Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1801-01-26 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY EZEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 144]
MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1801.
[VOLUME III.]
Portland,
MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1801.
BONAPARTE becomes more and more the theme of Jacobin eulogy. In him "oppression, tyranny, and power usurped," are no crimes. The character of Washington is thrown into the shade, while that of Bonaparte is exhibited in the "calm light of Jacobin philosophy." He has carried war into the bosom of tranquil nations—deluged the "garden of Europe," and crimsoned the waters of the Nile, with blood—destroyed the ancient governments of people too feeble to resist him, and robbed them, by "contributions" of their wealth, the fruit of peaceful industry; and to glossover the miseries he has inflicted on mankind, we are told, that his triumph has been over either "dissipated or savage nations," whom, in the true principle of illuminism, it is glorious to exterminate! The attributes of Deity are ascribed to him: By the lightning of his sword, Victory appears before him; he says to the tempestuous passions of men, "Peace, be still," and they are "disarmed of their fury;" his "glance upon all Europe is sufficient to explain his intention" of subduing the whole; and by his omniscient power he discovers the means of "eternal tranquillity" in universal desolation. Should this tremendous being wound the pride of the American States, by over-rating their obligations to France, still they are not to be offended, but to bow their heads in humble submission, "deeply impressed with the greatness of the man who has arisen to conduct France to glory"!!!
[Salem Gaz.]
THE BONAPARTES.
By the date of the latest accounts from Europe, the members of the present royal family of France, were thus situated: Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, was at Paris, putting on his armour; Louis was at the Court of Berlin; Joseph, at the Congress at Luneville, and Lucien, at Bourdeaux.
The publication of a weekly Literary Miscellany, by "OLIVER OLDSCHOOL, Esq" author of the Lay Preacher, Farrago, &c. has lately been commenced in Philadelphia. From the known talents and principles of the editor, the public may expect much amusement and sound instruction. We hope that his literary labours will be crowned with that success which they will certainly merit. Gaz. U. S.
SELECTIONS FROM LATE LONDON PAPERS.
A very great curiosity, we are informed by a letter from Canton, lately received, is to be seen about four miles from the city of Johol, in China, which appears to have hitherto escaped the notice of the curious. It is an immense pillar or column of solid rock, situated on the pinnacle of a high mountain, and very near the verge of it, from which it rises in an irregular manner to the height of four hundred feet. It is small at its base, but it gradually enlarges towards its summit, and from many of its projecting parts issue streams of the finest water, which, falling from so many sources, and from such a stupendous height, gives the whole a glittering appearance in the sun, which is almost indescribable. The upper part of this enormous rock, which is rather flat, appears to be covered with shrubs and verdure; but as it is absolutely inaccessible, there is no possibility of knowing the kind of plants which crown it. It is esteemed, and with great propriety, by the Chinese, as among the first curiosities of their country, and is known by the name of Patulaftang.
We understand that some gentlemen, conversant in the Oriental languages, are busily employed in India, in arranging the library found in Seringapatam, together with the several manuscripts which were the property of the late Tippoo Sultaun. When the whole are put into proper order, they will be immediately forwarded to England.
A Swedish Captain, says the Spectator of Bourdeaux, has lately made a trial, before the Stockholm Academy of Sciences, of a machine, by which, two copies of a work may be struck
off at the same time, and if necessary, in different forms. No more time is required by this operation than is usually employed in striking off a single copy. The experiment received the perfect approbation of the academy.
FASHIONS.
Dialogue between a Lady and a Man Milliner at Paris.
"Citizen, I am just come to town, pray have the goodness to inform me how I must appear to be in fashion?"—"Madame, 'tis done in a moment; in two minutes I shall equip you in the first stile. Have the goodness to take off that bonnet."—"Well."—"Off that petticoat."—"There it is."—"Away with these pockets."—"Here they go."—"Throw off that handkerchief."—"Tis done."—"Away with that corset and sleeves."—"Will that do?"—"Yes, Madame, you are now in the fashion—'tis an easy matter you see. To be dressed in the fashion you have only to undress!"
To read while eating was always my fancy (said Rousseau) in default of a tete a tete . 'Tis the supplement to society I want. I alternately devour a page and a piece; 'tis as if my newspaper or book breakfasted or dined with me.
SHERIDAN CLOAK.
A new cloak has just been introduced into the circles of fashion, called the Spanish , or Sheridan cloak, invented by Miss Sheridan. It extends below the middle, and flies off the right shoulder; the materials are a slate coloured Persian, lined with rose colour, and trimmed with bear skin. The effect is elegant, and extremely becoming.
MATRIMONIAL LOTTERY.
A young man of good character, and of a fine figure, proposes a lottery in the Bourdeaux Journal. The conditions are not hard. All the widows and maidens, who have not attained the age of 32, are invited to take of him a ticket at the price of 25 francs. There are to be 4,000 of these tickets; only one number is to be drawn from the wheel, and the fortune holder is to gain the young man for a husband, and to partake with him the 200,000 francs produced by the lottery.
It will be recollected, that about two years since, M. Reich, a physician celebrated for his profound erudition, announced in Germany, that he had discovered a remedy against fevers of every kind without exception, provided there was no lesion in the organs, such as the Lung, &c. He also hinted that if a reward equivalent to the importance of the discovery was offered him, he would disclose the secret. In consequence, the king of Prussia, anxious to serve the cause of humanity, invited Mr. Reich to Berlin, and submitted his discovery to the examination of the Physicians of that capital. Their report, made after numerous experiments, was favourable to the discovery, and declared the author a man of distinguished talents. The king immediately nominated him professor, with considerable appointments; and to this act of Justice, added a pension of 1200 francs, reversible to his family, provided that for the public good, he would publish his remedy gratis.
Mr. Reich has lately complied with the condition imposed on him, by publishing a book of 102 pages, divided into 88 aphorisms. This work has made a great impression in Prussia, by the expositions of a new system of practice with respect to fevers. The principal basis of this remedy, consists in strong doses of acid minerals, such as sulphur, nitre, and above all common salt. These acids must be well diluted. By the use of them, this physician has recovered numbers of persons in highly desperate situations.
Foreign Intelligence.
PARIS, NOV. 17.
BONAPARTE'S MESSAGE, On the state of the Republic.
Presented to the Legislative Body, by the Counsellors of State: Regnier, Gouvion, St. Cyr, and Nojales.
AT the moment when the Legislative Body resumes the course of its labours, the Government submits to all France a sketch of its operations. This is a duty dictated by its principles, and it discharges the task with that frankness which it owes to the public interest, and the purity of the sentiments by which it is animated. All know what was the situation of the Republic on the 4th Nivose, year 8, 25th Dec. 1799. The events of the 18th Brumaire had reanimated the courage of the people, but men's minds still floated in uncertainty. The departments of the west were a prey to civil war; every where there prevailed feeble distracted Administration, without unity of principles, or concert of operations. No energy in command, no promptitude in execution. A police without activity; Tribunals without authority; disorder in the Public Receipts; requisitions which harassed the public, and consumed our revenue; Commerce and Manufact-
tures in a state of stagnation; the Armies of Austria from the top of the Alps and Apennines menacing Liguria and France; neutral vessels driven from the sea by the terror of the English maritime code; AMERICA WHICH OWED TO US HER INDEPENDENCE, armed against ours; Spain, Batavia, Helvetia, Liguria, faithful to alliance, but waiting with a painful anxiety what the future should decide, respecting our fate and theirs. It was under these auspices that the year 8 began. Peace was the first want, and the ardent prayer of the nation. Peace too was the first object that occupied the mind of Government. Two letters, written by the Chief Consul to the Emperor of Germany and the King of England, expressed to them without weakness, but without guile, the wish of France and of humanity. This prayer was rejected by the Ministers of Austria and Great Britain. The Cabinet of Vienna mingled some hopes with a refusal. The Cabinet of England blended bitterness and reproach with its correspondence, and afterwards declamation and invective in the public discussions, in which it exposed the overtures made by France. This publicity, these declamations and invectives, but ill assisted the animosity and the plans of the British Administration. Frenchmen recognized in the conduct of their Chief Magistrate, the sincere desire, of peace. They felt indignation at the enemy by whom the overtures were rejected, and saw that they had to expect peace only from their efforts and their courage. Hence the principle of that energy which produced our last successes, and our last victories. Hence perhaps, in the mind of the English, a sentiment of justice towards a people, who after so many exploits, and so much glory, sighed only for peace; hence, in the minds of other nations, a return of favor for the cause of our independence and our liberty. The rebellion in the west was suppressed. Nothing more was necessary than to support by the display of force the authority of reason and principle, to bring the people back to their duty. All those who had been led away by seduction and terror submitted to a government beneficent and protecting. Every day the attachment to the Republic increases in these departments, as well as respect for our institutions and hatred towards our enemies. The establishment of good arriere garde will serve to clear the country from the remains of a set of wretches habituated to pillage, and covered with crimes, which the amnesty could not reach. In these departments, as in all the others the influence of the authorities established by the constitution has been marked by progressive improvement.
A power concentrated in an individual; and therefore, inevitable responsibility give to public and private affairs, a rapid movement, and restore, by degrees, economy in administration; inspection is more active, information more prompt and more certain; the citizens perceive more clearly the advantages of the power which protects them as well as the vigour of that authority which represses and restrains them. Throughout the republic there still exists some individuals who regret the past; some feeble minds whom a residue of fanaticism torments; but these regrets daily become more weak; fanaticism dies away, and manly sentiment gains more the ascendancy. To with that man should disavow with readiness, to day, what yesterday he professed—that he should submit at once, without murmuring, to the yoke of the laws, which lately he spurned, is the wish, not of lawful power, but of tyranny. Let us leave to time to complete its work. Time alone confirms institutions. It is only after they have long existed that they come to obtain an absolute respect. The administrators have been chosen for the people, not for a particular faction or a particular party. Government asks not to know what any man has done, of what he may have said, under particular circumstances, and at particular periods. It has required only to ascertain if he possesses virtue and talents; if he was inaccessible to hatred or vengeance; if he is likely to be always impartial and just. The maxim of the government is, the denunciations which attack public functionaries, at this time, full full of the remembrance of ancient divisions, ought to be weighed in the balance of justice and verified by the most strict examination. The same principles and the same views have directed the choice of the Magistrates. Let them judge things, and not opinions. Let them be inflexible as the laws themselves. Such is the wish, such the only with which ought to influence a Government. The Constitution guarantees to them the independence and the perpetuity of their functions. It is to the nation, and to their own conscience, that they must answer for their decisions.
Before the fourth Nivose, December 25, it was the Government which decided on the appeals of citizens, inscribed in the list of emigrants, and it decided on the simple report of the Minister of General Police. Thus it had the power of deciding questions which involved the tranquillity of the State, the lot of individuals, and the assignment of property. In order to clear up this subject, the Government wished to know what was the nature of the laws on emigration; what the number of those of whom the list of emigrants was composed;
how and by whom it was formed, and what were the principles on which it was drawn up? It then learnt, that in each municipality, there had been prepared lists of citizens absent from the commune where they had either property or a settled abode; and that of these particular lists, collected into nine volumes had been formed what was commonly called the list of emigrants—that citizens inscribed as absent, or emigrants in one commune, were at the very time public functionaries in a other; that labourers, artisans, individuals in service, were confounded with men whom the prejudices of birth and the interest of rank, marked out as enemies to the revolution—that inscriptions collected and indeterminate applied to whole families, and families too often unknown to the persons by whom the inscription was formed. From these circumstances, a conviction was produced that there did not exist a true list of emigrants, and it was necessary to form a new list, in which those whose names ought never to have been inscribed, should be distinguished from those whom prejudices and their circumstances pointed out as true emigrants and hence originated the specifications and conditions of the decree of the 28th Vendemaire (Sept. 20) A plan of regulations will be proposed, to give additional security to those who have acquired national property. An important work is on the eve of being accomplished, which during six years has been called Legislation. In this session the civil code, and a code of procedure, will be proposed to the consideration of the Legislative Body; other objects less important will form the subject of laws of which the elements are prepared. Public instruction, still neglected in many of the departments, has assumed in others a better direction and a higher activity. New asylums have been opened for the children of those who have fallen in defence of their country. If the hospitals are still in distress, a decree secures to them at least the payment of a part of what is due to them on the capital of their rents, of which the redemption was authorised by a law passed during the last session. Measures have been taken to ascertain the number of deserted children, the number of whom has very much increased of late, and plans are adopted to succour their wants. Some manufactures which are peculiar to the nation, and which honor French industry, begin now to rise from that languor in which our former misfortune had plunged them. Painting and Sculpture have obtained encouragement, and are prepared to transmit to posterity the traits and actions of those heroes who have combated for our independence and our glory. The monuments of art are preserved and offered to the public administration, in places worthy of containing them. The high roads are almost throughout in a state of alarming decay, but the administration does every thing to remedy this, with the feeble resources entrusted to them to execute. The right of keeping up the public roads has received certain modifications which public justice, and public interest demanded. The preception of this right, separated from the obligation of keeping up the roads themselves, has been confirmed, and a fund is now provided on proper securities, which will not be vain and illusory as in former years. The application of products, still too feeble, is ascertained for each department, in the proportion of its wants. Inspection becomes every day more active, and responsibility becomes every day more clear, and approaches nearer to perfection. The government has extended its views to interior navigation and to canals. It is not to vast projects to which it has directed its attention, it is not a great system of general navigation which it wishes to create. The conclusion of the labors already begun, which refer immediately to inland navigation, and the commerce of France is all that it now promises, is all that the present circumstances of the country enable it to adopt.
Execution, rather than project, is the fundamental maxim of its administration. The finances have been one of the objects of its constant inspection and anxiety, the primary base, and necessary support of all the plans which can be formed for the happiness and glory of the state. The government has thought it necessary to apply itself to the consideration of all the principles, and become acquainted with all the causes which can operate either their restoration or destruction. It was not merely funds that were wanting to the Republic on the 4th Nivose of the year 8; it was activity in the subdivision, and assessment of direct contribution, regularity in the precepts, care in the disbursements, a clear accountability in the public treasury, a well managed distribution in the different channels of expense. The bearers of bills, authorized to draw directly on the funds of the receivers and their overseers, purchased by corruption the funds which either then had no existence, or which ought to have been reserved for the service of the Republic; goods of requisition, debts of arrear, uncertain rents, were admitted as a payment of direct contributions; and it was receivers, overseers, collectors who trafficked in goods of depreciated value, and exchanged them in their office for real property which they had received; paymasters conceded the payme ts which had been made to them, to

of gain from those who were to lend their accounts, and for advances which they had never made. Thus the public treasury was ignorant equally of the funds received, and the sums which had been paid in the departments. Hence arose once vain distributions and illusory assignments. In the mean time every thing was sanctioned by the ministry. Hence the want of public credit, and in its train scandalous negotiations and disgraceful decrees. Since the 25th Dec. the period of the subdivision and assessment of the contributions has been fixed with precision, and this year, for the first time, the quotas of almost all the departments were in the course of payment during the course of Vendemaire. The public treasures have been shut against delegations (a species of Exchequer Bills), but 52 millions of delegations, or orders upon the treasury, of this description, have been rapidly extinguished by operations which have not cost the treasury either loan or interest, and at the same time have procured effectual advances. These delegations the government might with some colour of justice have objected to. They had been issued by contractors even before they entered on their contract, and it was extremely probable that the service was not performed by any, and by few with good faith. But these negotiations had been delegated under the view and with the consent of the former government. They had gone out of the hand of the original holder. They were letters of exchange, of which the actual holders had advanced the value, and it was impossible, without injuring public credit, to postpone or refuse payment of them. Requisition bills have been taken out of the circle of jobbing, and must now be nearly all paid into the Exchequer for taxes, and in the year 9, there will exist almost none of them. The public creditor will receive his money in cash, and the public will receive almost nothing but solid cash. A part of the direct contributions of the year 8, that part which it was calculated would not be consumed by the bills in arrear, and requisition bills has been, by anticipation, paid into the treasury in the obligations of the collectors, and these obligations, which have in a particular fund the certain means of their discharge, are now as solid a value as the public or the merchant can offer. The direct contributions of the year 9 are already in the port-feuille of the treasury, in obligations equally solid. These successive receipts of indirect or casual contributions are then represented by the bills of the collectors payable at sight. A fixed sum of these obligations and these bills is appropriated to the expense of every month. No order for payment will be given but in the proportion to the sums actually vested in the treasury. Thus the orders will no longer be arbitrary. There will be no mistake in the arrangement, no illusion in promises of payment will exist, and persons accepting such paper on the faith of payment, will not be deceived. The public treasury has received a new organization. An active superintendence pervades every part of it. The arrear accounts proceed without obstacle. The current payments are in a manner at par.
Every month the minister of finances and the director of the public treasury will submit to the inspection of the government statements of all the receipts and payments, particularly every payment made to the orders of each minister. The collection of these statements at the end of every year, will show the receipt, the expenses paid, and the nature of each expense. The estimate of the expenses necessary for the year 9 has been formed with the strictest regard to economy. The revenues have been valued with every degree of possible precision. These revenues are not adequate to the calculated expenditure. The government will propose to the legislative body what it conceives the best expedient to cover this deficiency, and to leave to their wisdom to decide on its propriety. A sinking fund has been created. The administration of it will not increase the burdens of the finances; it will at once furnish extensive means of extinguishing the public debt, and prove a powerful instrument of public credit. In examining its operation, it will be found to promote successfully the important end of an office of security for the bonds of the receivers. A bank has been founded: feeble, indeed, as yet; but whose feebleness is in proportion to the actual wants of circulation. On a peace it will embrace a range which our commerce, increased by the restoration of our ancient relations, and by the storms of the revolution, will require. The government, which has favoured its birth with all its power, will always protect it by its influence, will continue to regard it as a sacred deposit, to be protected by the power and the fidelity of the nation. Other ameliorations will be presented in the report of the minister of the finances. Other plans of amelioration are still under the eye, and in the contemplation of government. Once delivered from the chaos of dilapidations, abuses and injustices, every day will bring a new accession of salutary principles, and present new means of prosperity. Honest citizens, those who have wealth and reputation to preserve, will offer their resources and their support to a government faithful to the plans, which a regard to good faith and the public interest have pointed out to it. It is no longer embarrassed by those intrigues which make a traffic of the confusion of the finances, nor by that cupidity which exchanges, at a dear rate, real, tho' distant advantages, for that miserable succour which only supplies the wants of the present moment by adding to the demands of futurity. Already companies of good credit have entered into engagements on the most moderate terms, and have not, as was formerly done, demanded any
security in real possessions for services which they have not yet performed. Our success in war has exceeded our expectations. Four armies, all victorious, are united by an uninter-rupted chain from the line formed by the Prussian neutrality to the center of Italy; masters of the Danube and the Po, they occupy by their detachments the borders of the Adriatic and Tuscany. The genius of France saved the army of the east from a convention which would have placed it in the chains of the English. Malta has surrendered, but it was after two years of the most glorious resistance. Every thing which could be tried to save this important place the Government has attempted, though without effect. The organization of the army, military discipline, enquiries into dilapidations and abuses, the re-establishment of order and economy in all the branches of the service, have been the object of the labours and decrees of the Government. A report from the Minister at War will present the result. Peace, peace, alone, can give to the success which they have already obtained completion and solidity. It has not been in the power of the Government to repair at once the disasters of our marine, and to restore to it its ancient lustre; but it has collected its wrecks, and prepares its re-establishment and its glory. Regulations have reformed abuses, ensured regularity of service, established in the ports union of power, and severity of inspection; former dilapidations have been enquired into and removed, but then some contracts have been cancelled, agreements more advantageous to the Republic have been concluded; in a word, considerable advances have been made towards order and economy. But still much remains to be done! How much labour must be submitted to, and how long an interval must elapse before the Government can execute the task which it has imposed on itself, and which the public interest demands of it. In the present state of our marine, it has been impossible to keep up regularly with our colonies the relations of intercourse and authority which belong to the mother country. The Government however has preferred with care these ties which attach them to France, and it prepares in silence the means of restoring them to calmness to industry and prosperity. A council for prizes authorized by a law promulgated in the last session, has applied to this delicate subject a spirit of impartiality and justice which has already had a happy influence on our commercial relations. Neutral flags have experienced them on the seas, and in our ports. The powers on the coast of Barbary have renewed their ancient relations towards us. If Government had been able to renew them sooner, Malta might perhaps still have been in our power. But at least they will secure subsistence to Liguria, and to our Southern Departments, nor will they be useless to the army of the East. A Convention founded upon common interest and the most perfect reciprocity, will renew the ties by which the States of America were bound to France. These ties shall last forever, because there is no unequal condition to alter their force and purity. The French nation does not desire any exclusive privilege nor partial favour. She merely demands from the nations in friendship with her the rights of equality; that no nation be more favored than herself, and that she herself be not favored more than any other nation. Such are the pretensions and interests of all States which may contract engagements with her. All nations who are sensible of their rights will rally around these principles. The North will shake off the tyranny which oppresses its commerce and its seas.
It will feel that our interests are the interests of the human race. Russia in particular will remember what is due to her dignity, and the ancient relations by which she was united with France. She will know that France is a necessary counterpoise in the maritime balance of the world.
The government had offered peace before the opening of the campaign. It made that offer on the field of battle, and in the bosom of victory. It offered a peace worthy of the grandeur, but also worthy of the moderation of the French people, and on conditions which should have guaranteed to us both its acceptance and stability. On the slightest hope of drawing near to so desirable an epoch, it suspended those successes which insured the position of our armies, and the ardour of our warriors. If we do not yet enjoy it we have to accuse only that power which, unaffected by the disasters of the continent, is anxious only to cement, with the blood of nations, its empire over the seas, and its monopoly in every part of the world. To conclude, an Austrian negotiator is now at Luneville a man who merits the esteem of Europe. If he possesses the perfect confidence of the Sovereign who has sent him he will display that frankness which the French government has a right to expect from its own frankness and which is promised by his personal character. Austria will cease to sacrifice the repose and interest of the continent to the ambition of the despot of the seas. Yet, in the present uncertainty, prudence prescribes to France not to permit herself to be amused by any empty shew of negotiation. She will support her propositions with all the force of her arms. The conduct of the Government has shown that it has not carried to too great a height the pretensions of the Republic; nor sacrificed to the madness of ambition, the interests of humanity. The crimes of the war will all fall upon those who are the real authors of them; upon those governments which are so weak and so blind as to become subservient to the mercantile designs of a single nation, and to sell to its gold and its intrigues the blood and the
industry of the nations who obey them, and the freedom of the seas, which is the property of the whole human race.
National Legislature.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
City of Washington—MONDAY, JAN. 5.
APPROPRIATIONS.
A bill appropriating 5,529,695 dollars, 35 cents, for the year 1801, was read twice, and referred to a committee of the whole house.
JUDICIARY BILL.
Progress was made in this bill in committee of the whole. A lengthy debate ensued on the section which divides Virginia into two districts.—Mr. Eggleston moved, that the section be so amended as to provide for one Court in Virginia.—This motion was supported by him, Messrs. Nicholas, Randolph, Jackson, and Macon; and opposed by Messrs. Griswold, Harper, Bayard, H. Lee and Otis; and was negatived 44 to 39.
TUESDAY, JAN. 6.
The committee of Privileges, on the affair of the Sergeant at Arms, reported that it was not expedient for the House to take any order in the affair. A long and warm debate ensued on the report, which was finally agreed to.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7.
Several petitions, &c. were referred to committees.
JUDICIARY BILL.
The House, in committee, went into a further discussion of this important bill. The principle, whether the State Judiciaries could constitutionally take cognizance of causes arising under the laws of the United States, was amply discussed.—The affirmative of the question was advocated by Messrs. Bayard, Harper, and Dennis; the negative by Messrs. Bird and Nott.—The question on the subject was postponed. The amount of the debt which should be made cognizable in the circuit courts, was also debated, which was eventually fixed at 400 dollars.
THURSDAY, JAN. 8.
Mr. Nicholas moved an additional member to the 17th section of the Judiciary Bill, the object of which was to prevent the federal courts from taking cognizance of debts created by assignment; which limitation existed in the law of 1798, at present in force. On this motion a debate ensued—Messrs. Nicholas, Randolph, Spaight and Allison, advocated it; and it was opposed by Messrs. Griswold, Harper and Bayard.—Agreed to, Yeas 42, Nays 27.
FRIDAY, JAN. 9.
A petition from Massachusetts was presented, praying for the erection of a Light-House near Martha's Vineyard. Referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures. On motion, the house went into a committee on the bill for the organization of the courts of the United States.
The section allowing a salary of 2000 dollars a year to the circuit judges was under consideration.
Mr. Claiborne was opposed to that sum being allowed to the judges in Kentucky and Tennessee, because it so far exceeded the salaries given in the western country.
A lengthy debate ensued.—The speakers in favor of retaining the sum of 2000 dollars, were Messrs. Otis, Harper, H. Lee, Champlin and Bayard; those opposed to it were Messrs. Claiborne, Davis, Smith, Smilie and Nicholas.
The sum was retained excepting as to the salaries of the judges of Kentucky and Tennessee, which were reduced to 1200 dollars.
The following Rule passed in the Senate of the United States, Dec. 22.
Resolved, that all confidential communications, made by the President of the United States to the Senate, shall be, by the members thereof, kept inviolably secret; and that all the treaties, which may hereafter be laid be-
fore the Senate, shall also be kept secret, until the Senate shall by their resolution, take off the injunction of secrecy.
By the Mails.
PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 13.
Commercially Important.
Extract of a letter from Mr. James Adams, at Port Republican, dated Dec. 22d, 1800, received yesterday by the Schooner Nimrod.
"Judge of my feelings this evening on receiving the enclosed proclamation published by General Toussaint, laying a duty of 20 per cent. on all imports without exception, not even provisions are exempted, and 20 per cent. on all exports, say sugar, coffee, cotton, &c. the goods are to be valued by the Chamber of Commerce, and the Consuls of the respective powers residing in the ports of St. Domingo.
"If this law is put in force, it will be merely impossible to stay or do business in any of these ports; it was a fortunate circumstance I had cleared out the Nimrod previously, as the law is to be put in execution tomorrow, the 23d. As soon as all is arranged I will write you every particular by several opportunities for your government in future. I would advise you in the mean time not to make any shipments to this or any other port in the island, until you hear from me, or hear this business is to be settled; you will please to publish this proclamation for the benefit of our commerce and countrymen at large.
"P. S. There is a report in circulation, that all the ports in the island are to be shut up, except the Cape, Aux Caves, and this port."
Here follows the Proclamation of Toussaint Louverture, made in the name of Liberty, Equality, and the French Republic. It contains 25 articles; besides a preamble. By the 1st art. all the produce exported from the colony, of whatever nature it may be, shall pay a duty of 20 per cent.; and all goods or merchandise (produce is included) imported into the colony, of whatever value or quality, shall pay a duty of twenty per cent.—By another section Ports of Entry are to be established, and custom-houses opened therein, with proper officers.—The duties to be paid in specie. The other articles contain regulations for the government of the revenue officers; and persons importing or exporting goods, merchandise or produce; and for levying certain internal taxes on the Colonists. This regulation is dated at Cape Francois the 1st Frimaire (11th December 1800.)
Extract of a letter from a respectable commercial house in Bourdeaux, to another in this city, dated Nov. 1.
"Carolina Rice has been excessively dear here for several months past. We have got no supplies of it; and the failure of the harvest in all the southern part of France makes the want of it more sensibly felt. It is on this account that the price of wheat and flour has so considerably augmented. They will at least support their present prices, as the North cannot furnish us with supplies, being in in want of produce of their harvest for this year."
Extract of a letter from a respectable commercial gentleman in London, to his friend in this city, dated London, Nov. 15.
"Our ministers are perfectly satisfied with your treaty with France, and have assured Mr. King that they are pleased to find every respect has been paid to your connection with us.—This is undoubted." [Fudge.]
NEWYORK, JAN. 16.
IMPORTANT.
A gentleman who arrived here yesterday in the ship Borneo, of Boston, capt. Smith, from Sumatra and the Cape, informs, that an English squadron, under the command of commodore Hotham, were on the 20th of October closely blockading the Isle of France; and that this squadron had taken ten sail of French and Spanish merchantmen in attempting to pass them. A Hamburg ship, which had passed this squadron, was pursued and cut out by the English boats; the captain of which had his arm shot off in defending his ship.
Table Bay, Oct. 15.—Arrived, the Borneo, American, of 213 tons, 10 guns, and 22 men, belonging to Boston, commanded by Mr. G. Smith.

last from Sumatra, with a cargo consisting of pepper and piece goods; she brings accounts of the privateer from the Isle of France, having captured in the course of ten days, nearly 30 vessels. There are nine privateers out, belonging to the Mauritius, which sail very fast and are said to have been very successful. About three weeks before the Borneo arrived at Sumatra, a snow from Bengal had touched there to trade with the natives, who surprised the crew and inhumanly cut off the hands and feet of every soul on board.
Portland,
Monday, January 26, 1801.
From Philadelphia—Jan. 12.
A letter from Washington of the 9th instant states, that on the preceding day the Senate of the United States rejected the 2d and 3d articles of the French treaty. The question on agreeing to the 2d article (in which the subject of indemnity for spoliations is waved) was decided, yeas 12, nays 16. On the 3d article which stipulates the mutual surrender of vessels of state taken by either party) the yeas were 13, nays 15.
By the arrivals at the Southward from Europe, were received the Debates of the English Parliament on the state of the nation. They are very lengthy, and occupy the principal part of the southern papers received by the last mail. The subject called forth all the learning and rhetoric of both parties, and engaged the attention of the house for many days: Mr. Sheridan after a lengthy and animated speech presented a motion to this effect—"That an humble address be presented to the King, requesting that his majesty would omit no proper opportunity of entering into a separate negotiation with France, for a speedy and honorable peace." This was lost by an immense majority, 155 to 35.
The Gazette of the United States, which has long been a barrier against that flood of Jacobinism which threatened to overwhelm the administration of Washington and Adams, will, besides its daily publication, afford a Gazette for the country, twice a week; thereby facilitating the communication of truth throughout the country.—The able and patriotic address of the Editor, together with the terms of publication, will be inserted in this paper next week.
No account of the loss of the Insurgent and Pickering, as reported, was received by the last mail.
His excellency JOHN JAY, we learn, has declined accepting the office of Chief Justice of the United States.
We learn that Halifax has recently suffered greatly from the Small Pox. Letters from thence say, the deaths thereby have amounted to 800.
A ship called the Washington, was lost in Cadis Bay, during the storm of the 16th, whose loss is estimated at 110,000 dollars.
On the 9th of Nov. a storm was experienced in Holland, which is stated to have been the most destructive, in the remembrance of the oldest inhabitants. Several dykes were broken down, and great damage sustained among the shipping in the harbours, and off the coast.—Twenty vessels with their cargoes and crews, it is said, were lost between Bark and Antwerp; at Vlesingen a French frigate and a number of Dutch ships of war were dismasted and stranded in the gale.
CROSS READING.
Since the accession of Bonaparte to the prime Consulate of the French Republic, he has assumed to himself a much larger share of confidence—which with his former stock on hand makes it as large as any in New-England.
It is said that the First Consul is seriously engaged in bringing about a general pacification in Europe—after which, he will dance the astonishing egg hornpipe, blindfolded.
The British Government offer a liberal premium for the importation of grain from foreign markets—This evening will be performed a celebrated comedy called "Speed the plough."
Mr. Jefferson is a man of talents, of integrity, and a real republican—subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent.
Every man has his faults and his foibles—It is not yet certain whether Jefferson or Burr has the majority.
ESTIMATES FOR 1801.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in a work which exceeds 100 pages, has reported to the Congress of the United States the following appropriation as necessary for the service of the year 1801:—
   Dolls. Cts.     For the civil list, including the departments, 574,701 37   For the payment of annuities and grants, 1,753 33   For the support of the mint, 13,300 00   For the support of foreign ministers, 85,000 00   For expenses incident to treaties, 361,364 00   For supporting the claims of Americans abroad, 40,000 00   For supporting distressed seamen abroad, 30,000 00   For the valuation of houses, lands, &c. 40,000 00   For the military department, generally, 1,400,001 00   For the payment of military pensions, 93,000 00   For the navy department, generally, 2,142,352 95   For the fabrication of cannon, arms &c. 400,000 00   For the support of light-houses, &c. 38,622 70   For the second enumeration, 60,000 00   For satisfying miscellaneous claims, 5,600 00   Total, 5,529,695 35  
The funds out of which appropriations may be made for the above purposes, are:— 11. The sum of 600,000 dollars of the proceeds of duties on imports and tonage, which will accrue in 1801, which sum is by law annually reserved for the support of government.
2d. The surplus of the revenue and income of the United States, which may accrue to the end of the year 1801, after satisfying the objects for which appropriations have been heretofore made.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT, &c.
The Secretary also gives the following list of the Naval establishment, viz.—Five frigates of 44 guns; four ditto of 36 guns; two ditto of 32 guns; four ships carrying 24 guns on gun-deck, and 8 on quarter deck; eight ships of 20 to 24 guns; three ships of 18 guns; two ships of 16 guns; and five ditto of 12 guns.—With seven galleys.—Total 40. [In this list, the Insurgent and Pickering are included; so that on the 10th Dec last, the Secretary of the Treasury did not consider those ships as lost.]—Of the naval appropriations heretofore made 700,000 dollars are unexpended. The following are the rates of men allowed the ships of the United States.
   Frigate of 44 guns 400 men   Ditto 36 330 do.   Ditto 32 260 do.   Ditto (smaller) 32 240 do.   Ship of 20 to 26 180 do.   Sloops 18 140 do.   Bigs 16 to 18 100 do.   Schooners, 12 to 14 70 do.   Galleys, 28 do.  
The seamen and marines in the navy amount to 7366. Since the establishment of the navy the following captures have been made of French armed vessels:
   Guns. Men.     L'Insurgente, 40 409   Le Berceau, 26 300   Deux Amies, 20 54   Sans Pareil, 16 87   Le Creable, 14 54   La Jealous, 14 56   Augustenne, 14 63   Brillant Genouese, 12 62   Italic conquet, 12 —   L'Albire, 12 60   Marquin, 11 —   L'Amour de la Patrie, 6 60   Tartouffe, 8 60   Le Vengeur, 8 85   Les Amis, 6 16   La Mutine, 6 60   Farvorite, 6 41   Sandwich, 6 —   Syren, 4 56   La Voltigeuse, 10 61   Fly, 4 —   L'Esber, 3 36   La Fougueuse, 2 70    Le Fripon, Bonaparte, Diligente, Louise Rabateuse, L'Ouze, Vendemaire, Ocean, Vegus, Le Courage, Le Pelican, L'Esperance, Atalante, Hereux, La Junon, (50 men) Peggy, Heureuse, Rencontre, Gen. Massena, L'Page, L'Unite, La Victoire, La Jeune, La Fortune, Cygne, La Decade, Manuel, Remomme, L'Aigle, Flambeau, Coubou, Flying Fish, Hope, Gambeaux, Felix, Dove, Fortune, La Polaise, Vengeance, La Cullie, La Dorade, L'espoir, Pique, Dolphin, Phenix, La Fortune and Aerial, besides boats, and several vessels without any name. The force and crews of the prizes mentioned above we have not been able to ascertain. The captures are 74 in number; and the vessels re-captured by our cruisers exceed Eighty. Jacos, what think ye of the navy now?
DED —In this town, Mr. DAVID ALDEN. aged 32 years.
At Newburyport, Mr. William Titcomb, a victim to quackery—Mr. Titcomb had been long afflicted with the Rheumatism, from which he could obtain no relief, a few days since a person recommended what he termed a ground secret, the proceeds of which was as follows, viz.—A hole was dug in the earth, the aperture of which was just sufficient to admit a person—the place was then heat, by a fire to as great a degree as the patient could be supposed to bear—the unfortunate man was then put in warmly wrapped in woolen and the only aperture closed—he was confined in this dreadful situation till he was senseless, and survived the horrid experiment but a few hours.
THE Subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, That having been duly appointed administrator on the estate of Jeremiah Morris,
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 MORRIS.
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.
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 choose an assignee or assignees, 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, { Commis. JAMES NEAL, { THOMAS HOVEY, { Portland, 20th January, 1801.
New Post Road
Is established (at present called How's Route) 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 route 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. { Commis. SAMUEL M. MARTAIN, { Thomaston, Jan. 17, 1801.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed administrator on the estate of Robert Malcomb,
late of Tapsam, 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
SUSANNAH MALCOMB. mark.
Tapsam, December 16, 1800.
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 held 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 Schoodiac through Plantations No. 13, 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, intituled "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 petitioners 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 Massachussetts Mercury, printed in Boston by Young & Minns, and in the Gazette printed in Portland by Elezer Alley Jenks: the last publication to be three weeks at least, before the sitting of said Court; and 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.
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 Dufresnier, Collector of the United States for the District of Powneborough, 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 Powneborough, 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.
Isabella Child,
Has just received an additional assortment of FANCY GOODS. among which are
FINE thread Laces; a beautiful assortment of Lustrine, and other fashionable Ribbons; Black Lace; Veils; Rutland Nett; black, white, pink, rose, lilac, purple, and yellow Italian Crapes; White and coloured Silk Gloves, do. Cotton, do. Red; 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; Sarfnet 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 Hose; Gentlemen's Silk, Cotton, and Worsted do. of a superior quality; plain, lappet, tambore and satin flowered Mullins; cotton, cambric and printed Mullins and Calicoes; Camel's-hair Shawls; Muffs, Tippets, 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; Windsor 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.
To Let,
(And possession given immediately) A convenient Dwelling-House, Calculated for a small family—Inquire of the Printer Portland, 26th Jan.
FOR SALE,
A few barrells TAR,
Of an excellent quality. Inquire at Store No. 7, Fifth-Street, or of BRYANT & FOX. Jan. 21.
LETTERS
Remaining in the Post-Office, Wiscasset, JANUARY 1, 1801.
   Burr Joseph Wiscasset   Brier Sally, Boothbay   Banton Robert do.   Crocker Abner Edgecomb   Child Thomas Wiscasset   Chafe Hannah do.   Decker Joseph do.   Fairservice Robert do.   Eaton Moses do.   Follansbe Thomas do.   Follansbe Thomas, jun. do.   Follansbe James do.   Goddard Anne do.   Gerrington Mr. do.   Hood James do.   Hilton Andrew do.   Hill Langdon Mark do.   Jenkins Isaac do.   Jewett James do.   Jones Benjamin do.   King Ezra do.   Lewis William 2 Boothbay   Miller Hans do.   M'Collough do.   Marshall Mary Wiscasset   Mason William Eden   Neal John Edgecomb   Owen Moses Wiscasset   Pinto Samuel do.   Payson David Col. 4 do.   Pagan Daniel do.   Perkins Joseph Edgecomb   Radcliffe Samuel Boothbay   Stevens Joseph Wiscasset   Silvester John do.   Salter Ebenezer do.   Sargent Joseph jun. do.   Slowman William do.   Stetson Nathaniel do.   Tuell Benjamin do.   Thompson Samuel, Boothbay   Wheeler Abijah do.   Wilson James Wiscasset   Wetheren David do.   Waker Solomon Wiscasset  
William Codman,
INFORMS his friends and customers that he has removed from his Store in Fifth-Street to the westerly end of the New Brick Store in Middle-Street, opposite Mr. Ebenezer Storer's, and the head of Union-Street—Where he has for sale a general assortment of
European, India, & W. India GOODS.
In addition to his former assortment, he has just received a fresh supply of New Goods; making in the whole, perhaps as great a variety as can be found in any one store in the town.—All which, will be sold on the lowest terms for cash, Wholesale and Retail.
N. B. For sale as above, a quantity of large Rock SALT, and high proof BRANDY. Portland, Dec. 2, 1800
Shipping Furs.
The highest price, given for Shipping FURS, by DANIEL JOHNSON, At his Store in For-Street.

MUSES.
FOR JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
SONNET TO ANNA'S LAP DOG.
HOW often, Flora, art thou blest With ANNA's smiles, when on her lap She passes thy ears and strokes thy breast, While thou unconscious feel'st a nap.  What pleasure (for her looks confers) She takes in every playful air; Nor does she blush when you caress And kiss her hand so soft and fair.  Yet should that vulgar creature Man, Only attempt to lay his hand On where thou oft dost make thy bed, She hides her face behind her fan.  Ah! Flora, much I grieve to see That you have charms to rival me.  EDGAR.
AFFECTING SCENE
In the last moments of HUGH BOYD, Esq. supposed author of "Junius Letters," who died at Madras, Oct. 19th, 1794.
"SOME days previous to his death, during a paroxysm of his fever, I was called to take my last farewell; to tear myself from that bosom in which my affections had so long reposed; My friend was extended on his bed; his once expressive visage pale and emaciated; his eyes hollow and languid, and his voice feeble and low. He stretched out his hand to receive me, and only whispered he was ill; but the big tear that rolled down his still animated countenance, was more intelligible than all the figures of language.
"This is a scene in which friendship discovers every secret goodness, and at the same time finds palliations for every fault; in which power loses all its influence, and rivalry all its envy; in which dissipation and folly tremble, and vice and impiety stand appalled. Whoever would know how much piety and virtue surpass all external good, might here have seen them weighed against each other; where all that gives motion to the active, and elevation to the eminent; all that sparkles in the eye of hope, or pants in the bosom of suspicion; at once become dust in the balance, without weight and without regard. But it did not fall to my lot to attend him in his last hour. His life was prolonged for a few days more, and he expired in the arms of a virtuous and enlightened friend, whom he had always regarded with tenderness, and whose abilities he had always admired. With this friend I was sitting in the sick room (the last time I ever sat in it) when suddenly railing himself in the bed, he called us near him; and with a tremulous voice, though with a composure and clearness seldom attainable in such situations, spoke the following lines:
In life's gay flow, when all obey The sprightly notes of Pleasure's call, Can then the faithful mirror say, I shew a just original?
In scenes of power, and pomp and place, Where proud ambition's vot'ries bow, Can there the mirror's shining face Of life a true resemblance show?
No! 'tis not where Ambition's hand Sweeps o'er the polish'd roughness warm; For where keen Pleasure's sighs demand Her fluttering images to form.
'Tis there where with reflection's aid, And purified by pain, Man contemplates his sickly bed; The mirror then shines plain!
"He would have proceeded, but his feelings were unable to bear those reflections which he had already conjured up; he burst into a flood of tears, and reclined again on his pillow.
"As his fate approached, he told the friend to whom I have alluded, that some friends had abandoned him; yet though he felt this defection with the keenest regret, no expression of resentment no emotion of anger, nor even a look of unkindness, sullied the purity of his dying sentiments; but in forgiving his enemies, and in offering up his prayers to the Almighty for his kindred, his friends, his country, and all mankind, with entire resignation, and the most perfect calmness, he breathed his last! Thus ended the life of this great and extraordinary man, at once remarkable for the most brilliant talents and the most exalted virtues; for the misfortunes which obscured the one, and for the follies which surrounded the other.
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.
List of Letters
Remaining in the Post-Office, Kennebec, JANUARY 14, 1801.
BRAGDON John; Burham Seth, Arundell ; Cotton Edward; Cubbertson James; Furnald Josiah; Frost Nathaniel; Gouch Jedediah; Harding James; Littlefield Hubbard Mose; Little Nathaniel C. 2; Mitchell Mary; Moody Maria; Peasey Charles, Arundell ; Roberts John; Towns Robert.
New Glass & Crockery Ware Store.
Aaron Adams,
MOST respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has taken the easterly apartment of DOCTOR COFFIN'S NEW BRICK STORE , almost opposite the Columbian Tavern ; where he has received by the latest arrivals from Liverpool and Dublin, a general assortment of GLASS and CROCKERY WARE —which is now open and ready for sale on the lowest terms for cash or approved credit.  The favors of his friends are solicited—the final left of which will be received with pleasure.  N. B. Crates packed on the shortest notice.
THE subscribers take this method to inform the public, that they have purchased the Store lately occupied by NATHANIEL MARTIN in North-yarmouth, 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.  AMMI R. MITCHELL. N. LORING MITCHELL, EREMIAH BUXTON.  North-yarmouth, Dec. 24, 1800.
Hatch & Dearborn,
INFORM their friends and customers that they have removed from Fifth-street, and taken a shop in Middle-street , lately occupied by Mr. JOHN CLAYTON —Where the TAILORS' BUSINESS will be carried on in all its branches, with neatness and despatch. Every favor in the above line of business, will be thankfully received.
FOR SALE AT SAID SHOP.
Best superfine black Broadcloths; blue do. mix'd do.; superfine white Cashmere. black do. blue do. Drab Bateen. blue do. Coatings; a general assortment of Waistcoat Patterns; best steel and gilt Buttons; Silk Velvets for Caps; Elastic Stags; a general assortment of Trimmings.  Portland, Jan. 5, 1801.
NEW GOODS.
Just received, and now ready for sale by Moody & Thurston, At their Store in Fifth-street, formerly occupied by Mr. Joshua Blake , an additional supply to their former assortment of Staple & Fancy Goods:
CONSISTING OF Superfine black, navy blue, olive, scarlet, and fashionable mixed Broadcloths; Middle and low priced do.; Cashmeres; Coatings; Bateens; Forest, Elastic and Orleans Striped Cloths; Baizes and Flannels of all prices and colours; Blankets; Velvets; Mouselinet, lamette and fashionable Swansdown Vest Patterns; Marcellus Quilting; Hosiery; Gloves; all kinds of Shirt Goods; Calicoes; Copper-plates; Camel's hair, muslin and silk Shawls; Sarsaparilla; Modos; Sarfenees and Ribbons; India Cottons; a great variety of Muslins; Cambrics; Bandanna and Cotton Handkerchiefs; Umbrellas; Hats; shoes of various kinds, &c. &c. &c.
ALSO,
Loaf and Brown Sugar; Coffee; Cotton; Hylson, Souchong and Bohea Teas; Salt; a general assortment of Hollow and Hard Ware; WEST-INDIA GOODS, NAILS and GLASS. All which they are determined to sell cheap for cash or country Produce.  Portland, Dec. 20.
JUST RECEIVED FOR SALE,
By Zaccheus Hannaford, At his Store, Main Street, A well chosen assortment of English, West-India, and other GOODS —among which are,
Superfine and low-priced Broadcloths, Waistcoating, Calicoes, Baizes, Flannels, India Cottons, &c.
Westindia and Newengland Rum, Brandy, Gin, Molasses, Chocolate, Cotton, Coffee, Raisins, Rice, Flour, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Hylson, Souchong and Bohea Teas, Candles, Pigtail and Leaf Tobacco, ad. 6d. 1od. & 2od. Nails, Nail Rod, Russia and Sweden Iron, some of which suitable for sleigh floors, English and bluffer Steel, Salt, Cotton & Wool Cards, Knives and Forks, a few dozen Stone Jugs from one to three gallons, Sieves, Hearth Brushes, Bed Cords, Sleigh Bells, Redwood, Logwood, Fustick, Copperas, Alum, Fire Dogs large and small, Hand-Saws, &c. &c.
LIKEWISE,
A good assortment of Hollow Ware. Constant attendance, and every favor acknowledged with gratitude.  Portland, Dec. 29.
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 Bridgton and Bethel.—It will be sold on reasonable terms—Inquire of the subscriber on the premises.  JAMES GRANT.  Falmouth, Jan. 8, 1801.
Treasury Department,
Washington September 18, 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 or either of the instruments or writings following, viz.
 ANY certificate of naturalization 5  licence to practice, or certificate of the admission, enrollment 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 one of the said officers.  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-party, 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 or part of a personal estate, divided by force of any statute of distributions other than to the wife, children or grandchildren 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  When the amount thereof shall exceed the value of one hundred dollars, and shall not exceed five hundred dollars 50  And for every further sum of five hundred dollars, the additional sum of 1  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.) 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 to be exported; If from one district to another district of the United States, not being in the same state 4  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 p or oet 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;  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.
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 paper, 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.
And for the convenience of these 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. 3.
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.
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.
TO BE LET, A good Farm,
IN the town of Bridgton, 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.
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 Tuesday of the five following months, from one to five of the clock in the afternoon.
ENOCH FREEMAN, ELIAS MERRILL, Falmouth, Dec. 9, 1800.  { Commissioners.
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.
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