Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1801-03-23 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY ALEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 132.]
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1801.
[VOLUME
Laws of the United States.
By Authority.
SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. AT THE SECOND SESSION, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, IN THE TERRITORY OF COLUMBIA, ON MONDAY THE SEVENTEENTH OF NOVEMBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED.
An Act making the port of Biddeford and Pepperellborough, and the Port of New Bedford in Massachusetts, Ports of Entry for ships or vessels, arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the same.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the port of Biddeford and Pepperellborough, and the port of New Bedford, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, be, and they are hereby made, ports of entry for ships or vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the same.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. TH: JEFFERSON, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 18, A. D. 1801. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States.
An Act for the relief of Solomon Boston.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That Solomon Boston, now confined in the public gaol of Kent County, in the State of Delaware, be released and discharged, and he hereby is released and discharged from all claim and demand of the United States, to a certain judgment, for a penalty of one thousand dollars, recovered at their suit in the District Court of the District of Delaware; saving and reserving nevertheless, the right and interest which belongs to any third person, if any such exist.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. TH: JEFFERSON, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, January 30, A. D. 1801. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States.
An Act to provide for the erection and support of a Light-house on Cape Poge, at the north-easterly part of Martha's Vineyard.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause a sufficient light-house to be erected on Cape Poge (so called) on Martha's Vineyard, in the state of Massachusetts, and to appoint a keeper, and otherwise to provide for the support of such light-house at the expense of the United States: Provided, that sufficient land for the accommodation of such light-house, together with the jurisdiction thereof, shall be duly and legally granted to, and vested in the United States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, and hereby is appropriated for the erection of said light-house on Cape Poge, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monies which may be in the Treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. TH: JEFFERSON, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved January 30, 1801. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States.
National Affairs.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 2. ON Saturday last, Mr. Jefferson, the President elect of the U. States, pursuant to a custom which has prevailed, since the existence of the laws, declaring that the President pro tempore, of the Senate, should execute the Office of President of the United States, in case of the death of both the President and Vice-President, retired from the chair of the Senate. Previously to his leaving the chair he made the following pertinent and affectionate ADDRESS, viz.
Gentlemen of the Senate, TO give the usual opportunity of appointing a President pro tempore, I now propose to retire from the
chair of the Senate; and as the time is near at hand, when the relations will cease, which have for some time subsisted between this honorable house and myself, I beg leave before I withdraw to return them my grateful thanks for all the instances of attention and respect with which they have been pleased to honor me. In the discharge of my functions here it has been my conscientious endeavour to observe impartial justice, without regard to persons or subjects—and if I have failed of impelling this on the minds of the Senate, it will be to me a subject of the deepest regret. I may have erred at times. No doubt I have erred. This is the law of human nature. For honest errors, however, indulgence may be hoped.
I owe to truth and justice, at the same time to declare that the habits of order and decorum which so strongly characterize the proceedings of the Senate, have rendered the unparagoned of their President an office of little difficulty:—that in times and on questions which have severely tried the sensibility of the house, calm and temperate discussion has rarely been disturbed by departures from order.
Should the support which I have received from the Senate, in the performance of my duties here, attend me into the new station to which the public will have transferred me, I shall consider it as commencing under the happiest auspices.
With these expressions of my dutiful regard to the Senate as a body, I ask leave to mingle my particular wishes for the health and happiness of the individuals who compose it: and to tender them my cordial and receive their cordial and respectful adieu. THOMAS JEFFERSON. Feb. 28, 1801.
A copy of the foregoing Address having been delivered to the Secretary of the Senate, it was referred to Mr. Morris, Mr. Jonathan Mason and Mr. Dayton, to draft and report an answer, who this day made the following report, viz.
THE SENATE'S ANSWER.
WHILE we congratulate you, on those expressions of the public will which called you to the first Office in the United States, we cannot but lament the loss of that intelligence, attention and impartiality with which you have presided over our deliberations.
The Senate feel themselves much gratified by the sense you have been pleased to express of their support in the performance of your late duties. Be persuaded that it will never be withheld from a Chief Magistrate, who in the exercise of his office shall be influenced by a due regard to the honor and interest of our country. In the confidence that your official conduct will be devoted to these great objects, a confidence derived from past events, we repeat to you, sir, the assurances of our constitutional support, in your future administration. JAMES HILLHOUSE, President of the Senate, pro tempore.
To which the President elect replied:
GENTLEMEN, I receive with due sensibility the congratulations of the Senate on being called to the first executive office of our government, and I accept with satisfaction their assurances of support in whatever regards the honor and interest of our country. Knowing no other object in the discharge of my public duties, their confidence in my future conduct, derived from past events, shall not be disappointed, so far as my judgment may enable me to discern those objects.
The approbation, they are so good as to express of my conduct in the chair of the Senate, is highly gratifying to me; and I pray them to accept my humble thanks for these declarations of it. March 3, 1801. TH: JEFFERSON.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 4.
This day, at 12 o'clock, Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, took the oath of office, in the Senate Chamber, in presence of the Senate, the Members of the House of Representatives, the Public Officers, &c. Previously to which he delivered the following
ADDRESS:
Friends and Fellow-Citizens,
CALLED upon to undertake the duties of the first Executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look towards me, to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious and awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge, and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire. A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right, advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye; when I contemplate these transcendent objects, and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation and humble myself before the magnitude of the undertaking. Utterly indeed should I despair, did not the presence of many, whom I here see, remind me, that, in the other high authorities provided by our constitution, I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal, on which to rely under all difficulties. To you, then, gentlemen, who are charged with the sovereign functions of legislation, and to those associated with you, I look with encouragement for that guidance and support which may enable us to steer with safety the vessel in which we are all embarked, amidst the conflicting elements of a troubled world.
During the contest of opinion through which we have past, the animation of discussion and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers, unused to think freely, and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the constitution, all will of course arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good. All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must
be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights; which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered; we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic, as wicked and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated men, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore; that this should be more felt and feared by some and less by others; and should divide opinions as to measures of safety; but every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans; we are all federalists. If there be any among us who would with to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it. I know indeed that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong; that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear, that the government, while the world's best hope, may, by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this on the contrary, is the strongest government on earth. I believe it is the only one, where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. —Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings, to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Let us then, with courage and confidence, pursue our own federal and republican principles; our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high minded to endure the degradations of the others, possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the hundredth and thousandth generation, entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them, enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here, and his greater happiness hereafter; with all these blessings what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and prudent Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good Government; and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
About to enter, fellow citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend every thing dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently of those which ought to shape its administration.—I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.—Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political:—peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none: the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies: the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigour, as the sheet anchor of our peace, at home, and safety abroad: a jealous care of the right of the election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided: absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principal of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism: a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, until regulars may relieve them: the supremacy of the civil over the military authority: economy in the public expense, that labour may be lightly burthened: the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith: encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its hand
maid; the diffusion of information, arrangement of all abuses at the bar of public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press; and freedom of person, under the protection of the Habeas Corpus:—and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation, which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment:—they should be the creed of our political faith:—the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm; let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety.
I repair then fellow citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate offices to have seen the difficulties of this the greatest of all, I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favour which bring him into it. Without pretensions to that high confidence you reposed in our first and greatest revolutionary character, whose pre-eminent services had entitled him to the first place in his country's love, and destined for him the fairest page in the volume of faithful history, I ask so much confidence only as may give firmness and effect to the legal administration of your affairs. I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional; and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts. The approbation implied by your suffrage, is a great consolation to me for the past; and my future solicitude will be, to retain the good opinion of those who have bestowed it in advance, to conciliate that of others by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freedom of all.
Relying then on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choices it is in your power to make. And may that infinite Power, which rules the destinies of the universe, lead our councils to what is best, and give them a favorable issue for your peace and prosperity. THOMAS JEFFERSON.
The following is a Message of President Adams to the Senate.
"GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE, "I have considered the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the convention with France, under certain conditions. Altho' it would have been more conformable to my own judgment and inclination, to have agreed to that instrument unconditionally, yet in this point I found I had the misfortune to differ in opinion from so high a constitutional authority as the Senate. I judged it more consistent with the honor and interest of the United States to ratify it under the conditions prescribed, than not at all. I accordingly nominated Mr. Bayard, minister plenipotentiary to the French Republic, that he might proceed without delay to Paris, to negotiate the exchange of ratifications. But as that gentleman has declined his appointment, for reasons applicable to every other person, suitable for the service, I shall take no further measures relative to this business, and leave the convention with all the documents in the office of state, that my successor may proceed with them according to his wisdom. JOHN ADAMS.
United States, March 24, 1801.
MR. SEDGWICK'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.
In Answer to a Resolution of the House of Representatives, in approbation of his conduct.
Accept, gentlemen, my thanks for the respectful terms in which you have been pleased to express the opinion you entertain of the manner in which I have discharged the arduous duties of the station to which I was raised by your kind regard.
Although I am conscious of having intended faithfully to execute the trust confided to the chair; yet I am sensible, that whatever success may have attended my endeavors, is justly attributable to the candid, and honorable, and firm support which you have constantly afforded:—I cannot lay the least claim to merit for any thing that I have done, because the generous confidence which you had reposed in me demanded that I should devote all my feeble talents to your service.
Being now about to retire from this House, and I hope from the public councils forever, permit me, gentlemen, to bid you collectively and individually an affectionate farewell. It is true that I have long wished to indulge repose in the shade of private life; but the moment of separation inflicts an anguish not to be expressed by language.—It is a separation from men of dignity, of character, of honorable sentiment, and of distinguished patriotism, an association with whom has been my pride and solace amidst all the fatigue and vexation of public life. Of the friendship (long, uninterrupted and cordial as it has been) of such men, I shall always cherish a grateful remembrance. May you receive the reward most grateful to generous spirit—the reward of

witnessing, as the effects of your talents, the en- creasing prosperity, and happiness, and glory of your country.
As the last words which I shall utter, as a public man, allow me to declare, that these words I have had the honor, here, to act and think; whose confidence I have enjoyed; whose bosoms have been opened to my inspec- tion—deserve all the esteem, affection and grat- itude, which their countrymen can bestow. On this occasion I deem myself authorized, from the present circumstances, to make this declara- tion—and I do it in the most solemn manner; in the presence of the assembled Representatives of America; and not only so, but in the aw- ful presence of that heart-searching Being to whom I feel myself responsible for all my con- duct. May the Almighty keep you in his holy protection. Farewell.
THEODORE SEDGWICK.
FOR JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
TO THE FEDERALISTS OF MAINE.
You have doubtless been informed that the Jacobins of this State, have been and now are using their utmost efforts to turn Mr. STRONG out of the chair of the Governor, and place Mr. Gerry in his stead. As this appears to me to be a part of an extensive and well adjusted plan to overturn the present happy state and order of things in America, it behoves every citizen who regards his own or his coun- try's welfare, to look well to its operation.
A new era in the history of our country has commenced. If we contemplate the causes which have produced it, it partakes strongly of what in modern language is called a revolution. I have no doubt that many of the deluded and giddy citizens of the United States, view and rejoice in it in this light. If it were possible to believe that the late federal elections were the result of the good sense of the community, or of the freedom or intelligence of its members, we may well shudder at their consequence. But as we know they were not, there is yet a hope that we may save ourselves from any further disgrace; and nothing can be necessary to ef- fect this, but to reanimate the sleeping patriot- ism of the friends of order & good government.
Were we to ask our enemies, what induced them to with the removal of Mr. Adams from the Presidency; or what induces them to with the removal of Governor Strong, what answer could they give us? Were we to ask them further, why they wish for the removal of these men, in order to make way for others who are in every respect their inferiors, what answer have they to this? They cannot give you a true one, without being covered with shame. They will, therefore, rather than expose their real designs, give you one that is either false or evasive.
There is scarcely a citizen of the United States who does not know that Mr. Adams, is a man of knowledge, of virtue, of piety, and patriotism; or so uncaudal as not to be ready to confess, that under his administration the United States have abundantly increased in wealth, strength and wisdom.
There is scarcely a citizen in Massachusetts who does not know (or who may not know if he inquires) that Governor Strong is also a man of knowledge, piety and patriotism—that he is a man of a most amiable disposition—of mild, conciliating, republican manners—of spotless integrity in public & private life—of the greatest discretion, moderation & philanthropy; In short, exactly such a man as every intelligent and patriotic citizen of Massachusetts would be proud to give his vote for, were they per- fectly acquainted with the excellencies of his character. So true is it, that he is the great and good man which you were told he was the last year, that when he made his first ap- pearance before the General Court in May last, and delivered a speech in which he discovered his amiable, modest and graceful deportment, and his sound, mild and moral principles, the Jacobins, then in the General Court, involun- tarily and (at that time) almost unani- mously cried out when he left the chair, that the federalists had "chosen a better Governor "for them than they could have chosen for "themselves."
I therefore repeat the question, what good motive can any citizen of Massachusetts have for removing this man from the public coun- cils? I appeal to every rational, consistent Fed- eralist in the Commonwealth to answer this question. I do not appeal to the Jacobins for this answer;—upon questions of a political na- ture, I do not consider them subjects of reason— it is in my opinion, harder for "a Camel to go through the eye of a needle," than for one veteran in the errors of Jacobinism, to be con- verted to reason and political truth. There is nothing, therefore, of so much importance, in regaining the ground which our supineness and security have lost, as UNION, ZEAL AND IN- DUSTRY among ourselves. Our numbers are more than two to their one, and yet we are in danger of being beaten! Shall we then discover more pride and ambition in a petty controversy, or perhaps a horse race, than in this great po- litical race, in which patriotism and virtue have been compelled to enter the lists with disorga- nization and jacobinism; and in which the prize is nothing less than Liberty and the Constitu- tion? If we do, it is very certain we shall be vanquished, and in that case richly deserve the mischiefs with which our folly and laziness will load us.
Let those men who are now endeavoring to turn out Governor Strong, examine themselves as to the motives of their conduct. The enemies of the Governor, are the enemies of the Republic.— Some of these know what they are about; oth- ers are their dupes and tools. There is not a
man who is now engaged in defeating Gov- ernor Strong's election, who is not either an ene- my to a federal administration, or been egre- giously imposed upon. After the character which we all know the Governor sustains, let us see who his enemies are about to give us for his successor.
Mr. Gerry is their pole star—or to speak more appropriately, Mr. Gerry is their wandering star . I will allow him all the merit which his private character entitles him to;—in this re- spect I believe him to be a man of virtue and honor—But it is his political character, which is to be looked into; for it is in this only, that his services are demanded.
Viewing his political character for the last fifteen years, there is no name in the vocabula- ry of an American politician, by which he can be called. Accordingly I will venture to af- firm that he was at the last election, and has been, and will be at this, represented by the Jacobins to be a Jacobin; to the Democrats (an order one degree above the Jacobins) a Democrat; to those his friends call Republi- cans, a Republican; to the moderates, a mo- derate man; and to the Federalists, a firm, unshaken Federalist. Altho it may be intirely doubtful by which, if either, of these names he ought to be distinguished, there is one other to which his principles delivered in the federal convention, and upon divers occasions intitle him—and that is an Aristocrat . It is a noto- rious fact, that the same principles and mea- sures in Congress and in the Convention which Mr. Gerry adopted and advocated, gave the name of Aristocrat to their authors. And so far as the great and characteristic incidents in Mr. Gerry's political life, can be selected from the less important, they would be found to be in exact unison with those of the Essex Juntos .
Every unprejudiced man in the state, who has had any thing to do with Mr. Gerry in public life, will tell you that he has no deci- sion of character; that he is self confident, and yet wavering and capricious. In the two great events of his life, at which he had it in his power to do much good, or effect great mis- chief, his character in this respect had a re- markable display. I mean as a member of the national convention for forming the constitu- tion; and as one of the Envoys to France in '98.
In the first of these instances he separated himself from most of the patriots of the United States, with the IMMORTAL WASHING- TON at their head—and in the second place, he separated himself from his colleagues, two of the greatest & best informed men of the age; and become the dupe of a French apostate priest .
This is the man whom the jacobins have taken up, and who is to be the instrument by which the amiable, pious, intelligent, judicious and patri- otic Gov. Strong is to be hurled from office. Is it not wonderful that such a change should even be contemplated. If we have any re- maining consciousness of rectitude, let us for a moment suppose ourselves arraigned at the bar of posterity, to give them an account of our stewardship! Where could we hide our faces, when called upon for the precious talents com- mitted to us, for their use? What ought to be our condemnation when they justly upbraid us of having wrested them from the keeping and protection of virtuous guardians, and squan- dered them like an unthrifty youth, in idleness and riotous living.
It was a melancholy but very common re- proach upon the ancient republics, that the labors of their best patriots were rewarded with chains, banishment or assassination. This was a shocking stain upon human nature, even in a nation of infuriate pagans and Atheists. But it seems to be reserved for the enlightened people of America, to furnish a new crime for the calendar of national depravity. For such I conceive to be the ingratitude and enmity of a well informed, free, and happy people, to those who have been their friends and benefactors.
I cannot but hope the consistent and virtuous federalists of Maine, will think well upon these subjects on the first Monday of April. It was by your suffrages that Gov. Strong was bro't into the chair, at the last election. Examine for yourselves; and if you can find one spot in his character, or one act of his administra- tion unworthy of a great and good man, or of a wise and faithful servant of the people, you may venture to give him up. But if his char- acter and administration will stand the test of this enquiry, as I am confident it will, you may say to those who solicit your votes for Mr. Gerry, "You are a wolf in sheep's clothing."
PELOPIDAS.
MR. JENKS,
IT is of the utmost importance that the Federalists of this County should unite in their candidate for a Senator to supply the place of Mr. Davis.
Woodbury Storer, Esq.
will certainly command the votes a respectable num- ber of towns in the county. His known integrity and abilities, and his indefatigable industry as a member of the House of Representatives, intitle him to the confi- dence of his fellow citizens. Let us therefore UNITE OUR ENDEAVORS to obtain Mr. STORER's election. The other federal candidates are all respectable men; but none of them are more acquainted with legislative business, or more ready to engage in the duties of it, than Mr. Storer.
A VOTER.
MR. JENKS;
The federal Electors in this part of the county, are determined to support the Hon. STEPHEN LONGFELLOW, and SAMUEL P. RUSSEL, Esqs. as Senators at the ensuing election. If education, talents, and an almost entire devotion to public busi- ness, are considerations with the Electors in other parts of the county, these gentlemen will un- doubtedly receive their undivided suffrages. If we unite in them, we may rest assured that Cumber- land County will be ably represented.
A FRIEND TO THE COUNTY.
Freeport, March, 1801.
Late from Europe.
BOSTON, MARCH 19
By the arrival of the Eliza, capt. Folger, from London, and the brig Alert, capt. Filh- er, from Amsterdam, we have received papers from the respective places, to the 26th January, which is six days later than the former accounts from Europe. In addition to the articles which are placed under our foreign head, they state, that letters from Berlin continue to authorise hopes, that his Prussian Majesty will adhere firmly to his resolution of defending the neu- trality of Germany, without suffering his ac- cession to the northern Treaty to terminate in direct hostility to England;—That accounts have been received at Paris, assuring that Gen. Brune had received orders not to grant an ar- mistice in Italy, until the fortresses of Mantua, Peschiera, Ferrara and Francona were surren- dered up, which orders he intended strictly to execute;—That a secret article in the New Treaty with the Northern Powers, guarantees the acquisition of Malta to the Emperor Paul; —That the Cisalpine Territory is to be provided for the retreat, or domain of Bonaparte, and that he proposes to erect there an hereditary Consulate:—That the Elector of Bavaria has made a separate Peace with France; and that in the certainty of a Peace between France and the Emperor of Germany, the Austrian vol- unteers had returned home.
By the brig Fox, from Liverpool
LONDON, JAN. 27.
The Channel Fleet which lately went into port on account of injury sustained in the storm failed again for its old station on Friday last.
The Arch Duke Charles has received his Commission as Field Marshal, and President of the Chief Council of War.
The united imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, was convened on the 22d Jan. and the new members sworn. On the 27th the King was to meet both houses of Parlia- ment, and deliver his Speech from the throne.
The Convention of the Northern Powers was signed at Petersburg on the 11th December, by the ministers of Russia Sweden and Den- mark; and on the 17th by the minister of Prussia, as an acceding party . Twenty Danish and eight Swedish line of battle ships are im- mediately to be put in commission.
LONDON FEB. 2.
We received this morning by express, Paris Papers, to the 20th ult. one day later than those which arrived on Saturday. An article in one of the unofficial Papers, dated Madrid, Jan. 10, contains the following important particu- lars:
"An Ambassador is on the point of departing from Madrid for Lisbon, with a proposal on the part of France and Spain that Portugal shall immediately form an intimate alliance with these powers, or declare her determination not to abandon her connection with Great Britain. Should the accede to the former proposition she will be required to shut her ports against Brit- ish shipping, and declare war against England."
It is confidently stated in the same article, that permission has been granted by the cabinet of Madrid for the march of the French army, now assembled at Bourdeaux, through the Spa- nish territory against Portugal.
"A detachment of troops was ordered to hold itself in readiness to leave Madrid, and co- operate with the republicans."
LONDON, FEB. 5.
In the second edition of our paper yesterday, we announced the arrival of French papers to the 18th ult. and informed our readers that they contained the important intelligence of peace having been signed at Lunneville, between the Emperor of Ger- many and the French Republic.—The treaty is not to be published till his Imperial Majesty's engage- ments cease with this country, viz. on the 28th of February.
The foreign papers announce an armistice in Italy.
RELEASE OF VESSELS IN SPAIN.
Extract from a letter received by a gentleman in Phi- ladelphia, from a respectable house in Cadiz.
(COPY.)
To Mr. J. B. Mifflin, charged (pro tem.) with the commercial concerns of the French Republic, in Andalusia, resident in Cadiz.
"SIR, Cadiz, 20th November, 1800.
In consequence of your official letter of the 4th Frimaire, to which yesterday I had the pleasure to answer; as the foot of this you will find a list of the different American vessels detained; to the end that you may, with every dispatch, be so good as to or- der their entire liberation, ordering the delivery of their cargoes, or the amount of them; and to deliver to me all the papers ref- pectively of every vessel to be found in this Consular Office; all conformable to the Articles 4th, 4th and 23d of the Treaty con- cluded between the United States of America and the French Republic.
The injury experienced by the vessel detained, is so consider- able that I am persuaded that you will not for one moment put in execution the mentioned three articles, to the end that I may communicate to my minister at Madrid, their having been executed agreeable to the tenor of the Treaty. I repeat to you Sir, the sincere affection with which I remain, &c.—In absence of J. S. P. Zunarré, proconsul.
(Signed) ANT. TERRY, Vice Consul.
[Here follows a list of about 13 sail of American vessels:]
From Washington, March 5.
"This morning Mr. Dexter waited on the Pres- ident for the purpose, it was understood, of re- signing his office; but after a long conference with Mr. Jefferson, he returned to the duties of the Treasury. This circumstance has induced a belief in some, that Mr. Dexter will be continued; oth- ers, however, confidently affirm, that Albert Gal- latin will receive the appointment."
"The navy is to be sold except twelve frigates. —six of which only are to be armed and equipped. —I expect the six will be the United States, of 44 guns, Constitution, of 44, President, of 44, Philadelphia, of 44, Constellation, of 36, and Boston of 32 guns.— The others will be laid up in ordinary, and manned with a boatswain, a gunner, a carpenter, a purser, a cook, and twelve seamen each."
"By the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, it appears probable that no great public inconve- nience will result from the late fire in that depart- ment."
Portland,
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1801.
Mr. Jefferson's Speech is given in this day's paper. If he confirms to the credit there laid down, he will completely foil the wishes of the Jacobins, and receive the staunch support of the federal citizens of the United States.
Communications from the eastward, say the Jacobins are working hard for Mr. Gerry; but the independent testimony of Maine, will doubtless give a liberal support to our present worthy and truly virtuous Governor STRONG.
Hon. Edward H. Robbins and Samuel Phillips, Esqrs. are the candidates for Lieutenant Governor.
The Hon. Peleg Wadsworth, arrived in town last evening from Congress.
New Appointments. Hon. James Madison, Secretary of State, Hon. Henry Dearborn Secretary at War, Hon. Levi Lincoln, Attorney General, Robert R. Livingston, Esq. Minister to France.
It is reported, that Mr. Stoddert, Secretary of the Navy, has resigned; that Gen. Smith has been offered, but declined the office.
In the morning of the 4th of March, the Hon. Aaron Burr, took his seat in the Senate as Vice-President.
Federal Senators sworn in on the 4th of March: Mr. Ogden, of N. Jersey, Mr. Stone, N. Carolina, Mr. Mub- lenburg, Pennsylvania, Mr. White, Delaware, and Mr. Sheafe, New-Hampshire, new members, and Mr. Armstrong, of Conne- cticut, re-elected.
The Senate of the U. S. has confirmed the judicial nominations. Hon. Elijah Paine is appointed District Judge in Vermont.
JAMES C. MOUNTFLORENCE, is appointed Commercial Agent of the U. S. at Paris.
William Tilghman, Esq. has been appointed chief judge of the land circuit of the U. S. under the judiciary law, passed at the late session of Congress.
The U. S. Senate adjourned sine die on the 5th of March.
It is stated as authentic, in the New-Hampshire Papers that the patriotic Governor Gilman is re-e- lected to the chair of that State, by a majority of about two to one.
The English have declared Havre-de-Grace a port in France, in a state of blockade.
The French prisoners in the United States are to be immediately set at liberty. Cartels are prepar- ing at New-York to convey them home.
Denou, the French Architect, is about to publish, on 200 copperplates, a magnificent work on the Antiquities of Europe.
A French frigate of 36 guns bound to Norfolk, was spoken in lat. 36. 40, near the coast. It this is true, she probably brings out citizen Pichon, to reside here in a diplomatic character.
The celebrated M. Necker has emerged a little from his retirement to mingle in public affairs. He lately communicated to the Legislature of Helvetia, plans for the better regulation of the several branches of finances.
George Washington La Fayette, son of the General, and a Sub-Lieutenant in the French army, distin- guished himself greatly, and was twice wounded at the passage of the Mincio.
A Philadelphia paper, of March 11. says—Mr. Dawson, member of Congress from Virginia, is certainly appointed to carry the treaty to France —and will sail in a few days in the Maryland sloop of war.
It is remarkable that the first appointment of the new President was of a Federalist—Mr. Wagner, to be his private secretary.
The Editor of the Aurora is at Washington. He complains of a "peaceful disposition" in Mr. Jefferson towards the federalists.
Washington, March 6
Mr. Harper in a letter to his constituents, dated the 24th inst. gives a full display of the motives in which the votes for President were given, by the Electors and by the Representatives of the People in Congress.—And he adds, "but although I gave the preference to Col. Burr, I considered it as our duty to make a choice, and to accede to the election of Mr. Jefferson, rather than expose the nation to the mis- chiefs, which might result from leaving the govern- ment without a head." "I was one of the last to yield to his election because I thought him less fit for the office than the other candidate: Because he is Presi- dent, I shall be one of the last to oppose, thwart, or embarrass his administration." These are catholic sentiments; and do no honor to the writer.
"The oath to the President was administered by Chief Jus- tice Marshall—in these words—"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Several favors were received from correspondents too late for this day's Gazette.—Advertisements, &c. shall be at- tended to.
MARRIED—In this town, on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. Dr. Deane, EDWARD PREBLE, Esq. Captain in the United States Navy, to Miss MARY DEERING, both of this place.
Mr. WILLIAM WOODMAN to Miss ESTHER BROWN.
DIED—At Old town, (an Island in Penobscot river) ORONO, the chief of the Penobscot Indian tribe, aged 113 years. The amiable qualities of this ancient chief rendered him dear to his own tribe, and agreeable to all his acquaintance. He cultivated among his subjects the amiable principles of peace, temperance and reli- gion. Their tradition says they have inhabited this fa- vorite island more than a thousand years. They pro- fess the Roman Catholic religion, have a church with a bell; attend divine services regularly, and are very devout in their worship. In the time of our revolu- tionary war, while some of the more northern tribes be- came scourges in the hands of the British to distress our frontiers, Orono formed a treaty with our government, and notwithstanding his vicinity and easy access to the enemy, he continued faithful to our cause. He retain- ing his mental faculties to an unusual degree, consider- ing his extreme age. His hair has been long since of a milk white, but the most singular and perhaps un- paralleled trait of his life is, that he lived to hunt in three different centuries!
At Zurich, Switzerland, LAVATER, the famous Physiognomist.
At Fryeburg, the 14th inst. of a lingering and con- sumptive illness, Mr. WILLIAM ESSENDEN, Jun. son of the Rev. William Essenden of that place. In his life, he was amiable and independent in thought, —He possessed those tender and benevolent feelings which rendered him the obedient and affectionate son, the kind and loving brother.
At Newmarket, JOSEPH THARMER, Esq. Post-Master, in that place.
At Hartford, Mr. Uriah Burkitt, aged 71—a soldier for 51 years. He buried 2.245 persons.

PORTLAND MARINE LIST.
PORT OF PORTLAND. Wednesday last arrived brig Mary, capt. Hunt, 40 days from Lisbon. The ship Portland, lately on shore at Nantucket, has been got off. The Friendship, of Portland, is condemned at New Providence, and the Fair Trader is waiting further news. Snow Mary, Ham, of this port, was spoke Feb. 7, lat. 33, out of weeks from Plymouth—had been driven off the coast three times—being short of provisions and water, put away for Charleston. The Cornelius, of this port, and Sally, of Penobscot, have arrived at Liverpool. Sloop Ranger, capt. Colby, of this port, was at New Orleans, Feb. 24.
Distress of Charleston, Feb. 14, 1801. NOTICE TO MASTERS OF VESSELS AND PILOTS. Directions for sailing by Georgetown Light-House, erected, and now lighted, on the southern point of North-Island, at the entrance of Georgetown harbor, South Carolina.
The Light-House bears N. N. E. from the outer shoal of Cape Roman, distant five leagues. In passing it, either northwardly or southwardly, vessels will find five fathoms water, within five miles of the land. The eastern bank which is the most eastern and outer shoal lies about a mile and a half to the S. E. of the range of shoals that are before the entrance of the harbor, and within five miles of the land; on the eastern point of it there are two fathoms at high water, on the western, three fathoms, and five fathoms all round it.
The Light-House bears from the eastern point N. W. about two leagues, and from the western, N. N. W. at the same distance. The principal entrance into the harbor lies to the southward; vessels drawing from 7 to 8 feet water, may (if a pilot cannot be procured) enter at half tide, by bringing the Light-House to bear N. by W. and running directly for it, to within 100 fathoms of the land; they then will have deep water on both sides for several miles up the Bay. A common flood tide rises here about 4 feet. DANIEL STEVENS, Superintendent of the Light-House Establishment, S. Carolina.
To the Hon. the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled.
THE Subscribers, being principal part of the owners of about five hundred acres of Salt Marsh lying within the towns of Scarborough in the county of Cumberland, and Pepperellborough, in the county of York, together with Pine-Point (so called) and the beach and flats situate between the sea and said Marsh; the same being bounded north-easterly by Scarborough or Black-Point river, westwardly and north-westerly by the upland of Blue-Point, and old orchard (so called in Pepperellborough) and southeasterly by the sea.
Humbly sheweth, that the aforesaid tract of Marsh being a very valuable interest, is subject to great damages and injury from horses, neat-cattle and swine, being turned on to the beach and Pine-Point to feed; and also by horses, cattle and swine, going at large thereon, which are not turned on by their owners, but only suffered to go at large; and the situation of said Marsh on the southeasterly part thereof next the sea on the Pepperellborough side is such that it cannot be secured by fences, the flats from high to low water mark is about sixty rods distance, on which no fences can be erected, and on which horses, cattle and swine can easily pass on to the Marsh and Pine-Point, as they could pass along the high-way; and the Marsh cannot be fenced by erecting a fence above high-water mark, the whole length of the said tract of Marsh being more than two miles: Because there is a river (called Little River) which intersects the said tract, and at and near the outlet of said river are broad, sandy flats which extend back into the said Marsh, on which no kind of fence can be built across and over said river; and by which horses, cattle and swine can at low water as easily pass on to said tract of Marsh as they can from the sea flats: Our interest thus situated must be almost totally lost to us without the interposition of the Legislature; your petitioners therefore pray that a law may be passed subjecting every person who shall turn his horses, cattle or swine of any kind on to said Marsh, beach or Pine-Point, to a fine equal to the whole value of all such horses, cattle or any kind, or swine so turned on, and also subjecting the owner of any horse, cattle or any description or swine found going at large on said Marsh, flats or Pine-Point, to a fine of one dollar for each one such creature thus found thereon going at large; and that all such persons may be subject to the same penalties whether they are owners in said Marsh, land, flats, or not:—And as said tract of marsh extends two miles or more in length between which and the sea is a sandy ridge of land terminating in what is commonly called Pine-Point, extending from a road in Pepperellborough (leading to said beach near the easterly part of said town) on the margin of said tract of Marsh and of the sea-wall unto the mouth of Black-Point river; which ridge is chiefly covered with a growth of pitch-pines and shrub beeches, the only defence to prevent the sand from blowing over into said Marsh and destroying the whole of it; your petitioners therefore pray that every person whether he be an owner in said tract of Marsh, land, flats, or not, may be subjected to a fine of ten dollars for each tree he may cut down or destroy on said ridge or any part thereof, unless it be by the consent of all the owners of said Marsh—or otherwise your Honors would grant such other relief as you in your wisdom may judge most expedient: And as in duty bound your petitioners shall ever pray.
JAMES GRAY, JUN. THOMAS CUTTS. WILLIAM MOODY, ROBERT JAMESON, EDWARD RUMERY. WILLIAM GOOGINS, ROBERT JAMESON, JUN. ROBERT SOUTHGATE. Pepperellborough, January 31b, 1801.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In the House of Representatives, Feb. 19b, 1801. ON the Petition of James Gray and others, owners of a certain tract of Marsh in Pepperellborough and Scarborough, praying, that a law may be passed to prevent horses, neat cattle, &c. from going at large, and being turned on said Marsh, and for other purposes referred to in said petition.
ORDERED, That the Petitioners cause an attested copy of their petition, and this order thereon to be published three weeks successively in the newspaper published by Eleazer A. Jenks of Portland, the last publication to be three weeks at least, before the second Wednesday 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 up for concurrence, EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. In Senate, February 24b, 1801. Read and concurred, SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. A true copy—Attest, EDWARD P. HAYMAN, Clerk of Senate.
TO THE HON. SENATE, AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, IN GENERAL COURT ASSEMBLED.
W E the subscribers, petitioners, inhabitants of the towns of Falmouth and Windham, humbly shew,—That your petitioners have been at great expense in building dams, and erecting mills at the lower falls on Presumpscot river so called, Congin, Saccapappa, Hortebeet and the Great Falls, so called, at which there are annually sawed from one hundred and thirty to a hundred and fifty hundred thousand feet of boards which are shipped to foreign markets (except those that are sold at the mills for ready money, or for the use of the adjacent country) And from the title of this lumber, there are, on a moderate calculation, one hundred thousand dollars brought into these towns. These mills employ from one hundred and eighty to two hundred men for eight months in a year. The people that live on Presumpscot river and the large Sebago and long ponds for ninety or an hundred miles, find profitable employment for the winter months in hauling their surplus of timber into these ponds and river for the use of these mills, which would be otherwise destroyed in clearing their land for cultivation. Your petitioners do not remember of having seen any fish called shad or alewives above Presumpscot lower falls ever before these dams were built. That some of your petitioners have seen the fish called salmon pass over these dams, although there has been a sluice way open at the bottom of the dam, but there has never been but a few salmon seen in Presumpscot river, and but very few caught in it as your petitioners remember. Some say it is because there is such a vast quantity of logs drove down this river at a time when the salmon pass up the eastern rivers. If these dams were an obstruction to the salmon going up they would be found in great plenty below the lower dam, whereas there has been but very few seen. By reflecting on the preceding statement, your petitioners feel an assurance that your honors will see the propriety and expediency of giving every aid to works of such magnitude and importance as the mills on Presumpscot river, which afford such a vast quantity of lumber for the inhabitants' use, and for exportation to foreign nations. The object is very great compared with the advantages that arise from the small number of fish that go up Presumpscot river. Your petitioners have seen an act, passed March the first, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, entitled "An act for the preservation of fish called salmon, shad and alewives, in the rivers, streams and waters within the counties of Lincoln and Cumberland, and for repealing all laws made for that purpose, so far as respects their operation in said counties." As committees may not be united in the term sufficient sluiceways, whereby your petitioners will be in danger of being harassed and embroiled in suits at law, which to your petitioners who have been in the habit of peace, void of the spirit of litigation, will be extremely disagreeable, and will have a tendency to destroy that spirit of industry so necessary and advantageous to a community. Wherefore your petitioners pray that your honors would take their situation under serious consideration and repeal said act so far as it respects its operation on Presumpscot river. And as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray. ANDREW HALL, and 82 others.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In Senate, Feb. 3, 1801. ON the petition of Andrew Hall, and others, praying that the river Presumpscot may be exempted from the operation of the act entitled "An act for the preservation of the fish called salmon, shad and alewives in the rivers, streams and waters within the counties of Cumberland and Lincoln." Ordered, that the petitioners notify all persons concerned by publishing an attested copy of their petition and this order thereon, three weeks successively in Jenks' Gazette, printed at Portland the last publication to be made thirty days at least previous to the second Wednesday of the first session of the next General Court, that they may then appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said petition should not be granted. Sent down for concurrence. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. In the House of Representatives, Feb. 4, 1801. Read and concurred. EDWD. H. ROBBINS, Speaker. A true copy—Attest, EDWARD P. HAYMAN, Clerk of Senate.
TO THE HON. THE SENATE, AND THE HON. THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, IN GENERAL COURT ASSEMBLED; THE REPRESENTATION AND PETITION OF THE SUBSCRIBERS, HUMBLY SHEWETH—
THAT we, inhabitants of the town of Topsham, in the county of Lincoln, are proprietors and owners of Lands, lying on Muddy River in said Topsham; which Lands, owing to the flowing of the tide in said Muddy River, are of far less value than they would be if the tide was excluded and kept out; and that by excluding the tide many acres of the most valuable soil (which, being now overflowed by every tide, is unproductive and useless) would be acquired; and that the calculated expense of shutting out the tide holds proportion, in a very small degree, to the great and lasting advantage which would result thereupon. Your petitioners therefore pray that they and their associates may be empowered by law, to erect a dam or dyke, to prevent the water from flowing up said Muddy River, nearly in the course of the northeasterly boundary line of the lot of land now owned by William Reed, and to raise money to defray the expense of the same; and that they may be vested with the same powers and privileges, which other bodies, incorporated for similar purposes, have and enjoy.—And as in duty bound will ever pray. John Rogers, Joseph Mustard, James Fulton, jun. William Reed, John Owen, David Reed, Steal Foshier, Samuel Foy, Arthur Hunter, Abner Rogers, Robert Hunter, Dated at Topsham, Jan. 26, 1801.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FEB. 9, 1801. ON the Petition of John Rogers and others, praying to be empowered to erect a dam or dike in Topsham, in the county of Lincoln, to prevent the water flowing up Muddy River, nearly in the course of the northeasterly boundary line of the lot of land now owned by William Reed. Ordered, that the petitioners notify all persons concerned, by causing a true and attested copy of their petition with this order thereon, to be published in Jenks' Gazette, printed at Portland, three weeks successively, the last publication to be twenty days at least before the second Tuesday of the first session of the next General Court, that they may then appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. Sent up for concurrence. EDWD. H. ROBBINS, Speaker. In Senate, Feb. 9, 1801. Read and concurred. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. A true copy. Attest,—EDWD P. HAYMAN, Clerk of Senate.
TO THE HON. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, IN GENERAL COURT ASSEMBLED.
THE Petition of the inhabitants of Poland, humbly sheweth, that great difficulties have arisen and still subsist with respect to our late incorporation, including a tract of land larger than any in the State, that we knew of. In our present circumstances we cannot assemble at the Meeting-House which the Proprietors built for the public worship of God, and it is impossible in their present extensive situation, to agree on any spot to build on. In addition this, it is with difficulty that many of our inhabitants at the necessary town business; these inconveniences call for some relief. Therefore your Petitioners pray your honors to take the subject into consideration, and set off all the lands north of Little Androscoggin River and incorporate the same into a separate town, the dividing line to be the middle of said Little Androscoggin River. Your petitioners further pray, that they may have one half of the lands, granted to Bakerstown for the encouragement and support of school or schools, set to them.—We your petitioners, having heretofore experienced your goodness, therefore we rely on it, that you in your wisdom will grant this our reasonable request; and as in duty bound will ever pray. JOHN CHANDLER, } Selectmen of NICHOLAS NOYES, } Poland. CHANDLER FREEMAN, Town Clerk.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
IN SENATE, FEB. 4, 1801. ON the petition of the Selectmen and Town Clerk of the town of Poland, praying that a certain part of said town may be set off and incorporated into a separate town— ORDERED, That the Petitioners publish an attested copy of their petition, with this order thereon, three weeks successively in Jenks' Gazette printed at Portland, the last publication to be thirty days at least before the second Wednesday 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, Feb. 4, 1801. Read and concurred. EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. A true copy—Attest, EDWARD P. HAYMAN, Clerk of Senate.
TO THE HON. SENATE, AND THE HON. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS IN GENERAL COURT ASSEMBLED, at January Session, A. D. 1801.
THE Petition of the Subscribers humbly sheweth, that your petitioners, inhabitants of the Plantation now called Hiram, in the County of York, together with the inhabitants of a tract of land on the eastern side of Saco River, and adjacent to Brownfield, commonly called Brown's addition, and also Prescot's grant, humbly sheweth—That your petitioners labor under various grievances in consequence of our present unincorporated situation; and whereas the said tracts of land are so situated that the inhabitants thereon can never be any better accommodated than to become one incorporation. The inhabitants of Brown's addition are situated so remote from the majority of the inhabitants of Brownfield, which renders it inconvenient for the former to stand in connection with the latter, as the travel to public meetings (by the nearest route) will be as much as six miles, and those who may hereafter settle on said tract would doubtless have to travel ten or twelve miles on every public occasion, which, together with the badness of the roads renders the grievances great, laborious and expensive. The plantation of Hiram being small and insufficient for a town of itself and there being no other tract of land, except the aforesaid addition, which can be added thereunto with convenience, as the principal inhabitants thereof are situated by the side of Saco River, as is also the situation of the inhabitants of the addition, and that considerably compacted. The plans herewith presented will be more fully descriptive of the premises. WE therefore pray your Honors that an act may pass the Legislature to incorporate the aforesaid tracts of land, together with the inhabitants thereon, into a town by the name of _____ with all the immunities and privileges which other towns enjoy by law; and as in duty bound your petitioners shall ever pray. TIMOTHY CUTLER, and thirty three others.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In Senate, Feb. 25, 1801. ON the petition of Timothy Cutler, and others, inhabitants of the plantation of Hiram, Brown's addition, and Prescot's grant, praying that said tracts of land may be incorporated into a town. ORDERED, that the petitioners publish an attested copy of their petition with this order thereon, three weeks successively in Jenks' Portland Gazette, the last publication to be thirty days at least before the second Wednesday 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 the said petition should not be granted. Sent down for concurrence. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. In the House of Representatives, Feb. 4, 1801. Read and concurred. EDWD. H. ROBBINS, Speaker. A true Copy. Attest,—EDW. P. HAYMAN, Clerk of Senate.
JUST RECEIVED, AND NOW READY FOR SALE,
By Aaron Adams, At his Store adjoining Gen. Wadsworth's dwelling-house, Main street—a handsome assortment of GLASS WARE, CONSISTING of plain and double flint, cut and engraved quart and pint Decanters; Wine Glasses; Tumblers by the straw; cut and plain Salt-Cellars; Glass Sugar-Bowls; Cream-Pitchers; engraved Vinegar Cruets; Water-Crofts; Pepper-Boxes; fluted and plain Jelly Glasses; Mustard-Pots; Pocket-Bottles; Proof Glasses, &c. &c. ALSO,
A few handsome sets of Tea China, Fluted and plain brass Candlesticks. Britannia Tea-Pots, Japaned Waiters and Tea-Canisters, Looking-Glasses, Patent Lamps, Slates, &c. &c. Crockery Ware as usual. The above articles will be sold at the lowest prices for cash. Portland, March 1b.
For Sale, at JENKS' Book-Store,
Seaman's Journals. An Appendix to Park's Insurance.—Blunt's new and correct editions of Moore's new Practical Navigator—and captain Furlong's American Coast Pilot. A Century Sermon, delivered at Portsmouth, by Rev. T. Alden, jun.
Fresh Garden Seeds.
JUST received for sale, at WILLIAM HUDSON'S Grocery Store, in the new brick building in Middle-street, near the head of Union-street, an assortment of genuine GARDEN SEEDS, of the last importation. March 23.
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber, are requested to call and pay George E. Vaughan, my Attorney, or their notes and accounts will be put in suit without further notice. A BRAHAM WELCH. March 17, 1801.
Bankruptcy.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy, founded upon the act of Congress of the United States, passed on the fourth day of April, 1800, entitled, "An Act to establish an uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States" has been awarded and issued against
Joseph Morrill, of Biddeford, in the District of Maine, Esquire; and he being declared a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in the said Commission named, or to the major part of them, on the first, fifteenth and twenty ninth days of April next, at three o'clock in the afternoon of each of the said days, at the house of John Cawes, Inn-holder, in Pepperellborough in said District, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; when and where the Creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts; and at the second meeting to choose an assignee or assignees; and at the last meeting said Bankrupt is required to finish his examination. All persons indebted to said Bankrupt, are to make payment, and those who have any of his effects, are to deliver the same to such persons only, as the Commissioners shall appoint. SAMUEL PIERSON, JAMES GRAY, jun. DANIEL GRAINGER, } Commissioners. Pepperellborough, March 8, 1801. 4w.
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administratrix on the Estate of
Joseph Brown, Mariner, late of Northyarmouth, in the county of Cumberland, deceased; and has taken upon herself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs: She therefore requests all persons who have any claims on said estate to exhibit the same; and those who are indebted thereto to make payment to her without delay. HANNAH BROWN, Administratrix. Gorham, 16th March, 1801
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administratrix of the Estate of
Thomas Owen, late of Thompsonborough, in the county of Lincoln, boat-builder, 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. ELIZABETH OWEN, her X mark. February 7, 1801.
Direct Tax.
Fifteenth Collection District, First Division, State of Massachusetts.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident and unknown proprietors of the following lots and tracts of land within said district, that a direct tax came due and payable on the seventh day of April, 1800, viz.
Table with 4 columns: Name of Owner, or Superintendent, No. of Acres, Value of each Lot, or Tract, Tax on each Lot, or Tract. Rows include Reuben Brown's heirs, Unknown—one tract of Shubael Hinkley's, Unknown—one tract on the 4th mile, west end Lot No. 43.
That unless said taxes are paid on or before the 15th day of June next, so much of said Ladd will be sold at Vendue, on said day, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at my dwelling house in Hallowell, as will pay the same together with costs and charges. JOHN SEWALL, Collector of said Collection District. Hallowell, March 12, 1801
PUBLIC SALES.
To be sold at public sale the second day of July, at two o'clock in the afternoon, ONE hundred acres of LAND—A DWELLING HOUSE, one story, 28 by 38, finished outside and part inside. The said Land is a neck closed by the water, so that sixty rods of fencing will inclose the whole.—Six loads of Salt Hay, and four loads of English, are cut on said land—very commodious for shipbuilding—well wooded and timbered—a good pasture—Lying in Nobleborough, county of Lincoln, the eastern side of Damascos Cove Bay. For further information, apply to BENJAMIN PLUMMER, adjoining the premises. March, 1801.
MAINE, ss. BY virtue of a precept directed to the subscriber from the District Court—Will be sold at Public Auction at Mr. OXNARD'S Office, in Fishstreet, on Tuesday the twenty fourth day of March instant, at eleven o'clock, A. M. the following Goods—Condemned by the above Court for a breach of the revenue laws—viz. Eight pieces of valuable Kedderminster Carpeting, containing 62 yards each. Eleven Carpets of various sizes, Eight pieces Sprigged Muslin, Two do. Corded do. Six do. Muslin Handkerchiefs, Twelve do. Cotton Cambrics, Twenty-four bundles White Thread. Conditions of sale made known at the time and place thereof. ISAAC PARKER, Marshal. Portland, 7th March, 1801.