Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1800-10-06 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 128]
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1800.
[VOLUME III.]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
CALEB STRONG, Esquire,
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
A PROCLAMATION,
for a Day of PUBLIC THANKSGIVING.
IT being the duty of a People at all times, to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, and to recollect his Benefits with gratitude, especially in seasons of public peace, and prosperity—and it having been the invariable usage of our pious ancestors, at the close of the year, to devote a day to the service and praise of that great and gracious Being, who is the object of all piety, and whose tender mercies are over all his works:
I have therefore thought fit by and with the advice and consent of the Council, to appoint Thursday, the twenty seventh day of November next, to be observed by the people of this Commonwealth, as a day of PUBLIC THANKSGIVING—whereby calling upon the ministers of the gospel, and the people of every denomination, to assemble on the said day, that we may unitedly pay our grateful and affectionate homage to the author of all good, for his distinguishing kindnesses to our forefathers, and to us—in providing them a refuge from oppression, and protecting them from surrounding with innumerable dangers—blessing them with civil liberty and the right influence of the gospel, and disposing them to nurture their posterity in the love of learning, virtue and rational freedom.—In supporting us through the difficulties of the late revolution, and giving us wisdom to establish constitutions favorable to liberty and happiness—prospering the administration of government, and preserving the important life of the chief magistrate of the Union—in exempting us, during the last year, from the calamities of war, and from wasting sickness and every desolating element; and in succeeding the labors of the husbandman, and crowning the year with its fruits; and for that degree of protection and prosperity which he has been pleased to afford our commerce, navigation and fishery—for a progress of literature and the useful arts—for the numerous bounties of his providence, and all that variety which supports or delights our lives—and especially for the blessings of the gospel of his son, who has brought life and immortality to light.
And together with these grateful acknowledgments, that we humbly confess our unworthiness, and present our supplications to the God of mercy, to pardon our multiplied sins, and continue his protection and favor to the United States—to guide the national and state governments in ways of integrity and safety; and preserve the people from faction and licentiousness:—To settle upon our university, and colleges and schools of learning; and prosper agriculture, manufactures, and commerce: To promote a spirit of industry, sobriety and morality, and the belief and practice of true religion, that we may have the blessedness of a nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance: That the world may become more worthy of happiness, by the prevalence of humanity and benevolent affections among all the inhabitants of the earth: That the peaceable kingdom of the Redeemer may prevail universally, without rivalry or opposition; and that there may be none to hurt or destroy.
And I earnestly recommend to the people of this State, to abstain from all labor and recreation unsuitable to the solemnities of the said day.
Given at the Council Chamber in Boston, this twenty sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred; and in the twenty fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
CALEB STRONG.
His Excellency's command, with the advice and consent of the Council.
JOHN AVERY, Secretary.
God save the Commonwealth.
FOR JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
MR. JENKS, SEEING, in your Gazette of the 15th instant, a sorry specimen on the literary character of Maine; and feeling my dignity rather insulted by the opprobrium call on the authors who have passed years in an University, I at once recited, tho' I neither hunger, nor thirst for scribbling fame; and after laboring a suitable time my muse brought forth the following Essay; which, as it may possibly be thought a premature birth, I omit to your fostering hand to be "lick'd into shape and frame."
THE SCRIBBLER.—No. I.
"Many men of many minds."
WHEN I was a schoolboy, my master wrote the above motto for a copy. Believing, as every boy ought, that my master was a profound scholar, I conceived it important to trea-
sure up his wise sayings; and this motto, among others, was crowded into the repository of my cranium. But like other boys, or rather, like many men, I retained the words without knowing their true import. The idea I imbibed from the words was, that there is a manifest difference in men with respect to their intellectual nature, that while some are furnished with only a single mind, others possess a number.
However erroneous this idea may appear to persons, who plume themselves upon their superior discernment, it in fact enabled me to account for many seeming inconsistencies which I noticed in the conduct and conversation of men. For instance, when I heard a person at one time approving of actions which I had before heard him censure and condemn, I set it down that the man had many minds; that to day he was under the influence of one, to-morrow would be influenced by another, and so on.
When I advanced forward and was put to reading the writings of wise philosophers and subtle metaphysicians, I soon found their opinions on this point were different from my own. Now there is, I believe, a proneness in mankind to lay aside, as vulgar and puerile, those sentiments they have acquired in childhood; at least it was my case. Willing to think as great and wise men had thought before, I readily embraced new opinions, rose above the prejudices of youth, and adopted as an incontrovertible position, that no individual person has more than one mind, however variously he may think and act at different times. The sense of my motto now was, not that any man has a plurality of minds, but, that among a number of men there will be a variety of opinions upon the same subject.
Having quitted the cloisters of College, and again mixing with the world at large, I was determined to put my philosophy to practice, and to account for the different and inconsistent conduct and opinions of the same persons, upon the principle established by great and learned men, whose works I had perused with zeal, and even veneration. Often however was I perplexed; frequently, after all my philosophy, I was left in the dark, and was at the point of embracing Pyrrhonism, and laying it down as an undoubted truth, that, there is no such thing as truth existing; but that all seeming realities, are doubtful, delusive, and uncertain appearances.—Such a state of doubt and uncertainty was found to be peculiarly tormenting; for the understanding is so formed that it must dwell upon things which are really or apparently true. After long revolving these ideas, and examining the subject in various points of view, I at length re-adopted my former boyish opinion. Being condemned to mix with the vulgar and illiterate, was determined to converse and argue, not by strict logical rules, but by the customs of the age; and to consider the authors of the learned book, I had read either as ignorant of mankind, or as beings of more refined and exalted natures, whose works are adapted only to beings of their own rank.
Now I appeal to you, Mr. Printer, or to your sagacious readers, whether my conduct is not commendable? Is there any way to account for the extremely various and even contradictory conduct and sentiments of the same individuals at different times, without supposing they have many minds? If there be, I wish some one would give information how it may be done.
A very wise, if not a learned, man hath said, "Out of the abundance of the heart, or mind, the mouth speaketh." Now if the mind be "one and indivisible," it is plain to a demonstration that the words and opinions, and likewise the conduct will also be uniform and consistent; but universal experience and observation shews, the diversity and inconsistency of the same man's opinions and actions at different times, and in different situations: consequently there are many men of many minds. When we hear a man, at one time, speaking in terms of high commendation of the practice of virtue, and loudly exclaiming against vice in general; at another, see him engaged in vicious and immoral practices, and endeavoring by words and arguments to vindicate his vile conduct, we must conclude he has at least, two minds. When we hear a man extolling the virtues of kindness, charity, and benevolence, and perhaps the next day see an indigent and distressed fellow mortal spurned from his door with unkind and reproachful words, we must suppose he has many minds.—When we hear a man, at one time, censuring intemperance and excess, and at another, see him reeling with drunkenness, and staggering along the street, is it not evident he has many minds?—When we hear a man remonstrating against the profane swearers, and at another time, hear him sanction every affirmation with a profane oath, certainly we must conclude he has many minds.—If we hear a man, to day, speaking in praise of honesty, justice, and integrity, and tomorrow, see him practising every species of fraud and duplicity in his dealings, we must say he has many minds.—When we hear a man bear testimony against slander and calumny, and, perhaps at the same breath, vilifying the good name of his neighbor, it is apparent he has many minds.—When we hear a
man declaring that religion is of the utmost importance, that it is absolutely necessary to the temporal happiness and the eternal felicity of mankind, and yet hear him ridicule all forms of religion, and scandalize all religious teachers in the gross—when we see his life and conversation to be a continual warfare against all true religion, we must certainly suppose the man has many minds.
I might proceed; but this must do for the present. As leisure hours occur perhaps I may favor the public with some further observations. This Essay I trust will wipe the indignity from the literary character of our little village.
Politics.
State of the Negotiation with France.
[From a Paris paper of Aug. 6.]
THE conferences opened at Paris with the Envoys of the United States are at present suspended; and there is little hope of their being successfully resumed for some time. It appears that the powers vested in the Envoys are too limited to enable them to conclude a treaty which shall give the same advantages to the Republic as those granted to the English by the treaty made with Mr. Jay. France chooses rather to decline treating with the United States, than to sanction the privilege which they have accorded to her enemy.
The question in dispute will appear from the following particulars.
The United States and England, by the 25th article of their treaty, mutually stipulate a free entrance into their respective ports, with complete protection to the privateers and ships of war of the two countries, and the prizes taken from their enemies. And they engage never to conclude a treaty extending the same favor to any nation at war with either of the contracting parties. The treaty of 1778, between France and the United States having been annulled by the latter and now regarded as if it never had existed, they conceive that they cannot give the same privileges to France without violating their treaty with England. The French Republic does not seem disposed to ratify, to her own prejudice, and in favour of the English, her enemies and rivals, a proceeding so unexpected on the part of the Americans, with whom she recently made a common cause against those very enemies, directed to the same object for which France herself is now at war—the attainment of liberty and independence.
It is unfortunate that the United States so precipitately annulled the treaty of 1778.—They themselves, now repeat that they were induced to take that step, as it deprives them of the power of giving to France or any other country the same advantages which they have conferred on the English. Their diplomatic agents must have been very short sighted, or very partial to the interests of England—or their Envoys must give a wrong interpretation to their instructions, and the treaty alluded to; since it appears that France, renouncing the claims she may have from the priority of the treaty of 1778, now offers to treat without demanding any other advantages than those enjoyed by the English, and which they have exercised during the present war; and the Ambassadors must come with a very bad grace to negotiate a peace, if they are not vested with power to accede to these conditions.
The negotiation was opened on the part of the French Commissioners, on the supposition that the treaty of 1778 was still in force. It was, indeed, natural to suppose that, the two nations never having been in a state of war with each other, this treaty could not have been annulled without the consent of both countries; and in this point of view it was that the French Commissioners offered an indemnification to the Americans, by admitting the principle of compensation for illegal captures.
They even proceeded further: instead of demanding from the Americans, the indefinite guarantee of the French colonies, the article of the treaty which was most disadvantageous to the former, they agreed to the substitution of a special guarantee, such as appears to be contained in the instructions of the preceding Ambassadors, according to the copy of them published by Congress. But the American Envoys were not authorized to renew this treaty, even after retrenching the article respecting the guarantee of the French islands. France, therefore, conceived herself exempted from the obligation of compensating for the captures; the Americans themselves having, by abrogating the treaty, destroyed the basis on which only their claims could have been founded.
It thus appears that the negotiation turned chiefly on three points:
1. The continuance in force, or the modified renewal of the treaty of 1778. France waived this point in consequence of the assurances of the American Envoys that they could not renew it.
2. The principle of compensation for illegal captures.—This point France offered to admit;
but on condition only that the treaty of 1788 should be renewed, with the modification stated in the instructions given by Washington.
3. The 25th article of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, relative to the protection granted to the armed vessels of that nation. France will most probably insist upon enjoying the same advantage as long as it is possessed to her injury by her enemies.
There is another principle which France is very anxious to establish; and on the adoption of which she has strongly insisted; a principle which it is still more the interest and policy of the Americans to carry into execution. But the treaty of 1793 with the English prevents them from acceding to this system, namely, that neutral bottoms shall constitute neutral property. France however hopes to induce the powers of the North to establish this system, to be excluded from the benefit of which would be highly injurious to the Americans.
It appears, however, that these diplomatic conferences, have been conducted in the most amicable manner, and so as to leave only an impression of regret that it was impossible to remove the difficulties which had occurred.—The American Ambassadors, during their residence at Paris, have been treated with every possible mark of respect, and enjoyed all the distinctions conferred on the Ministers of our allies. As it is at present, the principle and system of France to respect and protect the law of nations and the rights of neutrality it is to be hoped that the frank and equitable conduct which she holds, with regard to neutral states, will soon remove the differences which have occurred between her and the United States; and that even should the present negotiation not terminate in a treaty, the American flag shall, notwithstanding, continue to be respected, and their vessels treated as those of a friendly nation in our Courts of Law.
Our are lifted to the privateers to respect all neutral flags, among which the American is undoubtedly the most numerous; and American vessels are daily released by the Courts, with damages against the owners of the privateers. There are now about fifty causes before the Councils of Prizes respecting vessels taken in the European seas, and those of the vessels which really belong to Americans will assuredly be restored. The fate of such, however, as were furnished with letters of marque, does not appear to be yet determined. It is thought that they cannot be given up without sanctioning the conduct of the Americans in arming them unless the restitution should result from a new treaty of amity.
The preceding particulars, though not official, have been communicated by the most respectable authority.
BURLEIGH.—No. XI.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
IN attempting to sketch the blessings you enjoy, under the benign effects of our Federal Constitution, I owe my feelings rise to a degree of enthusiasm, which almost forbids utterance. At the same time, I acknowledge, that my heart yearns over the theme with extreme solicitude. It is a subject on which I love to dwell, tho' the pleasure is mingled with strong fears that the felicity is transitory. The prosperity and happiness of this country rise to my view like fairy scene, which appear to the eye of fancy only to dazzle, to allouish, and then to vanish away.
Were it in my power to ask every honest, industrious, unambitious individual in the United States, this question, Are you oppressed by Government? I am sure the answer would be, No. Nay, could I pursue the subject and inquire—Are you not protected from injury, secure in your person, and property, flourishing in your business, and happy in the enjoyment of civil and religious freedom? the answer, would be, Yes. And I might be permitted to inquire of those who are discontented, and are murmuring, whether they ever became so until some artful, designing democrat put the idea into their heads? I am confident they would say they did not.
We are perpetually informed by the Jacobins, that the federal party are endeavouring to introduce a monarchy into this country. Let me ask, what are the symptoms, or the proof?—President Washington, when he was at the head of our government, used to live very much like a common man, except certain ceremonies about seeing company. He kept no body guard, he travelled with very few attendants, he was sociable, hospitable and benevolent; and when his presidency expired, went back to Mount Vernon, to submit to all the tyrannical laws, which his administration had brought on the country. It seems to me, it would take a man at least Methuselah's age to establish a monarchy in this way. I have never heard that President Adams approaches any nearer in his style of living, his manner of travelling, or in any other respect, to a king, than General Washington did. And when the period of his Presidency expires, unless re-elected, he most also depart to Quincy, as General Washington did to Mount Vernon, and submit to all the

tyrannical laws which have been passed under his administration.
My countrymen, so long as the federal constitution is supported, can any of you see any mode in which President Adams can make himself a king? I say himself; because it can hardly be supposed, that he is so anxious to have a king, as that he is willing somebody else should be the king, rather than not have any. Do any of the gentlemen, whom you send every two years to Congress, begin to put on any kingly airs? Are they not as affable, as neighborly, as honest, as meek, as they were before they went? Do they not from time to time resign, and decline elections? Are they not occasionally neglected, and others chosen in their room? If there should be a king, will they not suffer as much from tyranny, as the rest of us? How are they to go to work to make a king?
In short, have you not the inestimable privilege of choosing your own rulers, do you not exercise this privilege with great caution? Do the Federalists discover more anxiety to procure appointments, than the Democrats? Are not the Democrats who make the most noise about kings, aristocracy, taxes, salaries, &c. invariably striving with all their might to get into Congress, or some other place of power and profit; and are their characters, as men, more virtuous, modest, or upright, than those whom they stigmatize?
What an invaluable enjoyment it is, that we can not only choose our rulers but, that we have the privilege of changing them at pleasure? That all the places of honor, profit, and power, in the government, are open to us, and our children? That the burthens of the government are borne by all, in proportion to their property? That we cannot be forced from our homes, our families, and our farms, to obey the sovereign pleasure of a king, or the conscript of a directory, or a chief consul?
Look, my countrymen, over the face of our happy nation, and see our towns flourishing, our ships multiplying, our territory populating, our markets thronged, our schools filled with our children, our churches opened for the solemn worship of God—while religious tests are expressly prohibited by the constitution, and every man is at liberty to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience. No “requisitions” part us from all that is dear to our hearts; no despotic mandate of a king, or a consul, unfurls the bloody banner, and bids our sons throng thousands to the field of battle. The storm of war rolls at a distance, and the earthquake of contending nations reaches not to our shores. A fruitful soil repays the labor of the husbandman; a healthful climate secures happiness to its inhabitants. Laws enacted by ourselves, extend protection to all, both high and low, rich and poor; morality is still esteemed; religion venerated and wickedness abhorred.
Where shall we look for a parallel? Where shall we search for happiness below the sun, if we find it not here? Are you prepared to part with this elysian scene; to exchange it for the delusive, the fatal phantom of “liberty and equality”? Before this resolution is finally taken, let me call your attention to realities which will attend the confusion, in which your rights are to revive or expire? Accompany me in the survey, trace the bloody scene with a severe eye, mark its horrors, brood over its calamities, and then choose for yourselves—whether you will cleave fast to the government of your choice, the religion of your fathers; or will enter on board in the crazy barque of Jacobinism, to be wrecked in the tempestuous sea of French liberty.
* Since the last session of Congress, Mr. Gordon of New Hampshire, Mr. Sedgwick, and Mr. Lyman, of Massachusetts, Mr. Champlin, of Rhode Island, Mr. Goodrich, and Mr. Brace, of Connecticut, Mr. Lawrence, of New York, Mr. Kittera of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Harper, of South Carolina, have either resigned their seats, or declined re-elections to Congress. These gentlemen are all of the federal party, have been the uniform supporters of the Administration, both of President Washington, and President Adams. Some of them have been considered as among the leaders of the federal party. If there was a plan on foot to introduce Monarchy, these persons would probably be among the abettors of it. In that case we should hardly expect to find them retreating to private life, when a despotism is preparing to fasten upon them and their friends, when, by slaying a little longer, they might perhaps become Earls and Dukes. Beside, if the wages of Congress are so monstrously high as the Democrats pretend, that the members are all growing rich, how happens it that these Federalists are so unwilling to go to Congress?
DREADFUL CONFLAGRATION.
VIENNA, JULY 19.—An express is just arrived at the Aulic Chancery from Presburg, with intelligence that the capital of the kingdom of Hungary has been in flames since yesterday. Last night the conflagration was seen from the tower of the great church of St. Stephen, in this place. It began in the house of an artisan, and extended itself with such fury, that a great part of the city was reduced to ashes, at the departure of the courier. Several churches, a convent, the barracks, several other edifices, palaces or hotels of the great, and more than an hundred other houses, are comprehended in the destruction; also the great square, which borders upon the Danube, and was ornamented with the most magnificent edifices; some of these were covered with sheet copper, which melting prevented the necessary assistance of the firemen. The loss will prove incalculable.
It was a remarkable incident, that at the time Kotzebue was imprisoned in Peterburgh, a new edition of his works was advertised in Vienna, elegantly bound in Russia.
Latest from Europe.
LONDON, AUGUST 27.
YESTERDAY dispatches were received from our minister at Vienna, dated the 15th. Moreau had then given no notice of the recommencement of hostilities, and we have other reasons to believe that Duroc possesses a secret latitude of power, and that there is room for another ultimatum from Bonaparte. There is reason to believe that the answer of our Cabinet to the communication of the Emperor, on receiving the first overtures from the Chief Consul, was not unfavorable to a general peace. The Emperor replied to these overtures, by stating his engagements with Great Britain, and his readiness to treat in concert with that power. The determination of our Court transmitted to Vienna, was thence forwarded to Paris, from whence the resolution of Bonaparte was again transmitted to Vienna. It is the result of its acceptance at the Thuilleries, of which the dispatches of yesterday informed administration. And it is reported, that a more direct intercourse has taken place between this country and France, in consequence of the Austrian minister's having imparted to the latter the readiness of England to treat for a general peace.
The French journals, to the 24th, are silent on the subject of the negotiations. Their funds again fell on the 23d.
LONDON AUG. 23.
A Hamburg Mail, and a Lisbon Mail arrived this morning: both of them being intelligence of importance.
The Letters by the Lisbon mail inform us that great agitation prevails throughout Portugal, in consequence of intelligence received from the Court of Madrid. The Chief Consul is said to have demanded from the Portuguese government, as the price of peace, the payment to France of 10 millions of crowns, about 1,250,000l. sterling; the opening of the ports of Portugal to the French; and the admission of the French to the same privileges as are enjoyed by the most favoured nations.
An answer is to be given to these proposals in sixty days. Should they be rejected, the Chief Consul threatens immediately to invade Portugal with an army of 60,000 men.
Immediately upon the receipt of this intelligence, government ordered all persons capable of bearing arms to be pressed, and the frontiers to be put in a state of defence. The packet was detained in order to carry dispatches to this country. No answer is to be returned to the Chief Consul till an answer has been received from our government. Buonaparte concludes his demand by saying, “You know me well enough to be sure that I never say any thing I do not perform.”
The Letters by the Lisbon Mail mention, that there have been some disturbances in Spain, excited by a Monk.
The Hamburg Mail brings an account of the arrival of Lord Whitworth and Mr. Drummond, at Elsinour, on the 10th. No doubt is entertained here that every misunderstanding on account of the capture of the Danish vessels will soon be adjusted in an amicable manner.
The Chief Consul has applied to the Pope for leave to march an army through the Papal territories against Naples. He has also expressed a desire, which the Pope has announced to the College of Cardinals, to restore the Catholic Religion in France, and to recall the exiled Bishops.
A Vienna article, Aug. 6, says “An English courier who has passed through this city from Constantinople on his way to London, has brought there a report, that the French General Kleber has been stabbed in Egypt, by an Arab Officer; or, according to others, by a Mameluke. The news however appears to want confirmation.
The Hamburg Mail has brought an account from Tonningen, a Danish sea-port on the Northern frontier of Holstein, of the seizure by an English ship at the mouth of the Elbe, of a vessel laden with malt, from Stralsund to Bremen; a Swedish galliot from Gottenburg to Hamburg; and a Danish brig. The English ship failed with the above vessels for England.
The French lately took a ship in the Mediterranean, but finding it belonged to the Pope, they released it, saying they had orders to respect the Pontifical flag.
LONDON AUG. 20.
A statement of the naval strength of the Northern Powers has found its way into several Morning Papers, which is not only a gross exaggeration of their respective Navies, but seems designed to excite alarm during the pending Negotiation of Lord Whitworth. The article states the following to be the force belonging to the Powers of the North:—
“The Russians have in the Baltic but 53 ships of the line; the rest, amounting to 67 more, are in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
“Of these 10 are at Cronstadt, the rest near Copenhagen and the Cattigat.
“The frigates and sloops, &c. of the Russian Navy, are stated at 160.
“The Danes have ready 37 ships of the line, 7 of which are three deckers; 8 are of 50 guns, and 12 of 70. The Danish frigates are about 33.
The Swedes have 31 sail of the line, and frigates, sloops, &c.
The Prussians have a great many armed vessels at Dantzic, Elbing, Stettin, &c. but there is no exact balance of them yet.”
It appears from this pretended statement, that the Russian Navy alone is superior in the number of ships of the line to that of Great Britain, as it is represented to consist of one hundred and twenty, while the monthly statement of our naval force, corrected to August, does not give more than a total of one hundred and thirty-eight in commission, from which are to be deducted, five guard ships, and twenty-seven hospital and prison ships. After this deduction, we shall have a disposeable force of the line, consisting of but one hundred and six sail, and consequently less than that of Russia by fourteen ships. The absurdity of such an inference, from such premises is too obvious to require a comment.
We are not exactly informed of the naval forces of all the Northern Powers; but it may guide the public judgement in respect to the gross exaggeration of the statement above given, when we mention, that the Swedes have only four frigates in commission, and these it is found difficult to keep in pay.
LONDON, AUG. 25.
According to the new regulations in the French marine department, the number of naval officers of different ranks is settled in the following manner:—
 Vice Admirals 8  Rear Admirals 16  Post Captains 150  Masters and Commanders 180  First Lieutenants 400  Sub Lieutenants 600  Total 1354 
The following is the line of promotion in the French Navy, as established by the last regulations:—
Promotion shall take place by seniority, or by appointment, in the following proportion:—
The superior officers (admirals) shall be appointed one fourth by seniority, and three fourths by the choice of the Chief Consul.
Captains of frigates, one half by seniority, one half by choice.
Lieutenants three fourths by seniority, one fourth by choice.
No person can be promoted a step without being two years in the preceding one.
No Midshipman to be appointed without being four years in naval employment; or two years entirely in active service by sea.
Distinguished actions are not subject to these conditions, &c.
The following is the total number of Officers in the British Navy.
 Admirals 125  Captains 525  Commanders 406  Lieutenants 2061  Total 3117 
AUG. 21.
The Paris papers inform, that a complete Revolution in Switzerland has again taken place. The former Councils have been abolished, and a new Executive Government has been appointed. Whether this government is to consist of one Consul, invested with supreme power, and two others invested with no power at all, and whether the Representative government of the Swiss is to be purified as in France, by a filtration upward, are secrets which we are at present forbidden to know; when known, perhaps they will not be very well understood.
The letters from Germany, (in the same papers) say, that a Congress, will be held about the 26th inst. at Augsburg, for the purpose of negotiation. Other letters say, that the Congress is to be held at Carlsbad; and that Gen. Bouronneville is immediately to repair to that place, in order to join in the conferences.
Letters from Prussia say, that negotiations are carried on rapidly at Paris, Vienna, and Berlin. The King of Prussia, in concert with Denmark, Sweden, Spain, and perhaps with Russia, labours to effectuate the peace of Europe, or at least of the Continent, and to organize an armed neutrality, if the war between France and England is to continue. Couriers arrive every day from Paris, Vienna, and Petersburg.
Preliminaries of peace have been signed between the French Republic and the Dey of Algiers.
AUG. 27.
The funds had yesterday afternoon a considerable start, in consequence of the rumour of new overtures from France.
The army of “vast projects” at Amiens, has been ordered to be increased to 60,000.
A new treaty of alliance has been concluded between the courts of Berlin and Petersburg.
Moreau has been sent for to Paris.
RUSSIAN ARMIES.
PARIS, AUG. 19.
Accounts from the North of Germany state, that the Russians are approaching more and more towards the Austrian frontiers. The army which is now at Brezeck and on the banks of the Vistula consists of four grand divisions, 20,000 each, one third cavalry, under four Generals, and Prince Panceration the Commander in Chief. A second army is forming in Lithuania and on the shores of the Baltic. It is certain that the best understanding prevails between the two Imperial Courts, and that Russia takes the most lively interest in the
conclusion of the war, and in the future destiny of the empire.
VIENNA, AUG. 6.
The 3d of this month was fixed for the ratification of the convention concluded with England, June 20. Whether it was ratified or not is a question. The British subsidy is nothing to the annual war expences, which have amounted to above 60,000,000 florins.
HAMBURG, AUG. 12.
The Court of Petersburg is very much dissatisfied with the conduct of the French in the Duchy of Wirttemberg. Prussia is not favorably disposed toward the French as formerly. In fact they appear determined to resist the pampered ambition of France.
PARIS, AUG. 17.
Citizen Duroc returned from Vienna yesterday morning and immediately called upon the First Consul.
HAMBURG, AUG. 15.
Every ship passing Altona is now boarded by a Danish officer. Two days ago an English ship was hailed, and returning an insolent answer, the mate and another person was taken out, and flogged so severely, that the mate's life is despaired of. The merchants at Altona have voluntarily embargoed their vessels, till the present dispute with England is adjusted.
The French Minister Burgoing was proceeding to Copenhagen to counteract the British Negotiations.
AUGSBURGH, AUG. 8.
Six waggons laden with money and articles of contribution furnished by Bavaria and Suabia, left this place to day, on their way to France. In eight days the question of peace will be brought, be decided at Vienna, as Bonaparte is stated to have declared his determination not to admit of any further delay.
BOSTON, OCT. 1.
Important—if true.
We have a report from New York, of the capture of Carracoa, by a French force from Guadalupe, after a bloody conflict; that the U.S. brig Pickering was there, and assisted in defending the place, as did the Americans on shore; and that after the conquest every American was massacred. This news appears to have been brought from Martinique; which is several degrees to windward of Carracoa; and therefore not likely to furnish the latest information respecting the Dutch island. We give no credit to the report.
LATER.
From a New York paper, Sept. 29.
The information relative to the massacre of the Americans at Carracoa by the French, as stated in a morning paper of Saturday, was received by the British Schooner Alexander, captain Hastings. We have endeavored to sift the business, which is stated in these words by captain H.
“On the 2d. September, a French privateer failed from Guadalupe, and captured an American vessel, on board of which she put a prize master and crew, and ordered her for that port. She was afterwards recaptured by the British sloop of war Tamar, and sent for Port Royal, Martinique, where she arrived on the 6th. On board of this vessel (then in possession of the French prize master) were found some French newspapers printed in Guadalupe, which stated that the expedition which had failed from that port against Carracoa, had succeeded, and that the Americans who assisted the Dutch were all massacred. This the French prize master on examination before the authority, attested to as matter of fact.”
A French prize acquitted in the District Court of Connecticut, has been condemned in the Circuit Court.
The United States Schooner Experiment has captured a French letter of marque Schooner of 6 guns and 40 men, after an action of 80 minutes. She was from Guadalupe.
The ship Connecticut has taken a French lugger.
Regulations have been lately made at Bittovia, which oblige all vessels to take certain quantities of sugar.
There have been about twenty executions already in Virginia, in consequence of the late negro insurrection.
Detachments of Militia are ordered out in Virginia, as a precautionary measure.
Extract of a letter from Dr. Lettsom, of London, to a friend in this town, dated August 20.
“The greatest revolution of the present day in our department is the inoculation of the Cow-Pox; which spreads rapidly throughout Europe. We have had about 16,000 successful cases, without any fatality; and in 3000 trials, where the common Small-Pox has been applied after the vaccine inoculation, not one has taken the disease; so that the character of the Cow-Pox, is so firmly established here, as must soon annihilate the old inoculation. It seems a glorious reflection, on the preservation of human victims; perhaps in London alone 2000 die annually of the Small Pox. Imagine how many must be saved to the community in half a century, if we calculate these annually, and the successive generations resulting from them. Sufficient to remedy the carnage entailed upon mankind by the lust, ambition and folly of war.”

COMMUNICATION.
An attentive perusal of the French view of our negotiations at Paris, is seriously recommended to every American citizen. This new attempt to avail themselves of their former crimes and outrages in order to withhold reparation from an insulted and injured nation, is not without precedent in the practice of French rulers. The free cantons of Switzerland have experienced the sad effects of the wicked efforts of France to influence their policy to French purposes by insidious professions of friendship and attachment. The present endeavors of France to render obnoxious our National Government for formally annulling between us and them the treaties which their outrageous rapacity had long before virtually abrogated; their present aim by subterfuge, procraftinations and idle professions of amity, to influence the election of our National Executive, and to introduce to the Presidential chair the CORRESPONDENT OF MAZZEI, cannot but excite the virtuous indignation of every friend to his country.
Portland,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1800.
The Foreign Intelligence in this day's paper was received by the Galen, arrived at Boston, in 30 days from London. The accounts are many days later than before published; but not of the very first importance. They will, however, be read with considerable interest.
The French statement of The Negotiation, published in the first page of this paper, affords another proof of French diplomatic skill. It is written with true French art; but it is presumed their false reasoning and subterfuge can no longer deceive the people of this country.
INSURRECTION OF THE BLACKS.
A letter from Charleston, South Carolina, Sept. 13, states, that the Blacks in the interior have risen and killed several of the whites. All the troops of horse are ordered out; a penalty of 151. is assessed on each individual who disobeys the order. Serious occurrences are expected before order is restored.
Verbal information mentions that the reports at Charleston of the strength of the insurgents, were various—some that there were only seven or eight hundred—others that there was as many thousand. They were embodied about 30 miles from the city.
Thomas Hartley, Esq. one of the Pennsylvania Representatives to Congress declines a re-election.
THE FEVER.
At Charleston, S. C. has become considerably alarming, especially among the northern people. At Baltimore, it continues with unabating violence. Deaths, Sept. 25, thirty-one. At Norfolk, it has considerably abated. At Providence, it has nearly ceased. At Cadiz (Spain) the Yellow Fever is very mortal. From 80 to 100 persons die daily.
It is mentioned in private letters from Paris, that great changes are in agitation amongst the Ministers of the Chief Consul. The object appears principally to be the dismissal of those who belonged to the old Jacobin party.
Having mentioned in our paper of yesterday the possibility of our forces being employed in the attack of Cronenburgh, we insert the following notice of that fortress. Cronenburgh is a considerable Castle of the Danish Island of Zealand, in the Passage of the Sound. FREDERIC II. King of Denmark, constructed it in 1577, and fortified it strongly. It is fifteen miles from Copenhagen, near the Town of Elsinour, and is the best defence of the Country, whether against those who would attack it on the side of the Ocean or within the Baltic sea. It is here that the Duties of the Sound are levied for the King of Denmark. It has been taken by the Swedes more than once.
London paper.
"In a late trial for Crim. Con. Addison vs. Campbell, the servant, who peeped through a hole in the wainscot, and detected the infidelity of the Plaintiff's wife, has been denominated Addison's Spectator. A witty observation that the title would have been appropriate enough, if he had not afterwards proved himself the Tailor."
MARRIED—In this town, by the Rev. Dr. Deane, Mr. RICHARD DERRY, of Salem, to Miss MARTHA COFFIN, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Coffin of this town. On Thursday last, at the Friends' Meeting-house in this town, Mr. ABNER ROGERS to Miss JANE WARREN, daughter of Mr. George Warren.
DIED—In this town, Mr. JONATHAN HASKELL aged 22 years.
Marine Articles.
Port of Portland.
Wednesday, Oct. 1.
Arrived Schooner Patty, of North Yarmouth, capt. William Cutter, 23 days from St. Thomas. Left there, Schooner Dolphin, Brazier, of this port. Sailed with a convoy of 57 sail under the U. S. ship Maryland and brig Eagle. Left the fleet in lat. 27—and in lat. 30, long. 69 30, was boarded by a French privateer from Guadalupe, with 10 guns, 120 men, commanded by capt. Posa. who put on board capt. Cutter 14 men, (6 American and 8 German) and took from him one hhd rum and a barr l of sugar. In lat. 39, long. 70 spoke ship Russel, from Greenock for New York, who had been boarded by the French 14 days before, in company with two other American vessels, which were made prizes, and their crews put on board the Russel, after taking out her cargo. In lat. 33, long. 70, fell in with Sch. Favorite, capt. Strong, of this port, who supplied him with some provisions.—Mr. Owen F. Smith, of Hallowell, was passenger with capt. Strong.
Thursday, Oct. 2.
Arrived brig Jane, capt. Joshua Robinson, 65 days from Liverpool. The ship Madison, of Pepperellboro' was to sail for Boston, Aug. 10.—In lat. 43, 24 N. long. 49, 09 W spoke brig Minerva, capt. Brown, of Boston from London to New York, 22 days out. Sept. 21, lat. 42, 18, long. 61, 56, spoke brig Unity, capt. Orne, of Newburyport, 43 days from St. Ubes, where he left the following vessels the 8th Aug. Ships Pacific, Salter, Portsmouth; Numa, Sidleman, and Franklin, Tucker, of Portland; Minerva, Tolman, Newbedford. Brigs Nancy, Burk, Philadelphia; Neptune, Norfolk; Mary, Hazard, New London, and Frederick, of Portsmouth. Capt. O. failed in company with ship Hamilton, for Baltimore. The ship Orion, Bunker, from St. Ubes for New York, found red at sea on the 18th Aug. in lat. 36, 30, long. 19, 40—the crew taken off by capt. Orne and capt. Atkins in the brig John, of Philadelphia.
Friday, Oct. 3.
Arrived, Schooner Favorite, capt. Strong, from St. Thomas. Sailed with the same convoy with capt. Cutter.
Saturday, Oct. 4.
Arrived, Schooner Isabella, capt. Maxwell, from St. Thomas. Sailed with the convoy.
The ships Caroline, Prince—Two Sisters, Knights—and Merchant, Fitzgerald, of this port, were to sail from Liverpool about 1st Sept.
Last week arrived at Boston, Capt. Richard Motley, in the Swedish brig William, from St. B rtholomews, 25 days—with whom came passenger capt. Thomas Brown, late of the Schooner Aurora of this port, taken and sent into Cayenne. Capt. Brown brought a list of about 15 sail of vessels lately sent in there—The cruisers from Cayenne are, 3 ships, 3 brigs, and 6 Schooners.—The Americans are not considered as prisoners at Cayenne, of course no allowance is given them, nor are they entitled to an exchange; however, for the preservation of their health, and good order in town, they are kept on board a prisonship, with a few soldiers over them, to act in the treble capacity of guards, physicians and sextons.
Boston, Sept. 26. Arrived ship Franklin, Capt Thomas Oxnard 59 days from St. Sebastians. Two days after sailing the Franklin was captured by Guernsey privateer, and all the persons were taken out, except the capt. cook Stewart and boy (the cook and Stewart were negroes) and two prize masters and eight prize privateersmen were put on board. After being six days in this situation, proceeding towards an English port, the captain seized a favorable opportunity, and repossessed himself of his vessel, imprisoned the privateersmen, and resumed his course to the United States. For twenty days the captain was necessitated to be constantly upon deck, and to exert himself to the utmost to manage the ship and keep the prisoners from any chance of rising—which they made perpetual efforts to do. He at length fell in with the ship Apollo, Thurston, from Liverpool to Baltimore, who took out 5 of the privateersmen, and afforded other help. The remaining 5 arrived in the Franklin.
Bowdoin College.
THE TRUSTEES of Bowdoin College are hereby reminded, that their Semi-Annual Meeting is to be held at the house of Mr. JOHN DUNNING, in Brunswick, on the Fifth day of November next, being the first Wednesday of said month, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
John Frothingham, Sec'y.
Portland, Oct 4, 1800.
THE OVERSEERS of Bowdoin College are hereby notified, that their Semi Annual meeting will be held on the first Wednesday of November next, being the fifth day of said month, at ten of the clock, A. M. at the house of Mr. JOHN DUNNING, in Brunswick.
MARK LANGDON HILL, Secretary.
September 1800.
RUN away from the subscriber, on the 24th inst. EDWARD GILMAN, an indentured apprentice. This is to forbid any person trusting or harbouring him, as I shall not be accountable for any debt of his contracting.
EBENEZER WINSLOW.
Falmouth, 8th Mo. 27, 1800.
Wanted—An Apprentice
to the HAIR-DRESSING business.—Good encouragement will be given. Apply to Portland, Sept. 8. MOSES ADAMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, SEPT. 17, 1800.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given,
I. 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 Stamp duties is placed) any quantities of paper, parchment and vellum, marked or stamped, and duly counter-stamped, with the rates of duty which are demandable by law.
II. THAT the power of the Supervisors of the Revenue to mark or stamp any vellum, parchment or paper, chargeable with duty, will cease and determine from and after six months from the date hereof, to wit, on the last day of February 1801.
III. THAT, if any person 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.
IV. AND for the convenience of those persons who may be inclined to have their own vellum, parchment and paper stamped or marked, it is hereby declared, that when any person shall deposit any vellum, parchment or paper at the office of a Supervisor, accompanied with a list, specifying the number and denomination of the stamps or marks which are desired to be thereto affixed, the same will be transmitted to the General Stamp-Office, and there properly marked, 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, to-day and year above-mentioned.
(L. S.) OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
To the Honorable the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now holden at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland, on the third Tuesday of September, Anno Domini 1800.
THE petition, and representation of MARY SMITH the wife of JAMES SMITH of Portland aforesaid, laborer, humbly shews—That her said husband hath for a long time, to wit, for the space of six years last past, absented himself from this Commonwealth, and abandoned his wife and family, without making any provision for their support and maintenance—that your petitioner's industry alone is incompetent to the support of herself and family; and that in order to provide herself with the necessary articles of support, she has been driven to the necessity of contracting debts which she has no means to discharge, having no personal estate except a few articles of household furniture, which are indispensably necessary, and that she can no longer obtain credit for the future support of herself and children.—Your petitioner further shews, that at the time of her marriage with the said James she was and still is seized in her own right of sundry parcels of real estate in said Portland, in fee simple, and also of a parcel of land lying in said Portland between the land of John Kent and the heirs of Edward Watts, of which she is tenant in dower, the same being part of the real estate whereof her former husband John Holliday died seized; from the sale of which, or part of which, she could be enabled to pay the said debts, realize the means of support in future, and thus to be relieved from her present distressed situation. Wherefore your petitioner prays your honors that pursuant to the statute in that case made and provided, she may, during the absence of her said husband, be empowered and enabled to make sale of the whole or part of said real estate for the purposes aforesaid, or that your honors would grant her such other relief as in your wisdom shall be deemed meet, and as the circumstances of her case may require. And as in duty bound shall ever pray.
MARY SMITH, by J. D. HOPKINS, her Attorney.
September Term at Portland, A. D. 1800.
UPON the Petition aforesaid—ORDERED, That the said Mary notify the said James to appear at the next term of this Court to be holden in this county, on the third Tuesday of May next, by publishing an attested copy of this Petition, and Order thereon, in the Portland Gazette, three weeks successively, the last publication to be at least thirty days before the sitting of said Court, that he may then and there appear and shew cause, if any he hath, why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
A true copy. Attest, EDWARD P. HAYMAN, Clerk.
Strayed or Stolen,
FROM Old Sandwich, on the first day of September, inst. a dark chestnut coloured MARE, with a star in her forehead—fourteen hands high, 4 years old this fall, trots and paces.—Whoever will return said Mare to the subscriber, or leave her where he may receive her, shall be entitled to FIVE DOLLARS, and all necessary charges.
Thomas Bayley. Durham, Sept. 19.
CAME into the inclosure of the subscriber, on Friday the 22d inst. a black HORSE, with a star in his forehead, about fifteen hands high. The owner may have him again by proving property and paying charges. Apply to the subscriber. NATHANIEL HODGKINS. Falmouth, August 29, 1800.
A BARGAIN.
TO be sold, by order of Court, on Thursday the Sixth day of November next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, on the premises, the Real Estate of Thomas Goold, late of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, consisting of One Hundred acres of LAND, with the BUILDINGS thereon. Rbyal Lincoln, administrator. Falmouth, Oct. 4. 1800.
DISTRICT OF MAINE.
BY virtue of a Writ of venditioni exponas, from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maine, will be exposed to Sale, at a place called Clay-Cove, in the town of Portland, on Wednesday the Fifteenth day of October next, at Twelve o'Clock, Noon, the FISHING BOAT or SCHOONER called the JACK, with her tackle, apparel, furniture and appurtenances—which Schooner, &c. have been decreed by the aforesaid Court to be forfeited for a breach of the Revenue Laws of the United States.
Conditions of Sale to be made known at the time and place of sale, or before, at the Office of the subscriber.
Isaac Parker, Marshal of Dist. Ct. of Maine. Portland, 27th Sept. 1800.
WORTHY OF ATTENTION!
Adventurers have still a chance for a Prize of 2000 Dollars!
Also, one of 600—one of 500—and thirty of 100 dollars, in the 4th class of the Amoskeag Lottery, by applying soon at Jenks' Book store, where a few Tickets in said Lottery are for sale. Price Four Dollars.—The drawing to commence twenty first of October.—Prizes paid at said Bookstore, without deduction. Sept. 29.
THE subscribers having mutually agreed to dissolve the copartnership under the firm of
WEEKS AND TUCKER, on the first day of January next, they request all persons who are indebted to, or have claims upon them, to call at their Counting-Room for settlement prior to that time.
Lemuel Weeks, Daniel Tucker. Portland, Sept. 29, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the articles of copartnership between the subscriber and EPES SAVILLE, expired on the twenty-ninth day of July last, on which day the said copartnership was dissolved. All persons owing said company are hereby called on for payment—and those to whom said company are indebted are requested to exhibit their demands without delay to Lemuel Bradford. Portland, Sept. 25, 1800.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice, that he hath just set up the Clothier's Business,
in Windham, at the Mills commonly called Mabbey's Mills, where he will dress any kind of CLOTH at a reasonable rate. Any persons who will favor him with their custom may depend on particular attention being paid. Nathan Pope. Windham, 24th 9th mo. 1800.
THE Subscribers, being by the Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, appointed Commissioners to examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of
Benjamin Carr,
late of Bath, in said county, yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months from the 29th day of July last being allowed for the said creditors to bring in their claims and prove their debts, give notice that they will attend the business of the said appointment at the office of Josiah Stebbins, in New Milford, on the first Mondays of the four months next following the date hereof, from two to six o'clock P. M. on each of the said days.
JOSIAH STEBBINS, } Commissioners. PITT DILLINGHAM, } Joners. New Milford, Sept. 19, 1800.
TAKEN from Titcomb's Wharf, on Saturday night, the 6th inst., A new 15 feet YAWL,
her white painted black and yellow, red inside, with light blue paneled quarters.
Whoever will give information of said Yawl, so that the owner may recover her, shall be handsomely rewarded. Apply to the Gazette-Office. Sept. 19.
COMMERCIAL INFORMATION.
TAKE NOTICE.
WHEREAS several recent instances having lately occurred of vessels going to the Havanna, and other ports in the island of Cuba, without their papers being first certified to by the Consul of his Catholic Majesty, agreeable to Notification published in the different papers of the United States, by order of Don Joseph Ignacio de Vier, his Catholic Majesty's Consul-General, residing in Philadelphia; and that much to the prejudice and injury of some individuals, by a detention of property in not being admitted to an entry, until duplicates of their invoices are again forwarded with their necessary certifications thereto annexed, accompanied by bills of health, also duly certified.
Documents to that purpose having been already exhibited and executed in said Consular Office for the Eastern States, with this knowledge and the information received of the penalty liable to be paid in transgression of said order, his Catholic Majesty's Consul residing in Boston, has thought proper to make this more publicly known by the foregoing advertisement. JUAN STOUGHTON. Consul for the Eastern States. Boston, Sept. 2, 1800.

MUSES.
From the Farmers' Museum.
From the Parnassian Shop of Peter Quince, Esq.
To DELIA.
Amata relinquere dum est. VIRG.
Things must be loved 'tis hard to leave;
Or why does Peter grin and grieve? PETER.
DELIA, I love you, and you jade, you know it, Oft have my words declar'd the foul's fond passion; Oft do my doting eyes ecstatic show it— But, then, to coquette, Mils, is all the fashion; E'en tho' thy true love Peter, like fam'd Aëna's brow, Scorch'd to the bones within, turns pale as snow.
The pleasure with you girls appears immense, To keep fond faithful lovers in suspense; E'en tho' their souls, like wick of lighted candle, Kindl'd by love, should burn life's juices to the socket— Yet, unconcern'd, with beaus and fops you dandle; Gaze at the flame, but only gaze to mock it.
Shame on vile FRU'RY, curse on AFFECTION! Both bastard passions, born of pride and wealth; Training like devils in each Christian nation, And robbing thousands of their ease and health, Forever giving WILL the lie; and masking, By flat refusals, things we should be asking.
Miss mustn't for the world look fond, not she— E'en tho' her heart should beat her breast to pieces, And thrilling rapture ev'ry fibre seizes; While her fond swain pours forth his love-lorn plaint, With all the pious fervour of a saint— Because, forsooth, 'tis not PROPRIETE.
Now, Delia, with your native frankness say— Have you not often long'd to hug meek Peter? And, rapt rous hanging round each manly feature, Shoot from thine eyes the foul devolving ray; When prim and silent thou has kept thy chair, Casting upon thy love a vacant stare?
Yes, yes, you have—dear, sweet, dissembling jade; I know it, For Bet, the buxom chambermaid, So tells the poet.
She says she's heard you moan and sigh, And, in your sleep with moisten'd eye, Oft call on Peter, thus—'My love, I own Some very foolish airs of late I've shown; But then 'twas all against my poor heart's will; 'Twas only in compliance with my lesson; And now I make an open, frank confession— Peter's my love, the first, dear object of my heart; And tho' for worlds would I with Peter part, O! do not by neglect thy Delia kill!'
And then, as if I listen'd with disdain; You hug'd the pillow with pathetic clasp, Saying—'Not death shall tear me from this grasp! Till thou hast eas'd my soul distracting pain, By one kind smile of love, such as in former days, Ebet through my heart with heavenly healing rays.'
Conscious of not deserving smiles, For cold neglect, and hypocritic wiles; And also fearing Peter was a cheat, And felt not Cupid's flame. How did you beg, and sob, and beat Your snowy breast; Fright'ning the graces from their seat, And, eke, the little loves, that nestl'd there; Calling most piteous on my name— 'Forgive me, Peter, or I court despair!'
DELIA, dear maid, those wiles are all forgiven; And shouldst thou treat me ten times worse, Peter will never make a fuss— While hope but lights the with'd for haven.
Then why not with an open, honest heart; In face of day, Thus candid say, 'Peter, my love I own thy passion, And would not with thee, for the Indies part, Therefore adieu, RESERVE—vile crape of fashion' PETER QUINCE.
Amoskeag Canal Lottery.
THE Managers of the Amoskeag Canal Lottery, having drawn the First, Second and Third Classes, agreeably to their engagement—present the public with the following
SCHEME table with 2 columns: Prize Amount, Number of Shares. Includes 1st prize of 2000, 2nd of 500, 3rd of 100, etc.
2000 Prizes: Amount of prizes, 20895 4000 Blanks. Deduction for the Lottery, 3105 6000 Tickets, at 4 dollars each, is 24000 The prize of 500 dollars abovementioned, will be assigned to the last drawn blank. The drawing of this Class will positively commence on the twenty-first day of October next, at Boston, and continue from day to day (Sundays excepted) until it shall be completed.—The prizes will be paid by the vendors of the tickets, without deduction.—Those of 20 dollars and under, on demand; and all others, in thirty days after the list shall be published. The shares in the canal, mills, &c. will be conveyed by the proprietor, and finished without any expense to the holder of the prize. And all prizes not demanded within six months from the publishing the list, will be deemed as generously given to the proprietor of the lottery.
EPHRAIM ROBINSON, } Managers. SAMUEL TINNEY, } NATHANIEL PARKER, } EXETER, New Hampshire, August 5, 1800.
Moses Davis,
BEGS leave to inform the public, that he has taken a shop in Main-street, next to Mr. Motley's Tavern, Portland, where he intends to carry on the CHAISE MAKING BUSINESS, if encouragement is given. For sale, as above, a new CHAISE. August 25.
A New Line STAGE,
HAS begun to run from Portland through Berwick and Dover to Portsmouth. The Subscriber, one of the Proprietors, informs the public, that said STAGE will set off from Mr. PAINE's, in Portland, every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, at an early hour, and arrive at Portsmouth on the evenings of the same days;—and will leave Portsmouth on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and FRIDAYS, and arrive at Mr. PAINE's, in Portland, on the evenings of those days.
The Public will please to notice, that this Stage will leave Portland, and arrive at Portsmouth, on days different from that which conveys the Mail:—So that by the present arrangement a Stage will pass from Portland to Portsmouth and from Portsmouth to Portland every day in the week, Sundays excepted.
Those who wish for seats will please to apply at Mr. PAINE's, in Portland, where Stage-Books will be kept.—Careful Drivers will be provided, and every necessary accommodation for passengers.
Aaron Chamberlain. Portland, Sept. 23th, 1800.
A variety of Music,
Consisting of the Newest Pieces, may be had at JENKS' BOOK-STORE
Excellent Rhode Island Cheesee,
Just received and for Sale, By WM. FENNELLY,
4000 wt. by the hundred or single Cheesee.
20 kegs genuine Fig Tobacco, A quantity of live Geese Feathers, One trunk white Threads and Tapes, 100 Sraws Tumblers. Portland, Sept. 15.
For Sale,
By Hatch & Dearborn, At their Shop in Fifth-street,
Superfine Black and Navy blue BROADCOTHS, of a superior quality.
The TAILORING BUSINESS is carried on at said Shop as usual—where garments of every description may be had at the shortest notice. Sept. 15. 1800.
B. ADAMS,
SCULPTOR AND STONE-CUTTER, Respectfully acquaints the public,
that he has commenced business, in Federal-Street, near the head of Fifth-Street, where he has an assortment of Connecticut and Quincy SLATE STONES, suitable for hearths, jambs, and mantels—Also, TOMBS-STONES and GRAVE-STONES.—Likewise, a few Italian MARBLE TABLE SLABS. Portland, Sept. 15, 1800.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
YORK, ss.
AT a Court of Common Pleas, begun and held at Waterborough, within and for the county of York, on the fourth Tuesday of August, being the twenty-sixth day of said month, A. D. 1800—
ON the petition of TRISTRAM JORDAN, jun. and DANIEL GRAINGER, trader, both of Pepperellborough in said county, shewing—That they are interested in a certain tract or parcel of Land situated in Pepperellborough aforesaid, adjoining land possessed by Joel Sawyer, John Sawyer, and others, commonly called Goodwin's lot: that said Jordan owns and is seized of two thirds of said lot, and the said Grainger one ninth part of the same, in common with other persons to the petitioners unknown: which proportions they are desirous of holding in severality—and praying that the same may be set off to them to hold in severality.
ORDERED, that said petitioners cause the substance of their said petition and this order thereon, to be inserted in the Portland Newspaper printed by ELIEZER A. JENKS, three weeks successively; the last publication to be thirty days at least prior to the next term of this Court, to be held at Biddeford, within and for said county of York, on the last Tuesday of October next; to the end any person or persons interested therein, may then and there appear, and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said petition should not be granted.
Attest, DANIEL SEWALL, Clerk.
FOR SALE.
(If applied for immediately.) Sixty-two acres of
LAND, with a House and Barn thereon, together with a young orchard, a good well of water, &c.—For further particulars inquire of the Subscriber, living on the premises. The payment will be made easy to the purchaser. DANIEL SMITH. New Gloucester, Sept. 10, 1800.
William Brown,
Offers for Sale, a Handsome Assortment of SUPER-Village Straw, and Norway Bonnets; Satin Beavers; Fur'd Travelling Caps; York Bands, and Limerick Gloves for Ladies.—The above are offered wholesale or retail, at reduced prices.
ALSO, 20 Boxes dipp'd CANDLES, Bbls. N. E. RUM, Doz. 1st proof BRANDY, Few dozen PORTER. Portland, Sept. 1.
ALL persons are hereby forbidden
to harbour, trust, trade with, or employ, on my account, DIMAN PERRY, jun. as I will not be answerable for any obligations he may contract. DIMAN PERRY. August 25, 1800.
GENUINE BILLIOUS PILLS,
PREPARED by SAMUEL LEE, jun. of Windham, Connecticut. Secured to him by Patent, by the President of the United States, dated April 30th, 1796; agreeable to an act of Congress—They are approved of by Physicians, and others, for their singular virtues; and particularly as a sovereign remedy against an overcharge of bile in the stomachs of men, women and children. They remove pains in the head, stomach and bowels—the gripes, and obstructions. They are an excellent help for the gravel, scurvy, cholic, jaundice and dropsy; and a most effectual remedy for colic ventos, and therefore convenient for all travellers by sea and land. They have proved to be very efficacious in preventing the yellow fever. After a debauch by eating or drinking, they restore the loss of appetite, and easily purge the stomach and bowels, without pain or griping. They are very necessary for seamen, as they prevent many of those diseases which they are afflicted with.
The above Pills may be had of JOHN P. WHITWELL, Boston; of SHIRLEY ERVINO, Portland; and of
JAMES CUSHMAN, Topsham; who has constantly for sale, a general assortment of Drugs & Medicines. Topsham, August 16, 1800. (8w—22)
S. Harding,
INFORMS his customers and the public, that he has REMOVED from Fifth-street to Union-street a few doors below Mr. How's Store, where he keeps for sale, as usual, an assortment of
Medicines & Groceries, of the first quality; which may be purchased on reasonable terms. Portland Aug. 18.
War Department.
August 4th, 1800. THE commanding Officers of corps, detachments, posts, garrisons, and recruiting parties, belonging to the military establishment of the United States are to report to, and receive orders from Brigadier General WILKINSON, in the city of Washington, and all officers on furlough are to report themselves to the same officer with all possible dispatch. SAMUEL DEXTER, Secretary of War.
TO BE SOLD BY THE SUBSCRIBER,
Or Let for a number of years, to build on, PRIVILEGES for ten Saws on Saco River, in the town of Standish, in the county of Cumberland, with Land to accommodate the same, or as will best suit the purchaser—Also, a number of Shares in three Saws now under improvement, with a Grt-Mil. It is a very fine place for young men to carry on business in the country—being 18 miles from Portland, 17 from Saco, 20 from Kennebec, and 16 from Dunston, with good roads to either, which makes it a very good country stand.—Also Water and Timber in plenty—Any young Gentleman who wishes to be concerned, will do well to see it himself, as it may be had on reasonable terms. Robert M'Donald. Buxton, August 16.
TO BE SOLD.
A FARM, lying in Parsonsfield, containing one hundred and eighty acres of good Land, good Buildings, and an Orchard of one hundred and fifty trees—being a very delightful situation.—Whoever may wish to be furnished with a pleasant seat in the country, may now have one by applying to MOSES MIGHEL, on the premises. Aug. 18.
THE nonresident proprietors of the following Lots of unimproved Land in the town of Buckstown, and county of Hancock, are hereby notified that the same are taxed in the bills committed to the Subscriber to collect for the year 1799, in the respective sums following, viz.
Table with 4 columns: Range, No. Lots, C. M., Sum. Includes ranges 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.
If no person shall appear to discharge the taxes aforesaid, and all intervening charges, on or before Monday the first day of December next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to much of said Land as will discharge the same will then be sold at Public Auction, at the Store of Mr. ASA PEABODY in Buckstown, according to law. ANSON LANPHER, Collector of Buckstown for 1799. Bucksport, 26th August, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given to the following nonresident proprietors of Land, in Union, county of Lincoln, that their Lands are taxed in the State Town and County taxes, and arrears of High-way taxes, and committed to the subscriber, collector for the year 1799, to collect, viz.
Table with 4 columns: Name, State, County, Highway, Sum. Includes Josiah Reed, Daniel Kirkpatrick, Samuel Donham.
And unless said taxes, with all intervening charges, are paid, on or before Monday the tenth day of November next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, so much of said Lands will then severally be sold at Public Vendue, at the dwelling-house of DAVID GELMAN, inholder in said town, as will be sufficient to pay the same as aforesaid. Nathaniel Robbins, Collector. Union, August 25th, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE.
ALL person indebted to the Estate of JOHN BURNHAM, late of Portland, deceased, are requested to make payment without delay.—All accounts not settled within thirty days, will be lodged with an Attorney for collection. Thomas Burnham, Peter Warren. August 25, 1800.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given,
that the subscribers have been duly appointed joint Administrators on the Estate of SILVANUS PRINCE, late of Northyarmouth, Yeoman, deceased, and given bonds as the law directs.—All persons having demands on said Estate, are desired immediately to exhibit the same for settlement; and those indebted to make payment to Thomas Prince, John Prince, } Administrators. Northyarmouth, August 19, 1800.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given,
that the subscribers have been duly appointed joint Administrators on the Estate of SAMUEL MERRILL, late of Northyarmouth, Esq., deceased, and given bonds as the law directs.—All persons having demands on said Estate, are hereby called upon to exhibit the same for settlement; and those indebted to make immediate payment to Mary Merrill, Moses Merrill, } Administrators. Northyarmouth, August 19, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given,
That a further time of six months from the date hereof, is allowed by the Judge of Probate for the county of York, to the Creditors to the Estate of Joseph Gilpatrick, Esq., late of Limerick, deceased, to bring in their Claims to the subscribers, Commissioners to said Estate; who will attend that business at his late dwelling house, on the first Monday of July, and the first of the five following months, from three to six o'clock, P. M. John Baker, Samuel Bradbury, } Commissioners. Limerick, June 23, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident Proprietors of Land lying in the town of Poland,
in the county of Cumberland, that the following Lots are taxed in the State, County and Town Tax, for the year 1799, in the bills committed to me to collect, as follows:—
Table with 7 columns: No. Lots, No. Acres, Land, County tax, Town tax, Road tax, Delinquent. Includes First Division (Lots 61-14) and Second Division (Lots 104-32).
If no person shall appear to discharge said taxes and all necessary intervening charges, on or before Wednesday the twenty-sixth day of November 1800, at 10 o'clock, A. M. so much of the said Lots of Land as will be sufficient to discharge the same will then be sold at Public Auction to the highest bidder, according to Law, at the house of WENTWORTH RICHER, inholder in said Poland. John T. Merrill, Collector. Poland, August 10, 1800.
SCHOOL BOOKS,
FOR SALE AT JENKS' BOOK-STORE.
The American Preceptor, The Young Gentleman and Ladies' Instructor, Orator's Assistant, Columbian Orator, Webster's Third Part, The Maine Spelling Book, Webster's, & Perry's Spelling Books, Child's Companion, Young Ladies' Accidence, &c.
Also for sale, a handsome assortment of Children's Books.
To be sold at Auction,
On Monday the 15th day of December next, A Certain piece of excellent Wood LAND, containing one hundred and twenty acres (mostly white oak) lying in the town of Biddeford, about three miles from Saco falls.—Said Land will be sold at the house of JOSEPH BEAL, living in said town. The land may be seen any time previous to the day of sale, by applying to the said JOSEPH BEAL.
A few copies of Dr. Emerson's ORATION ON MUSIC,
lately delivered in this town, may be had at Jenks' Bookstore.
STAMPED PAPER,
For Sale at JENKS' BOOK-STORE.
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