maryland Corn, and a quantity of superfine and fine Flour, for sale by HALEY & EMERY, Aug. 22. Ingraham's Wharf
Enoch Moulton, GOLDSMITH and JEWELLER. Respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has taken the shop in Fossstreet, opposite the head of Ingraham's Wharf; where he keeps constantly for sale SILVER & PLATED WARE, JEWELRY, &c. Among which are: Silver Table, Tea and Coffee Spoons; Salt do. Soup Ladles; Cream and Mustard do. Silver Thimbles; white and yellow Epaulets Silver and plated Sugar, Tongs Plated Tea and Cream Pots, and Sugar Basins, in sets Do. Cream Frames, Candlesticks, and Pepper Boxes Silver, pale and steel Buckle-buckles; Coral Beads Morocco Miniature and Ring Cases, Purse, and Thread Cases; Pearl Salt Spoons Fashionable gold Earrings; Stone Knobs Warranted gold Necklaces; do. Miniature Settings Brooches and finger Rings; Pearl Rings & Brooches Gold and gilt Watch Keys; gilt Watch Chains & Seals Gilt Lockets; gilt Picture Frames Agate and gilt Beads; Penknives and Scissors Enamelled Boxes; silver and common shoe Clasps Black and white Bugles; Tortoise shell Combs Snuff Boxes; Phosphorus, &c. &c. Cash given for old Gold and Silver. Orders executed with neatness and punctuality. Portland, August 22.
UPHOLSTERY STORE.
Aaron Austin & Co. HAVE for sale, at their store, Fossstreet, head of Ingraham's Wharf, a constant supply of Live Geese, } Sea Fowl, } FEATHERS. Ruffs, } and } Lisbon } Also—Cotton and English BEDFICKING, of different kinds. RUFFS BEDS and MATRASSES ready made Beds made and filled at the shortest notice. Spanish and French INDIGO. The above assortment of Feathers is warranted of the first quality, and will be sold as cheap as can be purchased in Boston. (15) Portland August 12
10,000 Dollars, highest prize! AN OBJECT WORTHY ATTENTION. TICKETS and Quarters in the Fourth Class South-Hadley Canal Lottery, for sale at THOMAS CLARK'S Bookstore, Fifth-street, Portland. The list of prizes in the 3d class being published, those persons who wish to exchange prizes for tickets and quarters in the present class, are requested to apply as above. The rapid sale and punctilious drawing of the former classes, leave no doubt but the fourth class will soon commence drawing. August 15.
South-Hadley Canal Lottery. THE subscribers, having heretofore, in their addresses to the public, repeatedly stated the purposes for which the Legislature of Massachusetts granted a Lottery to the proprietors of the Locks and Canals at South-Hadley, it is unnecessary again to make the repetition, when presenting the following scheme of the FOURTH CLASS.
1 Prize of 10,000 Dollars, is 10,000 5 " " 1,000 " " 5,000 10 " " 500 " " 5,000 100 " " 100 " " 10,000 140 " " 50 " " 7,000 100 " " 30 " " 3,000 130 " " 20 " " 2,600 6175 " " 8 " " 49,400 First drawn Blank on the 10th day, 500 Do. " 15th " " 500 Do. " 20th " " 750 Do. " 25th " " 750 Do. " 30th " " 1,000 Do. " 35th " " 1,500 Do. " 40th " " 3,000 Dollars 100,000
Subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 per cent. 20,000 Tickets at 5 dollars each is 100,000. 6667 Prizes. 13333 Blanks. Less than two Blanks to a Prize. Prize Tickets will be paid at the expiration of 30 days after the drawing of the Lottery shall be finished. Prizes not demanded within one year after the drawing, will not be paid, but considered as generously given for the purpose for which the Lottery was granted. The time expended in drawing this Class will not exceed 40 days, and to prevent any misunderstanding in regard to the fortunate Tickets which depend on the tenth, fifteenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth, thirtieth, thirty fifth and fortieth days of drawing, it is now stated as the meaning and intention of the subscribers, that the drawing of 500 Tickets shall be considered as the work of a day, and that the fortunate Tickets will be those, which shall come out of the wheel according to this rate of drawing, whether the work of two days be done in one or not. The Managers have, as the Law directs, entered into Bonds for the faithful performances of the duty assigned them. They will soon appoint and announce to the public an early day on which to commence the drawing; and as they have not accustomed themselves hitherto to disappoint those who have so liberally advertised in the former Classes, by any paltry pretences for evading their promises, they engage not to deceive them in regard to this Class.
THOMAS DWIGHT, } JUNIN ELY, } MANAGERS. JONATHAN DWIGHT, } JOSEPH LYMAN, } JOHN WILLIAMS, } Springfield, June 28, 1803.
TICKETS and Quarters in the above Class for sale at THOMAS CLARK'S Bookstore Fifth-street, Portland—Prize Tickets in former Classes taken in pay—Letters (post paid and enclosing the Cash) punctiliously attended to. (6w) July 25, 1803.
WANTED , a Boy 12 or 13 years old, to take care of a Horse and attend in a small family. Good encouragement with good usage will be given to one well recommended—Inquire of the Printer. August 15.
JAMES DANIELS, a Seaman lost from on board ship Fair American , Capt. T. Storer, on a voyage from Philadelphia to Bordeaux—Any person who may be duly qualified to receive a small balance due him, is requested to call on CORNELIUS WING, at Portland. Portland, 8th Mo. 18, 1803.
TAKEN UP , on Tuesday last, a small dark grey MARE—The owner may have her again by proving property and paying charges—Apply to JAMES SAMPSON. Falmouth, August 22, 1803.
An Apprentice, Is wanted at the GAZETTE OFFICE. Aug. 22.
THE public are respectfully informed that THOMAS CLARK, Bookseller and Stationer, has just received, from the Patent and Family Medicine Store of Richard Lee & Co. New-York, a fresh supply of the following VALUABLE MEDICINES, which here in high esteem and generally throughout the United States, many of them being sold cheaper than the Drugs of which they are compounded, could be purchased at a retail store.
HAMILTON'S ELIXIR; A sovereign remedy for Colds, obstinate Coughs, Asthma, Sore Throats, and approaching Consumption. To parents, and children afflicted with the HOOPING COUGH. This discovery, in magnitude, as it affords immediate relief, and in a short time entirely removes the disease, is agreeable, and the use of it is perfectly easy. From Luther Martin, Esq. Attorney General of the State of Maryland.
GENTLEMEN—I comply with your request in stating my opinion of Hamilton's Elixir. It has been used in my family for two or three years past, with uniform success, whenever colds, coughs, or similar complaints have rendered medicine necessary—I have myself found it an excellent and agreeable remedy for a very painful and troublesome affection of the breath, accompanied with forseness and with obstructed and difficult breathing.
On these accounts I do not hesitate to recommend Hamilton's Elixir, as a valuable medicine, and deserving public attention. LUTHER MARTIN.
Mr. Abijah Healy, Bridge street, Baltimore, was cured by one bottle of Hamilton's Elixir, of a very complicated disorder, occasioned by a severe cold, caught several months ago—He breathed with the greatest difficulty, and was often thrown into weakening sweats when he attempted to walk any distance, and his voice would frequently fail in such a degree that he could only attempt to whisper; he has been upwards of six weeks without a return of his complaint, and desires to give his public testimony in favor of this invaluable medicine.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, South Howard-street, was greatly relieved of an asthmatic complaint of several years standing, by the first bottle of Hamilton's Elixir—and by the use of five bottles she has acquired a degree of ease and strength to which she had been long a stranger. She had taken balm of honey, Church's cough drops, and other medicines, without any benefit, and sometimes to the evident injury of her breathing.
HAMILTON'S GRAND RESTORATIVE, Is recommended as an invaluable medicine for the speedy relief and permanent cure of the various complaints which result from dissipated pleasures—juvenile indiscretions—residence in climates unfavorable to the constitution—the immoderate use of tea—frequent intoxication, or any other destructive intemperance—unskillful or excessive use of mercury—the diseases peculiar to females at a certain period of life—bad lyings in, &c.
And is proved by long and extensive experience to be absolutely unparalleled in the cure of Nervous Disorders, Consumption, Looseness of spirits, Loss of Appetite, Impurity of Blood, Hysterical affections, Inward sagaciousness, Seminal weakesses, Fluor albus (or whites) Barrenness, Violent cramps in the back or stomach, Indigestion, Melancholy, Gout in the Stomach, Pains in the Limbs, Relaxations, Involuntary Emotions, Obsolete Gouts, Impotency, &c. &c.
The principal operation of this remedy is in the stomach, restoring the digestive powers and sending forth from that organ new health and vigor into every part of the system; it enriches and purifies the blood without inflaming its braces, without stimulating too violently the nervous system; strengthens the secretory vessels and the general habit, brings back the muscular fibres to their natural and healthy tone, and restores that nutrition which immoderate evacuations have destroyed, and whole loss had thrown the whole frame into languor and debility.
The Restorative is absolutely above all recommendation in removing those weaknesses and infirmities with which many females are afflicted, the consequences of difficult and painful labors, or of injudicious treatment therein.
The most obstinate femoral pleets, and the most distressing cases of fluor albus in females, fall particularly under the province of this restorative—speedily yield to its benign operation, and are radically cured, by correcting and purifying the acrimonious humors, restoring a proper degree of tension to the relaxed fibres, and strengthening the weakened organs.
In cases of extreme, where the long prevalence and obstinacy of disease has brought on a general impoverishment of the system, excessive debility of the whole frame, and a wasting of the flesh which no nourishment or cordial could repair, a perseverance in the use of this medicine has performed the most astonishing cures.
INFALLIBLE AGUE AND FEVER DROPS. For the cure of Agues, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers. Thousands can testify their being cured by these drops, after the bark and every other medicine has proved ineffectual; and not one in a hundred has had occasion to take more than one, and numbers not half a bottle.
VENEREAL DISEASE. Those whom this may unfortunately concern, are informed that a fresh supply has now been received of the Patent INDIAN VEGETABLE SPECIFIC, Prepared by Dr. Leroux.
The experience of several thousands who have been cured by this medicine (a great proportion of them after the skill of eminent physicians had proved ineffectual) demonstrate its efficacy in expelling the Venereal poison, however deeply rooted in the constitution, and in counteracting those dreadful effects which often result from the improper use of mercury.
The mildness of the Vegetable Specific is equal to its surprising efficacy, its operation is so gentle that it is given to venereal patients in a state of pregnancy, with the utmost safety, and performs a cure without disturbing the system, or producing any of those effects inseparable from the common remedies.
With the medicine is given a description of the symptoms which obtain in every stage of disease, with copious directions for their treatment so as to accomplish a perfect cure in the shortest time, and least inconvenience possible. CHURCH'S COUGH DROPS. GOWLAND'S LOTION. THE ANODYNE ELIXIR, For the cure of every kind of head ache. THE DAMASK LIP SALVE, Is recommended (particularly to the Ladies) as an elegant and pleasant preparation for chopped and sore lips, and every blemish and inconvenience occasioned by colds, fevers &c. speedily restoring color and delicate softness to the lips. May 30. (6 mo) (Advertisement to be continued.)
Bankrupt Notices. WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy has been awarded and issued against DAVID FALES, jun. of Thomaston, in the District of Maine, Trader, and the said David Fales jun. has been declared a Bankrupt, he is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in said commission named, or to the major part of them, on Tuesday the sixteenth day of September next, at ten o'clock, A. M. on each of said days, at the Commissioners' Office, No. 2, Middle Street, Portland, in said district, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; when and where his creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts; and at the second meeting to choose an Assignee or Assignees; and at the last meeting said bankrupt is required to make his examination; and at said last meeting any of the creditors of said bankrupt may be heard before said Commissioners against the making or allowing a certificate to the Judge of said district, to entitle said bankrupt to a certificate of discharge.—All persons indebted to said bankrupt are to make payment; and those who have any of his effects, are to deliver the same to such persons as the Commissioners shall appoint. By order of the Commissioners, NATHAN KINSMAN, Clerk. Dated 22nd August, 1803.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy has been awarded and issued against SAMUEL FOLLANSBEE, of New Bedford, in the District of Maine, Trader, and the said Samuel Follansbee has been declared a Bankrupt; he is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in said commission named, or to the major part of them, on Tuesday the 16th, on Tuesday 30th days of August next, and on Monday the 12th day of September next, at ten o'clock, A. M. on each of said days, at the Commissioners' Office, No. 2, Middle Street, Portland, in said district, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; when and where his creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts; and at the second meeting to choose an Assignee or Assignees; and at the last meeting said bankrupt is required to finish his examination; and at said last meeting any of the creditors of said bankrupt may be heard before said Commissioners against the making or allowing a certificate to the Judge of said district, to entitle said bankrupt to a certificate of discharge.—All persons indebted to said bankrupt are to make payment; and those who have any of his effects, are to deliver the same to such persons only as the Commissioners shall appoint. By order of the Commissioners, Dated 30th July, 1803. N. KINSMAN, Clerk.
UNITED STATES—District of Maine. August 6th, 1803. NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors of CHARLES SHAW, of Portland, Trader, against whom a commission of Bankruptcy has been awarded and proceeded upon, that they may be heard, if they think fit, before the Judge of said district, on Wednesday the 7th day of September next, at the Court house, in Wisbeach, against making and allowing a certificate of discharge to said bankrupt; before which time exceptions to such allowance may be exhibited. DAVID SEWALL, Judge of the District Court of Maine.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of an Administrator on the estate of GEORGE JOHNSON, late of Goshen, in the county of Cumberland, mariner, deceased, by giving 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 any demands thereon to exhibit the same for settlement to CHARLES JOHNSON. Goshen, August 20, 1803.
THE subscribers having been duly appointed Commissioners by the Hon. William G. D. Ham, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of RICHARD ANDERSON, late of Windham, in the county of Cumberland, gentleman, deceased, represented intestate—hereby give notice that six months from the twenty-second day of July last, are allowed for the creditors to bring in their claims; and that we will attend that service on Monday the eighth day of this instant August, and the last Monday of the five following months, from ten o'clock, A. M. to five in the afternoon, at the house of Edward Antle, Esq. in said Windham. THOMAS CHUTE, } Commissioners. PAUL LITTLE, jun. } Windham, August 13, 1803.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of an Administrator on the estate of ANDREW STANTON, late of Cape Elizabeth, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, by giving 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 any demands thereon, to exhibit the same for settlement to EDMOND HAGAN. August 15, 1803.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that she has been duly appointed and taken upon herself the trust of an Executrix to the Will and Testament of JOHN KEEN, late of Turner, in the county of Cumberland gentleman, deceased, by giving 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 for settlement to JERUSA KEEN. August 15, 1803.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that the subscribers have been duly appointed by the Hon. William Gorham, Esq. Commissioners, to receive and examine the claims against the estate of NCREASE POTE, late of Falmouth, yeoman, deceased—that six months are allowed for the creditors to said estate to bring in their claims; and that the Commissioners propose to meet at the late dwelling house of said deceased, in said Falmouth, on the 10th Friday of this and the five next succeeding months, from two to six o'clock in the afternoon of said days, for the purpose of their appointment. AMMI R. MITCHELL, } Commissioners. WILLIAM BUXTON, } Northampton, August 1, 1803.
WHEREAS Joanna my wife has endeavored to injure my character in her advertisement of the elements of Jesus, by saying that she did not close from my bed and board, and saying that she did not dispose of my property and that I neglected to provide for her, which is absolutely false, for I provided everything a woman could expect, which was only an excuse for her loving me and that I neglected her and her helpless child, which I utterly deny. My event and offered to take the child but she would not give it up. Raymond, August 10, 1803. Henry Storer.
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