Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1801-02-02 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 145]
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1801.
[VOLUME III.]
Miscellany.
POLITICAL.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
From the Washington Federalist.
INFORMATION has been received from all the states concerning the election of President and Vice President, and it is considered certain that Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Burr, have an equal number of votes, each seventy three votes. On the second Wednesday in February, the House of Representatives, voting by states, are to give their votes by ballot, before they adjourn, for the one or the other of these gentlemen; and a majority of the states, which cannot be less than nine states, must concur in the choice of one or the other, or neither will be elected. It is extremely to be desired that a majority of the states may be found in favor of one of the candidates; but upon a view of the present representation in that house, serious doubts may be entertained whether either Mr. Jefferson or Mr. Burr will unite nine states in their favor. Such being a possible event, it will be proper for Congress before the second Wednesday in February, to provide by law for the vacancy in the office of the President that may be occasioned, and to declare what officer shall act as President until a President shall be elected in the manner prescribed by the constitution.
Mr. Jefferson coming from a southern state, and being considered unfriendly to the measures of commercial defence which have been adopted, and hostile to the general tenor of the Washington administration, which has been continued by his successor, will not in all probability obtain the vote of either of the six following states, viz.
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, Delaware, and South-Carolina; each of which will be inclined to prefer Mr. Burr.
The states of Georgia, Tennessee, North-Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New-York, seven in number, may be reckoned certainly in favor of Mr. Jefferson.
New-Jersey is uncertain, but most probably will prefer Mr. Burr, who is said to be a native of that state. Vermont is represented by two members, who almost without exception are opposed to each other in every vote; consequently being equally divided, Vermont will give no vote on the question.
The Representatives from the state of Maryland are eight in number, of whom five are Federalists. It is therefore probable that this state will either vote for Mr. Burr, or be equally divided, and give no vote.
Thus of sixteen states, fourteen may be expected to vote; of whom seven are sure on the side of Mr. Jefferson, and six sure on the side of Mr. Burr, and one uncertain: and if this one shall vote for Mr. Jefferson, he will not have the votes of nine states, and without the votes of nine states, he cannot be elected President.
The constitution has enjoined, that the certificates of the elections shall be opened, and their votes counted in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, and "if there be more than one person who have a majority of the votes of the electors appointed, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose, by ballot, one of them for President." The choice is required to be immediately made, in order that the result may be declared in the presence of the Senate, and to prevent the possibility of intrigue and corruption. The choice must be therefore made before the House adjourns or disperses, and after the convention of the Senate and House of Representatives terminates, the House cannot on a future day act upon this subject.
From the GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE time has at length arrived, when the administration of our Government is about to pass out of the hands of those who have been in the councils and confidence of our departed WASHINGTON. Men who are principally known only as the leaders and favourites of a faction composed in a great measure of discontented, fortune hunting FOREIGNERS, are now to succeed. This is a serious and portentous moment to us who are native Americans, linked in with the states of our country by families, relations, friends, possessions, local attachments, and a thousand nameless sympathies, who cannot, like our disturbers, in the day of calamity, fly, without loss or regret, to some distant quarter of the globe.
We have all observed, and the observations should now excite reflection and watchfulness, that this country has been tranquil, prosperous and happy, in proportion as the faction now about to predominate, has been restrained and kept under; and on the contrary, tumults and seditions in proportion as they have been allowed to gain any local or temporary ascendancy.
Men of nataly and turbulent tempers have
existed in the country from the first formation of our Government; but they have been, for the most part, men of little personal character, and deserving of little consideration. At length, however, from the alliance of numerous men of deliberate fortunes, of corrupted morals, aliens, desperados, expatriated patriots, refugees from European justice , together with many well meaning but mistaken and deluded persons, they have increased to a formidable and regularly organized phalanx. All these are industriously trained and drilled to their exercise by ambitious demagogues who wish for nothing so much as a revolution , from the hope of acquiring a consequence, of which they can have no expectation from their virtues or their talents.
Such is the faction , against which the good and the wise have now to contend: a noxious, poisonous weed, which, like the gourd of Jonah, has sprung up and gained its maturity during the night of neglect, fostered by the favouring darkness of obscurity and contempt, till its spreading branches have become so extensive with the nation, threatening to smother the growth of our morals, religion, liberty and national dignity.
These are the fruits of laxness and lethargy in the friends of good government and necessary subordination. It is now high time to awake from this torpid indifference. ACTIVE VIGILANCE, and not forbearance, is the virtue which our country demands. It is now too late to despise what we have been accustomed to view with a mixture of contempt, disgust and pity.—The serpent, generated in the slime and filth of Jacobinism , has grown up to a Python monster , which must be attacked and subdued, although his breath bear pestilence, and his spumes poison, to those who approach him.
In a land of universal suffrages, like ours, it is not the conduct of one or two individuals that we have most to dread. It is the general ascendancy of the worthless, the dishonest, the rapacious, the vile, the merciless and the ungodly, which forms the principal ground of alarm. These are the men who have incessantly malignied the officers of our government collectively and individually, our courts of justice, our laws, our clergy and our seminaries of learning—These are the men who called WASHINGTON a murderer and who are indebted to whom Mr. Burr and Mr. Jefferson are indebted for the two highest offices in the nation. From such men we have every thing to fear. They already proclaim, in their appropriate jargon, that the "reign of terror" has ceased, and that the triumph of democratical and republican principles, over a tyrannical aristocracy, is commencing; in plain English, that the rabble has broken over all restraint, and are just preparing to imbue their hands in the blood of those, who may attempt to stay their progress. It is fallacious, therefore, to imagine that we shall experience only a change of men. Men of wisdom and honesty, who know that the government has been administered with fidelity, and the laws executed with justice, who also know the seditions and insurrections which such measures have occasioned, and the present brutal menaces of the triumphant party, must see that some thing very different from the equitable administration of our present constitution it is to be expected.
It is a consideration sufficiently deplorable, in a christian country, that a reputed infidel, an open scoffer at the person and character of the Saviour, and a reputed sharper, speculator and libertine, should be elevated to the highest stations in the government: and for the very reason too, that they are thus reputed. But whatever may be the character and views of the President and Vice President elect, their administration will certainly be dangerous to the peace and constitution of this country; not merely, and perhaps not principally, from their official measures, but from the additional influence which it will give to the ignorant and the wicked.
Every man of reading knows, that our constitution, in its present form and under its present equitable administration secures to the subject a considerably greater share of freedom than has ever yet, in any extensive country, been found to consist with real liberty or permanent security. Every such man fees with alarm, that we are now in the high road which has uniformly led to despotism, through the dark valley of anarchy. Any additional weight, therefore, in the popular scale, must be fatal.
"Si quidquam mutare velis, unoque sub iecu, Stat genus humanum!"—Make any change, of this nature, and we are crushed together. Such has already become the audacity of the faction that they clamour, publicly, of a recourse to the bayonet.
As we now proceed, we are rapidly tracing the steps of France, and have already arrived, almost at the point, at which they appear stained with blood. Under these circumstances, nothing can save us from the horrors and devastations of a civil war, but a prompt, steady, and vigorous co-operation of all who have an interest in the preservation of peace. The daring must be overawed by an union of the wise; and, above all, the ignorant and misguided must be instructed and set right, by industry unremitted and extensive as that which has been
used for their delusion. If men of property and integrity will not stoop to these means, they will be bowed under the consequences.—Resistance must be bold, determined and unshrinking, or it is ineffectual; nay, it is worse than no resistance at all. With political knowledge, well or ill understood, is now involved every thing which is valuable or worth preservation. Morality, religion, the laws, literature, our domestic safety and individual property must perish in the common shipwreck."
Impressed with the justness and importance of these reflections, the Editor of the Gazette of the United States, having associated with himself a person somewhat conversant with books and men, resolves, if adequate support be afforded him, to exert whatever strength he possesses, to uphold the cause of truth and righteousness; to set up and maintain a standard, which shall serve as a rallying point to all who contend for the cause of peace and due subordination; to diffuse correct and salutary notions of the principles of our government and the interests of the people ; to caution and admonish against the pernicious doctrines and examples of bad men; to watch with eagle eye the misrepresentations, calumnies, and falsehoods of Jacobinical publications, whose filth and loathsomeness shall no longer screen them from exposure, or their authors from chastisement; to "invade, with boldness, the strong holds of impiety and anarchy;" and to call loudly in the ears of Americans, that "we have yet a nation to save; we have yet millions loyal men, who have never bowed the knee to the Baal of Jacobinism, and we hope that many will draw back from the bloody idol and turn unto righteousness, to the saving of their souls, their bodies and estates, and the general deliverance of their country."
With such views, the Editor is induced to adopt the words of the Roman orator, "licet omnibus, licet etiam mihi dignitatem patriae tueri: potestis modo veniendi in publicum sit, dicendi periculum non recuso;" and to solicit the encouragement of all such as regard the dignity of their country, in every part of the United States. His exertions shall at least be honest and industrious, and such as he hopes will merit a generous support and render his Gazette an extensive medium for the diffusion of sound and correct principles, in politics, morals, religion and literature.
It now remains to make known to the public the intentions of the Editor respecting the future management of his paper, and the terms upon which he proposes to issue a COUNTRY GAZETTE.
I. The Gazette of the United States shall continue to be published daily, to contain, as heretofore, important articles of foreign, domestic, commercial and congressional intelligence, accompanied by such remarks as to the Editors, shall seem pertinent and useful; important state papers; reports of proceeding and decision in the courts of law; essays of a moral, political, commercial, economical and literary nature, &c. &c. To these there will continue to be added, weekly, on Monday, a complete wholesale Price Current of all articles of commerce in the Philadelphia market. The price, as heretofore, will be eight dollars annually to subscribers in the city, with the addition of one dollar to those at a distance.
II. To accommodate distant subscribers, and in conformity to the repeated solicitations of numerous friends, as well as to counteract the pernicious effects of many mischievous Jacobin papers circulated at a cheap rate, a Gazette for the Country shall be published on Mondays and Thursdays, which shall contain all the important matter of the Daily Gazette, free from advertisements; and for the convenience of Merchants and Traders at a distance, the Price Current shall be inserted in every Monday's paper. This shall be furnished to subscribers at the price of four dollars per annum, exclusive of postage, to be paid in advance.
III. The first number of the Country Gazette shall be published as soon as five hundred subscribers are obtained for it, exclusive of those who are at present country subscribers; and on the publication of the first number, they may, if it is preferred, substitute the Country in place of the Daily Gazette.
Gentlemen disposed to become subscribers for either the daily or country Gazette, are requested immediately to transmit their names to C. P. Wayne, Editor of the Gazette of the United States. Philadelphia, Jan. 10, 1801.
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Legislature of Massachusetts.
THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 1801.
A QUORUM of both branches of the Legislature having convened, a joint committee, consisting of Messrs. Bridge and Jones, of the Senate and Messrs. Knox, Hill and Parkman, of the house, was immediately raised to wait on his Excellency the Governor, and inform him, that the Legislature were ready to
receive any communications he might be pleased to make.
The Committee reported, that his Excellency would meet the two branches, to morrow, at 12 o'clock.
FRIDAY, JAN. 23.
The Senators and Representatives assembled together in the Representatives Chamber; when precisely at 12 o'clock his Excellency the Governor came in, and pronounced the following
Speech:
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
THE favorable situation of our fellow-Citizens and the appearance of general and progressive improvement which present themselves to our view in the various parts on the Commonwealth, afford us subjects of mutual congratulation.
In the course of the last year the seasons, through the greater part of our country, have been fruitful; our trade and fisheries were generally prosperous, and the people, of this State have not again been visited with that alarming disease which has fatally prevailed in some parts of the United States. These and many other providential blessings, will on this occasion occur to our remembrance, and demand the gratitude of our hearts.
But while we rejoice in the public prosperity, it will be our duty to reflect, that we owe to our fellow-citizens our vigilant and faithful endeavours to preserve their present advantages, and promote their lasting reputation and interest—to check the growth of vice and impiety, to cherish the institutions for moral instruction and the education of youth; and to maintain the principles of justice, and provide for its equal administration in every part of the Commonwealth.
At the same time our obligations to support the Federal Constitution will require us, to attend to the public national affairs, and endeavor to diffuse correct information concerning them among our fellow citizens—to remove groundless prejudices—to discountenance the spirit of party, and undue attachment, to any foreign nation; and to do all in our power to increase the respectability of the American character.
From the commencement of the war in Europe, it has been the policy of the General Government to cultivate Peace with all nations—to observe an exact neutrality between the powers at war, and by the fulfillment of treaties and respect for the Law of nations, to maintain itself in that impartial course, which its duty and interest prescribed. But notwithstanding these cautious measures, our intercourse with other nations has been obstructed, and to justify these obstructions, our respect for the duties owing from one nation to another, has at different times been drawn into question by one or other of the belligerent powers.
At length a regard to the public safety compelled the government to have recourse to defensive measures, and the success of our infant navy in preventing depredations upon our commerce, will serve to convince the people, that a system of maritime defence will be the most easy and efficacious, whenever their rights shall be in danger from external enemies.
The predicament of a neutral people is frequently delicate and hazardous; for when a war is prosecuted with great acrimony, the contending parties are extremely apt to consider those who are not for them, as against them.—But whatever apology may be formed for wrongs that proceed from the heat of passion, there can be none from deliberate and authorized injuries:—Still, however, an honorable accommodation is always to be preferred to a state of hostility; for a wise and humane government will never resort to the calamitous expedient of war, until every advance towards a reconciliation which the national dignity will permit, has proved ineffectual.
It must, I think, be allowed, that the government of the United States, in the cases I allude to, have conducted with moderation, and with a manifest preference of mild and pacific measures.—While preparations were made for the unhappy alternative of war, no method consistent with the public safety was left unattempted, to obtain justice by negotiation.
Before the Constitution of the United States was adopted, the union between them had become little more than nominal;—they had interfering interests, and in some cases were hardly restrained from expressions of mutual resentment.—The Congress at that time was only authorised to make requisitions upon the several States, and the latter exercised the privilege of refusing to comply with those requisitions. If this state of things had continued during the disturbances in Europe, it is scarcely to be supposed that all the States would have remained neutral—it is not unlikely, that from accident or motives of partiality or mistaken interest, they would have arranged themselves under opposite standards.—The possibility of such an event must, in our estimation, enhance the value of that form of Government which has connected us together.
But it has been often said, that however well adopted the Constitution was to our circum-

France, the administration of government under it, has been injurious to the public welfare, and has abounded with errors either from ignorance or design.—If the present improved condition of our country does not refute these suggestions, it might be unavailing to point out particular measures that would seem to intrude the Rulers of the Nation to our regard and confidence.
The people of this State however, will recollect that when the Constitution was formed, they were oppressed with an almost insupportable weight of taxes, and that with all their exertions it was difficult for them to pay the interest of the State Debt. By the settlement of the public accounts, and the assumption of the balance due to us by the national government, we are relieved from the burden, and you will find by a statement of the Treasurer, which will be laid before you, that our present debt may soon be cancelled, if measures for that purpose shall be preferred to the payment of the rate of interest which the public creditors are intitled to—and that no unusual taxes will be necessary.
A report of the Quarter Master-General, which will also be laid before you will show that the State has a large supply of military stores, and warlike implements, which may be used, if there shall be occasion, by our well organized militia for the public defense. You will direct such measures to be taken for securing the expected property mentioned in the report, as the interest of the Commonwealth may require.
That the laws may be duly executed, permit me to suggest the expediency of making some additional provision for suppressing Lotteries, which are not established or allowed by the Legislature. The importance too of our inspection Laws will require the most effectual methods to prevent or punish a violation of them—Perhaps it will be found necessary in both cases to authorize prosecutions by the Grand Jury.
Our constituents now enjoy peace and tranquility, and are protected by standing laws, which are designed to secure them in the enjoyment of the fruits of their labor, against every species of injustice or oppression:—Whatever more can be done to meliorate their condition, or increase their security, you Gentlemen, will now attempt to do.
The success of your labours will very much depend upon your influence and example, in promoting good order among the people, and producing a compliance with the regulations you may think proper to adopt. The most excellent laws will be of no use, if they are not observed, and they will not be observed by the people, unless they are respected by those who make and execute them.
I shall transmit to you, Gentlemen, by particular messages, any information of importance, which I may be able to communicate.
From the good agreement which appeared in the former session, I have no doubt that your deliberations at this time will be conducted with candor, and I trust they will produce important benefits to our fellow-citizens. So far as my duty is concerned, you may be assured of all the co-operation that can result from zeal for the welfare of the Commonwealth, and a disposition to promote harmony in the several branches of the Government.
Caleb Strong.
Boston, January 23, 1801.
The Speech was committed in the House, to Messrs. Knox, Ward, Pickman, Hill and Mitchell; and in the Senate to Messrs. Bridge, Davis, and Bigelow.
SATURDAY, JAN. 24.
The appointment of Committees, reading of petitions, and discussing the preliminaries of the business that is to engage the attention of the Legislature, during its present session, comprised the principal business transacted this day.
MONDAY, JAN. 26.
Messrs. Hunt, Russell of B. and Slocum were appointed a committee to revise the law for the due regulation of weights and measures.
TUESDAY, JAN. 27.
A petition from a committee of the town of Litchfield, for annexing that town to the county of Kennebec, was committed.
Messrs. Russell of B. Pickman, Hill, McLellan, Whitman, Green, Tillinghast, Bragdon, Coffin, Paine, Storer, Knox, Williams, of S. Sargent, Bruce, Bullard and Chandler of M. were appointed a committee to consider the expediency of making provision, the present session, for a new valuation.
An order was received from the Senate appointing the Hon. Messrs. March, Bigelow and Dummer, with such as the House may join, a committee to make such arrangements respecting the times and places of holding the Supreme Judicial Court, Courts of Common Pleas, and Courts of General Sessions of the Peace in this Commonwealth, as they may judge necessary.
Messrs. Prescott, Tillinghast, Lowell, Morton of D. and Putnam, were appointed a committee to revise the laws for regulating elections.
An order was received from the Senate, appointing the Hon. Messrs. Williams and Starkweather, with such as the House may join, a committee to consider the expediency of repealing an act laying a duty on deeds. The House added Messrs. Hall of B. Stores and McLellan.
A resolve, vesting the commissioners appointed to ascertain the boundary line between this Commonwealth and Connecticut, with the necessary powers, was received from the Senate and concurred in.
The statement of the Treasury, was received.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28.
A petition of Wm. Hammond and William Hammond, jun. for leave to build a bridge in the town of Bangor, was committed to Messrs. Baldwin, Storer and Bruch, with such as the Hon. Senate may join.
An order was received from the Senate appointing the Hon. Messrs. Davis and Traft, with such as the House may join, a committee to hear those sheriffs, towns and selectmen, who neglected to make returns of the votes for Governor, &c. for the present year. The House added, Messrs. Whitman, McLellan and Jackson.
A bill to extend the time for the treasurers of the several counties, towns and districts within this commonwealth, to procure a complete set of beams, weights and measures, agreeably to the act for the due regulation of weights and measures, was read a second time, and tomorrow, at 10 o'clock, assigned for the third reading.
A petition of Thomas Rice and others for an alteration in the times of holding Courts of Common Pleas, &c. in the county of Lincoln, was committed to Messrs. Little, Cobb and Hunt.
A petition of the selectmen of Boothbay for leave to establish an Academy, was committed to Messrs. Morton of D. Willis and Knox.
A bill was received from the Senate to incorporate plantation No. 3, or Reedstown, on the West side of Kennebec river, into a town by the name of Strong.
A petition of E. A. Holyoke and others, for leave to establish a turnpike road between Boston and Salem, was committed to Messrs. Hall of B. Bancroft and Jackson.
ANSWER OF THE SENATE, TO THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
May it please your Excellency,
THE Senate of Massachusetts receive with great satisfaction your Excellency's address to both Houses of the Legislature. We consider it as affording new proof, not only of the wisdom, but of the purity of intention by which you are governed.
We have abundant cause of gratitude for the general health and uncommon prosperity enjoyed by our fellow citizens throughout the Commonwealth. We shall cheerfully contribute our vigilant and faithful endeavours, to preserve their present advantages, and promote their lasting reputation and interest; to check the alarming growth of vice and impiety; to cherish the institutions for moral instruction, and the education of youth; and to maintain the principles of justice, and provide for its equal administration in every part of the Commonwealth.
As the happiness of the great body of the people of the United States, is inseparably connected with the welfare and prosperity of the community, it needs only that they be correctly informed, to remove groundless prejudices, and to extinguish the spirit of party and undue attachment to any foreign country; and to induce a consistency and uniformity of national character.
The conduct of the government of the United States towards the nations of Europe, has been uniformly marked with rectitude and moderation. And the wisdom of those measures of maritime defence, which the injustice and jealousy of the contending nations, have compelled us to resort to, is verified in their effects, which have not only justified the expectations of the most sanguine, but must also have created a general confidence in the system which has been so happily successful.
We have equal cause of mutual felicitation for the security which the Federal Government has hitherto afforded to our internal tranquility; a blessing which had the old confederation continued, we could hardly have hoped for at this eventful crisis.
And we have still a confidence in the holy oracles of our religion, and therefore believe that a tree may be known by its fruit, so we think that no honest man can pronounce that form of government to be bad, or that administration wicked or corrupt which, under heaven, has advanced our nation to a degree of prosperity, to which there is no parallel in the history of mankind.
We learn, with great satisfaction, the prosperous state of the finances of this Commonwealth, and that our public debt may be soon cancelled without imposing any unusual burdens on our constituents. This desirable state of things is undoubtedly to be considered as one of the happy consequences of adopting the federal constitution; without which our state government would have been unable to satisfy the just claims of their creditors, but by resorting to modes of taxation much more inconvenient than any which the general government have hitherto found necessary.
The several matters of local concern which your Excellency has suggested, shall receive our prompt and serious attention. Impressed, as we are with a full belief that the force of example, contributes in an eminent degree, to the efficacy of the wisest laws, we not only consider it our duty to attempt to provide such additional regulations as may be necessary to secure our constituents in the enjoyment of the fruits of their labor, against every species of injustice or oppression, but, by our personal obedience and respect for the laws of our country, to allure our fellow citizens to yield them a voluntary support.
National Legislature.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
City of Washington—TUESDAY, JAN. 13.
Mr. Taliaferro arose and informed the House, in terms simple, dignified and impressive, that his colleague, James Jones, was no more. The House immediately came to a unanimous vote to mark their respect for the deceased, by each member's wearing for one month, a crape on his left arm. They also appointed a committee to take charge of his funeral, which they resolved to attend.
TREASURY.
Mr. Otis, as chairman of the committee appointed to inquire into the state of the treasury, in conformity with the request of the late secretary, informed the House that the committee expected to be prepared to report in two or three days. In making the investigation, the committee had not considered it as incumbent on them to enter into an examination of all those long details which had already been under the eye of the House. They had however carefully examined those statements which had not been minutely exhibited to the house; and, indeed, had made every inquiry that in their opinion was necessary to a correct understanding of the state of the treasury. As, however, the committee, in the inquiry made, had been left almost entirely to their own discretion, and might perhaps, have failed to take all those views that members might desire, he was instructed by the committee, at the instance of the Secretary and Comptroller of the Treasury, to invite any members, who were desirous of having any particular information, to state their request, which might be attained by proposing specific instructions to the committee, who would most cheerfully cooperate in the furtherance of their object.
NAVY.
Mr. Otis presented a long letter from the Secretary of the Navy, presenting a comprehensive view of the naval department, which was ordered to be printed.
PAPER MONEY.
Mr. Otis, presented a petition, praying the interposition of Congress in affording relief to holders of certain descriptions of paper money, whose reference he moved to the committee of claims.
On the question, the reference was lost by almost an unanimous vote.
It was then resolved that the prayer of the petition cannot be granted.
DIRECT TAX.
The following resolution was referred to a committee of the whole.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to bring in a bill to repeal the act entitled "an act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States," with a proviso, that nothing therein contained shall be construed so as to prevent the assessing and collecting of the direct tax, passed the 14th July, 1798.
SEDITION LAW.
A motion was made to go into committee of revival and unfinished business, recommending a continuation of the Seditious Law, which was rejected.
FRIDAY, JAN. 16.
WINES, &c.
The bill to continue in force, the acts laying duties on licenses for selling wines and foreign distilled spirits by retail; on property sold at auction, and on carriages for the conveyance of persons, was read & passed—Yeas 46, Nays 31.
JUDICIARY.
The Judiciary Bill, was taken up, and after some time spent upon it, was ordered to be engrossed.
Foreign Articles.
DECLARATION OF WAR
Against Great Britain by the Emperor of all the Russias.
WHEREAS war has for many years desolated the face of Europe and disturbed the tranquility of innocent communities from considerations that cannot be justified by the laws of nature or nations. And whereas the maritime strength of Great Britain has become dangerous to the privileges and liberties of other states, and on sundry unwarrantable occasions violated the rights of neutrality. And whereas the principal support of this overgrown fleet is derived from my faithful allies Denmark and Sweden, I hereby proclaim it my solemn determination to co-operate with them for supposing the balance of power in Europe, and to equalize the advantages of the weak and unprotected sovereignties. And whereas terms of peace have been offered by the Frit Consul of the French Republic, that have been shamefully neglected, I hereby proclaim war against the King of the Britons, and authorise the seizure and detention of all ships, goods and merchandise belonging to his subjects, and a sequestration of all property. Having no other object but the restoration of a general peace, I look up to heaven for the rectitude of my intentions, and subscribe this declaration to advance and promote the general interests of mankind.
Done at Peterburgh, this 15th day of Nov. 1800.
PAUL.
DUMBROWSKIE, G. Sec.
From Lake Onega.
LONDON, NOV. 27.
We have already stated our belief that it was the determination of our government to attempt seriously the expulsion of the French from Egypt by a British force adequate to the occasion.—We have now the best authority for confirming our former assertion, by assuring our readers, that Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and a powerful army are detached on this important service.
A letter from Chamberry, says a Paris paper, relates a curious circumstance of a man who was supposed to have died there suddenly. On the third day after, when a man was descending the stair case with the corpse and coffin on his head, he happened to slip, and tumbled down coffin and all.—The porter was sadly bruised, but the accident produced the resurrection of the poor fellow who was so soon to have been interred; and he only complained of a contusion in the head, occasioned by the fall which restored him to animation.
Among the noblemen introduced to his majesty yesterday, was his excellency Hodge Ibraham Candet, admiral of Algiers, and ambassador and plenipotentiary from the Dey. He has presented to the king two beautiful African horses, one black and the other bay, richly caparisoned with a saddle embroidered with gold, and the stirrups of silver; he also presented an elegant sword, besides other costly presents. His excellency is a fine tall man, and appears about fifty years old. His attendants, on parting with the horses, kissed the animals and shed tears.
PARIS, NOV. 13.
General Moreau was married on the 9th inst. to Mademoiselle Hulot, a young Lady between 19 and 20 years of age, daughter of an old Director-General of Isle de France and sets off tomorrow or next day for the army.
By the Mails.
BALTIMORE, JAN. 17.
Extract of a letter from Hamburg, dated Nov. 11, to a friend in this place.
"When you learn of Prussia's intending to molest Hamburgh, of its intention to take possession of Cuxhaven, you need not be much concerned. This rumour arises from a Prussian vessel having been brought into Cuxhaven by an English frigate, in order to repair a leak occasioned at sea, the release of which the King of Prussia claims from us. But we have acted as we should have done, viz. not having meddled at all with it, because it being on a neutral stream, every one has a right to enter. This difference will soon be settled, and we remain under no apprehension about the affair; therefore, if you hear anything respecting it, you may ease the minds of your fellow citizens."
WASHINGTON, JAN. 12.
A resolution has been moved in the House of Delegates, of Virginia, That the auditor be directed to lay before the house a statement of all monies drawn from the Treasury (on warrant from Governor Monroe) to carry into effect the late law respecting the Electors of President, &c. But the virtuous democratic majority has NEGATIVED it. This is indeed an age of wonders—Jacobin corruption and bribery begin to be ashamed of their features!
NEWYORK, JAN. 19.
Captain Craig arrived at Baltimore on the 10th inst. informs he had an account from a gentleman direct from Curacoa, that the fever there had raged to an alarming height, inasmuch that the English had carried their cannon to Jamaica, intending to evacuate the place.
INSURRECTIONS.
A letter from Bequie, received by a gentleman at New London and dated 15th Dec. gives an account of the discovery of a project insurrection of the negroes in the island of St. Vincent.—A military company of blacks were to lead in the carnage. The plot was discovered by two negroes; and efficient measures taken to bring the guilty to punishment. One hundred muskets were secured, which the negroes had secreted.
Accounts from St. Domingo also mention, that the persecution of the whites still continued in that colony—that they are frequently dragged from their houses, and without either accusation or trial, executed at the cannon's mouth. Ship loads of whites and mulattoes are frequently sent from the island, and, under the pretence of transport-

ing them to some other; but from the speedy return of their vessels, it is too evident how their cargoes have been disposed of.
NEWYORK, JAN. 25. The Rush-Light No. 5, which has been lately circulated in this city, said to have been written and published in London, by William Cobbet, proves to be the base fabrication of some American Jacobin. It is no longer a wonder, then, that this pamphlet was advertised for sale at the Jacobin office of the American Citizen.
NEWBURYPORT, JAN. 27. The Rush-Light is supposed to have been written by French Cox, the man who entered Philadelphia at the head of the British army last year—but of late a champion of the Jacobins.—Let the readers of the Rush-Light judge, how poor must be the cause, which requires for its support such arts, and such characters.
Portland,
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1801.
The Hon. Daniel Davis, we hear has been nominated by his Excellency the Governor, to be Solicitor General of this Commonwealth.
The Hon. Lucius Horatio Stockton, now federal Senator from New Jersey, is nominated Secretary at War.
The Philadelphia Gazette, contradicts from authority, the report of the nomination of Gen. Marshall, Chief Justice.
The Hon. Henry Latimer, Esq. federal Senator from the state of Delaware, has resigned his seat.
Conrad Webb, Esq. is appointed an agent for certain counties in Virginia, pursuant to an act of Congress relating to the 6th article of the British treaty.
A FACT,
AND A DISGRACEFUL ONE. It is a fact, that if Mr. Burr and Mr. Jefferson (the champions of liberty) become President and Vice-President of the United States, they will owe their elevation to the influence of SLAVERY. Had the votes resulting from the number of five persons only of the United States been reckoned, they would have stood thus:
  Jefferson 63 Adams 65   Burr 63 Pinckney 64   Majority for Adams 2 for Pinckney 1 
But from a spirit of accommodation, and to satisfy the Southern States, a clause was introduced into the constitution, authorizing the representation of three fifths of the slaves of the United States, beings who have no more property in their persons, than the horses and oxen that graze on the hills of New England. This principle unjustly adds 6 Representatives to Virginia, 2 to North-Carolina, and 2 to South-Carolina; and these ten Slave Powers turned the scale in favor of Burr and Jefferson.
The number of free inhabitants in the Mississippi Territory, is stated at 6000, of whom 1000 are supposed capable of bearing arms.—The number of black inhabitants is considered as equal to that of the whites.
The last Paris Papers announce the discovery of a method for the fusion of emeralds by which any number of them may be melted, so as to form one stone, without the least impairing the lustre of its appearance.—Similar experiments made upon rubies, topazes, and other precious stones, have not been successful.
FIRES!
Two attempts to set fire to houses in Salem, were discovered and frustrated on the nights of Friday and Saturday last. The Selectmen have offered a reward of 300 dollars for the discovery of the incendiaries.
Near Albany, on the evening of the 17th, the valuable and extensive manufactures established at Water-vliet, by Mr. James Caldwell, and lately carried on under the firm of Caldwell, Frazier and Co. were, a second time, burnt down.
At Providence, at 10 in the morning of the 21st, a fire broke out in Mr. John Corlis's store, on his wharf, and raged with the greatest fury until 2 in the afternoon; in which time a number of elegant houses, stores, and other valuable property, were entirely destroyed. The loss is estimated at 300,000 Dollars.
The house of Mr. Moore of New-York, was destroyed by fire on the evening of the 21st inst. There were three alarms, the same evening.
MARRIED —At Concord, on Sunday evening last, the Rev. Roosevelt Mellinger of York, to Miss Mary Brown.
At York, Peter O. Alden Esq. of Brunswick, to Miss Mindwel Lyman.
DIED —In this town, on Thursday last Mr. James Larrabee, aged 27.
Yesterday morning, very suddenly, Mr. Moses Shattuck, aged 60.
At Washington, the Hon. James Jones, Esq. member of Congress from Georgia. A procession of the members attended the funeral with crape on their left arms.
FOR SALE,
At George Eskildson's,
Head of Ingraham's Wharf,
A QUANTITY of warranted Men's Calf-skin SHOES, cheap for Cash—of Enoch Ordway's make, formerly of this town.
A constant supply, and every favor gratefully acknowledged. Jan. 30.
NOTICE is hereby given to the following non-resident proprietors of Land in UNION, in the county of Lincoln, that their Lands are taxed in the State, Town, and County Taxes and Arrears of Highway taxes, and committed to the subscriber, Collector for the year 1799, to collect.
  State tax. Town tax. County tax. Highway tax. Total   Cts. D. C. D. C.   Josiah Read, Esq. 60 2 69 3 29   Samuel Dunham, 0 0 4 88 4 88 
And unless said taxes with all intervening charges are paid on or before Wednesday the first day of April next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, so much of said Lands will then severally be sold at Public Vendue, at the dwelling house of DAVID GILLMAN, innholder in said town, as will be sufficient to pay the same as aforesaid.
NATHANIEL ROBBINS, COLLECTOR.
Union, January 22d, 1801.
A Township!
TO BE SOLD,
THE whole of that valuable Township, No. 3, in the 1st. Range, north of the Waldo Patent; belonging to BOWDOIN COLLEGE, except 4 thousand acres already disposed of; on which a number of families are now resident.
This township is situated 13 miles west of Penobscot River. The Road to that river from Kennebec runs through it. It is laid out in 150 acres each lot; and purchasers at two dollars an acre are daily applying. The Land in general is of an excellent quality, and no title can be better. It is needless to give any further description of the premises, they being well known in the Eastern country. The Committee chusing to avoid the trouble of retailing, will to dispose of the whole in one bargain; they therefore will sell it at so reasonable a rate, as to leave great room for profit to any one that is sufficiently responsible and inclined to undertake the trouble of retailing.
The terms of payment will be, a quarter down, and the rest by instalments.—For further particulars, inquire of
William Martin, } Committee of the Elijah Kellogg, } Trustees of Isaac Parker, } BOWDOIN Portland, Jan. 28, 1801. } COLLEGE.
A fine opportunity
For a few smart young men to get good Farms at a cheap rate.
WANTED a few SETTLERS on two Townships, No. 6 and 7, in the Seventh Range, north of the Waldo Patent, belonging to Bowdoin College. Those who come recommended fit for the purpose, and of good characters, will meet with every encouragement they can with for, by applying to either of the undersigned at Portland.
William Martin, } Committee of the Elijah Kellogg, } Trustees of Isaac Parker, } BOWDOIN Portland, Jan. 28, 1801. } COLLEGE.
N. B. The Township No. 5, adjoining, is already disposed of, and will have settlers thereon very soon. Jan. 28, 1801.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Executor of the last will and testament of
Nicholas Orff,
late of Waldoborough, 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.
HENRY ORFF, EXECUTOR.
January 12th, 1801.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Executrix of the last will and testament of
George West,
late of Union, 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.
MARY WEST, EXECUTRIX.
Union, January 21, 1801.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Executor of the last will and testament of
Abraham Chapman,
late of Waldoborough, 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.
ABEL COLE, EXECUTOR.
January 12, 1801.
At a Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cumberland, begun and holden at New Gloucester in said county, on the first Tuesday of January, A. D. 1801:
ON the petition of PETER THATCHER SMITH of Windham, in said county, Esquire, showing that he is interested as tenant in common with some person or persons to him unknown, in two several Lots or Parcels of Land, which, in the division of his late father, the Rev. Thomas Smith's estate, was set off to the heirs of the late Mrs. Lucy Saunders, who was one of the children and heirs of said deceased; which Lots are upon the plan of said division (a copy whereof is annexed to said petition) numbered One and Four; and that he is desirous to hold and enjoy his share of said Lots, being two eighths in severality, and therefore praying that partition thereof might be made, and his share set off and divided from the rest, agreeably to a Law of the Commonwealth passed A. D. 1784, intitled "An act for the more easy partition of Lands, or other Real Estate."
ORDERED, that the petitioner 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 public newspapers, that they may have opportunity to make their exception to this Court on the last Tuesday of March next, to their granting the same.
Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk.
List of Letters
Remaining in the Post-Office, Kennebunk, JANUARY 14, 1801.
DRAGON John; Burham Seth, Arundell; Cotton Edward; Cushman James; Fernald Joseph; Frost Nathaniel; Gooch Jedediah; Harding James; Littlefield Hubbard Moses; Little Nathaniel C. 2; Mitchell Mary; Moody Maria; Peasey Charles, Arundell; Roberts John; Towns Robert.
Thomas's, Sewall's, Bickerstaff's, Weatherwise's, & the Farmer's ALMANACKS, for sale at this Office.
TO THE HONORABLE THE JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS HOLDEN AT PORTLAND, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, ON THE THIRD TUESDAY OF OCTOBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED.
THE Petition of Edward Oxnard, of said Portland, merchant, and Mary Oxnard, wife of the said Edward, in her right, and Daniel Fox, Charles Fox, John Fox, Sarah Fox, Caroline Fox, George Fox, and Rebecca Fleming Fox, all of said Portland, heirs of John Fox, late of said Portland, Esquire, deceased, and minors under the age of twenty one years, who petition by Sarah Fox, of said Portland, Widow, their Guardian and next friend—Humbly shews, that their petitioners are interested in and stand seized in fee as tenants in common, one moiety to the said heirs of John Fox, and the other moiety to the said Oxnard and wife, in her right, of two parcels of Land situated in said Portland; the first whereof is bounded as follows: beginning at a stake standing in the northerly side of Fore-Street, at the most easterly corner of the lot of Land, whereon the said Oxnard now lives; thence northwesterly by said Oxnard's Land to the most northerly corner thereof; thence northwesterly by said Lot to Codman's Land; thence by said Codman's Land northwesterly to Danforth-Street; thence by said Danforth's-Street about four rods to Col. Waite's Land; thence by said Waite's Land south-easterly twenty rods to Fore-Street; thence by said Fore-Street to the first bound. The second parcel begins at a stake standing in the northerly side of Fore-Street, six rods from the southwesterly side of Fifth-Street; thence northwesterly on a course parallel with Fifth-Street by Mr. Kellogg's land, eleven and a half rods to a stake; thence north fifty nine Degrees east adjoining said Kellogg's Land six rods to Fifth-Street; thence by said Fifth-Street four rods to land belonging to William Widgery Esq.; thence by said Widgery's Land on a course south sixty nine degrees west eleven and a half rods to a stake; thence south twenty two and a half degrees east seventeen rods and four links to Fore-Street; thence north fifty nine degrees east adjoining Fore-Street to the first bound.—And your Petitioners further shews, that they are interested in, and stand seized in fee as tenants in common with Lucy Greenleaf of Newburyport, in the county of Essex, Widow (one moiety to the said Lucy, one quarter to the said Oxnard and wife in her right, and the other quarter to the said heirs of John Fox) of two other parcels of land situated in said Portland; the first whereof is bounded as follows, viz.—Beginning at a stake standing in the northerly side of Danforth-Street at the southerly corner of land belonging to the heirs of the late Benjamin Mufley; thence north seventy two degrees and three quarters west to Pleasant-Street; thence adjoining Pleasant-Street two hundred and fifty four feet and three quarters to a stake; thence south fifteen degrees east two hundred and seventy two feet to Danforth-Street; thence adjoining Danforth-Street to the first bound. The second parcel beginning at a stake standing in the northerly side of Pleasant-Street at the southerly corner of land belonging to the heirs of said Mufley; thence north seventy two degrees and three quarters west adjoining to said Mufley's Land one hundred and fifty feet to a stake; thence south fifteen degrees east fifty eight feet to a stake; thence south fifteen degrees east to Pleasant-Street; thence adjoining said Pleasant-Street to the first bound.—And that your petitioners are desirous of holding their said properties of the above described land in severality.—Wherefore your petitioners pray that the two first described parcels of land may be divided and set off, one moiety to the said Oxnard and wife, and the other moiety to the said heirs of John Fox; and that the two last described parcels of land may be divided, and one quarter thereof set off to the said Oxnard and wife, and one quarter to the said heirs of John Fox, to hold the same in severality, agreeably to the laws in that case made and provided. And as in duty bound shall ever pray, by
SALMON CHASE, Attorney for the Petitioners.
AT A COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT NEW GLOUCESTER, IN SAID COUNTY, ON THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. 1801.
ON the Petition of EDWARD OXNARD, and others entered the last Term and continued to this term, whereof the foregoing is a copy—the Court order, 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 in one or more of the public Newspapers three weeks successively, the last publication to be at least twenty days before the last Tuesday of March next, that they may have opportunity to make their exception to this Court, then to be holden at Portland within and for said county, to their granting the same.
Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, CLERK.
Treasury Department,
Washington September 1st, 1800.
Public Notice is hereby Given,
In pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 23d day of April, one thousand eight hundred, entitled, "An act to establish a General Stamp Office,"
THAT a General Stamp Office is now established at the seat of government, in the city of Washington, from whence there will issue, from and after the date hereof, (upon the application of the Supervisors of the Revenue, under whose management the collection of the stamp duties is placed) any quantities of paper, parchment and vellum, marked or stamped, and duly counter-stamped, with the following rates of duty which are demandable by law:
For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, upon which shall be written or printed any of either of the instruments or writings following, viz.
ANY certificate of naturalization 5 licence to practice, or certificate of the admission, enrolment or registry of any counsellor, Solicitor Advocate attorney, or proctor, in any court of the United States 10
Provided, that a certificate in any one of the courts of the United States, for any one of the said officers, shall so far as relates to the payment of the duty aforesaid, be a sufficient admission in all the courts of the United States, for each and every of the said offices.
Any grant or letters patent, under the seal or authority of the United States (except for lands granted for military services) 4
Any exemplification or certified copy of any such grant or letters patent (except for lands granted for military services) 2
Any charter-parity, bottomry or respondentia bond 1
Any receipt of discharge for or on account of any legacy left by any will, or other testamentary instrument, or for any share of part of any estate, divided by force of any statute of distributions other than to the wife, children or grand children of the person deceased, the amount whereof shall be above the value of fifty dollars, and shall not exceed the value of one hundred dollars 25
And for every further sum of five hundred dollars, the additional sum of 50
Any policy of insurance or instrument in nature thereof, when the sum for which insurance is made shall not exceed five hundred dollars 25
When the sum insured shall exceed five hundred dollars 1
Any exemplification of what nature soever, that shall pass the seal of any court, other than such as it may be the duty of the clerk of such court, to furnish for the use of the United States, or some particular state 50
Any bond, bill single or penal, inland bill of exchange, promissory note or other note (other than any recognizance, bill, bond or other obligation, or contract, made to or with the United States, or any state, or for their use respectively; and any bonds required in any case by the laws of the United States, or of any state, upon legal process or in any judicial proceeding, or for the faithful performance of any trust or duty.) 10
If above twenty dollars, and not exceeding one hundred dollars 10
If above one hundred and not exceeding five hundred dollars 25
If above five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars 50
And if above one thousand dollars 75
Provided, that if any bonds or notes shall be payable at or within sixty days, such bonds or notes shall be subject to only two fifth parts of the duty aforesaid, viz.
If above twenty and not exceeding one hundred dollars 4
If above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars 10
If above five hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars 20
If above one thousand dollars 30
Any foreign bill of exchange, draft or order for the payment of money in any foreign country 20
The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of exchange, without respect to the number contained in each set.
Any note or bill of lading or writing or receipt in nature thereof, for goods or merchandise or merchandise to be exported; 4
If from one district to another district of the United States, not being in the same state 10
If from the United States to any foreign port or place 10
The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of lading without respect to the number contained in each set.
Any notes issued by the banks now established or that may be hereafter established within the United States, other than the notes of such of the said banks as shall agree to an annual composition of one per centum on the annual dividends made by such banks, to their stockholders respectively, according to the following scale:
On all notes not exceeding fifty dollars, for each dollar 6
On all notes above fifty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars 50
On all notes above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars 1
On all notes above five hundred dollars 2
Any pro-note or other notarial act 25
Any letter of attorney, except for an invalid pension, or to obtain or sell warrants for land granted by the United States as bounty for military services performed in the late war 25
Any inventory or catalogue of any furniture, goods or effects, made in any case required by law (except in cases of goods and chattels distrained for rent or taxes, and goods taken in virtue of any legal process by any officer) 50
Any certificates of a share in any insurance company of a share in the bank of the United States, or of any state or other bank; 10
If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars 10
If above one hundred dollars 25
If under twenty dollars, at the rate of ten cents for one hundred dollars.
II
That the power of the supervisors of the Revenue to mark or stamp any vellum, parchment or paper chargeable with duty, will cease and determine from and after six months from the date hereof, to wit, on the last day of February 1801.
III
That, if any persons shall, after the last day of February 1801, have in their custody or possession, any vellum, parchment or paper, marked or stamped by the supervisors of the revenue, upon which any matter or thing, charged with duty, shall not have been written or printed, they may at any time within the space of sixty days after the said last day of February 1801 bring or send such vellum, parchment and papers, unto some office of inspection, and in lieu thereof, receive a like quantity or value of vellum, parchment and paper, duly stamped in pursuance of the act herein before recited. And in case any person shall neglect or refuse, within the time aforesaid, to bring or cause to be brought unto some officer of inspection, any such vellum, parchment or paper, it is hereby declared, that the same will thereafter be of no other effect or use, than if it had never been marked or stamped, and that all matters and things, which may after that time be written or printed upon any vellum, parchment or paper, authorized to be exchanged in manner aforesaid, will be of no other effect, than if they had been written or printed on paper, parchment or vellum, not marked or stamped.
IV
And for the convenience of those persons who may be inclined to have their own vellum parchment and paper stamped or marked, it is hereby declared that when any person shall deposit any vellum, parchment or paper at the office of a supervisor, accompanied with a list, specifying the number and denomination of the stamps or marks, which are desired to be thereto affixed, the same will be transmitted to the General Stamp-Office, and there properly marked or stamped, and forthwith sent back to the same supervisor, who will thereupon collect the duties and deliver the paper, parchment or vellum, to the order of the person from whom the same was received.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Treasury, at Washington, the day and year above mentioned.
OLIVER WOLCOTT,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Nov. 2.

Almanack for 1801.
   Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. Sunday.     January. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30 31   February. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30 31   March. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30 31   April. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30   May. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30 31   June. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30   July. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30 31   August. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30 31   September. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30   October. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30 31   November. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30   December. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30 31  
The two first months of the ensuing year, 1802, are added for the benefit of commercial men.
   Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. Sunday.     January. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30 31   February. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6   7 8 9 10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   28 29 30 31  
Isabella Child,
Has just received an additional assortment of FANCY GOODS.
among which are FINE thread Laces; a beautiful assortment of Lustrings, and other fashionable Ribbons; Black Lace; Veils; Rutland Net; black, white, pink, rose, lilac, purple, and yellow Italian Crapes; White and coloured Silk Gloves, do. Cotton, do. Kid; Elegant curled Ostrich Feathers; Vulture Plumes; black and white do.; rich brown, white, dove, and black Satin; Pelong do. of all colours; delicate white Lustrings; black do.; Modes; Sarfets and Tiffany; Cotton Trimming, Fringe and Gimps; Silk and Cotton Bands and Tassels for the waist; Silver do.; ornamented Hair Combs; Crescent Slides; Steel Beads; Pearl do.; Ear-Rings; Necklaces and Bracelets; Silk and Cotton Hosiery; Gentlemen's Silk, Cotton, and Worsted do. of a superior quality; plain, lappet, tambour and satin flowered Mullins; cotton, cambric and printed Mullins and Calicoes; Camel's-hair Shawls; Muffs, Puffs, and Fur Trimmings; Linens; India Cottons; Linen Pocket Handkerchiefs; Cotton and Silk do.; Ladies' Silk Handkerchiefs; Velvet Ribbons; Hats; Bonnets and Turbans; Silk Hair Nets; white, black and yellow Flannels; Tooth Brushes of an excellent quality; Windfor Soap; Ivory Bodkins; Needles; Pins; Threads; Tapes and Bobbins, &c.
Millenary of all kinds made as usual; and every attention will be paid to have it done neatly and at a short notice.
Portland, Jan. 21.
Blanks
Of various kinds for sale at this Office.
Bankruptcy.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy has been awarded and issued by the Hon. DAVID SEWALL, Esq. District Judge of the District of Maine, against
John Osborne Watts,
of Portland, in said District, Merchant, and he being declared a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners named and authorised in said commission, on the 30th day of January inst. on the 20th day of February next, and on the 12th day of March next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days, at the Auction-Room of EDWARD OXNARD, in Fifth Street, and in all things conform to the directions of the act of Congress entitled "An act to establish an uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States," when and where his Creditors are hereby notified to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the second meeting, to close an allowance or allowances, and at the last of said meetings the Bankrupt is required to finish his examinations—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.
EDWARD OXNARD, { Commissioners, JAMES NEAL, THOMAS HOVEY,
Portland, 20th January, 1801.
The Public are hereby notified, that a
New Post Road
IS established (at present called How's Rout) as follows, viz.—From Portland to Gray, and through New Gloucester to Poland, Turner, Buckfield, Paris, Norway and Waterville—thence to Bridgetown, Otisfield, Raymondtown, and Windham, to Poland.
The Rider is Mr. JACOB HOW. He arrives at the Post Office in Portland every Monday afternoon, at about four o'clock—Takes the Mails from thence at six, and leaves Portland very early on Tuesday morning.
He arrives at Bridgetown from Portland every Thursday evening—tarries there until Sunday evening, and thence performs the rest of his rout as above.
In Portland he puts up at Mr. Paine's. January 19, 1801.
TAKE NOTICE,
THAT a further time of three months is allowed, from the thirteenth day of January instant, by the Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, for the creditors to the estate of
Capt. William Lackey,
late of Thomaston, deceased, to bring in their claims. The commissioners hereby give notice that they will attend said business at the dwelling house of Capt. David Fales Jun. in said Thomaston on the first Tuesday of February next, and the last Tuesdays of the two following months from two to six of the clock in the afternoon.
DAVID FALES, Jun. { Commissioners, SAMUEL M. MARTAIN,
Thomaston, Jan. 17, 1801.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed administratrix on the estate of
Robert Malcomb,
late of Topsham, in the County of Lincoln yeoman, deceased; and has undertaken that trust by giving bonds 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 to her
SUSANNAH MALCOMB. mark.
Topsham, December 16, 1800.
THE Subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, That having been duly appointed administratrix on the estate of
Jeremiah Merrill,
late of Freeport, in the County of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, has taken upon her that trust, and given bond as the law directs: she therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate to make immediate payment: and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same, to
LYDIA MERRILL.
THE Subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, That having been duly appointed administrator on the estate of
Simeon Bayley,
late of Falmouth, in the County of Cumberland, yeoman, 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
DAVID BAYLEY.
THE subscribers, appointed Commissioners by the Hon. WILLIAM GORHAM, Esq. Judge of Probate, of Wills, &c. for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of
Jotham Patridge,
late of Falmouth, in said county, Yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give notice, that six months are allowed to said Creditors to bring in and prove their Claims; and that we shall attend that service at the house of Jotham Patridge at a place called Saccarappa, in Falmouth aforesaid, on Tuesday the 23d. day of this, and the second Tuesdays of the five following months, from one to five of the clock in the afternoon.
ENOCH FREEMAN, { Commissioners, ELIAS MERRILL,
Falmouth, Dec. 9, 1800.
THE subscriber, hereby give notice to all concerned, that having been duly appointed Administrator on the Estate of
Jotham Patridge,
late of Falmouth, in said county, Yeoman, deceased—and having 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:
JOTHAM PATRIDGE.
Falmouth, Dec. 9, 1800.
FOR SALE,
A few barrels TAR,
Of an excellent quality. Inquire at Store No. 7, Fifth-Street, or of BRYANT & FOX. Jan. 21.
MAINE, ss.—By virtue of an order from the Hon.
DAVID SEWALL, Esq. Judge of the United States for said District.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a libel is filed in said Court by Frederick Lewis Desfossier, Collector of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, against three bales of CARPETING, and one trunk of MUSLINS & THREADS; alleged to have been illegally imported into the United States—and that a hearing will be had thereon before said Judge at the next District Court to be held at Pownalborough, within the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday of March next: at which time and place, all persons concerned may appear and show cause (if any they have) why the above mentioned articles should not be decreed forfeited.
ISAAC PARKER, Marshal.
Portland, Jan. 24, 1801.
Take Notice.
ALL those who are indebted to the subscriber, are requested to make immediate payment—Otherwise their Notes and Accounts will be put in suit without further notice.
DANIEL HOW
Portland, Jan. 19, 1801.
To the Honorable the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, for the County of Washington: begun and holden at Machias; within and for said county, on the third Tuesday of August, A. D. 1800.
THE Subscribers humbly show—That part of the County road leading from Machias to Schoodic through Plantations No. 18, 14 and 13 owned by non-resident proprietors, is very bad, and ought for the safety and convenience of travellers to be repaired.
We therefore pray that your Honors, would order the same to be amended and repaired by the Owners of said Plantations, agreeable to a Law of the Commonwealth, intitled "An act in addition to the several acts, now in force respecting highways" or otherwise give relief, and we as in duty bound, will ever pray.
John Cooper, Ralph H. Bowles, Jacob Longfellow, Marshall Thaxter, Samuel Ellis, Daniel P. Upton, Ebenezer Hinglee, John Kelly, Jacob Penniman.
A true Copy—Attest,
RALPH H. BOWLES, Clerk.
WASHINGTON, ss.—Court of General Sessions of the Peace at Machias, August term, A. D. 1800.
UPON the petition aforesaid, Ordered, that the petitioner notify all persons interested therein, to appear at the next Court of General Sessions of the Peace to be held at Machias, within and for the County of Washington, on the third Tuesday in August next by publishing an attested Copy of said petition with this Order thereon, three weeks successively in the Massachusetts Mercury, printed in Boston by Young & Minns, and in the Gazette printed in Portland by Eliezer Alley Esq.: the last publication to be three weeks at least, before the sitting of said Court; that they may then and there appear, and show cause if any they have, why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
Attest,
RALPH H. BOWLES, Clerk.
FOR SALE,
An excellent Farm,
CONTAINING about 300 acres of Land, 100 of which are under improvement, the other two hundred acres are well wooded, with a convenient dwelling House and two Barns, and is well watered—Said Farm lies in the town of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, within one mile of Saccarappa in said Falmouth, seven miles from Portland, and on the road that leads from Portland to Bridgetown and Bethel.—It will be sold on reasonable terms—Inquire of the subscriber on the premises.
JAMES GRANT.
Falmouth, Jan. 8, 1801.
TO BE LET,
A good Farm,
IN the town of Bridgetown, about 30 miles from Portland. It is very convenient for a tenant and will be let for any term of time on reasonable conditions—For further particulars inquire of ROBERT ANDREWS, near the premises, or of THOMAS MEAD in Portland. Jan. 12.
FOR SALE,
An excellent Farm,
CONTAINING about 117 acres, of Land; 80 of which are under improvement—with a convenient House, Store, &c. thereon; together with a good Grist-Mill.—It lies in the town of Bowdoin, county of Lincoln, within a few miles of Bowdoin College, and near the place where the Court sits in Topsham.—It will be sold on reasonable terms for cash, or approved credit, inquire of the subscriber at Topsham.
HEZEKIAH WYMAN.
Topsham, Dec. 1800.
Also, 200 acres of Land in Topsham. Inquire as above.
WHEREAS the copartnership under the firm of WEEKS & TUCKER, was dissolved by mutual agreement on the first day of the present month—All persons having claims upon that company, may apply for settlement and pay, to either of the subscribers; and those who are indebted to them, are again called upon to make payment without delay, or their notes and accounts will be lodged in the hands of Attorney for collection.
Lemuel Weeks, Daniel Tucker.
Portland, January 3, 1801.
Wharf Timber Wanted.
ABOUT Six hundred tons of Wharf Timber is wanted, to be received in Portland by the last of May and June next. Any person or persons inclined to contract for the same, may apply to DAVID SMITH, No. 1, Union-Wharf. Jan. 12, 1801.
THE subscribers take this method to inform the public, that they have purchased the Store lately occupied by NATHANIEL MARTIN in Northarmouth, and have entered into copartnership in trade, under the firm of
Mitchell's & Buxton,
where they have for sale, a general assortment of English & Westindia GOODS,
Also, a handsome assortment of DRUGS & MEDICINES, which they will sell on reasonable terms for Cash, Lumber, and Country produce.
Gentlemen of the Faculty in this vicinity are desired to call at said Store.