Jenks' Portland gazette (Portland, Me.), 1804-08-06 00:00:00

FOR JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
To PLAIN TRUTH—A Chronicler.
ELM-TREES, JULY 30, 1804.
SOME periodical writers of essays have complained as an hardship, growing out of their undertaking, that they are often obliged, even against their taste and judgement, to treat on subjects not so much of their own choice as that they conjecture necessary to please their readers, and keep them in constant good humour with the writer. But you, sir, are most happily delivered from such an embarrassing situation; for your property to write Plain Truth is not greater than the appetite of your readers is greedily to swallow them as readily as you shall please to send them forth. Were not this the case it would have been almost impossible, but that some of your good republicans, before this time would have found it too painful, any longer to restrain their indignation at the succession of falsehoods, misstatement of facts, and discolouring of transactions you have treated them with since you took the name of Plain Truth . Go on, sir; the lying arena is wide spread before you; ramble at your pleasure; falsehood and error appear to be your choice, and for those your republican readers will never cease to vote you their thanks! It is among the peculiarities springing from your self notions of Liberty and Equality , that there is not the least possible resemblance between the character of a writer and the name he pleases to assume. Why may not a rogue take the name of Arbiter ? they are both men—they have the same rights and an equally free? Hence too we find the names of Cato, Mælius Scævola, Numa, Cicero, among the ancients; and Sidney, Hampden, Locke, & a hundred others of the moderns, affixed to pieces of composition which only prove that notwithstanding their liberty and equality in assuming great names, they are perfect strangers to the fixed principles of government, as well as to the sentiments and characters of the sages whose names they have stolen.
When we look into a newspaper and find three or four columns, week after week, filled by a person calling himself "PLAIN TRUTH," and letters addressed, by him to the most dignified & respectable personages of the country, the first impression on the mind of honest men is that such a writer will not mock us with his very name , and, in the face of the public he pretends to instruct, become a continued retailer of lies, slander and calumny . His signature ought to become a guarantee for his integrity. Every body acquainted with characters and the sentiments, habitually associated with terms of common use, will experience the feeling of incongruity , bordering upon impropriety, on seeing an essay on the art of fiddling , signed by EUCLID: What then must be the sensations of an honest public in finding a succession of falsehoods with all the circumstances of a malignant heart palmed upon them by a writer who impudently calls himself "Plain Truth"?
It begins to be pretty well understood that the present dominant party literally lied themselves into power, and you as one of their most zealous partisans are practising upon the old proverb that whensoever a person tells one lie, for his immediate interest, he or some of his supporters and friends must fabricate and publish two more to protect the first , and so the geometrical progress of falsehood must be persevered in, or the system, whatever it may be, that is erected thereon, will come to an end. How for such a lying system can be carried, where reason is left free to combat it, is now fairly an experiment in America. We may, however, say that it has had much greater success, than, by reasoning a priori from the nature of truth and man , we should have concluded: but this is a question to be decided like most others, touching on the different forms of government and their operation by facts and not by speculative reasoning . It is scarcely ten years since the Jeffersonian let this system on foot against the Washington administration, during which time we can trace its progress; the detailed evidence of which you may find in the Gazette published by Jefferson's interpreter of the Spanish language, a little before he resigned the office of Secretary of State—in the Aurora , published at Philadelphia—Greenleaf's paper at New York—the Chronicle in Boston, and the prospect before us, wrote by the patriot and republican J. T. Callender, under the auspices and encouragement of Jefferson, then Vice President.
I doubt whether your party can boast of a more ready and better disposed tool to support their lying system than yourself, except the aforesaid J. T. Callender, whom Jefferson pronounced the ablest man in his ranks.—See their correspondence.
I have been led to these observations and reflections on the system , you appear pledged to support, and on your character as I can collect it out of the numerous essays signed Plain Truth ; but more especially by a further perusal of your letter to Judge Chase; where to gratify your malignity against that upright man, and to bring it possible, the CLERGY into disrepute, you step back in the history of our country thirty or forty years to a transaction, which, by falsehood and gross misrepresentation , you hope may be a means to bring upon Judge Chase and the Clergy all
that hatred and detestation which were once rooted in the public mind against governor Hutchinson. For this purpose you say—"You don't know what the conduct of the Monarchical Judges in all the States, was at the beginning of the revolution; but in Massachusetts when Mr. Hutchinson was chief justice, we saw the respectable and patriotic Hawley , stripped of his barrier's robes , and bound in open court, by the hand of the common executioner ; and his name erased from the roll of Attorneys. We saw Otis, Adams, and Quincy treated by the bench with a cold and contemptuous neglect, because they were the avowed advocates of the people's rights. Whatever the suspicions may have been in latter times , upon this subject, we will pass it by." "Judge and Clergymen (which you take good care to emphasize) ought not to involve themselves in these party contests; because if they do they cannot avoid carrying their feelings into their official conduct, and in that way destroy their usefulness," &c.
Here, sir, you have called up a transaction that took place more than thirty years ago, for no other conceivable purpose but to add to the present rage of party spirit. The transaction is nothing more than the depriving an attorney of the superior court, the privilege of practising there, for what, on the part of the attorney was deemed a contempt to the court. But you wickedly endeavour to convey to your readers the idea, and make them believe that the transaction on the part of the court was cruel, unjust and directly contrary to law; or that tho' there might have been just grounds to suspend the respectable, patriotic Hawley , for a certain time, yet the right which the court possessed of correcting improper conduct in the members of the bar was in the case mentioned, exercised in a cruel and oppressive manner, and with a design not to defend and vindicate the legal powers of the court, but to depress and injure Mr. Hawley in the minds of the people merely because he was their friend, and a supporter of their rights. The conclusion you intended your readers should infer from this transaction, as you have related it, and its connection with the subject of your letter is, that Judge Chase is as unjust a judge, as cruel and oppressive in his manner of administering justice as the monarchical Judge Hutchinson ; and you wished to infuse into the minds of your readers all the hatred and detestation against Judge Chase and all clergymen , that formerly animated the people of this country at hearing the name of Hutchinson and the Law in general.
It cannot have escaped the notice of an impartial, candid mind, on reading your letter, that tho' the subject has no relation whatever to the clergy, and tho' they had not been mentioned in the preceding part of it, yet when you supposed you had worked up the minds of your readers to a rancorous pitch of anger, and more than sufficient to render Chase unpopular, you thought it a good opportunity to direct the surplus of vengeance against the clergy of your own country, and thus by associating them with monarchical judges you might enjoy the diabolical satisfaction of seeing them sunk together into everlasting disgrace.
With regard to the justice and propriety of crossing out the name of Hawley from the roll of attorneys; which is all that was done by the Monarchical court, and in which sentence I believe the court was unanimous, I shall make no observations; because since you have not stated what the facts were, on which the court pronounced their sentence, the public have no ground to call it in question. But I must tell you that your statement of the transaction is ja/fe , and we will leave it to the public to determine whether you did not know it to be false at the time you wrote it, and whether I have not correctly stated your motives and object in so doing.—The respectable and patriotic Hawley was not stripped of his barrier's robes , by the hand of the common executioner , as you have asserted, nor was he bound in open court, which you as unblushingly assert. Indeed, if credit is to be given to respectable persons present, and who saw the whole transaction which makes such a figure under your tragic pen, the respectable and patriotic Hawley was not touched in court, nor out of it by their order. He was simply deprived of the privilege to practice in the court, which was done in a manner proper and dignified.
If you had not the front of an hard iron, and the fell heart of a deamon, it might be expected you would come forward and ask pardon of the public for attempting to impose on them with such nefarious falsehoods; but I forget myself; you write for democrats , and they are gaping for more of the same stamp. Clergymen and judges, you say, ought not to involve themselves in party contests; but it is not their duty and the duty of their relation to society, to oppose vice and impiety wherever they find it; whether in the ruling or ruled party? What was the language of united America in seventy-five? And where is the devoted sycophant to the present dominant party, that has brass enough in his face to deny the immense benefits rendered the cause of liberty , by the clergy in the late contest for American Independence ? We understand you—the conduct of your party speaks the language of plain truth , though that of your tongue is far from it; and which, notwithstanding
all their vile arts, will find its way to the common understanding of the country. If judges and clergymen will fall down and worship the image set up by the faction , then they shall be had in favor at court, and with chains of gold about their necks, be placed on the elevated seat with the " Hero of Parkinson's ferry ."
To be plain with you, sir, your party do not dislike, as they hypocritically pretend, the clergy's engaging in party disputes of a national kind; but you are offended because they will not go counter to their understanding and the dictates of their consciences, to support you in your nefarious projects. Let a clergyman take a cheese under his arm and trot off with it to Washington, and with a speech on Cooperation , present it, a free-will offering, to the most intolerant, persecuting man ever born in the United States, and that clergyman for ever after shall be hailed a bon republican , by your party. From the manner the democratic papers, speak of two or three clergymen who seem to have declared that christianity consists more in a universal toleration of every system, whether they embrace the worship of twenty Gods or no God, than in an exclusive adherence to the doctrines of the good old book, we may fairly conclude what is the true ground of the censures they are perpetually throwing on that order of men.—There are several other gross falsehoods in your letter to Judge Chase, which ought to be noticed, but my letter is already too long; and I will not weary you, or take up too much of your time at once. I will take leave of you, for the present.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
HUME.....No. VII.
Review of JEFFERSON'S Administration.
WEALTH is the nerve of national power In conflicts between kingdoms it is the source of recruiting armies, whose ranks are thined by slaughter and disease. It not only conquers by land, but it opens the empire of the ocean. Must it not excite surprise and regret, to perceive Mr. Jefferson, laying the treasure of the nation, the only sure defence against the disposition, or the actual encroachment of ambitious and domineering states? Nor is it matter of less surprise, to see this treasure applied to strengthen our enemies, expended on a ship of a people, who have recently shown their total disregard of the laws of nations, trampling on millions, and refusing redress. Almost thirty-three thousand dollars were expended to repair the Berceau , a French vessel, whose original cost is stated at a little more, than thirteen thousand. No law, treaty or national compact imposed any obligation for such singular and unprecedented conduct.
To prove the expenditure of money on the Berceau by order of the executive, and the manner, in which it was repaired we shall give extracts of a letter of Samuel Brown, navy agent, to the secretary of the navy dated Bolton, October 31, 1801:
"Sir—I now inclose an account of the repairs made on, and the supplies furnished to the French national corvette, Le Berceau , agreeably to your instructions of the 2d April last, amounting to 34,859 dollars 54 cents."
"You have directed to be stated the precise condition Le Berceau was in, as to her equipment of every kind on the delivery to the officers, appointed on the part of the French republic, to receive her. On the 23d of June she was formally delivered up; but as many of the supplies were necessarily made after that time, I conceive the object intended, would not be embraced by stating her condition at that period. I think there is no better way of ascertaining repairs and supplies, she received at public expense, and the condition of her equipment at the termination of the supplies, than by a reference to the account, which I hope you will think to be sufficiently explanatory. But it may not be amiss in me to make some general observations on the subject. I shall therefore say, that the best blacksmiths, blacksmiths, caulkers, joiners, mast-makers, riggers, and other workmen in this place were employed on the repairs; that their work was well executed, and the materials furnished for the purpose, were of the best kind. That wherever the copper on her bottom appeared to have received an injury, it was repaired with new. In these respects there cannot be a doubt of her being placed in a better condition than she was in at the period immediately anterior to the action with the Boston . Her masts, bowsprit, spars, tops and caps were all new, and made in the best and most substantial manner. Her stands, stays and cordage were all new, and of the best quality, being made of the finest yarns, excepting about four tons of the latter. She was furnished with a new cable of eighteen inches, one hundred and twenty fathoms in length, and amply supplied with spare cordage. In addition to upwards of thirty tons, that were saved from the wreck, which were put in good order, she was furnished with a complete new set of sails, made of the best duck. Her condition, as to her masts, spars, stands, stays and sails, was doubtless much better at the repairs, than at the period referred to above."
"Her supply of blocks and block work was ample. She was furnished with a new barge, and her other boats were well repaired, and she was abundantly supplied with water-casks."
"Her cabin was sufficiently furnished with tables, desks, chairs, crockery ware and other furniture. In these respects there cannot be a doubt of her also being placed in a better condition, than she was in at the period before referred to."
"She was furnished with beef, pork, bread, beans, rice, flour, oil, rum, wine, and other stores, which were of the best kind, for a voyage of three months."
Here then we have one instance of the expenditure of money by the direction of the president, required by no treaty, authorized by no law, and in violation of the constitution. Indeed the government have manifested a consciousness of wrong by defending this waste of public money, in no less than four different ways. At one time, we are told our convention with France required it; at another, that it was justified by the principles of reason and maxims of found policy; at a third, it is falely and unblushingly asserted that these repairs were ordered by the preceding administration! and at a fourth, that
the Berceau was considered, and repaired, as an American vessel. These several modes of defence require a short examination.
In the convention with France was a provision, that the ships of both nations, taken after the time of the ratification of it, should be mutually restored. Allowing then a construction of this convention, requiring the restoration of the Berceau in the same state, in which it was at the commencement of the battle with the Boston , whence was derived the power to place it in a better condition, than at that period? Neither this treaty, nor any law passed on the subject, gave such a power. Yet an agent of government expressly informs, that her state of repair on delivery was better, than immediately anterior to the time of her capture. Her cabin was filled with the furniture of luxury. Her stores were such as are seen only on the splendid table. The best workmen, and the best materials were alone fit, to strengthen and decorate the ship, belonging to a nation of pirates. The administration were not only lying open the breaches of the country, but directing the dagger with which an enemy desired to pierce it.
The words of the treaty, however, do not admit of such a construction. It would be criminalizing ourselves. If admitted, a defensive war, carried on to save our seamen from captivity, and our property from destruction, must be pronounced unjustifiable. It is even a misfortune to take the ships of an enemy; because if we conquer, we must make compensation; if conquered we must be compensated. An equality of right however demanded the reparation of the Boston , by France, if it required that of the Berceau by America. The truth is, Bonaparte could claim nothing more by the treaty, than the restoration of the vessel, shattered as it was when it first came into our possession. The thirty two thousand dollars, which were expended in it, can only be placed on the account of the partiality and overflowing affection for France, which have ever characterised Mr. Jefferson.
When a chief magistrate condescends to explain any measure of his administration, the possession of complete information gives a nation a right to expect a satisfactory defence. So far from referring to the treaty, or law, authorizing an expenditure of money on the Berceau , the president, with more sincerity than his supporters, and with less distrust of his party, justifies the transactions on the principles of reason and policy or representatives, required, to the house concerning this vessel, he says: "I now submit the papers, desired in your resolution of the 6th inst. Those respecting the Berceau will sufficiently explain themselves. The officer, charged with her repairs, states in his letter, received August 27, 1801, that he had been led by circumstances, which he explains, to go considerably beyond his orders. In questions between nations, who have no common umpire but reason, something must often be yielded of mutual opinion to enable them to meet in a common point." Had we not before arrived in that common point, in which France could meet us? Must a large sum be expended on the Berceau in addition to thirty millions of dollars to strengthen the ties of friendship, and produce a mutual sentiment of harmony? What equivalent have we received from the mechanimus re public for all these marks of affection, more grateful, than simple condescension? She has not even repaired the Boston . She has only insulted our petitions for redress. A subordinate officer, confiding in the inclination of the executive for justification, could go considerably beyond his orders, in adding to the power of an inveterate foe. Though Mr. Jefferson may feel willing to be a viceroy of Bonaparte, yet I trust, the spirit, which animated Americans, when achieving their independence, is not so broken, nor their national pride, so humbled by the insults, they have received, that they are prepared to become a colony of France.
A third kind of defence for repairing the Berceau is, that it was done in pursuance of the orders of the preceding administration. No less an officer, than the attorney-general, had the effrontery to make the assertion. How consistent it was with truth, a letter from Mr. Stodder, then secretary of the navy, to S. Higginson and Co. dated December 19, 1800, will determine. "I have the honor to request, that you will cause the French ship Le Berceau , to be purchased for the United States and afterwards have her placed where she will be secure, with just as many men on board, as will be necessary to take care of her. Make no repairs." Regard for the reputation of the government, if not for his own, ought to have restrained the attorney general from a direct violation of truth, to avoid the public odium, which, he knew, must attach to conduct, so inimical to the interest of the country.
The last attempt to continue the confidence of the people in the present rulers is a report of Robert Smith, secretary of the navy, to congress in which, on the 6th of Feb. 1802, he says, "the corvette Berceau being the property of the U. States, the expenses of repairing her were defrayed out of the fund, appropriated to the expense of repairing public ships of the U. States." Unfortunately however for this statement, a brother of the present secretary, S. Smith, on the 20th of March preceding, then

acting as secretary, wrote to S. Higginson and Co. that "the French national ship, the Berceau , is to be restored under the treaty. You will please to cause her to be delivered with all her apparel, and every thing belonging to her, to the order of Mr. Pichon, when such order shall appear." Thus is this defence as groundless as the others. To assume so many modes of it is evidence, that the action cannot be justified. Indeed from the preceding facts we have a right to infer, that Mr. Jefferson has betrayed the interest of the nation, and directly violated the constitution, by expending an enormous sum without any appropriation for the same by law, on the vessel of a people, who had not only robbed us of millions, but threatened our independence. HUME.
GENERAL MOREAU'S SPEECH,
At his trial before the Criminal Tribunal at Paris, June 10, 1804.
GENTLEMEN,
I present myself before you with a request to be heard one moment in defence of myself. My confidence in the counsel I have chosen, is unlimited—I have reposed to them without reserve, the care of defending my innocence. It is by their voice alone, I would appeal to justice; but I feel the necessity of speaking myself, to you, gentlemen, and to the nation. Unfortunate circumstances, the production of change, or the fabrication of hatred, may obscure for some moments, the life of the most correct man. By sinistre, a criminal may sometimes succeed in removing from himself both the proofs and suspicion of his crimes; but the testimony of a whole life is the best evidence for or against an accused person. It is, then my whole life, which I oppose to the informers who pursue me. It has been sufficiently public to be known—shall only recal some of its epochs; and the witnesses I shall summon, are the French people; and the nation which France has conquered.
The commencement of that revolution which promised to establish the liberty of the French people, found me devoted to the study of the law. It changed the destiny of my life; I devoted it to arms. I was not led by ambition to place myself among the soldiers of liberty. I embraced the military profession from respect to the rights of the nation. I became a soldier because I was a citizen. I carried this character to the camp; I have always preserved it there. The more I loved liberty, the more I was submissive to discipline. I advanced rapidly, but by regular promotion; always by serving my country, never by flattering the committees. Arrived at the chief command, when victory led us to advance in the midst of hostile nations, I applied myself as much to make the character of the French feared, as to make our enemies afraid. Orders, was only a scourge on the field of battle. Amidst countries laid waste, more than once our enemies have rendered this testimony in my favour. This conduct I thought as necessary as our victories to give success to France. In those times, when contrary maxims seemed to prevail in the committees of government, this conduct did not excite against me, either calumny or persecution. No cloud obscured that portion of military glory which I acquired before the too famous day of the 18th Fructidor . Those who directed the events of this day with so much ardour, reproach me with having been too slow in denouncing a man in whom I could only see a brother in arms [Pichegru] until the moment when the evidence of facts convinced me, that he was accused with truth, and not with unjust suspicions. The directory who alone knew the circumstances of my conduct well enough to judge of it, and who, as the world well knows, could not be disposed to judge me with any indulgence, declared publicly how irreproachable it found me. It gave me employment.—The post was not a brilliant one; but it soon became so.
I feel confident, the nation has not forgotten how I rendered myself worthy of it. She has not forgotten with what zeal I devoted myself in Italy in a subaltern situation. She has not forgot how I was brought forward a second time by the defeats of our armies to the command in chief and renamed general, in some degree by our misfortunes. She remembers it twice composed an army from the wrecks of those which had been dispersed; and how, after having resigned the command of two armies when in a state to oppose the united force of Russia and Austria, I twice took one of more responsibility. I was not more republican at this epoch of my life than at all others. I appeared more so. I saw the confidence of those who were in possession of the power of giving new movements and new direction to the republic, turned to me in a particular manner. It is well known that they proposed to me to put myself at the head of a revolution like that of 18th Brumaire . My ambition, if I had had much, could easily have glossed it with appearances, and decorated itself with all the sentiments of patriotism. This proposition was made to me by men celebrated in the revolution by their love of country, and in our national assemblies by their talents. I refused it. I thought myself formed to command armies; and would not command the republic. This to me was a sufficient proof that if I were ambitious, it was not of authority or power. Soon after, I gave a still stronger proof of it. The 18th Brumaire [the revolution which put Bonaparte at the head of the government] arrived, and I was in Paris. The revolution, excited by others, and not by myself, could not alarm my conscience.—Directed by a man, surrounded by the greatest glory,
it lead me to expect the most happy results.—I entered into it, to promote it, whilst our parties pressed me to put myself at their head to combat it.—I received in Paris the orders of general Bonaparte.—In executing them I assisted in raising him to that high degree of power which circumstances rendered necessary.
Some time after, when he offered me the command of the army on the Rhine, I accepted it from him with as much alacrity and zeal as from the republic itself. Never were my military successes more rapid, more numerous, more decisive, than at this epoch, when their splendor extended to the government which now accuses me. Returned from such successes, of which the greatest ensured in the most efficacious manner the peace of the continent, the soldier heard every where the loudest applauses of national gratitude. What a moment this to conspire, if such a design could ever have entered into my heart! The attachment of the armies to those chiefs whom they love, and who have led them from victory to victory, is well known. Would an ambitious man—a conspirator—have suffered such an opportunity to escape him: when at the head of an army of an hundred thousand men; so many times victorious, he was about entering amidst a nation yet agitated, and always anxious for its principles, and their duration? I only thought of disbanding the army, and of returning to the repose of civil life. In this repose, which was not without glory. I enjoyed without doubt, the honors I had acquired.—Those honors which it is not in human power to deprive me of—the remembrance of my actions, the testimony of my conscience, the esteem of my countrymen, and of foreigners; and if I may be allowed to say, the flattering presentment of posterity.
I enjoyed a fortune, which was not large because my desires were not immoderate, and which did not reproach my conscience. I received a pension ( half pay ) in my retreat.—Surely, I was contented with my fate; I who have never envied the lot of any man. My family and friends, so much the more precious as having nothing to expect from my credit and fortune, they could only be attached to myself. These blessings, the only ones which I could highly value, left no place in my mind for any other desires. Could it then open itself to criminal projects? This situation of my mind was so well known, it was so well established by the distance in which I kept myself from all the paths of ambition, that from the victory of Hohenlinden to the day of my arrest, my enemies have never been able to find any other charge against me, than the freedom of my conversation.—It has often been favorable to the government; and if sometimes it has not been so, could I then believe, that that freedom was a crime with a people who had so many times shared under their kings. I confess it; born with a great openness of character, I have not been able to lose that attribute of the part of France where I was born, [Britannay]; neither in the camp, where every thing strengthens it; nor in the revolution which has always declared it to be one of the duties of a man, and the rights of a citizen. But do those, who conspire, blame so openly what they do not esteem? So much frankness can scarcely be reconciled with the mysteries and the crimes of politics. If I had been willing to connect myself with plots and conspiracies, I should have disseminated my sentiments, and solicited those employments which would have placed amidst the forces of the nation. To trace out the line of conduct which I should have pursued—unexperienced as I am in political intrigues, there were examples enough known to all the world, and rendered imposing by success. I well knew that Monk did not leave the army when he wished to intrigue; and that Cassius and Brutus approached the heart of Cæsar, to pierce it.
Magistrates! I have no more to urge. Such has been my character; such has been my whole life. I protest before heaven, and the world, the innocence and purity of my conduct. You know your duty; France listens to you; Europe contemplates, and posterity will judge you.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
STRUCTURES ON CERTAIN TOASTS.—No 4.
TOAST.—"The Constitution of the United States, May it be cherished and supported as the great bulwark of the nation."
I STATED in my last number that Jacobinism discovered itself in an attempt to establish a military despotism in our country at the close of the revolutionary war. I shall now offer the evidence of that fact.—A memorial had been presented to Congress in December, 1782, in behalf of the army, by three commissioners, consisting of Major General M c Dougall, and two field officers, in which their wishes were thus expressed:—1st. present pay . 2d. a settlement of the arrearages of pay, and security for what is due . 3d. a commutation of the half pay allowed by different resolutions of Congress for an equivalent in grass . 4th. a settlement of the account of deficiencies of rations and compensation . 5th. a settlement of the accounts of deficiencies of clothing and compensation .—In April following, the army was informed by their commissioners, that Congress had decided on nothing of moment for them. Upon this, a meeting of the general and field officers was called, at the public building, for the express purpose of considering what further measures, if any, should be adopted to obtain redress.—This anonymous summons was accompanied with the letter in question.
"TO the OFFICERS of the ARMY."
GENTLEMEN,—A fellow soldier, whose interest and affections bind him strongly to you, whose past sufferings has been as great, and whose future fortunes may be as desperate as yours—would beg leave to address you.
"Age has its claims, and rank is not without its pretensions to a wife, but though unsupported by both he flatters himself, that the plain language of sincerity and experience, will neither be unheard nor unregarded."
"Like many of you, he loved private life, and left it with regret. He left it, determined to retire from the field, with the necessity that called him to it, and not till then—not till the enemies of his country, the slaves of power, and the hirelings of injustice, were compelled to abandon their schemes, and acknowledge America as terrible in arms as she had been humble in remonstrance. With this object in view, he has long shared in your toils, and mingled in your dangers. He has felt the cold hand of poverty without a murmur, and has seen the growing influence of wealth without a sigh.—But, too much under the direction of his wishes, and sometimes weak enough to take desire for opinion, he has till lately, very lately, believed in the justice of his country. He hoped that as the clouds of adversity scattered, and as the sunshine of peace and better fortune broke in upon us, the coldness and severity of government would relax, and that, more than justice, that gratitude, would blaze forth upon those hands, which had upheld her in the darkest stages of her passage, from impending servitude to acknowledged independence. But faith has its limits as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither can be stretched, without sinking into cowardice, or plunging into credulity. This, my friends, I conceive to be your situation. Hurred to the very verge of both, another step would ruin you for ever. To be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard upon you, is more than weakness; but to look up for kinder usage, without one manly effort of your own, would fix your character, and shew the world how rightly you deserve those chains you broke. To guard against this evil, let us take a view of the ground upon which we now stand, and thence carry our thoughts forward, for a moment, into the unexplored field of expedient."
"After a pursuit of seven years, the object for which you set out is at length brought within your reach. Yes, my friends, that suffering courage of yours, was active once; it has conducted the United States of America through a doubtful and bloody war. It has placed her in the chair of independency, and peace returns again to bless—whom? A country courting your return to private life, with tears of gratitude, and smiles of admiration. Longing to divide with you that independency which your gallantry has given, and those riches which your wounds have preserved? is this the case? or is it rather, a country that tramples upon your rights, disdains your cries, and insults your distresses? have you not, more than once, suggested your wishes, and made known your wants to Congress? wants and wishes which gratitude and policy should have anticipated, rather than evaded. And have you not lately in the meek language of intreating memorials, begged from their justice, what you could no longer expect? let the letter which you are called to consider to-morrow make the reply."
"If this then be your treatment, while the swords you wear are necessary for the defence of America, what have you to expect from peace when your voice shall sink, and your strength dissipate by division? when those very swords, the instruments and companions of your glory shall be taken from your sides, and no remaining mark of military distinctions be left, but your marks, infirmities, and scars? can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt? can you consent to wade through the violence of dependency, and owe the miserable remains of life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in horror!—if you can—go—and carry with you the jest of Tories, and the scorn of whigs; the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity of the world. Go, starve, and be forgotten! but if your spirit should revolt at this; if you have sense enough to discover, and spirit sufficient to oppose tyranny, whatever garb it may assume; whether it be the plain coat of republicanism, or the splendid robe of royalty; if you have yet learned to discriminate between a people and a cause; between men and principles—awake—attend to your situation, and redress yourselves. If the present moment be lost, every future effort is in vain; and your threats then will be as empty as your entreaties now."
"I would advise you, therefore, to come to some final opinion, upon what you can bear, and what you can suffer. If your determination be in any proportion to your wrongs, carry your appeal from the justice to the fears of government. Change the milk and water style of your memorials; assume a bolder tone; decent, but lively, spirited, and determined; and suspect the man who would advise to more moderation, or longer forbearance. Let two or three men who can feel as well as write, be appointed to draw up your late remonstrance; for I would no longer give it the soothing, soft, unsuccessful epithet of memorial.—Let it represent, in language that will neither dishonor you by its rudeness, nor betray you by its fears, what has been promised by Congress, and what has been performed; how long and how patiently you have suffered—how little you have asked; and how much of that little has been denied. Tell them that, though you were the first and would wish to be the last to encounter danger; that tho' despair itself can never drive you into dishonor, it may drive you from the field; that the wound often irritated, and never healed, may at length become incurable—and that the slightest mark of indignity from Congress now, must operate like the grave, and part you for ever—that in any political event, the army has its alternative. If peace, that nothing shall separate you from your arms but death. If war,
that courting the auspices, and inviting the direction of your illustrious leader, you will retire to some yet unsettled country, smile in your turn, and mock when their fear cometh on." But let it represent also, that should they comply with the request of your late memorials, it would make you more happy, and them more respectable.—That while the war should continue, you would follow their standard to the field; and that when it came to an end, you would withdraw into the shade of private life, and give the world another subject of wonder and applause;—an army victorious over its enemies—victorious over itself."
"Immediately on the circulation of the foregoing address, the commander in chief issued an official order, convening the general and field officers at the new building, to hear the report of the commissioners of the army to Congress, and to devise what further measures ought to be adopted, as the most rational, and best calculated to attain the just and important object in view. In this meeting, which was fully attended by the general and field officers, by one officer from each company, and by a suitable representation of the staff—the commander in chief thus addressed the army."
"GENTLEMEN,—By an anonymous summons, an attempt has been made to convene you together. How inconsistent with the rules of propriety, and how subversive of all order and discipline, let the good sense of the army judge!"
"In the moment of this summons, another anonymous production was put into circulation, addressed more to the feelings and passions than to the reason and judgment of the army. The author of the piece is intitled to much credit for the goodness of his pen; and I could wish he had as much credit for the rectitude of his heart; for, as men see through difficulties, and are induced by the reflecting faculties of the mind, to use different means to attain the same end, the author of the piece should have had more charity than to mark for suspicion, the man who should recommend moderation and longer forbearance, or, in other words, who should not think as he thinks, and act as he advises. But he had another plan in view, in which candour and liberality of sentiment, regard to justice, and love of country, have no part; and he was right to insinuate the darkest suspicions to effect the blackest designs. That address is drawn with great art; that it is intended to answer the most insidious purposes; that it is intended to impress the mind with an idea of premeditated injustice to the sovereign power of the United States, and rouse all those resentments which must unavoidably flow from such a belief; that the first mover of this scheme, whoever he may be, intended to take advantage of the passions, while they were warmed with the recollection of past distresses, without giving time for cool deliberate thinking, and that composure of mind which is necessary to give dignity and stability to measures, is rendered too obvious, by the mode of conducting the business, to need other proof than a reference to the proceeding."
"Thus much, gentlemen, I have thought it incumbent on me to observe to you, to shew upon what principles I opposed the hasty, irregular meeting which was proposed to be held on Tuesday last, and not because I wanted a disposition to give you every opportunity, consistent with your own honor, and the dignity of the army to make known your grievances. If my conduct heretofore, has not evinced to you, that I have been a faithful friend to the army, my declaration of it at this time would be equally unavailing and improper. But as I was among the first who embarked in the cause of our common country, as I have never left your side one moment, but when called from you on public duty; as I have been the constant companion and witness of your distresses, and not amongst the last to feel and acknowledge your merits; as I have ever considered my own military reputation as inseparably connected with that of the army; and my heart has ever expanded with joy, when I heard its praises, and my indignation has risen, when the mouth of detraction has been opened against it, it can scarcely be supposed at this last stage of the war, that I am indifferent to its interests. But how are they to be promoted? the way is plain, says the anonymous addresser. "If war continues, remove into the unsettled country, there establish yourselves, and leave an ungrateful country to defend itself." But whom are they to defend? our wives, our children, and our farms, and other property which we have left behind us? or in this state of hostile separation, are we to take the two first (the latter cannot be removed) to perish in a wilderness with hunger, cold, and nakedness? If peace takes place, "never sheath your swords," says he, "until you have obtained full and ample justice." This dreadful alternative of either deserting our country in the extremest hour of her distress, or turning our arms against it, which is the apparent object, unless Congress can be compelled into instant compliance, has something so shocking in it, that humanity revolts at the idea. My God! what can this writer have in view, by recommending such measures? can he be a friend to the army? can he be a friend to the country? rather is he not an insidious foe? some emissary, perhaps, from Newyork, plotting the ruin of both, by sowing the seeds of discord and separation between the civil and military powers of the continent? and what a compliment does he pay to our understandings, when he recommends measures, in either alternative, impracticable in their nature? but here, gentlemen, I will drop the curtain, because it would be as imprudent in me to assign my reasons for this opinion, as it would be insulting to your conception, to suppose you stood in need of them. A moment's reflection will convince every dispassionate mind of the physical impossibility of

carrying either project into execution. There might, gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this address to you, of an anonymous production; but the manner in which this performance has been introduced to the army, the effect it was intended to have, together with some other circumstances, will amply justify my observations upon the tendency of that writing.
With respect to the advice given by the author, to suspect the man who shall recommend moderation and longer forbearance I spurn it, as every man who regards that liberty and reveres the justice for which we contend, undoubtedly must; for, if men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us. The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter. I cannot in justice to my own belief, and which I have great reason to believe is the intention of congress, conclude this address, without giving it as my decided opinion, that that honorable body entertained exalted sentiments of the services of the army, and from full conviction of its merits and sufferings, will do it complete justice; that they endeavoured to discover and establish funds have been unwearied, and will not cease till they have succeeded, I have not a doubt.
But like all other large bodies, where there is a variety of different interests to reconcile, their deliberations are slow. Why then should we distrust them? and in consequence of that distrust adopt measures which would cast a shade over that glory which has been so justly acquired, and tarnish the reputation of an army which has been celebrated through all Europe for its fortitude and patriotism? and for what was this done? to bring the object we seek for nearer? no, most certainly, in my opinion it will cast it at a greater distance. For myself, and I take no merit in giving the assurance, being induced to it from principles of gratitude, veracity and justice, a grateful sense of the confidence you have ever placed in me, a recollection of the cheerful assistance and prompt obedience I have experienced from you, under every vicissitude of fortune, and the sincere affection I feel for an army I had so long the honor to command, will oblige me to declare in this public and solemn manner, that in the attainment of complete justice for all your toils and dangers, and in the gratification of every wish, so far as may be done consistently with the great duty I owe my country, and those powers I am bound to respect, you may freely command my services to the utmost of my abilities.
"While I give you these assurances, & pledge myself in the most unequivocal manner to exert whatever ability I am possessed of in your favor, let me entreat you, gentlemen, on your part, not to take any measures, which, viewed in the calm light of reason, will lessen the dignity and fully the glory you have hitherto maintained. Let me request you to rely on the slighted faith of your country, and place a full confidence in the purity of the intentions of congress, that previous to your dissolution, as an army, they will cause all your accounts to be fairly liquidated, as directed in the resolutions which were published to you two days ago, and that they will adopt the most effectual measures in their power to render ample justice to you, for your faithful and meritorious services. And let me conjure you in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the sacred rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man, who withers, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the floodgates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire with blood."
"By thus determining, and thus acting, you will pursue the plain and direct road to the attainment of your wishes; you will defeat the insidious designs of your enemies, who are compelled to resort from open force to secret artifice. You will give one more proof of unexampled patriotism and patient virtue, rising superior to the pressure of the most complicated sufferings; and you will by the dignity of your conduct, afford occasion for posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind, "had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining."
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Head Quarters, Newburgh, 7 March 15, 1783. "HIS excellency the commander in chief having withdrawn, the following resolutions were moved by generals Knox and Putnam, and adopted by the meeting: "Resolved, That the unanimous thanks of the officers of the army, be presented to the commander in chief for his excellent address, and the communications he has been pleased to make to them; and to assure him, that the officers reciprocate his affectionate expressions, with the greatest sincerity of which the human heart is capable." "Resolved, That at the commencement of the war, the officers of the American army engaged in the service of their country, from the purest love and attachment to the rights and liberties of human nature; which motive still exists in the highest degree; and that no circumstance of distress or danger, shall induce a conduct that may tend to fully the reputation and glory which they have acquired, at the price of their blood and eight years faithful service." "Resolved, That the army continue to have unshaken confidence in the virtue of Congress, and their country." "Resolved, That the officers of the American army, view with abhorrence, and reject with disdain, the infamous propositions contained in a late anonymous address to them, and resent with indignation the secret attempts of some unknown person to collect the officers together, in a manner totally subversive of all discipline and good order."
Many among us even at this day, abate the memory of Washington because the army was discharged when our country no longer required their services; and even one of the Toasters who is called a "hoary headed patriot of '76" uttered in the presence of several persons in this town, this pointed observation—That Washington ought to be d—d for disbanding the army!
In my next, I shall trace the further progress of Jacobinism in our own country, as far as my plan will allow, and my means of information enable me.
Portland Gazette.
MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1804.
From Newyork, July 27.
Every fact, in the least degree connected with or resulting from, the death of Gen. Hamilton, must necessarily be interesting to his bereaved country. We state, therefore for the information of our distant readers who are daily and anxiously looking for the proceedings of the jury of inquest, that several circumstances have occurred to procrastinate the verdict.
Willson, one of the boatmen, who took Burr to Hoboken, was on Tuesday last, committed to Bridewell, by the coroner for refusing to be sworn as a witness. "Willson," says the Citizen, "is but the tool of insidious knaves. His refusing to be sworn shews that he could a tale unfold that would, indeed harrow up the soul ."
M. L. Davis, who boasts of his intimacy with Mr. Burr, and who pretends to know much about the business, was also committed to Bridewell, for refusing (after he had taken the oath) to answer the questions put to him by the coroner.
The following is taken from the Citizen of this morning. If the circumstance be true, it must, indeed fill with horror the most abandoned heart:
It is understood that Davis expressed himself the morning after the fatal wound was given, in the following words. He was highly elated and spoke in an air of triumph.
"Yesterday afternoon, says Davis, (meaning the afternoon of the day on which the duel was fought) I and several of Mr. Burr's friends paid him a visit. You may depend Mr. Burr's a—v—ish good shot! After we had drank a glass of wine, continued Davis, Mr. Burr remarked by way of apology, for firing a little below the breast, that had it not been for smoke, or a momentary mist, or something of that nature which intercepted his vision he should have lodged the ball exactly in the centre of General Hamilton's heart! Such according to Davis, who said he heard the remarks, were the reflections of Mr. Burr: he shot two or three inches below the designed mark; the ball did not pierce the centre of the heart, and for this the accomplished Mr. Burr owed, to his frighted young friends by whom he was surrounded, an apology! Merciful God, what must be the feeling of the man, what his desperate purposes?"
From Philadelphia, July 30.
Mr. Burr.—Report says that Burr publicly walks our city, that he resides with a public officer, that he is visited by some of the first officers in the state, and that he is preparing a chariot or coach of the first chop, in which he means to visit most of the states between this and Charleston.
"A la mode de Hayti."—The late riot of the blacks in Philadelphia, appear to have created some alarm in that city. About 200 negroes assembled several nights successively; injured the persons of several citizens; threatened to murder others; and said they would show the whites "St. Domingo play." The ringleaders have been apprehended.—Newport Mac.
From Middlebury, Vt. July 11.
On Wednesday the 27th ult. ministers and people, from various towns, assembled at Bridport according to previous appointment, to pass two days in special religious worship. A stage was built in the open air for the accommodation of those who took an active part in the exercises, and seats were prepared for the audience. The assembly was numerous, at the least calculation; consisting of three thousand. —On the last day in the afternoon, there were a number received into the Church at Bridport, and the sacrament was administered to eight hundred communicants. The scene was peculiarly solemn, and there were evident tokens of the Divine presence. There have been more than a thousand added to the different branches of Christ's Church in the western part of Vermont since the late awakening has prevailed.
BOSTON, AUGUST 3.
The British sloop of war, Lily, captain Comp-ton, was captured on the 14th of July, in about lat. 33, lon. 79, by the French privateer La Dame Lambert. The sloop pursued the privateer; but the latter commenced the action. The British vessel was disabled early in the engagement by the uncommon success which attended the discharges of grape and langrage from the French cruiser. The sloop was so unmanageable from the damage sustained in her rigging, that not one of her large guns could be brought to bear on the enemy; who, after distressing her greatly by an incessant fire which could not be returned with any effect, carried her by boarding.
The Lily mounted 16 short 12 pounders, and had 78 men; the Dame Lambert mounted 14 12 pound carronades and 2 long nines, and had 140 men. The former lost her capt. and first Lieut. and had 16 men wounded, one of whom afterwards died.—The privateer was formerly the Duke of Marlborough packet.
West-Indies.—Upwards of 1000 whites, men, women and children, were massacred at Jeremie, June 26.
Curacoa.—A British sloop, under commodore Boynton, have captured this Island.
The Surinam, man of war, and a Dutch frigate were also taken.
The last Philadelphia papers mention that Mr. Burr was in that city; and the Newyork papers state, that he had journeyed south, probably for South Carolina.
Mr. M. L. Davis, and Wilson, one of the boatmen who took Mr. Burr to Hoboken, have been committed to Bridewell in Newyork, for refusing to give evidence before the Coroner's inquest, respecting the late deplorable duel.
Since our last, M. Jerome Bonaparte, and his beautiful lady, arrived in town from the southward; and have taken lodgings at Mr. Chapon's, summer street.
By the Senatus Consultum, or new constitution of France, the Imperial family is composed of Napoleon, Joseph and Louis Bonaparte, their wives and children—all the rest of the family are excluded; and are but plain gentlemen and ladies; none of whose descendants can ever fill the throne of France.
On Saturday last fourteen chiefs and two boys of the Osage tribe of Indians, arrived in our city from Baltimore.—They are journeying to Boston by direction of the president, in order that they may be more fully impressed with correct notions of the physical force of our country."
General Dessalines has sent, by a vessel arrived at Nan z, dispatches to the first consul, stating that he has threatened to murder all French inhabitants in the island of Hayti, if the government do not immediately acknowledge its independence and promise a yearly tribute in arms, ammunition, artillery etc.—This circumstance is recorded in the Clef du Cabinet .
The president of the United States has recognized Citizen Arcambal, "as commissary of commercial regulations of the French republic at Baltimore."
Married, At Lansburgh, N. Y. Rev. Samuel Blatchford. At Sunderland, Mass. Rev. David Williston.
Died, In this town, Mr. Josiah Loring to Miss Martha Bailey. At Wiscasset, Mr. James Webber to Miss Rebecca Dammon.
Port of Portland. Friday, August 4.—Arrived ship Mac, capt. Burdick, 53 days from Liverpool.
FOR SALE, BY DAVID GRIFFITH, a quantity of Russia FEATHERS.—ALSO a number of FEATHER-BEDS, at reduced prices.—Likewise GROCERIES, as usual.
Mr. Otis's Eulogy. For sale, At T. CLARK's Bookstore, A FEW copies of Mr. OTIS's EULOGY on the late General HAMILTON, delivered before the Citizens of Boston.
Warranted LIME. For sale, By J. BRYANT, 100 hhds. warranted Stone Lime, of the first quality.
DANCING SCHOOL. D. TEMPLE, informs the inhabitants of this town, that he shall open a Dancing School at Mechanics Hall, where he will instruct the art of DANCING in all its varieties: namely, The Contra Dance, Cotillion, Hornpipe, Minuet, &c.
Said Temple engages to pay the strictest attention, not only to Dancing, but also to the morals and polite accomplishments of his pupils. The school to be attended two evenings in each week—viz. Monday and Friday—to commence on the 3d of September next—Terms, Six Dollars each scholar, per quarter. Those who wish to attend may apply to the printer. Aug. 6, 1804.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Co-partnership of Dunning & Noyes, was dissolved on the first day of January last. All persons having any demands on them will call on R. D. Dunning for settlement. ROBERT D. DUNNING, JOSIAH NOYES. Brunswick, July 17, 1804.
Sale at Auction. To be sold by order of Court, On Thursday the 23d day of August next, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, at the dwelling house of the subscriber, in Gorham, in the county of Cumberland, THE Saw-Mill and Grist-Mill and so much of the House and Land be-lying to the estate of GEORGE JOHNSON, late of Gorham, deceased, with or without the reversion of the widow's dower of the same, as will be sufficient to pay the debts of said deceased, amounting to about Thirteen Hundred Dollars, and incidental charges. OLIVER JOHNSON, administrator in fact estate July 27.
To be sold at Auction on the premises on Wednesday the 15th day of August next, at 12 o'clock, noon: THE life estate of one undivided moiety of about an acre of LAND with a DWELLING HOUSE two stories high together with a TAN-YARD standing thereon, situated on back street, Gloucester, Massachusetts, being the real estate of the heirs of Nelson at Parsons late of said Gloucester deceased; sold for the benefit of the creditors of William Wadsworth, Jr. a bankrupt. A credit of sixty days will be given provided a good security should be offered. JOHN DEERING. Assignee. July 30.
THEATRE—Clinton-Hall—PORTLAND.
Play never performed here.
THIS EVENING, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, will be presented for the first time in Portland, the popular Drama, in three Acts, called
The Voice of Nature: OR, THE MOTHER MADE HAPPY.
This interesting Drama, founded on the wise judgment of King Solomon, was performed in London six nights successively, nor has its success in America been inferior—In Boston, it was represented a greater number of nights than any other piece produced during the last season.
Alphonso, Mr. Jones—Rinaldo, Mr. Wilson—Pedro, Mr. Bignall—Valquez, Mr. Kenny—Executioner, Mr. Barnes—Officer, Mr. Barton—Child Lilia, Mrs. Powell—Clarinda, Mrs. Dickenson—Almaira, Mrs. Bignall—Benedetta, Mrs. Bernard—Isabella, Miss Bates.—Vocal parts, by Messrs. Wilson, Barnes, Mrs. Jones, &c. &c.
To which will be added a celebrated Comic Opera (for the only time this season) called the
HIGHLAND REEL: OR, THE Female Soldier.
McGlin, Mr. D'Arcy—Shilly, (the Piper) Mr. Betts—Charley—Mr. Wilson—Sandy, Mr. Barn—Jeanette Jack, Mr. Jones—Captain Daff, Mr. Bignall—Craudy, Mr. Powell—Laird, Mr. Kenny—Meggy McGinn, (the Female Soldier) Mrs. Jones—Jeanny, Miss Bates.
Doors opened half past 6, & curtain to rise half past 7 o'clock.—Tickets at Mr. D. Cobb's—Bons 75 cents—Pis. 50 cents.
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RECEIVED by the Kingston, from London, and for Sale by WILLIAM GODDARD , an extensive variety of LOOKING-GLASSES , with the most fashionable Gilt & Mahogany frames. ALSO, HARD-WARE Goods as usual. July 26.
JOSEPH POPE , respectfully informs his friends and the public that he has just received three cases of Irish Linnens and Diapers , of a middling and fine quality. The above being a consignment, will be sold on the most reasonable terms for cash or approved credit, at No 7, Mufley's Row. Portland, July 20, 1804.
DANIEL TUCKER , At his Store in Fore-Street, Jamaica, St. Vincent's, and Berbice RUM , Hollands GIN , A few casks RICE . A few crates assorted Liverpool Ware, Also 19 ANCHORS and Kedges , weighing as follows:— ANCHORS , 1026—830—730—608—490—446—407—310—280—237—193—192. KEDGES , 103—151—150—144—145—140—126 July 30.
THE subscribers under the firm of THOMAS FORSAITH & CO. beg leave to inform the public and their friends in general, that they have opened a Store of ENGLISH, WEST-INDIA & INDIA GOODS , next door to Henry's , head of Ingraham's wharf. For Sale, bbls. bone and middling PORK , Bbls. fine and superfine FLOUR , which they intend selling for cash or country produce, as low as can be purchased at any store in town. Also, a large assortment of PAPER HANGINGS . JONATHAN SPARROW, THOMAS FORSAITH. Portland, July 26, 1804.
ALEXANDER WOODMAN , Respectfully informs his friends and the public that he has taken a Shop in Union Street, lately occupied by Doc Hading , where he makes and keeps constantly for sale a handsome assortment of ladies KID and MOROCCO SLIPPERS .—The smallest favors thankfully received. July 26.
THE subscribers having entered into copartnership in the ROPE-MAKING and SHIP-CHANDLERY BUSINESS, under the firm of SHAW, DUNCAN & Co. Respectfully inform their friends and the Public, that the Rope-Making business is carried on to its fullest extent, at their new rope-walk near Back Cove bridge; where their friends may be supplied with gangs of RIGGING at the current prices, and on liberal credit. A constant supply will be kept at their retail Store, No. 1, Central Row, opposite Jones' Row, Fore-Street. Where also may be had all kinds of CHANDLERY, ANCHORS , and every thing necessary for vessels fitting out and bound to sea; for which a handsome credit will be given if required. NEAL SHAW, G. W. DUNCAN. July 19.
CODMAN and SWAN , No. 3, Union Row, Middle-Street HAVE just received for sale, an additional assortment of European and India Goods . Likewise—a general assortment of West-India Goods and Groceries , Paints of all kinds, Oil, &c. Also, confined for sale, 2 bales Muggan Sannabs, 1 case Ringa Handkerchiefs, 50 pieces Lunges ditto, 1 case Bandanna ditto. Portland, July 16.
FOR SALE , At Store No. 6, Long Wharf, A few pipes of Holland GIN , entitled to debenture on exportation. July 16.
JOHN TABER & SON , At Store No. 13, Union Wharf, Fresh fine and superfine FLOUR, CORN, PORK, &c. July 9.
CROSS & TRASK , Have for Sale, A general assortment of English and West India Goods , and Groceries, as usual— LEMONS —6 bales Calcutta Goods, entitled to debenture, 10 pipes 4th proof, } French BRANDY . 4 do. 1st do. } French BRANDY . Turks Island SALT , Cod and Pollock FISH , A few bbls. clear and bone middlings PORK , Barrels liver Oil, &c. July 19.
STEPHEN FOSTER , Head of Long-wharf, Fore-street Portland, Has just received for Sale, Large assortment of SHOES , (those who purchase for shipping, will find it advantageous by calling as above.) Several boxes LEMONS , ENGLISH & WEST-INDIA GOODS , as usual. The above he will sell cheap for cash or approved credit. July 29.
Silk Shawls, Kid Shoes, &c. Received at No. 1, Central Row, Fore-street AN assortment of Large Silk Shawls—Kid SHOES—fine Cotton & Linen CAMBRICKS—Black CRAPES—Fancy CALICOES—York FURNITURES—SHEETING, &c. July 23.
FOR SALE , At No 1, Jones' Row, Fore-Street, Portland, A Few bags first quality Live Geese  FEATHERS , A few bags second quality ditto. A few bbls. CIDER , fit for bottling. Also, as usual, Paints of all kinds, mixed and dry, Linseed Oil, boiled and raw, Glass of all sizes, Sheet Lead, &c. July 23.
Cables, Cordage, &c.  ZACHARIAH MARSTON , INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has for sale, at his ROPE-WALK , lately occupied by Medie , SHAW & CROFT , CABLES and CORDAGE , warranted good; which he will sell upon reasonable terms as can be purchased in Boston or Portland. July 13.
TICKETS . DANIEL JOHNSON , has for sale at the PORTLAND BOOKSTORE , (Sign of the Bible No. 5, Mufley's Row, Middle-Street) A Number of TICKETS in the Amoskeag Canal Lottery , Second Class, which commences Drawing the 19th inst. Also—For sale as above, Tickets in the sixth class of South-Hadley Lottery . The day for the drawing of which, will be soon appointed by the managers.—Let the candidates for Fortune's favor apply in season.
Prize Tickets , In the first and fifth classes of the above Lotteries will be received in payment for tickets in the second and sixth classes. Law books, Testaments, Bibles, Divinity, Surgery, History and Novels, on BETTER TERMS than have yet been offered for sale in the District of Maine, may be had by applying as above. An EXAMINATION of the various charges exhibited against AARON BORN , Esq. Vice President of the United States; and a development of the characters of his political opponents.—By Arvidson . July 23.
Baptists' Hymns . THIS day published and now selling at THOMAS CLARK'S Book-Store , nearly opposite the Insurance Office, Fifth Street Portland, DIVINE HYMNS, or SPIRITUAL SONGS , for the use of Religious assemblies and private Christians, being a collection by JOSHUA SATTEN & SAMUEL SLAUGHTER .—To which are now added Thirty two HYMNS .—Societies and wholesale purchasers will be supplied cheap. May 2. (ep3m)
BIBLES AND DIVINITY . JUST received from Scotland, an extensive assortment of Large and Small BIBLES , which are for sale on as low terms as were ever offered in the District of Maine, at the Bookstores of ISAAC ADAMS and THOMAS CLARK , Fifth Street, Portland. Likewise, a general assortment of Books on DIVINITY, History, & Miscellaneous subjects . 2m
Upholstery Store . AARON AUSTIN, & CO. HAVE for sale, at their store, Fore-Street, head of Fitzgerald'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 1.
WILLIAM CALLENDER , Respectfully informs the citizens of the Eastern country, that he has for sale at his Store No. 62 Middle-Street, (north part of Boston) upwards of Seven-hundred Musical Instruments , of the following kinds: Bafs Vials and Violins; Bafoons, Concert Horns. New invented C and B Clarinets. Hautboys. German Flutes. German Flute walking sticks, Flageolets. Drums and Fife of various tones: Horsemen's Trumpets. Concert Fife, Pitch Pipes, English Flutes, &c. Also, 70 Violin Bows, 50 set Bafs Viol Strings, 100 G Strings do. 70 dozen Bafes for Violin, a few of which are of a new manufacture. 40 Bundles Violin Strings four horse thongs per dozen. Instruction Book for each Instrument. With a variety of other articles in the Musical line, good and cheap, and free from every deception, with thanks for the final favour. June 8. (ep2m)
FOR SALE , TWO new and handsome standing top CHAISE , with iron tops and iron axletree; and Harness, complete—Enquire of the subscriber, At his Shop in Middle Street, two doors above Doc. S. Erving's . JACOB ROLFE . Portland, July 16.
First Cumberland Turnpike . THIRD ASSESSMENT . THE proprietors of the First Cumberland Turnpike Corporation, are hereby notified, that the Committee have ordered the Third Assessment of THIRTY DOLLARS on each share therein, to be paid to the subscriber, on or before the first day of September next. Said Committee have also declared a second Dividend of Five Dollars on each share in said turnpike. SAMUEL HAINES , Treasurer of said Corporation. July 18th, 1804.
Take Notice . NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors, and owners of the following lots of land in the town of Hanover , in the county of Cumberland, that they are taxed in bills for the year 1803, and committed to me to collect, as follows:     Non-resident Town Tax. Non-resident State Tax.   No. Range. Value. C. M. No. Range. Value. C. M.     24 1 68 130 14 21 1 68 130 4 5   25 1 80 160 13 20 1 80 160 4 5   18 1 56 192 15 5 18 1 56 192 5 5   17 1 46 92 6 5 17 1 46 92 2 5   15 1 125 250 20 15 1 125 250 7 7   15 2 125 250 20 15 2 125 250 7 7   11 2 100 200 16 11 2 100 200 5 5   3 2 36 72 6 3 2 36 72 2 2   13 3 125 250 20 13 3 125 250 7 7   16 3 125 250 20 16 3 125 250 7 7   Gore. Gore.   29 4 67 134 11 29 4 67 134 2 5   7 4 125 250 20 7 4 125 250 7 7   11 4 125 250 20 11 4 125 250 7 7   26 4 125 250 20 26 4 125 250 7 7   Gore. Gore.   21 4 63 191 50 13 5 63 191 50 5   8 5 125 250 20 8 5 125 250 7 7   13 5 125 250 20 13 5 125 250 7 7   1 5 62 125 10 1 5 62 125 3 5   16 7 125 250 20 16 7 125 250 7 7   Gore. Gore.   13 7 37 34 2 13 7 37 34 2 2   4 9 125 250 20 4 9 125 250 7 7   9 9 125 250 20 9 9 125 250 7 7   10 9 125 250 20 10 9 125 250 7 7   16 9 125 250 20 16 9 125 250 7 7   North-fide. North-fide.   5 10 62 62 50 5 10 62 62 50 2   6 10 125 250 20 6 10 125 250 7 7   9 10 125 250 20 9 10 125 250 7 7   12 10 125 250 20 12 10 125 250 7 7   2 11 125 250 20 2 11 125 250 7 7   4 13 125 250 20 4 13 125 250 7 7   4 Gore. 80 240 19 4 Gore. 80 240 6 4 Gore. 80 240 6 4 Gore. 80 240 6   7 Gore. 80 160 13 7 Gore. 80 160 4 7 Gore. 80 160 4 7 Gore. 80 160 4  
Unless said taxes with all necessary intervening charges are paid to the subscriber on or before Tuesday the 11th of September next, so much of said lands as will pay the same, will be sold at Public Vendue , as the law directs, at the dwelling house of GAD HAYFORD , in said Hanover , at Ten o'clock in the forenoon. GAD HAYFORD , Collector. Hartford, July 6, 1804.
South-Hadley Canal Lottery . THE Managers offer to the Public the following SCHEME OF THE SIXTH CLASS :    1 prize of  10,000 Dollars,  is  10,000    1  2,000  -  2,000    1  1,500  -  1,500    6  1,000  are  6,000    8  750  -  6,000    12  500  -  6,000    200  100  -  20,000    140  50  -  7,000    120  30  -  3,600    150  20  -  3,000    6175  8  -  49,400      DOLLARS  100,000    6 508 prizes? Less than two blanks to a prize. 13,232 blanks. 20,000 Tickets, at five dollars it 100,000.
A part of the above valuable prizes will come out of the wheel as follows—    The first drawn blank on the 3d day of drawing, entitled to 500      Do  6th,  500    Do  9th,  500    Do  12th,  750    Do  15th,  750    Do  18th,  1,000    Do  21st,  1,000    Do  24th,  1,000    Do  27th,  1,000    Do  30th,  1,000    Do  33d,  2,000    Do  35th,  10,000    Do  38th,  1,500    Do  40th,  1,000    Subject to a deduction of 2 1/2 per cent. Prize tickets will be paid in 30 days after the drawing of the Lottery shall be closed. Prizes not demanded within one year will be considered as generously given for the purpose for which the lottery was granted. The time expended in drawing this class will not exceed 40 days. In regard to fortunate tickets which depend as above stated, on certain days of drawing, it is to be understood, that the drawing of 500 tickets shall be deemed the work of a day, and fortunate tickets will be those which come out of the wheel according to the rate of drawing, whether the work of two days be done in one or not. The subscribers have given bond as the law directs—they will soon appoint an early day for drawing—in regard to former classes they have not deviated from any engagements they have made—They will still endeavor to merit the confidence of the public by an unequivocal compliance with any assurances they may make as to the sixth Class.
JONATHAN DWIGHT, JOSEPH LYMAN, JOHN WILLIAMS, JOHN BROCK, SAMUEL LATHROP, Managers. Springfield May 15. TICKETS and Quarters in the above Lottery, for sale at the Bookstore of THOMAS CLARK , Fifth-Street, Portland, July 5.
Strayed or stolen , FROM the subscriber, a small light red MARE ; square neck, short mane, about eight years old, trots all—Whoever will return said Mare to the owner shall be handsomely rewarded. CURTIS CHUTE . Windham, July 21.
Deerted , FROM on board the brig AMERICA , SAMUEL PEARCE , mate of said brig.—Whoever will arrest the said S. Pearce and lodge him in the jail of Portland, shall receive one hundred reward, from WILLIAM HASWELL . July 5.
Taken up adrift , Near Hog-island -ledge a YAWL BOAT , about fifteen feet in length. The owner may have her again, by proving property and paying charges. LEMANUEL TUKEY . Portland 21st July.
For Sale , A Good FARM in Edgecomb , containing 125 acres, a suitable proportion of which is Mowing, Tillage, Pasture and Wood land, with a young orchard, containing about 60 fruit trees. The above Farm fronts on Trask's creek (so called) and cuts 30 acres of Hay . It will be sold on easy terms, a credit being given for part of the pay. For further particulars inquire of JOHN RYAN , Living on the premises. Edgecomb, July 10.
A Fulling-Mill and Shop to Let , AFTER the first of September at Penmaquil Falls in Bristol , a good stand for business. Any person who may come, with good recommendations will find good encouragement, as there is no other Clothing Mill within fifteen or twenty miles. Inquire of Thomas Miller , on the premises. July 16.
For Sale , A Pleasantly situated HOUSE with the lot of LAND on which it stands, lying on Danforth Street , leading to Vaughan's Bridge the house has five rooms on the floor, the land is fifty feet, on said Street, for particulars enquire of ELIAZER HIGGENS , Shop Carpenter, on the premises. Portland, July 23.
Taken up on the 8th inst. A RED HORSE , with a black mane and tail, natural trotter. The owner may have said horse by proving property and paying charges.—Apply to RICHARD COLLEY . Falmouth June 11.
NOTICE is hereby given to all those who are indebted to BENJAMIN WHITNEY , that those demands which are not paid by the first day of September next, will be left with an attorney for collection. He flatters himself that those whose notes and accounts which become payable previous to this date, will consider it reasonable, they should be discharged by that time; and will by their attention to the payment of them prevent him the disagreeable necessity of putting them to cost. Gorham, June 27.
THE subscribers , having been duly appointed by the Hon. William Gorham , Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the Estate of Captain Abiel Briggs , late of Portland, in the county aforesaid, mariner, deceased represented insolvent—do hereby give notice, that three months further time are allowed to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend that Service at the dwelling house of MARY SKILLING in Cape Elizabeth, on the last Mondays of July, August, September, October and November, from three to five o'clock, P. M. ARCHELAUS LEWIS, SAMUEL DUNN, Commissioners. Cape Elizabeth, July 13.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon herself the trust of an administratrix on the estate of SIMEON SKILLING , late of Cape Elizabeth, in the county of Cumberland, by giving 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 MARY SKILLING . Oct. 1st. 1804. 13 4
Strayed or stolen , FROM the pasture of Ebenezer Kettle of Falmouth, at Sacapa , on the night of the nineteenth of June last a deep red MARE ; seven years old, about fourteen hands and a half high; a natural trotter, black mane and tail, carries her head high—has a full eye—black legs something crooked, foretop cut off of a bright colour, no white about her, is well set and of high courage. Whoever will give information to said Kettle , where said mare may be found, so that the owner may have her again, shall be generously rewarded for their trouble. July 12.
WHEREAS my wife Ann Stanwood , has absented herself from my bed and board, and has been often entreated to return, but refused. I therefore forbid any person harbouring or trusting her, for I will not pay one cent of her debts. Brunswick, July 1, 1804. EBENEZER STANWOOD . Notice.
REMAINING at Store No. 3 Union Wharf, the following articles brought from Boston in the Sloop Margaret , John Dufet, a large iron screw & nut, a small Barrel containing Pewter articles.—The Owners will please to apply for the same, proving property and paying freight and contingent charges. July 16.
Ten Cents Reward , RANAWAY from the subscriber on the night of the 29th of June last an Indian servant boy, named John Wyban , about five feet eight inches high, dark complexion, down look;—whoever will return said Boy shall be entitled to the above reward, but no charges paid—and all persons are forbid harbouring said servant on Penalty of the law. July 9. EBENEZER LANE .
CASH for old COPPER and BRASS given by SAMUEL R. DENNIS , at his Copper-smith shop at the head of Union-wharf , Portland. An apprentice wanted—apply as above. July 4.
Oration , A FEW copies of Mr. LONGFELLOW's Oration , delivered on the Fourth of July last, for sale by JENKS & SHIRLEY , No. 7, Fish Street . Subscribers for the above Oration, are requested to call at the Office of E. Mayo, Esq. and receive their respective complements. Portland, July 22.
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