Jenks' Portland gazette (Portland, Me.), 1803-12-24 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
Number 296.
PORTLAND, (MAINE) SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1803.
Volume VI.
Removal.
GEORGE W. DUNCAN , has removed from Jones's Row, to the New Brick in Forestreet, nearly opposite the bottom of Fifth-street, where he has for sale at the very lowest prices, 8 by 10 Crown Window Glass, super quality. 7 by 9 do. do. 10d. & 20d. Nails, by cask or retail, Sheathing and drawing do. Deck Nails, and Scupper do. 4d. 5d. & 6d. Brads, Sewing and Sein Twine.
Together with a general assortment of Hard Ware & Ship Chandlery.
A large assortment of the best Kidder-Carpeting, very elegant figures—CALICOES, of fashionable kind—White silk Hose, for gentlemen or ladies—Very long White silk Gloves—Black silk do.—Black and olive Velvets—Thickfets do.—Narrow Cambrics—Calamancoes—Shalloons—Checks—Bed-ticks—Black and olive Velvets—Thickfets do.—Narrow wide striped Dimities—Long Lawns and Cambrics—Cambric hair Shawls—White pocket Handkerchiefs—Quilting for waiting-maids. Gentlemen's & Youth's Beaver Hats the first quality—POCKET BOOKS, various kinds, Portland, Dec. 14, 1803.
David Green , No. 17, Long-Wharf, Hath for Sale , FRESH superfine and fine Flour, Good retailing Molasses. Sugars and Coffee, West India Rum, French and Alacat Brandy, 1st & 4th proof, Holland Gin of the first quality, Malaga Wine, Few Bales best Upland Cotton, Alsipice, Pepper, &c. 7 by 8 and 8 by 10 Bristol Crown and Hamburgh Glass, Iron Shovels, 2d, 6d, 8d, 10d, & 20d Cut and Wrought Nails, Russia, Swedes and Faggot Iron, Hailack Steel, &c. &c. ALSO, received, and new opening for sale, an assortment of English & India Goods , to be sold to the season. Dec. 14.
FOR SALE , By James Jewett, No. 12, Long-Wharf, BAGS Coffee, Hhds. Rum, do. Molasses. Dec. 14.
Woolens, &c. For Sale, at the Portland Brewery, A Few pieces superfine Cloths, Boxes Tin Plate, do. Bristol Crown Glass, 9 by 7 and 10 by 8—Wholesale and Retail. Families supplied with good Beer, &c. Cash given for BARLEY. Dec. 7.
FURS wanted. CASH, and the highest price, will be given for all kinds of SHIPPING and HATTING FURS, by JOHN LORD, his shop next door to Crafts & Traft, Fore-street, Portland—who has for sale as usual, a general assortment of English & American HATS , Wholesale and retail. (3m) November 7, 1803.
Village Harmony , SIXTH Edition, just received and for sale at the Book-Store of ISAAC ADAMS, No. 6, Jones' Row. Price to Dollars a dozen—1 Dollar single. Nov. 26. (6w)
Village Harmony. JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE, At the Book-Store of THOMAS CLARK , nearly opposite the Insurance Office, Fifth-street, Portland. THE sixth edition of the Village Harmony . Price to Dollars per dozen—1 D. single. Nov. 26. (6w)
Amusement for the Ladies of Brunswick & Topsham . PHILIP ROBINSON has received (as agent) from the Manufactory in Providence (R.I.) a quantity of STOCKING YARN, 3 thread from No. 7 to No. 28, which will be sold large or small quantities, at the factory price. A few pieces first quality Bed-Ticking. He also begs leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has opened a Store a few rods south of Messrs. J. & S. Stone's, where he has for sale English, Hard-Ware & West India Goods, Groceries, Crockery Ware, &c. Cash for cash, produce, or approved credit. Brunswick, November 23, 1803.
Staves wanted. CASH and a generous price, will be given for a large quantity of White Oak, Pipe, Hhd. & Barrell STAVES, of a good quality and thickness, delivered at time within six months from this date. Apply to ASA CLAP, at No. 10, Long Wharf. Portland, Oct. 23, 1803. (6w)
WILLIS & M'KINSTRY , HAVE just received a large assortment FRESH GOODS , Which they are selling at a very small advance. They have likewise on hand, West-India GOODS , Georgia Upland Cotton, Spermaceti Candles, Crucibles & Blue Melting Pots, &c. &c. Cash & the highest price given for FLAX-SEED and BARLEY. Portland, Dec. 21.
Charlotte Green , At her Shop, Middle-Street, HAS just received an elegant assortment of ENGLISH, INDIA, FRENCH, & FANCY GOODS; which, having been purchased by advance, will be disposed of on the lowest terms. A beautiful assortment of plush, plain and figured, velvet satin, and plain straw, cane, willow and satin, HATS and BONNETS, of the latest fashion. A few handsome UMBRELLAS, very cheap. Ladies' White Kid, Satin, & Morocco SLIPPERS.
Embroidery, Millinery, and Mantua-making, done neatly—Ladies' Pelisse and Great-Coats cut and made at the shortest notice. Dec. 14.
Daniel & John Fox , HAVE received a general assortment of ENGLISH & WEST-INDIA GOODS, AND GROCERIES, for the season; which they offer for sale at their Store, Bottom of Fifth Street, on the most reasonable terms for Cash. Also, Russia Feathers and Russia Sheeting. Nov. 26.
Thomas Crofts , HAS FOR SALE, SWEDES Iron, Georgia Cotton, Russia Duck, Cordage, Cables, &c. Also, a general assortment of SHIP-CHANDLERY , as usual. WANTED. A quantity of Flaxseed and Barley, for which Cash and the highest price will be given. Portland, Nov. 28, 1803.
Tailoring Business. JOHN CLINTON, informs his friends and customers that he has REMOVED from Fore-street to Middle-Street, two doors above the Portland Bank; where he carries on the Tailoring Business in its various branches. He thanks his customers for former favors, and solicits a continuance of them. The most assiduous attention will be given to satisfy his employers. Two or three Young Women, who can be well recommended, will be taken to learn the above business. Portland Nov. 26.
UPHOLSTERY STORE. Aaron Austin & Co. HAVE for sale, at their store, Fore-street head of Ingraham's Wharf, a constant supply of Live Geese, Sea Fowl, Russia, and Lisbon FEATHERS. Also—Cotton and English BEDTICKING, of different kinds. Russia BEDS and MATRASSES ready made. Beds made and fitted at the shortest notice. Spanish and French INDIGO. The above assortment of Feathers is warranted of the first quality, and will be sold as cheap as can be purchased in Boston. (tf) Portland, August 22.
Advertisement. FOR SALE, by the subscriber, a Lot of Land, containing 10 acres, fronting Simonson's Cove, in Cape Elizabeth, with a small Dwelling-House on the same, one mile from the Ferry, a handsome situation, and good mowing and tillage land—for cash or a reasonable credit. Samuel Robinson. Portland, Dec. 7.
Potatoes. PERSONS wishing to be supplied with POTATOES, may at any time be furnished with such quantities as they want, from 10 to 100 bushels, and delivered at the shortest notice.—Apply to George Knight, near the Ferry. Cape Elizabeth, Dec. 16, 1803.
For Sale, An Acre of Land, with a Dwelling House and Barn thereon, situated about fifty rods northerly, from the meeting house, in Bath. Should any gentleman contemplate settling in this flourishing town, he will be unable to find a more beautiful situation for elegant buildings, than on the premises. Inquire of Elisha Turner, or John Winslow. Bath, Nov. 29, 1803. [Dec. 17]
Strayed or Stolen, FROM the subscriber, on the evening of the 25th ult. a brown MARE, one hind foot white, and a light spot on her nose—Whoever will return her, or give information of her to the owner, shall receive a handsome reward, and all necessary charges paid by Richard Rice. Scarborough, Dec. 21.
New and Cheap Bookstore, In Newburyport.
ISAIAH THOMAS, JUN. & CHALES WHIPPLE , respectfully inform the public, that they have commenced the BOOKSELLING BUSINESS in Newburyport, Market-Square, at the sign of Johnson's Head , under the firm of
Thomas & Whipple , where they have for sale, an extensive assortment of BOOKS, in the various branches of Polite Literature which will be sold Wholesale and Retail, at the Boston prices. BIBLES of all sizes and prices; SCHOOL and CHILDREN'S BOOKS of every description, and STATIONARY in general.—Public and private Libraries supplied on the best terms. Country Traders, and all others who wish to purchase are invited to call.—All orders from the country will receive prompt attention, and every favor gratefully acknowledged. Newburyport, Dec. 16, 1803.
Maine Almanack, for 1804.
THIS Day will be published, by THOMAS CLARK, and for sale at his Book-Store, nearly opposite the Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Office, Fifth-street, Portland. The MAINE ALMANACK, for the year of our Lord 1804: being Bissextile, or Leap Year, and the twenty-eighth of American Independence—Calculated for the meridian of Portland, and particularly adapted to the District of MAINE.—(Price 3 dols. 50 cts. a Gross—37 1/2 cts. a dozen—6 cts. a single.) The highest price in CASH, will be given for any quantity of RACKS, at the above Store the ensuing winter. (1aw3m) Portland, Nov. 7.
REGISTERS for 1804.
Just received, and for sale at the publisher's price, at the Bookstore of Thomas Clark ,
THE Massachusetts REGISTER and United States Calendar , for 1804—Containing Civil, Ecclesiastical, Judicial, and Military Lists in Massachusetts; Associations, and Corporate Institutions, for literary, agricultural, and charitable purposes—Also, Catalogues of the Officers of the General Government, with its several Departments and Establishments; the Executive Government in each State; Census of the United States, and of the towns in Massachusetts; the Public Duties, Revenues, &c. Useful Tables, and a variety of other interesting articles. Dec. 7.
Books & Stationary.
At No. 6, Jones's Row, near the bottom of Fifth-street, Portland, ISAAC ADAMS, has just received, and is now ready for sale, a general assortment of BOOKS, on the different branches of Science and Literature, a list of which are many NEW and VALUABLE PUBLICATIONS.
Elegant Family Bibles , with Plates, Maps, Apocrypha and Concordance, with a variety of matter not found in other Bibles—Royal Quarto 9 dollars—Demy Quarto 8 dollars.—Also, a great variety of Quarto, Octavo, Pocket and Small BIBLES. Farmer's, Low's & Maine ALMANACKS, for 1804.
School Books. Testaments, Webster's, Perry's and Maine Spelling-books, Columbian Orator, Geographies, Preceptor, Art of Reading, Webster's 2d & 3d part, Child's Companion—Pike's, Root's and Temple's Arithmetics—Dictionaries & Singing Books. Stationary. Paper of all kinds—Inkpowder—Quills—Writing and Cyphering Books—Slates—Copy Slips—Playing Cards—Ladies and Gentlemen's Pocket Books, some very elegant—Quadrants—Charts—Scales and Dividers. ACCOUNT BOOKS bound and ruled to any pattern. Books of all sorts bound. Cash and the highest price given for Rags, Cansons & Junk. OCT. 31.
Valuable New Publication.
Lately published, and for sale by W. JENKS, JUN. at his Office, Fifth-street, and at the several Bookstores in town (Price 75 cts per doz. 9 3/8 cts. single)
PACKARD'S CATECHISM , second Edition—This work has met with a favorable reception, and has been recommended to the public by a number of eminent Divines, whose praises are in the Churches. Over the joint signature of the Rev. Doctors WILLARD, HOWARD and TAPPAN, we find their approbation of it in the following expression: "We the subscribers, having perused the following Catechism, conceive that in point of ease, perspicuity, and conciseness, it is in general well adapted to answer the pious and benevolent intention of the author." The Rev. Dr. CUMMINGS, of Billerica, in the vicinity of Boston, recommends it in the words following—viz—
"Having perused the following tract, and attended to the catechetical parts, I think the whole is well adapted to initiate children and youth into the principles of piety and virtue, and to impress a just sense of christian, moral and social duty and obligation, on the rising generation. "It detracts nothing from the merits of other compositions of the like kind, but is designed and intended to afford additional aid to those, who wish to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; and I am persuaded it will be found to be a profitable book in families, and that it may be used to great advantage for stirring the minds of youth with sentiments of religion and rectitude, and forming them to such a character as shall make them blessings, and prepare them for happiness." "This catechism has one obvious excellence to recommend it, which is, that it meets all denominations of christians upon harmonious ground, neither embracing nor confuting the peculiarities of different persuasions. On this account it appears well calculated to afford salutary instruction to all, without giving offence to any, and to promote union among christian brethren, by keeping their differences, in less important matters, out of view, and fixing their attention on those great essentials of religion, in which they are agreed." HENRY CUMMINGS. The author of this Catechism professes to build upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets , and to draw his principal lines and set out his work from the same that corner stone.
FOR SALE AS ABOVE, Maine Almanack, for 1804.
UNITED STATES, DISTRICT OF MAINE, } December the 16th, 1803. NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors of JAMES LATHROP of Hallowell, in the District of Maine, trader, against whom a Complaint of bankruptcy, has duly issued and proceeded upon, that they may be heard (if they think fit) before the Judge of said District Court, on Wednesday the first day of February, 1804, at his dwelling House in York, against making and allowing a Certificate of Discharge to said Bankrupt, before which time exceptions to such allowance may be exhibited. DAVID SEWALL, } Judge of the D. Dist. Court of Maine District.
To Let, A Dwelling-House, pleasantly situated, at the West part of the town—between Main and Free streets. Said House is well calculated to accommodate two families. For further particular inquiry at Daniel Cobb. Dec. 21.
LEFT at the store of the subscribers, some time ago, a PIECE OF CLOTH. The owner may have the same by calling at the above store, and paying the charge of this advertisement. Blake & Stimpson. Dec. 21, 1803.
NOTICE. ALL persons having Book Accounts with the Estate of JOSEPH BLUMMER, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, trader, deceased, that unless immediate settlement is made, their accounts will be left with an Attorney. William Moulton, jun. Administrator. Portland, December 21, 1803.
One Cent Reward.
RANAWAY from me the subscriber, on the night of October 10th, an apprentice by the name of JAMES WATSON, in the nineteenth year of his age—light reddish hair, light eyes, about five feet six inches high, had on when he went away a dark grey cloth jacket, brown-down waistcoat, and blue trousers.—Whoever will take up said Boy and return him to the subscriber, shall receive the above reward, and no charges paid. N. B. All persons are hereby forbid either harbouring or trusting the said apprentice, if they wish to avoid the strictures of the Law. William Durham. Dowlingham, Nov. 15, 1803.
Notification.
THE Stockholders in the Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Company , are hereby notified, that their ANNUAL MEETING, for the choice of NINE DIRECTORS, for the ensuing year, will be held at their Office in Fifth-street, on Tuesday, the third day of January next, at eleven o'clock, A. M. By order of the President and Directors. J. P. JEBSON, SECRETARY. Maine Fire & Marine Insurance Office, Dec. 10, 1803.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed, and has taken upon himself the trust of an Administrator on the Estate of EDWARD OXNARD, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Gentleman, deceased, by giving 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 for settlement to Ebenezer Mayo. Portland, October 4, 1803. [Dec. 14]
WE the subscribers, being appointed by the Hon. William Gorham, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the Creditors to the estate of EDWARD OXNARD, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Gentleman, deceased, represented intestate—do hereby give notice, that six months are allowed to said Creditors to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend at the Office of EBENEZER MAYO, Esq. Fifth-street, Portland, on the third Monday of December, January, February, and March next, from 10 o'clock, A. M. to 1 o'clock, P. M. Lemuel Weeks, Joshua Rogers, James Folsick. Commissioners. Portland, October 4, 1803. [Dec. 14]
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of an Administrator on the Estate of Jonathan Hall, late of Paris, in the county of Cumberland, Wheelwright, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs:—He therefore requests all who are indebted to said deceased's estate to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon to exhibit the same for settlement to EDWARD RUSSELL. Nov. 26, 1803.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of an Administrator on the Estate of Jonathan Hall, late of Paris, in the county of Cumberland, Wheelwright, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs:—He therefore requests all who are indebted to said deceased's estate to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon to exhibit the same for settlement to ALIJAH HALL. Paris, Nov. 12, 1803.
WE the subscribers, having been appointed by the Hon. Edward Cuts, Esq. to receive and examine the claims of the Creditors to the Estate of Amos Chase Adams, a minor, late of Limerick, in the county of York, deceased, represented intestate—do hereby give notice, that six months from the twenty-fifth day of October last, were allowed to said Creditors to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend at the Office of the dwelling-house of Nathaniel Leavitt, Esq. in Limerick, on the third Monday of November instant, and on the third Mondays of the five following months, from one to five o'clock P. M. on each of said days. DANIEL FELCH. JACOB BRADBURY, JUV. Commissioners. Limerick, Nov. 8, 1803.

Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Dec. 2.
A bill was reported for reducing the marine corps of the United States, and made the order of the day for Monday [By this bill, the Marine Officers are to be reduced to one Captain, and twelve Lieutenants; with provision that the President, if occasion should require, may increase the lieutenants to nineteen.] The Marine establishment, at present, consists of one Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, three Captains, and nineteen Lieutenants. —The non-commissioned officers, music, and privates, amount to 438.
Monday, Dec. 5.—Mr. Griswold, (of Connecticut) proposed to Congress, a resolution, directing the Post-Master General to prepare and report, a statement of the gross sums received in each state for postage, since 1800, respectively; together with the sums which have been paid in each year and in each state, for commissions to Postmasters, for carrying the mail, &c. Mr. Griswold stated that his reason for offering the resolution was, that as it was contemplated to expend the surplus of the Postoffice revenue on post-roads near the capital, it was desirable to know, and that the people also should know, whence this income proceeded. Besides he esteemed it desirable at all times, to know what revenue was collected immediately from the people. The house, he added, ought not to hide from itself a fact; which the Post-Master General could furnish without any difficulty. Mr. Randolph, after premising, that he should vote for the resolution, observed that he could not consider postage as a tax but as a compensation for services rendered. Mr. Varnum thought the measure calculated to create uneasiness and difficulty between the states, he conceived it to be wholly unimportant whence our revenue came, as it respect to this subject we were one consolidated government.—He considered all the states as one Republic, and the monies ought to be applied were they would produce the greatest benefit. In reply to Mr. Gregg who had moved, that the words “in each state” should be struck out, and to Mr. Varnum, Mr. Griswold said, he could not conceive why any gentleman should be unwilling, that the People should know what each state contributed towards any establishment.—He never expected to have heard such a sentiment on the floor of that House, as that the knowledge of the TRUTH should be withheld from the people, lest that knowledge should make them uneasy. He hoped the truth would always be satisfactory to them. If, added Mr. Griswold, the postage is considered as a compensation for services, let the overplus paid in each state be refunded, or expended on public roads where it is collected; and not transferred to those parts of our country, where this source, the gentleman speaks of, is not paid for by them; but is a dead loss to the government. Mr. Griswold then moved for the Yeas and Nays; and his resolution was carried. Yeas 108, Nays 10.
Dec. 8.—Mr. Randolph reported a resolution that it is inexpedient to discontinue the office of commissioners of Loans in the several States;—which was referred for Monday next.
A bill was received from the senate to divide the Indiana Territory into two governments.—Referred.
MR. THATCHER'S SPEECH,
On the bill altering the Constitution, relative to the choice of President and Vice President, delivered in the House of Representatives on the 26th October.
Mr. THATCHER said—Having waited in expectation of hearing the arguments of gentlemen in favor of the resolution, I feel great regret at the silence which they have thought proper on this occasion to observe. This course, though not entirely novel, was not anticipated upon a question of great national importance; a subject which invites, which demands investigation.
My colleague (Dr. Eustis) has stated to the house, that in the year '97, the legislature of Massachusetts, voted to instruct the Senators and to request the Representatives of that state in Congress to propose an alteration of the constitution similar to that now proposed. A gentleman from Newyork (Mr. Thomas) has informed us that a similar vote passed the legislature of that state. As these two statements are the only answers (if such they can be considered) to the various arguments which have this day been adduced, in opposition
to this resolution and as the gentlemen who have made them, appear to consider these votes of the state legislatures obligatory upon the members of the House who now represent those states, I beg leave to suggest a few words in reply, and to state as succinctly as possible some of the reasons which will induce me to vote against the resolution.
An amendment of the constitution must be sanctioned not only by two thirds of both houses of congress, but must be ratified by three fourths of the state legislatures. The constitution considers these different assemblies as entirely independent of each other. They must act with perfect independence upon this subject or this provision is virtually destroyed. Most certainly a resolution of a state legislature in 1797, ought not to controul the votes of members of this house in 1803. It is I conceive not only their right, but their duty to decide upon this question with the most perfect independence of opinion.
It has been already urged that the constitutional mode of electing the President and Vice-President is admirably well calculated to disappoint intrigue and prevent corruption. Should an aspiring and dangerous faction obtain the ascendancy in this country, this mode of election affords the means of counteracting its influence, of checking its controul. For although such a party will make the greatest exertions to elect that leader who may chance to be the idol of the day, whilst the electors are obliged to vote for two candidates without designating which is intended for president, those electors who are not devoted to the interest of the ruling faction, will exercise a preference of great importance; they will select the candidate least exceptionable.
The article which this resolution proposes to alter has always been considered as the great barrier and shield of the smaller states, against the encroachments of the large. By the present mode of election, provided it is effected by the electors, each state has its due proportion of influence. If it be decided by the House of Representatives, the constitution has put the states upon the ground of perfect equality. But if the proposed alteration takes place, it will undermine the very basis of the confederacy: it will throw the whole power in this most important election, into the hands of a few states exclusively. With the present population, five states may, by combination, exclude the other twelve from all participation in the choice. It will be totally impossible by any precaution whatever to prevent such a combination.
The situation of the states forming the federal constitution, and the nature of the compact itself furnish strong evidence of the policy of the article under consideration. It was absolutely necessary that some of the rights of the individual states should be secured for the interest and safety of all. This constitution, to use the language of the convention who framed it, “was the result of a spirit of amity, & of that mutual deference & concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.” Upon no other principle is it possible to account for that article of the constitution which provides for the representation of slaves. This article operates with peculiar inequality in the northern and eastern states.
The representation of slaves adds 18 members to this House in the present congress, and 18 electors of President and Vice-President at the next election. Yet the whole of New-England contains but 1331 slaves, Massachusetts and Vermont have none.
The New-England States have submitted to this inequality, sensible of the extreme danger of tampering with the constitution. But if it is to be altered, justice requires that the article authorizing the representation of slaves should be the first to receive amendment.
Mr. Speaker, I know that the objections to the article proposed to be altered are plausible—they are popular; but I am confident that upon close examination of the different modes of electing our first magistrate which have been proposed, none will be found to combine so many advantages as that prescribed by the constitution. The journal of the convention evinces that this was a subject of long discussion and of mature deliberation. It was devised by a most illustrious assembly of sages and patriots; it was adopted at a time when the heat of party had not influenced the country. Shall we then, at a time when party feelings animate all parts of the union
shall we then destroy one of the firmest pillars of our political fabric? I trust, sir, we shall not venture into the boundless region of hypothesis, that we shall not alter one of the fundamental principles of the federal constitution.
From the Fredericktown Herald.
Louisiana.—The measures of our government connected with the acquisition of Louisiana, seems now to arrest the attention of every politician, and every other subject, even the alteration of an important feature of the constitution, seems to be considered of minor importance when compared with the occupation of this newly acquired Territory. Indeed almost every day something new and unexpected is transpiring on this head. The affair began in mystery, and through its whole course, has been covered with doubt and darkness. But the clouds which heretofore obscured our vision are rapidly vanishing, and we have reason to believe that we shall, at least, have a clear and distinct view of the close of this important transaction.—The drama which has so long fixed the attention of the people must soon have an end, and we heartily with our present prospect, would justify us in looking for a pleasing conclusion. But if the Secretary at war is to be credited, we ought to prepare ourselves to listen to the rattling of arms and the shouts of victory, instead of the sweets of negotiation and the songs of peace.—It is now decided, as will be seen in the columns of this paper, that 7000 men are to be assembled and held in readiness to march at the shortest notice for the purpose of taking possession of Louisiana. And the cause assigned by the secretary at war for this war-like measure is “that there is reason to suspect that the officers of the Spanish government at New-Orleans may decline or refuse to give possession of the country of Louisiana, ceded to the United States by the French Republic.” We do not profess implicit confidence in the foresight of our present governors.—But before they ventured upon so strong a measure as that of raising 7,000 men, we are bound to suppose that they had powerful and convincing reasons for expecting opposition.—It is at any rate enough to shew, that Spain has not assented to the cession, and that we have yet to fight for what we have purchased; and purchased too at the price of fifteen millions of dollars! Secretary Dearborn tells us that we have “reason to suspect” that such will be the event, and if he is mistaken we are not to blame for it. Let us then for a moment review the measures our government has pursued with respect to Louisiana. When a flagrant violation on the part of Spain, of a solemn treaty would have justified the use of force to secure us in the possession of our rights, the horrors of war, and the advantages of negotiation were depicted in the most glowing colors. At that time Louisiana was, as it still is, in the possession of Spain, and all the civil and military powers were exercised under the authority of the Spanish government. It was then said, and perhaps truly, that Louisiana was ceded to France. But France had not taken possession of the country, nor had she a single soldier, on this continent to subjugate or defend it. It was, however, determined by our government to negotiate, and with France—We did negotiate, and for 15,000,000 of dollars. The French Republic transferred her right to the United States.—Upon the payment of this immense sum of money we surely had a right to expect peaceable possession. But it now seems, that we are not to expect that act of right or of favor (we do not know which Mr. Jefferson would term it) from the “enlightened government of France,” but must ourselves use the necessary means to accomplish the end.—In other words, we must conquer Louisiana by force of arms.—We would ask of every American, if this be the case, what we have gained by our negotiation with France?—Louisiana is now in possession of the same nation, and has the same force to defend it that it had before we negotiated. Before we can occupy it we have to contend with the same enemy—are compelled to use the same force, to expend the same money, and to shed the same blood, that we should have been obliged to do for that purpose, if we had not purchased it. What then, we repeat, have we gained by Monroe's boasted treaty? Why, we have gained the right to pay to France 15,000,000 dollars, and to conquer Louisiana—if we can.—If Mr. Secretary Deareorn is correct, if the
officers of the Spanish government will refuse to give us possession of the country,” our occupation must be, to all intents and purposes a conquest, except only that we have purchased from France, at a moderate price, the right to conquer. For if we now obtain possession of Louisiana, by any means whatever, as we must claim it under the cession from France, we shall be obliged, we suppose, to pay the price of the purchase.—We dare say that Buonaparte would sell to his good friend Mr. Jefferson, upon the same terms any other part of the world to which the latter may take a fancy. He would no doubt sell him his right to the whole kingdom of China, and that country would afford a still “wider spread for the blessings of liberty and equal laws;” which “wide spread” seems to have been one of the philosopher's principal inducements to the purchase of Louisiana.
Nay, we are almost induced to believe that the first consul might, with the aid of another memorial from ambassador Livingston, consent to sell us the island of Great Britain, and in the fullness of his friendship, would even agree, to furnish a part of the troops and bear a part of the expense that would be necessary to conquer the country; which is more than he seems disposed to do with respect to Louisiana. For in this case we are to fight the battles ourselves, while he has nothing to do to but pocket the money.
THE MAILS.
Raleigh, (N. C.) Dec. 5, 1803. A BED of Gold Ore has been lately discovered in Cabarrus County, in this state, in a Creek running through the land of Mr. John Reed, a native of Hesse Cassel in Germany, which promises to be a source of great riches to the proprietor. The metal was first found by two or three children of Mr. Reed, who were fishing.—They brought a few pieces home to their father, as a curiosity, not aware of its value. On examination, they found not only to be gold, but gold of a pure quality. Since the discovery, these little boys have picked up daily from 100 to 150 penny weights (worth upwards of 20l. sterling) but the proprietor has lately found a lump of the ore twenty eight pounds weight, which it is supposed, when processed will yield twenty seven pounds of pure gold, or is worth upwards of five thousand six hundred dollars. These facts are assured to us by one of the members of our General Assembly from Cabarrus, in this city.
BOSTON, DEC. 25. We have before mentioned, that the village of this town was infested with a gang of desperadoes. Several persons, on the roads between Charlestown and Medford, have been attacked, and robbed, on Wednesday evening, William H. Sumner, on his return to Roxbury, from this town, with his mother, in his chair, was robbed on the Neck by three highwaymen on foot, armed with pistols and swords. Soon after the villains left him, Medford drove with all possible haste, in the hope of giving such a reasonable alarm, that the robbers might be taken. But notwithstanding upward of an hundred persons were assembled in a few moments in the adjacent, the robbers escaped. It behoves the guardians of the public safety, and the citizens who have occasion to travel in the evening, to be vigilant and on their guard.
Capt. Parrot, arrived at Baltimore, from Madeira, in giving an account of the terrible storm at that place, thus writes. “It was nearly two days before I could get in again; but whilst at sea, experiencing the most tremendous fight my eyes ever beheld; the whole surface of the sea was apparently covered with trees, parts of houses, pipes of wine, boats, oars, sheep, goats, cattle, mules, and in fact every thing that the island affords. Numbers were dug out of the rubbish, after a dismal, still alive; and to the astonishment of all, a woman was found dead with her infant child at her breast, and likely to survive.”
From the Mediterranean
Capt. Burger, arrived at Newyork from Naples, brings accounts, that the markets were favorable in most of the northern ports in the Mediterranean, Flour at Genoa, Raltar and Cadiz, 9 & 8 dols. and expected to rise, the harvest in Spain being very short; Brandies had fallen at all the ports. American vessels in demand to freight.
From New Orleans
“Letters and papers have been received at Philadelphia, from New Orleans, dated the 19th November, stating that the negotiations were entertained of some of the difficulties, expected to arise, in the delivery of the colony to the United States: Spanish Commissioners pretend to delay it is said, that they are not authorized to deliver up the place to Mr. L'Aufant, it is to be hoped however (add the writers) that the Commissioners appointed to take possession, are men of spirit and address; in which case very little need

pared, as no opposition whatever will be made by the inhabitants. — A frigate had arrived with specie to pay off the Spanish civil and military establishment there."
Portland,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1803.
FROM WASHINGTON—DEC. 10.
Last evening the resolution to alter the Constitution, passed the House by the casting vote of the Speaker, precisely as it came from the Senate. Altho' it contains three important alterations of the mode of choosing the President and Vice President, instead of one, as it passed the House some time since; and altho' the expressions are obscure and ambiguous in the extreme, it was impossible to obtain the alteration of one letter, notwithstanding a great variety of amendments were proposed, some of them by democrats. The House was told that unless it was passed precisely as it stood, the Senate would reject it when sent to that body!
I shall not attempt to explain the evils which must result from this innovation (should the States adopt it) because the speeches of the members of Congress, which will soon appear, have done ample justice to the subject. It is evident, however, that the northern States are urged by the strongest reasons to oppose it. So strong was this conviction upon the minds of the northern members generally, that only six members of the House from the whole of New England, voted in favor of the resolution, viz. the two Rhode Island members, one from Vermont (Mr. Olin) and three from Massachusetts (Messrs. Cutts, Crowningfield and Skinner.) The whole debate was extremely interesting, and the moment which decided the question was solemn and impressive. The circumstance of so close a division created anxiety and fostered hope, but it terminated in disappointment. It is wonderful how superficially this part of the Constitution has been heretofore considered! Some of the leading members of both Houses declared that they had not understood the subject till this discussion."
We have received no further information from Washington relative to the repealing of the Bankrupt Law.
Thomas G Thornton, Esq. of Saco, is said to be nominated Marshall of the District of Maine. — We have heretofore supposed that policy on the part of the executive would have insured a continuance of the office to the present Marshall, who is so universally esteemed among all classes of his fellow citizens. But now we have another proof that no consideration of talents, merit, or an upright discharge of public duties, will prevail, when a birth is wanted for one of the minions of a successful party.
Dudley Hobart, or Hubbard, Esq. is nominated by the President, Collector of Bath, in Maine. — An old adage says, "tis a foolish bird that betrays its own nest" — It may be as truly said, 'tis a wise bird which cherishes its own nest. Now if this latter proposition be true, and be applicable to men as well as birds, assuredly the wisest man in our nation is the most noble Secretary of War; for no one has shewn so much care for his nest and nestlings as he has.
The above named Hubbard had the happiness to marry a daughter of Gen. D——'s, and therefore is appointed Collector of Bath. — Let us see — there's the Gen. himself the chief of a department; then his son in law a chief clerk in the same department; then his son for another clerk; then the father of his son in law a postmaster at Hallowell; now another son in law Collector at Bath. What a glorious thing to be allied to the noble blood of the D——'s. There is yet one son in law left, and it may be calculated that he will soon have a snug place given to him; and then, when the General's family in all its ramifications, is taken good care of, 'tis said the President will have arrived to that state of things, in the District of Maine at least, when the only questions respecting a candidate will be "Is he honest? is he able, is he faithful to the constitution?" At present a more important question seems to be, is he related to the Secretary of War? Has the noble general any unmarried daughters? If he has, our young men know the road to office and honor.
Portland Marine Society — At the annual meeting of the Portland Marine Society, held at Mr. Beaman's Inn, on Tuesday last, the following persons were chosen Officers for the ensuing year: — Capt. JOSEPH TITCOMB, President. Capt. ROBERT ILSLEY, Vice-President. Mr. STEPHEN WAITE, Treasurer. Mr. JOHN WOODMAN, Secretary.
At Scarborough by the Rev. Thomas Lancaster, Mr. Rufus Fogg to Miss Peggy Libby. At Freeport, Robert Williams, Esq. of Boston, to Miss Hannah Jamison, of that town.
At this town, Mr. JOHN TUCKER, aged 81 — an honest man, and worthy member of society. — His descendants are 13 children, 74 grand children, and 11 great grand children. Mrs. Abigail Wigglesworth Donnell, aged 50, daughter of Mrs. Lydia Smith of Newbury. At sea, two days after leaving Guadalupe, on his passage home, capt. SAMUEL WATTS, aged 39, of the brigantine Franklin, of this port. — His death is sincerely lamented by his numerous connections and friends, to whom he
had endeared himself by an uniform practice of all the relative duties of a kind husband, an affectionate parent; and an enterprising, upright and virtuous member of society. At North Berwick, on the 9th inst. Miss Polly Farfsworthy, daughter of Mr. Peter Farfsworthy, aged 21. At North Berwick, Miss Lucretia Loring, youngest daughter of Mr. Richmond Loring, in the 28th year of her age, after a lingering illness, which she bore with that patience and resignation characteristic of the disciple of the meek and blessed Jesus. As she was a girl of promising mind, amiable and generous disposition, much beloved of her Friends, and one who promised fair to be an ornament to her family, her death is most sincerely regretted by her Parents and other relatives; but as she was the offspring of a divine change, and gave copious evidence of a vital union to the great Saviour of sinners, in the unswerving exercise of that strong faith and hope peculiar to the distinguished favorites of Heaven, which eminently mark her last moments, and in which she sweetly fell asleep in Jesus — they have a consolation which can be experienced only by those, who have had a mixture of sorrow of the same kind and degree.
Notification.
THE Stockholders of the Portland Bank are hereby notified, that their annual meeting for the choice of seven Directors for the ensuing year, will be held at the Bank, on Monday, the 22nd day of January next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. at which time there will be an installment due of twenty dollars and fifty cents, on each share of the last two thousand shares, and a dividend of profits for the last six months will be declared. By order of the Board of Directors. J. SWIFT, Cashier. Portland Bank. Dec. 22, 1803.
NOTICE.
THE Proprietors of Union Wharf are hereby notified that their annual meeting will be held at Mr. J. CHADWICK's tavern, on the first Tuesday of January next, at 6 o'clock, P. M. when they will act on the following articles: — viz. 1. To choose a Moderator. 2. To choose a Clerk for the ensuing year, and such other officers as they shall judge necessary to manage their affairs. 3. To receive accounts and allow the same if they see proper. 4. To see if the proprietors will vote any sum or sums of money to be assessed, raised and applied for the purpose of adding to the wharf already built, and to defray any expense that may attend said business, or be otherwise incurred in managing the affairs, or improving the interest of said proprietors, and generally to act on all matters that they shall judge necessary for the interest of the concerned. Thomas Beck, Prop'rs Clerk. Portland, Dec. 24.
JOHN BRUCE, a native of Scotland, having deceased on board the Schooner Drummore, Samuel Lilly, master, in performing a voyage from Kennebec to Jamaica; on board of which vessel the said Bruce was a mariner, and having left some small effect which remain in the subscriber's hands, his heirs or legal representatives may have them on demand, upon producing proper evidence thereof. Mark L. Hill. Georgetown, Dec. 14.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber, on the 14th inst. a Mulatto Boy, an indentured servant, named NOBLE SPENCER (commonly known by the name of FORRICK) about 15 years of age — had on when he went away, a blue jacket, black striped velvet overalls, new shoes, and no hat. — Whoever will apprehend said runaway, and return him, shall receive Ten Dollars Reward: All persons are forbid harbouring or trusting him, on penalty of the law. R. Hunnewell. Portland. Dec. 17, 1803.
Mercantile Arithmetic.
Just published, by EDMUND M. BLUNT, Newburyport. SECOND Edition of "WALSH'S MERCANTILE ARITHMETIC" — adapted to the commerce of the United States, in its domestic and foreign relations, with forms of accounts and other writings usually occurring in trade. [Scarcely two years have elapsed since a large edition of the above work first made its appearance, all of which have been sold, and the merit due the author of this original treatise may be justly appreciated by the following testimonials.] Newburyport, May 1, 1800. We the subscribers, having seen Mr. Walsh's New System of Mercantile Arithmetic, and being satisfied that it is better calculated than any yet published, to fit a youth for the business of the counting-house, cannot but with an extensive circulation. The happy elucidation and extended application of the common rules, together with the many original improvements, while they accomplish the student for commerce, are also extremely well adapted to assist and inform the merchant, the mariner, and the trader in their various occupations. Dudley A. Tyng, Ebenezer Stocker, William Bartlett, Samuel A. Otis, jun. Tristram Coffin, Moses Brown, William Wyer, jun. Richard Bartlett, jun. Wm. W. Frost, Michael Little.
Boston, May 16, 1800. We the subscribers having examined Mr. Walsh's New System of Mercantile Arithmetic, and being persuaded that it is better calculated than any we have met with, to qualify young men for admission into counting houses, we wish that it may have an extensive circulation. The clear exemplification and pertinent application of the common rules, together with the many useful additions and improvements which it contains will render it extremely useful for the merchant, the mariner, and all other trading classes of society. Marshall Watson, John C. Jones, John Codman, Stephen Higginson, John Lowell, jun. Joseph Russell, Arnold Willis, jun. Jonathan Jackson.
Salem, October 7, 1800. We the subscribers, merchants of Salem, convinced of the necessity of rendering the forms of business, the value of coins and the nature of commerce more familiar to the United States, as a commercial people, do approve of the Mercantile Arithmetic of Mr. Walsh, and recommend it as calculated to subserve in the best manner the instruction of our youth, and the purposes of a well informed merchant. Wm. Gray, jun. Benjamin Hodges, B. Pickman, Nathaniel Bowditch, Jacob Afton, William Prescott, Jacob Crowningfield, Elias Hasket Derby. Orders for the above, will meet with punctual attention. (400)
CASH and the highest price given for BARLEY, at the PORTLAND BREWERY — where families may be supplied with BEER, &c. as usual. William Hore. Portland. Nov. 28.
Two or more Gentlemen, MAY be well accommodated for Boarding and Lodging, at the house lately occupied by Mr. THOMAS BECK, in Fore-Street. Portland, Nov. 23.
PORTLAND BOOK-STORE, No. 5, Mussey's Row.
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Winterbottom's History of America. Gordon's American Revolution. Russell's modern Europe. Conquest of Mexico. History of Spain. — of France. — of New-England, by Hannah Adams. — of Jacobinism. — of New-Hampshire; or District Maine. Rollins' Ancient History. Biographical Dictionary. Wright's Martyrs. Brown's Dictionary of the Bible. Millett's General History. Jefferson's Notes on Virginia. Pope's Works. Debates on the Judiciary, in Senate and House of Representatives. Deisme, on the British Constitution. Darwin's Zoonomia, or laws of organic life. Sheridan's Lectures on Elocution. Junius' Letters, elegant, with Portraits. Willich's Lectures on Diet and Regiment. Townsend's Guide to health. Domestic Medicine. Staunton's embassy to China. Edinburgh Dispensatory. Studies of Nature. Beauties of the Bible. Scrabec's Exercice. Beauties of Nature. Blair's Lectures. Masonic Register. Burgh's Dignity of Human Nature. Morse's Universal Geography. Romain's Law and Gospel. Hannah Adams' view of Religions. Hunter's Sacred Biography, with the Life of Christ. Steel on the Passions. Paicy's Philosophy. Evidences of Christianity. Theology. Lock on the human understanding. Watts' Logic. Took's Pantheon. Rambler. Spectator. Shakespeare's Plays. Flowers of modern Travels. Doddridge's Family expositor. Newton on the Prophecies. Nicholson's Philosophy. Minute Philosopher. Lavater's Aphorisms. Materia Medica. Barrow's Travels. Mackenzie's Voyages. Zeluco.
LAW BOOKS.
Dunford and East's Reports, with continuation by East. Vattel's Law of Nations. Burlamaqui. Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws. Martin's Law of Nations. Park on Insurance. Burns on do. Kid on Bills of Exchange. Powell on Contracts. Sullivan on Land Titles. Everyman his own Lawyer. Espenau's nisi prius. Beave's Lex Mercatoria. Blackstone's Commentaries, with Christian's Notes. Attorney's vade mecum. Law of Bailments. Precedents of Declarations. Justices Assistant. Town Officer. Clerks Magazine. Massachusetts Laws. New Hampshire do. United States do. Pothier on obligations and contracts.
MARSHALL, a late celebrated writer on Insurance, in the introduction to his work, says — "POTHIER, in his treatise on Contracts, unites the most profound learning, with the purest morals, and a most comprehensive judgment. — That upon Insurance, is neat, concise and masterly."
ALSO, An assortment of large and small BIBLES — TESTAMENTS — PRAYER BOOKS — PSALM and HYMN BOOKS — VILLAGE HARMONY — and ESSEX HARMONY.
SCHOOL BOOKS, wholesale & retail. American Orthographer — Federal Calculator — Scholar's Guide — Elements of the English Grammar — Bigelow's Latin Primer — Smith's Latin Grammar — Bigelow's Introduction to making Latin — Ainsworth and Young's Latin Dictionary — Davidson's Virgil — Johnson and Perry's English Dictionary; with every other School-Book in common use.
LIKEWISE, Farmer's, Houghton's and Maine ALMANACKS — Massachusetts REGISTERS — PAPER and QUILLS, of almost every price, on good terms. *** Cash and the highest price given for RAGS. Portland, Dec. 24.
Registers for 1804, Just published, and for sale at the Bookstore of ISAAC ADAMS, No. 6, Jones' Row.
THE Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar — containing Civil, Ecclesiastical, Judicial, and Military Lists in Massachusetts — Also, Catalogues of the Officers of the General Government and its several departments; together with a great variety of other interesting articles. Dec. 7.
Samuel Fowle & Co. No. 15, Long-Wharf,
HAVE FOR SALE, PIPES Cognac Brandy, 1st & 4th proof. do. Hollands Gin, of a superior quality. Hhds. St. Croix Rum, do. Antigua do. do. New-England do. Hhds. and bbls. Sugars; Chests and half chests Bohea Tea, do. Hyson and Souchong do. Boxes of Candles; do. Soap.
Commission Business transacted — Cash liberally advanced on Goods deposited for sale. The above Goods will be sold for cash or approved credit, on the most reasonable terms. Portland, 432 Nov. 1803.
FOR SALE, A Valuable House Lot, containing 14 Rods and 5-8 of a rod of LAND, with a building thereon, 30 feet long and 22 feet wide, in Freeport — Porter's Landing. Likewise, Eight Acres and Seventy-two Rods excellent Mowing and Pasturing Land adjoining the water, with a House thereon 34 feet long and 20 wide, the outside finished; a Barn frame, part covered, 30 feet long & 24 feet wide — Will be sold on liberal terms for cash. Apply to CHARLES SYLVESTER, JEN. Freeport, Sept. 1803. (Nov. 20)
AUCTIONS.
To be Sold, At Belfast, in the county of Hancock, on MONDAY the fifteenth day of January next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, TWO thirds of a large, handsome and convenient HOUSE, three stories high in front, and two in rear, being part of the real estate of William Habb and Moses Merrill. Bankrupts — Said house is very conveniently situated for a merchant, and has two commodious stores on the lower floor. — Terms to be known at the time and place of sale. Stephen Longfellow, jun. Assignee. Dec. 24.
To be Sold, At Public Auction, at the Tavern kept by Major PECK, in Portland, on THURSDAY, the fifth day of January next, at twelve o'clock, M. unless before sold at private sale,
THE Lot of Land in Raymond, No. 21, in the tenth range; said Lot being well known for its excellent mill privilege and other advantages, now in the possession of Capt. Mann — Conditions of sale will be liberal, with good security.
Also, at the above time and place, will be sold, unless disposed of at private sale, that valuable FARM in Cape Elizabeth, formerly owned by Samuel Goss, Esq. deceased, and now in the occupation of Mr. Joseph Goss, with a good Dwelling House thereon — Liberal terms, and credit for part of purchase money, with proper security.
Also, at private sale, the Lots No. 19 in eleventh range, 10 and 11 in twelfth range, and 13 in thirteenth range, in Raymond, at 3 years credit, with sufficient security. ISAAC PARKER. Dec. 10.
To be Sold, by order of Court, On the Eleventh day of January next, at nine o'clock, A. M. at Public Auction, on the premises,
THAT valuable FARM in Parsonsfield, formerly occupied by DANIEL TILTON, Esq. consisting of Two Hundred and Fifty Acres, ninety of which are under good improvement; well watered; with about two hundred young Apple Trees on the same; accommodated with mowing ploughing and pasturing; thirty six miles from Portland, and on the new road from Coos to that place.
Also, sundry articles, such as Cattle, Sheep, Swine, Hay, Grain and Corn, with Husbandry Utensils and Household Furniture. Conditions of sale to be made known at the time and place aforesaid.
JONA. HALE, Administrator on said Estate. Parsonsfield, Dec. 2, 1803. Administrators & Commissioners Notice.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of an executor of the last will and testament of EDWARD KEITH, late of Paris, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, by proving the will and by giving 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 for settlement, to ABIJAH HALL. Dec. 24, 1803.
THE subscribers hereby give public notice to all concerned, that they have been duly appointed and have taken upon themselves the trust of Administrators on the estate of WILLIAM ROGERS, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, coppermith, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs — They therefore request all persons indebted to said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same for settlement to KATY ROGERS, BURDICK BERRY. Nov. 13, 1803.
WE the subscribers, being appointed by the Hon. Wm. Gorham, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of JONATHAN HALL, late of Paris, deceased, represented intestate — 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 Joseph H. Hall, in Paris, on the last Tuesday in this and the four following months, and on the first Tuesday of April next. DAVID DURELL WILLIAM STOWELL, Commissioners. PARIS, Nov. 7.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy hath been awarded and issued against MORREL JORDAN, of Cape Elizabeth, in the District of Maine, Trader, & the said Morrel Jordan has been declared a Bankrupt — He is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners named, or to the major part of them, on Friday the sixth, and on Thursday the nineteenth days of January next, and on Friday the third day of February next, at ten o'clock, A. M. on each of said days, at the Commissioners' Office, No. 2, Mussey's Row, Middle Street, Portland, in said District, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; when and where his creditors are to some 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; and at said last meeting any of the creditors of said Bankrupt may be heard before said Commissioners, against the making or allowing of a certificate to the Judge of said District, to entitle said Bankrupt to a certificate of discharge. — 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. By order of the Commissioners, N. KINSMAN, Clerk. Dated 2d December, 1803.
Subscriptions received at the Post Office, for the fourth volume of the PORT-FOLIO, commencing January 1st, 1804. Portland, Nov. 1803.
JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE. AND MAINE ADVERTISER. The price of this GAZETTE to subscribers in town, who receive their papers by the carrier, is two dollars per annum. — Distant subscribers who have their papers sealed singly will also pay two dollars, exclusive of postage. Subscribers in the country, who receive their papers at the office or by post, will pay one DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS, exclusive of postage. PUBLISHED BY ELEZER A. JENKS, No. 7, FINE STREET — PORTLAND.

EXTRACTS
From a History of the late European War; Just published in London, in 2 vols. quarto.—The author's name ALEXANDER STEPHENS.
[Concluded from our last.]
The Ottoman Porte, notwithstanding the incurable ignorance of its governors, the deplorable neglect of science on the part of its generals, and the notorious deficiency of discipline among its troops, is still suffered to enjoy a nominal independence. The late war has made but little alteration in its situation; and Egypt, whether conquered by the French or liberated by the English, no longer seems inclined to supply Constantinople either with corn or treasure. Incapable of chastising the Mamelukes in Africa, or of subduing the rebel bathaws in Europe, and resorting to chicanery, duplicity, and treachery, the usual resources of weak and declining states, this once potent empire is less indebted for its existence to the forbearance than to the unceasing jealousies of the surrounding nations. The epoch is not far distant, however, when the successors of Selim III will be forced to cross the Bosphorus of Thrace, and the Turks once more, perhaps, become a pastoral tribe amidst the plains of Asia.
Nor must mention be wholly omitted of another quarter of the world. The new continent, although exposed by turns to the spoliation of the principal maritime powers, has found means to preserve a prudent, if not a dignified, neutrality, amid the convulsions of the ancient world. Unmoved by the shock of nations, the adopted land of Penn, and the native soil of Franklin and Washington, calmly pursues its silent but successful career, and beholds its population nearly doubled at the end of every second lustre. The fates are preparing an exalted destiny for this nation, or rather this congeries of rising empire, which even in its cradle contended with the serpents that assailed its infancy, and now, invigorated almost into manhood, is ready, if prompted by necessity, to oppose the many headed hydra, at the sight of which Europe turns pale. The arts and sciences, ever following in the train of freedom, will soon ennoble those immense forests which have hitherto only resounded with the barbarous shouts of war and the chase; and when the son of liberty sets to Europe that luminary may perhaps still cheer with his departing beams a land washed on one side by the waves of the Atlantic, and enriched on another by the Mississippi, then become a tributary stream.
A considerable period must elapse before Austria can recover from a long and disastrous war, bequeathed as a patrimony to Francis II, by the emperor Leopold his father. The acquisition of Venice, Istria, and Dalmatia, affords but an inadequate compensation for the defeat of so many armies, the aggrandizement of a rival house, and the loss of Lombardy, Tuscany, and the Netherlands.
On the other hand, the king of Prussia, by maintaining the neutrality of the north of Germany, and taking advantage of the pressing events, has enabled a crown so lately ducal, to rival the splendor of the imperial diadem. Even the father of Frederick William the second, although a slave to his pleasures towards the latter end of his reign, did not forget the ruling maxims of the house of Brandenburg, and the present protector of the Germanic liberties, will carve out a sufficient demarcation for the loss of his possessions on the left bank of the Rhine, in the more contiguous territories of some of the ecclesiastical co-estates.
In return for the immense sacrifices made by Charles IV, one prince, nearly allied to the house of Bourbon, has been permitted to sit on the throne of modern Tuscany, now recognized as a kingdom, under the ancient name of Etruria, while another of that race is still permitted to sway the sceptre of the two Sicilies. It is but little more than a century since Spain acquired a new world for herself in America, and appeared at the same time to regulate the destiny of Europe. But the lustre of the ancient monarchy appears of late to have been clouded; and that kingdom which, while a primary planet, dazzled mankind with its radiance, has at last sunk into the satellite of a new republic, being attracted within its orbit and regulated by its influence.
Portugal, on the other hand, dependant alike on the sale of her scanty indigenous productions and the produce of her distant colonies, recognizes that sceptre which governs the empire of the ocean. The late war has proved eminently disastrous to her prosperity; and she is indebted perhaps to the policy and forbearance of a neighboring court alone for the retention of her independence. But her finances have been deranged, and the prince regent has been forced, by an overbearing necessity, to relinquish a province of his dominions in Europe to a father-in-law, at the same time that a portion of his territories in America has been resigned to an enemy as a boon for peace.
Holland, now recognized under the name of the Batavian commonwealth, and submitting to France, like commercial Carthage to warlike Rome of old, is equally jealous of her new protector and her ancient enemy. Abhorrent of war, and anxious, as heretofore, to profit by the smiles of peace, her industrious citizens only pant for liberty to plough the ocean with their merchantmen, and produce an interchange of commodities between the natives of the torpid north and the inhabitants of the rich but lazy south. Yet being destitute of an army, deprived of a fleet, and bound in the golden manacles forged by a long and successful commerce, Batavia, which so long and so manfully resisted Spain, now seems fated, like Switzerland, to bend under the superior force and influence of a neighboring state.
France, at first persecuted into greatness, has, on the contrary, obtained every object which can be coveted by a great people, save that for which she originally contended. With the exception of one single nation alone, she has either terrified or overpowered every foe with her devouring armies; while countries hitherto accustomed only to the shouts of triumph, have shrunk and withered up beneath the ardor of her innumerable warriors. The Alps, the Apennines, the Pyrenees, have been scaled: the Rhine, the Trebia, the Inn, and the Danube, have been crossed by her adventurous legions.
The battles of Fleurus, of Lodi, of Marengo, and of Hohenlinden, have added a population of thirteen millions to an empire, which, during the early part of the reign of Louis XIV, had nearly wrested the sceptre of independence from Europe, associated against it.—The narrow seas, the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean, and the utmost frontiers of Piedmont, convey but a feeble idea of the limits of confining France, armed with the support of Holland, Spain, and Switzerland, against every opponent in the north, and wielding the now ever-repulsive of Italy against its enemies in the south of Europe. But this colossal state, great in arts and arms, is still defective in her social institutions; and, with the barren name of a republic, inherits no portion of that freedom which can alone confer real happiness on individuals, or true greatness on nations.
While the scanty sacrifices at the peace were made at the cost of two of her confederates, all the new acquisitions became her own; the catalogue of French conquests has been thus swelled at the expense both of her enemies and her allies.
From the house of Austria she has obtained the county of Flanders, the Frickthal, a portion of the isle of Elba, and the whole of the Belgic provinces. The empire surrendered all that important tract of country situated on the left bank of the Rhine, including the duchies of Deux Ponts, Juliers, and the balliwick of the Palatinate; even Prussia was obliged to yield a portion of her territories in the same quarter. The king of the Two Sicilies has ceded Porto Legano; his brother the king of Spain, besides some advantageous arrangements for the extension of the French frontiers in Europe, relinquished part of St. Domingo, together with the whole of Louisiana. The Ottoman Porte, notwithstanding the recent outrages against its territories, granted certain commercial privileges; and in addition to similar ones on the part of Portugal, the prince-regent has agreed, that the dominions of that crown in Guiana should in future be limited by the river Carapanatuba. The Batavian republic has surrendered Dutch Flanders, the right side of the Hondt, together with Maastricht and Venlo: France has also obtained an equal claim with Holland to the port of Flushing; and, in case of future hostilities her garrisons are to be admitted into Breda, Bois-le-Duc, and Bergen op Zoom.
From the crown of Sardinia, the republic acquired Piedmont, Savoy, in short, every thing valuable appertaining to the fallen monarch: she has also been enabled to confer part of her spoils on the kings and commonwealths which she had designed to associate in her fortune.—Tuscany, together with the presential states and the territory of Piombino, were accordingly transferred to the hereditary prince of Parma, at the expence of the grand duke and the court of Naples; while the Cisalpine republic, carved out of the Italian dominions of the pope and the emperor, is swayed by the same sceptre, or rather by the same sword, that regulates the destinies of France. All the possessions of the house of Austria on the left bank of the Rhine, between Zarrach and Basse, have been ceded to the Helvetic republic: in return for this favor, a new constitution has been sketched out in the cabinet of the consular palace, recommended by an imperious mandate, and enforced by republican bayonets. Such are the triumphs of a people whose territories are liberated from feudal bondage, whose agriculture is unfettered by ecclesiastical imposts, whose measure of military glory is complete, and who want civil liberty alone to rival the splendor and the happiness of the most famous nations of antiquity.
But although the herd of mankind is generally governed by events, and considers nothing unusual provided it be successful, it may be necessary to discriminate, and endeavor, if possible, like an enlightened and impartial posterity, to deliberate before we presume either to censure or to praise. The recent history of France presents no less than five grand epochs, all of which are interesting, but each varies in shape and feature from that which precedes, as well as that which follows it. The characters too are entirely different; for while one confers honor on man, considered as a social being, another covers the human species with opprobrium and disgrace. The gentle reign of orators, statesmen, and legislators, is soon forced to yield to the brutal sway of demagogues & men of blood; the warriors, accustomed to rule by the sword, and alike content in every age and country to overthrow the foreign foe or domestic liberty, then push the executioners encircled with civic oak from the scaffolds on which they sit enthroned, and almost obliterate their own misdeeds by the splendor of their victories.
The first period exhibits a numerous body of men long retained in thralldom by the despotism of their monarchs, arousing from the slumber of ages, indignantly bursting their manacles, and declaring themselves free. The despots of the continent, decked in the recent spoils of violated Poland, immediately associate, under pretence of assisting a prince more gentle, more amiable, and consequently more beloved, than themselves: a war ensues, the shock of arms takes place, and the forests of Argonne and the heights of Valmy decide a campaign pregnant with the fate of France and of Europe. How glorious the struggle of a liberated nation! how resplendent the victory of a confederated people against so many combined kings! But a sudden transition takes place, and all the horrors of a civil, seem fated to accompany all the disasters of a foreign war. A sovereign, revered as a martyr by one portion of the nation, and detested as a traitor by another, perishes by a violent death: monarchy itself is annihilated with Louis XVI, and a republic proclaimed upon his tomb. The founders of the commonwealth are doomed to perish in their turn, and that too by the same instrument employed for the decollation of the last of the Bourbon kings. Robespierre, adored by the populace during his life, and Marat, deified after his assassination, are then wasted along a sanguinary torrent to the possession of supreme power, and rule for a while by means of spies and executioners.
A less unfavorable epoch now presents itself, and the directorial government promises to repair the errors and the crimes of the tyrants. Immense armies take the field, decisive battles are fought, great victories are achieved, and Germany is prepared for dismemberment and Italy for subjugation.
At length a military leader arises, and con-
quers, first for the republic, and then for himself. In consequence of a peace, as brilliant as the war, which he had achieved, he seems to consider Europe as too small a theatre for his ambition; and striving with a powerful fleet and a numerous army in Africa, meditates to imitate the Macedonian hero, and finish his career of conquests by the subjugation of Asia. After gaining many victories over the degenerate Turks and the warlike Mamelukes, he at length experiences a repulse before an ill-fortified city, garrisoned by the half-disciplined troops of a rebel pacha, and is reduced to the mortifying necessity of treating with the Ottoman Porte, whose faith he had spoiled. Uncertain of his destiny, he leaves Egypt and his army by stealth, arrives suddenly in Europe, takes advantage of the corrupt and feeble government of those who happened to be invested with the Gallic pur-
ple, surrounds himself with a mercenary soldiery, and uniting the treachery of Monk with the deceitful conduct and victorious career of Cromwell, becomes sovereign, under the name of consul.
Not yet safe, he flies into Italy by a route deemed impassible, again overwhelms veteran armies and ancient states, once more erases new commonwealths, renders his foes and his confederates tributary, extends the limits of France and of his own power, and is hailed, first, as the pacificator of the continent, and then, of the world!
After this, under pretence of protecting commerce and extending his paternal protection to the colonies, he violates the plighted honor of the nation to the unhappy negroes, who had armed and fought in behalf of France and their own liberty; while the veteran troops which had escaped the sword and the bayonets of the English, the Austrians, the Prussians, the Turks and the Mamelukes, perish by the diseases of St. Domingo, and the vengeance of her sable inhabitants.
An African chief, who had risen, like himself, from obscurity, is first decoyed into a treaty by means of his paternal feelings, and the pretence of his children, educated at the expence of the republic, becomes the signal of his own bondage. Carried a captive into France, under pretence of a breach of faith, he is secluded from the rays of the sun, and consigned to the gloom of a dungeon, while his countrymen fight amidst the moraines and ravines of a ruined colony, in behalf of that very cause which enabled France to combat and to triumph on the plains of Champagne.
Such is the brief epitome of a revolution which commenced under the mild despotism of a French king, and ended in the accession of an enterprising Corsican; who appears desirous of no other title to empire than fortune and his sword.
From the Newyork Gazette—Dec. 9.
Calamity at Madiera.
This extraordinary event, which we briefly noticed in our paper of yesterday, happened on Sunday the 9th of October, at 8 o'clock in the evening. The day had been previously very cloudy and a continual rain had fallen, accompanied with squalls, which were not violent, until the sun had sunk beneath the horizon, when the sea appeared to be unusually agitated, and such a darkness prevailed, that an object was not discernible at a yard's distance—during this progress, every person remained in their houses in seeming security, and wholly unconscious of that approaching horror which was destined so shortly to sweep them from off the earth!
The clock of the cathedral was striking eight, when an instantaneous storm of thunder and lightning began, and the rain fell in such torrents, that all the cross streets of the eastern part of the city of Funchall, were suddenly filled with mud and water above the first floors of the houses, which was occasioned by its being impeded, in some measure, in its furious descent from the ravines of the mountains into the sea. At this shocking period the stoutest hearts felt appalled; nothing was to be heard but the din of ruin, working in every direction; hundreds of huge stones, that had been torn from their quarries on the hills three miles above the town, were tumbling over each other in stupendous succession, carrying with them, in conjunction with the deluge, churches, convents, trees, bridges, battlements, and eight hundred human beings into the bottom of the deep. Whenever a flash of lightning penetrated the gloom, then were seen mothers wading through the streets, up to their chins in water, holding their infants on their heads, with one hand, and endeavoring to catch security with the other; while those who attempted to assist them, were frequently maimed or killed by the beams of timber or wine pipes which flew around them; and the sea presented a scene not less awful, tho' less ruinous; most of the vessels lost their cables, anchors and boats, and many of the seamen were washed overboard. The ships rolled, some part or another several feet below the water continually, and all the sailors who were there on that dismal night, whether Americans, English, or Portuguese, gave themselves up as lost men.
Ten thousand pipes of wine and brandy were destroyed, and the sea shore was skirted on the ensuing morning with millions of fragments, among which the mourning survivors of the calamity were eagerly seeking for the dead remains of their relations or friends. Several days after, the air of Funchall became so putrescent, from the rotting of the bodies that were buried beneath the congregated mud and filth, that a pestilence was apprehended; but in consequence of burning tar and pitch, and other neutralizing combustibles, that scourge was providentially avoided.
It was remarkable that this deluge, in its course swept away twenty nine vineyards that were situated on the south west side of the city; and so decisive was the ruin, that it tore up all the trees by the roots, and bore away not only them, but all the cottages, with their inhabitants, the ground, cattle and appurtenances, and left the rocky basis, as bare of vegetation as the cliffs of Norway.—All
this assemblage of objects, were whirled into the Ribeira Brava, or mud river, and ingulfed nearly the whole of the small town which bears that name.
In this wreck of matter there was but one human creature saved, and that was an infant in a wooden cradle, which was lodged among some reeds on the side of the declivity, and when discovered, on the ensuing day, was in a profound sleep. This unconscious infant was saved from its ignorance of fear, as it is in the nature of fear, to conceal its own desires.
All the vessels that arrived at Funchall, for several weeks after this miserable occurrence, gave an account of the dead bodies, casks and boxes which they had seen floating many leagues off at sea; and it is believed that some of the crews were considerably enriched by the contents of many of the trunks.
The small town of Machien, was likewise ruined by this singular tempest, and many lives were lost there also; which leads to a supposition, that the lamented event was occasioned by a water spout that had burst against the side of the mountain, and discharging itself down the gullies, produced those afflictive and sudden disasters, that all the living persons must deplore; and which, whenever recollected, should operate to remind us of our frailty and our responsibility, and make us live well, that we may die happily.
The property destroyed has been estimated at upwards of a million of pounds sterling.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.
The following message and accompanying papers were communicated to Congress on Monday last.
THE MESSAGE.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
I have the satisfaction to inform you, that the act of hostility, mentioned in my message of the 4th of November, to have been committed by a cruiser of the Emperor of Morocco on a vessel of the United States, has been disavowed by the Emperor. All differences in consequence thereof have been amicably adjusted, and the treaty of 1796, between this country and that has been recognized, and confirmed by the emperor, each party renouncing to the other what had been detained or taken. I enclose the emperor's orders given on this occasion.
The conduct of our officers generally, who have had a part in these transactions, has merited entire approbation. The temperate and correct course pursued by our Consul, Mr. Simson, the promptitude and energy of commodore Preble, the efficient co-operation of captains Rogers and Campbell, of the returning squadron, the proper decision of captain Bainbridge that a vessel which had committed an open hostility was of right to be detained for enquiry and consideration, and, the general zeal of the other officers and men, are honorable facts, which I make known with pleasure. And to these I add, what was indeed transacted in another quarter, the gallant enterprise of captain Rogers in destroying, on the coast of Tripoli, a corvette that power of 22 guns.
I recommend to the consideration of Congress just indemnification for the interests of the captors of the Mithouda and Mirboha, yielded by them to the public accommodation.
TH: JEFFERSON.
December 5, 1803
THE EMPEROR'S ORDERS.
Praise be given to God alone. May God be propitious to our master Mahomet and to his family.
[SEAL.]
KNOW all those who shall see this noble writing—all our Governors—those charged with our affairs, and of our vessels, that the American nation are still as they were in peace and friendship with our person exalted by G. d.
Their vessels are safe, both at sea and in port, and so are their merchants, and you are not to disturb the peace between us and them. What has happened with their and our vessels, has only been an affair among the vessels, but the said nation continue respected as they were with us and under all security, and equally to their vessels.
Wherefore we hereby order, that all those of our Governors—those charged with the command of our ports and captains of our vessels, who shall see this writing, that they act in all respects for the fulfilment of this order, and that they do not deviate therefrom—those who shall contravene it will be punished with a severe punishment.
This order was given on the 21st Chumadi, the second in the year 1218 (9 Oct. 1803.) and at last we are in peace and friendship with the said American nation as our father, (to whom God be merciful,) was, according to the treaty made on the 21st day of Ramadan, in the year 1200.
The original of the foregoing was translated from Arabic to Spanish by Dr. Manuel De Baeza, and from Spanish to English by
(Signed) JAMES SIMPSON.
Certified at Tangier, 15th Oct. 1803.
Praise be given to the only God. May God be propitious to our master Mahomet and his family.
[SEAL.]
Our servant the Governor Ben Abdel Sadak and all officers of our port of Mogadore. May God assist you—Peace with the mercy and blessing of God be with you.
Now know ye, that the Almighty having revealed what had happened with the American nation, because of the acts of the vessels, and that we are now as we were before with them in peace and friendship as settled with our father, to whom God be merciful—Take care that none of you do anything against them, or show any disrespect or disregard, for they are as they were in friendship and in peace, and we have increased our regard for them in consequence of the friendship they have manifested to our person which God has exalted. And we order that you be careful and be diligent in all their concerns, and we order that you do well with their vessels and with their merchants. Peace be with you all.
24th Chumadi the second 1218. (11th Oct. 1803.)
The original of the foregoing was translated from the Arabic to Spanish by Dr. Manuel de Baeza, and from Spanish to English by
(Signed) JAMES SIMPSON.
Certified at Tangier, 17th Oct. 1803.