Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1800-07-28 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 118]
MONDAY, JULY 28, 1800.
[VOLUME III.]
Politics.
From the Connecticut Courant.
No. 1.
To the People of the United States.
THE season is rapidly approaching, when, by your constitutional agents, you will be called upon to elect a President of the United States. This will be the fourth time this high privilege has been exercised, since the adoption of our Federal Constitution. Twice there was no struggle, for Washington was the candidate! Against him, who could have the hardihood to run the race of honor! At the third election, there was more difficulty. The all united spell of that great name which has scattered all intrigue, and effort, was dissolved, and the country was instantly divided into two parties, the one Federal, the other Democratic or Jacobinical. The contest was severe, but success followed the exertions of the Federalists. The disappointed party, have not desponded by reason of their defeat; but like all those whose object is mischief, they have pursued their plans since the last Presidential election, with ten fold vigour, and ingenuity. Faithful to themselves, and faithful to their cause, those who have no other spirit of union, no cordiality of heart, in any other pursuit, in this great work of destruction, move on with the firmness, the resolution, and the compactness of the celebrated Macedonian phalanx; while the Federalists, thinking or pretending to think, that every thing will go on as it has done from the beginning, sit and fold their hands in a most astonishing security.
To rouse the Federal party from this fatal sleep, and when roused, to stimulate them to counteract the baneful plots of the Jacobins, is the object of this address. That it is a subject worthy of attention, few will deny. If attended to thoroughly, I am perfectly persuaded it will rouse some, at least to exertion. The exertions of some, will do some good; and perhaps, when the spark of patriotic fire shall once rekindle, it may spread from breast to breast, until the friends of government are all animated by its pure and fervent flame.
The Jacobins assert with the utmost confidence, that Mr. Jefferson's election is sure. If I thought so, I should not hesitate to assert with equal confidence, that the destruction of the Federal Constitution is equally sure. I do not, however, believe that his election is sure. I am well convinced, that it may be prevented, if the friends of the government will act with as much union, as much zeal, and as much perseverance, as its enemies act. To induce this union, zeal, and perseverance, I shall proceed to support several propositions, which are of great weight and importance in the question to be decided—viz.
 1. Mr. Jefferson has long felt a spirit of deadly hostility against the Federal Constitution, and in conjunction with his party, has been steadily plotting its destruction.  2. If he should be elected President, the Constitution will inevitable fall a sacrifice to Jacobinism.  3. The result will be dreadful to the people of the United States. 
The consideration of these propositions will necessarily take up some time, as many facts and documents must be examined, and a review of the practices and conduct of the Jeffersonian, (by which I mean the Jacobin party,) must be had, in order to make the proper deductions—Should the subject not grow interesting, before it is closed, the fault will be in the writer. It certainly furnishes materials for a discussion, not only interesting, but if the hearts of my countrymen are not harder than the nether-millstone, full of apprehension, full of terror.
And let it be deeply impressed on every mind, that there is a period of only a little more than four months remaining, in which they can act with any chance of success. In that short period, they must overthrow the labour of years, planned by wisdom, and executed by skill and fidelity—skill and fidelity, exceeded by nothing, but by the wickedness, the dreadful depravity of the actors, or submit to all the evils, which follow a nation, without government, without law, without security, without peace or happiness.
BURLEIGH.
Miscellany.
ANECDOTES OF SAILORS.
From the English Historical Magazine.
THE race of sailors are so truly eccentric, that notwithstanding the numberless anecdotes with which they supply conversation, there are many interesting circumstances relative to their very peculiar character, yet left untold. Like other arts, that of navigation possesses a number of technical terms peculiar to itself. The art forms these into a language, and introduces them without hesitation into all companies, on all occasions—and, generally with brilliant success, as nautical expressions are pointed, humorous, and easily adapted to the situations of common life.
Inured to hardships, to dangers, and to a perpetual change of companions, the seaman
contracts a species of Stoicism, which might raise the envy even of a Diogenes. "Avast there," cried a sailor to his comrade, who was busied in heaving overboard the lower division of a messmate, just cut in halves by a chain shot; "Avast! let us, first see if he has not the key of our mess chest in his pocket!"
As their enjoyments are simple and few, sailors are equally at home at Port Royal, Halifax, Canton, Cape-Coast-Castle, or the Point at Portsmouth.
From the admiral to the cabin boy, their attachment to the fair sex is earnest, lasting, and almost indiscriminate—The wives of seafaring men [in England] are far from being remarkable for beauty or youth, yet few women live happier in the conjugal state, as the heartiness, the sincerity, and the general good humour, (not to mention the frequent absences) of their mates, make ample amends for those small deficiencies, as to delicacy or politesse, which they sometimes might complain of.
Except the momentary joy of receiving his money, a sailor's happiest time is, by no means, that period when he has his pockets well stored. He possesses, indeed, an anxiety to get rid of his cash, which amounts almost to actual distress. "Why do you not return and enter me again, as you promised!" said a captain to a valued seaman. "How can I, captain? I have still money in my pouch, and yet I am never without a girl and a fiddler." "Try two girls and two fiddlers," said the captain. The tar thought the hint a good one, and by adopting it, soon obtained a state of finance which put him in a humour to return to his occupation.
Two of the brightest points in the character of a seaman seem to be, intrepidity, and presence of mind. Without partiality, we may say that it is in the British mariner, particularly, that these qualities are to be observed. In the hour of extreme danger, he does not like the Portuguese, the Italian, or the Russ, either ask assistance from, or denounce vengeance against his patron saint. No, he trusts to his own agility and resolution for safety; and if he impetrates on any head, it is on his own, or that of some lubber who is not as active as himself in the general work of preservation.
Superstition and prophane ness, those extremes of human conduct, are too often found united in the sailor; and the man who dreads the stormy effects of drowning a cat, or of whistling a country dance, while he leans over the gun wale, will, too often, wantonly defy his creator, by the most daring execrations, and the most licentious behaviour. But most assuredly, he is thoughtless of the fault he commits, and (like the poor fellow who spied land, after many days intolerable sufferings of hunger and thirst, in the boat of the shipwrecked Centaur) thinks he is at liberty to express his gratitude, or his distress, by the method which to him appears most apt, and most expressive.
A species of ready wit is often connected with the character of a sailor—and as, whatever he conceives, he always thinks himself at liberty to express, let the company, the place, the time, be what it will, he has, of consequence, vast advantage over the more bashful belle esprit—A couple of sailors, some years ago, went ashore in Charleston, (S. C.) They naturally advanced towards a crowd which had gathered round the celebrated Whistler, who was preaching with infinite vehemence against the sins of his audience. They need just time enough to hear him say, with utmost exertion of voice and gesture, "and I, your pastor, your teacher, shall be forced to bear witness against you at the awful day of judgment." "Hollo, Jack!" cried one of the tars, whom the crowd had divided from his comrade, "don't my eyes, if that is not just as it goes at the Old Bailey—The greatest rogue always turns king's evidence."
But the sailor's character must not be dismissed, without some notice being taken of that fraternal regard which reigns among all, let the outides of some be ever so rugged. No tye of free-masonry, no oath, no bond of society, can unite any denomination of mankind together as sailors are united. It is in the most trying situations of life, that the effects of this union are most seen. If a sea officer dies, leaving a family behind him unprovided for, his sons become the children of his fraternity, and are handed up in life by their father's friends, from one station to another in the service, until they are enabled to provide for themselves—As a proof of this emanation of genuine philanthropy, amongst this gallant race of men, the following circumstance may be properly brought forward. Not many years past, an unknown benefactor, gave 300l. per annum, to be divided among thirty sea officers' widows. In order to appreciate the merit of the competitors, each who applies, brings in a list of her children, and how they are provided for.—And the editor, who has the honour of being one of the distributors of this good donation, has with pleasure remarked, that there is scarcely the name of one male among the numerous offspring of thirty mothers, but what has some provision in the navy, and is, at least, in the right road to an honourable competence.
PRESENCE OF MIND.
A Hottentot, who lived in the service of a Dutch merchant at the Cape of Good Hope,
had been sent by his master with a letter to one of the Colonists, who lived at a distance up the country. On his return, about midway between the place he had been to and Cape Town, he found he was followed by a lion. Now it is a singular fact in the natural history of this animal, that he never attacks his prey, while it is daylight. But he has been frequently known to follow persons, at the distance of a few hundred yards, for many hours, while it was light, and to attack and destroy them, as night came on. When the Hottentot first discovered his danger, it was within a short time of sunset; he knew, therefore, that he could neither return to the Colonist, or arrive at Cape Town before dark. In this perilous situation, with a famished lion gazing on him, and growling with satisfaction at the prospect of a good repast, he had recourse to an expedient, which might do honor to an enlightened being. In passing the chain of mountains, which are not far from Cape Town, he took his clothes, consisting merely of a thin jacket, trowsers and a cap, and stuck them on a walking stick so as to appear like something human: He then let himself a few yards down the edge of the precipice and set the stick with his clothes on it, just above the edge of it; while he remained on a small shelf of the rock. The king of the forest was deceived: for when it was near dark, he sprung eagerly forward on his supposed prey, and was dashed to pieces by his fall down the steep. We need hardly add, that the Hottentot arrived at Cape Town in safety.
THE BRAVE GARRISON.
IN the year 1687, when Austria, Poland and Venice, united in a formidable confederacy against the Turks, the Polish general, entering Modavia, laid siege to the fortress of Namiez. This important place, which had been abandoned by all the inhabitants, was garrisoned by only nineteen Moldavian Cheffeurs, whom accident had brought thither. These brave men raised the draw bridges, shut the gates, and refused to surrender. The Poles, ignorant of the weakness of the garrison, cannonaded the place for four days successively. The Cheffeurs defended themselves courageously, and killed a great number of the besiegers, among whom was the master of the artillery. On the fifth day, having lost ten of their number, this little garrison demanded to capitulate. An honorable capitulation was immediately granted, with liberty to retire where ever they pleased. As soon as the articles were signed, what was the astonishment of the besieging army in beholding six men, who supported on their shoulders three others that were wounded. At this instant all the sentiments of admiration, of shame and indignation, were successively uppermost in the bosom of the Polish general. For some moments he remained thunderstruck. The dictates of honor, however, at length prevailed; and strictly adhering to the capitulation, he dismissed the brave besieged with every mark of military applause.
NATURAL HISTORY.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Connecticut to his friend in Philadelphia.
"You wish to know if there are Locusts here as in Pennsylvania:—there are none. It is true of this wonderful insect, that, whether they are all of one Commonwealth or not there are at least different Provinces or Districts in America. I believe that Hudson's river is a boundary line; and, if my memory serves me, Connecticut river is another. Their periodical return here is once in seventeen years. The first period within my remembrance was in the year 1758. I at that time heard two very aged men, of nice and correct observation, comparing notes upon this subject, who agreed in the dates of four different returns of that insect.—Their appearances, since have been in the years 1775 and 1792."
"Add to this, that the incisions made by Locusts in young twigs, remain and are visible in the hearts of some trees, particularly of the Chesnut, of the largest growth. I have frequently had the curiosity, where the grains of the tree were distinct, to count them; and have ever found them to correspond, in numbers, with those one or other of these periods."
"That this singular creature does not appear under various modifications in the course of the seventeen years, as some suppose, seems probable from this circumstance: That they rise out of the ground under trees which were standing at their former period, at distances equal, and no more than equal, to the extent of the branches; they also rise in cleared fields which had trees or brushwood upon them at the last period; but, in no case where there had been nothing of the kind to receive their seed. They have also been dug up, at a great depth in the earth, two years or more before their resurrection."
NEW MODE OF TRAVELLING FOR LADIES.
[From Campbell's Journey over land to India]
ONE morning I was awakened before day-break with a bustle in the caravan where we lodged. I conjectured that the Tartar was preparing to get forward, and rose in order to lose no time. I was so far right in my conjectures: the horses were ready, and I came out to mount, and was very much surprised to see
several horses before me laded with something which stood erect from their backs and which I had barely light to discern were not men. I concluded they were bales of merchandise packed up in a particular form, and asked no questions till full day light disclosed to me that they were human creatures tied up in sacks, and fastened astride on the horses' backs. There was a strange union of horror and odity in the conception, that struck me at once with a mixed emotion of indignation, pity, and mirth. The former, however, got the better, and I asked my servant with some warmth what it meant.—He said that the sacks contained some young women whom the Tartar bought. "Good God," said I, "is it possible that he can have bought wretched females to treat them with so little tenderness?" "He has bought them," retorted my servant, "in the way of traffic, not for pleasure."
"Suppose he has," said I, "suppose even they were men, not to mention young women, how can he imagine that they will survive this? Tied up and sweltered in a sack, fastened cross legs on a horse, and driven at such an amazing rate (for by this time we had set forward, and another Tartar was whipping the horses up all the time, and driving them on)—how is it possible they can survive? They must be smothered—they must be flattered to pieces—they must be stripped, excoriated, and tortured to death!"
"If I might presume to advise," said I, "I would say that you had better make no remarks upon it; it would only get them perhaps worse treated, and raise anger against you."
To conclude, I took his advice, and kept my mind to myself. The unfortunate women were carried fifty miles, at the end of which their tender-hearted purchaser disposed of them in some way of keeping till his return; when I suppose they were to be carried back in sacks astride upon horses, all the way to Aleppo, there to be sold to the highest bidder.
Late Foreign News.
By the Factor, arrived at New York from London, with papers to June 2.
Progress of the Army from Dijon.
The First Consul to the Minister of the Interior.
Martigny, May 28. at night.
I AM at the foot of the Grand Alps, in the midst of the Valais. The Grand St. Bernard offered many obstacles, which have been surmounted. The third of the artillery is in Italy; the army is descending by forced marches; Berthier is in Piedmont; in three days all will be over.
LONDON, MAY 30.
Of the War in Swabia.
The Paris papers from which we this day continue to give extracts, are exceedingly interesting, not so much for the military events they contain as for those which they prepare us to expect from both parts of the theatre of War. On the 12th, Gen. Moreau went to visit the advanced post of the French, and at the same time Lecourbe defended the left bank of the Iller, to cut off the communication between Ulm and Augsburg. Great uneasiness prevailed in the latter place, from which they were transporting the magazines, military chests, &c. to Ratisbon. If we may give credit to a letter from Stuttgart, Kray had then his head-quarters at Ulm, to which he recalled the corps which Hohenzollern commanded on the Neckar, in order to reinforce him in his new position. The same letter adds, that Moreau and his army were at the distance only of a league from that of Kray; and that a general engagement was daily expected, which the Austrian general wished to avoid, until he should receive his reinforcements from the Hereditary States. We further know by the Telegraphic dispatch of the 21st, from Hunningen, that an event took place as late as the 19th. In fact the position of Gen. Kray is a very favourable one, on the heights which surround Ulm, and should he be disposed for an engagement, the country affords him means of employing his numerous cavalry to all possible advantage, it also appears, that at the same date of the 19th, Lecourbe had not succeeded in cutting off the communication between Ulm and Augsburg. Vandamme has made great progress on the Lake of Constance, if it be true that he has taken Bregenz, which must infallibly the prince de Reuss on the side of Germany. In fact, things are so situated, that we have soon to expect a decisive engagement, for it is not to be supposed that French impatience will so long keep peace with the German sang froid as not to venture on an attack.
In Italy.
The scene presents a still more interesting spectacle on the side of Italy. On the 24th Buonaparte had his head quarters at Martigny, in the Valais, on the right bank of the Rhone; and near the mouth of the Durance, it is six leagues from Great St. Bernard; the road ceases to be practicable for carriages, and where there is no existing upon mules. At that period a third part of the artillery had passed the Great St.

Bernard, and the whole was to have passed in three days afterwards.
It is undoubtedly the first time that such a phenomenon shall have appeared, and the only way to account for it is, that he will be transported upon sledges over the ice. On the 16th Gen. Lane, commanded the vanguard of the army of reserve, had his head-quarters at Aosta, situated in a fertile basin where the different valleys of the country unite, and he has dislodged the Austrians from the heights which command the valleys. On the 19th Gen. Berthier had joined Lane at Aosta. His Lt. Gen. had carried the post of the village of Chatillon and he was preparing to attack the fort of Bado, which is situated on a steep rock strengthened with several works, and defending the entrance of the valley of Doura-Bottea. More recent accounts state, that it has actually been taken.
On the 2d inst. Gen. Somariva published at Thorence an official bulletin announcing the capitulation of Savona on the 27th of April, but the official bulletins of this General so often deceived us respecting the capitulation of Ancona, long before there was any intention of surrendering it, that they are not entitled to much credit. It must also be observed, that the account from Milan of the 6th and those from Villeneuve are entirely silent on this subject. The intelligence from the latter place, of the Austrians having invaded the country of Nice is of an equally doubtful description. That event must have been preceded by the taking of Cobdi Tendi; and of this we have no account. Besides it is not very probable that Melas, at the moment when he knows that an army is descending the valleys of the Alps, to attack his rear, should thus disperse his forces and expose a considerable part to the danger of being cut off, in the case of himself being obliged to fall back on the Po, for the purpose of protecting Piedmont and the Milanese. The intelligence, however is confirmed with some details in the Journal de Debates, which even announces the surrender of Nice. The same thing is stated in accounts from Grenoble.
From Lord Keith, to the Admiralty.
Off Genoa, May 10, 1800.
"I have the honor to inclose the following letter from Gen. Melas. I am, &c."
KEITH."
Gen. Melas to Lord Keith.
H. Q. Oneglia, 8th May, 1800.
"My Lord,—We have been very successful yesterday. The right wing of the army, commanded by Gen. Elsititz, who was on Monte Carro, attacked the enemy at Muchoi delle Pierre, and succeeded so well, that at nine o'clock in the morning victory had declared itself in his favour. The Gen. of division Gravier, with a great number of officers, and fifteen hundred non-commissioned officers and privates were made prisoners. The right of the enemy informed of the defeat of its left, did not delay retreating from Capo di Berta. We have pursued him beyond Port Maurice. Fifteen pieces of Cannon have been taken from him along the coasts. Our loss has not been considerable but I regret the loss of Major General Brentano, mortally wounded, and Major Casate killed. The corps of Gen. Elsititz is now at St. Bartholomeo; and Gen. Courroupp marches with his flying corps to Calle Ardent, and his van guard is already at Broglio, behind the Col de Tende. I wait for the reports of the patroes, who are in pursuit of the enemy, to make my final dispositions. In the mean while I request your excellency to accept the respect with which I have the honor to be, &c."
MELAS."
"Vice-Admiral Lord Keith, K. B."
OFFICIAL.
Downing Street May 31.
From Mr. Jackson, H. M's Minister Plenipo. at Turin, to Lord Grenville.
Turin, May 10, 1800.
"My Lord,—It is with infinite satisfaction I can inform your Lordship of the entire evacuation of the Riviere of Genoa, and the country Nice by the French under Gen. Souhet; the remains of which have passed the Var; and Nice with its two castles, was yesterday occupied by Gen. Knelovich.
"Gen. Kleim, the C. in C. here, has this moment sent intelligence to the government of this joyful event.
"I have the honor, &c."
(Signed) "T. JACKSON."
[Several other accounts mention that Nice had been captured by the Austrians, and that Genoa had begun to capitulate on the 13th May.]
Military Events in Malta.
TOULON, MAY 6.
Letters arrived from Malta in seven days, stating, that the French occupy all the fortifications of that place, and have not abandoned the suburbs. The Neapolitan and English troops that have been landed are not numerous enough to effect a regular siege, and confine themselves to blockading. There are no Russian troops. Those who were sent stopped only a few days. The French have 4000 men in a condition for service, without reckoning the Maltese who have taken up arms to assist in defence of the place. It is not true, as has been said, that several inhabitants, and especially the Bishop and all the Priests, have been forced to quit the city. The French and the Inhabitants suffer many privations; but they have subsistence for four months. Medicines are scarce, though the number of sick has never been considerable. The place is blockaded from the sea by 27 ships of war.
Military Events in Egypt.
VIENNA, MAY 14.
On the 12th inst. an Express from Constantinople, brought the Turkish Ambassador here the unexpected intelligence of the war having recommenced in Egypt. The departure of the French having met with many difficulties, the Capt. Pacha not arriving at Alexandria with his fleet from Constantinople, and many of the French having been massacred in Egypt, Gen. Kleber unexpectedly attacked and totally defeated the army of the Grand Vizier, on the 17th and 18th of March, at the moment when he was preparing for his solemn entry into Cairo, with 20,000 men.
The bloodshed was terrible particularly among the Turkish infantry very few of whom escaped; the cavalry were less unfortunate, having effected their escape by steering to the Camp of Osman Pacha, the Kiaga or Lieutenant of the Grand Vizier, who soon afterwards marched to Cairo, with a strong body of troops, where he massacred several thousand of the French, among whom were there learned men, and Members of the National Institute. These accounts were communicated by the Turkish Ambassador to the Foreign Ministers. It is said, that Murad Bey had attacked and put to the sword a division of the French Army, which had marched from Cairo for Alexandria, to embark for France, previous to the attack made by Gen. Kleber on the army of the Grand Vizier, and to which he had been particularly instigated by that circumstance.
American News.
BALTIMORE, JULY 14.
THE particulars of the riot which took place at Fell's Point, on Friday night last, are said to be nearly as follows.—In the first part of the evening, some sailors belonging to the Insurgente frigate, entered a house in the street termed "O'Kum Bay," where several musicians resided who usually entertained sailors, by allowing them to dance; one of the company behaving unruly, was ordered out, and in his passage towards the door, broke a pane of glass. A few moments after, this sailor returned with several of his ship-mates, and also a number of citizens, who, seeing the mob collect, and fearing that the peace might be broken, followed with a determination of assisting the civil authority, in preserving order. When the mob arrived at the house, and before any hostile operations were commenced on it, some person discharged a loaded musket from the window, and fifteen buckshot entered the face and neck of a sailor named John Johnston, of the Insurgente; a part of the mob then dispersed, leaving the dying man on the ground; and two or three citizens, whose humanity excited them, at the risk of their lives, to remove Johnston, had scarcely lifted him, before another gun was discharged which wounded Mr. Enoch Brown, midshipman, and a Mr. Draper, each very severely, in their left hands; an attempt was then made to force the doors of the house, when three other muskets were successively discharged, which wounded two other persons. The house was then entered, and about ten men seized and carried with the body of Johnston, to the watch house:—On the following morning, several sailors, with the defenders of the house, underwent an examination before Job Smith, Esq., and a number of them were committed for trial.
NEW YORK, JULY 14.
Judge Brenton, of the Halifax Vice Admiralty Court has condemned, vessel and cargo, the Charlotte, bound from New York to Amsterdam, on the grounds, that the owners, Messrs Brothers De Costers, and Co. were citizens of Holland, and not of the United States.
In passing sentence of condemnation on the Warren, Judge Brenton observed, "that he could not distinguish the case of the Warren from that of the Gadsden, in which it appeared that the property on board was the produce of a Spanish colony going to Spain. It was true that the fugars of the Warren were not brought in that ship from the Havannah; but the manifest stated the cargo to be Havannah sugar, and upon the late decision of Sir William Scott, as well as the case of the Little Mary, decided by the laws of appeal, property of that nature cannot legally be exported to Spain. One hundred and twenty bales of cotton, belonging to Mr. Thebaud, were condemned as being a Frenchman's property.
The St. Albans, of 64 guns, has left this port for Halifax. Messrs. Macdonald and Guillemand, Commissioners under the 6th article of the Treaty with Great Britain, were passengers.
NEW-YORK, JULY 15.
On the 1st of June off the Rock of Gibraltar, an English fleet of 34 ships was seen. [Supposed to contain 12000 troops bound into the Mediterranean on an expedition.]
There were lately lying in Muriaguanna, 12 American vessels, without a person on board. It was suspected that the crews had been murdered by some of Regaud's adherents.
JULY 16.
Extract of a letter from the American Consul at Gibraltar, dated May 7, 1800.
"Yesterday arrived in four 40 gun ships two regiments from England, for this garrison, and two of those here embark to-morrow for the Mediterranean. Five others from England passed here last night; but their destination is not known. It is expected every moment that more troops from England will pass by this port into the Mediterranean, on some secret expedition. The whole, they say, will compose 20,000 men.
The plague rages with violence at Tangier, Tetuan, &c.
Minorca is the port of rendezvous for the above mentioned British Armament. They have a large number of heavy battering cannon on board."
On Monday last, a man by the name of Collins, shot himself. He lived near the state prison, Greenwich-street.
New-York, July 17, 1800.
"Having this day received by the Factor, a copy of the minutes taken in short hand, of the judgement delivered by Lord Kenyon, and the other judges of the Court of King's Bench on the last trial of the Confederacy's case, upon the question of the French sentence of condemnation for want of the role d'equipage : conformably to your request we have the satisfaction to state to you, that the verdict was in favor of the owners of the Confederacy; and that from the reasonings of the Judges, which are very lengthy, it appears, that they must establish the law on that point.—They declare, that the judgments of the Courts of Admiralty are to proceed upon the known Jus Gentium , (Law of Nations) or upon treaties between the particular States, and if there are particular treaties between the particular States, these treaties do not enlarge the Jus Gentium as to the rest of the world; but they are only engrafted into the Jus Gentium , as between those States.—They go on to find, that the ground of sentence of condemnation for want of this roll of equipage being founded on French ordinances which are not recognized by the treaty with America, or the known Laws of Nations, it is not to be considered as just cause for condemnation, and that the Underwriters are, therefore, liable."
BOSTON, JULY 25.
The 28th ultimo we mentioned the capture of the Juno, of this port, by Capt. Pellet, of the British ship Cleopatra; and expressed our confidence of her acquittal on her arrival at Halifax.—We have the high satisfaction of announcing her liberation, and that she is now on the prosecution of her voyage. This pleasing information we have by Mr. Bridge, one of her owners, who arrived here yesterday from Halifax; by whom we also learn the liberation of the Vandyke of this port, and the Hannah of Salem. The Hannah only was tried:—She was libelled, as having enemies property on board, &c.—All her papers were found correct, and she was acquitted.—The Judge in his decree declared her to have been in the prosecution of a lawful voyage.—[She was bound from Salem, with liberty to touch at Cadiz and Gibraltar]; and that as neutral vessels had a right previous to the present war, to carry from the United States to Spain, the produce of the Spanish colonies, that right had not been abrogated by the war; and of course was retained to the neutral powers.
Extract of a letter from Washington, Georgia, dated 21st June, 1800, to a Gentleman in Wilmington.
"Bowles is making a good deal of disturbance among the Indians, and has taken one of the Spanish forts. Our government it is said, has given orders this week, to have 5000 of the militia in readiness at a moment's warning, in consequence of an express received from Col. Hawkins, our Indian Agent:—I had it from a gentleman who left Louisville on Wednesday last, who said the Governor informed him that he had issued the orders on that day."
Verbal intelligence by the ship Factor arrived at New York from London, contradicts the article respecting the capture of Genoa by the Austrians. Paragraphs in the London papers collateral with those which gave the news of the capture, expressed doubts as to its truth.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.
The following Gentlemen were admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, viz:
Humphrey Moore, Washington Allston, Loammi Baldwin, Joshua Bates, Horatio Bean, Timothy Boutell, Joseph Stephens Buckminster, Joseph Dwight, Timothy Flint, Andrew Foster, Samuel Deane Freeman, William Gray, David Greene, Abiel Holbrook, Rufus Hosmer, Leonard Jarvis, James Jewett, Daniel Kimball, John Knapp, Isaac Lincoln, George Little, Charles Lowell, Jacob Main, Elias Mann, James Morss, Israel Munroe, Moody Noyes, Benoni Perham, William Pillsbury, John Prince, Aaron Hall Putnam, Abner Rogers, Moses Sanford, Richard Sanger, William Sawyer, Abraham Seales, Lemuel Shaw, George Meserve Sheafe, Manasseh Smith, Samuel Swett, John Henry Tudor, Samuel Vease, John Wadsworth, Ebenezer Tucker Warren, Benjamin Marlton Watson, Samuel Weed, Benjamin Welles, Adam Winthrop.
The following Gentlemen were admitted to the degree of Master of Arts, viz: Messrs.
Daniel Abbot, Moses Adams, Horatio Binney, Nathaniel Bond, Samuel Brown, Thomas Cary, Eliza Clap, Samuel Faria, Henry Gardner, Lewis Gould, Joseph Hurd, William Jenkins, Jabez Kimball, Samuel Abbot Kneeland, Samuel Manning, Rosewell Messenger, Jeroboam Parker, William Pickering, James Richardson, Thomas Oliver Selbridge, Isacher Snell, Abiel Stearns, David Stone, Joseph Tilton, John Collins Warren, William Wetmore, Jonathan Whitaker, Daniel Appleton White, John Shirley Williams.
The following Gentlemen were admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Physic, viz: Messrs.
Nathaniel Bradstreet, Samuel Hunt, Samuel Manning, John Hosmer.
Honorary Doctorates were conferred on the following gentlemen, viz:
On Rev. Ebenezer Fitch, President of Williams' College, Rev. Phillips Payson, at Chelsea, and Rev. Henry Cummings, of Belerica, the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
On Mr. Henry Mason, Physician, at Newport, the degree of Doctor of Physic.
On John Nichols, Esq., member of the British Parliament, the degree of Doctor of Laws.
BOWLES.
A letter from N. Orleans, of June 15, informs that Bowles having collected about 300 Indians, made a formal demand of a considerable Spanish fort (the Apalachees in W. Florida,) which, upon his first requisition was surrendered, although defended by 19 pieces of cannon and 105 regular troops. The commander's name was Portel, who once commanded at New Madrid—An expedition is preparing here, the object of which is to remove the disgrace sustained by the above occurrence."
On the 8th of May Toussaint issued a proclamation declaring all the ports of the Southern Departments of St. Domingo in a state of blockade, (that is, from the ports of Miragoane and Aiquin to and including those of Quibéron and Jérémie) and he solicits all Captains of American, French and Spanish cruizers, to capture every vessel entering or departing from those ports, except vessels in which are persons escaping from the rebel Rigaud.
EFFECT OF THE COW POX.
We hear that Dr. Waterhouse has received the matter of the cow pox, from England, and that the inoculation of it has succeeded in one of his children. Upwards of thirty thousand persons have passed safely through this disease.
SALEM, JULY 21.
On Friday evening arrived here the brig Essex, Jos. Orne, master—from Barcelona, via Gibraltar—32 days from the latter place—Accounts were received at Barcelona the day before Capt. Orne sailed, May 23, that on the 17th or 18th of May, Gen. Massena made a successful sally from Genoa, and killed and took a great number of Austrians. The report was generally believed to be true at Barcelona. There was not the least probability of Genoa's falling, as great reinforcements were marching to its relief.—The City was constantly supplied with Grain and Provisions by flat bottom'd boats from Barcelona, which from their construction could sail in shore, and of course out of the reach of the guns of the blockading ships.—
There was an expedition going on from Gibraltar, from whence Gen. Abercrombie sailed the 12th June, with two regiments of foot and two of Cavalry. Its destination was unknown—but supposed either for Genoa or Malta.—
The French Privateers have ceased troubling our Vessels in the Straights, unless armed, or bound to Gibraltar, which is blockaded by the Spaniards, who take all vessels bound there.—
Accounts by Capt. O. we understand have been received, that the King of Spain by Proclamation had forbid the further piacies on the American Commerce by the Gun boats from Algeziras, &c.
JULY, 25.
Capt. Richard Gardner, of the ship Hazard, of this port, writes from Teneriffe the 27th of May, informing that a French national brig had been chased in there, which was directed from Brest, bound to the Isle of France, the Capt. of which informed Capt. Gardner that PEACE had been concluded between France and America, and that he had positive orders not to molest American vessels. This intelligence was certified with much formality before the French Consul, who affixed the seal of the Republic to the declaration. The brig left France about the first of May, carrying new Commissioners and dispatches from the First Consul to the Isle of France; which dispatches the Commissioners assured Capt. Gardner, on their honour, contained declarations of peace and good will towards the American flag.
We hope the above account will not serve to decoy our commerce into the jaws of the French sharks. As we have Paris accounts to the first of June, which make no mention of a peace being "concluded," we have reason to believe that the former part at least of the forgoing information is a sheer fabrication of the Frenchman. Ever since our first difficulties with France, we have been constantly amused with such pacific stories; and, from our sincere desire for peace, we have always been ready to believe the new lie as we were the old one, which has induced the French so often to repeat the trick.
PETER PORCUPINE.—EXTRACT.
AFTER what has been said are we surprised to hear a Porcupine still reviving our freedom, as being exactly of that kind which he does not like? The thing is by no means wonderful. Possessing the heart of a viper, and a tongue more venomous than that of the adder, the most deadly exubilation of slander, falsehood and malice, had poured forth from his infamous press. No character was sacred enough to escape his destructive aim; no pre-eminence of talents, sufficient to secure their possessor from his poisonous gall. Too long did the patience of your country suffer the fell monster to breathe the air of freedom. Too long did she foster the vulture in her bosom. Awakened at length, she discovered the traitor. She demanded an account of his villainies. But chastised him far less than his demerits. He took in dudgeon the well-meant correction. And has fled from your peaceful shores; impetrating, in heart no doubt, destruction and misery on the hand that administered the rod; and impudently boasting that he is going to that land of security "where thieves do not break through and steal five thousand dollars at a time." Softly, mistaken fellow, wouldst thou have said this, hadst thou been aware of the many millions which thy countrymen have, within a few years past, plundered from the defenceless citizens of these States?—To have done with the ungrateful catiff; his last words and dying speech remind us of a beautiful passage of an American poet of consummate wit and humour.
"None ever felt the baiter draw, With good opinion of the law; Or held, in method orthodox, His love of justice in the flock; Or fail'd to lose by liberty's feasts, At once his loyalty and care ."

Portland, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1800.
So various and contradictory are the reports and families respecting the Commissioners to France, that it is thought unnecessary to repeat them. Something official must soon transpire.
For the information of those who may have occasion to pass the lower bridge over Saco river, it is thought proper to mention, that the toll is taken off said bridge.
Six persons have died at Philadelphia, since the 8th inst. by drinking too freely of cold water.
The Brest fleet is supposed to have withdrawn within the inner harbour of Brest.
A Paris paper of June 1, says—The Council for deciding on prize-causes yesterday ordered the American ship Piquou, taken by the Cocarde and Stravoure, to be restored with costs.
NEW INDIAN WAR.
The conduct of the adventurer Bowles, seems to threaten serious consequences to the United States and Spain, by exciting the Indians to war on the respective frontiers; the mutual protection of which, is stipulated by treaty between the two nations. As Bowles appears to have a great thirst for fame, and is joined by many desperadoes, it is possible he may occasion the razing of another provisional, or rather permanent, army, for the protection of our frontiers. The last accounts mention that Bowles has sent a large party to break up the settlements in East Florida.
A small plant producing silk wool, similar to that of Syria, and equal in quality, has lately been discovered on some mountains in South Prussia.
Gen. Leveaux, the merciful commander of the North side of St. Domingo, has been taken by the English, and sent to England.
A late Jamaica paper says—Nearly in the latitude of Madeira, the ship Clarendon, of Bristol, run on board the ship Beaulieu, Radley, of London, when, melancholy to relate, the latter went down with the crew and passengers, not a soul saved.
The accident, it appears, happened at night, no doubt from some fatal error at the wheel on board one or perhaps both ships. We do not know the names of the passengers on board the Beaulieu, but understand there were several, and among them some ladies whose cries were distinctly heard as the ship was going down: the night being extremely dark, and the wind blowing hard at the time, with a very sea running, it was impossible to afford any assistance. The Beaulieu was bound to Montego Bay and had on board a valuable cargo of Irish provisions. The Clarendon met with no other accident than the loss of her bowsprit and fore-topmast.
THE CASTLE SPECTRE.
A Drama so much celebrated for its excellence, is this evening to be presented for the second time, for the benefit of Mr. KENNY. As this gentleman has a family dependent on his earnings, it is hoped the liberality of a Portland audience, will prove conspicuous. This piece was performed on Friday evening for the first time, in a very able manner:—in which, Mrs. Powell, in Evelina, and Miss Harper in Angela, met the high-raised expectations of the public; and Mr. Harper, in the character of Olmond, had an opportunity of displaying his superior dramatic powers. The mirth-exciting Villiers, whose captivating qualities and alluring merits are acknowledged by all, did ample justice to the difficult character of Motley;—and the honorable mention of appropriation should be attached to Messrs. Powell, Kenny, Baker, Usher, and Dickinson, for their exertions in support of their respective characters.
In a London paper the marriage of a Miss Fish to a Mr. Hooke is mentioned. The young lady had a fortune of thirty thousand pounds, and married her paramour without a penny. By a neat scriptural allusion, the London editors remark that the draft may well be called miraculous. This connexion we are not authorized to contradict, but if this be the case, as here stated, we suppose that the lady to bite at unbaited hook, must be an odd fish indeed.
ON FRENCH JACOBINISM.
In Anach's recent reign abroad, Whatever maggot bit the herd, The order of the day's the word Throughout confusion's border.
May heaven, the wife and worthy pray, Soon turn the thing quite 'tother way; And for the order of the day, Restore the days of order."
A half sheet of the Larus accompanies this day's Gazette. They will be regularly continued till completed; as they are now nearly furnished from the new set of government.
IMPORTANT PUBLICATION.
A Practical Treatise upon the Bankrupt Law of the United States, for sale by E. A. Jenkins.
MARRIED—At Oisfield, on Sunday 20th instant Mr. JOHN LEAVITT, jun. to Miss SALLY PORTER.
Marine Articles.
Port of Portland. Tuesday, July 24. Arrived brig Sophia, Capt. Wm. Woodbury, 21 days from St. Lucia. Lat. 36, Long. 66. spoke a Schooner from St. Vincent, bound to Boston. Homeward bound passage, 5th July, lat. 17, spoke the English frigate Southampton, and treated politely—sometimes spoke an American frigate. Left St. Lucia, July 3d, the Schooner Nancy of Beverly John Tuttle, Master, to sail in 12 days.
Wednesday, July 25. Arrived Schooner Dolphin, Capt. Brazier, 32 days from Trinidad, and 18 from Tortola. Sailed from Trinidad in company with Schooner Polly, Capt. of this port, and Schooner Dolphin, Capt. Mudge, of Boston. Left at Trinidad Schooner Moses, Capt. Jackson, Wilcuffe; brigues Galen, Capt. Ashley, Salem; brig Nathaniel, Wolfer, New Bedford, and brig Dispatch, Capt. Pease, New Bedford.
Same day—Arrived Schooner Polly, Capt. Trinblad.
Saturday, July 26. Arrived, brig Margaret, Capt. Samuel McLean, 24 days from Jamaica. Left there brig Betty, Capt. Swaine, Nantucket; Ship John, Capt. Hatch, of this Port, to sail in 8 days. Sailed in company with Scler. Isabella, Capt. Nathaniel Donald. Biddeford. July 5, spoke Scler. Mary, Capt. Delano, 4 days out, bound to Boston—July 7, lat. 23, 21, long. 85, spoke Scler. James Morton master bound from Jamaica for Philadelphia.
BOSTON, July 22. We have the pleasure of announcing the late arrival this day, of the United States frigate Boston, captain Little, from a cruise. The Boston has not been in port but 15 days since the failed from hence; which will be one year tomorrow. During which time capt. Little has not been on shore 70 hours. The crew are in extreme good health, and only one man has died since the left Boston, and that was by his own folly. We understand the crew will be immediately paid off, and the ship put to sea again with all possible dispatch.
The Boston anchored in the stream off the end of Long wharf and saluted the town, which was answered by three cheers from citizens on Long and Hancock's Wharf, and returned by the crew of the frigate.
On the 23d of June, the Baltimore sloop of war appeared off St. Thomas with a large ship in tow, which proved to be a French corvette. The corvette had iniquitously borne down on the Baltimore, and after a smart action was captured by her. Both vessels appeared much shattered.
Ship Rebecca, Gardner, of Newbedford, from the South Seas, was taken by a French privateer in lat. 40, 34, long. 50, and sent to the Cape.
St. Kitts, June 26.—An American cartel which carried 79 French prisoners to Guadaloupe has returned with 31 Americans. Another cartel with 52 French prisoners has failed. The Merimac has just sent in a brig and a Schooner, recaptured. The Constellation has just arrived here.
Providence, July 23. By Capt. Hudson, lately arrived at Newport, from the Havannah, from whence he sailed under convoy of the U. S. frigate General Greene, we are informed, that while on the passage from New Orleans to the Havannah with an American brig under convoy, the General Greene fell in with a British 74 gun ship, which fired a shot at the brig to bring her too for examination.—As neither the brig nor the General Greene paid any attention to this, but kept their course, a boat was dispatched from the 74 to board the brig. The General Greene upon this fired a shot at the boat, which immediately broke her along side: in consequence of which the 74 bore down and spoke the frigate, demanding the reason why her boat was fired upon— to which capt. Perry replied that it was to prevent her boarding the brig, which was under his protection. The captain of the man of war then observed, it was very surprising that a British seventy-four gun ship could not examine a merchant brig!—Capt. Perry replied, if he had been a first rate ship she should not do it to the dishonor of his flag. He then in polite terms asked capt. Perry if he would consent to the brig's being examined.—Capt. Perry assented, but observed that it would be useless, as he knew her cargo to be no way liable to seizure.
WANTED, a quantity of HOPS. For which CASH and the highest price will be given, inquire of GEORGE NEWELL, near the head of Union Wharf Portland, July 27, 1800.
STOLEN or Strayed from the door of Mr. JOSEPH CROSS'S store, Fore-street, Portland, on the 17th inst. a black HORSE, with a white stripe on his forehead, half-nipped, about 12 years old. Whoever will give information of said Horse to the subscriber at Gardner, is that he may have him again, shall be well rewarded. Enoch Hamblen. July 28.
LIST OF LETTERS Remaining in the Post Office, Wiscasset, July 1, 1800.
Table with 4 columns: Name, Residence, Postmaster. Includes names like Baileys Joseph, Cuningham Jacob, Gove Ebenezer, etc.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident proprietors of Land lying in the town of Vassalborough, and in the county of Kennebec, that their lands are taxed in the State, County and town tax and committed to me the subscriber to collect for the years 1798 and 1799, as follows:
And unless the above tax, with all necessary charges, are paid to me the subscriber, on or before Wednesday the twentieth day of August next, then & in that case the subscriber, to each of every parcel of land will be sold at Public Vendue, to the highest bidder, as will be sufficient to pay said taxes and charges. James Bracket, jun. Collector. Fairfield, July 24th, 1800.
THEATRE—PORTLAND.
MR. KENNY, Presents his most respectful compliments to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Portland and its vicinity, and earnestly solicits the honor of their patronage. He flatters himself that the pieces selected for the entertainment of the evening will meet their approbation. Tho' his merits cannot equal their liberality, he will never be wanting in gratitude.
MR. KENNY'S BENEFIT.
THIS Evening, Monday July 28, will be presented the favorite DRAMA of The Castle Spectre.
Written by the author of the celebrated Novel, the MONX. There never was a piece produced in London, which has attracted such curiosity and brilliant houses; and it is probably more calculated to interest the feelings of an audience, to surprise and astonish, than any Dramatic representation ever seen in America. Olmond—Mr. Harper. Reginald—Mr. Kenny. Father Philip—Mr. Baker. Motley—Mr. Villiers. Kenric—Mr. Usher. Hassan—Mr. Powell. Muley—Mr. Kedey. And Percy—Mr. Dickinson. Evelina (the Castle Spectre) Mrs. Powell, Alice—Mrs. Baker, And Angela—Mrs. Harper.
In the course of the evening, Mr. VILLIERS will sing.
John Bull's Ramble to France, Or, MONSEUR NONG TONG PAW, A description of a Country Club; Or, HERE'S TO YE NEIGHBOR SPRIGGINS, By Mr. Dickinson.
To which will be added, the celebrated FARCE, called Preparation for a Cruise; Or, THE PORTLAND SAILOR.
Sam Stern—Mr. Dickinson, Binnacle—Mr. Usher, Dick Handball—Mr. Kenny, Ben Block—Mr. Baker, Jack Haulyard—Mr. Kedey, And Tom Grog (the Portland Sailor, with a Song) Mr. Villiers.
BOXES 45—PIT 35. Doors to be open at half past 6, and the performance to commence a quarter before 8 o'clock. Tickets to be had at Mr. DANIEL COBB'S.
FOR SALE, By Newhall & Watson, No. 3, LONG WHARF, A consignment of Fresh India Goods.
BFST Bohea, Hyson & Souchong TEAS; 10 Boxes assorted CHINA, Bengal SUGAR of the first quality. ALSO High 4th proof Alicante BRANDY, Russia, Ravens and Imperial DUCK, RUSSIA SHEETING, IRON, NAIL RODS and NAIL PLATES, CABLES and CORDAGE, BOLTS, TROPE, &c. LOAF SUGAR, SHEATHING PAPER and NAILS, SEWING TWINE. Portland, July 28.
FOR SALE, A second hand Chaise. Inquire of the Printer. July 28.
Lands, &c. at Auction.
FOR SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION, On Saturday the Second of August next, At 3 o'clock P. M. on the Premises, ONE Acre and 11 Rods of Land, at New Casco in Falmouth—together with the Dwelling-House thereon.
Also—One Acre of Land at said New-Casco, together with one half of the Dwelling-House thereon. The same lately belonged to Samuel Pote, of said Falmouth, and whereon he now lives.
For further particulars, inquire of WILLIAM HUDSON. Portland, July 16, 1800.
Wanted to Hire, immediately, A Dwelling-House. Inquire of the Printer. July 23.
An elegant Horse, FOR SALE,
Seven years old this summer, of a light bay colour; in which a good bargain will be given, and sold for no fault.—Inquire of the Printer. July 14.
List of Letters remaining in the Post-Office at KENNEBUNK—July 16th, 1800.
SALLY Banks; Ebenezer Day, Wells; Job Foss, Wells; Johan Furnald; William Hall, Arundel; Shadrach Hanson; Samuel Hovey; Thomas Huff; Simon Lock, Philipburg; Ephraim Lock, Cobball; Sally Long; John Millet, Arundel; Robert Mitchell; Mary Mitchell, 2; Lydia Wakefield, 2.
N. B. Those names with no town annexed, are of Kennebec.
THE Subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, That having been duly appointed Administrator upon the Estate of THOMAS MORSE, late of Portland in the county of Cumberland, mariner, deceased, has taken upon him that trust, and given bond as the law directs:—He therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate to make immediate payment: and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same, to
Edmund C. Delano. Northarmouth, July 15, 1800.
Miniature Painting.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Portland and its neighborhood, that he practices painting in Miniature, and has taken a room at Mrs. DAVIS'S, Free-street, and flatters himself he shall be able to give satisfaction to those who may honour him with their commands in the line of his profession. N. HANCOCK.
Mr. H. proposes to teach young Ladies and Gentlemen, Drawing, Flower and Landscape Painting in Water Colours, &c.—His terms may be known by applying as above. July 28.
Public Notice is hereby given,
THAT the Subscribers are appointed Commissioners by the Hon. JONATHAN BOWMAN, Esq. Judge of Probate, &c. for the county of Lincoln, to receive and examine the Claims of the Creditors to the Estate of
THOMAS DENHAM, late of Bowdoinham, in said county of Lincoln, Gentleman, deceased, represented insolvent; and six months being allowed for that purpose, we shall attend to receive said claims, at the dwelling-house of Capt. THOMAS HAWKINS, Inholder in said Bowdoinham, on the second Wednesday of June next, and on the first Wednesday of the five following months, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon, on said days. NATHANIEL THWING, ? Commissioner. STEPHEN WHITMORE, Scribes. Woolwich, May 28th, 1800.
WHEREAS by an act of Congress passed on the seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, the President of the United States is authorized to borrow, on behalf of the United States, from the Bank of the United States, or from any other body or bodies, politic or corporate, or from any person or persons, and upon such terms and conditions as he shall judge most advantageous for the United States, a sum not exceeding Three Millions Five Hundred Thousand Dollars. To, however, that no contract or engagement be made, which shall preclude the United States from reimbursing any sum or sums borrowed, at any time after the expiration of fifteen years from the date of such Loan. AND WHEREAS it is declared by said act, that so much as may be necessary of the surplus of the duties on imports and tonnage, beyond the permanent appropriations heretofore charged upon them by law, shall be pledged and appropriated for paying the interest; and also for paying and discharging the principal sum or sums of all the monies which may be borrowed according to the term or terms which may be fixed pursuant to the authority aforesaid. AND WHEREAS by the said act, the faith of the United States is pledged to establish sufficient permanent revenues, for making up any deficiency that may hereafter appear in the provisions before mentioned for paying the interest and principal sums, or either of them, or any monies which may be borrowed pursuant to the said act. AND WHEREAS the President of the United States, did by an Act or Commission under his hand, dated the seventeenth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred, authorize and empower the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow on behalf of the United States, any sum not exceeding in the whole Three Millions Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, and to make such contract or contracts as should be necessary, and for the interest of the United States, in pursuance of the act of Congress above recited.
NOW THEREFORE, the undersigned Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of the Act of Congress and the authority from the President of the United States above mentioned—Doth Hereby, on behalf of the United States of America, contract and engage in manner, following to wit: 1st. There shall be created a funded Capital Stock to an amount hereafter to be designated by said Secretary, but not exceeding Three Millions Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, which Capital Stock shall be divisible into shares of one hundred dollars each bearing interest, at eight per centum per annum, payable quarter yearly at the Treasury of the United States, or at the Loan Offices, where the said Stock may stand credited, until the last day of December in the year eight-hundred and eight.
2d. After the last day of December in the said year one thousand eight hundred and eight, and after reasonable notice to the creditors, which shall be given by an advertisement in some public newspaper printed at the seat of government of the United States, the said Capital Stock shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, by the reimbursement of the whole sum or sums borrowed and which may constitute the said Capital Stock, either at the Treasury of the United States or at the Loan Offices where the same may stand credited. 3d. The credits of the said Capital Stock shall and may be separately certified in sums either for one hundred, four hundred, one thousand, four thousand, or ten thousand dollars, and the credits so certified shall be transferable by the creditors, or their attorneys, at the Treasury and Loan Offices respectively, in pursuance of the rules which have been or which may be established relative to the transfer of the funded Stock of the United States.
4th. A sufficient sum of the surplus of the duties on imports and tonnage beyond the permanent appropriations heretofore charged upon them by law—together with the faith of the United States, are hereby pledged for the fulfilment of this contract, in pursuance of, and according to the terms and conditions of the act of Congress herein before recited.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of the Treasury of the United States, at Philadelphia, this second day of June, one thousand eight hundred; and of the Independence the twenty fourth. OLIVER WOLCOT. Secretary of the Treasury.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
June 23, 1800.
PROPOSALS will be received until the last day of July next inclusive, at the Bank of the United States, and the Offices of Discount and Deposit at Boston, New York, Baltimore, Norfolk, and Charleston, for the purchase of One Million and Five Hundred Thousand Dollars of Stock, directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, to be issued in pursuance of the abovementioned contract. The proposals most advantageous to the United States will be accepted, but no Stock will be issued at less than five per centum advance, or one hundred and five dollars in money for one hundred dollars in Stock. In case the sums specified in similar proposals shall exceed the amount of Stock offered for sale at the place abovementioned, they will be accepted, subject to a proportional deduction.
G. SIMPSON, Cashier.

MUSES.
PARAPHRASE
OF SOME LINES BY THE PERSIAN POET SAADI.
AROUND the grove of her I still adore Mark how the frequent gale delights to play; Forakes the spicy grove and rosy bower, To wave the grass that clothes this hallow'd clay; Return awhile, lona gale, on balmy wing, And to the rosy bower my wishes bear; Say to each violet that marks the Spring, And every painted tulip blooming there— "Ye flowers, like me, forsake the garden's soil, In one less rich, but sweeter far, to blow. There shall no impious hand your beauties spoil, Nor Autumn's blast, nor chilling Winter's snow. Sweet pensive Jessamine, if e'er you choose To deck an humble spot, unknown to Fame; And thou of modest blush, fair Virgin Rose, If kindred worth and charms thy notice claim, Oh! interweave your branches round yon tomb, And with united sweets embalm the air, For innocence and truth, and Beauty's bloom, All that the Poet lov'd, is buried there."
[A Bookseller at Newyork, has just advertised the very elegant translation by the far-fam'd Roscoe, of the "NURSE," a pathetic and moral poem from the Italian of Tansillo; from which the following lines are copied.]
"AH then, by duty led, ye nuptial fair, Let the sweet office be your constant care, With peace and health in humbl'st station blest, Give to the smiling babe the fostering breast; Nor if by prop'rous fortune plac'd on high, Think ought superior to the dear employ, Shall the lov'd burthen, that so long ye bore, Your alder kindreds from its birth deplore; Whilst the fair orbs, with healthful nurture swell'd Throb for the kind relief by you withheld: Not half a mother, the whole pride denies, The streaming beverage to her infant's cries, Admits another in her rights to share, And trusts his nurture to a stranger's care, But you, whose hearts with gentle piety warm, Pure joys can please, and genuine pleasures charm, Clasp your fair nurselings to your breasts of snow, And give the sweet salubrious streams to flow, Let kind affections sway without control, And thro' the milky stream pour out the feeling soul."
THE following work has passed the ordeal of critical taste, and is pronounced by the first literary judges to be a composition of sterling merit. Its great object is to expose the horrid consequences of a social and moral nature, which have flowed and still flow from the accursed fountain of French Philosophical ILLUMINISM. It is expected, that all sincere lovers of Gallic Morals, otherwise the Punica fides of public and private life, will liberally patronize a volume of this nature.
JUST PUBLISHED,
By CHARLES PIERCE, at Portsmouth, and now for sale at the Bookstore of E. A. JENKS, Portland, (price one dollar, bound and lettered)
JULIA AND THE ILLUMINATED BARON, a novel founded on recent facts, which have transpired in the course of the late revolution of moral principles in France.
BY A LADY OF MASSACHUSETTS.
"This volume, to the reader's eye displays Th' infernal conduct of abandoned man; When French Philosophy infests his ways, And pairs contempt on Heav'n's eternal plan; Reversing order, truth, and every good, And submerging worlds, with ruin's awful flood."
DEDICATION TO THE PUBLIC.
WHEN the following pages were committed to the press, it was the wish and expectation of the Author to remain in oblivion. A variety of causes have postponed its appearance; and conjecture ever busy, and curiosity ever prying, have lifted up the veil of concealment, and many are acquainted with the name and situation which shrouded in an happy mediocrity, it was hoped would have escaped the notice of the world. Baffled in this her favourite wish, she feels it a duty to apologize with her very humble talents, for thus appearing in public. She very well knows that writers of Romance are not highly esteemed. She is likewise sensible that custom and nature, which have affixed the duties of woman to a very confined and very limited bounds, are by no means likely to patronize a female writer. She feels that her conduct needs excuse, and though the independence of her mind renders her unwilling to make one, yet necessity obliges her to it. She is so certain that so many will acknowledge the truth of her assertion, that she does not hesitate to declare, that not one social or domestic duty, have ever been sacrificed or postponed by her pen; and though it may be objected that the time devoted to it, might have been better employed; She hopes that she may be allowed in some respects, to be a judge of her own conduct; her pen has always been a favourite implement; it has soothed many melancholy, and sweetened many bitter hours. Her abilities are too scanty to allow her to understand either religious or philosophical subjects in others, much more inadequate to the attempting them herself; incapable of undertaking the labors of history, or of attaining the sublime heights of poetry; the only path which lay open, was that of Romance. The Revolution in France, and the perturbed state of Europe, have opened some scenes, that would without these amazing shocks to the political world, have lain hid in obscurity; to some of these she has had recourse, and many, very many serious truths are interwoven with the story of JULIA. It may perhaps be objected, that the annals of our own country display a vast field for the imagination, and that we need not cross the atlantic in search of materials to found the moral tale or amusing story upon. But an aversion to introduce living characters, or those recently dead, rendered Europe a fater, though not a more agreeable theatre. With real humility, and a trembling diffidence, this little work is presented to the public, and as a mediocrity of genius will not authorize a hope for the approbation of the connoisseur; that it may be shielded from the censure of the critic, is all that is expected. It comes like the humble JULIA, soliciting patronage and protection as a boon that will ensure its success, not demanding as a due, what perhaps it will not be found to merit; with a variety of defects it is dedicated to the public by
THE AUTHOR.
TO BE SOLD,
Or exchanged for a Farm near Boston, THE Seat of Mr. HENRY SCOTT, deceased, near the Meeting house in Lunenburg 43 miles from Boston, a beautiful situation; consisting of a large, airy and convenient House—a spacious Garden, well enclosed with a board fence, and stored with a variety of fruit trees and flowering shrubs—a large new Barn, and other out-buildings; 30 acres of excellent Land near the house, and 40 acres of good Wood Land two miles distant.
The lowness of the price, which is £. 750, is particularized as an inducement to any person wishing to purchase for a permanent situation.
ALSO.
A FARM in the north part of said town, containing Fifty Acres good Land, with a House new Barn, and good Orchard, and twenty acres Wood Land, for £. 500. Apply to Capt. JOHN LITTLE in said Lunenburg, or inquire of EDWARD GRAY, Esq. Court-Street, Bosten.
June 23, 1800.
(8w-13)
John Pritchard,
HAS for sale at his Store, under the New Assembly Room, South-end, an extensive assortment of
European and India Goods, and Groceries,
BY WHOLESALE OR RETAIL.
AMONG WHICH ARE,
Madeira, Lisbon, Coffee and Chocolate, Sherry, Port and Madeira, late. Sugar and Molasses, Best Cogniac Brandy, Spices of all kinds, W. India, N. England and Cherry RUM, Best rock and fine Salt, Holland Gin, Hyslop, Sonchong, and Bohemian TEAS, of the first quality, Excellent Bacon, and Salt Pork, CORN, MEAL, Flour, Rice, &c. &c.
ALSO,
A quantity of Manufactured TOBACCO and SNUFF, warranted of a superior quality.
The above articles will be sold on the most reasonable terms for Cash.
Portland, July 6.
FOR SALE,
By John O. Watts,
AT HIS STORE IN FORE-STREET, LATELY OCCUPIED BY MR. JOSEPH CROSS,
Superfine and low priced Broadcloths; Kerseymeres; Jacquet, sprig, book and black Mullins; Book Handkerchiefs some very fine; Mullinets; Dimity; a good assortment of Calicoes; India Ginghams; Nankeens; Jane and Satinets; Brown Holland; India Cottons; 100 lb. best White Thread, which will be sold low; Nankeen and other Threads per lb.; Copper-plate Furniture; Gentlemen's Beaver Hats; Youth's ditto; Pocket Handkerchiefs, and Shawls; Playing Cards; Ladies best habit beaver Gloves, which will be sold very low; Long white Kid do; Ribbons and Edgings; Twill and Silk.
Belt Patent Shott; double gilt and reel Buttons; plated and steel Knee-Buckles; paper and pound Pins; Cloth Brushes; Shoe do; Steelyards; Whips of all sorts; English Whip Latches; Japan do.; Brass Candlesticks; Knives and Forks; Penn and Jack Knives; belt of White Chapel Sharps and Blunts per hundred or thousand; Watch Chains and Keys; Razors; Cod & Mackarel Lines; Currycombs; Japan Canisters; Coffee Mills; pint and quart Jacks; Pewter; Thumb Latches; Door Hinges; Whale bone; Pasteboard; Writing and Wrapping Paper.
N. England Rum per barrel; 20 bbls. good Vinegar; a few bbls. good Anniseed and Clove Water, per barrel only; Molasses; Pork; Teas; Coffee; Chocolate; Indigo; 30 Gin Cases, and a number of boxes Spermaceti Candles, for shipping.—All the above Goods will be sold on low terms.
N. B. Those persons whose Notes and Accounts have been pending six months, are requested to pay them within thirty days; otherwise they will be put in suit.
Portland, July 7, 1800.
Ship Chandlery,
SOLD BY
DAVID SMITH,
No 1, UNION WHARF—viz.
BUNTON and Colours of different sizes; Sheet and Bar Lead; Compasses; Time Glasses; Log Lines and Reels; Hand Spikes and Oars; Paint Brushes of different sizes; Scrapers; Ladies; Tormenters; Paints; Scrubbing Brushes; Mops, and Mop-Yarn; Pad and Door Locks; Latches of different sizes; H & H Linges; Hand-Saws; Saw Files; Augers; Chisels; Twiss; Log Paper; Writing do. Hammers and Gimblets; Coffee Mills; Tin Ware; Earthenware; Iron do. Knives and Forks; Cutters; Pen-knives; Scales; Dividers; West, India & European Charts; Mast Hoops and Hanks; Frying Pans; Shovels; Glass of different sizes; Looking Glasses; Cod and Mackarel Hooks; Deck Nails; Sheathing and Drawing do. 4d, 6d, 8d & 10d do. Scupper, Knot and Pump do. Brads of different sizes; Buckets, Cids, and Cans; Lamp-blacks; Varnish; Linseed and Fish Oil; Pitch; Tar; Turpentine; Cordage; Marline; Sail Needles, and Palms; and a few four inch Hawfers.
ALSO,
Rum, Brandy, Gin, Coffee, Tea, Sugar, Molasses, India Cotton, Silk Handkerchiefs, Florence Oil of an excellent quality, Iron, Tobacco, Pork—and a variety of other articles.
Portland, June 23
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed administratrix of the Estate of JOSEPH HALEY, late of Topsham, in the county of Lincoln, housewright, deceased; and has undertaken that trust by giving bond as the law directs.—All persons, therefore, having demands against the estate of said deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement; and all indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment.
MARY HALEY. mark.
May 27, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers have been duly appointed Executors of the last Will and Testament of JOHN PARKER, late of Georgetown, in the county of Lincoln, Gentlemen, deceased, and have undertaken that trust by giving bond as the law directs; All persons therefore, having demands against the Estate of said deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement; and all indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment.
ANDREW REED, } Executors. ELIZABETH PARKER, }
May 28, 1800.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, That having been duly appointed Administratrix on the Estate of
Capt. Jeremiah Bucknam,
late of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, mariner, deceased, has taken upon her that trust, and given bond as the law directs.—She therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to
Dorothy Bucknam.
Falmouth, June 24, 1800.
THE Judge of Probate having allowed to the Creditors of the Estate of
Samuel Waldo,
late of Portland, deceased, a further time of six months from the seventeenth day of June inst. to bring in their claims against said Estate—The Commissioners hereby give notice, that they will attend to receive and examine the same at the Office of SAMUEL FREEMAN in said Portland, on the afternoons of the second and last Fridays in each month until the expiration of that time.
Those who have already given in their Claims are requested to attend on those days.
Samuel Freeman,
Woodbury Storer,
June 21, 1800. Ebenezer Mayo.
The Committee of Health, TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF PORTLAND.
WHEREAS the Legislature of this Commonwealth have passed a law to prevent the spreading of malignant FEVERS, and contagious sickness; and among many wholesome regulations in said law, by the fifth section thereof towns are empowered to choose a HEALTH COMMITTEE, as follows—
"Be it further enacted, That each town or district in this Commonwealth, may at their meeting held in March or April annually, or at any other meeting legally warranted for the purpose, when they shall judge it to be necessary, choose and appoint a Health Committee to consist of not less than five, nor more than nine suitable persons, or one person to a Health Officer, whose duty it shall be to remove all filth of any kind whatsoever, which shall be found in any of the streets, lanes, wharves, docks, or in any other place whatsoever, within the limits of the town to which said Committee or Health Officer belongs, whenever such filth shall, in their judgment, endanger the lives or the health of the inhabitants thereof; all expenses thereof to be paid by the person or persons, who placed it there, if known, or if not, by the town by which said Committee or Health Officer was appointed. And whenever any filth as aforesaid shall be found on any private property, said Committee or Health Officer shall notify and order the owner or occupier thereof, after twenty four hours to remove the same at their own expense; and in case said owner or occupier shall neglect to remove such filth from his or her property, after the expiration of the time aforesaid, he or they so offending shall forfeit and pay a fine of one hundred dollars, to be paid for and recovered, without cost of suit, by said Committee or Health Officer, before any court proper to try the same, for the use of the poor of the town, in which such offence is committed. And said owner or occupier as aforesaid shall be obliged to repay to said town all costs and charges, which the said Committee or Health Officer may have incurred in removing the filth from his or her property, and in case of refusal to pay the same, he or they may be sued in the same way as is provided in this act for the recovery of fines as aforesaid."
Presuming on the readiness of the inhabitants of the town, to take care that all nuisances of every kind be duly removed, and the purposes of the abovementioned Law be fully complied with—the Committee hope and trust that they shall at no time be under the necessity of enforcing the powers in and by said law given them. But in case any person or persons should be so void of care, and negligent of their own and their neighbor's health, as not to comply with the requisitions of the law aforesaid, by removing every kind of filth, rubbish or nuisance whatever from their respective houses, out houses, barns, stables, shops, yards, wharves, docks, or their or any of their dependencies or appurtenances, the committee will be under the necessity, and are fully determined to do their duty, and prosecute all and every such delinquent to the utmost rigor of the law.
And to the intent that it may be understood in what manner the committee will prosecute their design, they give notice that the following regulations will be observed.
1. The committee will appoint suitable persons to remove such nuisances as are within their jurisdiction at the expense of the offender or of the town. 2. After reasonable notice to any person, of the opinion of the committee that any filth is within the design of the law, suits will be commenced and prosecuted without favor or discrimination. 3. Information given to the Inspector of Police will be attended to by the committee. 4. The Inspector of Police is appointed a sub-committee to direct such persons as shall be employed by this committee, and they are hereby required to obey his orders.
JOSIAH TUCKER,
Inspector of Police.
THOMAS MOTLEY,
EBENEZER MAYO,
WILLIAM SYMMES,
SALMON CHASE,
June 18, 1800. (8w-10)
Abraham Welch,
HAS for sale, in company with James Winslow and Winifred Hall,
6000 acres of Land, in No. 4, in the 7th range from the Waldo Patent, formerly called the College Town, west side of Penobscot River—where Lumber of any kind may be brought by water to navigation.—Any person who wishes to purchase a Farm, now is the time; for a more excellent soil I never saw in Canada, Vermont, or New Hampshire. The growth is Poplar, Maple, Bass Wood, Red Oak, Elm, Beach &c. Purchasers may choose their Lots where they please in said town, except the river lot of lots. Generous credit and good security will be given.
Also, 800 acres in the Westford and Groton Academy Township.
The above Lands will be sold cheap, with a good title to warrant against every thing except oil and minerals.
Portland, June 10th, 1800.
Fresh Goods.
WILLIAM CODMAN,
INFORMS his friends and customers that he has just received at his Store in FISH STREET, and for sale.
An extensive assortment of FRESH European, Staple & Fancy GOODS,
Suitable for the present season. The goodness in quality, and reasonableness in price, he thinks cannot be doubted on examination. As they are all Goods of this spring's importation, they will in every respect answer the prevailing fashions.
Also—the following
India Goods.
White Cottons, of all prices, by piece or yard. Muffin, various kinds. Bandana Handkerchiefs. Nankens, Black Persians. Changeable Lustrings, Check cotton Handkerchiefs. Striped Cottons, Hyson, Souehong and Bohea TEAS of the first quality, &c. &c.
With an assortment of
Hard Ware Goods,
of almost every description. 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, 20d, Nails, Brad, of all sizes, Sheet and Bar Lead, Gun Powder, per cask. Russia Iron, Hart and Club Steel, Bit steel ditto Shot, of all sizes, &c. Also—Russia Sheeting, Ravens Duck, Glass, Cart Boxes, Rice, &c.
Malaga Wine, per quarter-cask.
West-India Rum, 3d proof, by the hhd. or less quantity. New-Eng and ditto per hhd.
Holland Gin, Brandy, Raisins, &c.
Paints, of all kinds.
Linseed Oil, Paint Brushes, &c.
A great variety of the most fashionable PAPER for rooms, At the prices sold at the manufactory in Boston. Portland, June 30 1800.
To the Hon. 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 Tuesday next following the fourth Tuesday of June, Anno Domini 1800.
THE petition and representation of SARAH SMITH, wife of James Smith of Portland aforesaid, Labourer, humbly shews.—That her said husband hath for a long time, to wit, the space of six years last past, absented himself from this Commonwealth, and abandoned his said wife and family without making any provision for their support and maintenance;—that your petitioner's industry alone is incompetent for the support of herself and children; and that in order to provide necessaries for herself and family, she has been driven to the necessity of contracting debts which she has no means to pay, having no personal estate except a few articles of 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 Smith, she was and the full is seized in her own right of sundry parcels of Real Estate.—Also a piece of Land lying between the land of John Kent and the heirs of Edward Watts, of which she is tenant in dower, being part of the real estate of her former husband John Holliday, deceased—from the sale whereof, or a part whereof, she could be enabled to pay the said debts and realize the means of support in future, and thus be relieved from her present distressed situation.—Therefore, your petitioner prays your honors, that pursuant to the statute in such cases made and provided, she may during the absence of her said husband be empowered and enabled to make sale of the whole or of 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.
SARAH SMITH, by J. D. HOPKINS, her Attorney. July Term, at Portland, A. D. 1800.
UPON the Petition aforesaid, Ordered, That the said Sarah notify the said James to appear at the next Supreme Judicial Court to be holden at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland, on the third Tuesday of September next, by publishing an attested copy of the Petition and Order thereon in the Portland Gazette, three weeks successively, the last publication to be at least thirty days before the setting of said Court, that he may then and there show cause, if any he hath, why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
JOHN TUCKER, Clerk.
A true copy—Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Nonresident Proprietors claiming Lands in the town of Coxhall, in the county of York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, that the several lots of Land in the Gore of Coxhall, so called, are taxed in the following sums, and committed to me to collect for the year 1799; and if they are not paid to me at my dwelling-house in said Coxhall, before Monday the eleventh day of August next, so much of said Lands will be sold at the house of Mr. BENJAMIN GOOLD in said Coxhall, on said day, as will pay the taxes and charges—in the Gore of Coxhall.
Letter. Owners Names. No. Acres. Tax. Ch. Letter M. Cushing & Waters, 300 48 30 Part of O. Joshua Waters, Esq. 343 50 21 Part of O. Gowen Brown, 333 51 21 Letter P. Cushing & Waters, 235 38 14 Part of Q. & R. Joshua Waters, Esq. 100 16 6 Letter S. Hon. Samuel Adams, 500 40 17 Letter T. Heirs of Peleg Sanford, 231 37 14 Samuel Goold, Collector.
Coxhall, July 4th, 1800. N. B. The Sale to begin at 10 o'clock, A. M.
THIS GAZETTE.
Is published every Monday at E. A. JENKS, Office next door to the PORTLAND BANK, Middle-Street where Subscriptions, Advertisements, and Communications, are received with attention.
The price is ONE DOLLAR & FIFTY CENTS a year, Exclusive of Postage. Punctual payment is requested.
The extensive and rapidly increasing circulation of this Gazette, renders it highly advantageous for ADVERTISEMENTS, which will be inserted reasonably, and in a judicious manner.