Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1802-09-20 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
NUMBER 230.]
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1802.
[VOLUME V.]
Mr. Wolcott's Address.
All who are friendly to truth, to candor, and to fair and honorable argument, are called upon to examine with care and leisure, this invaluable production. It is entitled, "An Address to the People of the United States, on the subject of the Report of a Committee of the House of Representatives, appointed to examine and report whether monies drawn from the Treasury have been faithfully applied to the objects for which they were appropriated, and whether the same have been regularly accounted for—which report was presented on the 29th April, 1802.—By OLIVER WOLCOTT, late Secretary of the Treasury of the United States."
The above Address may be had at the Book Stores in Portland.
EXTRACT.
"I have now finished my remarks upon the different subjects mentioned in the report of the committee, and from which they have concluded "that considerable sums of money have been misapplied, and that much expense has been incurred, without any legal authority!" I appeal to the integrity and candor of my countrymen: I entreat them to consider the explanations I have offered, and then to pronounce WHETHER THE INFERENCE IS JUST."
OLIVER WOLCOTT.
From the COLUMBIAN CENTINEL.
MR. WOLCOTT'S ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
There was, if we may believe the historian Hume, a certain period in the history of Ireland, when "the usual title of every petty sovereign was the murder of his predecessor."—To use a phrase of Lord Mansfield, "I met with this in the course of my reading this morning," and I could not help laying down my book to reflect upon the similarity of situation between Ireland in the twelfth century, and the United States at the commencement of the nineteenth.
The principal difference between them appears to be that the title to power, which then consisted in dispatching the person of the predecessor, is now consumed for the destruction of his reputation. This is certainly an improvement in the progress of society. It is the effect of that general diffusion of light for which our own times are so justly celebrated, and may in a great measure be imputed to the discovery of that inestimable blessing the typographical art.
"The present age, you know, Sir, is emphatically the age of reason.—The age when above all others the greatest advances have been made in rendering men enlightened and friendly to one another; so that we have some reason to hope, if the future generations should continue to ascend in the regions of light, with as firm and steady a wing, as has marked the flight of their forefathers, the day will soon arrive when the titles to supreme power will not be assassination either physical or moral, and when our rulers may obtain their places without murdering either the bodies or the fame of their predecessors."
In the mean time, they who are ambitious of obtaining the title to offices now in use, may derive great instruction from an assiduous study of the arts by which those who now administer the affairs of our national union obtained them. The public have lately been favored with several important communications, disclosing the species of poison, necessary for the murder of a predecessor's reputation, the materials which were mixed in the composition of the drug; the apothecary of whom they were purchased, and the price at which they were paid.—We know exactly by whom, and for what purpose the poisons were envenomed; and of the Laertes of the fable, has been caught in his own springs, and now lies writhing under the venom his own hands prepared, it may serve as a lesson to our ardent politicians to be cautious in the use of poisoned weapons, inasmuch as they are liable to be turned against themselves.
But our petty sovereigns of the present day, do not seem sufficiently aware that although murder is very good as a title, it will not answer so well as a warranty.—It was a maxim of Doctor Franklin, that wealth is preserved by the same means with which it is acquired.—But it is not so, with power; and the "cruel darlings of our nation" have yet to learn, that however potent the force of calumny may have been to bring them in, they will find it of little avail to keep them at the helm.
The Committee of Investigation, appointed at the last session of Congress, for want of attention to these considerations, have inflicted one of the severest blows upon the cause which they intended to promote. Their report, fwal-
lowed as it was without mastication by the orthodox stomach of a well drilled majority in the House of Representatives, has apparently excited in public, but one sentiment of mingled indignation and contempt throughout the Union.
From the honorable and dignified station of Representatives of the American people, the majority of that committee have degraded themselves to a level with the Woods, the Cheetham, and the Duanes, who sell their slander by wholesale and retail, at half a dollar the paragraph, or at fifty dollars the pamphlet.
The procedure of the Committee (that is of the majority, for there were three honest men in the seven) had already been exposed, by Mr. Stodder's defence, which they so ingeniously suppressed in their report; by the minority of the Committee, on the debates upon the report; by the Virginia correspondent in the Recorder, and by similar corrections of misrepresentation in several Connecticut prints; so that nothing was wanting to complete the victory over official calumny and legislative detraction, but the publication of Mr. Wolcott's Address to the People of the United States.
This address is written with great coolness and moderation; it professes to be and really is merely defensive, and with a candor worthy of a genuine disciple of him who said, "father forgive them; for they know not what they do," absolves the committee "from any intention unjustly to wound the characters of the former administration."
This generous forbearance on the part of Mr. Wolcott is highly commendable. He was one of the persons against whom the arrows of the Committee were most deeply tipt with poison; against whom, their report smuggled into public notice the most unfounded and the most atrocious slander. But the people ought not to be equally merciful.—The reputation of a virtuous citizen, and a faithful public steward, is the property of the nation; and to attack it by base and insidious practices, under a colour of the national authority, is to rob the nation itself of its most precious jewels. It is the duty of the people to vindicate their own rights, and to frown with pointed resentment upon this prostitution of power to the malignant purposes of faction.
If there be yet in this Union a man of a fair and unprejudiced mind, entertaining doubts as to the respective merits of the past and present administrations of our national government, let him read the report of the Committee and this address of Mr. Wolcott.—Then let him reflect, and pronounce.
Mr. Wolcott, after simply stating the facts, that the majority of the Committee drew up their report, without consulting the minority; and that they rejected every attempt on the part of the minority to amend it, proceeds to consider its inculpations under nine distinct articles, which he answers successively, in a manner which must give the highest gratification to the friends of the former administration.—I propose to give a general view of these articles of impeachment, and of the defence opposed against them, hoping that every person who feels an interest in the honor of his country, will recur to the pamphlet for more ample satisfaction.
LELIUS.
If a man write two books against religion and one against all kinds of government he shall have a frigate of the United States, and the affectionate esteem of the President; if he will compile all the current lies of the country to serve a political purpose, he shall have one hundred and sixty six dollars out of the treasury of Monticello, and two hundred from the treasury of the United States; if he will steal private letters and talk of shooting the father of his country, he shall sell the United States four thousand reams of paper at four dollars the ream, which any one else would sell for three; and if he will assault with intent to murder the editor of a federal newspaper, and head a riot to awe congress into bad measures, or to insult its members for acting uprightly, why then he may murder his wife in the district of Columbia, be reprieved from execution, and in decent time pardoned. The man who assaulted Mr. Fenno in his office with the evident design of destroying him, the man who marshalled a mob in Washington to terminate the conscientious opposition of the Federalists to Mr. Jefferson, the man who murdered his wife while in a state of pregnancy, even this man, James M'Kirk, has been reprieved from his punishment, and is now a fair candidate for the lenity of the executive. There is no doubt that he will be pardoned, and the ostensible defence of the measure will be that he did not intend to kill, and Mr. Augustus B. Woodward, will be said to talk good sense when he says that "perhaps if the (the wife) had been of a more robust constitution the cruelty used towards her would not have injured her; perhaps if she had not been in a state of pregnancy the same degree of cruelty would not have affected her; perhaps if she had not been pregnant with twins the would still have borne it with safety;" but there is a reason of justice which is one thing, and a reason of State which is another thing, and a reason of contract which is a third thing, about which Paine and Duane and M'Kirk may know as much as Callender. [Gaz. U. S.]
The Jacobins tells us that Mr. Jefferson is abused . Inquire correctly, and it will be found that Mr. Jefferson has abused himself. Recollect that he paid for the publication of slanders against Washington, Adams, &c. yes, stark naked falsehoods; that he patronized, while it served his turn, the man who pronounced Washington to be a "poltron," and Adams a "scoundrel;" that he now patronizes a man who has escaped from the arm of British justice, and who has a knowledge of stolen letters, and who (the pen almost refuses to trace the words which must chill the feeling heart with horror)—and who declared, that "had not Washington left town at the time he did, (which was rather unexpected to D.) he would have shot him!" Oh monstrous! He was determined, it appears, to render himself notorious by some means or other. But had the assassin ventured into the presence of that great and good man, he would have been so overawed that his trembling fingers could never have drawn the trigger; his frame had been palsied; and his dark soul had recoiled into itself, as it did before that august body, the Senate, when he was brought up for a libel.—Say now, does not Mr. Jefferson, abuse himself , by keeping such characters about him? How degrading! [Gaz. U. S.]
It is said that Mr. Jefferson more deeply than ever deplores the "lacerations of the Press," and the "oceans of calumny with which it has been thought expedient to overwhelm his name." He must blame himself alone for these things. Notwithstanding the oceans of vile calumny, with which he thought it expedient, through the instrumentality of his organ, Callender, and his bag pipe, Duane, to overwhelm the names of Washington, Hamilton, Adams and all those who administered the government, the federal republicans, at his accession to the Presidency, proffered a flag of truce and would willingly have buried the past in oblivion upon the terms which he proposed in his inaugural speech.—But he instantly commenced a system of tyrannical proscription unheard of in a free country. He insultingly invited to our shores the most odious man alive, and called to one of the highest offices in government a foreigner who had instigated an insurrection against the laws. After all this, his fitness for the confidence of the people ought to be known, and unless he voluntarily retires (as it is thought he will) before another election, it shall be known. We have long been in possession of an anecdote which would settle this business. We find by paragraphs in several papers, that others are also in possession of it. Let the friends of Mr. Jefferson look to it, and give him prudent council, if they wish his character should continue to be treated with a delicacy which it does not deserve. ibid.
A CHANGING WORLD.
IT is not long, says the Albany Centinel, since Mr. Burr was considered by the Democrats in New-York as their leader, and since they gave him an equal number of votes with Mr. Jefferson for the Presidency of the United States. Now a large party of them abuse him as one of the most unprincipled, and the most dangerous men.
It is not long since Mr. Burr thought highly of Mr. Cheetham, and Mr. Cheetham of Mr. Burr; since the one was instrumental in establishing the other as co-editor with the renowned Mr. Denniston, of the American Citizen . Now, alas! they are at swords points, and Mr. Cheetham does not take refuge in the house of Mr. Burr, were he even chased by a mad dog.
A little while ago, Mr. Wood was caressed by the Clintonians , and they wished much to see his excellent history of President Adams' administration. Now, strange as it may seem, they call him "the most sneaking scoundrel in God's creation."
Not many months have elapsed since Mr. Duane supplied Mr. Wood with materials for his history; addressed an affectionate letter to Mr. Wood, begging him to stir up Mr. Cheetham and Doctor Mitchell in the good cause; dropped a handsome compliment on Mr. Smilie, an Irishman in Pennsylvania. Now, how shall I say it, Mr. Duane wishes Mr. Wood and his history at the—
Once upon a time, Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Callender would seem to have been upon terms of harmony and social intercourse—when Mr. Jefferson believed Mr. Callender to be the best writer in the world, except himself—when he gave him one hundred dollars to encourage him in his lucubrations—and when he opened his eyes wide, and giggled over the "Prospect before us." Behold the wonderful reverse! Mr. Jefferson starts at the name of Callender; and thinks if the Christian system be true, that he is an imp sent by Satan to torment him.
There was a time when Messrs. De Witt Clinton and Ambrose Spencer, ruled the State of New-York; put down and put up; drove like Jehu, and called it the will of the people.—The people have lately discovered that they have been grievously deceived, and determined that they will be no longer used and ridden like asses.
Hardly a year has revolved since Mr. Jefferson was supposed by many to be a second Solomon, who would make gold as the stones of the field—would multiply and replenish the public treasury upon the earth, and every man move in a "circle of felicity." Alack a daily what the philosopher touches turns not to gold, but to dirt. His friends wonder where are the effects of a mind so much "bent on philosophic pursuits." What shall we, or can we say to all this, but that it is a CHANGING WORLD.
Moderate men are of opinion that it is best to bury party animosity and division, and look for good men without regard to politics." Mr. Jefferson was in this mood when he made his inaugural speech, in which he speaks of "restoring harmony to social intercourse." But Mr. Duane, "the organ of the people," calls all that, and perhaps the whole inaugural speech may be called, mere "flang" of the day. [Gaz. U. S.]
EXTRAORDINARY PAMPHLET.
A PAMPHLET is just published by Mr. Wood, entitled "a full exposition of the Clintonian faction, and the Society of the Columbian Illuminati ," &c. which, whether we consider the matter or the manner, must engage the attention of the public. It is hoped that some person will give a particular review of this popular and interesting work, with extracts, for the sake of those who may not have an opportunity of perusing the work itself. Those who have this opportunity, may be assured that they will find information and entertainment which no account or comment can well supply.
Mr. Wood, while he exposes the arts and views of a description of men among us, has shown a talent of wit and satire which few men possess. Nothing can exceed the ridiculous light in which he has exhibited several of the Clintonian faction. The history of Cheetham is drawn in a masterly manner. The story of De Witt Clinton and the philosophic barber, is inimitably told. No one can read the account of the questions discussed in the insider club , and particularly the anecdote of the young attorney who, at one of the meetings, knocked down a bald headed Caledonian in attempting to kill a spider which had dropped on his head, without shaking his sides with laughter. Our mirth however is checked by the consideration of the awful wickedness in the institution of the ILLUMINATI , and many have denied their existence; but it no longer admits of the least doubt that we have a society of them in the very midst of us.— N. York Gaz.
LITERARY.
The Muse's office was by heaven design'd, To please, improve, instruct, reform mankind; To make dejected Virtue nobly rise, Above the towering pitch of splendid Vice; To make pale Vice, abash'd, her head hang down, And, trembling, crouch at Virtue's awful frown.
An elegant translation of the Satires of Juvenal , into English verse, by the masterly pen of William Gifford, esq. has recently been published in London, a copy of which has just been received, and will, we understand, be immediately put to press by Mr. Morgan, of this city. The publisher we hear, is determined to withhold neither expence nor exertion in the execution of the American edition, in order that this prince of satirists may make his appearance among us in a dress suitable to his dignity & merit. In the present instance, not only the duty of an able translator, in translating the real sentiments and native beauties of his author has been faithfully performed, but Mr. Gifford has greatly embellished and enriched his work with notes, illustrations, and a frequent recurrence to striking and beautiful passages of ancient and modern poetry, history, and criticism, which cannot fail of rendering it instructive and amusing to every classic scholar, as well as highly interesting and pleasing to general readers.
A prospectus of the work is shortly to appear, and will, we flatter ourselves, meet with a liberal patronage from every friend to classic literature.— Philad. pap.
The Rev. Mr. Todd has undertaken, it seems to write a life of Spenser the Poet. Dr. Johnson did not include the life of Spenser in his Biographical work, for want of materials; and so little is really known of that celebrated poet, that Mr. Todd will perform an acceptable service to English literature if he should be able to explore any genuine sources of intelligence.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Logan county, Kentucky, to his friend at the Sweet Springs dated July, 1802.
"A half skull bone, very remarkable for size, has been found in sinking of capt. Berry's salt wells deeper, since you left this place. It weighs 245 lb. the eye hole so large that a common sized man can creep through it; the bone found and entire round the eye hole, not decayed as it is in other parts: the nostril is very large, and the cavity for the brain not larger than a pint bowl, so that the monstrous head could never have contained more than the one quart of brains. Some of the double teeth being found, weighed six pounds each.— Stanton Vol. Mss.

EXTRACTS FROM BURKE.—No. 2.
DARKNESS.
Darkness is more productive of sublime ideas than light. Our great poet was convinced of this, and indeed so full was he of this idea, so entirely possessed with the power of a well-managed darkness, that in describing the appearance of the Deity, amidst that profusion of magnificent images which the grandeur of his subject provokes him to pour out upon every side, he is far from forgetting the obscurity which surrounds the most incomprehensible of all beings, but
—With the majesty of darkness round, Circles his throne.
And what is no less remarkable, our author had the secret of preserving this idea, even when he seemed to depart the farthest from it, when he describes the light and glory which flows from the divine presence; a light which by its very excess is converted into a species of darkness.
Dark with excessive light thy skirts appear.
Here is an idea not only poetical in an high degree, but strictly and philosophically just.—Extreme light, by overcoming the organs of sight, obliterates all objects, so as in its effect exactly to resemble darkness. After looking sometime at the sun, two black spots, the impression which it leaves, seem to dance before our eyes. Thus are two ideas as opposite as can be imagined reconciled in the extremes of both; and both in spite of their opposite nature brought to concur in producing the sublime.—And this is not the only instance wherein the opposite extremes operate equally in favor of the sublime, which in all things abhors mediocrity.
DIGNITY.
Dignity, hitherto, has belonged to the mode of proceeding, not to the matter of a treaty. Never before has it been mentioned as the standard for rating the conditions of peace; no, never by the most violent of conquerors. Indemnity is capable of some estimate; dignity has no standard.
EMPIRE DEFINED.
An empire is the aggregate of many states, under one common head; whether this head be a monarch, or a presiding republic.
CHARACTER.
Those who quit their proper character, to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character they assume.
Foreign Articles.
LONDON, JULY 13.
The French are endeavoring to shew the great importance of Louisiana which has been ceded to them by Spain; and a Memoir of the Count de Vergennes, in which its value is rated at the highest price, has been published. The Count de Vergennes, in his Memoir, shews likewise the importance of Canada, how necessarily Louisiana and Canada are connected, and how much it should be the policy of France to recover it.
Extract of a letter from Paris, June 19
“The Palace of St. Cloud, which has been so long an object of admiration, and whose extent has always been thought sufficient for the proud multitude of the late Monarchs in France is now not only undergoing very considerable repair, but great additions are making to it, for the purpose of lodging the First Consul's household—the magnificence with which he is attended, and the prodigious number of general officers and others, always near his person, exceed infinitely what has been seen in this country.
In consequence of several subterraneous researches in the small town of Courciet, two leagues from Dijon, in Brittany, under the direction of the present, the ruins of a city have lately been discovered; no idea has yet been formed of the period of its existence, nor of its being swallowed up. It is however thought by the first antiquarians of the French capital, that it was the metropolis of the Curiofolites, which name has been corrupted into Courciet. Several high roads, the pavements of which appear in the best condition, are discernible; they lead towards Rennes, Coutances, and the sea. These are called Strata via; a great number of walls
have also been discovered, as well as several cisterns, one half of an Oregon temple, a great quantity of medals, bearing the effigy of Nero, Tiberius, Faustina, Constantine, and other Roman emperors, and some figures in bronze were also found in high preservation.
LONDON, JULY 12.
The following paragraph is from a private letter brought by the late French mail:— “Two libels which appeared lately against the First Consul, have very seriously occupied the Minister of Police and his Satellites for some time, not only to discover the authors and their accomplices, but more especially to prevent their circulation; the author of the first was soon found out and arrested, a Priest—but the other would, perhaps, have long remained unknown, had he not either from compunction or some other motive, avowed himself—there is something extraordinary in the fact, as well as in the manner, in which he has conducted himself. General Simon is the person who has voluntarily declared himself the author of the libel, printed under the title of Address aux Armées which is highly reprehensible for its virulence, and the probable consequence of publication. This General sent into Paris a certain number of copies of his address, concealed in the great pots of butter which came usually from Brittany, where he resides; but as soon as he heard the effects his work produced, and that the tranquility of several citizens was likely to be disturbed on account of the suspicion which had fallen upon them, he applied to citizen Mounier, the ex-constituent, who is now Prefect of L' Isle et Vilaine, in Brittany, and avowed himself author of the libel; and added, that he was incapable of allowing the innocent to suffer for what, in a moment of discontent and passion, he had himself committed. He was concerned for having been so imprudent, but that as there was no remedy, he constituted himself prisoner, and only requested that he might be conducted to the Temple, in a manner suitable to his rank as General. Mounier consented, and General Simon arrived at Paris on the 29th ult. escorted by an officer of rank in the Gendarmerie. He is a young man of violent character, but who has conducted himself in the army with distinction. His father is Simon de Troye, a man of letters, and one of the Librarians of the Tribunate.
From the NEW YORK EVENING POST.
CALENDER vs. HECTOR IRONSIDE.
SOME little time ago Mr. Francis Blake, alias, ditto. Hector Ironside, Esq. the callow editor of Levi Lincoln , Esq. the Attorney General of Mr. President Jefferson, declared in so many words, that he wanted only to be convinced that Mr. Jefferson had seen the Prospectus before he paid the money, and his defence of him, and we presume Mr. Lincoln's defence of course, too, should be at an end. Callender observing this has very obligingly sent us the following letter for the perusal and amusement of these candid gentlemen. He will accept our thanks. Now, if words mean any thing, Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Blake will both “turn tail in a fit of contrition. Ratti tatt, Ratti tatt.”
Richmond, Sept. 2, 1802.
SIR, I am extremely tired of these long stories, in Cheetham and the Ægis , attempting to shew that Mr. Jefferson disapproved of the contents of The Prospectus , and that he paid these hundred dollars without being aware what kind of a book it was to be.—The first fifty dollars were not paid until he had seen a very large specimen of the book. This had been printed in Lyon's Magazine. It begins with the History of the Proclamation of Neutrality . The magazine sheets were inclosed in a letter. The answer came in a few days, with directions to call on George Jefferson. The second fifty dollars were not paid until four months after I was in prison. The second volume was then begun to be printed. I sent Mr. Jefferson a specimen; Mr. George Jefferson then called with the second fifty dollars. As soon as he was gone, I went out of jail to the house of the keeper, Mr. Rose, and lodged the money with him. The old gentleman was remarking to me, last evening, the absurdity of grounding Mr. Jefferson's defence upon his being ignorant of the nature and stile, seeing the work had been published, and I had been tried for it so many months before the second remittance was made. For this latter circumstance, George Jefferson can bear witness. Duane, Cheetham and the Ægis , may bark and grin as long as they please. But I am sure that no man of the least judgement will believe them, when they refer all these remittances to charity. I fancy that I shall finally be provoked to print one of Jefferson's letters on the subject, and lodge the original manuscript with the Mayor of Richmond.
SALLY's business makes a prodigious noise here. You may save yourself the trouble of a moment's doubt in believing the story. But what will your pious countrymen upon the Connecticut say to such African amours? After this discovery, I do not believe that at the next election of 1804, Jefferson could obtain two votes on the Eastern side of the Susquehanna ; and I think hardly four upon this side of it.—He will therefore, be laid aside.—As for Madison, he is a poor, consumptive thing; 5 feet 2 or 3 inches high; deeply wrinkled, and nothing but skin and bone. He has not a constitution capable of supporting official fatigue. I am, in haste, Sir, Yours, &c.
JAS. T. CALLENDER
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. SEPT. 4.
The Editors at the Eastward seem surprised that our “social harmonious” President should have appointed Wm Lyman and Henry Warren to offices in ports far distant from their usual places of abode. As respects the former gentleman, we can inform them, that, for many years past, he has had no abiding place. His family have lived in Northampton, where they have been reduced to the necessity of earning a scanty subsistence by the labor of their hands, while he has been wandering about the world, like an “infatuate man,” seeking his long lost fortune.—When our benignant Chief Magistrate began to restore “harmony to social intercourse,” by closing the doors of “honor and confidence” upon Virtue, and bursting them open to Vice, this gentleman was in Europe. He left this country a good Democrat, and so did he return. Immediately after his arrival (without even first visiting his wife and children) he presented himself at the seat of government, to claim his reward, by sharing with his fellows, the loaves and fishes of office. But there seemed not then to be left the bone of a fish, or the crumb of a loaf to nibble at. He came at the “eleventh hour” and thought to receive his “hire,” but the pennies were all disposed of, and not even a farthing left for him. Hungry, penniless and disappointed, he departed from the “vineyard of his lord,” and was often heard to utter reproachful language of him whom he had once thought worthy of his highest praise and adoration. In his heart, and with his tongue, he cursed the man who could thus turn a deaf ear to his long tale of services, and put him off with, there is no office for you—vacancies happening by death are few, by resignation, none—the censures of more than half of the nation are already heaped upon me for the exercise of my exterminating power—I must endeavour to calm the storm I have raised on the tempestuous sea of liberty, or its tempestuous surges will overwhelm me—at present I can only offer you the homage of my high respects.
Poor consolation indeed for one who had hurried home from Europe with high wrought expectations that “the doors of honor and confidence” would fly open to receive him. Defeating of success here, this then much injured man again pushed his boat for the European world, from whence it is said he has not yet returned. But the benevolence of a Jefferson is not bounded by the shores of the Atlantic—“the doors” are again opened, and Mr. Lyman is invited to enter and receive the reward justly due for his “revolutionary adherence to our enemies” in furnishing them with the beef of New-England—while those, on whom “the doors” are closed were fighting the battles of their country.
On the 18th ult. a Mr. Seaman, of Connecticut Farms, N. J. butchered his wife and two children, in a shocking manner, by dashing their heads to pieces with an axe; and to complete the horrid catastrophe, blew out his own brains—his head being almost entirely shot from his body when discovered.
BALTIMORE, SEPT. 9.
Arrived at the seat of government, on Thursday evening last—Alex. Macomb, jun. Secretary to the Commissioner, appointed to hold conferences with the Indian nations, south of the Ohio. He is the bearer of the late treaty between the Creeks and the United States.
Domingo Loris, a Spaniard, convicted of murdering Mr. Jones, was this day executed at 12 o'clock, in the prison yard. The course of Sp. stars, we are informed, was very great. So high was the curiosity of the crowd, that the fencing of the yard was prostrated to the ground.
Fever.—There have been five new cases of the fever in the last three days.
The Federal Republicans at the Natchez, celebrated the Anniversary of Independence, this year, with a public entertainment. W. Sargent, Esq. late Governor of the Mississippi Territory, dismissed by Mr. Jefferson, was among the most welcome and honored guests.
PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 13.
There is something depends on every thing. M'Girk, who has been convicted of murder at Washington, and lately reprieved by Mr. Jefferson, was one of those ruffians who threatened the Members of Congress with destruction if they did not vote for Mr. Jefferson instead of Mr. Burr. He was frequently seen in the avenues of the house, menacing the members, and swearing to bring an armed force to assassinate them. And it is strongly suspected he was the writer of the anonymous letters which were sent to the independent members.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the Federal City, to his friend in Yorktown, Pennsylvania, dated August 20th, 1802.
“What, my friend, will your Democrats say now, or what new excuse will they invent for their darling Gallatin, having sold all the bank stock the United States had in the nation. all bank, amounting to upwards of 2,200 shares, to Messrs. Baring & Co. of London.
“This injudicious act is said to be done to raise money; and at the same time destroy so rich a source as that of the duty on Whiskey, Carriages, Loaf sugar, snuff, &c. &c.
NEWYORK, SEPT. 10.
We saw a man yesterday from Jersey, who informs us, that on Tuesday last, four half naked negroes, supposed to have run away from the French ships in our port, fell in with a Mr. Jerolman, near Belville, on horse back
They dismounted Mr. Jerolman, two of the negroes mounted the horse, and the other two guarded Mr. J. In this situation they were met by a gentleman, who shortly after gave this information to the neighboring farmers. The blacks were pursued, taken, and put in prison; but they had previously murdered Mr. Jerolman, and killed the horse, and left them dead on the road, in a thicket of woods.
FRENCH NEGROES.
A gentleman has called to inform us, that a friend of his met, the other day, a drove of 14 French negroes in what is called the English Neighborhood, about 4 miles from Hoboken, travelling into the country, without any apparent object, and utterly destitute of any means of subsistence; and a day or two before, 4 or 5 more in the same situation. What must become of these miserable wretches; unable to understand or make themselves understood? No one will employ them, few will feed them gratis and they cannot be expected to yield quietly to starvation. What then we ask again, what is to become of 2000 of these poor wretches when thus left upon our coast.
[N. Y. Ev. Post.—Sept. 13.]
Few performances, say a correspondent, will be so generally read, and call so much attention as the late pamphlet of Mr. Wood. It is highly interesting to the philosopher, to the statesman, and to the Christian. The Theological Society , or Columbian Illuminati , says Mr. Wood, “after the example of the German Illuminati, adopted fictitious names. I am informed that Palmer called himself Weishaupt; the young attorney who knocked the Fiddler down, adopted the name of Counsellor Zuack; that David Denison was styled Coriolanus; Taylor Sidell, Cicero; and the philosophic Barber, Garden-ton;” —Were it not so serious a business, one could not refrain laughing at such mummery. What is said of the devil tempting man to commit wickedness, and then spitting in their face, has happened to these miserable creatures. He has led them to commit the most atrocious deeds, and the most astonishing folly, and then exposing them as a laughing stock to all the wise and the good.
ALBANY, SEPT. 1.
It is a melancholy truth, that the most flattering prospects (a few weeks since) of one of the greatest Wheat Harvests, Newyork and Vermont were ever blessed with, is in a moment blasted. In the northern and western counties of Newyork, the failure has been very general; along the margin of rivers, and in low lands, in many places, there is a total failure; large straw but no wheat. In the lands, in some places, it is estimated that seven tenths of the crops will fail, and from all the information we can gather, we fear the average loss in this neighborhood, will be at least one third of the whole crop.
SALEM, SEPT. 17.
On Tuesday evening, we had an uncommonly violent thunder storm. The lightning struck in this town, Marblehead, and other places.
NEWBURYPORT, SEPT. 17.
THUNDER STORM.
On Tuesday night last, we experienced a most tremendous and horrid thunder storm; the clouds were surcharged with electric fluid, there having preceded 2 or 3 sultry days.—We have heard of but two accidents, and those of the most distressing nature. A Mr. Moses Pike of Salisbury, had his barn struck and entirely consumed, together with all his hay, flax, unhreshed grain, and most of his farming utensils; loss nearly 500 dollars—but fortunately no lives were lost here.—Mr. Pike was slightly injured in striving to save his property.—The flash struck a corner post, severed it from the building and carried it to the distance of several rods.
As a Mr. Isaac Merrill, at Ansbury, was driving home a team of four oxen, he was struck and instantly killed, together with all four of the cattle—he was found soon after, but whether any attempt was made at resuscitation, we have not heard; his skin was not anywhere broken.—He was a young man about 18 years old.
From the Providence Gazette.
MR. CARTER. I attended the delivery of Mr. Robbins' elegant oration on Agriculture. He observed, that a cow in England produced annually 400 lb. of butter. This by some was thought incredible, but experience is the touchstone of truth. I have found that 8 quarts of milk will generally make 1 lb. of butter. A cow that gives 20 quarts a day, will in six months only give 3600 quarts, which according to the above mentioned proportion, will produce 150 lb. of butter. A FRIEND TO AGRICULTURE.
DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.
The following resolutions were passed by the Legislature of Tennessee, at their last session.
Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That for the encouragement of the manufactures thereof, the several county courts at their discretion, shall give the sum of fifteen dollars as a premium to the lady who shall make the best, finest and neatest piece of cotton cloth, containing fifteen yards—for the next finest, ten dollars; and for the third quality, five dollars. The several county courts aforesaid, may, at their next spring sessions, make publication that the above premiums will be allowed at their several fall sessions, and the

A court shall appoint not less than three, nor more than five disinterested persons to judge of the quality of the cloth so produced by the candidates, and make report accordingly; the said monies to be paid at the time the decision takes place, out of the funds of the county. Resolved further, That the members of the present General Assembly, do recommend to their successors, whoever they may be, to appear at the next session of assembly, clothed in the manufacture of their own state.
BOSTON, SEPT. 17. FROM LISBON, Capt Rich, from Lisbon, mentions, that reports were current there that Moorish cruizers were at sea. But as there are persons at Lisbon interested in deterring the American vessels from proceeding to Cadiz, these reports are the more relied on. The ship Rose from Philadelphia, which had arrived off the Western Islands, in company with two armed schooners of suspicious appearance and conduct, which were supposed to be Algerine cruizers. A Swedish vessel had been chased on shore.—It was rumoured that a Swedish frigate had beaten four Tripoline vessels in the Mediterranean; and this affair Mr. R. supposes gave rise to the report, that a frigate Boston had been engaged.
The death of a few persons in the southeast part of this town, after a very short indisposition, has given rise to some alarm, and occasioned reports to be spread abroad in the country, that the place was actually infected with a malignant contagious fever. We are happy in being enabled to contradict these idle stories, and to assure the public, that from personal inquiry, in addition to the evidence, given in the official notice of the Board of Health, there is not a single case of contagious fever existing at this time in the town of Boston.
Pitt and Bonaparte have often been reproached for their coolness toward the sex. We do not think the like reproach can be cast upon the greatest statesman in America.
Mr. Jefferson says, in his Notes on Virginia, that the fondness which Ourang-Outangs express for the female Negroes, is one proof of the inferiority of people of that color.—We should like to know whether this proposition is not equally true: that a passion of that kind is one proof that a man is an Ourang-Outang. Sal. Gaz.
Portland, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1802. NEW ELECTION.
The electioneering campaign is opened in York District; and the feelings of party begin to be pretty warmly expressed. We have received communications from each side; but they appear to be so imperfectly and injudiciously arranged, that we deem it improper to burden our columns with them, until something of consistency shall be adopted on the subject. Many severe things are said against Mr. Cutts, the jacobin candidate, and many things have been said in favor of many candidates in the federal interest.—But we must look to some of our discerning correspondents in that quarter for something correct and decisive on the subject.—Until then we decline the least interference.
The autumn term of the supreme judicial court was held at Kennebec last week. The bench was composed of the Hon. Messrs. Strong, HATCHER, and SEWALL. Judge Strong addressed the jury in an able and correct manner.—The court will open in this town the present week.
From Newyork, Sept. 15. By the sloop Aurora, Capt. Mattocks from New Providence, the Editors of the New York Gazette have received Bahama papers to the result, from which they copy the subsequent articles.
Nassau, (N. P.) August 18.—On Monday. Arrived off the Bar, the American brig Warren, Capt. Eddy, 5 days from Cape Francois—capt. informed us that 8000 troop and 5 sail of men of war had arrived at the Cape on the 3d instant, that the day after their arrival the negroes, headed by Toussaint's Sons who had joined them, formed a fort not far from the Cape, and killed every Frenchman in it.—The evening previous to Capt. E's sailing an engagement took place so near the town, that the report of the guns was distinctly heard by the people on board the vessels in the harbour.—The event was not known.—The French troops continued very sickly—particularly those last arrived from France.
Provisions were very low at the Cape; Flour sold so low as 4 dollars per barrel.
Newburyport, Sept. 17. Capt. Hoyt, arrived at quarantine 20 days from Cape Francois, informs, that a few days previous to his sailing, news was received in town from the mountains, that Gen. Christophe was defeated in a battle, but the number of killed was not mentioned—the negroes were daily brought in and shot—sickness prevailed in a high degree, many Americans had died.
The following agreeable intelligence is communicated in a letter to a gentleman at Norfolk, and dated at St. Bartholomews, the 4th August:
"My last letter, of 30th July, and forwarded via Philadelphia, contained a proclamation respecting the future management of the negroes at Guadalupe; since which, another proclamation has been published, which restores to the Emigrants their property. The owners of the lands farmed out by the government are to look to the tenants for the receipt of the rents. The property taken possession of by the government is also to be restored to the former owners."
"By one of the articles it is declared, the French now know no emigrants. It is expected the same will be done in all the French West Indies."
General La Crosse has been reinstated in his appointment of Captain General of Guadalupe; the dignity of the French government rendered this act necessary, otherwise we should have been subject to perpetual confusion.
"On the General's landing at Basseterre (he having for some time past been at Dominique and Marigalante) there was a general illumination for three nights successively. We understand that it is left with the Captain General to determine on the deportation of those whom it is deemed necessary to send off the island."
LOUISIANA. A St. Kitts paper of the 30th of July, says, "By a gentleman from Dominique, we learn that a division of French troops to the amount of 8000, under the command of General Bernadotte, passed that island a few days ago, in their route to their newly acquired territory of Louisiana, in Spanish America."
Presidential Appointments.— Joseph Wilson Esq. of Marblehead, Collector and Surveyor of the District of Marblehead, vice S. R. Gerry, Esq. removed.—Ralph Cross, Esq. of Newburyport, Collector for the District of Newburyport, vice D. A. Tyng, Esq.—Mr. John Gibaut, Collector for the District of Gloucester, vice William Tuck, Esq.
A Mr. Edwin Fort, has been killed in a duel with a Mr. Richard Thweat, near Petersburg, Virginia.
BACK-COVE BRIDGE. We understand the repairs on this bridge are completed, and it is now ready for passengers.
Parish. At Boston, Capt. Thomas Brown, of this town, to Miss Nancy Stimpson, of the former place. At Berwick, Mr. Joshua Haven, merchant of Portland, to Miss Olive Hamilton, daughter of Jonathan Hamilton, Esq. At Machias, by the Rev. Marsfield Steele, Mr. Robert Stimpson, to Miss Lydia Longfellow.
Deaths. In this town, Miss Mabeline Snow , aged 22 years. On the 18th inst. Mrs. ELIZABETH ISLEY consort of Mr. Enock Isley, of this town, in the 64th year of her age. She was a lady of very amiable manners, a friend to the miserable, and a serious Christian, walking in all the ordinances and commandments of the Lord blameless. She lived respected, and died much lamented. May she be followed in every thing virtuous, praiseworthy and of good report. Last evening, Mrs. MARY SMITH , aged 55 years, formerly of Boston. At Falmouth, Miss Thankful Adams , aged 17 years, daughter of Mr. Jacob Adams. At Wells, Mrs. Hannah Eaton , the amiable consort of the Rev. Joseph Eaton, aged 48. At Salem, Miss Eunice Richardson , aged 22; a young lady greatly beloved and sincerely lamented. At Mattinico, Mr. Joseph Cross , aged 22, son of Gen. Ralph Cross, of Newburyport: an amiable young gentleman, whose loss is deeply lamented by many friends. At Machias, Dr. William Chalmer . At Belfast, Robert Field Merrill , only son of Mr. John Merrill, aged 14 months — "Sleep on, sweet Babe, from sorrow free, Thy parents soon will come to thee; Thy Saviour once a tender Babe, In pangs exiled, in death was laid; He saw thee die, he guards thy dust, And rears thy throne among the just."
PORT OF PORTLAND.
Wednesday, Sept. 15.— Arrived brig Ranger, capt. McIntosh, 27 days from Dominique.—Left there, ship Alert, of Kennebec, to sail in ten days. Thursday, September 16.— Arrived brig Edward, capt. Samuel M. Lellan, 30 days from Surinam.—Left there, brig Albert, Webb, of Norfolk, to sail between the 5th and 10th Sept. for Norfolk; brig George, Stanwood, to sail in 20 days for Boston; brig Nancy, Wallace, Newhaven, 5 days; brig —, Lessor, Newbedford, just arrived, to sail 10th Sept.; schooner General Pickney, Lewis, Alexandria, in 6 days; brig Sally, Vanauerp, Newyork, 10 days; brig —, Brown, Newburyport, just arrived, after 54 days passage—not sold; schooner Three Sisters, Rich, Boston, 4 days; schooner Fanny, Cromwell, Newyork, just arrived; brig Atlantic, Stimpson, Boston, just arrived—not sold; brig Thos. Friends, Patterson, from Salem, 49 days passage, just arrived—not sold.—Spoke, in lat. 16, long. 59, ship Dominique, capt. Clark (of Norfolk) from London, 33 days out, bound to Jamaica. At Cronstadt , July 7, brig —, Wells, from Charleston, for Portland in a few days. August 19 lat. 38, long. 59, was spoke, a sloop from Wilkesett, for St. Lucia, 13 days out. At Dublin , July 17, Schooner three Sisters, capt. Clark, to sail soon.
Maine Bank.
THE respective Stockholders, of the MAINE BANK, are hereby notified, that at their meeting held by adjournment on the 14th last, it was voted, "That forty per cent. be paid on each Share on the second Monday of November next; and that each and every Share on which the forty per cent. shall remain unpaid after the Saturday following, shall be sold at Public Auction, by the Cashier as soon as may be after advertising the same 48 hours, by posting the same at the Bank, and such other place or places as the President and Directors may order." SAMUEL FREEMAN, President.
FOR SALE, ONE half a Schooner, 110 tons burthen, is well calculated for the West India trade, 6 or 7 years old. A liberal credit will be given.—For further information, inquire of the subscriber, at his Auction and Commission Store, Fore Street, Portland. Sept. 18, 1802. (6530) DAVID PEASE.
TO BE SOLD, CHEAP FOR CASH, 480 acres of Land, lying in township No 4, adjoining to Newpennycook and Androscoggin River. For further information, inquire of Portland, Sept. 20. G. E. VAUGHAN.
For Sale, IF APPLIED FOR IN A FEW DAYS, A Handsome, well-finished and convenient two story HOUSE, situated in Brunswick, within six rods of Bowdoin College; together with a good Barn, and one acre of Land on which said building stands.—Said house has an excellent cellar; is well painted within and without, and is well calculated either for the accommodation of boarders, for a public house, or for a trader.—Inquire of Brunswick, Sept. 19, 1802. EBENEZER COFFIN, on the premises.
Law Books. JUST RECEIVED FOR SALE, At I. ADAMS' Book-store, No. 6, Jones' Row, Fifth street. COMYN'S Digest, 6 vols.; Lelly's Entries, 2 vols. Espinassus Nisi Prius, 2 vols. Morgan Vade Mecum; Burrow's Reports, 5 vols. Cowper's Reports; Wilson's Reports; Blackstone's Commentaries, 4 vols. Laws of Massachusetts, and of the United States, 5 vols. Justice's Assistant, &c. &c. Justice's Blanks; Morse's Universal Geography, new edition, 2 vols.; a general assortment of BOOKS & STATIONERY. Cash and the highest price given for Rags. Portland, Sept. 20.
Ten Dollars Reward. A POCKET-BOOK LOST. ON Friday the seventeenth inst was lost a red Morocco Pocket-Book, containing a small sum of money and several notes of hand with other papers of no use to any person but to the owner. The person who will return it, with its contents shall receive the above reward. PETER WARREN. Portland Sept. 20, 1802.
THE subscribers having been appointed by the Hon. Jonathan Bowman, Esq. Judge of Probate &c. for the county of Lincoln, to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of Joseph Harford, late of Georgetown, in said county, deceased, represented insolvent hereby give notice, six months is allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims; and that they shall attend on said business, at the house of Mr. William Flintney, in said Georgetown, on the last Saturday of each of the six months ensuing, from ten o'clock, A. M. until three o'clock, P. M. DENNY MCCOBB, } Commissioners. LEWIS THORP, } Georgetown, Sept. 1, 1802.
THE Commissioners, appointed by the Hon. William Gorham, Esq. Judge of Probate, of wills, &c. for county of Cumberland, to examine the claims of the several Creditors to the estate of William Buxton, late of New Gloucester, in said county, mariner, deceased represented insolvent—Do hereby give notice that Six months from the eighth day of September instant, are allowed to the said creditors, to bring in and prove their claims; and that we will attend that service at the house of Mr. Enock Fogg, in said New Gloucester, on the Second Tuesdays of October, December, and February next, from five to eight o'clock in the afternoon. MOSIS PARSONS. SAMUEL FOGG. New Gloucester, Sept. 13, 1802.
SALES at AUCTION.
Drugs & Medicines.
For Sale at Public Auction, THE Stock in Trade of WILLIAM FAIRFIELD , a Bankrupt, at the shop in Pepperellborough, lately occupied by said Fairfield, on TUESDAY, the 23d inst. Sale to begin at ten of the clock in the forenoon. Benjamin Patterson, Assignee. Pepperellborough, Sept. 7, 1802.
To be Sold at Auction, In Portland, at Mr. OXNARD's Office, Fifth street, Thursday, Sept. 23d, at 12 o'clock, (If not sold before by private sale) THAT well known Valuable Estate, belonging to the subscriber at North Berwick, consisting of 250 acres, more or less, of excellent Land, great part of which is under cultivation. The whole is well fenced, chiefly with stone wall—a genteel House and suitable Office—large Garden, full of excellent Fruit Trees—three Barns and Stores—Also, a commodious Building Yard near to a wharf and landing—two Orchards, and abundance of Timber Trees throughout the premises. The whole may be viewed till the sale, and a plan seen at Mr. OXNARD's.—The terms of payment will be very easy, and made known at the time of sale. WILLIAM MARTIN.
TELEGRAPHE.
MERCHANTS and others concerned in Navigation, are respectfully informed, that the subscriber will re-commence the operation of his Telegraphe , by the first of October next. All persons who may wish to obtain by the Telegraphe , and by the Mail, first intelligence of arrivals at the Vineyard —or of arrivals at foreign ports—or who may wish to pass orders directing a vessel at the Vineyard to sail from thence to any particular port—or to wait there for further orders—or who may wish to learn the contents of a cargo—or whether a friend is on board of a particular vessel there, &c. &c. may be accommodated. The terms are lodged (for the convenience of all concerned) at the Post-Offices in Boston, Salem, Newburyport, Portsmouth and Portland, and will be lodged at the Post-Office of any other port, if desired. Agents are appointed in all the ports above-named, to accommodate such as may wish for immediate intelligence from the Vineyard . The terms contain different rates of fees:—if a man applies for first intelligence of an arrival at the Vineyard , by the 20th of September inst. or three weeks before the day of such arrival, he shall have such intelligence at the lowest rate. An applicant has nothing to pay until the Proprietor or his Agents shall announce first intelligence of an arrival or other first intelligence desired. Masters of Vessels will enter their arrivals at the Vineyard , free of any expense, that the Proprietor (and owners, if they please) may have immediate knowledge of such arrivals. JONATHAN GROUT, Patentee. Boston, Sept. 9.
THE subscribers will carry the Mail from Portland through New Gloucester, and Hallowell to Wiscasset, alternately, once a week, the ensuing year, beginning the 1st October next—Those who wish to have their papers conveyed by post as usual are desired to leave their names and place of residence with the subscribers or at the different places where their papers are to be left;—any advance for postage, will be thankfully received. Any business in their line faithfully executed, and on as reasonable terms as any done heretofore. JONATHAN STOCKMAN. JOSEPH P. TYLER. New Gloucester, Sept. 14, 1802.
Caution.
WHEREAS HAMDEN MACKAY, chairman and painter, now residing in Falmouth, has reported that he holds two Notes of Hand signed by me, payable to him or his order, for between twenty and thirty dollars each, and has offered them for sale; and as I never gave him any such notes, or even signed him a demand for any sum at all—I hereby caution all persons from purchasing any notes which he may produce signed with my name, payable to him, as I am determined not to pay the same. WILLIAM DARLING. Falmouth, Sept. 15, 1802.
THE subscriber, Assignee of the Estate and Effects of WILLIAM FAIRFIELD , of Pepperellborough, a Bankrupt, calls upon all persons indebted to said Fairfield, to make payment immediately; and upon those who have any Effects belonging to the estate of the said Bankrupt, to deliver the same to BENJAMIN PATTERSON, Assignee. Pepperellborough, Sept. 7, 1802.
THE Commissioners in a Commission of Bankruptcy awarded and issued forth against NATHAN BOND , of Portland, in the District of Maine, Merchant, and the Assignee of his Estate and Effects, intend to meet on Monday, fourth of October next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. at the Office of EBENEZER MAYO, Esq. in Fifth street, Portland; then and there to make a dividend of his Estate and Effects; when and where his Creditors, who have not already proved their debts, are requested to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the benefit of said dividend. WILLIAM MOODY, Assignee. Portland, August 4th, 1802. (29)
TAKEN UP by the subscriber, on the 9th inst. FOUR HORSES—one bay, one brown, one with a small star in his forehead, one sorrel, one with a small star in his forehead and his mane cut off. John Trowbridge. Falmouth, Sept. 11, 1802.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, about the last of July, two Apprentice BOYS, one named Moses Saunders , about 19 years old; the other named Jacob Rollins , about the same age:—This is therefore to forbid all persons employing, trusting or harboring said Boys, as I will not pay any debt or their contracting after this date. JOHN PREBLE. Lewiston, August 28, 1802.
ONE hundred bushels, "more or less," of JUNIPER BERRIES; for which a generous price will be given—Apply to JOHN COE, No. 4, Fifth street. Portland, August 23.

FOR SALE. At No 5, Long-Wharf, FROM thirty to forty tons of the best of Russia and Swedes IRON, NAIL PLATES and RODS, of different sizes, STEEL, of various sorts, Patent Cut NAILS of all kinds, by the cask, Belt Holland GIN by the cask, COTTON Wool, and best of COFFEE, per bag. Russia and Ravens DUCK. LOAF SUGAR, by the loaf. All which will be sold on the lowest terms, by ap- plying to Cotton B. Brooks. Portland, Sept 6, 1802  Joshua Richardson, HAS FOR SALE, At N. Richardson's Wharf, BOHEA, Souchong and Hyson skin TEAS, in whole, half, and quarter Chests, HOLLANDS GENEVA, LOAF SUGAR, Bags COFFEE, PEPPER and SUGAR, Kegs FIG TOBACCO, CASSIA, Georgia and West-India COTTON, CORDAGE, Swedes IRON, TAR, PITCH, ROSIN, and TURPENTINE. Hog and Prime PORK. Russia and Ravens DUCK, Russia SHEETING. ALSO, A large assortment INDIA COTTONS. August 9, 1802.  Greeley & Fletcher, No. 4, Mussey's Row, Middle Street, HAVE just received from Newyork, a handsome assortment of Summer & Fancy Goods. Portland, August 30  Papers and Borders. JUST RECEIVED BY WILLIAM MOODY, At his Store, near the head of Fish Street, an ele- gant assortment of Papers and Borders; which he now offers for sale, at the Boston prices—comprising nearly 150 different figures, of the newest fashions. ALSO, India, English & Westindia Goods, and Groceries. HARD and HOLLOW WARE, as usual. (6m) Portland, August 30, 1802. Just received for Sale, at the Bookstores of I. ADAMS, and T. CLARK, Portland, A POEM, on the Progress of Civil and Rational Liberty and Order, triumphant over Faction.—By a Farmer. Aug 30
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Executrix of the last will and testament of Simeon Turner, late of Bath, in the county of Lincoln, mariner, de- ceased; and hath undertaken that trust, by giving bond as the law directs:—All persons therefore, having de- mands against the estate of said deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement; and all indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment. Sarah Turner, Executrix. August 20, 1802. (29)  NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administratrix of the Estate of Joseph Swett, late of Topsham, in the county of Lincoln, joiner, de- ceased; and hath undertaken that trust, by giving bond as the law directs:—All persons therefore, having de- mands against the estate of said deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement; and all indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment. Margaret Swett, Administratrix. August 21, 1802.  THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, that having been duly appointed Administratrix upon the Estate of Amos Greenleaf, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, mariner, deceased, she has taken upon her that trust, and given bond as the law directs:—She therefore requests all persons indebted to said deceased's estate, to make im- mediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to Sept 13, 1802 Mary Greenleaf.  THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, that having been duly appointed Administra- trix on the estate of Israel True, late of Northarmouth in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, she has taken upon her that trust and given bond as the law directs:—She therefore re- quests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to Sept 13, 1802. Mary True.  THE subscribers hereby give notice to all concerned, that having been duly appointed Administrators on the estate of William Buxton, late of Newburyport, in the county of Cumberland, mar- iner, deceased; they have taken upon them that trust, and given bond as the law directs:—They therefore request all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to Sept. 13 1802. Enoch Fogg.  THE subscribers having been duly appointed Commissioners to receive and examine the claims upon the estate of JUDAH DELANO, late of Portland, Mariner, deceased, represented in- solvent—hereby give notice that they will attend for that purpose at the store of M c LELLAN & BROWN, in Portland, on the third Wednesday of this and the five following months, from three to five o'clock in the afternoon. ROBERT BOYD, STEPHEN M c LELLAN. Portland, September 1, 1802.  ALL persons who have demands upon the Estate of AMBROSE SNOW, late of Steubenville, deceased, represented in- solvent, are requested to exhibit the same to the subscribers, duly appointed to receive and examine the claims against said estate, at the house of Mr. THOMAS ARCHIBALD, in Cherryfield; where they will attend for the purpose, on the last Tuesday of this and the five following months. JOSEPH WALLACE, JUN THOMAS ARCHIBALD, } Commissioners ALEXANDER NICKELS, } Cherryfield, August 2d, 1802.  THE subscribers, Commissioners appointed by the Hon. William Gorham, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of EDWARD RUNDLET, late of Portland, Trader, deceased, represented in- solvent—hereby give notice that six months from the 25th inst. is allowed to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend that service at the second floor of No. 4, Mussey's Row, Portland, on the third Monday of September next, and on the third Mondays of the five following months, from 9 to 12 o'clock, A. M. on each day. DAVID GREEN, } Commis- JAMES NEAL, } sioners. Portland, August 23, 1802.  NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Adminis- trator on the Estate of PAUL THORNDIKE, late of Camden, in the county of Lincoln, yeoman, deceased, and has undertaken that trust by giving bond as the Law directs:—All persons therefore, having demands against the estate of said deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement; and all indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment. EBENEZER THORNDIKE, Administrator. Camden, August 18, 1802.  THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all con- cerned, that having been duly appointed Ad- ministratrix on the Estate of MOSES M c KENNY, of Scarborough, in the county of Cumberland, Gen- tlemen, deceased, has taken upon her that trust, and given bond as the Law directs:—She therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said de- ceased's estate to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same, to August 30, 1802. LUCY M c KENNY.  THE subscribers, having been appointed by the Hon. William Gorham, Esq. to receive and examine the claims of creditors to the Estate of MOSES M c KENNY, late of Scarborough, de- ceased, represented insolvent—do hereby give no- tice, that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend that service at the dwelling house of Lucy M c Kenny, Administratrix of said estate, in said Scarborough, on the first Tuesday of Sep- tember next, and the first Tuesday in November, and the first Tuesday in December, from one to five o'clock, P. M. ARCHIBALD LEWIS, DENNIS MARR. August 30, 1802.  ALL persons indebted to the estate of the Rev. CALEB JEWETT, late of Gorham, in the county of Cumberland, deceased; and those who have any demands on said estate, are requested to call on the subscriber and make an immediate settlement. BETSY JEWETT, Administratrix. Gorham, August 20, 1802.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, York, ss.—At a Court of Common Pleas, begun and held at Waterbury, within and for the coun- ty of York, on the fourth Tuesday of August, being the 24th day of said month, A. D. 1802.  ON the petition of Katharine Wendell, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex, widow, Caleb Gannett, of said Cambridge, esquire, guardian of Katharine Brattle Gannett, John My- co Gannett, Thomas Brattle Gannett, and Eliza- beth Latham Gannett, minors, and children of said Caleb Gannett and his late wife Katharine Gannett deceased, all of said Cambridge, and John Mellen of said Cambridge, clerk, guardian of Sophia Mellen, Katharine Saltonstall Mellen, and John Wendell Mellen, all of said Cambridge, minors, and chil- dren of the said John Mellen and his present wife Jehiah, that the said Katharine Wendell and the said minor children are seized of one undivided moiety of a certain tract of land situate in the towns of Biddeford and Arundel, in the county of York, containing by estimation about nine hundred and sixty acres, and bounded northeasterly by Saco river, being one hundred and twenty rods in width on said river, and thence extending southwest about four miles to the southwest line of Saco patent, for called, and adjoining to lands of Sylvanus Lowell, Benjamin S. Apple, Joseph Staple, and others, on the northwesterly side, and to lands belonging to Rob- ert Gilpatrick, and the heirs of Benjamin Hooper, jun. late of said Biddeford, deceased—the said moiety being formerly part of the estate of General William Brattle, late of Boston, deceased—the oth- er moiety belonging to persons unknown to your petitioners: And praying that their said moiety may be duly assigned to the said Katharine Wendell and said minor children to hold in severality.—  Ordered, That the petitioners cause the substance of their said petition, and this order thereon, to be inserted three weeks successively, in the Portland Gazette , printed by Eleazer A. Jenks, the last publication thereof to be twenty days at least prior to the next term of this Court, to be held at Biddeford, within and for said county of York, on the last Tuesday of October next; to the end any person or persons interested therein, may then and there appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said petition should not be granted. Attest, DANIEL SEWALL, Clerk.  At a Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cum- berland, begun and held at Portland, in and for said county, on the third Tuesday of June, A. D. 1802.  ON the petition of Eleazer Crabtree, of said Portland, Mariner, the wing—that he is seized as tenant in common with other persons to him unknown, of a certain piece of Flats, together with an old wharf standing thereon, lying in Portland aforesaid, situated and bounded as fol- lows, viz. Beginning at a stake standing on the northerly side of an old wharf and by the southerly side or corner of a lot and flats purchased by him of Enoch Litty, June 17, Anno Domini, 1800, as by the deed thereof recorded may appear; thence running southerly at right angles, and at high water mark forty feet to a stake; thence running north eighty four degrees east, keeping said width of forty feet from the southerly side of said lot and flats purchas- ed as aforesaid, to low water mark, including the old wharf thereon standing—That he is desirous to hold and enjoy his part or share in said flats and wharf, being one sixth of the same, in severality; And therefore prays that his said part or share may be set off and divided from the rest, agreeably to law of the Commonwealth in such cases made and provided.  Ordered, That the petitioners cause the several persons interested in said Estate, and living within the State, or the Attorneys of such as are absent and have Attorneys residing within the State, to be duly notified of said petition, by serving them personally with a copy thereof, or leaving a copy at their dwelling house or last place of abode, or by inserting the substance of the same three weeks successively in one or more of the pub- lic newspapers, that they may have opportunity to make their exception to this Court, on the third Tuesday of October next, to their granting the same. Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk.
SOMETIME in the month of October, 1802, a man by the name of EDWARD LEATHERS, from Peterborough, state of New Hampshire, came into this neighborhood in the character of a labor- er—hired with sundry people, and acquired an ex- cellent character. In this capacity, he continued in that industrious manner of living, at different places until Monday, the 16th of August, 1802; when, at work for Mr. Alexander Nichols, he was taken ill, and on Thursday following, was visited by Dr. Moulton, who prescribed and left some medicine; after which he appeared to be a little better, until Friday evening, about eleven o'clock, Mr. Phineas Pendleton, who lodged with him, fell asleep, and awoke about two in the morning, and found the window open, and the sick man gone. It appeared that he went without hat or shoes, wearing only a shirt, trowsers, a pair of old stock- ings, and a thin waistcoat. The family and neigh- borhood were immediately alarmed, and search instantly made and continued through Saturday. On Sunday it became very general, and has con- tinued with some intermission, until this time, but no discovery can be made, or even traces of him, since his first leaving the window.—Any person who may discover the said Leathers , if living, or his body, if dead, or any circumstance relating to him since his departure, are desired to forward in- formation as early as possible to his friends in Peter- borough, Belfast, or Prospect. Prospect, August 21, 1802.  The Printers throughout New Hampshire and the District of Maine, may serve the cause of humanity by inserting the above  BLANKS, OF VARIOUS KINDS FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.  This Gazette, is printed every MONDAY Morning, by William JENKS, JUN. for the publisher. Eleazer A. Jenks, the Printing Office, No. 7, Fish-street, opposite Jones Row, Portland; where Subscriptions, Communica- tions, Advertisements, articles of News, &c. are received with attention. The price is ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS a year, exclusive of postage. As this GAZETTE has the largest and most extensive circulation of any paper in Maine it is highly advan- tageous for Advertisements, which will be inserted rea- sonably, and in a conspicuous manner.  Printing, In its various branches, executed at said Office, in a handsome manner, and at the shortest notice, by WILLIAM JENKS, JUN.
Lincoln & Kennebec Bank. At a meeting of the STOCKHOLDERS of the Lincoln & Kennebec Bank, held at Wiscasset on the eleventh day of Au- gust, A. D. 1802, by adjournment from the tenth day of the same month—  VOTED, That fifty per cent. on the shares be paid in at the Bank on the first Monday of October next.  VOTED, That all shares on which fifty per cent. is not paid on the said first Monday of October next, shall be forfeited; and the Directors shall have power, and are hereby authorized to dispose of the same. JOHN MERRILL, JUN. Clerk of said Meeting.  TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS OF THE Portland Bank.  WE the subscribers, Stockholders in said Bank, hereby request you to notify and warn a meeting of the Stockholders aforesaid, at such time and place as you shall judge proper, to take into consideration the subject of an union of the Portland and Maine Banks; and to act thereon as they shall think best—To agree upon the number of shares to be relinquished by the Stock- holders in the Portland Bank, to the Stockholders in the Maine Bank—to determine upon the method of obtaining the shares to be relinquished, that shall seem most eligible; and to adjust all the terms of the propo- sed union.  LEMUEL WEEKS, JOSEPH H. INGRAHAM, SALMON CHASE, ELIAS THOMAS. JAMES D. HOPKINS, ASA CLAPP. EBENEZER MAYO, WILLIAM CHADWICK. EDWARD PREBLE, DAVID GREEN. WILLIAM SYMMES. Portland, Sept 4, 1802.  THE STOCKHOLDERS in the Portland Bank, are hereby notified to meet at the Bank Chamber, on Monday, the 26th September inst. at nine o'clock, forenoon, for the purposes abovenoted. By order of the Board of Directors. J. SWIFT, Cashier. Portland, Sept. 6, 1802.  Thirty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the house of John Goodwin, of this town, on the night of the 2d inst. a Ne- gro Seruant Girl , coal black, with large eyes, wears large ear rings, with a scar under one of her ears, about 17 years old, short thick made, and was dressed either in striped Holland, or spotted Calico.—The above reward will be given for ap- prehending her, & lodging her in Prison, or bringing her to the house above named. THOMAS BLANCHARD. Portland, Sept. 3.  20 Dollars Reward. MADE his escape from the subscriber and his guard, on the night of the 26th of August, 1802, from the house of Deacon Daniel Guid, in Alfred, in the county of York, a man by the name of JOHN DREW, of Skaneateles, in said county, having black hair, light complexion, dark eyes, 23 years of age. Whoever will apprehend said runaway and deliver him to the subscriber, in York, shall receive the above reward. SIMON FERNALD, Dep. Sheriff, York. Sept. 6  Five Dollars Reward. LOST, on the 22d August last, between Gorham corner and Col. Anderson's, in Windham, a black Morocco Pocket Book , containing one Ten Dollar and one Five Dollar Bill, a Note of Hand, and a number of Receipts. Whoever has found the same, and will re- turn it to the subscriber at Gorham Corner, or leave it at this Office, shall receive the above reward. Sept. 6. JAMES M c LELLAN.  Taken by Mistake, FROM the house of the subscriber, a new Saddle , and an old one left in the room of it.—The person who has the same is requested to return it as soon as possible. JOHN D. NING. Brunswick, Sept. 2.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, that having been duly appointed Administrator on the Estate of JOSEPH PLUMMER of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, merchant, deceased, has taken upon him that trust, and given bond as the Law directs:—He therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to WILLIAM MOULTON, JUN. Portland, August 30, 1802.  TO LET, A Part of a two story House, con- venient for one or two families, situated in Pleasant-Street—Inquire of WILLIAM GORHAM, at his store, Fore-Street, Portland. August 30.