Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser (Portland, Me.), 1809-04-17 00:00:00

PORTLAND GAZETTE, And Maine Advertiser.
PORTLAND, PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR SHIRLEY... FISH-STREET.
No. 1, of Vol. XII.]
MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1809.
[Whole N. 573]
Mr. Hillhouse's Speech, IN THE SENATE OF THE U. STATES, FEBRUARY 21, 1809.
[CONCLUDED]
To convince the Senate that the sufferings of our people are real and not imaginary, I will state one piece of information from New-Haven, on which may be placed the fullest reliance. During the present inclement season, hundreds of applicants for admittance into the poor-house have been denied. In ordinary times the poor-house would accommodate three times the number in it. Always till now it has been more than sufficient to accommodate all that were under the necessity of going to it. In addition to the provision made by the town, and the various charitable societies, resort has been had to the raising of money by subscriptions, to purchase wood and provisions, to prevent people from perishing with cold and hunger; a point of suffering this to which we were never reduced under all the pressure of the revolutionary war; though in that time our little town suffered much, and was once sacked and plundered by a British army. This, for the moment, was distressing, but the usual occupations of its inhabitants, a sure source for the supply of their wants, not being taken away, they were soon able to procure for themselves the necessaries and many of the comforts of life. Sir, it is no pleasant spectacle to behold a flourishing little town, where, though wealth did not abound, a competency, derived from honest industry, made every man happy, reduced to such distress; and that too by the measures of their own government. These sufferings are not confined to New-Haven; they pervade all our commercial towns. I have seen very affecting descriptions of them from other places; descriptions which must touch the tender feelings of every heart not rendered callous by pry spirit. From the patriotic city of Baltimore, where the embargo has been approved, we have the following information, being an extract from the communication of the Mayor to the city council. "The gentlemen appointed to distribute the funds, have, with zeal and industry, been commendable in every instance in person visited the families applying for relief, and extended the hand of charity to them, in proportion to their several necessities and the sums collected. Your wisdom and humanity I confidently repose for further relief; as the reports of the gentlemen appointed to visit them are truly distressing to the feelings of humanity, both as to their number and their necessities." In his same paper I find the following account. "The Marine Society of Philadelphia have discovered upwards of one thousand objects of charity, who, from a state of comfort, have been reduced to the lowest abyss of poverty." I shall not take up the time of the Senate in noticing other official accounts of suffering equally distressing. It will be doubly attractive to the people to find our government obstinately bent on persevering in measures which have produced so much individual distress, after they are acknowledged to have failed to produce the desired effect on foreign nations. This will seem to be more than trifling with their sufferings; and I will not be answerable for the consequences. For my part, I believe the point of suffering is as great as can be endured; and may I not be permitted to ask the question, whether much more ought to be endured?
I am not one of those who advocate the doctrine of passive obedience and non-resistance ; or that oppression, even from our own government, is not to be resisted. I do believe that it is not only justifiable, but a paramount duty to resist, whenever the oppression becomes intolerable, or unconstitutional measures, which strike at the foundation of civil liberty, are attempted to be enforced. This doc-
trine is not new, Sir, it is the doctrine which our ancestors brought with them to New-England, and have handed down to us as our most precious birth right ; an invaluable inheritance to freemen, which I hope neither we nor our children will ever be induced to surrender.
To show that the doctrines which I have advanced, and the opinions I entertain, are not peculiar to New-England, I will take the liberty of reading what was laid by Earl Chatham, one of the greatest statesmen England ever knew, when oppressive and unconstitutional measures were, by an administration of that country, attempted to be enforced. And surely gentlemen will not say the constitution and government of England is more friendly to liberty, and the free expression of opinion, than the constitution and government of the United States. — Parliamentary Debates, vol. XXIX. page 50. "My Lords, I need not look abroad for grievances. The grand capital mischief is fixed at home. It corrupts the very foundation of our political existence, and preys upon the vitals of the state—the constitution has been grossly violated—THE CONSTITUTION AT THIS MOMENT STANDS VIOLATED. Until that wound be healed, until the grievance be redressed, it is vain to recommend union to Parliament; in vain to promote concord among the people. If we mean seriously to unite the nation within itself, we must convince them, that their complaints are regarded, and that their injuries shall be redressed. On that foundation I will take the lead in recommending peace and harmony to the people. On any other, I would never wish to see them united again. If the breach in the constitution be effectually repaired, the people will of themselves return to a state of tranquility. If not—MAY DISCORD PREVAIL FOREVER. I know to what point this doctrine & this language will appear directed. But I feel the principle of an Englishman; & I utter them without apprehension or reserve. The crisis is indeed alarming:—So much the more does it require a prudent relaxation on the part of government. If the King's servants will not permit a constitutional question to be decided on, according to the forms, and on the principles of the constitution, it must then be decided in some other manner; and rather than it should be given up; rather than the nation should surrender their birth right to a despotic Minister, I hope, my Lords, old as I am, I shall see the question brought to an issue, and fairly tried between the People and the Government. My Lords, this is not the language of faction; let it be tried by that criterion, by which alone we can distinguish what is factious, from what is not—by the principles of the English constitution. I have been bred up in these principles; and know that when the liberty of the subject is invaded, and all redress denied him, resistance is justified." When the Parliament of England were attempting to enforce those unjust and oppressive measures on the colonies, which caused resistance, and terminated in our revolution and independence, Lord Chatham, this friend of civil liberty, said in the House of Lords, "I rejoice that the Colonies have resisted."
An objection arises to this measure of non-importation and non-intercourse , from the circumstance of the strong resemblance it bears to that system of warfare which the nations of continental Europe have, under the auspices of Bonaparte, been induced to wage against England. Was not that a non-intercourse , and a non-importation of all articles of the growth or manufacture of the British dominions? Will not this circumstance alarm the minds of the people? It may be said this measure, upon the face of it, purports to be a gainst both belligerents , and is therefore impartial. Was not that the case also with the Embargo? And
has not that been found to be a measure in perfect unison with the wishes, feelings and views of Bonaparte? It is in vain to deny it, he has been too explicit in his declarations on that subject to leave a doubt. Nay, Sir, what he has said, taken in connexion with other known facts, has gone far to excite in the minds of the people, in one portion of this union, a suspicion, and I should not be incorrect if I should say more than suspicion , that there was some secret understanding . Here let me remark that I do not mean to accuse the administration of any thing inconsistent with our rights as an independent nation; for as such we have a right not only to co-operate but to form an alliance with France. If our administration believe, as I know many do believe, that it would be a wise policy, should we not have cause to fear they would adopt that course? It is because I believe such a policy would be unwise , would be ruinous to the nation, that I wish to avoid every thing that looks that way.
I have said that what the Emperor of France, or which is the same thing, what his confidential ministers have said, taken in connexion with other matters known to us, has excited suspicion, that there was an understanding between our administration and France, in relation to the Embargo. I will now enumerate some of the circumstances. During the last session of Congress, letters were received from the continent of Europe, bringing information, from a respectable source, that on the sailing of the United States armed Schr. Revenge , from France, with Doctor Bullus, and despatches; our minister there wrote to Holland, communicating information, that the arrival of the Revenge in the United States would be immediately followed by a general Embargo; and urging the merchants to hasten the departure of their vessels; under an apprehension, as I suppose, that the embargo might induce a declaration of war on the part of Great Britain. This intelligence, I am credibly informed, has been confirmed by a person not long since in this city, who states, that he was in Holland at the time, and was well acquainted with the fact. The Revenge arrived, and the memorable Embargo was laid. The question is—How was it known in France unless there had been some previous communication and understanding on that subject that such an Embargo would be laid, at a time when such a thing was not suspected by the people of the United States? That the Emperor expected a policy of the nature of the Embargo to be adopted in the United States, is manifest from another circumstance. After the Embargo began to operate on the inhabitants of Guadaoupe, to induce them to be patient under their sufferings, the three chief officers there, members of Bonaparte's legion of honour, issued their proclamation on the 21st of March, 1808, in the name of the Emperor of the French, in which, referring to our Embargo, they say—"That the rigour of these measures is a new proof of the faithfulness of this power ( the United States ) to its former friendship with the French Empire; of its attachment to the general interests of Europe, which are likewise its own, as one of the great means of accelerating a maritime peace, by the impossibility which it presents to the common enemy, of acquiring the means to continue the war." This proclamation must have been issued in consequence of orders and instructions from the Emperor; for his officers do not act in his name without orders; and those orders must have been issued in consequence of his previous knowledge that an Embargo was to be laid; because there was not time, after the Embargo act arrived in France, for such orders to have reached Guadaoupe before the issuing of the pro-
clamation. Another circumstance which made some impression, was the unceasing effort, during the last session of Congress, to convert the Embargo into a nonintercourse. Expecting, no doubt, that by cutting off all remittance by land as well as sea, the merchants would cease to send out their goods. If this bill passes, we shall have adopted the very measures which have been required by the French Emperor of other neutral nations, and it will be considered as furnishing irresistible evidence to confirm those existing suspicions.
There are other circumstances which have excited alarm. I must speak out—times have become too serious to conceal any thing; for I consider the vote which is about to be given, on this bill, as deciding the all important question of peace or war. When an opinion seemed to prevail, a little time since, that it would be necessary to repeal the embargo, those who are considered as the most confidential organs of the administration, strenuously urged the 1st of June for the time of the repeal. And why? Not certainly on account of any advantage it could be to the people of the U. States to postpone the repeal to that time. The real cause why the 1st of June was fixed on is not for me to say; but I can tell you what is suspected by some of the people to be the reason; it is, that there may be time for our dispatch vessel to go to France and return; so that some arrangement may be made as to a substitute for the embargo, that the Emperor may not take umbrage at the repeal. These suspicions are much increased by a report which is in circulation, for the truth of which, however I cannot vouch, that the private secretary of the President is to be the bearer of the dispatches. It can hardly be supposed that this confidential agent of the President should be sent on the mere errand of a post-boy. People fear some private agency , some secret negotiation which may ultimate in linking the destinies of our country to those of France. An idea which is terrifying to them; for as it regards our liberties and our free government, the embrace of France would be the grasp of death. Bonaparte will never rest satisfied to see the people of any country in the enjoyment of liberty. The name of a free people is a living reproach to him. Other questions are asked which I am not able to answer; such as, why the next Meeting of Congress is fixed on the fourth Monday of May? Whether it is not time for the dispatch vessel to go and return? Whether the plan of going to war with both the belligerents was not with an understanding with one nation that it was to be merely a nominal war? And whether, in any other point of view, the idea of going to war with two such powerful belligerents, at the same time, was not too ridiculous to be seriously entertained for a moment? On the last point I have information perfectly satisfactory to my mind, that such a war would not be objected to on the part of France.
Sir, the bill before you is war. It is to suspend all intercourse, to put an end to all the relations of amity. What is that but war? war of the worst kind—war under the disguise of Non-Intercourse , which is only a milder mode of declaring it. If we must have war, let it be an open war. Let gentlemen come forward with a bold and manly front, and declare war; and not attempt, in this covert manner, to decoy and deceive the people into war. I honor the open conduct of the gentleman from Virginia, he has not hesitated to declare that his sentiments and wishes are for war. If I entertained the same opinion of the conduct of our administration, and of foreign nations, as he has declared I would join him heart and hand for a declaration of war. But, Sir, the policy of our country is pacific; as I hope it always will be. The nation will
not consent to go to war until all honorable and fair means have been attempted to settle differences by negotiation; a negotiation conducted in a manner that shall evince the most perfect sincerity and justice. An administration that should commence a war, against the public sentiment, would assume an awful responsibility; and bring on themselves and their country inevitable disgrace. Even the monarchy of England cannot sustain a war that is unpopular.
The gentleman from Virginia, has, in pathetic strains, invited us, he has in emphatic language called upon all parties to unite in supporting the cause of our country. In the cause of our country we will unite. The American people will all unite in supporting our nation's independence, and in the defense of our rights. In no portion of this union will the people be more united, or more obedient to such a call than in New-England. They will not surrender but with their lives, either to foreign domination, or domestic despotism, their unalienable privilege as freemen, their birth right.
But, Sir, there is a manifest difference between a call to support our country's cause—and a call to support the measures of an administration. The former is peremptory and irresistible. But the latter is not entitled to the like support; unless its measures are founded in justice, wisdom and sound policy. The people of New-England have sufficient discernment to see the difference between the constitution of the United States and the administration . Between their country and the administration of its government. They cannot be induced to sacrifice their best interests to support the failing projects of an administration, whose political character and influence, and not the honor and interest of the country, are at stake on the measures now proposed to be enforced.
An administration to be just must be sincere and impartial, both towards foreign nations and our own citizens. Conscious of this truth, the gentleman from Virginia, has declared, in the most decisive language, that the present administration have been both sincere and impartial; and has challenged us to adduce proof to the contrary. As the gentleman from Delaware (Mr. Bayard) has so ably and so conclusively proved the insincerity and partiality of the administration, as regards foreign or the senate on not take up but confine myself to a very few remarks upon the insincerity and partiality which have been practised upon our own citizens. May I not ask whether the commencement of this administration was not distinguished by circumstances which might well excite doubts of executive sincerity? In the inaugural speech we were told—"all will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful, must be reasonable, that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Let us then fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect, that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans: we are federalists.—Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political."—I was so credulous as to think all this sincere. I went home, and was active and in earnest to propagate the same opinion among the people of the state to which I belonged. The people were prepared not only to support the constitution and

government of their country, which they will always do, but such an administration as they understood, from the inaugural speech, we were to have. A few months only elapsed, however, before there was displayed a spirit of intolerance and party spirit, which filled them with astonishment. Persons, old revolutionary characters, were displaced, not for want of talents or integrity to the due execution of their offices, nor for any neglect or infidelity in the performance of their duty. Whether such removals were merely on account of political opinion, or because such men would not be obsequious to the particular and private views of the executive, I leave to others to explain. Though eight years have elapsed, this political intolerance has not ceased—during this very session we have been called upon to sanction appointments to fill vacancies made by such removals. Like partiality and injustice have been practised towards citizens of the United States, in regard to appointments to new offices. I will not take up the time of the senate in enumerating cases; the appointments of the present session are fresh in the minds of every member of this body. Unfortunately, the time has never yet arrived; when the only enquiry was to be, "is he honest, is he capable, is he faithful to the constitution." Sir, an administration thus conducting is not entitled to support; and an administration thus managing the affairs of a nation will not ultimately be supported.
I shall next enquire in what has consisted the wisdom of the administration as regards their measures? Those measures which have been adopted, and are now proposed to be extended and enforced; for they are links of the same chain, and as they regard foreign nations are feeble, and as far as the experiment has been made, have proved wholly inefficient. While at home they have prostrated commerce—destroyed both our revenue and our industry—given encouragement to fraud, deception and violence; exposing the honest, industrious, unsuspecting citizen to become the dupe, and the prey of unprincipled speculators—deprived many of our fellow-citizens of the means of gaining a subsistence—and rendered them incapable of contributing any thing to the general defence and security of the nation. In the management of our foreign relations there has been such a want of wisdom as to bring our country (to use the expression of the gentleman from V.) "into an awful crisis;" and if the same course of measures is to be persevered in, we shall, in all probability, be entangled in inextricable broils.
As to found policy as regards the measures of the present administration, I have not been appointed to the measures now pursuing. Let me ask, the reverse of sound policy—administering another power—the policy of a timid and fainting administration to a pabulum? Has not experience shown us that there is no policy in non-importation and non-intercourse laws? Can it consist with good policy to increase the discontent of a people driven almost to desperation, by attempting to enforce by the bayonet, acts which are opposed to the sentiments, feelings and interest of the people? So long as the people preserve their liberties, and reserve in their own hands their arms, can it be prudent or politic for an administration to attempt coercion?
Mr. President, I will now close my remarks with a concise prospective view. If we pass this bill, in what situation will the President elect find our affairs on the 4th day of March next, when he is to take the chair of state? To the Embargo, and various supplementary acts, and the enforcing feature, the unpopular part of which an administration of eight years standing, aided by the personal popularity of the Chief Magistrate, could not sustain; we are about to superadd a non-importation, and a non-intercourse; measures as incapable of execution—not less inefficient in regard to foreign nations—and as they respect ourselves equally oppressive and injurious, and, if possible more odious than the Embargo. This bill is covert war, and not only gives to the President of the United States the power, but seems to lay him under a necessity of commencing active war; which by the constitution is confined only to Congress. By this bill we are about to extend that threatening policy, which is not likely to bring about an amicable adjustment of differences, but is, as well as other provisions of the bill, artfully calculated to involve our country in war. No power having national feelings, or regard to national character and possessing the means of resistance, will submit to such coercion.
Is it conducting candidly towards the President elect? Is it giving him a fair opportunity, for the present Congress to lay him under the necessity of going to war, or of receiving in a manner to which fame might be disposed to attach the idea of disgrace? No, Sir, good policy requires that we now recede from measures found to be ineffectual or injurious. There would be magnanimity in this. To retract errors becomes a great mind. We ought to repeal the Embargo altogether; and leave the President elect free to adopt such measures, and to pursue such a course as wisdom, found policy, and the lessons of experience may dictate. In this situation the President elect would have it in his power to extricate us from our present embarrassments, if fortunately he should possess the fortitude and mananimity (which may I not be permitted to hope will be the case) to determine to assume the elevated character of President of the United States, and not to become the chief of a party.
If the administration which is to commence on the 4th of March, shall adopt and pursue a course of measures which shall wear the stamp of sincerity, justice, wisdom and sound policy, both as regards our own citizens and foreign nations, it will have the cordial co-operation and firm support of the great body of the people; but if, governed by an intolerant spirit of party, a persecuting spirit as regards our own citizens; or a want of sincerity or justice towards any foreign nation; such an administration will not be supported; and, on the experiment, it will be found that such an administration cannot go on with the government.
Foreign Intelligence. Received at New York on the 6th inst. by an arrival 43 days from Falmouth, England.
THE KING'S SPEECH. On Thursday, January 19, the house of lords met pursuant to prorogation, when the lord chancellor, the archbishop of Canterbury, lord Camden, and the duke of Montrose took their seats in their robes upon the wool sack, as his majesty's commissioners; and the speaker & the members of the house of commons being in attendance, the chancellor delivered the following speech from his majesty:
My Lords and Gentlemen, We have it in command from his majesty, to state to you, that his majesty has called you together, in perfect confidence that you are prepared cordially to support his majesty in the prosecution of a war, which there is no hope of terminating safely and honorably, except through vigorous and persevering exertion. We are to acquaint you that his majesty has directed to be laid before you copies of the proposals for opening a negotiation, which were transmitted to his majesty from Er-furth; and of the correspondence which thereupon took place with the government of Russia and of France, together with the declaration issued by his majesty's command on the termination of that correspondence. His majesty is persuaded that you will participate in the feelings which were expressed by his majesty, when it was required that his majesty should consent to commence the negotiation by abandoning the cause of Spain, which he had so recently and cordially espoused.
We are commanded to inform you, that his majesty continues to receive from the Spanish government the strongest assurances of their determined perseverance in the cause of the legitimate monarchy, and of the national independence of Spain; and to assure you, that so long as the people of Spain remain true to themselves, his majesty will continue to be their most strenuous ally and support. His majesty has renewed to the Spanish nation, in the moment of its difficulties and reverses, the engagements which he voluntarily contracted at the outset of its struggle against the usurpation and tyranny of France; and we are commanded to acquaint you, that these engagements have been reduced into the form of a treaty of alliance; which treaty, as soon as the ratifications shall have been exchanged, his majesty will cause to be laid before you. His majesty commands us to state to you, that while his majesty contemplated with the liveliest satisfaction the achievements of his own forces in the commencement of the campaign in Portugal, and the deliverance of the kingdom of his Ally from the presence and oppressions of the French army, his majesty most deeply regretted the termination of that campaign by an Armistice and convention, of some of the articles of which his majesty has felt himself obliged formally to declare his disapprobation.
We are to express to you his majesty's reliance on your disposition to enable his majesty to continue the aid afforded by his majesty to the king of Sweden. That monarch derives a peculiar claim to his majesty's support in the present exigency of his affairs, from having concurred with his majesty in the propriety of rejecting any proposal for negotiation to which the government of Spain was not to be admitted as a party.
It is conducting candidly towards the President elect? Is it giving him a fair opportunity, for the present Congress to lay him under the necessity of going to war, or of receiving in a manner to which fame might be disposed to attach the idea of disgrace? No, Sir, good policy requires that we now recede from measures found to be ineffectual or injurious. There would be magnanimity in this. To retract errors becomes a great mind. We ought to repeal the Embargo altogether; and leave the President elect free to adopt such measures, and to pursue such a course as wisdom, found policy, and the lessons of experience may dictate. In this situation the President elect would have it in his power to extricate us from our present embarrassments, if fortunately he should possess the fortitude and mananimity (which may I not be permitted to hope will be the case) to determine to assume the elevated character of President of the United States, and not to become the chief of a party.
Gentlemen of the house of Commons. We are commanded by his majesty to inform you, that he has directed the estimates of the current year to be laid before you. His majesty relies upon your zeal and affection to make such further provisions of supply as the vigorous prosecution of the war may render necessary; and he trusts that you may be enabled to find the means of providing such supply without any great or immediate increase of the existing burthens upon his people. His majesty feels assured it will be highly satisfactory to you to learn, that notwithstanding the measures resorted to by the enemy for the purpose of destroying the commerce and resources of his kingdom, the public revenue has continued in a course of progressive improvement.
My Lords and Gentlemen, We are directed to inform you that the measures adopted by parliament in the last session for establishing a local militia, has been already attended with the happiest success, and promises to be extensively and permanently beneficial to the country. We have received his majesty's commands most especially to recommend to you, that, duly weighing the immense interests which are at stake in the war now carrying on, you should proceed with as little delay as possible to consider of the most effectual measures for the augmentation of the regular army, in order that his majesty may be better enabled, without impairing the means of defence at home, to avail himself of the military power of his dominions in the great contest in which he is engaged; and to conduct that contest, under the blessing of Divine Providence, to a conclusion compatible with the honor of his majesty's crown, and with the interest of his allies, of Europe and the world.
LONDON, JAN. 25. On Gen. Moore's being killed at Corunna, the command devolved on Gen. Baird, and on his being wounded, it descended to Gen. Hope. Accounts of the battle which immediately preceded the embarkation of the British, were published by government in the London Gazette yesterday. Gen. Baird, in the course of a short letter, says, "the battle terminated in the complete and entire repulse and defeat of the enemy at every point of attack." Gen. Hope gives the detailed account in a letter to Gen. Baird, dated Jan. 18. He states that the attack commenced at 1 P. M.; that before 5, the British had not only repelled every onset, but gained ground at almost all points, and occupied a more forward line than at the commencement of the action; that at 6, the firing ceased;—that notwithstanding the result of this battle, it was thought proper to pursue the determination of Gen. Moore, to embark the troops on the night of the 16th; preparations for which had been previously made. The troops were mostly withdrawn at 10 at night, and embarked before day-light, and the piquets called in about 7 in the morning. Soon after the French, for the first time, discovered the British had nearly all embarked, and they advanced, and annoyed those who remained; but the following day and night, all the British were on ship board, except a few who were on ship board in the battle of Corunna. The French lost he estimates at double that number.
LONDON, JAN. 29. General Blake's family are among the recent arrivals from Corunna; but the General is not with them. The total loss sustained by the British army in Spain, from the moment they entered that country till they finally evacuated it, is reported amounts to little more than 4000 men. The whole of the returns have not yet been accurately made out; but as far as they have been received it is proved, that instead of 19,000, upwards of 25,000 embarked at Corunna, and 3,100 at Vigo. The following is an abstract of the returns already received:
   EMBARKED AT CORUNNA.     Cavalry 2,872   Engineers, Artillery Drivers, &c. 2,686   Infantry 19,539   Total, sick included 25,097     EMBARKED AT VIGO.     General Craufurd's Brigade 3,100   Grand Total 28,197  
Which, added to Gen. Mackenzie's Brigade in Portugal, consisting of between 6 and 7000 men, makes the grand total about 35,000 men. An account has been received of the loss of part of the baggage under the command of Sir John Moore. We understand that the muleteers, who had been hired to carry the baggage, took fright on the appearance of the French cavalry, cut the bands which kept the packages on the backs of their mules, dropped and left them to be picked up by friend or foe, while they scampered off, and took shelter in their native mountains. It was not owing to treachery or theft, but to personal fear that the British owe their loss; for those muleteers are proverbial for their honesty. Government have given orders for the building of sixty small ships of war, for a specific object; thirty of which are to be built at the out ports, and the rest at the dock yard at Deptford, and in the vicinity of London.
LONDON, FEB. 1. The papers relative to the negotiations with the American Ministers were laid before Parliament this day. The French frigate La Hebe, from Bordeaux for St. Domingo, has been captured by the British frigate La Loire.
LONDON, FEB. 5. The plan of another expedition to Spain has been given up for the present. Bonaparte is said to have determined to join in France all Spain east of the Ebro, and to annex Portugal to Spain. Mr. Canning has appointed his particular friend Mr. Melish, Consul at Louisbourg. This augurs an expectation of a speedy settlement with America. We may again consider ourselves excluded from the ports of Spain and Portugal, in Europe, and Sweden may soon be obliged to obey a mandate to shut her ports against British vessels.
LONDON, FEB. 12. The King and Queen of Prussia are at Peterburgh, on a visit to the Emperor of Russia. A dreadful scarcity of provisions exists at Copenhagen. Joseph Bonaparte has again made a triumphal entry into Madrid, been crowned, and received the homage of those he has made his subjects. We have received Dutch papers to the 29th ult. The Austrians continue to augment their military force, and the French are strengthening themselves in Germany.
LONDON, FEB. 16. Revolution in Buenos-Ayres. A Revolution has broken out at Buenos Ayres, in South America, under the celebrated Liniers, who has declared his intention to shake off the dominion of Spain. He has been joined by numbers, and the Governor of Paraguay, his brother in law, has likewise openly avowed the same cause. Gen. Elio, the Governor of Monte Video, is the only person who has as yet, dared to oppose those insurgents.
LONDON, FEB. 18. A motion to rescind the Orders in Council made by Lord Grenville, was negatived last night—ayes 70, noes 115. The anti-ministerialists said the American proposition to raise the embargo, ought to have been accepted. Lord Melville, said the Orders in Council were merely retaliatory, and the French Decrees must be rescinded first. That the embargo had nothing to do with the Orders, as it was professed to be a mere municipal measure.
Particulars of the Death of Sir John Moore, by Colonel Anderson. I met the General on the evening of the 16th inst. as some soldiers were bringing him into Corunna, supported in a blanket with sashes. He knew me immediately tho' it was almost dark; squeezed me by the hand, and said, "Do not leave me!"—He spoke to the surgeons on their examining his wound, but was in such pain he could say but little. After some time he seemed very anxious to speak to me; and at intervals, expressed himself as follows:
The first question he asked was—"Are the French beaten?" which inquiry he repeated to all those he knew, as they entered the room. On being assured, by all, that the French were beaten, he exclaimed, "I HOPE THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND WILL BE SATISFIED—I HOPE MY COUNTRY WILL DO ME JUSTICE. You will see my friends as soon as you possibly can—tell them everything—say to my Mother—[here his voice failed him] Hope, Hope—I have much to say, but cannot get it out. Is Col. Graham, and are all my aids-de-camp, well? I have made my will, and have remembered my servants. Colborne has my Will and all my papers."
Major Colborne (his principal aid-de-camp) then came into the room—he spoke most kindly to him, and then said to me—"Remember you go to _____, and tell him it is my request, and that I expect he will befriend major Colborne; he has been long with me, and I know him most worthy of it." He then again asked major Colborne, if the French were beaten? and on being told they were repulsed on every point, he said, "It was a great satisfaction, in his last moments, to know he had beaten the French." "Is General Paget in the room?"—On my calling him he was not, he said, "Remember me to him—I feel myself so strong, I fear I shall be long living. I am in great pain."
He then thanked the Doctors for their attention. Captains Percy and Stanhope came into the room; he spoke kindly to both, and asked Percy, if all his aids-de-camp were well?—He pressed my hand close to his body, and in a few minutes died without a struggle. He said to me, while the surgeons were examining his wound—"You know I have always wished to die this way." As far as I can recollect, this is every thing he said, except asking to be placed in an easier posture.
By the Sails.
All the Embargo Laws Revived. CEASAR A. RODNEY, Esq. Attorney General of the U. States, (says the Baltimore Federal Republican) since the adjournment of Congress, has given it as his opinion, that the embargo is only suspended by the bill substituting a non-intercourse, and repealing the embargo on the 15th of March, and that if the non-intercourse bill is not acted upon at the next session, and is permitted to expire, the embargo law is ipso facto revived. His opinion is grounded upon this position. The embargo is a law without limitation, and cannot be repealed by a limited law.
The words of the act are as follows: Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That this law shall continue and be in force until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer; and the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, and the several acts supplementary thereto, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed from and after the end of the next session of Congress.
This clause is, in the opinion of Mr. Rodney, wholly inoperative, and was designed to deceive the nation, or it takes effect instantly, although the time appointed for the total repeal of the embargo laws is at the end of the next Congress.
If the Attorney General's position be tenable, Congress has been guilty of practising a political fraud upon the country, which merits the execration of all honest men. Under the opinion given, vessels may be caught on their return voyage, and also others in port loaded, and upon the point of
venting, may be detained. The session of Congress was opened with an attempt to deceive the nation, and Mr. Rodney is of opinion that they have accomplished their object, in a most masterly manner.
BOSTON, APRIL 11. An examination of charges against the Duke of York is progressing in the British House of Commons. The charges are for an abuse of patronage, and the principal witness is a Mrs. CLARKE. What would have been thought if the complaint against WILKINSON rested only on an old woman's testimony? Really it appears more facile to obtain an investigation of a great man's conduct in England, than in this country now; and as to abuse of patronage, let our Rulers review their conduct.
A Mr. OAKLEY is said to be appointed to bring to the U. S. new propositions from the British Government for an accommodation with us. He was to be landed at Norfolk, and has undoubtedly arrived there. We presume despatches from our Minister by the British Packet, will have apprised Government of the nature of the propositions. We get no propositions from France.
Warrants have been issued by the United States Court at Philadelphia, against Gen. Bright and the other Officers, and Soldiers, who resisted the Marshal.
Communications.
Federalists of Maine!
Attend to the following article extracted from the Eastern Argus of Thursday last:—"REPUBLICANS OF MAINE! "I hope you will not suffer yourselves to be deceived by artful and designing men, many of whom neither labor for you nor themselves—but expect you to maintain them, be their number ever so large, or your labor ever so hard. Last year the Feds sent expressions to some of the Federal Towns, and had second meetings called, and really had additions made to their Representatives—such was their anxiety on that occasion.
Let it be remembered, that the Traveling Elect-expenses are paid out of the public chest. If there should be 500 Representatives, whose travel will average say 20 dollars each, amounting to 10 000: the extra expense of travel for a town sending a member, suppose the towns all pay alike, would be about four cents more for the town that sent, than the one that did not send—because they must pay their proportion of all the travel in the state, and their sending would make but one five hundredth part of one travel, for each member, and to a town that sends two members it would be eight cents only for travel.—The only consideration then is, perhaps five or six days pay at the commencement of the session to organize the government, and secure the election of Republican Senators and other Officers. Perhaps all might then return whose towns did not choose to have them continue; and in that case, should any important business come before the Court which might call for a full Representation, each town would have it in their power to send. If there ever was a time when the People ought to be fully represented, it is the present time—Consider the whole world is in war and tumult, and we know not how soon we may be obliged to defend ourselves from the attacks of one or the other of the contending parties: how important then it is that all the People should have a voice in the deliberations of the government. A Citizen of Maine."
'Tis requested you would consider the arguments contained in the above extract.—I am not disposed to find fault with the ideas of the writer. I agree, with him on almost every point; and a, earnestly pray as he does, that every federal town in Maine would send its full number of Representatives. The times require the exertion. The enemies of our free extract proves it. The Democrats, it is said, that Mr. Gore has a large majority of votes for Governor and that a majority of the Senate chosen are federal, are the more anxious to have a Democratic House of Representatives. This is a darling object with them—then they will have the casting and handling of the votes for Governor:—and who knows what will be the consequence. Never forget the shameful measures they used to get rid of Governor Strong three years ago. Be up and doing! Suffer no reason to prevent every federal town from sending its full number. A FIRM FEDERALIST.
ATTENTION!
IT must be grateful to the feelings of every good man and friend of peace and order to see the changes which have taken place in many of the towns in this District with respect to their political sentiments—they have been convinced of their error and have seen the arts of those who have heretofore deceived them, and have now with manly independence and honest frankness, changed their opinions and their conduct. In this instance they have done themselves the highest honor, and aided the cause of truth and principle by giving them their support. These towns will certainly on no account whatever neglect to continue their patriotic exertions and send as many Representatives this year as they are entitled to send. The times require the steady exertions of all good men. The towns which have changed from error to truth have done much towards placing Mr. Gore in the Chair of State—perhaps they have decided his election by their votes—Pride as well as Patriotism will call them again into action—and let all the federal towns in Maine say Amen and so do so like wise. SOLOMON.
Democratic Plot. The democrats have resolved to use all their powers and arts to persuade the towns in which there is a democratic

majority, to send as many Representatives this year as they can by law—and to persuade the towns in which there is a federal majority not to send any representatives, on account of the expense—Federalists! beware—do your duty, and heaven will reward you—but if you don't you will ere long repent of your inattention.
Portland,
Monday, April 17, 1809.
FOREIGN NEWS.
THERE have been several arrivals of late from different parts of Europe. For the principal articles of intelligence see foreign head. Affairs in Spain wear some what of a gloomy aspect. The English forces in Spain after considerable hard fighting were compelled to leave the kingdom and return home. Their loss during the campaign is estimated at 4000 men, among whom was their brave commander, Gen. Moore. Joseph Bonaparte has entered Madrid a second time, and met with the same cold reception as at first. There are no accounts that the French have invaded Portugal again. Bonaparte has returned to Paris to watch the motions of Austria and Turkey. If the Spanish Patriots are completely conquered by France, it will be in vain for other nations which have been enslaved by the Corsican Usurper, to attempt to throw off the yoke. Let the partisans of French domination in this country say what they please, England stands the only barrier, capable of checking the tyrant of Europe in his career to universal dominion. The southern papers mention the arrival of a Mr. Oakley, at Norfolk, charged with dispatches to Mr. Erskine, the British Minister to the U. S. Report says, they are propositions of a commercial nature for the restoration of harmony and intercourse between the two countries. It is a subject much to be desired that both governments would waive all minor considerations and unite in reestablishing that friendly intercourse which the interest of both nations so much require.
Votes for Governor.
Table with 4 columns: Town, Gore, Lincoln, Gore, Sullivan. Rows include Fryeburg, Brownfield, Denmark, Lovell, Hiram, Newry, Gilead, Eastandover, Bethel. Totals: 2358, 2815, 1584, 2336.
Table with 4 columns: Town, Gore, Lincoln, Gore, Sullivan. Rows include Rumford, Sumner. Totals: 3297, 3314, 3120, 3038.
Table with 4 columns: Town, Gore, Lincoln, Gore, Sullivan. Rows include Canaan, Emden, Fairfield, Madison, New-Portland, Vienna, Waterville, Westport, plant. Totals: 2193, 2817, 1318, 2658.
TOTAL, 11,201 12,473 8,406 11,304. The net Federal Gain in 413 towns, is 5910! Mr. Gore has 45,557, Mr. Lincoln 42,682. Last year Mr. Gore had, in the same towns, 38,129, and Mr. Sullivan 41,164.
The result of the late election in this state is so far known that even the democrats allow that Mr. Gore will have several thousand more votes than their would-be-thought Gen. Lincoln; but they pretend to find great consolation in saying that the federalists are disappointed, because their majority is not larger. It will be recollected that the democratic candidate, the last year, had over the federal one, a plurality of between two and three thousand; this year, the plurality will be larger in favour of the federal, than it was for the democratic candidate last year. Considering how unjust, arbitrary and ruinous the measures pursued by the democrats in power, have been, no wonder that some should have entertained the idea that there would have been nearly an unanimous vote for Mr. Gore. But when we look at the means employed by the Chiefs of the democratic party, it is not surprising that a large number of honest, unsuspecting citizens who have not an opportunity of acquiring correct information should be led astray. If what the democratic papers have published of Mr. Gore was true, he ought not to have been supported. But it is the pride and
boast of those acquainted with the life and principles of this gentleman, to know that all the democratic reflections on him, are absolute falsehoods. Lies invented by a gang of vile and unprincipled factionists in this state, and circulated merely for electioneering purposes. Ask these libellers of virtue & talents for the evidence they found the charges against Mr. Gore upon and they are dumb or compelled to resort to sophistry. As proof of his being under British influence, they can say he has been in England. But the democratic printers dare not inform their readers that in obedience, at the request and by the appointment of Washington he went there to prosecute the claims of American citizens against the British government for illegal captures—which commission he executed in a manner which met the high approbation of President Washington, and the claimants.
Instead of stating these facts as the object of Mr. Gore's going to England, the democrats say that he was born and educated in that country. During the revolutionary war he shouldered his musket as a volunteer in support of his country's rights and independence. Instead of publishing this fact, the democrats have asserted that he was a Lieutenant on board Mowatt's ship when he burnt Falmouth. When the federal constitution was under consideration in the convention of Massachusetts, he was a member, and ably and zealously advocated its adoption. Instead of stating his patriotic and honorable exertions in these situations, the democrats tell the people he is an "old tory" and an enemy to the American constitutions. These are only a few of the falsehoods spread through the state, by those who are striving to get into power and office themselves by defeating the election of Mr. Gore, who is, and has uniformly been the firm and undeviating advocate of the liberties and independence of the United States.
But the part Mr. Gore performed as one of the legislature the year past, will forever insure him the opposition of the enemies of commerce and the partisans of Jefferson, Bonaparte and Tyranny. He disapproved of the destruction of our commerce, of the violation of our constitutional rights and liberties in the arbitrary and oppressive provisions in the embargo laws. If he had remained a silent spectator of the unwarrantable encroachments of the administration of the general government, he would have been unworthy the countenance of freemen. And for this he is charged with a disposition to divide the Union. But let the people remember that only those are the true friends of the union, who contend for a wise and faithful administration of the Federal Constitution, whilst those who approve of its being violated, are its most deadly foes.
THE Argus and other democratic papers have endeavored to impress on the minds of the Quakers, that it was owing to the exertions of the democratic Senators that a law was not passed, taxing them six dollars a year for not doing military duty, and urges them to elect democrats to prevent the legislature from passing such a law in future! Their whole of the statement respecting the militia law, reported at the last winter session, is founded in falsehood and misrepresentation. The bill was reported in the Senate, containing a section for taxing the Quakers six dollars, in consequence of their being excused from military duty. William King and John L. Tuttle, two flaming democrats, were of the committee who reported in favor of taxing them; and it was a FEDERAL Senate who voted to strike out the clause. Whether the principle of exempting the Quakers, is right or not, the democrats have nothing to boast of. It is not owing to any regard which democrats entertain for the rights of conscience or religion, that induces them to notice these subjects; but they hope, by their canting hypocrisy, to enlist the uninformed into their ranks; and by such low and base arts, raise themselves to power and office. If these people-loving hypocrites had been in power in the early period of our independence, the citizens of the United States would have had no security for either their civil or religious privileges: They did every thing in their power to prevent the adoption of the Constitution which guards their rights; and they continue to this day to pervert and destroy its principles. After having been the authors of our troubles and embarrassments, and done the work of iniquity themselves, they have the shameless effrontery to endeavor to throw the blame upon the Federalists.
DEMOCRATIC INVENTION.
The following extract is from the last Argus : "Resolved, That in all the towns where there are Federal majorities, every exertion be made by the Federalists in such Towns to have as many Representatives as the Constitution will admit of. And that in all the Towns where there are Republican majorities, the Federalists therein are to use every argument in their power to prevent sending a full Representation, by pointing out the expense it will put the Town to, and how unable they are to pay it; and if possible to prevent a Republican majority in the House of Representatives, the ensuing year." Till the sapient caterer for the Argus shall inform the public when and where any federalists passed a resolve of the kind above quoted he will be justly entitled to the character of a fool and a liar. If the democratic cause is worthy of support, why resort to
falsehood? The federalists do not desire the electors to neglect the rights of representation. If the citizens of the District of Maine are not satisfied with the embargo policy, they will undoubtedly follow the advice of this Argus scribbler and elect democrats, that the Legislature of Massachusetts may once more pray and beseech Mr. Madison to persevere in Mr. Jefferson's measures, till the inhabitants of this state are as independent as poverty can make them. Or is it the plan of the democrats to get a majority in the Legislature, that they may once more help their own dear selves to fifty-eight thousand dollars more of the people's money? We should suppose that the Farmers of Massachusetts earn their money too hard to entrust it to a set of Skinnners .
Military Election. —At a meeting of the members of Ward No. 2, held at the Court-House, on Monday last, for the choice of officers, Lieut. STEPHEN FOSTER, was chosen Captain; Ensign JOHN NICHOLLS, promoted to a Lieutenant, and Mr. ELEAZAR WYER, was chosen Ensign.
In the list of town officers, published in our last, the Surveyors of Highways were accidentally omitted.—The gentlemen chosen to that office are David Ross and Geo. Warren.
COMMUNICATED. Died, on Saturday the first instant, Rev. TRISTRAM GILMAN, A. M. pastor of the first church and congregation in North-yarmouth, aged 73 years and 4 months. On Tuesday following, his remains were entombed. Great respect was paid to his memory. Between one and two o'clock, p. m. the procession moved from his late dwelling-house to the meeting-house. His pall was supported by the Rev. Mr. Appleton, President of Bowdoin College, Rev. Mr. Estlin, Rev. Mr. Lancaster, Rev. Mr. Herrick, Rev. Mr. Kellogg, and Rev. Mr. Mosely. The Rev. Messrs. Smith, Green, Bradley, Weston, Lyman, Millmore and Dutton, followed as mourners next to the family. After them the church of which Mr. Gilman was Pastor; next to these the parish, and then strangers and members of other churches. The Rev. Mr. Appleton made the first prayer, Mr. Estlin preached an excellent sermon from Rev. 14 and 13, and Mr. Lancaster made the concluding prayer. Beside the usual singings, a funeral anthem was performed, and at the grave Mr. Kellogg made an appropriate address to the mourners, bereaved church & congregation, and to the people at large.—The numbers assembled were many. The procession was very extensive, and the whole conducted with great solemnity. [A biographical sketch of the life of Mr. Gilman, is unavoidably omitted until our next.]
TOWN OFFICER.
A NEW and improved Edition (being the seventh) of the Town Officers, has been lately published. A few Copies thereof may be purchased at the Bookstore of JOHN PLATT, in Fore-Street, Portland.—Price, 1 doll. 25 cts. It contains the Constitution of this Commonwealth, and of the United States.
BOOTS STOLEN!
IF the person who stole a pair of back strapped BOOTS from a house in this town, about the 7th inst. will leave the same at the house from which he took them, he may rest assured that no questions shall be asked him; but on the contrary shall receive another pair in their stead.—Otherwise measures will be taken for bringing him to punishment. He is requested to call at this office, also, and hear of something highly to his advantage. April 17.
Cackling among the Pullets.
SPECIAL MEETING. THE Members of the Pullet Club, and the Members of the order of the Elect Lady, are requested to meet This Evening, at 7 o'clock at the New Henroost Lodge, to devise invecives and pass sentence upon one of the fitherhood who has dared to denounce our Lodge to Men, and profaned our Monastic Order. Per order. TABITHA CREEPER, Sec'y. r. t. April 17.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of the Tenth N. Hampshire Turnpike Corporation, who have not paid the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth Assessments, on their several Shares—which Shares will be sold at public auction, at the Dwelling-house of Capt. Eleazer Robbrooks, on said grant, on Wednesday the seventh day of June next, at one of the clock in the afternoon; unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 4 columns: Proprietor's Name, Original Shares, No. of Shares, Amount. Rows include Jonas Baker, Eleazer Denison, Jonathan Wear, Samuel Wetherbee, H. Y. B. Osgood, Joseph Benton, Jonathan Farnum, John Taber & Son, Isaac Parker, Dan White. Totals: 11,201 12,473 8,406 11,304.
GUM OPIUM. JUST received, and for sale by Henry F. Duce & Son, a few pounds of Gum Opium, of the first quality, at their Store No. 6 Mussey's Row, Middle Street.
JUNIPER BERRIES. Wanted to purchase about One Hundred Bushels—for which a generous price will be given, and Cash paid on delivery. April 17.
MARTIN THAXTER Respectfully informs his friends and the Public in general, that he has commenced the BAKING BUSINESS, in Fore-Street, between the foot of Union-Street and the foot of Cross-Street; where he intends to carry on the business in all its various branches, and solicit a share of the patronage of a liberal Public.
For Sale, as above, A few Barrels fine & superfine FLOUR, which is warranted fresh and new, and will be sold as low as can be purchased in town. Portland April, 17.
TAKE NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the late firm of HORN & BELFORD, are called upon to adjust the same without delay; and thereby prevent unnecessary costs. JAMES HORN, DAVIS BELFORD. April 17.
Fifty Dollars Reward. ON the night of the 5th inst. the Store of the Subscriber was broken open, and sundry Goods stolen therefrom—among which are the following — Blue Broadcloths—olive do—blue Forest Cloths—Calicos—India Cottons, wide and narrow—India Checks—white Cambrics—white Flannels—Vest Patterns—Pocket Handkerchiefs—men's thick and thin Shoes—women's Morocco do—black and red Fishing Boots—Brandy—Rum—Sugar—Pepper—Tea, &c. &c. Any person who will apprehend said Thief or Thieves, so that they may be brought to punishment and the Goods recovered, shall receive the above Reward; or Thirty Dollars for the Goods only, and all necessary charges paid. JOSEPH MAXWELL. Portland, April 17.
STOP THIEF! STOLEN on board the brig Delaware, on Monday last, about 4 o'clock, P. M. a large Silver WATCH, capt. runs on a diamond, made by M. Tobias, at Bell Dock, Liverpool, with a Gold Chain, Key, and Seal—the stone in the seal is cracked nearly across the middle—Whoever will stop said thief, or return said Watch, shall be handsomely rewarded, and all reasonable charges paid—Apply at this Office. April 17.
GARDEN SEEDS, As usual, next door to the Portland Bank, of an excellent quality, and general assortment. DAVID GRIFFITH. Portland, April 17, 1809.
FURS WANTED. CASH and the highest price given for all kinds of HATTING FURS, at No 1, Mussey's Row—where the subscriber solicits those who have Furs to sell, to call on him. JOSHUA SHAW. Portland, April 17.
TO LET, A Handsome convenient two story DWELLING-HOUSE, situated in Federal-street, suitable for one or two Families; together with a Woodhouse, and a good well of water. Possession can be given immediately.—Inquire of THOMAS D. OSGOOD. April 17.
NOTICE! THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that she has been duly appointed and has taken upon herself the trust of Administratrix on the estate of JOHN PARK LITTLE, late of Gorham, in the county of Cumberland, Esquire, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs—She therefore requests all persons who are indebted to the said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to JACOB S. SMITH who is empowered to settle the same. MARY J. LITTLE. April 13 1809.
Administrator's Notice. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Subscriber has been duly appointed Executor of the Estate of WILLIAM REED, late of Topsham, in the county of Lincoln, Yeoman, 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. JOHN REED, Executor. Harpswell, April 10, 1809.
NOTICE. THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that she has been duly appointed and has taken upon herself the trust of Administratrix on the Estate of DAVID CUSHING PRINCE, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Mariner, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs—She therefore requests all persons who are indebted to the said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to SOPHIA PRINCE. April 13, 1809.
TAKE NOTICE. THE Creditors to the estate of GEORGE PIERCE, late of Orisfield, in the county of Cumberland, Esq. deceased, are hereby informed, that a further time of four months from the 12th instant is allowed by the Hon. Samuel Freeman, Esq. Judge of Probate, of Wills, &c. for said county, to bring in and prove their claims to the subscribers, Commissioners on said estate. DANIEL TUCKER, ELIAS MERRILL, WILLIAM SWAIN. Portland, April 17, 1809.
For Sale Auction. THIS DAY, at 11 o'clock A. M. at E. Greely & Co's. Office, SIX Hds. Windward Island RUM, 4 do. Demerara do. Also—At private sale, One hundred Boxes of BROWN SUGAR. April 17.
Josiah Tucker's Estate. THE Creditors of the Estate of JOSIAH TUCKER, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Merchant, deceased, are hereby notified, that Sarah Tucker, Administratrix on said estate, has exhibited her account of administration to me the subscriber, Judge of the Court of Probate for said county, and that the same, together with an allowance to her as the widow of the said deceased, will be taken into consideration, at a Probate Court, to be held at the office of John Frothingham, Esq. in Portland, on the fourth Wednesday (being the twenty-sixth day) of April instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, when and where they may have opportunity to be heard thereon. SAMUEL FREEMAN. April 12, 1809.
Factory Yarn & Thread Store. JOSEPH POPE, informs his friends and the public that he is appointed Agent for Almy & Brown , of Providence, who will keep him constantly supplied from their long known & well established Factory, with a general assortment of Cotton Warp and Filling, White and colored Stocking, 2 & 3 thread, ditto ditto Thread in hanks and balls, Wick Yarn, Cotton Shirting and Sheeting, do. Check and Stripe, Bed Tick, &c. Which will be sold wholesale and retail at the Factory prices. Shopkeepers in town and country may be supplied on the same terms as at the Manufactories, by applying at No. 7, Mussey's Row. (6m) Dec. 19.
A FARM FOR SALE, IN the town of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, consisting of one hundred and five acres of land, of which thirty is Interval, and lying on Presumpscot River, and five miles from the town of Portland, and on the road that leads from Portland to Augusta, and into many of the back towns. Said farm is conveniently situated for a Public House, with a large two story House and Barn, with out houses. The soil of said farm is inferior to none.—Inquire of OLIVER WINSLOW. (t.f) Oct. 17.
Cut Nail Manufactory.
T. & E. ODIORNE. ARE Proprietors of a new patent machine, for cutting, and heading nail at one operation. They have established a Manufactory at Malden, near Boston, from which they expect, shortly, to furnish two tons of nails per day. They manufacture various sizes, and those of the same length they can make of greater or less thickness as the market they are intended for may require. Being sensible that the success of their undertaking must depend upon the good quality, and low prices of their nails, they are determined to pay due attention to these particulars. Orders will be carefully and punctually attended to, and the prices will be uniform, as well to distant customers, as to those who are near. 3 per cent is their usual discount for cash. (5w) Boston, March 1809.
TO BE LET, HALF of a convenient DWELLING-HOUSE, situated in Free Street, on reasonable terms.—Enquire of WILLIAM GODDARD.
LIME. D. PEASE has for sale, 1000 casks new burnt Thomaston STONE LIME. Portland, March 27, 1809. (6w)
CODFISH. FOR sale, 1000 quintals CODFISH, in good shipping order.—Inquire of ANTHONY FERNALD, central-Wharf. March 20.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. Rows include Cognac Brandy, Bourdeaux do, Hollands Gin, American do, Old Jamaica Spirits, St. Croix and Antigua Coffee, Rum, Cherry Brandy, Raspberry do, Aniseed, Madeira, Teneriffe, Lisbon, Sherry, Port and Claret, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong and Bohea, Ceylon, Mace, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves, Cassia, Pepper, Pimento, Ginger, Mustard, Soy, Catchup, Capers, Anchovies, Bottles & flasks Olive Oil, Ground Rice. The smallest favor punctually attended to. DAVID DANA. Portland, March 27.

Poetry.
FREE TRADE.
WE who were so happy and blest, We who were so cheerful and gay, At night we went sadly to rest, And merrily work'd thro' the day.
But how does the scene now appear? Must our sweet rural pastimes be o'er? Must the music no more strike the ear? Must the dance in the hall be no more?
Must the fruits of our farms be cropt? Must our cattle go straying abroad? Must the trade in our land be all stop? And our ships be all moor'd in the road?
Must our honour expire of its wounds? Must commerce grow sick of the tide? Must religion expire on the ground? And virtue sink down by its side.
Late Dimissions.
ECONOMICAL DEFENCE.
Mr Lloyd, in a late Speech in Congress, stated that "a bill had been exhibited to the Senate of Eight Hundred Dollars, for medical attendance on a single gun-boat for a single month, at New-Orleans." And he added, "that if other expenditures are to be made in this ratio, it requires few powers of calculation to foresee, that if the gun-boats can destroy nothing else, they will soon destroy the public treasury." We think this bill must have been presented by Wilkinson's Family Physician. It smacks very much of the General. O this money saving Administration.
Newspaper Revolutions.
The Political Observatory, lately printed at Walpole, (N. H.) and the Newburyport Statesman, have, it appears, gone to their long home! They were two of the fungus productions of the hotbed of Virginian Policy, during the days of delusion in the Eastern States. Unable to exist in the pure atmosphere which again surrounds the habitations of the hardy Sons of the North, they "sparkled, were exhal'd, and went to oblivion." Requiescant in pace. May not only their works, but most of their companions, follow them!
The death of the Observatory was foreboded, some time since, by the resurrection of the Farmers' Museum, once so celebrated as the "Lay Preacher's Gazette," which for a time it had superceded. The latter paper, since Mr. Dennie ceased to be its Editor, has been conducted by Alexander Thomas, Esq. one of the gentlemen who were removed from office by Mr. Granger, before the late President began to act as Post Master General, and is edited with as much taste and talent as any rural paper in the United States.
[Freeman's Journal]
Zachariah Shed, a transient man, has been arrested in Bristol (R.I.) for having passed counterfeit bills of the U. S. and other banks:—A number of counterfeits were found upon him.
Twelve houses were destroyed by fire, in Richmond, (Virg.) on the 27th ult.—There is not much loss of property except that contained in James Brown's vendue office.
A good subject for a bet.—Whether sickness in Lt. Governor Lincoln's family, or indisposition in himself, did not prevent his Honor from observing his own Fast by attendance on public worship.—Salem Gazette.
A new Barbary Power.
The Barbary powers in the North of Africa have so long and so successfully set the example of making slaves of their captives and demanding and receiving money for their ransom that one of the great nations of Europe, hitherto considered as civilized, has been induced to adopt the iniquitous and savage custom. —Yes! France, refined, imperial France, has become so lost to every thing that is deemed humane, decorous and honourable in the civilized world, that she imprisons and enslaves, not only her prisoners of war, but the citizens of a neutral nation who happen to be thrown within her reach, and refuses to release them, until she has received the price of their ransom —Language fails to describe the baseness, the unequalled baseness, of this barbarous conduct. It transcends even the barbarism of Tunis or Algiers. Let Americans read the following article from the Philadelphia Register; and let them remember that more than five hundred of their fellow citizens are in the same degraded and miserable situation with the one here mentioned—loaded with chains and languishing in the dungeons of France.
American Prisoners in France.
It is not for us to pry when our government will interfere for the relief of our fellow-citizens who are now suffering the most cruel and unjustifiable treatment in the Prisons of France; but it is our duty to place before the public the following statement of their wrongs.
The following Letter is from a youth of the most respectable connections in this city — If there is a Father, Son, or Brother, who can read it without emotions of sympathy and indignation, he is an object both of pity and contempt.
Rochelle, December 27, 1808.
DEAR BROTHER,
THE — was bound to Charente; we arrived at the Isle of Rhe, was brought to by the pilot, and the captain went on shore with four hands in the boat.—On our arrival we were separated from the captain, and ordered to speak to no person—I remained there 36 days without a shift of clothes, and nothing to
sleep upon but a little loose straw — From thence I was brought to this prison, and from the city prison to the hospital prison where I now remain and, thank God, as well as could be expected, after having the fever three times.
"I have been a prisoner upwards of three months, and I shall remain so until the captain pays one hundred and twenty dollars for me"—he has wrote to England for money, but God knows when he will get it, or whether his letter will reach England.
"If you have a good opportunity I beg you would send me some money to liberate me before a war breaks out."
*Note than the version of a Slave to the Algerines—And yet Senator Giles can dwell with rapture on the conduct of France towards his country!
PROPOSALS
ARE issued, and a handsome list of subscribers already obtained, for printing in ten elegant quarto volumes—price 6 dols. per vol. sheep, 7 dols. calf and 5 25 boards,
DR. GILL'S EXPOSITION
On the whole of the Old and New Testaments, CRITICAL, DOCTRINAL & PRACTICAL,
In which are recorded the original of Mankind, of the several nations of the world, and of the Jewish Nation in particular—the lives of the Patriarchs of Israel: the journey of that people from Egypt thro' the Wilderness to the land of Canaan, and their settlement in that land; their laws, moral ceremonial and judicial; their government, and state under judges and kings; their several captivities; and their sacred books of Devotion, with a copious exposition on the Books of the Prophets, showing that they chiefly belong to the Gospel times, and a great number of them to times yet to come, and a dissertation on the several Apocryphal writings. Containing a correct copy of the Sacred Text; an account of the several books, and the writers of them, a summary of each chapter, & the genuine sense of every verse; and throughout the whole, the original Text, and the versions of it, are inspected and compared; interpreters of the best note, both Jewish and Christian, consulted; difficult places at large explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, and various passages illustrated and confirmed, by testimonies of writers as well by Gentile as Jew.
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The Subscriber having made certain arrangements with Mr. WOODWARD, takes this method to inform individuals and Churches, who wish to subscribe for the above Work, that he holds a subscription Paper, and will be accommodating as respects the payments required by the publisher.
CALVIN STOCKBRIDGE.
North Yarmouth, March 28, 1809. N. B. Mr. MARK HARRIS, merchant, Portland, holds a subscription paper for the above work.
Court & Commercial Blanks, Constantly for sale at the Bookstore of ISAAC ADAMS.
DAVID BILL & CO, AT THE Portland Hat Warehouse, FISH-STREET—PORTLAND, HAVE just received from Providence, (R. I.) a complete assortment of Gentlemen's and Ladies
AMERICAN HATS; manufactured at the justly celebrated Factory in that place.
As one of the company resides and carries on the business in Providence, the utmost dependence may be placed on the faithful execution of their work, which has proved equal and in many instances superior to imported Hats.
Such arrangements have been made as to enable them, at all times, to keep their assortment complete—with which the public may be supplied on as advantageous terms as at any store in the District of Maine. April 10
GARDEN SEEDS.
JUST received and now ready for sale at the store of Henry F. Ducee & Son, No. 6, Mussey's Row, Middle-Street, a general assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, of the first quality. ALSO, One hundred Shooks and Heading Twelve Barrels Mackerell in prime Order—Inquire as above. April 10.
Boot & Shoe Making.
ASA JORDAN, (lately employed by Joshua Shaw, as foreman) RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public, that he has taken the Shop lately occupied by Crowell Hatch, in Fifth-Street, opposite the Argus Office; where he intends carrying on the Boot and Shoe Making Business in its various branches. He hopes, that by strict attention to all orders with which his friends may favor him, he shall merit and receive a share of the patronage of a liberal public. Portland, April 10, 1809.
United Marine & Fire Insurance Company of Portland.
THE President and Directors of said Company, in conformity to their Act of Incorporation, hereby give notice, that their capital stock amounts to one hundred thousand Dollars, and that they are ready to receive proposals to make Insurance, against the following risks—viz. All kinds of Marine Insurance, against captivity of persons, and on the life of any person during his absence at sea; on houses or other buildings, and on property therein contained, within this Commonwealth; against damage arising to the same by Fire originating in any case except that of design of the insured. Not more than Ten thousand dollars will be taken on any one risk. By order of the President and Directors. JOHN WATSON, Secretary. United M. & F. Ins. Office Portland, April 10, 1809.
Probate Court at North-Yarmouth.
WHEREAS it appears to me the subscriber, Judge of the Court of Probate for the county of Cumberland, that it will be for the general benefit, as well as for the interest of individuals, that the time of holding the Probate Court at North-Yarmouth, should be altered. I hereby give notice, that I have appointed, and do hereby appoint the third Wednesday in July, as the time for holding said Court, at the house of Mr. Seth Mitchell, in said North-Yarmouth, at 9 o'clock, A. M. instead of the first Tuesday in May, annually. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Portland, April 8, 1809.
LICENCES.
NOTICE is hereby given to those persons, whose approbation for licences was presented to the Court of Sessions, which was held at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland, on the last Tuesday of March last, that the time allowed by said Court for recognizing and taking the oath by law required, will expire on the eighteenth day of April instant. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk of Court. April 8, 1809.
Come and See.
AN excellent FARM for sale, situated in Falmouth, on the main road leading from Portland to Brunswick, in the Province of Maine, and within four miles of Portland.—Said Farm lies between New-Casco meeting-house and Presumpscot bridge, within a few rods of each, and contains about two hundred acres by estimation, be the same, more or less. The house on said farm is large, commodious, and very pleasantly situated, commanding a fair prospect of the open sea at the entrance of Portland harbor, as also a very considerable part of that beautiful town.—The barn is 32 by 74 feet. Said farm is sufficient to produce hay enough for forty cattle, & contains about eighty acres of good pasture, well supplied with fresh and salt water through the whole season, as it is bounded on the sea shore. It is an excellent seat for a house of public entertainment, and will beautifully accommodate merchants and mechanics with house-lots, in addition to that little neat village, above the shipyard, which has already been sold off the farm.
Within half a mile of the ship-yard are nearly twenty-five acres of perhaps the best white-oak timber in the whole town—Within one mile of the house lie twenty acres of land, well covered with wood and timber.
Within two miles of the house, are about twenty acres of good land situated on the abovementioned high-way leading from Portland to Brunswick.
There is also a valuable piece of salt-marsh, which produces from six to eight tons of hay in the year, within half a mile of the barn, which may be purchased with said farm—Farming utensils of all kinds necessary to carry on said farm, may also be purchased. A view of the farm will afford its best recommendation. The terms of payment will be made easy to the fortunate purchaser. For further particulars inquire of DAVID MCGREGORE, of Bedford, N. H. or of ADAMS MERRILL, on the premises. N. B. Now or never; for the farm will doubtless be sold within three months. March 6. (3m)
REMOVAL. DAVID PEASE, has Removed to the Band lately occupied by Mr. Thomas Leavitt's Warehouse, No. 9, Fifth Street, where he continues to transact Auction and Commission Business—Goods stored at the usual rates. Ap. 10, 1809.
FOR SALE, FIVE second hand CHAISE, cheap for cash or approved notes. Inquire of T. SMITH, at his Stable—Ave. 1 elegant Bellows Top CHAISE. April 10.
FOR SALE—AT S. Patten's Book-store, No. 10, Fane's Row, 200 Ream's Writing Paper, first quality 200 ditto Wrapping Paper 30 gross Bonner do. 10 ditto Press Papers TICKETS in Rhode-Island Coal, and the 5th class Hatfield Bridge Lotteries. N. B.—Half of a House in a pleasant part of the town, to be let. March 20. [6w]
ACKNOWLEDGMENT!
I the subscriber, do certify, that having iniquiously and wrongfully reported that JAMES FARMER gave in a Federal vote at two different times for Governor, Lieut. Governor and Senators, on the 3d instant, which report is without the least foundation of truth. JOHN G. WALDEN. Portland, April 5, 1809.
SAMUEL BUTTS,
Respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he keeps constantly for sale, at his Lottery-Office and Book-Store, No. 3, Mussey's Row, Middle-Street, an extensive assortment of BOOKS in the various branches of Literature and Science. Also—Large and small Testaments:—Psalms and Hymn Books—Justices, and other Blank Books—Large and small Perpetual Almanacks, and a general assortment of School-Books and Stationary. Also—Jewelry, tortoise shell and common Combs, &c. Cash and the highest price given for Junk, clean Woolen, Cotton and Linen Rags.
FOR SALE—Bricks, Lime, white and red oak Hoghead Shooks, white oak Barrels and Kegs:—Enquire as above.
NOTICE! S. BUTTS requests all persons indebted to him to make immediate payment. Portland, April 3.
TAKE NOTICE.
TO be sold, by order of Court, on WEDNESDAY the twenty-sixth day of April next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at the dwelling house lately belonging to, and upon the Estate of Ebenezer Bangs, late of Gorham, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased—All the real Estate of said deceased, consisting of fifty-five acres of Land, in said Gorham, with the buildings thereon, including the reversion of the widow's dower. WILLIAM FREEMAN, Attorney for said Estate. March 23d, 1809.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
TAKEN by Execution, and will be sold at Public Vendue, on Tuesday the second day of May next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. the right in equity of redemption in and to one undivided half of the following described parcel of mortgaged real estate, viz.—One undivided half part of a certain piece of land with the buildings thereon, situated in Portland, and bounded, on the southwest, by a forty feet highway or street, leading from Back street to Cumberland street; northwest, by Sarah Bradbury's land; northeast, by land formerly owned by Enoch Illey; southeast, by land owned by the said Sarah Bradbury and Josiah Cox, agreeably to a deed from the said Cox to John Try, dated the 4th of September, A. D. 1807, as on record may appear, with all the rights, privileges, and appurtenances thereto belonging. Sale on the premises. JONATHAN LUND, D. SUFF. Portland, April 3, 1809.
Cumberland, ss—March 29th, 1809.
TAKEN by Execution, and to be held at public vendue on the premises, on Saturday the 29th of April instant, at two o'clock afternoon, the right in equity of redemption which Abraham Nason, of Standish, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, has in and to the following mortgaged real estate, viz.—A certain lot of Land, lying and situated in the town of Standish, in the county of Cumberland; being lot numbered thirty-nine, bounded on the northeast by lot numbered thirty-eight, on the southwest by lot numbered forty, on the northwest by lot numbered forty-nine, and on the southeast by lot numbered forty, containing one hundred acres, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging. SAMUEL BARKER, D. SUFF. April 3d, 1809.
William Goddard,
HAS received by ships Globe and Hannah from Liverpool, an addition to his stock of Hard-Ware Goods, which are offered for sale on the most favorable terms, by wholesale or retail. Portland, N. H. 7. (tf)
TO LET.
ONE half of a convenient two story DWELLING-HOUSE, in a central part of the town, convenient for a small family—Inquire at this office. Portland, March 31.
James Phinney, jun.
RESPECTFULLY informs, the public in general, and particularly his friends and customers, that he has removed from his former Stand, to Gorham Corner, where he has the best of accommodations for large parties, and greatest attention paid them. He returns his grateful acknowledgement for past favors and politely solicits a continuance of the same. Gorham, March 31.
To be sold, by order of Court, No. 11, Ingraham's-Wharf, on MONDAY, the 8th day of May next, at 11 o'clock, A. M.
A PIECE of Flats, situated on the northeast side of Ingraham's Wharf, in Portland, county of Cumberland, sixty-two feet long, & twenty-three feet wide; together with the wood work and Store standing thereon. Said Store is three stories high, twenty three feet wide, and sixty feet long.
Also—Four House Lots, situated on the southwest side of Washington Street, in said Portland, (opposite the rope walk). Said lots are about 100 feet long and 60 feet wide. Also—One fifth part of a piece of undivided land, lying in Falmouth, in said county, on the N. W. side of the county road leading to Deering's Bridge, so called. Containing in the whole about five acres more or less.—It being part of the real estate of Stephen Foster, late of Bradford, in the county of Essex, merchant, deceased.
For further particulars apply to STEPHEN FOSTER, of Portland, administrator on said estate.
Conditions made known at the time & place of sale. Dated at Portland, this 29th day of March, A. D. 1809.
Lincoln ss. Bath, March 16th, 1809.
TAKEN by execution and will be offered for sale at Public Vendue, on Thursday the 20th day of April next, at two of the clock in the afternoon, at the subscriber's office in Bath, the Right in Equity of Redemption, which Major Joshua Shaw, has in the following described Real Estate: to wit, one Lot of Land, situated in Georgetown at the mouth of Kennebec River, bounded north by said River, east and south by the sea shore; and known by the name of Huniwell's Point;—Also one other lot of Land situated in Bath; bounded north by land owned by Nicholas Loring Mitchell and Joseph Trott; east by Kennebec River; south by a street which separates said land from land and wharf improved by Charles Clapp. A more particular description will be given at the time of sale. STEPHEN WINSHIP, Deputy Sheriff.
FOR SALE,
A FARM in Cape-Elizabeth, containing about 50 acres of land, well watered, and cutting 20 tons English, and some salt hay, and having thereon a two-story brick Dwelling-House, a Barn 51 by 34, well finished, and other out houses. This Farm is very pleasantly situated, having a complete view of the Town and Harbor of Portland; it is also connected with the waters of Eore river, and within half a mile of the contemplated Bridge to Malan's Neck. Terms will be liberal.—For further particulars, inquire of NATHANIEL FREEMAN. Cape Elizabeth, March 6, 1809. (tf)
Harrison Land Tax, for the year 1807.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident proprietors and owners of the following lots of Land, in the town of Harrison, in the county of Cumberland, that they are taxed for the year 1807, in a bill committed to me the subscriber for collection, as follows, viz. for State, County, Town and Highway:—
   No. Acres. State Tax. County Tax. Highway Tax.    106 0 100 100 67 2 75 4  148 0 100 100 67 2 75 4  149 0 100 100 67 2 75 4  50 0 100 100 67 2 75 4  7 8 100 100 67 2 75 4  2 1 100 100 67 2 75 4  12 2 100 150 1 01 0 1 13 1  5 7 100 100 67 2 75 4  21 1 99 100 67 2 75 4  12 5 100 100 67 2 75 4  10 4 100 67 44 4 49 9  4 4 99 100 67 2 75 4  1 4 100 100 67 2 75 4  11 9 100 84 56 0 62 8  Merited 6 0 100 100 67 2 75 4  Lots 8 0 160 100 67 2 75 4  
That so much of said lots or parcels of land as will pay said taxes and charges will be sold, at the dwelling house of Capt. Naphtali Harman, in said Harrison, on Monday the eighth day of May next, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, unless said taxes and charges shall be paid before that time. JACOB EMERSON, Collector. Harrison, March 25th, 1809.
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed administrator of the estate of NATHAN WYMAN, late of Topsham, in the county of Lincoln, yeoman, deceased; and has undertaken that trust by giving bond as the law directs—all persons therefor 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. HEZEKIAH WYMAN, Administrator. Bath, March 28th, 1809.
Reuben Fenlayson's Will.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the last Will and Testament of Reuben Fenlayson, late of Scarborough, in the county of Cumberland, deceased, has been presented to me for Probate, by Ivory Fenlayson, the Executor herein named, and Residuary Legatee; and that Wednesday the 26th day of April instant, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, is assigned to take proof of the same, at a Court of Probate then to be held at the office of John Frothingham, Esq. at Portland, in said county—when and where all persons concerned may be present; to show cause, if any they have, why the said Will should not be approved and allowed. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Judge of said Court. April 1, 1809.
ATTS NOI
A CONVENIENT dwelling house, together with a wood house and garden spot, which will be convenient for a large family, or two small ones. For further information inquire of NATHANIEL GORDON. Portland, April 3d.