Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1800-03-31 00:00:00

OFFICIAL COPY
OF THE
New French Constitution.
CHAPTER I.
ART. 1. T HE French Republic is one and indivisible.
Its European territory is distributed into departments and communal districts.
2. Every man born and resident in France, and of the age of 21 years, who has inscribed his name in the civic register of his communal district, and afterwards remained a year on the territory of the French Republic, is a French citizen.
3. A foreigner becomes a French citizen, who after having attained the age of 21 years, and declared his intention of fixing his residence in France, and has resided there for 10 successive years.
4. The title of French citizen is forfeited—
By naturalization in a foreign country.
By accepting any office or pension from a foreign government.
By assimilation with any foreign corporation which supposes distinctions of birth.
By condemnation to corporal or infamous punishments.
5. The exercise of the rights of a French citizen is suspended by a bankruptcy, or by a total or partial succession to the property of an insolvent.
By a state of hired servitude, either attached to the service of the person of the family.
By a state of judicial interdiction, accusation, or contumacy.
6. In order to exercise the right of citizenship they must have been acquired by being domiciliated by a year's residence, and not forfeited by a year's absence.
7. The citizens of every communal district shall appoint by their suffrages, those whom they think most worthy of conducting the public affairs. There shall be a list of confidence, containing a number of names equal to a tenth of the number of citizens possessing the right of suffrage. From this first communal list the public functionaries of districts shall be taken.
8. The citizens comprised in the communal lists of a department shall also appoint a tenth of their number. These shall constitute a second list, called the department list, from which the public functionaries of each department shall be taken.
9. The citizens included in the departmental list shall also appoint a tenth of their number; this third list shall consist of the citizens of each department, eligible to public national functions.
10. The citizens who shall have a right of co-operating in the information of any of the lists mentioned in the three preceding articles, shall every third year be called upon to exercise the power of replacing those who shall have died, or absented themselves for any other cause than the exercise of a public function.
11. They may also withdraw from the lists those whom they shall not judge proper to continue, and replace them by other citizens in whom they may have greater confidence.
12. No one shall be erased from the lists, otherwise than by the votes of the decisive majority of the citizens, having the right of co-operating in the formation.
13. No one shall be erased from the list of those eligible to public national functions, merely because his name may have been struck out of a list of an inferior or superior degree.
14. The appointment to the list of eligibles is only necessary with regard to public functions, for which that condition is expressly required by the constitution or by the law. All the lists of the eligibles shall be formed in the course of the 9th year.
CHAPTER II.
15. The conservatory senate shall be composed of 80 members, of 40 years of age at least, to be irremovable during life.
For the formation of the senate, there shall be nominated in the first instance 60 members—this number shall be increased to 62 in the course of the 8th year, to 64 in the 9th year, and shall be gradually increased to 80 by the addition of two members in each of the ten first years.
16. The nomination to the office of senator shall be by the senate, who shall make choice out of these candidates presented to them; the first by the legislative body, the second by the tribunate, and the third by the chief consul.
17. The chief consul, upon quitting his office, either by the expiration of his functions, or by resignation, necessarily, and as a matter of right, becomes a senator.
The two other consuls, during the month which follows the expiration of their functions, may take their seats in the senate; but are not obliged to exercise that privilege.
They lose it altogether if they quit their consular functions by resignation.
18. A senator is always ineligible to any other public function.
19. All the lists made in the departments, by virtue of the 9th article, shall be addressed to
the senate. They shall compose the national list.
20. From this list shall be elected the legislators, the tribunes, the consuls, the judges of cassation, and the Commissaries a la Responsabilite .
21. They shall confirm or annul every act referred to them as unconstitutional by their tribunate, of the government; the lists of the eligibles shall be included among these acts.
22. The revenues of national domains, the terms of which are expired, shall be liable to the expenses of the senate. The annual salary of each of its members shall be paid out of those revenues.—It shall be equal to a 20th of that of the chief consul.
23. The sittings of the senate are not public.
24. Citizen Sieyes and Roger Ducos, the two consuls, who are to go out of office, shall be nominated members of the conservatory senate; they shall unite with the second and third consuls nominated by the present one. These four citizens shall appoint the majority of the senate, which shall afterwards complete itself, and proceed to the elections entrusted to its direction.
CHAP. III.
Of the Legislative Power.
25. No new law shall be promulgated, unless the plan shall have been proposed by the government, communicated to the tribunate, and decreed by the Legislative Body.
26. The plan which the government may propose shall be drawn up under the different heads. In every case in which the plans shall be discussed, the government may withdraw them, and present them again in a modified state.
27. The tribunate is to be composed of 100 members of 25 years of age at least; they shall be renewed by fifths every year, and indefinitely re-eligible while they remain upon the national list.
28. The tribunate shall discuss the plans of every law that may be proposed; it shall vote for the adoption or rejection of them.
It shall send three orators taken from its body, by whom the motives of its vote, with respect to each of the plans, shall be stated and supported before the legislative body.
It shall refer to the senate, but for the cause of unconstitutionality only, the list of the eligibles, the acts of the legislative body, and those of the government.
29. It shall express its opinion as to the laws made or to be made, the abuses to be corrected, the amelioration to be attempted, in every part of the public administration, but never relative to the civil or criminal affairs referred to the tribunals.
The opinions it shall give, by virtue of the present article, are to be followed by no necessary consequences; they compel no constituted authority to come to any deliberation.
30. When the tribunate adjourns, it may appoint a committee from ten to fifteen members, charged to convoke it, if it shall be deemed necessary.
31. The legislative body shall be composed of 300 members, of 30 years of age at least; they shall be renewed by fifths every year.—There ought always to be one citizen, at least, of each department of the republic present.
32. A member who goes out of the legislative body cannot re-enter till after the interval of a year—but he may be immediately elected to any other public function, including that of tribune, provided he is in other respects eligible.
33. The sitting of the legislative body shall commence every year on the first Frimaire, and shall continue only four months—it may be extraordinarily convoked during the other eight by the government.
34. The legislative body enacts the law by determining by secret scrutiny, and without any discussion on the part of its members, upon the plans of the law debated before it, by the orators of the tribunate and the government.
35. The sittings of the tribunate and of the legislative body, shall be public—the number of strangers in either of them not to exceed 200.
36. The annual salary of a tribune shall be 15,000 francs, that of a legislative 10,000 francs.
37. Every decree of the legislative body shall the 10th day after it be made, be promulgated by the chief consul, unless in the mean time it is referred to the senate, on the ground of unconstitutionality. Such reference cannot be made with regard to laws that have been promulgated.
38. The first renewal of the legislative body and of the tribunate shall not take place till the 10th year.
CHAP. IV.
Of the Government.
39. The government is intrusted to three consuls appointed for ten years, and indefinitely re-eligible. Each of them is to be elected individually with the distinct quality of chief, second, or third consul. The first time the third consul shall only be named for five years.
For the present time Gen. Buonaparte is appointed chief consul; Citizen Cambacérès, now minister of justice, second consul; and citizen Lebrun, member of the committee of ancients, third consul.
40. The chief consul has particular functions and attributes, which, when he is exercising, he may be temporarily supplied by one of his colleagues.
41. The chief consul is to promulgate the laws; he is to name and revoke at pleasure the members of the council of state; the ministers, ambassadors, and other principal foreign agents, the officers of the army by land and sea, the members of local administration and the commissioners of the government of the tribunals. He is to appoint all judges criminal and civil, as well as justices of the peace, and the judges of cassation, without the power of afterwards revoking them.
42. In the other acts of the government, the second and third consuls are to have a confirmatory voice; they are to sign the register of the acts, in order to manifest that they were present, and if they please, they may counter-sign their opinions; after which the determination of the chief consul shall follow.
43. The salary of the chief consul shall be 500,000 francs, for the 8th year. The salary of the other two consuls shall be equal to three tenths of that of the first.
44. The government is to propose the laws, and to make the necessary regulations to ensure their execution.
45. The government is to direct the receipts and expenses of the state, conformable to the annual law, which determines the amount of each; it shall superintend the coinage of money, of which the law alone shall order the issue, fix the value, the weight, and the impression.
46. When the government is informed of any conspiracies against the state, it may issue orders to arrest and bring before them the persons who are suspected as the authors or accomplices: but if within ten days after such arrest, they are not set at liberty or brought to trial, it shall be considered, on the part of the minister signing the order as an act of arbitrary detention.
47. The government is to superintend the internal safety and external defence of the state; it is to distribute the forces by sea and land, and regulate the direction of them.
48. The national guard on duty is subject to the regulations of the public administration. The national guard not on duty is only subject to the law.
49. The government is to manage political relations abroad, to conduct negotiation, to make preliminary stipulations, to sign and conclude all treaties of peace, alliances, truce, neutrality, commerce, and other conventions.
50. Declarations of war and treaties of peace; alliance and commerce, are to be proposed, discussed, decreed, and promulgated in the same manner as laws.
Only the discussions and deliberations relating to those objects, as well in the tribunate as in the legislative body, are to be in a secret committee, if the government desire it.
51. The secret article of a treaty cannot be destructive of the public articles.
52. Under the direction of the consuls, the council of state is charged with the drawing up of the plan of the laws and the regulations of the public administration, and to resolve such difficulties as may occur in all administrative matters.
53. It is from among the members of the council of state, that the orators are to be selected, who shall be appointed to appear in the name of the government before the legislative body. There are never to be any more than three of these orators sent to support the same plan of a law.
54. The ministers are to procure the execution of the laws, and the regulations of the public administration.
55. No act of the government can have effect till it is signed by a minister.
56. One of the ministers is speedily charged with the administration of the public treasury. He is to verify the receipts, direct the application of the funds, and the payments authorised by law, and only to the extent of the funds for defraying those expenses such law has determined upon. 2dly, by a decree of the government, 3dly by an order signed by a minister.
57. The detailed accounts of every minister, signed and certified by him, are to be made public.
58. The government can only elect or retain as counsellors of state or ministers, such citizens whose names are inscribed in the national list.
59. The local administrations established, whether for each communal district, or for the more extended portions of territory, are subordinate to the ministers. No one can become or remain a member of these administrations unless he is entered in one of the lists mentioned in the 7th and 8th articles.
CHAP. V.
Of the Tribunal.
60. Every communal arrondissement shall have one or more justices of the peace, elected immediately from the citizens, for three years.
Their principal duty consists in reconciling the parties applying to them, and in case of
nonconciliation, to decide their dispute by arbitrators.
61. In civil matters there are tribunals of first instance and tribunals of appeal. The law determines the organization of the one and the other; their competence and territory forming the jurisdictions of each.
62. In cases of crimes, to which are annexed a corporal or infamous punishment, a first jury admits or rejects the charge. If it be admitted, a second jury pronounces on the fact, and the judges composing a criminal tribunal apply the punishment. Their judgment is without appeal.
63. The function of public accuser to a criminal tribunal is filled by the commissioner of government.
64. The crimes which do not amount to corporal or infamous punishment are tried before the tribunals of correctional police, saving an appeal to the criminal tribunals.
65. There is for the whole Republic a tribunal of cassation which pronounces on appeals against judgments in the dernier resort, given by the tribunals in cases referred from one tribunal to another on account of lawful suspicion or the public safety, upon exceptions taken by the party against the whole tribunal.
66. The tribunal of cassation does not inquire into the merits, but it reverifies the judgment given on proceedings in which form is violated, or which contain something contrary to the expressed law, but sends the case back to be tried on the merits by the tribunal, which has cognizance of them.
67. The judges who constitute the tribunals of first instance, and the commissioners of government established at the tribunals, are taken from the communal or departmental list.
The judges forming the tribunals of appeal, and the commissioners placed with them, are taken from the departmental list.
The judges composing the tribunal of cassation, and the commissioners belonging to that tribunal, are taken from the national list.
68. The justices, except the justices of peace, remain in office for life, unless they should be condemned to forfeit their places, or should not be continued on the list of eligibles corresponding with their functions.
CHAP. VI.
Of the responsibility of the Public Functionaries.
69. The functions of members, whether of the senate or of the legislative body, or of the tribunate, and also those of the consuls or counsellors of state, do not discharge them from responsibility.
70. Personal crimes, to which are annexed corporal or infamous punishment, committed by a member either of the senate, tribunate, legislative body, or of the council of state, are prosecuted before the ordinary tribunals, after a deliberation of the body to which the person charged belongs, has authorized such prosecution.
71. The ministers arraigned, in their private capacity, of crimes to which are annexed corporal or infamous punishment, are considered as members of the council of state.
72. The ministers are responsible—1st for every act of government signed by them, and declared unconstitutional by the senate; 2d, for the non execution of the laws, and of the regulations of the public administration; 3d, for the particular orders which they have given, if these orders are contrary to the constitution, the laws, and ordinances.
73. In the several cases of the preceding article, the tribunate denounces the minister by an act which the legislative body deliberates in ordinary form, after having heard or summoned the person denounced. The minister placed in a course of judgment is tried by a high court, without appeal or recourse, for a reversal.
The high court is composed of judges and jurors. The judges are chosen by the tribunal of cassation and from its bosom. The jurors are chosen from the national list; the whole according to the forms prescribed by laws.
74. The judges, civil and criminal, for crimes relating to their functions, are prosecuted before the tribunals to which the tribunal of cassation sends them, after having annulled their acts.
75. The agents of government, other than the ministers, cannot be prosecuted for acts relating to their functions, but by virtue of a decision of the council of state, in this case the prosecution is carried on before the ordinary tribunals.
CHAP. VII.
General Dispositions.
76. The house of every person inhabiting the French territory is an inviolable asylum.
During the night no person has a right to enter it, except in case of fire, inundation, at the request of the persons within.
In the day one may enter it for the special purpose, determined either by the law, or an order emanating from a public authority.
77. In order that the act which ordains the arrest of a person may be executed, it is necessary, 1st, that it express in form the causes for such arrest, and the law in execution of which

it is ordered; 2dly, that it issues from a functionary to whom the law has formally given that power; 3dly, that it be notified to the person arrested, and a copy of it left with him.
78. No keeper or goaler can receive or detain any person, without having first transcribed on his register the act ordering his arrest.—This act must be a mandate, given in the forms prescribed by the preceding article, or a warrant for taking the body, or a decree of accusation, or a judgement.
79. Every keeper or jailer is bound, without any order being able to dispense with it, to represent the person in his custody to the civil officer having the police of the house of detention, whenever this officer shall demand such account.
80. A representation of a person in custody shall not be refused to his parents and friends, carrying an order from the civil officer who shall be obliged always to grant it, unless the keeper or jailer produces an order of a judge to keep the prisoner secret.
81. All those who not being vested by the law with the power of arresting, shall give, sign, or execute the arrest of any person whatever; all those who, even in the case of arrest authorized by law, shall receive or detain the person arrested in a place of confinement not publicly and legally designated as such; and all keepers or goalers who shall act contrary to the dispositions of the three preceding articles, shall be guilty of arbitrary detention.
82. All severities used in arrest, detentions, or executions, other than those commanded by the laws, are crimes.
83. Every person has a right of addressing private petitions to every constituted authority, and particularly to the tribunals.
84. The public force is necessarily in a state of obedience; no armed body can deliberate.
85. Military crimes are subjected to special tribunals, and particular forms, of judgment.
86. The French nation declares, that it will grant pensions to all military wounded in defence of their country, and also to the widows and children of such military as have died on the field of battle, or in consequence of their wounds.
87. It shall decree national rewards to the warriors who shall have rendered distinguished services in fighting for the Republic.
88. A constituted body cannot deliberate except in a sitting, at which two thirds of its members, at least, are present.
89. A national institute is charged with receiving discoveries, and perfecting the arts and sciences.
90. A committee of national comptabilités regulates and verifies the accounts of the receipts and expenses of the republic. This committee is composed of seven members chosen by the Senate from their national list.
91. The regime of the French colonies is determined by special laws.
92. In case of the revolt of an armed body, or of troubles which menace the safety of the state the law may suspend in the places and for the time it determines, the empire of the constitution.
The suspension may be provisionally declared in the same cases, by an arrest of Government, the legislative body not being sitting, provided this body be convened at a very short term by an article of the same arrest.
93. The French nation declares, that in no case will it suffer the return of the French who, having abandoned their country since 1789 are not comprised in the exceptions contained in the laws against emigrants. It interdicts every new exception on this point.
The property of emigrants irrevocably be long to the republic.
94. The French nation declares that after a sale legally completed of national property whatever may be its origin, the lawful purchase cannot be dispossessed, having the right of third persons, if such there should be, claiming to be indemnified out of the public treasury.
95. The present constitution shall be offered forthwith for the acceptance of the French people.
Done at Paris the 22d Frimaire, (Dec. 13) in the 8th year of the French Republic, one and indivisible.
(The signatures of the members of the legislative committees and consuls follow.)
Interesting State Papers.
LONDON GAZETTE—JAN. 8, 1800.
[Published by authority.]
LETTERS from the Minister of Foreign Affairs in France, and from Gen. Buonaparte, and the answers to them by the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, his Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
(TRANSLATION.)
MY LORD, I DISPATCH by order of Gen. Buonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic, a Messenger to London; he is the bearer of a letter from the First Consul of the Republic to his Majesty the King of England. I request you to give the necessary orders that he may be enabled to deliver it directly into your own hands. This step, in itself, announces the importance of its object. Accept my Lord, the assurance of my highest consideration.
CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND.
Paris, the 5th Nivose, 8th year of the French Republic, (December 25, 1799)
[TRANSLATION.] French Republic—Sovereignty of the People. LIBERTY. EQUALITY. BONAPARTE First Consul of the Republic, to his Majesty the King of Great Britain and of Ireland.
Paris, the 5th Nivose, 8th year of the Republic. CALLED by the wishes of the French nation to occupy the First Magistracy of the Republic, I think it proper, on entering into office, to make a direct communication of it to your Majesty.
The war which for eight years has ravaged the four quarters of the world, must it be eternal? Are there no means of coming to an understanding?
How can the two most enlightened nations of Europe, powerful and strong beyond what their safety and independence require, sacrifice to ideas of vain greatness, the benefits of commerce, internal prosperity, and the happiness of families? How is it that they do not feel that peace is of the first necessity, as well as of the first glory?
These sentiments cannot be foreign in the heart of your Majesty, who reigns over a free nation, and with the sole view of rendering it happy.
Your Majesty will only see in this overture my sincere desire to contribute efficaciously, for the second time, to a general pacification, by a step, speedy, intirely of confidence, and disengaged from those forms which, necessary perhaps to disguise the dependence of weak states, prove only, in those which are strong, the mutual desire of deceiving each other.
France and England, by the abuse of their strength, may still for a long time, for the misfortune of all nations, retard the period of their being exhausted. But I will venture to say it, the fate of all civilized nations is attached to the termination of a war, which involves the whole world. Of your Majesty,
BONAPARTE.
* We are at a loss to decipher the meaning of this sentence—it is, however, agreeably to the copy.
Downing-street, Jan. 4, 1800.
SIR, I have received and laid before the King the two letters which you have transmitted to me; and his Majesty, seeing no reason to depart from those forms which have long been established in Europe for transacting business with foreign states, has commanded me to return, in his name, the official answer which I send you herewith inclosed. I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your most obedient humble servant, GRENVILLE.
To the Minister for Foreign Affairs, &c. at Paris.
NOTE.
The King has given frequent proofs of his sincere desire for the re establishment of secure and permanent tranquility to Europe.—He neither is, nor has been engaged in any contest for a vain and false glory. He had no other view than that of maintaining, against all aggression, the rights and happiness of his subjects.
For these he has contended against an unprovoked attack; and for the same objects he is still obliged to contend; nor can he hope that this necessity could be removed by entering, at the present moment, into negotiation with those whom a fresh revolution has so recently placed in the exercise of power in France—since no real advantage can arise from such negotiation to the great and desirable object of General Peace, until it shall distinctly appear, that those causes have ceased to operate which originally produced the war, and by which it has since been protracted, and, in more than one instance, renewed.
The same system, to the prevalence of which France justly ascribes all her present miseries, is that which has also involved the rest of Europe in a long and destructive warfare, of a nature long since unknown to the practice of civilized nations.
For the extension of this system, and for the extermination of all established governments, the resources of France have from year to year, and in the midst of the most unparalleled distress, been lavished and exhausted. To this indiscriminate spirit of destruction the Netherlands, the United Provinces, the Swiss cantons, (his Majesty's ancient friends and allies) have successively been sacrificed. Germany has been ravaged: Italy, though now rescued from its invaders, has been made the scene of unbounded rapine and anarchy. His Majesty has himself been compelled to maintain an arduous and burthensome contest for the independence and existence of his kingdoms.
Nor have these calamities been confined to Europe alone: they have been extended to the most distant quarters of the world, and even to countries so remote both in situation and interests from the present contest, that the very existence of such a war was perhaps unknown to those who found themselves suddenly involved in all its horrors.
While such a system continues to prevail, and while the blood and treasure of a numerous and powerful nation can be lavished in its support, experience has shown that no defence but that of open and steady hostility can be availing. The most solemn treaties have only prepared the way for fresh aggression; and it is to a determined resistance alone that is now due whatever remains in Europe of stability for property, for personal liberty, for social order, or for the free exercise of religion.
For the security, therefore, of these essential objects, his Majesty cannot place his reliance on the mere renewal of general professions of pacific dispositions. Such professions have been
repeatedly held out by all those who have successively directed the resources of France to the destruction of Europe: and whom the present rulers have declared to have been all, from the beginning, and uniformly, incapable of maintaining the relations of amity and peace.
Greatly, indeed, will his majesty rejoice whenever it shall appear that the danger to which his own dominions, and those of his allies, have been so long exposed has really ceased: whenever he shall be satisfied that the necessity of resistance is at an end; that after the experience of so many years of crimes and miseries, better principles have ultimately prevailed in France; and that all the gigantic projects of ambition, and all the restless schemes of destruction which have endangered the very existence of civil society, have at length been finally relinquished:—But the conviction of such a change however agreeable to his majesty's wishes, can result on from experience, and from the evidence of facts.
The best and most natural pledge of its reality and permanence, would be the restoration of that line of princes which for so many centuries maintained the French nation in prosperity at home, and in consideration and respect abroad; Such an event would at once have removed, and will at any time remove all obstacles in the way of negotiation or peace. It would confirm to France the unmolested enjoyment of its ancient territory; and it would give to all the other nations in Europe, in tranquility and peace, that security which they are now compelled to seek by other means.
But, desirable as such an event must be, both to France and the world, it is not to this mode exclusively that his majesty limits the possibility of secure and solid pacification. His majesty makes no claim to prescribe to France what shall be the form of her government, or in whose hands the shall vest the authority necessary for conducting the affairs of a great and powerful nation.
His majesty looks only to the security of his own dominions and those of his allies, and to the general safety of Europe. Whenever he shall judge that such security can in any manner be attained, as resulting either from the internal situation of that country, from whose internal situation the danger has risen, or from such other circumstances of whatever nature as may produce the same end, his majesty will eagerly embrace the opportunity to concert with his allies the means of immediate and general pacification.
Unhappily no such security hitherto exists: no sufficient evidence of the principles by which the new government will be directed; no reasonable ground by which to judge of its stability. In this situation it can for the present only remain for his majesty to pursue, in conjunction with other powers, those exertions of just and defensive war, which his regard to the happiness of his subjects will never permit him either to continue beyond the necessity in which they originated, or to terminate on any other grounds, than such as may best contribute to the secure enjoyment of their tranquility, their constitution, and their independence.
(Signed) GRENVILLE. Downing-street, January 4, 1800. To the Minister for Foreign Affairs, &c. at Paris.
PARIS, Dec. 28.
MESSAGE OF THE CONSULS.
The Consuls of the French Republic, conformably to the unanimously manifested will of the two legislative commissioners, by proposing to you to decree to citizen SIEYES, a signal proof of the national gratitude.
The citizen, who, after having enlightened the people by his writings, and done honor to the revolution by his disinterested virtues, refused at first the chief magistracy, and accepted it afterwards only from a sense of the dangers by which it was surrounded, is assuredly worthy of the distinction which you will decree to him, and a refusal of which will not be permitted to him when the organ of the law shall have spoken.
The Consuls of the Republic, in order to adhere to your desire, and in conformity with the law of the 19th Brumaire, submit to you the formal and necessary proposition to decree to citizen Sieyes, by way of national recompence, the property of one of the domains which are at the disposal of the state.
The Consuls of the Republic, BUONAPARTE, ROGER DUCOS. (Signed) H. B. MABET, Sec'y [The commission in consequence of this message, resolved, That the national domain of Crose should be decreed in full and intire property to Citizen Sieyes, as a national recompence.]
The following resolution was adopted.— "The disposition of the treaty concluded between Buonaparte and the Knights of Malta, is ratified, by which the French knights, who were in the Island of Malta, at the time of its reduction are considered as not having emigrated from France. Such of the knights whose personal estates have not been sold as national property, shall be reinstated in their effects. If they have been alienated, they shall only be entitled to an indemnity as fixed in ordinary cases. The present disposition comprehends only the knights who were included in the above treaty."
PARIS, Dec. 18.
The armistice on the Rhine is officially published the very moment we hear of its being broken.
LONDON, DEC. 27.
The armistice upon the Rhine is at an end. The Archduke refused to accede to it, and
notified his refusal on the 8th to the French Commandant at Manheim. The French who were inferior in force, immediately made dispositions to retreat, and evacuated by capitulation, Manheim and Neckers, of which the Austrians immediately took possession. In order to divide and divert the attention and forces of the Archduke, Gen. Lecourbe means immediately to enter Suabia from the side of Switzerland.
Suwarrows army continuing its march, had arrived at Ratisbon, where, on the 11th, he received dispatches from Petersburg, in consequence of which the troops were ordered to halt.
On the Rhine the two armies remain tranquil. The cause of the Archduke's refusal to consent to the armistice, seems to have been because it was only a partial one. The Paris papers contain an important address from the Archduke respecting the late revolution in Paris, which shall be given in our next. We still expect that a suspension of arms extending from the Rhine to Switzerland and Italy will take place.
In Italy the Austrians proceed in their career of victory. Coni is said to have surrendered by capitulation, on the 3d inst. The garrison, consisting of 3000 men, are prisoners of war. In consequence of this event, the French will probably, unless they are very strongly reinforced, be obliged to fall back upon Nice.
Masena was to leave Paris in a few days, to put himself at the head of the army of Italy.
PARIS, DEC. 22.
It is reported that Cardinal Maury is elected Pope.
Bonaparte is indisposed from excessive watchings and fatigues.—To keep himself awake he drinks strong coffee in great quantities.
Portland, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1800.
At length accounts of importance are received from Europe. The new constitution of France, which is already organized; and the extraordinary papers relative to England and France, are the most prominent. By arrivals at Savannah and Newyork, from Liverpool, with papers to the 9th of January.
Paris prints, late as Dec. 8, mention that our Envoys had arrived at Lisbon, and were to proceed immediately to France.
In the House of Representatives of the United States, on the 17th inst. Mr. Parker of Virginia, brought forward the following resolution: which was ordered to lie on the table.
Resolved, That a Golden Medal, emblematical of the late action between the United States frigate Constellation , of 38 guns, and the French ship of war La Vengeance , of 52 guns, be prepared under the orders of the Secretary of the Navy, and presented to Capt. Thomas Truxtun, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of his gallantry and good conduct in the above engagement, wherein an example was exhibited by the Captain, Officers, Sailors, and Marines, honorable to the American name, and instructive to its rising Navy.
"ISLAND OF JAV.—At least one hundred neutral ships have arrived here annually for these five years past, each of which on an average must have left 70,000 dollars in specie—making the enormous sum of Thirty Five Millions of dollars; all of which is still on the Island, and besides immense magazines of produce.—It is the finest island in the east, and with the exception of the port of Batavia, is not unhealthy." [Calcutta paper.]
The French are said to have 40 privateers picarooning out of Guadalupe.
The specie on board the Insurgents, is said to be a million of dollars. She has arrived at the Chesapeake.
The Property of the citizens of the United States, which crossed the ocean in 1799, is estimated at ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY MILLIONS of dollars. It is not erring, to say, our Navy has prevented above one quarter of this immense sum falling into the hands of the French, and other freebooters.
A few days previous to the American convoy's leaving the Havannah, two Spanish 74's, and a Packet, arrived there from Vera Cruz, with eleven Millions of Dollars.
Demagogues contend that the people of France are still free; but admit that they owe their liberty to Buonaparte. Wretched tenures! humiliating acknowledgment!
The political scene in France, for two or three years past, has very much resembled that of the Roman Empire in those blessed days, when the tiara was bought and sold at public auction.—By as unimportant an operation as the stroke of a hammer, have the reins of power in France more than once changed hands. [Gas. U. S.]
We hope not in future to hear any more complaining of our Jacobins on the score of salaries, and "six dollars" per day;—after they have the example which their infallible tutors the French, have given them.—The salaries of the new French "powers that be"—are as follows:—
Bonaparte, Chief Consul, 100,000 dls. per ann. Cambacérès, second Consul, 30,000 do. Lébrun, third Consul, 30,000 do. A Senator, 5,000 do. A Tribune, 3,000 do.
Compare these with the compensations allowed the national officers of the United States, and every Jacobin will be as dumb as an oyster. (Comm. Gaz.)

The following is a letter from Capt. TRUXTON to the Secretary of the Navy, dated.
"Port Royal Harbour, Jamaica, 12th Feb. 1800. "I arrived here the 8th inst. in company with the Infatigable, capt. Murray, with whom I fell in with the day after I wrote you by Lt. Shaw. "Finding it impossible to get a main mast here, I shall use every dispatch in my power to put the Constellation into a condition to proceed to the United States. I have met a kind and friendly reception from admiral Parker. All the British post Captains here have been on board the Constellation, and from seeing our situation, express every sentiment that could be wished by those true Americans who love their country and its honour."
The Court of General Sessions of the Peace for this county, was held in this town last week. It is adjourned to the second Tuesday of April.
To the Electors of Cumberland. IN a few days, fellow citizens, you will be called upon to give in your votes for Governor, Lieut. Governor, and Senators. Permit one who has no interest separate from you, to call your attention to the importance of unanimously supporting the following list:— Hon. CALEB STRONG, Esq. for Governor. Hon. MOSES GILL, Esq. for Lt. Governor. Hon. STEPHEN LONGFELLOW and DANIEL DAVIS, Esq's. for Senators.
Considering what has been said in favor of Mr. Strong, as generally known and believed, the writer of this will not attempt a recapitulation of those qualifications which render him every way suitable for Governor of Massachusetts—and I am happy to find by accounts from different parts of the state, that he will probably be elected by a handsome majority. One fact, however, should be more generally known—Mr. Strong was an active advocate for the American Constitution—Mr. Gerry was one of its most inveterate opposers. Who then will be most likely to support the Constitution?
But, my fellow electors, it seems necessary to say a few words with regard to our Senators. Attempts are making in some parts of the county to prevent the re-election of Messrs. Longfellow and Davis. These gentlemen, who are an honor to the District, are opposed on grounds too trifling to meet the attention of enlightened men.—Let us consider the persons held up as antagonists to these gentlemen:—Are they more deserving your confidence? Have they more ability? Are they more attached to your interest? And is their welfare more intimately connected with yours?—No. Let us not then, slight our old friends, who have proved themselves faithful and persevering in supporting the cause of freedom, justice and order.—Be on your guard, citizens, nor suffer the influence of party to swerve you in the all-important duty, to which the peace, welfare and future happiness of your country, now call your serious attention. AN ELECTOR.
MR. JENKS, I am happy to learn from different parts of this county that Messrs. David Sewall and Prentiss Mellen, Esq's. will be generally supported as Senators for the present year. Their integrity and ability require no comment, being too well known among the good citizens of YORK COUNTY.
MR. JENKS, As your paper has a considerable circulation in the county of York, you are requested to notify the inhabitants, that the Hon. CALEB STRONG, will be advocated at the ensuing election for Governor—Hon. MOSES GILL for Lt. Gov. of this Commonwealth;—and the Hon. DAVID SEWALL and JOHN LOW, Esq's for Senators of the County of York. The characters of these gentlemen are well known, and they need no eulogies to recommend them. A Citizen of the County of York.
MR. JENKS, THE citizens of the counties of Lincoln, Hancock, Washington and Kennebec, are determined to evince their patriotism by supporting the election of the Hon. NATHANIEL DUMMER, and WILLIAM KING, Esq's. as Senators.—Their known attachment to the District, and promptness to support the wisdom of the Federal Government, are sufficient to ensure them the suffrages of the ELECTORS. Lincoln, March 10th, 1800.
"A Federalist" was unfortunately received too late for publication this day. The motive of this writer is to expose the absurdity of the new nomination of Senators in the last Trumpet. "Gratitude" is received. It would answer very well on any other occasion—but electioneering is at present a duty too serious to become a subject for humour. "A man in the Woods" displays more prejudice than knowledge. He had better en'trave a farm, than vent his ill will on the friends of government. Numerous electioneering matters unavoidably omitted.
As the Junior Trumpeter has displayed more ingenuity and candor than usual for him, in clearing himself from a charge of wilful falsehood (for which charge two respectable gentlemen can attest I had sufficient cause, before his acknowledgment) and as I ought not to deserve unfair misfortune or neglect of others leads him into difficulty, I leave him to abide by whatever impression his own statement has made.
MARRIED—In this town, Mr. Mark Walton, to Miss Hannah Barbour. —Mr. Stephen Abbot to Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson.
DIED—In this town, on Friday evening last, Mr. William Green, aged 70 years. —Mrs. Margaret Curtis, wife of Capt. John Curtis. At Buxton, Mrs. Sarah Hill, wife of Mr. Daniel Hill. At Biddeford, Mr. Noah Nason —Mr. Partridge Richard. At Bath, Mrs. Nancy Nason, aged 19 years, wife of Mr. John Minot Mody.
TAKE NOTICE. THE Committee for examining accounts against the town of PORTLAND, will meet for that purpose on the 4th and 5th days of April next, at the Auction Room of EDWARD OXNARD. LEMUEL WEEKS, EBENEZER MAYO, EDWARD OXNARD. March 31.
Corn & Rye. FOR Sale, on board schooner Heart, a quantity of CORN & RYE—Apply to the master on board, or at the store of JOSEPH M'LELLAN & SON, No. 16, Union Wharf. March 29.
Corn. Just received, and for sale By How & Evans, A Large quantity of CORN & MEAL, at their store in Middle Street in corner Union-street.—Also, a quantity of Herd Grass Seed. March 21.
Ten Dollars Reward. DESERTED, JOHN SMITH, a private belonging to the 2d Regiment Artillerists and Engineers, aged thirty-three years, five feet eight inches high, light eyes, brown hair, and light complexion—wore away, blue pantaloons edged with red, white vest, an old brown coat, and round hat—(a Drunkard by trade.)—Any person apprehending him and delivering him at this Post, or to any Officer in the army of the United States, shall receive the above reward, and all necessary charges. N. Leonard, Lieut. 2d Reg. Art. & Eng.—Commanding. Fort Sumner, March 26, 1800.
For Sale, AT the west end of the town, a DWELLING HOUSE and LOT.—For terms apply to the Printer. March 31.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administrator on the Estate of Capt. WILLIAM STANWOOD, late of Brunswick, in the county of Cumberland, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust by giving Bonds as the Law directs: He therefore desires all persons who have any demands on said Estate, to bring them in for settlement, and those who are indebted to make payment. Elisha Williams. Brunswick, March 24, 1800.
THE nonresident proprietors of unimproved Lands in the town of Gray, are hereby notified that the same are taxed in the bills committed to me the subscriber, collector of the town of Gray aforesaid, for the year 1799, to collect in the respective sums following, viz.
   SECOND DIVISION. State tax. County tax. Town tax.   No. Lots. No. Acres. Cts. M. Cts. M. Cts. M. Cts. M. Cts. M. Cts. M.     10 60 4 2 6 1 18 3   14 60 0 0 0 0 18 0   20 60 4 2 6 1 18 3   THIRD DIVISION.   2 51 1/2 4 8 6 9 18 3   27 80 7 5 0 0 32 5   50 103 4 9 13 8 41 9   58 53 4 9 21 5   59 58 3 5 15 5   62 103 9 6 13 8 15 5   FOURTH DIVISION.   5 107 5 7 3 21 7   10 107 5 7 3 21 7   15 107 5 7 3 21 7   17 107 5 7 3 21 7   31 107 5 7 3 21 7   37 107 5 7 3 21 7   56 107 5 7 3 21 7   56 107 5 7 3 21 7    If no person shall appear to discharge said taxes, and all necessary intervening charges, on or before Tuesday the 20th day of May next, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, so much of said land as shall be sufficient to discharge the same, will then be sold at public auction, to the highest bidder, according to law, at the dwelling house of Joseph Libby, innholder in said Gray. Dated at said Gray the 25th day of March, A. D. 1800. George Small, Collector.
John F. Dyar, HAS for Sale at his TOBACCO MANUFACTORY, sign of the African Prince, north side of the Market-House, Boston, all kinds of manufactured TOBACCO & SNUFF. Pigtail, Fine Twist, Segars, Smoaking and Keg TOBACCO, &c. Rappee and Scotch SNUFF, of a superior quality. N. B. All orders punctually attended to, either in town or Country. Boston, March 13, 1800.
Take Notice. THE partnership under the firm of PURINGTON & HANSON, being this day dissolved by mutual agreement, all persons having on said firm, or are indebted thereto, are requested to settle their accounts and notes with DANIEL & SAMUEL HANSON, who will carry on business in future, at the store lately occupied by the subscribers. Meshach Purington, Samuel Hanon. Durham, March 12, 1800.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled. THE subscribers, living in that part of Brownfield which is situated on the east side of Saco River, in a grant of land called Pleasant Mountain Gore, including Asahel Foster's, Gideon Lowell's, Ichabod Warren's and David Porter's purchases of Government, and a grant to the Trustees of Fryeburgh Academy—humbly sheweth, That your Petitioners labor under many inconveniences and difficulties for want of being in an incorporated state.—They therefore pray the Honorable Court a Town-ship may be incorporated agreeable to a plan herewith presented, and the inhabitants living on said land may be invested with the same privileges which incorporated Towns do by law enjoy; and your petitioners, as in duty bound will ever pray.
 Elias Berry,  Dean Osgood,  Wright Allen,  Samuel Scotchings,  Thomas Jelfson,  Joseph Walker,  Benaiah Walker,  Supply Walker,  Cummings Colby,  Daniel Long,  Jedediah Long,  John Stickney,  Benjamin Lord,  Henry Berry,  Joseph Walker, jun.  Daniel Lowell,  Moses Lowell,  Henry Walker,  Isaac Berry,  Stephen Burbank,  John Burbank,  Daniel Gilman,  Francis M'Kucick,  Tristram Jordan,  John Sambon,  Ezra Stices,  Gilbert Warren,  Cyrus Ingalls,  George Lord,  Jonathan Gilman,  Ichabod Warren,  Gardner Good,  Daniel Hill,  Thomas Veasey,  Edmund Higgans,  Samuel Harrion,  Israel Burbank,  Asa Osgood,  Elisha Hammond,  John Gilman,  John Warren,  Ichabod Warren, jun.  James Bennet,  John Bennet. 
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. IN SENATE, January 15, 1800. ON the petition of ELIAS BERRY and others, inhabitants of a grant of land called Pleasant Mountain Gore in the county of York, praying that said grant, together with other grants specified in their said petition, may be incorporated into a town— ORDERED, That the Petitioners cause an attested copy of their Petition, with this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the Portland Gazette, published by ELIEZER A. JENKS, the last publication to be forty days at least before the second Thursday of the first session of the next General Court, that all persons interested may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer of said Petition should not be granted. Sent down for concurrence, SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. In the House of Representatives, Jan. 15, 1800. Read and concurred. EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. True copy—Attest. EDWARD M'LANE, Clerk of Senate.
THE Commissioners appointed by the Judge of Probate for the county of Kennebec, to receive and examine the claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of BENJAMIN NOYES, late of New-Portland, so called, in said county, gentleman, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice, that five months are allowed by the said Judge of Probate, for the Creditors to bring in their claims, and prove their demands:—and that the said Commissioners will attend for that service at the house of Mrs. PIERCE NOYES, in New-Portland aforesaid, on the last Monday of April, and the last Monday of the four following months, from one to five of the clock in the afternoon of said days. Lemuel Williams, } Commissioners. Simeon Cragin, } Topsham, March 15, 1800. THE Subscribers, appointed Commissioners, by the Honorable JONATHAN BOWMAN, Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, to receive and examine the claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of SUSANNAH REED, widow, late of Topsham, deceased; and six months being allowed for that purpose, hereby give notice, that they will attend the business of their appointment at the dwelling house of Cap. ALEXANDER ROGERS, in Topsham, on the last Friday of this and the five following months, from one to five o'clock, P. M. William Randall, Arthur Hunter. Topsham, March 15, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE. THE Subscribers, appointed Commissioners by the Hon. JONATHAN BOWMAN, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, to receive and examine the claims to the Estate of EBENEZER EMERSON EMERSON, late of Topsham, in said county, physician, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice, that six months are allowed the creditors of said estate to bring in their claims; and that they will attend on the business of their appointment at the house of GIDEON WALKER of said Topsham, on the last Monday of March, and the first Tuesday of the five following months, from 2 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Jonathan R. Parker, } Commissioners. William Wilson, } Topsham, March 17th, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administratrix to the estate of JOSIAH THACHER, late of Gorham, in the county of Cumberland, deceased, and has taken upon her that trust by giving bonds as the law directs: She therefore desires all persons who have any demands on said estate, to bring them in for settlement, and those who are indebted, to make payment without delay—for which purpose she will attend on the first and last Mondays of the six following months. Apphia Thacher. March 14.
MR. PARKER'S ORATION. A few copies of this much-admired production may be had at Jenks' Book Store.
FOR SALE—BY Kexia Butler, NEARLY OPPOSITE THE BANK, An assortment of SHOES, viz. MEN'S No. 1 Calf-skin Shoes, Women's Black Morocco, Croseut, block and spring heels, Green Morocco Slippers, Red and blue do. Millies do. do. Florentine, croseut, court and spring heel Slippers Fancy Florentine do. Children's Leather and Morocco Shoes. ALSO, A few pairs English Kid Slippers. All of which are of the first quality, and warranted.
Millinery, of the newest fashions, made and sold as usual. March 24.
A Farm to be Sold, IN Freeport, lying between the Meeting-House and the Corner, so called, containing about twenty-seven acres of land. A good House and other buildings convenient for a Farmer or Trade-man thereon—cuts five tons of Hay—and there are six hundred cords of green standing Wood on the farm. Also a good well of water, and a young Orchard of about 40 trees, some of which bear several bushels of Apples in a year.—A great bargain may be made, as the subscriber is determined to sell. The purchaser may expect good terms for payment.—For further particulars inquire of the subscriber on the premises. Abia Chamberlin. Freeport, March 29, 1800.
Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company. ALL institutions deserve patronage from the public in proportion to their usefulness. The Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company is considered by many as coming under this denomination; it being incorporated for the benevolent purpose of guarding its associates against losses of buildings by fire, whether the same should happen by accident, lightning, civil commotion, or foreign invasion, the President and Directors, therefore, have thought proper to lay before the public, its principles, and general state of its funds, to induce all persons owning houses or other buildings within the Commonwealth to become Members of the same, and avail themselves of its advantages. By a mutual insurance we bear one another's burdens. The loss sustained by one falls on the company; whereas individuals, heretofore, were obliged, in case of loss by fire, to apply to their particular friends, and to the benevolence of the public for assistance; but in the present case an opportunity presents of having their property secured upon the only just principles of insurance, by calling into the funds of the Society a rate equal to the hazard only, and no more. Conflagrations are generally more alarming, and far more distressing to mankind than losses at sea; and the reason is obvious. In the former case little or no provision has been made in this country for the protection of property in case of fire, whereas in the latter it is almost universal. Under this consideration, it is to be hoped, that those societies, who have been established for the purpose of enlarging their usefulness towards mankind, as well as those gentlemen who have been in the habit of giving premiums for the generous design of protecting buildings, will so far extend their candor towards this Company as to suppose that their motives of pecuniary consideration are not so much attached to the small gain in the difference of the premium as to add another institution, and confer another opportunity on the citizens of this Commonwealth, for security and happiness. The rates of premium are from 35 to 75 cents on one hundred dollars, governed by the judgment of the Trustees, which depends on the materials of which the house is built, the manner of occupying it, and the relative situation of the same as to other buildings.
Although the Policies are issued for seven years, it operates for any less time; as provision is made, that when the property insured shall be alienated by death, sale, or by any other means, the assured may surrender his policy at the office, and receive a sum exceeding his deposit money. The fees arising from the policies, transfers, endorsements, forfeits and interest accruing thereon, will in the whole time (in all probability) pay the expense of Office; in which case nothing can be taken from the funds, but absolute losses by fire. If fortunately no loss happens, the property with interest reverts back to the person who paid it (except his proportion of the reserved funds) as the whole funds of the company, are placed in the funded stocks of the United States; the interest of which is received quarterly, put into principal, and accumulates much beyond compound interest.
The calculations are made upon the whole number of buildings, consumed by fire in Boston for the term of forty years past, taken from the records of the Historical Society, commencing in 1759, and of course it includes the great fire of 1760; from which, and a comparison with the institutions of the same nature in England, Virginia, New York, &c. it clearly appears, that the funds are adequate to support the loss of more than sixteen houses annually, of 1600 dollars value each. But, in order to make each individual of the company, entirely satisfied of his indemnity in case of loss by a very great conflagration; provision is made, that each member shall be assessed a sum (in proportion) to make good such loss; but not in any event to exceed two dollars for one, paid as premium and deposit. It is now thirteen months since the risks commenced, without any loss whatever. There is now 940,000 dollars insured in the Office, one fifth of which is in the country. The funds are already respectable and increasing rapidly. By order of the President and Directors, Andrew Cunningham, Sec'y. Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Office, No. 15, State-street, Boston. March 7. (3m—29)
A House and Lot, N. E. fide of King-street, to be sold—Inquire of the Printer. March 10. SLATES, of a superior quality, for sale at Jenks' Book and Stationary Store.

MUSES.
THE WARNING.
Translated from the German of FREDERICK MATTHISON.
SEE ye, in silent summer night the moon Beam through the melancholy cypress boughs, When Nature, from her labours rested, In slumbers shaking, scarcely seems to breathe, And ev'ry heart dissolves in sweetest sadness? See ye, by Leman's lake, Montblanc's tall head, Glistening with gold from Phœbus' parting rays? See ye, how down yon rugged rocks, the Rhine Tumbles, in lofty tow'ring hills of foam. With roar like storms of ever during thunder? See ye, by tempests swell'd, the raging ocean Now, with unbridled fury, up tow'rd heaven Sling flatter'd fleets; then downwards in a moment, With craft tremendous, in th' abyss in gulph them! Then, heaving once again, the breathless corpses Raise high, and dash them on the rocky shore? See ye all the'e, ye puny poetasters?— Oh! let me then conjure you by the Graces, The Muses, and the spirit of Mæcenas, By Oberon's and Idris' magic world— The heights sublime to which our Klopstock's genius Soar'd from its earliest dawn—by the soft tones From harps of Fingal's bards—by Petrarch's fountain— The laurels which encomass Maro's tomb— By that soft paradise of fairy art, Where once Rinaldo's hero powers lay prostrate— By Milton's salutation to the light— By the dark flower of Dante's gloomy scenes— The death of Ugolino— Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be, or not to be"— By the o'erflowings of a father's heart For lost Narcissa—Gessner's pastoral scenes— By all to poets sacred, I conjure you, Profane not by a froth of empty words What'er is holiest deem'd in speech or song By god-like Nature!—Oh! profane them not By tributes fram'd from tempers of the soul; By swelling sounds, forced thoughts, and big bombast, Usher'd by feeble tone of o'erstrain'd feeling! For, ah! be satisfied—she, mighty mistress, Contemns such Cain-like offerings.—With a nod, Angrily to the storms of Time she gives Her mandate to disperse the noxious vapours: To her such incense is abomination.
150 Dollars Reward!
ESCAPED from the custody of me the subscriber, in Gorham, on the night of the 6th inst. by the assistance of two persons to me unknown, JERUSHA PENFIELD of said Gorham, who was arrested by me on a warrant against her, and in my keeping, by virtue of the same and a mittimus to prison, from the Hon. William Gurbam and Edmund Phinney, Esqrs. charging her of the crime of being delivered in secret, and concealing the death of her bastard child.
Whoever will apprehend the said Penfield, and the said persons so assisting her, or give notice concerning them, so that they may be brought to justice, shall receive the above reward, or fifty dollars for any one or either of them.—Said PENFIELD was of low stature, rather thick and corpulent, dark grey eyes, dark hair, and aged 24 years—had on when she went away a dark calico loose gown—She has been very sick, and was thought to be so when she went away.
JOHN WOODWARD, Deputy Sheriff.
March 8, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE Commissioners appointed by the Hon. William Gurbam, Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of MATTHIAS RICE, late of Scarborough, in said county—physician, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice, That six months are allowed said creditors to bring in their claims; and that they will attend said service on the second Tuesday of the six following months, from 10 o'clock, A.M. to 6 o'clock, P.M. at the dwelling house of Joseph Emerson, in Scarborough.
JOSEPH EMERSON, SIMEON FITTS.
Scarborough. Feb. 24, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident Proprietors and Owners of Land in the town of Shapleigh, in the county of York, that their lands are taxed in a tax bill, committed to me the subscriber, Collector of said town for the year 1798, to collect, viz.
Table with 4 columns: R. N., Acres, Cents, and a second division of Acres, Cts. Lists tax assessments for various residents.
If no person shall appear to discharge said taxes and all necessary charges, on or before the Eighth day of April next, so much of said Lands as will be sufficient to discharge the same will then be sold at Public Vendue, to the highest bidder, according to law, at my dwelling house in said Shapleigh, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day.
Joseph Door, 3d. Collector.
Shapleigh, Jan. 20th, 1800.
WHEREAS the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 6th day of February 1800, passed an act incorporating Hugh McLellan and others, and all such persons as have already, or hereafter shall become Stockholders into a Company by the name of the Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Company;—and whereas by the 15th section of said act, the subscribers are authorized to call a Meeting of the Members of said Company;—now therefore, in pursuance of the above authority, we hereby notify and warn the Members of said Company to meet at the Insurance Office in Portland, on Wednesday the ninth day of April next, at 3 o'clock, P. M. for the purpose of electing the first board of Directors.
Hugh McLellan, Arthur McLellan, Daniel Tucker.
Portland, Mch 13. 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident Proprietors or Owners of Land in the town of Shapleigh, in the county of York, and commonwealth of Massachusetts, that their Lands are taxed in the State and County and Town, for the years 1788 and 1789 and 1790 and 1793 and 1796 and 1797, in third Division in said town—Also a tax for the years 1794 and 1795 and 1797, in the First and Second Division in said town.
Table with 5 columns: For the year 1788, R. No., Acres, f., d. Lists tax assessments for 1788.
Table with 5 columns: For the year 1789, R. No., Acres, D., f., d. Lists tax assessments for 1789.
Table with 5 columns: For the year 1790, R. No., Acres, f., d. Lists tax assessments for 1790.
Table with 5 columns: For the year 1793, R. No., Acres, f., d. Lists tax assessments for 1793.
Table with 5 columns: For the year 1794, R. No., Acres, f., d. Lists tax assessments for 1794.
Table with 5 columns: For the year 1795, R. No., Acres, f., d. Lists tax assessments for 1795.
Table with 5 columns: For the year 1796, R. No., Acres, f., d. Lists tax assessments for 1796.
Table with 5 columns: For the year 1797, R. No., Acres, f., d. Lists tax assessments for 1797.
Table with 5 columns: For the year 1798, R. No., Acres, f., d. Lists tax assessments for 1798.
Unless said Taxes and intervening Charges, are paid on or before Thursday the Tenth day of April next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, so much of said Lands as will defray the same, will then be sold at Public Vendue, at the dwelling house of Mr. George Nason, innholder in said Shapleigh, according to law.
HAM NASON, Constable.
Shapleigh. March 4th, 1800.
AN APPRENTICE is wanted at the Hair-Dressing business. Apply to the Printer. March 24.
To be sold at Public Vendue,
A Valuable FARM, in Falmouth.— It contains about ninety acres of Land, well situated for a farmer or trader, or mechanic of any kind—It is well wooded and watered, and is five miles and a half from Portland, lying on the main road—formerly the property of Daniel Hall of said Falmouth, deceased.—Sale to be at the dwelling house on said farm, on the 9th day of the 4th month next at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. Conditions will be made known at the above time and place.
Also—The Lot No. 66, at the head of the Great Duck Pond in Windham, to be sold at 1 o'clock, P. M. the same day. WINSLOW HALL.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled.
THE Petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of that part of Brownfield lying between the southerly line of Fryeburgh, and that line called the line of the State of New-Hampshire, humbly beseecheth—That your Petitioners labor under great inconveniences in having to attend plantation and other meetings with the other inhabitants of the plantation of Brownfield. They therefore pray that that part of the plantation of Brownfield represented in the plan herewith presented, with the inhabitants living on the same, may be annexed to the town of Fryeburgh, to enjoy town privileges with the said town of Fryeburgh and your petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray.
Joseph Walker, Timothy Walker, Benaiah Walker, John Bennet, Henry Y. B. Osgood, James Bennet, Supply Walker, jun. John Stickney, Joshua B. Osgood, James Bean, Asa Colby, Josiah Spring, Supply Walker, Asa Buck.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In SENATE, January 15, 1800.
ON the petition of JOSEPH WALKER and others, inhabitants of that part of the plantation of Brownfield lying between the southerly line of Fryeburgh, and that line called the line of the State of New-Hampshire, praying that the aforesaid part of Brownfield may be annexed to the town of Fryeburgh, aforesaid.
ORDERED, That the Petitioners cause an attested copy of their petition, with this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the Portland Gazette, published by ELIEZER A. JENKS, the last publication to be forty days at least before the second Thursday of the next General Court, that all persons interested may then appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted.
Sent down for concurrence. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. In the House of Representatives, Jan. 15, 1800. Read and concurred. EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. True copy—Attest, EDWARD M'LANE, Clerk of Senate.
To the Honorable the Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court assembled.
THE Petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of the plantation of Brownfield, in the county of York, in the Commonwealth, humbly beseecheth—That your Petitioners are greatly inconvenienced by reason of their present unincorporated situation.—That they are now unable legally to assess and raise money for the support of schools and the ministry in said plantation. That the public lands therein viz two College rights, a school, ministerial and parsonage right, each containing 350 acres, are unascertained—may, with impunity be trespassed upon and injured—are unproductive and unappropriated to the several purposes for which they were designed and granted. That the present situation of your petitioners subjects them to the abovementioned, and many other inconveniences—deprives them of the inestimable privileges enjoyed by the inhabitants of incorporated towns, which grievances can only be redressed by an act of incorporation. Wherefore your Petitioners pray that the plantation of Brownfield, as originally granted, and according to the plan herewith exhibited, may be incorporated into a township by the name of Dover, and be entitled to all the privileges therefrom naturally resulting; and as in duty bound shall ever pray.
Joseph Howard, Timothy Gibson, William Webster, Joshua Ames, Amos Door, Timothy Gibson, jun. John B. Miller, James Howard, jun. Samuel Mansfield, William Lane, Jonathan Gibson, Joshua Snow, Francis Kimball, James Bean, John How, John Lane, Zadock Wright, Asa Osgood, Zechariah Gibson, James Howard, Dudley Bean, Samuel Mansfield, jun. David Millen, Wilson Howard, Daniel Tyler, Thomas W. Wood.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In SENATE, January 15, 1800.
On the Petition of JOSEPH HOWARD and others, inhabitants of Brownfield, in the county of York, praying that said plantation may be incorporated into a town.
ORDERED, That the Petitioners cause an attested copy of their petition, with this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the Portland Gazette, published by ELIEZER A. JENKS, the last publication to be forty days at least before the second Thursday of the first session of the next General Court, that all persons interested may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer of said petition should not be granted.
Sent down for concurrence. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. In the House of Representatives, Jan. 15, 1800. Read and concurred. EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. True copy—Attest, EDWARD M'LANE, Clerk of Senate.
TWO LADS about 15 years of age, are wanted immediately, as apprentices in the Printing business. Good encouragement will be given, by a speedy application at the Gazette Office.
FEATHERS,
OF various qualities, just received and for Sale (on low terms for cash) By JAMES POOL, at his shop in Fifth Street, Portland. March 24.
TO BE SOLD,
On advantageous terms and sufficient credit, About One of the Townships granted by the Legislature to Bowdoin College, situated in the seventh range of Townships north of the Waldo Patent, west of Penobscot river, and bounded on the north by the river Piscataquis. The quality of Lands, situation and proximity to settlements in a valuable and growing country are such as to offer great encouragement to purchasers. ALSO.
About 18,000 acres in the College Township so called, being No 3, in the first range above the Waldo Patent. There are fifteen families settled on this township, and the great road leading from Kennebec to Penobscot River, passes directly through it. The Land is of the first quality, and there are many valuable privileges in this township. It will be sold in whole or in part, as purchasers may desire. For more particular information, inquire of either of the subscribers.
William Martin, Elijah Kellogg, Isaac Parker, } Committee of Trustees.
Portland, March 17, 1800.
To be Sold,
ON THE MOST REASONABLE TERMS, At the House of SYLVANUS CUSHMAN, Innholder in Portland.
On THURSDAY, 10th of APRIL next,
THE compleat one half of a tract of LAND, lying in the town of Poland, in the second division of Lots in said town, containing 320 acres hard wood land, No. 100 and 101, lying in common and undivided with capt. George Waterhouse, situated within half a mile of Waldron's & Waterhouse's Mills, to be divided according to quantity and quality. Conditions as made known at time and place of sale.
TOGETHER WITH, The one half of the abovementioned MILL, consisting of one Saw-Mill, and half a Grist-Mill; together with half of a DWELLING, and other out Buildings, the latter of which would accommodate two small families, besides a good new Barn 30 by 40.
ALSO, About 60 acres of excellent LAND, adjoining said mills, a considerable part of which is under improvement, situated in the most central part of said town, through which there are two county roads.
LIKEWISE, Several other tracts of LAND in said town.
The above property will be disposed of for English and West India Goods, or Real Estate in the town of Portland.
ABRAHAM WALDRON.
Portland, March 17, 1800.
John Hall & Co.
HAVE JUST RECEIVED, A general assortment of DYE STUFFS, viz.
CAMWOOD, Madder, White Vitriol, Log wood, Redwood, Fustick, Roman Oil, Alum, Clothier's Shears, Copperas, Aqua-Fortis, Screws, A natto, Crem. Tart, Plates, Cochineil, Nougals, Coppers, Wood, Nicaragua ground, Cards, Camerick Archill, Press Papers, Roseh Alum, Paper Fenders, Sugar of Lead, Books on Dying.
Drugs & Medicines.
ALSO, White I ground, Venetian Red, Spanish Brown, Spirits Turpentine per cask, Patent Yellow, &c. &c. Stone Yellow, Which are selling cheap for Cash or approved Credit. Boston, Jan 14. (3 mo.—91)
FOR SALE—BY
Newhall & Watson, No. 3, Long-Wharf.
RUSSIA DUCK, Russia Sheeting; Ravens Duck, Cable, Cordage and Boltrape, as cheap as can be bought in Portland, Iron flat and square, Steel plate Shovels, Nail and Spike Rods, Sheathing and Drawing Nails, Sheathing Paper, Sewing and whipping Twine, Powder, per cask, Muskets, India Sugar, per bag or quantity, Loaf Sugar, Teas—Bohea and Souchong, Deep tea, Cod and Log Lines, Black Luffings per piece, Fig Tobacco per keg, Brimstone, &c. &c. Feb 10
Paine's Eulogy,
On the life of WASHINGTON, is for sale at Jenks' Book-Store.
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