Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser (Portland, Me.), 1809-12-25 00:00:00

PORTLAND GAZETTE, And Maine Advertiser.
PORTLAND, PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR SHIRLEY... FISH-STREET.
No. 57, of Vol. XII.]
MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1809.
[Whole No. 609.]
OIL & CANDLES.
Batchelor Hussey, Opposite the Indian Chief. 108 Fish-Street. HAS for sale, on reasonable terms, 125 boxes SPERMACETI CANDLES, 4 casks SPERMACETI OIL, of an excellent quality. N.B. The best of SPERMACETI OIL, sold for one dollar per gallon. Customers are respectfully requested to call at the sign of Hussey & Winslow. Nov. 13.
SAMUEL WATSON,
Opposite Mr. Bueh Moulton's Jeweller's Shop. FISH-STREET. ACQUAINTS his friends and the public, that he continues to carry on the Tailoring Business, in the most fashionable and expeditious manner. He has just received from Boston, a small assortment of fashionable superfine and common Broadcloths, Cassimeres and Vestings; together with an assortment of TRIMMINGS suitable for the same—which will be disposed of on the most reasonable terms. Portland, Nov. 6.
FOR SALE,
THAT valuable Estate situated in North-yarmouth, twelve miles from Portland, and about one hundred rods from the head of the tide in North-yarmouth, lying on the Post Road from Portland to Wilscusett, and has been occupied by the subscriber for a term of years past. Said Estate consists of a very convenient three-story House, a Stable, Barn, Shed, and other out houses, with a good well of water, and an aqueduct leading to the house, with about one hundred and ten acres of excellent Land, having a young Orchard on the same, said Farm is under excellent improvement. —ALSO— A FARM in the town of Freeport, at Fitch's corner, so called, within one mile of Porter's landing, consisting of fifty-four acres of excellent land, a convenient Dwelling-house, Barn, &c. Said Farm is under good improvement, is well watered, cuts about fifteen tons of Hay, and has an Orchard which bears considerable fruit yearly, and is well situated, either for a Farmer, Merchant or Mechanic. The above Farms will be sold together or separate as may best suit the purchaser. For terms (which will be made easy) please to apply to the subscriber at North-yarmouth. SETH MITCHELL North-yarmouth, August 21, 1809. (t.f.)
NOTICE!
THE Proprietors of Union Wharf are hereby notified that their annual meeting will be held at Mrs. Chadwick's Tavern, in Portland, on the first Tuesday in January next, at 6 o'clock, P. M. when they will act upon the following articles:— 1st—To choose a Moderator. 2d—To choose a Clerk for the year ensuing, and such other officers as they may judge necessary to manage their affairs. 3d—To receive accounts and allow the same if they think proper. 4th—To see if the Proprietors will vote any sum or sums of money to be allowed to defray any expenses that may be incurred in managing their affairs or improving the interest of said proprietors—and generally to act on all matters that they shall judge necessary for the interest of the concerned. THOMAS WEBSTER, Proprietor's Clerk. Portland, Dec. 11, 1809. (18)
TO BE SOLD,
By order of Court, on MONDAY the fifteenth day of January, at 10 o'clock A.M. to the highest bidder, a Lot of LAND, on the south east side of Gun's Lane street. Sale on the premises. Portland, Dec. 18, 1809.
Official Correspondence.
DOCUMENTS
ACCOMPANYING THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
From Mr. Smith to Mr. Jackson.
[CONCLUDED FROM OUR LAST.]
 1. The order does not provide for the important case of vessels returning with cargoes from the ports of Holland.  2. The exemption from interruption of vessels bound from the United States to Holland was restricted by that order to such as should have departed prior to the 20th of July, at which date it is not certain that the order, which was not officially communicated until the 31st of that month, had even reached any one point of the United States. So that some vessels may have failed between the limited date and the arrival of the order in the United States, and many from distant ports must have done so after its arrival, but before a knowledge of it had become general; all proceeding on the faith of the arrangement, yet all left by the order exposed to capture and condemnation.  3. The order does not provide for the important case of vessels, which had failed on the like faith for Dutch ports other than those of Holland.  4. It does not include in its provisions the extensive list of vessels going indirectly from the United States, but directly from foreign ports to those of Holland, nor vessels trading entirely from foreign ports to Holland; and in both these instances proceeding on the faith of the arrangement professed to be respected within the defined period. 
It is true, in these last instances the vessels were not to be captured without an attempt, after contrary warning, to proceed to those ports. But I need not remind you that the injuries incident to the delay and to the breaking up of such voyages cannot but have been considerable, and will have resulted as manifestly from the disappointed faith in the arrangement as in the cases specially provided for, and consequently with all other losses fairly resulting from the same bonafide confidence in that act, they will fall within the just indemnification for which the principle, assumed in the order, is a formal pledge.
I conclude, Sir, with pressing upon your candid attention, that the least which the President could have looked for in consequence of the disavowal of a transaction such as was concluded by your predecessor and carried into effect by this government, was an explanation from yours of the disavowal, not through the minister disavowed, but through his successor—an explanation founded on reasons strong and solid in themselves, and presented, neither verbally, nor vaguely, but in a form competing with the occasion, and with the respect due to the character and to the good faith of the disappointed party,—that it has been found with much concern and with no less surprise, that you are charged with no such explanation,—that you have apparently wished to bring the subjects, which have been formally and definitively arranged into fresh negotiation, as if no such arrangement had taken place; that one of the cases thus slighted, viz. that of the frigate Chesapeake, is a case for which reparation, not denied to be due, had been previously to long withheld, or rather in which the aggression itself has been spun out, to the present moment, by the continued detention of the mariners, whose seizure, making a part of the original hostility committed against the American frigate, must be regarded in a light analogous to a continued detention of the ship itself;—that in the other cases, namely that of the orders in council you are not authorized to tender explanations for the disavowal, or to propose any new arrangement nor to conclude any agreement, but solely to receive and discuss propositions which might be made to you, not concealing, at the same time, that, to be satisfactory, they must include two conditions, both inadmissible,—one altogether irrelevant to the subject, and the other requiring nothing less than a surrender of an inalienable function of the national sovereignty.
Notwithstanding these repulsive considerations, such is the disposition of the President to facilitate a final and comprehensive accommodation between the two nations, that he is ready, as I have already had the honor of signifying to you, to favor any model of bringing about so happy an event that may be found consistent with the honor and the essential interest of the U. States.
I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) R. SMITH. The Hon. Francis J. Jackson, &c. &c. &c.
(A)
Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Canning, dated London, Oct. 10, 1806. "As to our first interview (on the 2d June) verbal communication was not disavowed, but commented on after I had made myself understood as to the purpose for which the interview had been requested, you asked me if I thought of taking a more formal course, but immediately added that you presumed I did not, for that the course I had adopted was well suited to the occasion. My reply was in substance that the freedom of conversation was better adapted to our subject and more likely to conduct us to an advantageous conclusion, than the cautious and formal mode of written intercourse, and that I had not intended to prevent a note. As the second interview (on the 22d July) it did not occur to me that I had any reason to conclude, and certainly I did not conclude, the verbal communication had not continued to be acceptable as a preparatory course, and it was not until the third interview (on the 29th July) that it was rejected as inadmissible."
(B)
(EXTRACT.)
From Mr. Canning to Mr. Pinkney, dated Nov. 22, 1808.
"It is highly probable that I did not (as you say I did not) assign to you as the motive of the with which I then expressed, my persuasion, that written communications are less liable to mistake than verbal ones; because that consideration is sufficiently obvious, and because the whole course and practice of office is, in that respect so established and invariable, that I really could not have supposed the assignment of any specific motive to be necessary to account for my requiring a written statement of your proposals previous to my returning an official answer to them. "I had taken for granted all along, that such would, and such must, be the ultimate proceeding on your part; however you might wish to prepare the way for it by preliminary conversations."
(C)
Extract of a letter from Mr. Erskine to Mr. Smith, dated Washington, July 31st, 1809.
"Neither the present time, nor the occasion will afford me a favorable opportunity for explaining to you the grounds and reasons upon which I conceived I had conformed to his Majesty's wishes; and to the spirit, at least, of my instructions upon that subject, nor indeed would any vindication of my conduct (whatever I may have to offer) be of any importance further than as it might tend to show, that no intention existed on my part to practice any deception towards the government of the U. States."
From the same to the same, dated August 14th, 1809. "Under these circumstances, therefore, finding that I could not obtain the recognition specified in Mr. Canning's despatch of the 23d of January (which formed but one part of his instructions to me) in the formal manner required, I considered that it would be in vain to lay before the government of the U. S. the despatch in question, which I was at liberty to have done in extenso, had I thought proper. But as I had such strong grounds for believing that the object of His Majesty's government could be attained, though in a different manner, and the spirit, at least, of my several letters of instruction be fully complied with, I felt a thorough conviction upon my mind, that I should be acting in conformity with his Majesty's wishes and accordingly concluded the late provisional agreement on His Majesty's behalf with the government of the U. S."
The disavowal by His Majesty is a painful proof to me that I had formed an erroneous judgment of His Majesty's views & the intention of my instructions; & I have most severely to lament that an act of mine (though unintentionally) should produce any embarrassment in the relations between the two countries."
Mr. Jackson to Mr. Smith.
Washington, 23d Oct. 1809.
Sir—The letter, which you did me the honor to address to me on the 19th inst. was delivered to me on the following day. I shall without loss of time, transmit it to my court, where the various and important considerations which it embraces will receive the attention due to them. In the interval I would beg leave to submit to you the following observations, as they arise out of the communications that have already occurred between us.
In fulfilling a duty which I conceive to be due to my public character, I have never suggested, nor meant to suggest, that the mode of negotiating prescribed by you on this particular occasion—an occasion selected for the purpose of removing existing differences—was otherwise objectionable, than as it appeared to me, to be less calculated, than it does to you, to answer the professed purpose of our negotiation.
It was against the general principle of forbidding a foreign minister, in the short space of one week after his arrival and without any previous understanding with him, from all personal intercourse, that I thought it right to protest. Since however I find by your letter that it is not intended to apply that principle to me, I will only observe, that in the case which you mention to have occurred between Mr. Canning and Mr. Pinkney, the conferences were held, under an expectation at least on the part of the former, of their leading to a written communication, whereas in ours, I, from the beginning, stated that I had no such communication to make. There is also this essential difference between the two cases, that Mr. Pinkney was charged to convey an important proposal to His Majesty's government, the particulars of which it might be very material to have correctly stated, whilst the object of that part of my conversation to which you seem to attach the most importance, was to say, that I was not charged to make any proposal whatever.
It could not enter into my view, to withhold from you an explanation, merely because it had been already given, but because having been so given, I could not imagine, until informed by you, that a repetition of it would be required at my hands. I am quite certain that His Majesty's government having complied with what was considered to be the substantial duty imposed upon it on this occasion would, had this been foreseen, have added to the proofs of conciliatory good faith already manifested, the farther complacency to the wishes of the United States of adopting the form of communication most agreeable to them, and of giving through me the explanation in question. I have therefore no hesitation in informing you that His Majesty was pleased to disavow the agreement concluded between you and Mr. Erskine, because it was concluded in violation of that gentleman's instructions, and altogether without authority to subscribe to the terms of it. These instructions, I now understand by your letter, as well as from the obvious deduction which I took the liberty of making in mine of the 11th instant were at the time, in substance, made known to you: no stronger illustration therefore can be given of the deviation from them, which occurred, than by a reference to the terms of your agreement.
Nothing can be more notorious than the frequency with which, in the course of a complicated negotiation, ministers are furnished with a graduation of conditions, on which they may be successively authorized to conclude. So common is the case which you put hypothetically, that in acceding to the justice of your statement, I feel myself compelled to make only one observation upon it, which is that it does not strike me as bearing upon the consideration of the unauthorized agreement concluded here, inasmuch as in point of fact Mr. Erskine had no such graduated instruction. You are already acquainted with that which was given, and I have had the honor of informing you that it was the only one by which the conditions on which he was to conclude were prescribed. So far from the terms which he was actually induced to accept, having been contemplated in that instruction, he himself states that they were substituted by you in lieu of those originally proposed.
It may perhaps be satisfactory that I should say here that I most willingly subscribe, on this occasion, to the highly respectable authority which you have quoted; and I join issue with you upon the essentials which that authority requires to constitute a right to disavow the act of a public minister.
It is not immaterial to observe on the qualification contained in the passage you have quoted—as it implies the case of a minister concluding in virtue of a full power. To this it would suffice to answer that Mr. Erskine had no power; and his act consequently does not come within the range of your quotation, altho' it cannot be forgotten that the United States have, at no very distant period, most freely exercised the right of withholding their ratification from even the authorized act of their own diplomatic agents, done under the avowed sanction of a full power.
I conceive that what has been already said establishes beyond the reach of doubt or controversy that his Majesty's minister did violate his instructions, and the consequent right in his Majesty to disavow an act so concluded. That his Majesty had strong and solid reasons for so doing will appear not only from his instructions having been violated, but from the circumstance that the violation of them involved the sacrifice of a great system of policy deliberately adopted and acted upon in just and necessary retaliation of the unprecedented modes of hostility resorted to by his enemy.
There appears to have prevailed throughout the whole of the transaction a fundamental mistake which would suggest that his Majesty had proposed to propitiate the government of the United States in order to induce it to consent to the renewal of the commercial intercourse between the two countries; and if such had been the relations between Great Britain and America, that the advantages of that intercourse were wholly on the side of the former; and if in any arrangement, whether commercial or political, his Majesty could condescend to barter objects of national policy and dignity for permission to trade with another country.
Without minutely calculating what may be the degree of pressure felt at Paris by the differences in the price of goods whether landed at Havre or Hamburg, I will, in my turn, appeal to your judgment, Sir, whether it be not a strong and solid reason, worthy to guide the councils of a great and powerful monarch, to set bounds to that spirit of encroachment and universal domination which would bend all things to its own standard? Is it nothing in the present state of the world, when the agents of France authoritatively announce to their victims, "That Europe is submitting & surrendering by degrees," that the world should be so strongly appealed to in the paper to which I allude, is enabled to satisfy the assertion? Is it not important at such a moment, that Europe and America should be convinced, that from whatever countries honourable and manly resistance to such a spirit may have been banished, it will still be found in the sovereign of the British nation and in the hearts of his subjects?
As to the precautions taken in England to insure from injury upon this occasion the citizens of the United States, and which appear to you to be even yet insufficient, I am confident that in every doubtful case the usual liberality of our tribunals will be exercised in determining upon the circumstances of it; and it was at Mr. Pinkney's express requisition, that additional instructions were given to the commanders of his Majesty's ships of war and privateers to extend to vessels trading to the colonies, plantations and settlements of Holland, the same exemption from capture and molestation, as was granted to vessels sailing for any of the ports of Holland.
On the subject of return cargoes from those ports, I must observe, that although it was intended to prevent as far as was practicable the inconveniences likely to be created by the unauthorized agreement made here in April last, yet it was not and could not be intended to obviate all possible inconveniences, even such as might have arisen if no such agreement had ever been made.
If an American vessel had failed from America for Holland in time of profound peace, or in time of war, the ports of Holland not being at the date of failing under blockade, it might yet have happened that, in the period between the commencement of such voyage and the arrival of the vessel at the port of destination, a blockade might have been established before that port. The vessel arriving would, in that case, have been warned not to enter the port, and would have been turned away with the loss of the whole object of the voyage. This would be no extraordinary hardship, and would afford no legitimate ground of complaint.
The Order in Council is far less strict than such a blockade would be, for as much as it provides for the original voyage, commenced in expectation of being admitted to the port of destination, by permitting the entry into the ports of Holland—and it is no just ground of complaint, that it does not superadd to that permission the liberty to re-export a cargo of the enemy's goods or produce.
I beg leave briefly to recapitulate the substance of what I have had the honor to convey to you as well in a verbal, as in written communications.
I have informed you of the reasons of His Majesty's disavowal of the agreement to which I alluded; I have shown them, in obedience to the authority which you have quoted, to be both strong and solid, and such as to outweigh, in the judgement of His Majesty's Government, every other consideration which you have contemplated; I have shown that that agreement was not concluded in virtue of a full power, and that the instructions, given on the occasion, were violated.
Beyond this point of explanation, which was
*Augusta's proclamation to the Catalinians.
supposed to have been attained, but which is now given, by the present letter, in the form understood to be most agreeable to the American government, my instructions are prospective; they look to substituting for notions of good understanding, erroneously entertained, practical stipulations on which a real reconciliation of all differences may be substantially founded; and they authorize me not to renew proposals which have already been declared here to be unacceptable, but to receive and discuss any proposal made on the part of the United States, and eventually to conclude a convention between the two countries. It is not, of course, intended to call upon me to state as a preliminary to negotiation, what is the whole extent of those instructions; they must, as I have before said, remain subject to my own discretion, until I am enabled to apply them to the overtures, which I may have the honor of receiving from you.
I have the honor to be, With great respect, Sir, Your most obedient humble serv't. J. J. JACKSON.
The Hon. Robert Smith, &c. &c. &c.
Mr. Jackson to Mr. Smith.
Washington Oct. 27, 1809.
Sir—Finding by your letter of the 19th inst. that, notwithstanding the frequent statements made by me in our conferences of the terms of satisfaction which I am empowered to offer to this country for the unauthorized attack made by one of His Majesty's ships of war upon the frigate of the United States, the Chesapeake, I have not had the good fortune to make myself distinctly understood by you, I have the honour to inclose herewith a paper of memoranda containing the conditions on the basis of which I am ready to proceed to draw up with you the necessary official documents in the form proposed in my letter of the 11th inst. or in any other form upon which we may hereafter agree. I have the honor, &c. F. J. JACKSON. The Hon. Rob't. Smith, &c. &c. &c.
PROPOSITIONS
Offered by Mr. Jackson to Mr. Smith.
The President's Proclamation of July 1807, prohibiting to British ships of war the entrance into the Harbours of the United States having been annulled, His Majesty is willing to restore the Seamen taken out of the Chesapeake on referring to himself a right to claim, in a regular way, by application to the American Government, the discharge of such of them (if any) as shall be proved to be either natural born subjects of His Majesty, or deserters from His Majesty's service.
His Majesty is willing to make a provision for the families of such men as were slain on board the Chesapeake, in consequence of the unauthorized attack upon that frigate, provided that such bounty shall not be extended to the family of any man who shall have been either a natural born subject of His Majesty, or a deserter from His Majesty's service.
Mr. Smith to Mr. Jackson.
Department of State, Nov. 1, 1809.
Sir—Your letter of the 23d ult. which was duly received, would have been sooner acknowledged, had I not by sickness been rendered for several days utterly unfit for business.
Although the delay and the apparent reluctance in specifying the grounds of the disavowal of the arrangement with respect to the orders in council, do not correspond with the course of proceeding deemed most becoming the occasion; yet as the explanation has at length been thus made, it only remains, as to that part of the disavowed arrangement, to regret that such considerations should have been allowed to outweigh the solid objections to the disavowal; it being understood at the same time that his Britannic Majesty perseveres in requiring as indispensable conditions on the part of the United States, an entire relinquishment of the right to trade with enemies' colonies, and also permission to the British navy to aid in executing a law of Congress; pretensions, which cannot without render abortive all proposals whatever upon this subject, whether made by the United States or by his Britannic Majesty.
Whilst you have deemed it proper to offer an explanation with respect to the disavowal of one part of the arrangement, I must remind you that there is not to be found in your letter any like specification of the reasons of the disavowal, nor particularly is it shown that instructions were violated, as to the other part, viz. the case of the Chesapeake; the case in which in an especial manner an explanation was required, and in which only you professed to have authority to make to this government any overtures.
For the first time it is now disclosed that the subjects, arranged with this government by your predecessor, are held not to be within the authority of a Minister Plenipotentiary and that, not having had a full power distinct from that authority, his transactions on those subjects might of right be disavowed by his government. This doctrine, so contrary to every antecedent proposition and just inference, gives a new aspect to his business. If the authority of your predecessor did not embrace the subject in question, it was to his government it necessarily follows, that the only credentials yet preferred, by you being the same with those preferred by him, give you no authority to bind it, and

for the exhibition of a "full power" for that purpose, such as you doubtless are furnished with, is become an indispensable preliminary to further negotiation; or, to speak more strictly, was required in the first instance by the view of the matter now dictated by you. Negotiation without this preliminary would not only be a departure from the principle of equality, which is the essential basis of it, but would moreover be a disregard of the precautions and of the full respect enjoined on the attention of the United States by the circumstances which have hitherto taken place.
I need, scarcely add, that in the full power alluded to, as a preliminary to a negotiation, is not intended to be included either the whole extent or any part of your instructions for the exercise of it. These of course, as you have justly remarked, remain subject to your own discretion.
I affirm, Sir, from making any particular animadversions on several irrelevant and improper allusions in your letter, not at all comporting with the professed disposition to adjust in an amicable manner the differences unhappily subsisting between the two countries. But it would be improper to conclude the few observations to which I purposely limit myself, without averting to your repetition of a language implying a knowledge on the part of this government that the instructions of your predecessor did not authorize the arrangement formed by him. After the explicit and peremptory averment that this government had no such knowledge, and that with such a knowledge no such arrangement would have been entered into the view, which you have again presented on the subject, makes it my duty to apprise you, that such insinuations are inadmissible in the intercourse of a foreign minister with a government that understands what it owes to itself.
I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) R. SMITH. The Hon. F. J. Jackson, &c. &c.
Mr. Jackson to Mr. Smith. Washington, 4th Nov. 1809.
Sir—When I forwarded to you court your letter of the 19th ultimo, and the answer which I returned to it, I imagined, & I may add, I hoped, that the retrospective correspondence, into which you thought it necessary to enter with me had been closed. You will, no doubt, recollect, with what reluctance I acquiesced in your information on this head; not, as I believe has been seen, from any difficulty in maintaining the justice of the cause which is entrusted to me, but because I was and still am of opinion, that this sort of correspondence is not calculated to remove differences & soothe irritations of the most unfortunate tendency. As, however, I had no choice but to acquiesce, for the present, the hope of effectuating this desirable object, or to pursue it in the manner prescribed in your letter of the 9th ultimo, so I am now unwillingly compelled to enter upon the consideration of another letter from you under date of the 11th inst. which but too strongly confirms the opinion I before entertained.
Since, Sir, it has been judged expedient to confine to a written form this important and interesting discussion; since that mode has been declared by you to be indispensable, I will first appeal to the written communications which have passed between us; and I do this with the greater satisfaction, because I consider it to be the chief cause of the present remarkable state of things, that in speaking of engagements contracted or supposed to have been contracted between the two countries, understanding or implied engagements have been allowed to take place of written compacts, and have been considered, in some instances, as having the same validity. It is further necessary to place in the most unqualified light a topic, which I observe to be constantly and prominently related in your letters, notwithstanding the repeated, but as it should seem, fruitless endeavours used in mine, to clear it from the slightest shadow of obscurity.
You say "that it is understood that his Britannic Majesty prefers in requiring as indispensable conditions on the part of the U. S. an entire relinquishment of the right to trade with the enemies colonies, & also a permission to the British navy to aid in executing a law of Congress."
This same statement is contained in your letter of the 9th inst. and represented as the substance of what had fallen from me in our previous conferences. In my answer to that letter, I took the liberty of showing that such a supposition was erroneous, and I have looked in vain to my letter of the 23d, to find in it any suggestion of a similar tenor. I believe, therefore, that by reference to my two letters you will find, that the statement now again brought forward is contained in neither of them, that it made no part of my previous conversations with you, and that I have in no way given room to suppose, that I ever made any such statement at all.
That before the orders in council can be revoked, their object must be obtained in some other way, is unquestionably true; but you may be assured, Sir, that there is no with whatever entertained in England, that the British navy should be employed in executing a law of Congress. If the proposal that was made upon that subject, and made, as you now know because it was believed to be acceptable here, had been adopted, and had become a matter of compact between the two countries, and thereby a part, not of the law of Congress, but of the public law binding upon both parties, and which both would have had a common interest in seeing duly executed; in that case the agency of the British navy would not have had the invidious aspect, which is now attempted to be given to it. At present there is no engagement between the two countries, no laws of Congress which bear a reference to any such engagement, and consequently it cannot be wished to take any there whatever in the execution of those laws.
In regard to the colonial trade I need only observe, that all or nearly all the enemies colonies are blockaded by British squadrons, it cannot therefore, be so much an object of solicitude, as you imagine, to obtain the relinquishment of the trade of any country to those colonies. On the contrary you will find it stated in my letter of the 11th ultimo, to be a "matter of indifference whether the order in council" (on this subject) "be continued, or an arrangement by mutual consent substituted in its room."
When I informed you that the agreement concluded here in April last, had been framed in deviation from the instructions given for the occasion, my explanation was intended to apply to both parts of that agreement. That nothing, required by the most scrupulous accuracy, may be wanting, I now add, that the deviation consisted in not recording in the official document signed here, the abrogation of the President's Proclamation of the 2d July, 1807, as well as the two reserves specified in the paper of memoranda enclosed in my official letter to you of the 27th ultimo.
There is another motive for the disavowal of this part of the arrangement, considered to be so strong and so self-evident upon the very face of the transaction, that I am not commanded to more than indicate it in the manner I have already done. —By this for instance his Majesty conceives that he is, giving an additional pledge of his sincere disposition to maintain a good understanding with the United States.
I am somewhat at a loss to give a distinct reply to that part of your letter which relates to Mr. Erskine's authority to conclude with you in virtue of his general letter of credence, because I do not very distinctly understand the tendency of it. I never before heard it doubted, that a full power was requisite to enable a minister to conclude a treaty, or that a mere general letter of credence was insufficient for that purpose.
If it were otherwise, and a government were in all cases to be bound by the act, however unauthorized, of an accredited Minister, there would be no safety in the appointment of such a Minister, and ratifications would be useless. —No full power was given in the present case, because it was not a treaty, but the materials for forming a treaty, that was in contemplation.
In his dispatch of the 23d of January, Mr. Secretary Canning distinctly says to Mr. Erskine—"Upon receiving through you on the part of the American government a distinct and official recognition of the three abovementioned conditions, his Majesty will lose no time in sending to America a minister fully empowered to confer them to a formal and regular treaty."
This minister would, of course, have been provided with a full power; but Mr. Erskine was to be guided by his instructions, and had the agreement concluded here been conformable to them, it would without doubt have been ratified by his Majesty. I must beg your very particular attention to the circumstance that his Majesty's ratification has been withheld, not because the agreement was concluded without a full power, but because it was altogether irreconcilable to the instructions on which it was professedly founded. The question of the full power was introduced by yourself, to give weight, by a quotation from a highly respected author, to your complaint of the disavowal; in answer to which I observed, that the quotation did not apply, as Mr. Erskine had no full power. Never did I imagine, or any where attempt, to rest the right of disavowal upon that circumstance; indubitably his agreement would, nevertheless, have been ratified, had not the instructions, which in this case took the place of a full power, been violated.
I am surprised at the transition by which it appears to you that this part of the subject is connected with the authority empowering me to negotiate with you. It will not, I dare say, have escaped your recollection, that I informed you at a very early period of our communications, that in addition to the usual credential letters, his Majesty had been pleased to invest me with a full power under the great seal of his kingdom, for the express purpose of concluding a treaty or convention. I well remember your testifying your satisfaction at the circumstance; and I have only now to add, that I am ready, whenever it suits your convenience, to exchange my full power against that with which you shall be provided, for the progress of our negotiation.
I am concerned, Sir, to be obliged a second time to appeal to those principles of public law under the sanction and protection of which I was sent to this country. Where there is no freedom of communication in the form substituted for the more usual one of verbal diffusion, there can be little useful intercourse between ministers; and one, at least, of the epithets which you have thought proper to apply to my last letter is such as necessarily abridges that freedom. That anything therein contained may be irrelevant to the subject, it is of course competent in you to endeavor to show; and, as far as my argument is of its validity; but as to the propriety of my allusions, you must allow me to acknowledge only the decision of my own sovereign, whose commands I obey, and to whom alone I can consider myself responsible. Beyond this, it suffices that I do not deviate from the respect due to the government to which I am accredited.
You will find that in my correspondence with you, I have carefully avoided drawing conclusions that did not necessarily follow from the premises advanced by me, and least of all should I think of uttering an insinuation where I was unable to substantiate a fact. To facts, such as I have become acquainted with them, I have scrupulously adhered, and in so doing I must continue, whenever the good faith of his Majesty's government is called in question, to vindicate its honor and dignity, in the manner that appears to me best calculated for that purpose.
I have the honor to be, With great respect, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, F. J. JACKSON. The Hon. ROBERT SMITH, &c. &c.
Mr. Smith to Mr. Jackson. Department of State, Nov. 6, 1809. Sir—In my letter of the 19th ult. I stated to you that the disavowal in our letter of the 11th, that the disavowal "from Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine of the 23d January, was the only disavowal by which the conditions were prescribed to Mr. Erskine, for the conclusion of an arrangement on the matter to which it related, was then for the first time made to this government." And it was added, that if that disavowal had been communicated at the time of the arrangement, or if it had been known that the propositions contained in it were the only ones on which he was authorized to make an arrangement, the arrangement would not have been made.
In my letter of the 1st instant, advertizing to the repetition in your letter of the 23d ult. of a language implying a knowledge in this government that the instructions of your predecessor did not authorize the arrangement formed by him, an intimation was distinctly given to you, that after the explicit and peremptory averment that this government had not any such knowledge, and that with such a knowledge, such an arrangement would not have been made, no such insinuation could be admitted by this government.
Finding that in your reply of the 5th inst. you have used a language which cannot be understood but as reiterating and even aggravating the same gross insinuation, it only remains, in order to preclude opportunities which are thus abused, to inform you that no further communications will be received from you, and that the necessity of this determination will, without delay, be made known to your government. In the mean time a ready attention will be given to any communication affecting the interests of the two nations, thro' any other channel that may be substituted.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) R. SMITH. The Hon. Francis James Jackson, &c. &c.
Mr. Oakeley, his Majesty's Secretary of Legation, is desired by Mr. Jackson to state to the Secretary of State, that, as Mr. Jackson has been already once most grossly insulted by the inhabitants of the town of Hampton, in the unprompted language of abuse held by them to several officers bearing the King's uniform, when those officers were themselves violently assaulted and put in imminent danger; he conceives it to be indispensable to the safety of himself, of the gentlemen attached to his mission, and of his family, during the remainder of their stay in the United States, to be provided with special passports to safeguard from the American government. This is the more necessary since some of the newspapers of the United States are daily using a language whose only tendency can be to excite the people to commit violence upon Mr. Jackson's person. In consequence he requests that the undersigned names may be inserted in the document to be furnished him.
Francis James Jackson, Mrs. Jackson, Their three Children, Charles Oakeley, esq. His Majesty's Secretary of Legation. Mr. George Ottey, Private Secretary. SERVANTS. Robert Clavering, Francis Martin, Wm. Atree, Charles Beecroft, Richard Lowe, John Price, John Lilly, James Wright, Amelia George, Mary Smith, Harriet Patten, Martha Wood, Frances Blackwell.
[Received at the Department of State on the 11th Nov. 1809.]
Mr. Oakeley is desired by Mr. Jackson to say to the Secretary of State: That Mr. Jackson has seen with much regret that facts, which it has been his duty to state in his official correspondence, have been deemed by the American government to afford a sufficient motive for breaking off an important negotiation and for putting an end to all communication whatever with the Minister charged by his sovereign with that negotiation so interesting to both nations, and on one point of which an answer has not even been returned to an official and written overture.
One of the facts alluded to has been admitted by the Secretary of State himself in his letter of the 19th Oct. viz. that the three conditions forming the substance of Mr. Erskine's original instructions were submitted to him by that gentleman. The other, viz. That that instruction is the only one in which the conditions were prescribed to Mr. Erskine for the conclusion of an arrangement on the matter to which it related, is known to Mr. Jackson by the instructions which he has himself received.
In stating these facts and in adhering to them, as his duty imperiously enjoined him to do, Mr. Jackson could not imagine that offence would be taken at it by the American government, as most certainly none could be intended on his part; but since he has been informed by the Secretary of State that no further communication will be received from him, he conceives that he has no alternative that is consistent with what is due to the King's dignity, but to withdraw altogether from the seat of the American government, and await the arrival of his Majesty's commands upon the unlooked for turn which has thus been given to his affairs in this country.
Mr. Jackson means to make New York the place of his residence. Washington, 13th Nov. 1809.
Foreign Intelligence.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 4, 1809. Treaty of Peace. ON the 15th October, at Schoenbrunn, his Majesty the Emperor and King, ratified the Definitive TREATY OF PEACE agreed upon, and signed at Vienna, the day before, by JEAN BAPTISTE NOMPÈRE, Count of Champagny, Duke of Cadore, &c. on the part of France; and by Prince JOHN OF LICHTENSTEIN, &c. on the part of Austria. The following are the Articles:—
There follows 18 long articles.—By the 1st, Napoleon acknowledges Francis, as Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, &c. By the 2d, Francis acknowledges the Kings of Spain, Holland, Naples, Bavaria, Württemberg, Saxony, and Westphalia; the Prince Primate, Grand Dukes of Baden, Berg, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Württemberg, and the Princes of the Rhenish Confederation. By the 3d, Austria cedes, the counties of Salzburg, and Berchtesgaden; and about a 5th part of Upper Austria; (the Emperor Francis retaining the right to cut brushwood in the forest of Saracomenburg.) Also, Upper Carinthia, and the territories south of the Save, (nearly one half of the southern provinces of Austria) and the Lordship of Radkersburg. Also, 6 villages of Bohemia next to Saxony. Also Western Galicia, and the circle of Zamosc, in East Galicia, (the saltpans to be common to both nations, and corn to be freely exported.) Austria also cedes to Russia, a district of Galicia, containing 400,000 souls; but not to include the city of Bradi. The 4th art. abolishes the Teutonic Order. The 5th and 6th provide for the funded debts; and that the provinces restored to Austria, shall be evacuated by the French, the troops being allowed to take necessaries. The war contributions to cease on the exchange of Ratifications. Art. 7th, permits Austria to import and export merchandise by Trieste, on paying small duties. The 8th and 9th articles respect the delivery of archives, and the payment of public debts. The 10th stipulates, that Napoleon shall procure a full pardon for the Tyrolese & Vorarlberg insurgents; the Emperor of Austria also promising to pardon the Galician insurgents. 11th regulates the time of running the lines of demarcation. The 12th, that Moravia shall be evacuated by the French in 14 days; Galicia, not ceded, and Vienna in one month: Lower Austria in two, and the residue in 10 weeks, or earlier, if possible. The 13th sets the prisoners of war, at liberty, in 14 days, after the exchange of ratifications. By the 14th France guarantees the possessions of the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia and Hungary, as now defined. By the 15th Austria recognizes all past and future alterations [i.e. usurpations] in Spain, Portugal and Italy. By the 16th Austria accedes to the French and Russian prohibitory system as it respects England; and agrees to break off all intercourse with her. The 17th stipulates for the renewal of the old regulations of rank and etiquette between the two countries; and the 18th that the Treaty shall be ratified within six days.
NOTE. The ratifications were exchanged at Vienna, the 20th, by Counts CHAMPAGNY and UBNA.
On the 14th October, [the day which the treaty of Peace was signed, and before it was ratified,] the Emperor Napoleon issued a Decree, directing that all the countries ceded to him by the treaty in the Austrian Southern States, should be named "The Illyrian Provinces," and should be governed by an Intendant General.—(DALLIGNY, COUNCILOR OF STATE, is appointed.)
PARIS, OCT. 27, 1809. At 5 o'clock in the morning of the 22d, the Emperor Napoleon arrived at Munich; at noon at Augsburg, where he alighted, and attended mass. He stopped at Ulm. He travelled all night, and at 7 in the morning of the 23d, he stopped at the palace of Stuttgart, and spent the day with the King and Queen (the eldest daughter of the King of England,) and in the evening went to the opera. At 10 in the evening he sat out and travelling all night, arrived at 10 the next morning at Strasburg. He left Strasburg at noon, and at Baar alighted at the residence of the Lady of Marshal Oudinot. At 7 P. M. he passed through Epernay, where he stopped; and at 9 in the morning of the 26th he arrived at his palace in Fontainebleau.
OCT. 29. Yesterday the Emperor took the diversion of Stag hunting at Fontainebleau. He was himself the bearer of the treaty of Peace, which, having been laid before the Senate, has since been published. Gen. Monnet's effects have been put under sequestration; and he is to be tried for surrendering Flushing.
LONDON, NOV. 12, 1809. A convocation of cardinals is to be held in Paris, to elect a Pope; and to authorize Napoleon to marry one of the daughters of the King of Saxony. It is now stated, that Walcheren is to be evacuated.
Paris reports state, that Ferdinand 7th had been poisoned. The King of Saxony is on a visit to the French Emp. at Fontainebleau. His Queen, and the princess Marie-Auguste-Antoinette, accompany him. This is the Princess who so nobly refused to give her hand to Jerome Bonaparte. She is 27 years old.
By the Sails.
The Prospect of the Times. Is horrible, most horrible. Europe is no longer surrendering by degrees. Her mighty continent has submitted in a mass. The awful gloom of Despotism at once darkens and desolates her plains. The Independence of Nations is no more. And the Freedom of the Ocean is extinct. The sceptre of GEORGE is less bloody than that of NAPOLEON, but equally triumphant. Nor have the "Tyger," and the "Shark" restrained themselves to their appropriate elements. The former has kindled Flames upon the Ocean, and the latter has spread Ruin over no small portion of the Land. Ireland, India, and Denmark, will one day rise in judgment against England, while the Shades of all the subjugated Nations of continental Europe will plead at the Bar of GOD for the condemnation of France. By those mighty Powers are the United States assailed; and against both we must defend ourselves with all our energies. No longer can we choose between the Trojan and the Rutilian. Both are our enemies, and both must be resisted. To Heaven we commit the Event.
MAY THE SPIRIT AND THE POWER OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, UNDER DIVINE PROVIDENCE, PRESERVE US FROM THE HORRID FATE
OF SWITZERLAND, HOLLAND, AND ITALY, PRUSSIA, AUSTRIA, AND SPAIN, IRELAND, INDIA, AND DENMARK.— Freeman's Journal.
"The Honour of a Soldier."
Several new and serious charges against the "Patriot Chief," DON JAMES WILKINSON, are filed at the War-Office, such as DELINQUENCY IN THE SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS, VIOLATIONS OF THE EMBARGO, (O! "The most worthless part of Society"—JEFFERSON) DISOBEDIENCE OF ORDERS, &c. &c. The officers of that Department state one more curious piece of business in which this pure Hero is not a little implicated. A number of horses were purchased in Kentucky, ostensibly for the Public, were secretly transported to New Orleans at the expense of the Public, and sold to the Public at a price far exceeding their real cost or real value. The receipts of the payment for these Horses are signed by one Prederick Cohagen , formerly ostler at Stelle's Hotel in this city, a man not worth a cent. The circumstance of Cohagen's being known here is the only one which led to the detection of this abominable imposition. No wonder the General felt sick on the way to this city.— Ibid.
General Turreau.
The recent departure of the Minister of France has excited the ardent indignation of some of the democrats. They say that he treats the Executive with neglect if not contempt, and every body else with intolerable haughtiness. He is accused of having sent from his late head-quarters at Baltimore, several diplomatic notes , in the character of spies, to cut queer capers "near the government" of the United States. His conduct has been animadverted upon with proper spirit by a republican Washington correspondent of a republican Richmond paper, The Virginia Argus . [ Ibid. ]
Custom-House Swindling.—Letters from New-Orleans, received in this city, state that the collector of that port (a Mr. Brown, appointed by Mr. Jefferson) had absconded with ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS of public money! Accounts received at Philadelphia state the defalcation at one hundred thousand only!—N. Y. pa.
CONGRESS.
House of Representatives. Thursday, Dec. 7.—This day Mr. Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, made a communication on the state of our national cash. By the Report it appears that the amount of duties in 1807, was $ 26,126,648 Debentures on exports deducted, . . . . . 10,067,191 16,059,457 In 1808. Total amount, 10,581,559 Debentures on exports deducted only . . . . . 249,396 10,332,163 Amount in 3d quarter 1809, 10,000,000 Debentures on exports deducted, 3,500,000 6,500,000
Mr. Gallatin states that the disbursements for the present year will exceed the receipts ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, and for the coming year, THREE MILLIONS; and concludes with recommending a LOAN of FOUR MILLIONS of DOLLARS! and either renew the Embargo or take off all restrictions on commerce.
Mr. Taylor offered a resolution for the appointment of a Committee of Privileges, to enquire into the circumstances of Mr. Coles' attack on General Nelson.
FRIDAY, Dec. 8.—Mr. Bacon offered several resolutions for establishing rules and orders respecting indecorous expressions in debate, and the practice of duelling, where members of the house are concerned.—The first resolution provides that if any member shall in debate call in question the integrity of any member of the house, or either branch of the government, or use reproachful language, it shall be deemed a breach of the rules and orders.
The 2d resolution proposes that if any member shall fight a duel, or aid and assist in giving a challenge during the sitting of Congress, shall therefore be expelled.
The 3d resolution proposes that if any person shall do personal violence, (horsewhipping Nelson) to a member, shall be liable to be punished therefor at the discretion of the house. After the resolutions were read, they were ordered to lie on the table.
Monday, Dec. 11.—Mr. Whittman, from a committee who had waited on the President, reported that the papers requested respecting depredations committed on our commerce by Danish, French and English cruisers, would be communicated.
The Resolution which had passed the Senate approving the conduct of the Executive in the rupture with Mr. Jackson, was received, read, and made the order of the day for Thursday.
On motion of Mr. Quincy, amended by Mr. Dana, the President was requested to communicate to the House a copy of Mr. Jackson's "Circular" to the British Consuls; and the despatch of Mr. Canning, which it appeared was sent by Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of State. The motion was opposed, and divided; that part calling for the "Circular" passed 53 to 52. The other part. Afterwards, on a motion to agree to the whole resolution, a long debate ensued; but the resolution was carried 62 to 46; and Messrs. Quincy and Dana appointed to make the request.
Tuesday, Dec. 12.—The motion to raise a separate committee of manufacturers was negatived. Several reports were made, of a local nature, and disposed of.

Wednesday, Dec. 13.—Mr. Quincy reported that the President would furnish the copies of papers requested yesterday.
Mr. Gould moved, that the President be requested to furnish all the despatches respecting Mr. Canning's Instructions to Mr. Livingston, of January 23, 1809, &c. This motion occasioned a debate: Was opposed by Messrs. Bacon, Rhea, and others; and advocated by Messrs. Gould, Gardiner, Key and Quincy; and carried, 85 to 26.
A statement of Drawbacks and Duties, for 1806, 7 & 8, were read and committed.
A bill to appropriate 60,000 dollars to make a Turnpike road near the Ohio, was read twice.
THURSDAY, DEC. 14.—The Anti-Commercial Resolutions presented by Mr. Van Horn, on the 7th inst. were taken up and disposed of.
 Anti-Commercial Resolutions.  1st—That the Committee of Commerce, &c. be instructed to report on the expediency, of prohibiting the exportation from American ports, of any American produce or manufactures, but in vessels owned and wholly navigated by citizens of the U. States.  2d—Of prohibiting American vessels from exporting any articles of foreign growth and manufacture.  3d—Of laying additional discriminating duties in favor of American vessels.  4th—Of prohibiting American vessels from carrying any articles of foreign growth or manufacture from one foreign port to another.  5th—Of modifying or repealing the laws allowing drawback.  The first Resolution was passed—the second lost—the third carried—the fourth lost—the fifth carried.
Portland, Monday, December 25, 1809.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
The last accounts from Europe confirm the settlement of a Treaty of Peace between France and Austria. The ratifications were exchanged Oct. the 20th. An abstract of the conditions of the treaty will be found under the head of foreign intelligence.—The Emperor Francis, notwithstanding the sacrifices of territory and principle he has been compelled to make, has obtained as good if not better terms than was to be expected, considering the defeats his army experienced during the campaign. The Emperor of Austria recognizes all Bonaparte's manufactured Kings, Princes, and Nobility, and his usurpations in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and engages to break off all connection with England.
The London papers intimate that the new British ministry are unpopular, and that it is probable the Grenville party will succeed to their places. It is said these men are more favorable in their views towards the U. States than the present administration are. But we have so often been flattered and deceived with reports of this kind, that we place little or no reliance upon them. Judging from the manner, the negotiation has been broken off with Mr. Jackson, and from the spirit of hostility manifested towards Great Britain by the ruling party in the U. States, there is not the least prospect that an amicable adjustment will take place at present.
The war in Spain is still continued, altho' the English forces have quit the country. An action took place on the 18th of October, between the French army in Salamanca, under General Marchand, and the Spanish forces under Gen. Parque, near Tolosa. The French force consisted of 11,000 men, with 9 pieces of cannon, and were defeated with the loss of 1000 men in killed and wounded. The loss of the Spaniards did not amount to 200 men.—But the result of this battle will have no effect on the final result of the conflict. Bonaparte has ordered a reinforcement of 100,000 fresh troops, into Spain. These, added to the French forces now in that country, must soon decide the fate of Spain. Right must yield to might, and the brave but unfortunate Spaniards, will be compelled to receive the yoke of the Usurper and Plunderer of Europe, and would be Emperor of the world.
The Portuguese are making every exertion to oppose the French, should they attempt an invasion of their country, by constructing forts on their frontiers, covering the wells so as to prevent their invaders from obtaining water, and by mining the roads and filling the mines for explosion—their army consists of 150,000 men.
In those districts in Spain where the French have obtained possession, they send the men and boys to France. It is stated by accounts from Paris, that Ferdinand the 7th, the rightful sovereign of Spain, has been poisoned in France.
The English government have resolved upon retaining possession of Walcheren and the defence of Portugal.
Bonaparte punishes with severity most of those officers who are so unfortunate as to be defeated.
He has disgraced gen. Monnet, late commander at Flushing, and sequestered all his effects, notwithstanding he made a brave resistance to the English when they attacked the place.—The Captains of the French ships lately destroyed by the English in Basque Roads, have been tried and one of them shot.
Bankruptcy of England. —The receipts of the customs in England have increased the present year a million and a half of dollars.
Strong expectations exist in France that the United States will make common cause in the war against England. In a periodical publication printed at Paris, the political department of which is under the direction of the French Senate, it is declared that the American government had or would reject the British minister, Mr. Jackson!—Should any one wish to know by what means the French government could be apprized of what would take place in this country, let them inquire of the "Backstairs gentry" at Washington.
AMERICAN NAVY.
The Secretary of the Navy reports the whole number of vessels belonging to the U. States, to be 9 frigates, 2 ships, 5 brigs, 2 schooners, 1 cutter, 4 bomb ketches, & ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY gun boats!
What a falling off!
When the General Government was administered by Federalists, if democrats, jacobins, disorganizers and office seekers are to be believed, every thing was done wrong. The people were told by democratic papers, by street and grog-shop politicians, that their rights were infringed, and that the taxes were burdensome and unnecessary; that the public money was foolishly squandered in the tory plan for the gradual erection of a naval force for the protection of our rights and independence. The people were daily urged to withdraw their support from the men, who in the "field of battle" gained our independence, and by their wisdom and talents established the federal government, if they wished to avoid slavery and poverty. Unfortunately for America, a majority of her citizens listened to the siren song of these modern Absaloms, and the country now reaps the bitter fruit of its folly. The people still enjoy liberty, that is, the liberty of complaining—though the would be Governor Lincoln, last winter, was for denying this poor consolation to the distressed. But our wise, economical, people loving rulers have not steered the national ship clear of the shores of poverty—Notwithstanding the full treasury of millions which our democratic rulers received at the hands of the federalists when they came into the government, and which Mr. Jefferson wished to have expended in the southern states, upon roads and canals. Our treasury is now empty and the country defenceless, and the administration unable to meet the disbursements of the government unless they can hire four millions of Dollars.
How long will our boasted republic exist if our national concerns are still to be conducted in the manner they have been for eight years past? Let those who are of the opinion that government is instituted and supported for the protection of the rights and interests of the people examine the conduct of the leaders of the democratic party.
THE DOCUMENTS.
Sensible men will need nothing but the Documents, and the Speech of Mr. Giles, to see that the pretended insult is a mere phantom which has beset the brain of the Secretary, and which needs the vote of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, at least, to prove its existence. If this can be obtained, the question will be settled; as the people must of course presume the insult to exist, although they cannot discern it, if their wise legislators should pass a vote that it is visible to them.
THE NEW SYSTEM.
We understand that the committee of foreign relations have agreed to recommend the repeal of the non-intercourse. Thus it would seem that we are to have an end of the embargo and non-intercourse systems. And if the people were once they would then enquire after the benefits which resulted from them. At the commencement of the embargo there was a surplus in the Treasury of not far from sixteen millions of Dollars, and had there been no embargo nor non-intercourse the surplus might have been doubled by this time. Individuals in the mean time have sustained losses which cannot be calculated. Some computations set it at sixty millions of dollars, in all parts of the United States; and considering the decay of shipping and the perishing of goods on hand, together with the loss of profits on the innumerable voyages to all parts of the world, that would have been made, we cannot estimate the total loss at less than that sum. These are facts, which could not escape the observation of the people if they would but look for themselves. And now what good has all this loss and privation done us? As to France, we are as we were.—As to Great Britain, it is far from being so well with her as at the commencement of this unhandsome system. The Executive professed impartiality towards the belligerents: but their every act manifested that they lied: And Great Britain could see it as well as every citizen of the United States—The consequence is, that her irritation has become extreme.—We now have scarcely any hopes of an adjustment with her.—The breach has been growing wider and wider, while the resources of our government and of our citizens have been totally exhausted.
Now it is, no doubt, expected by the ruling party, irritated as Great Britain is, that if our intercourse should be restored, she will resort to some violent measures, and perhaps seize our merchantmen, by which means the merchants will be induced to clamour for a war with her. At any rate we
believe the ruling party are heartily sick of the Embargo and Nonintercourse System, and mean to be rid of it as speedily as possible. We cannot think they will however come forward and openly propose a repeal of the nonintercourse, as that could not be otherwise than an open declaration of their chagrin at the imbecility, & what is worse, of the destructive and ruinous tendency of this infamous course of measures. The mode of getting rid of it will probably be, by putting an end to the present session of Congress as soon as possible, with which the nonintercourse law would expire, and no noise be made about it. It is probable Congress will adjourn ere long, to meet again about the first of May next.
TO CORRESPONDENTS & READERS.
"Impartiality," and "M.," are received, and will be attended to in our next.—The "Monitor" shall have a place also.
Owing to the great length of the "documents" it has been necessary to devote almost the whole of the paper to them in order to complete the publication as soon as possible. These in this day's Gazette bring the correspondence down to the period when the negotiation was broken off by our government—and our readers have an opportunity of viewing the whole ground—On a subject that will put at hazard the peace of the country, and jeopardize all our commercial interest, the people will not rest satisfied with a bare perusal. They will look for those "indecorous insinuations" which could have warranted the extraordinary measure resorted to by the Executive of the United States. If they are not to be found, and war should be the consequence of this rash step, can the authors of it calculate upon the support of the people.
Corn and Flour Store.
WILLIAM CROSS, At No. 8, Long Wharf, HAS lately received per Schr. Ruby, 150 Bbls. Superfine FLOUR, 40 half Bbls. do. Do. The above Flour is warranted of the first quality; and of this year's growth—which will be sold as low, or lower, than can be purchased in town, of the same quality.
Also—in Store, 500 1/4 cks yellow Maryland CORN, 2 Hds. James river TOBACCO, 7 kegs first quality Fig. do. 40 bags best green COFFEE, 50 casks Thomastown LIME.
For Charleston, and Amelia Island.
THE fshr. MIDAS, Master, having a considerable part of her cargo now ready to go on board, will sail in the course of ten days.—For freight or passage apply as above December 25.
WANTED TO PURCHASE,
TWO or three Hds. of Ships, or a large Brig, in readiness to receive their Rigging, or can be got ready in a few months. Any person having such to dispose of may hear of a purchaser who will give a generous price, by applying to ZACHARIAH MARSTON, at JONATHAN GAGE'S Store, Fore Street, Portland. Dec. 25.
Penobscot Bills at Par.
FOR Sale, the Brick Store lately owned by Mr. Thomas Webster, nearly opposite the Registry of Deeds. Also, one undivided fourth part of Union Hall, so called—being the same that was lately owned by Mr. Jonathan Stevens. In payment for which Penobscot Bills will be received at Par. For particulars enquire of PRENTISS MELLEN. Dec. 25, 1809.
NOTIFICATION.
THE Stockholders of the Portland Bank, are hereby notified that their annual meeting for the choice of Seven Directors, for the ensuing year will be held at the Bank Chamber on Monday the 1st day of January next, at 2 o'clock, P. M. By order of the President and Directors JOS. SWIFT, CASHR. Portland, Dec. 18th, 1809. (25)
TO BE SOLD—OR LET,
A BRICK STORE, and Dwelling House behind, being No. 9, in 9th Street, a central situation for business—Enquire of THOMAS LEAVIS. Portland, Dec. 25.
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed administrator upon the estate of
DAVID EVANS, JUNIOR, late of Freyburg, in the county of Oxford, yeoman, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust by giving bond as the law directs—and all persons having demands upon the estate of the deceased are required to exhibit the same; and all persons indebted to the said estate, are called upon to make payment to JOSEPH COLBEY, Administrator. Freyburg, Dec. 13th 1809.
NOTICE!
WE the subscribers having been appointed by the Hon. Judah Dana, Esq. to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of DAVID EVANS, JUNIOR, late of Freyburg, deceased, intestate, represented insolvent, do hereby give notice that three months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims, and that we shall attend that service at the house of David Evans, in said Freyburg, on the first Tuesday of January, February, and March next, from two to six o'clock, P. M. JOSEPH F. SWAN, ROBERT BRADLEY, } Commissioners Dated at Freyburg, this 13th Dec. 1809.
Nathan Bucknam,
Offers for Sale, at No. 9 & 10, Long Wharf, 2700 bushels of Maryland CORN, 220 barrels superfine FLOUR—of the first quality, just landed from Schooner Eroa, 100—350 quintals of new CODFISH, which may be seen at Thomas Burnham's Store, Fore Street. Portland, Dec. 25.
WORTHY OF OBSERVATION.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given to all persons indebted to the subscriber, either by Note, or Book Accounts, to call upon him immediately and make payment, as he has it in contemplation to make a removal to some other place; and those who do not comply with this request, will without further notice have their demands left with an Attorney for collection.
And the subscriber hereby offers for sale, his REAL ESTATE, consisting of one Farm, (the same on which he now lives) containing two hundred and twenty acres of excellent land, and in a high state of cultivation, lying on the County Road leading from North-Yarmouth Falls, through New-Gloucester, into the country, about three miles from the head of the tide, with the Buildings standing on the same, viz. one two story House, well finished inside and out, very convenient, with out buildings, and a good Store, one cow House, very good, together with three Barns, all in good repair. Said Farm is well watered, and a considerable quantity of wood standing on the same—and laid place is an excellent stand for a Public House.
Also—About fourteen acres of excellent Land in North-Yarmouth, in the fore side (so called) with a large Store standing on the same; together with Salt-Works, and a good Wharf, with a Fifth Yard, very convenient to carry on the fishing business, as well as other navigation.
Also—Half of a two story Dwelling House in the town of Gray, near the corner (so called) with a good spot for a garden—all of which he will dispose of on reasonable terms, altogether, or either of said parcels separate as will best accommodate the purchasers.
THADDEUS ROBEINS.
December 25, 1809. To the Honorable Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting at Paris, in and for the County of Oxford—
YOUR Petitioners beg leave, respectfully to represent, that the County Road laid out from Number 5, so called, to Paris, passes through two unincorporated tracts of Land, one deeded by the States Committee to capt. Daniel Lunt, and the other to William Thompson—That the same is impassable through said tracts—Also, one other County Road laid out from Whitney brook (so called, in Jay) to Bethel, on the southerly side of Androscoggin river, passes through said Lunt's land, which is also impassable. The interest and convenience of the people require the same to be in a state of repair, and that one thousand Dollars prudently expended on said roads within the limits of said tracts might render the same passable and convenient for traveling—Your Petitioners therefore pray that a Tax be laid on said unincorporated tracts of land for the purposes aforesaid, and as in duty bound will ever pray.
WILLIAM BARNARD, & 31 others.
OXFORD, ss.—At a Court of Common Pleas begun and held at Paris, within and for the county of Oxford, on the fourth Tuesday of September, A. D. 1809, upon the petition aforesaid—
ORDERED, that the Petitioners give notice to all parties interested therein, by causing an attested copy of their said petition and of this order of the Court thereon to be published three weeks successively in the Columbia Centinel and Portland Gazette, the last publication to be thirty days at least before the next session of said Court of Common Pleas, which will be held at Paris, in and for said County, on the third Tuesday of February next, that they may then and there appear and show cause if any they have why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. Attest, CYRUS HAMLIN, Clerk. A true copy of the petition aforesaid and of the order of Court thereon. Attest, CYRUS HAMLIN, Clerk.
To the Honorable Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, to be held at Paris, in and for the County of Oxford, on the fourth Tuesday of Sept'r. A. D. 1809—
THE Petition and representation of Henry Farwell, administrator on the estate of Luke Ryerson, late of Buckfield, in said county, gentleman, deceased—HUMBLE SHEWETH—That the goods and chattels belonging to the said deceased's estate are not sufficient by the sum of two hundred and fifty six dollars and twenty seven cents, to answer the just debts and expenses already accrued in the settlement of said estate and the other demands exhibited against said estate—He therefore prays that your Honors would grant him licence to sell the Real Estate of said deceased, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to satisfy the demands against said estate, with incidental charges of testing the same—and as in duty bound will ever pray. HENRY FARWELL, Administrator.
OXFORD, ss.—At a Court of Common Pleas begun and held at Paris, in and for the county of Oxford, on the fourth Tuesday of September, A. D. 1809.
ON the Petition of Henry Farwell, of which the foregoing is a copy—Ordered, that the Petitioner cause the Petition and this order of the Court thereon to be published in the Portland Gazette printed in Portland, three weeks successively, the last publication to be thirty days at least before the next term of this Court, that all persons may then and there appear and show cause (if any they have) why the prayer of the petition should not be granted. Attest, CYRUS HAMLIN, Clerk. A true copy—Attest, CYRUS HAMLIN, Clerk.
New Books and Stationary.
ISAAC ADAMS,
No. 7, Fish-street.
Has lately received a large addition to his former assortment of Books and Stationary, which he offers for sale on as good terms as can be obtained at any Book-Store in the State. Among which are, Laws of Massachusetts; Hawkins' Pleas of the Crown; Jacob's Law Dictionary, (new edition); Gilbert's, Peakes and Machelly's Law of Evidence; Coke's first Institutes; Tyng's, Williams, Strange's, Wilton's, Douglas' & Blackstone's Reports; Story's Pleadings; Precedents of Declarations; Fuller's Nisi Prius; Graydon's Digest of the Laws of the United States; Chitty on Notes and Bills of Exchange; Law of Partnership; Park on Insurance; Powell on Contracts; Lex Mercatoria; Jones Law of Bailment; Justice's Assistant; Town Officer; Clerk's Magazine & Probate Directory.
DIVINITY.
Stackhouse's History of the Bible; Newton's Works; Dictionary of the Bible; Orton's Exposition of the Bible; Village, Blair's, Clarke's, Erskine's, Fordyce's and Whitefield's Sermons; Adams' View of Religion; Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul; Edwards on the Will and the Affections; Harvey's Works; Jenks Devotion; Paley's Moral Philosophy & Evidence; View of Christianity; Ellays to do Good; Flavet's Gospel Liberty, or Guard to all Saints in the hour of Temptation; Millennium; Moral Monitor; Orton's Discourses; Jenyns Lectures and View of Christianity; Folsom's Gospel Witness, and worthy of all acceptance; Edwards on the Affections and Wills; Ethers Catechism; Brown's Pious Humorous; Practice of Piety, being directions how we may walk to please God; Burtons Pilgrims Progress and Holy War; Spiritual Letters; Moores Sacred Dramas; Mason's Self Knowledge.
HISTORY.
Russells Modern Europe; Ferguson's Roman Republic; Kollins Ancient History; Gordons American Revolution; Belknap's History of New Hampshire; History of America; Goldsmith's History of Greece and Rome; Robertson's South America; Priestley's Lectures on History; Historical Grammar; Hardie's Biographical Dictionary and American Remembrancer, containing a complete and impartial account of the lives and writings of eminent men, particularly those who have signalized themselves in America.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sternes Works; Spectator; Rambler; Looker On; Anecdotes; Bacon's Essays; Beauties of the Childrens Friend; Blair's Lectures; Harriots Struggles; Bible and Jews; Cumberland's Memoirs; Cooks Voyages; Campbells Narrative; Mrs. Chapone's Letters; Charlotte Temple; Dream Book; Don Quixote; Exiles of Siberia; Esplanades Letters; Female Education; Freemasons Monitor; Folsom's Essays; Harris' Encyclopedia; Lockes Essays; Irish Bull; Letter Writer; Moores Monitor; Mirror; Letters from the Mountains; Joke upon Joke; Mau of Fortitude; Intrigues of the Queen of Spain; Shakespeares Plays; Oriental Moralist; Ossians Poems; Mavors Plutarch; Peregrine Pickle; Roderic Random; Scotts Lessions; Montgomerys Poems; Moores Epistles; Popes, Miltons, Thompsons, Watts, and Youngs Poetical Works; Songsters Museum; Tattler; Travels in Spain; Tour in Switzerland; Vicar of Wakefield; Watts Logic; ditto on the Mind.
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Ainsworths, Youngs, Boyers, Johnsons, Baileys and Perry's Dictionaries; Greek Lexicon; Horace; Virgil; Smith; Europus; Erasmus; Bishops Eables; Bigelows Latin Primer; Clarkes Introduction; Adams and Smiths Latin Grammar; Greek Testament & Grammar; Xenophons Anabasis; Arithmety; Morfes Geography, Murrays Sequel Grammar; Key and Exercises; Walkes, Pikes, Little, Adams, Temples and Rootes Arithmeties; Scotts Lessions; Orator; Preceptor; Art of Reading; Dwight's Geography; Alexanders, Stanfords and Bingham's Grammar; Websters, Maines, and Perry's spelling Books, &c. &c.
The Understanding Reader, being a new collection of Lessions, fitted to the understanding and capacities of Youth, in three parts. 1st—In Reading; 2d—In the Definition of Words, 3d—In Spelling, particularly Compound and Derivative Words—in a method so different from any thing of the kind, ever before published.
Likewise—A new edition of an invaluable Book for the use of Schools, containing the Constitution of Massachusetts and the United States, with the Declaration of Independence, and President Washington's Farewell address. The Legistature of this Commonwealth, by an unanimous vote, recommended that this Book be used in all the Schools throughout the State.
SEAMEN'S ARTICLES.
Blunts Practical Navigator and Coast Pilot; Ship Masters Assistant; Charts of the European and American Coasts, and of the West Indies; Quadrants; Journals; Scales and Dividers.
FAMILY BIBLES.
Collins elegant family Bible; Common Quarto Bibles; Careys Bible; a variety of Pocket and School Bibles; Testaments; Prayer Books; Belknap and Watts Hymn Books.
ACCOUNT BOOKS.
Ledgers; Journals; Day and Record Books; Note and Receipt Books.
STATIONARY.
Medium, D. my. Foolscap, and Pot Paper; thick and thin Enelo Pott; wove, hot pressed, gilt and plain Letter Paper; d. sawing and embossed do.; music and blotting do.; Quills; black and red Inkpowder; pocket, wedgewood, lead, power and disk Inkstands; Ink Gales for writing desks; durable Ink for making lists; Morocco Pocket Books and Purses; Memorandum Books; Pencils; Slates; Penknives; Desk Seals; Seal Engraving; Sand and Boxes; Waxes and sealing Wax; Court Puffes; Paint Boxes and Knives; variety of Drawings; Cases of Mathematical Instruments; Playing Cards, &c. &c.
MAPS of the UNITED STATES.
A general Abstract of Commercial, Judicial and other BANKS. Instructions for paying on draft at all Institutions, also Song Books of various kinds. REGISTER'S ASSISTANTS. The Manufacturers and U. S. Reg't Farmers, Ralph Thomas, Low, Clergy, a, and Sheet Almanacs for 1810.

Ladies' London Beaver Hats & Bonnets, FOR SALE BY JOHN MAHAN, at the Hat-Store, bottom of Fifth-Street. Portland, Dec. 11
EZEKIEL GOODALE, PROPOSES to publish the Whole Trial of Elijah Barton, Jabez Mears, Ansel Mears, Nathaniel Lynn, David Lynn, Prince Kean, and Adam Pitts, for the murder of PAUL CHADWICK, in the county of Kennebec. He having previous to the Trial engaged an able Stenographer to take down the whole proceedings, has no doubt it will be highly interesting to the Public. The work will be printed on good paper and a fair type, in a handsome octavo volume, bound in boards, and delivered to subscribers at about one dollar, payable on delivery of the book. Gentlemen holding subscription papers will return them to E. GOODALE, by the first of January next. Hallowell, Nov. 28, 1809
Subscriptions for the above Trial, re- ceived at the Book-store of ISAAC ADAMS, No. 7, Fifth Street, Portland. Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Company.
ANNUAL MEETING. The Stockholders in the Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Company , are hereby noti- fied that their Annual Meeting for the choice of their Directors, for the ensuing year, will be held at their Office, in Fifth Street, on TUES- DAY the second day of January 1810, at two o'clock in the afternoon. By order of the President and Directors. ELIJAH MORSE, Sec'y. M. E. & M. Insurance Office, December 7th, 1809.
WANTED, IN the town of Georgetown, (Maine,) one or two good SCHOOL-MASTERS , for the winter season, to teach Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and English Grammar; good recommendations will be expected, and a teacher of Sacred Music will be preferred, to whom generous encouragement will be given; any application addressed to the Postmaster, at Georgetown, within a few days, shall be im- mediately attended to. Georgetown, (Me.) 25th Nov. 1809.
FLATS FOR SALE. To be sold by order of Court, on THURSDAY , the seventh day of January next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling-house of the late Widow Hobbs. A CERTAIN piece of FLATS , situated be- tween the heirs of — Stephens , and Mary Dunfield , for payment of the debts of the late Samuel Hobbs, deceased. MARY YOUNG , Administratrix on the Dec. 11, 1809. Estate of said S. H. deceased. To ARCHELAUS LEWIS , one of the Judges of the Peace within and for the County of Cumberland. WE the Subscribers, being proprietors of the common and undivided Land in the towns of Falmouth, Portland and Cape Elizabeth, judging a Proprietor's Meeting necessary, do hereby request you to issue a Warrant calling a meeting of said Proprietors to be held at the Dwelling House of Isaac S. Stevens, in said Falmouth on the last Monday of January A. D. 1810, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to act upon the following articles,—viz. 1st To choose a Moderator. 2d To see if the said Proprietors will allow, approve and confirm the Proprietors' Meeting which was held at the Dwelling House of the late Andrew P. Foss, in said Falmouth, on the 18th day of December 1808. 3d To see what the Proprietors will do with the common and undivided Land, after one hundred and four acres be completed to each Proprietor, to sell at Public Auction or dispose of any other way they shall see fit: & to act upon any other article or business they shall see fit. NATHAN WINSLOW, WILLIAM WINSLOW, JOE WINSLOW, JAMES WINSLOW, BENJAMIN BAILEY, JOHN McLELLAN.
CUMBERLAND, ss—To NATHAN WINSLOW, one of the Proprietors of Falmouth, Portland and Cape Elizabeth, both in the County aforesaid. YOU are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify the Proprietors of Falmouth, Portland and Cape Elizabeth, aforesaid, in manner as the Law di- rects, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes mentioned in the foregoing applica- tion. Given under my hand and seal this 13th day of November A. D. 1809. ARCHELAUS LEWIS, Justice of the Peace. IN pursuance of the foregoing warrant to me directed, I hereby notify the Proprietors of Falmouth, Portland, and Cape Elizabeth, to meet at the time and place mentioned, in the foregoing application, and for the pur- poses therein expressed. NATHAN WINSLOW. Dec. 15, 1809.
For a Just Settlement. As two gentlemen in Portland hold a deed of security against the subscriber, for 3000 dollars, in which there is a large mistake, he now stands ready to take up said deed as the mistake shall be adjusted, and donat with Cents to be troubled with it, and that no person purchase said deed if they wish to avoid trouble. ROBERT McDONALD. 81. 1809. Dec. 3. (11) BLANKS Of all kinds for sale at the Bookstore of I. ADAMS.
HENRY SMITH & CO. No. 4, Market Street. HAVE FOR SALE, Black, Blue, Brown, Cortecau, Claret, Bottle green, and Drab Superfine, Fine, and Common BROADCLOTHS. Black, Blue, Green, Olive, Green, Buff & white Superfine and Fine CASSIMERES. One bale KERSEYS. Blue, Green, Brown, and Smoke coloured PELLECE CLOTHS. Fawn, Drab, Green, and Crimson QUEEN'S CLOTHS. Scarlet, Blue, Green, Lalock PELLECE FLANNELS. Green, Lalock, Blue, Purple, Brown & Crimson TWILLED and DIAGONAL SARSNETS. Hunters' Cloths Duffels Plains Coatings Satinees Flannels Baizes Blankets Scarlet, Crimson, Blue, Purple, Green, Brown, & Black BOMBAZETS. Lustrings, and Black Bombazeus Ruffsels, and Ruffles Shalloon Durants Duroys Cotimanees Velvets Velveteens Corderoy Tabby Velvets Silk, cotton and wool- ted Hosiery Children's Socks Ladies' & gentlemen's Silk & leather Gloves Linen Shirting Cottons 3-4 Cotton Shawls Silk and cotton Hand- kerchiefs Damask Table Cloths 6-4 cotton Diapers India Cottons 4-4 printed Cambricks Cambric and common Dimities Muslins Cambricks Calicoes Gingham Furniture ditto Dimities Factory Tickling Sheeting Shirting Check'd and Rip'd Cloth Factory Warp, and coloured Threads No. 6.
ROYAL LINCOLN, Head of Fifth-Street. HAS just received an extensive assortment of fresh SEASONABLE GOODS, of the latest importations—among which are, Black, navy blue, dark Linen mixed, bottle, London doz brown, cortecau, and drab, superfine Broadcloths, Common, all colours and qualities ditto, Double milled, black & drab Kersemeres, first quality Black, drab, fawn, muted, blue, and brown low priced ditto Maroon, pearl, fawn, bottle, black, & im- perial blue, ladies Pellice Cloths Scarlet, crimson, fawn, pearl, black & green Pellice Flannels Superfine and common Coatings Fenrougts Red, white, yellow, & black Flannels Baizes Dark Swansdown Vest- ing Viruleit ditto—newest style Real Devonshire Ker- seys Satinees Forest Cloths Serges Woolled, lamb's wool & Angola Hosiery Black & white silk do. Cotton ditto Scarlet, maroon, fawn, blue, brown, green, & black Bombazets Black and mulberry Widows Shalloon Ratinees Black, mulberry, and scarlet, Fanny Vel- vets Black and olive Vel- vets—first quality Velveteens Corduroys Thicksets English and Derry Di- apers 6-4 Huckabucks Huckabuck Towels White Threads, from No. 10 to 70 Fashionable coat and vest Buttons Glass Buttons Cotton Umbrellas Black and white Mil- linets Black Gafoons Hair Ribbands 1 bale of BLANKETS, of an excellent qual- ity, and very low; afforded from 6 to 11-4. Every article of the above Goods will be sold on the very lowest terms for Cash. JOSEPH BARBOUR, remains at the above Store for the purpose of collecting his Debts. Those against whom he still holds Demands, are requested to call immediately, if they wish to save Expense.—Forbearance cannot last forever. November 6. (11)
ENOCH MOULTON, No. 8, Jones' Row. HAS just received by the Packet, from Liverpool, a handsome assortment of Plated and Japaned Ware, Jewelry, &c. &c. PLATED WARE. Elegant Cruet Frames—Candlesticks, Tea Pors—Sugar Bafons & Cream Pots, Soup Ladies—Fish Knives, Snuffers and Trays, Table and Tea Spoons, &c. &c. JAPANED WARE. Elegant cream ground gold bordered Wai- ters, Red and black ground do. do. Bread and Knife Trays, Cheese and Sufifer do. Britannia Tea Pors—Tumblers, &c. &c. MILITARY ARTICLES. Gilt and plated mounted Swords, Saddle Pifols, White and yellow Epauets, do. do. Chords do. do. Prussian Binding, Crimson Sashes, Military Plumes, elegant and common JEWELRY. Black and Pearl set Broaches, do. do. Finger Rings, Plain Broaches and Rings, Hair Ear Hoops, do. Bracelets, various patterns, Gold Ear Hoops, Knobs, and Drops, do. Watch Chains, Seals, and Keys, Tortoise Shell Combs, Coral Beads CUTLERY. Table Knives and Forks, Penknives—Scifars—Steel Snuffers, Saddle and Chaise Whips. Constantly on hand, Silver Ladies, Ta- ble and Tea Spoons, of the most fashionable patterns. Gold Necklaces, Pocket Books, and Purfes, &c. &c. Hair Work, of all kinds executed with neatness and dispatch. He has in addition to the above, almost ev- ery article in the Jewelry & Fancy line, ge- nerally in use—which will be disposed of on terms that cannot fail to meet the views of purchasers. He has for sale, "Odoriferous HON- BY WATER, for cleaning, perfume, thickening, preserving and preventing the hair from TURNING GREY" Also—genuine ESSENCE of LEMON—To- gether with some celebrated COLD CREAM, which cleanses, softens and beautifies the complexion. Portland, Dec. 4. (tf)
WILLIAM McLELLAN, Jun. INFORMS his friends and the public, that he is now opening a large assortment of SEASONABLE GOODS, AMONG WHICH ARE—black, blue, bottle- green, brown and dark mix Broadcloths— black, blue, brown and fawn Kersemeres— bottle-green Queenfletch—bottle-green, blue, fawn and crimson Pellice cloths—plumb and black Pellice Velvets—red, green, black and white Flannels—ditto Baizes—ditto Bomba- zets and Wildbores—Parent Cords—assort- ment of Velvets—men's Velvets—Fearnauts and Coatings—Forest Cloths & narrow Plains —Blankets—Linen—Shirting Cottons—India Cottons—black, white, and plumb Cambricks —black twilled do.—large assortment of Muslins—Lustrings, Persians, Modes and Sat- ins—cotton Shawls and Duffs—Camels-hair long Shawls—figured Turbans—brown Pla- tilas—cotton Sewings—Silk Twist—sewing Silk—Ferrits and Ribbons—short silk Gloves —velvet Bindings—Dimities—Calicoes—Stuff Goods of all colours—worsted Hosiery—mo- rocco Shoes—best of silk world's Buttons. Also—Knives and Forks—Bellow—Pocket —Speccies—Patent Lamps—Shov- els & Tongs—Pins and Needles—Elastic Knitting Needles—Spoons—Thimbles—Muffs and Tippets, &c. &c.—all of which he will sell very low, and invites Purchasers to call and see for themselves. Nov. 4. (tf)
NEW HAT AND FUR STORE, At the lower end of Fifth-Street, adjoining Messrs. Quincy & Baker's. JOHN MAHAN AND DAVID BILL & COMPANY, OFFER for sale 1600 FUR HATS of dif- ferent kinds and qualities; from 10/6 to 7 dollars; a large assortment of Children's Hats. Lustrings—Coarse Hats, suitable for the Southern market. Arrangements are made to receive Hats from the first Manufacturers in the United States, particularly from the Providence and Boston Factories.—Hats will be manufactured at a short notice in the most fashionable man- ner, and warranted to give the wearer satis- faction. Muffs and Tippets, A large assortment, consisting of every kind fashionable and useful—warranted free from damage. 18 boxes real SPANISH SEGARS. Portland, Oct. 23. (tf)
DR. REES' NEW CYCLOPAEDIA, Vol. X, Part 1st and 2d, and Vol. XI, part 1st and 2d are in the possession of the subscriber, and will be delivered to subscribers in the District of Maine, at Store No. 23, Long Wharf. THOMAS CROSS. Portland, Nov. 13, 1809. (tf) A FARM FOR SALE, IN the town of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, consisting of one hundred and five acres of Land, of which thirty is interval, and lying on Presumpscot River, and five miles from the town of Portland, and on the post road that leads from Portland to Augusta, and into many of the back towns. Said farm is conveniently situated for a Public House, with a large two story House and Barn, with out houses. The soil of said farm is inferior to none.—Inquire of OLIVER WINSLOW. Oct. 17. (t.f.)
WILLIAM CROSS, No. 1 & 3, Long Wharf. HAS just received by the Schr. Midas, 300 Bbls. Superfine FLOUR 70 half Bbls. do. do. The above Flour is of a superior quality; and of this year's growth—which will be sold as low, or lower, than can be purchased in town, of the same quality. Also—in Store, 1000 bushels yellow Maryland CORN, 12 Hhds. James' river TOBACCO, 15 kegs FIG TOBACCO, 43 bags green COFFEE, which will be disposed of on terms that can- not fail to suit purchasers. Nov. 13. (tf) New Goods, for Sale. WILLIAM SMITH, RESPECTFULLY informs the Public that he has for sale, at his Store bottom of Fifth Street, a few doors from Messrs. Quincy & Ba- ker's, a general assortment of West-India Goods and Groceries; among which are the following: 50 hds Turks Island Salt—40 quintals best Dumb Table Fish—50 quintals Pollock Fish —Cognac and Spanish Brandy—Hollands and American Gin—West India and New- England Rum; Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong and Bohea Teas, first quality —White and brown Havana Sugar—Mar- tinique ditto—Coffee—Chocolate—Ginger— Allspice—Pepper—Mufard and Cloves— Fresh Cask and Box Raisins—20 bbls fresh Superfine New York Flour—Sea-Island and Georgia Cotton—Loaf and Lump Sugar— 5 hds first quality Retailing Molasses—Fig, Pistachi and Smoking Tobacco—a general as- sortment of Iron Ware—Iron and steel Sho- vels—a few Casks tower proof Powder— Brunswick Patent Shot—Indigo—Logwood— Redwood and Puffic—Allum and Copperas— together with a small assortment of ENGLISH GOODS; which he offers for sale as cheap as can be ob- tained in this town or Boston. N. B. Families that buy Teas from this Store, may depend on its being the very first quality, if it is not they are welcome to return it; and receive their money again. (tf) Dec. 11, 1809.
NEW EDITION OF THE MAINE SPELLING BOOK. JUST published, containing a variety of words accented and divided, with moral and entertaining Lessons, Tables, &c.—To which is added a Geographical description of the United States in general, and the District of Maine in particular. Notwithstanding the number of School Books of this description in print, the Maine Spelling Book is in general use, and highly approved of in the Schools throughout this District. In many respects, it is better calculated for instruction, than any other Spelling Book; being cheaper, and correctly printed on good paper; containing a great variety of Lessons in Spelling and Reading; and the arrange- ment and division of the matter is such as greatly to lessen the labor of the master, and facilitate the progress of the learner in ac- quiring the rudiments of the English language. The above Book may be had in sheets by the hundred or thousand, or bound by the gross, dozen, or single, at the Book-stores of ISAAC ADAMS & STEPHEN PATTEN, Fifth Street, Portland, on advantageous terms.— Sold also, by CHARLES METCALF, Book- JOHN BATON, Wholesale—EZEKIEL GOODALE, Hallowell, and by Traders in the Country. Dec. 11. (3m) Joseph Shelton, OFFERS for sale, at the head of Union Wharf, 130 quintals Pollock Fish, of the first quality, 300 bushels Turks Island SALT, 2000 lbs. of the first quality of Caricas Cocoa. Other articles in the GROCERY & PRO- VISION line, at retail, as usual. The above goods will be sold very cheap for Cash. Portland, Dec. 19. (tf)
NOTICE! T. & A. VINTON , again request all per- sons indebted to them to make im- mediate payment. As they are closing business in town, the necessity of having every demand either paid or put into the hands of an At- torney for collection, must appear obvious to all; and as nothing but the settlement of their accounts now detains them here, one or the other must be done very soon. All persons wishing to comply with this request, and thereby avoid unnecessary trouble & expense, may find them at the Commission Store of Capt. RICHARD METCALF, bottom of Fifth Street or the House of A. VINTON, Federal Street, near the Friend's Meeting House. Dec. 18. (tf) NOTICE! ALL persons indebted to the late firm of DAY & ILSLEY , are requested to call on either of the subscribers before the first day of March next and make payment. All Accounts and Notes which may remain due at that time, will be put in suit without fur- ther notice. EZEKIEL DAY, PARKER ILSLEY, Jun. Portland, Dec. 18, 1809. (tf) Portland Library. THE Proprietors of the PORTLAND LIBRA- RY are hereby notified, that their next an- nual meeting will be held at the Office of the subscriber, on TUESDAY the second day of January next, at six o'clock, P.M. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Librarian. Dec. 18. (tf)
TO LET, HALF of a HOUSE in High Street, consist- ing of seven rooms, handsomely finish- ed, very convenient for a Family—Apply to HOSEA ILSLEY. Dec. 18. (tf) NOTICE! THE Friends of George Pitt, mariner, lost from on board ship Thomas, Nathaniel Whitmore, master, on her passage from Bar- badoes to Portland, may receive his wages & effects if duly authorized, by applying to G. WHITMORE. No. 12, Union Wharf. Dec. 18. (tf)
To be sold at Auction, by order of Samuel Freeman, Judge of Probate for the County of Cumberland, at the Dwelling House of the late John Barnes, on TUESDAY the sixteenth day of Janu- ary A. D. 1810, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, ALL the PERSONAL ESTATE of Samuel Whitmore, late of Gorham, deceased, con- sisting of one yoke of Oxen, one Horse, three Cows, one Heifer, seven sheep, together with Farming Utensils and Household Furniture. JOEL WHITMORE, Admin'r. Dec. 18. (tf)
TAKE NOTICE! To be sold at Public Vendue, at the house of Na- thaniel Merrill, in Falmouth, on THURSDAY , the 11th day of January next. ALL the PERSONAL ESTATE lately be- longing to the said Adams, consisting of Household Furniture, Stock, Hay, and Farm- ing Utensils of almost every kind, and one Pew in the new Meeting-House. A liberal credit will be given, and articles of sale made known at the time and place. ROBERT A. MERRILL. Falmouth, Dec. 13, 1809. (tf)
To be sold by order of Court, on WEDNESDAY , the 31st of January next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at the Dwelling House of Mrs. Clarissa Minot in Danforth Street. ALL the REAL ESTATE whereof Thomas Merrill, late of Portland, gentleman, died seized and possessed, excepting that part thereof which has been set off for the widow's dower. Said Real Estate consists of a Dwel- ling House and Lot on said Danforth Street, a House Lot adjoining the same, with a Barn thereon; one half of a Store, Wharf, and Flats, owned in company with the heirs of Bazillai Delano; one hundred acres of Land in New Portland; one Pew in St. Paul's Church. Also—two lots of Land, and a Store in Bangor, on Penobscot River, and the re- version of the widow's dower. At the same time and place will be sold ten SHARES in the Stock of the United Marine and Fire Insurance Company . A more particu- lar description of the premises, together with the conditions of sale may be known on ap- plication to the subscribers, administrators on said Estate, or to DANIEL TUCKER , their attorney. CLARISSA MINOT, WILLIAM MINOT. Portland, Dec. 18, 1809. (tf)
NOTICE! ALL persons are forbid purchasing a Note of Hand, given by the subscriber to Yeh Coffin , for the sum of fifty Dollars, as I have never received the consideration for the same. Said note being all the note that I ever gave said Coffin, and he underlined the same. WILLIAM TRUE. Minot, Dec. 8, 1809. (18)
COLLEGE LANDS. THE Subscriber offers for sale, the follow- ing Tracts of LAND, belonging to Har- vard College, the title to which is direct from the Government, viz. IN FRYEBURG, Lot No. 55 1st Div. 63 acres, interval 18 2d do. 25 do. do. 22 2d do. 64 do. upland. 10 3d do. 50 do. do. — 4th do. 50 do. do. 18 5th do. 60 or 70 do. do. IN TURNER, Lot No. 36, 135 acres. 86, 125 do. 166, 130 do. 277, 195 do. IN PARIS, Lot No. 27, 7th Range, being 58, 7th do. hundred 29, 9th do. acres 29, 8th do. loss. IN LIVERMORE, Lot No. 78, 100 acres. 93, 100 do. 149, 100 do. IN OTISFIELD & HARRISON, Lot No. 116, 3d Div. 100 acres. 1, 2d R. 4th D. 100 do. 5, 8th R. 5th D. 100 do. 15. IN POLAND, Lot No. 82, 3d Div. 100 acres. 99, 2d do. 100 do. IN LOVEL, Lot No. 125, 1st Div. 100 acres. 123, 2d do. 100 do. 128, 3d do. 100 do. 12, 4th do. 100 do. IN BALDWIN, Lot No. 3, 1st Range, East, 100 acres. 68, Pond lot, 100 do. 8, 3d Range, East, 100 do. 10, 7th Range, East, 100 do. 10, 8th do. do. 100 do. IN BROWNSFIELD, Two Lots in Brownsfield, containing about 300 acres each. IN RUMFORD, No. 25, containing 20 acres, 1st Div. 16, do. 80 do. do. 38, 2d Div. 108 acres. 47, 3d do. 148 do. IN JAY, No. 20, Range 2d, 100 acres. 10, — 4th, 100 do. 8, — 12th, 100 do. 8, — 14th, 100 do. IN WILTON, No. 195, containing 155 acres. 207, — 170 do. IN NEW-SHARON, One Lot containing 320 acres, in the north part of the town. The above Lands will be sold on a liberal credit, and Settlers now on any of the Lots will be accommodated if they wish it. For particulars, apply to the Subscriber, at his Office, in Middle-Street, Portland, where he may be found until the middle of January next. PRENTISS MELLEN. Dec. 4, 1809. (tf)
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of administrator on the estate of NATHAN DAVIS, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, mariner, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs:—He therefore requests all persons who are indebted to the said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to MOSES DAVIS. Dec. 14, 1809. (18)