Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1800-10-13 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 129]
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1800.
[VOLUME III.]
Miscellany.
THE EPISTLE
From the YEARLY MEETING, held at London, by adjournment, from the 21st to the 31st of the Fifth month, 1800, inclusive.
To the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of FRIENDS, in Great Britain, Ireland, and elsewhere.
DEAR FRIENDS,
A RELIGIOUS concern still attends our minds, that ye, our dear absent brethren, may partake of the benefit and blessing of our thus assembling together; not only by means of such regulations as have been found expedient, that this our affectionate salutation, the desire which the collected body feels for you as for itself; that we may all be what we profess; that we may all daily look at our foundations, and be servant in our prayers for an establishment upon that rock, against which every storm will beat in vain. In the renewings therefore of love which knows no abatement from length of time, but through all ages remains the same in the hearts of believers; in the love of the gospel of Christ Jesus our Redeemer, we tenderly salute you.
The accounts of sufferings brought in this year, chiefly for tithes, priests' demands, and those called church rates; also for military purposes, amount, in Great Britain, to seven thousand five hundred and ninety one pounds; and in Ireland, to six hundred and three pounds.
Epistles have been received this year from all the Yearly Meetings on the American continent; and accounts from our several Quarterly Meetings, and from Ireland. Having, in these last mentioned communications, a view of the present state of the Society in these nations, we find cause to continue "to stir up your pure mind by way of remembrance, that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken by the holy prophets, and of the commandments of the apostles of the Lord and Saviour." (2 Peter, iii. 1, 2.)
We beseech you, brethren, be watchful. Keep in the holy inculcations of the preserving fear of God; and call to mind the perfect security of Israel, encamped of old under his never failing protection; when the intended curses of an enemy were converted into blessings. He with whom we have to do, is the same yesterday, to day, and forever. Why then are we not kept in his fear, and made perfect in his love? Is it not because the visible things of this fading state are in various ways and portions drawing away our attention? But, friends, enter from time to time into the closet, shut to the door; pray to your Father, who seeth in secret, for daily supplies of strength to suppress that immoderate love of earthly things which prevents you from giving him his due pre-eminence.
They who are obedient to this universal injunction of our Saviour, "Watch" (Mark xii. 37) are prepared for the due fulfilling of every duty; and eminently so for that most essential one of Worship. How many feel themselves languid when assembled for this solemn purpose, for want of a previous preparation of heart! The mind crowded with thoughts on outward things in approaching the place for public worship, and resuming them with avidity on its return, is not likely to fill up the interval to profit; and to such, their meeting together may prove a form as empty as any of those out of which we believe. Truth called our forefathers, and still calls. If we truly succeed them, as witnesses for the truth, we must look beyond forms, to that which is the life of all true religious performances; to we may become fitted in our several stations for the Lord's service, the promotion of the cause of righteousness on earth.
Dear friends, we believe there are many of you, and especially of youth, who, in a good degree, have given up, and are giving up your hearts to serve the Lord. May you submit with patience to all the repeated baptisms necessary for your refinement. The gospel hath its tribulations; but they are not like the sorrow of the world, which worketh death. They are intended to disturb the polluted rest of mere worldly enjoyments; they unite you to the living members of Christ's body, in whom the same things have been accomplished; and, if they be accepted as tokens of his love and abide under the allotted term without repining, they will completely unite you to Him, the Holy Head.
Wherefore, ye dearly beloved youth, our leisure, in whom we sometimes dare to delight, and to hope that you will one day succeed to the places of those faithful labourers who have passed, and are passing, from works to rewards; we entreat you dear children, with tender solicitude, we press upon you, from every thing which tends to spoil you of your innocence, and to render your minds less receptive of that holy influence, which your enlightened judgement demonstrates to be truth.
And ye parents, be solicitous to discharge your important and awful duty with scrupulous
attention. It is often too late to warn the youthful mind of danger, when your own negligence and indulgence have suffered your offspring to deviate from the path of simplicity, in which you have thought yourselves bound to walk, and in which you have found peace. If you fail to suppress the early beginning of undue liberty, how can you expect a blessing on your endeavours when farther deviations at length arouse your attention? and how, having failed to rule your own houses well, can you expect duly to "take care of the church of God," (1 Tim. iii. 4) by performing that too much neglected duty of private admonition therein?—There were of old those who brought children to Christ, in the days of his flesh; and now, the religious parent can breathe no warmer aspiration for them, than when he spiritually commands his tender offspring to the protection of his Lord. But see, friends, that you encourage no propensities in them, which prevent a union with Him. Restrain them we beseech you, from associating with those whose influence and example lead away from his law; and be especially careful that you introduce not among them publications which are either wholly or in part repugnant to the faith, as it is in Jesus. Let it be your own daily care to endeavour after closer communion with Him, and to walk in meek submission to his commands: so may you gain over the minds of the youth, providentially placed under your care, that ascendancy which arises from the united effects of sound judgment, true love, and a good example.
Finally, Friends, of every age, of every rank, we commend you to the protection of Him who died for us, and "who ever liveth to make intercession for us, who is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him." (Heb. vii. 25.)
Signed in and on behalf of the Meeting by WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Clerk to the Meeting this year.
BURLEIGH.—No. XII.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
IN attempting to describe the calamities of a revolution in this country, I feel myself much burthened with the subject, and scarcely know where to begin, or what method to pursue. The idea of a revolution, instantly brings into view, that of France; of which, almost every inhabitant of this country knows enough, to shudder at the bare contemplation. The time has been, when we were all elated with the visionary prospect of approaching good, not only to France, but to all the world, from the spreading of the principles of freedom. We had passed through what was termed a Revolution , with success, we found ourselves flourishing, and happy, and fondly hoped that the rest of the world were following our example. At this time, enthusiasm, and not experience, was our guide. If we had reflected coolly, we should have instantly seen, that there was a mighty difference between our resisting the attempts of Great Britain to exercise dominion over us, and a nation rising in a mass to overthrow the government which had for ages been established over it, and to destroy at the same moment, all order, restraint, law, and security. We had no old government to demolish, no king to dethrone. We only claimed the right of doing as we had always done—governing ourselves; and we resolved to resist to the utmost, every external attempt to impose on us a new government. Great Britain persisted, and we entered the field of battle in defence of our privileges. The event was favorable to us; and we were acknowledged by her, and the rest of the world, to be, what we claimed ourselves to be, a free, independent nation. We then again went on with the work of governing ourselves. Some of the states made new constitutions; some of them retained those which they had before the war began. The whole agreed to be one nation, and established their present government. This is a short history of what is termed the American Revolution . Does it bear any resemblance to the French people rising by millions to pull down all authority; to establish the reign of anarchy, terror, and bloodshed; and to subdue, and enslave all the nations around them?
But, if our present government, is to be destroyed, we must experience a revolution . We shall then have destroyed a government under which we have lived, and prospered, and shall be forced to trust to chance for a new one.—However pleasing this idea may be to the Jacobinical heart, however trifling it may be deemed by the considerate, a few moments reflection will convince the thoughtful, and the wise, that it is an evil not to be slighted.
When we are reflecting on the subject of a revolution, it will be necessary to consider what is to be suffered, in accomplishing it. The first thing which will strike the mind, is—that we are to lose all the blessings of the present government. I need not enumerate them. They have been incidentally touched heretofore; they are universally felt, and understood; and ought to be piously, and devoutly acknowledged, and prized. I have no hesitation in saying, that, if
this country were thoroughly stripped of its Jacobinism, and the government left to a fair operation, there is not an honest native inhabitant of the United States, that would willingly exchange his country for any other; or should there be a solitary instance of a discontented mind, that France would be the last country on earth he would choose to reside in.
In the next place, there is scarcely a possibility that we shall escape a civil war . Is there an evil so great, which ever afflicts nations, as this? Let the example of other nations answer the question. In the reign of Charles the first of Great Britain, a great part of the nation became convinced that the government was tyrannical, and the people oppressed. Resistance followed; the parties flew to arms; the country was for many years deluged in blood; thousands of lives were sacrificed; and the island became a scene of every species of distress, and misery, until the people triumphed, and the king was dethroned, and executed. The reigns of government were then seized by Cromwell, a cunning demagogue, and professedly a great friend to the people; and the people were doomed for many years to groan under a bondage vastly more intolerable, than any thing ever inflicted, even by the worst of their kings. The result was, that the nation worn down, wasted and wearied, with the despotism of a Democrat, voluntarily united to depose the son of the Protector, and to invite back to the crown, the son of that king, whose blood had been spilt on the scaffold. Thus, after thirty or forty years of war, and misery, the contest ended in the nation's resorting to the very government which they had seerily for safety and protection, against that which their demagogues had set up.
A little more than seven years ago, the French nation, having previously destroyed their old government, brought their king also to the scaffold. All the furies, and fiends, which immorality, and atheism could engender, were let loose upon the people; war, murders, executions, robberies, profligacy of manners, impurity and atheism, broke in upon the nation like a flood; every species of injustice was practised with impunity; constitution after constitution was formed, and destroyed, and the heads of every party fell by the hands of the executioner; until finally, the nation wearied out with revolutions, has sunk under a government, more despotic than any monarchy in Europe. The people have been gulled, plundered, and abused, by each succeeding demagogue, until an obscure foreigner has grasped the government, banished every trace of Republicanism from the constitution, and with a sovereign nod, deals out law to an enslaved, and ruined people.
Are not these instances of the effects of revolutions, solemn lessons to all other nations? Can we expect to share any better fate, provided we try the revolutionary ordeal? Let us bear in mind, that there will be circumstances attending a civil war in this country, which will render it peculiarly calamitous, and terrible. We are now fatally divided into parties; members of each party are dispersed through the country; and though in the northern states, the balance is greatly in favour of federalism, yet there are Jacobins enough even here, to divide and distract us, with their arts, their plots, and their wickedness.—When these parties have taken arms, we must expect all the heats, and animosities, which have hitherto been in a degree stifled, and kept under, will break out with tenfold fury. Unrestrained by law, or the fear of punishment, every deadly passion will have full scope, private quarrels will be revenged, and public feuds and rivalships will call forth the bitterest hate and vengeance. Neighbours will become the enemies of neighbours, brothers of brothers, fathers of their sons, and sons of their fathers. Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest, will be openly taught and practised, the air will be rent with the cries of distress, the soil soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes. Where is the heart which can contemplate such a scene, without shivering with horror!
Jacobins, in all countries, are destitute of morality and religion. Our own are as depraved, and they only want an opportunity, to be as cruel and abandoned, as those of France. When our government is gone, this opportunity will be found, and we must then prepare for the same miseries, which France has experienced. Those miseries consist not only in the want of personal security, peace, and freedom; they consist primarily in the introduction of general national depravity, and a total overthrow of integrity, justice, benevolence, friendship, and affection; and substituting dishonesty, injustice, cruelty, revenge, and hatred. In such a community, parental ties, filial duty, conjugal tenderness and fidelity, and social intercourse, are contemned, ridiculed, and destroyed. What a dreadful spectacle, to see a great nation like France, in which every thing amiable, and endearing, in which, "whatsoever things are just, pure, lovely, and of good report," are done away—to see 25 millions of frail, dying, accountable beings, openly denying God, reviling his attributes, profaning his holy name, banishing every vestige of his word, and commit-
ting without remorse, time after time, national perjury! Let us remember, that he, who has declared in the thunders of Sinai, that he "will not hold him guiltless, who shall take his name in vain," has also declared, that he will pour out his fury upon a people who "know him not, who call not upon his name," and who impiously "rush upon the thick bosses of his buckler."
For Jenks' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
THE SCRIBBLER.—No. II.
"Poor is the trophy of seductive art."
THAT any rational being should so far forget the dignity of his station, to totally eradicate from his breast the noblest feelings of humanity and his natural sense of shame and disgrace, as to boast of leading virtue astray and beguiling unsuspecting innocence, is a reflection which casts a dark cloud over the exalted character of man, the reputed Lord of this lower creation. Such conduct certainly, in whatever point of view we consider it, sinks the man infinitely below the rank designed him by the God of nature, and he can only claim nearer affinity to beings of Tartarean mould.
The fly seducer discovers a heart more envenomed than the monsters of the Nile; more base and corrupt than depravity itself; and, instead of meriting applause, he raises himself to the highest grade on the black catalogue of infamy and execration. The calumniator can but wound the reputation—the assassin only gives the mortal stab—but the seducer pierces, with the sharpest stings of remorse, a tender feeling heart—disappoints the most sanguine hopes, and configures to infamy and disgrace one whom he pretended was the center of his earthly felicity; one whose character and reputation he had solemnly engaged to protect and defend even at the risk of his life. Among the numerous plagues with which society is infested, and by which sublunary bliss is destroyed, none claims more notice than seduction; for none brings more poignant grief; or more effectually corrupts the fountain of civil, social, and domestic enjoyment. Should a law be enacted, which would inflict capital punishment upon every violator of female innocence and chastity, it would claim support, as being the least cruel of all penal laws. Surely that heart must be harder than adamant, and more frigid than Lapland snow, which can behold, without emotion, the fair, delicate, and unsuspecting female, who has fallen a prey to the artful seducer. What tortures can equal the baseness and guilt of that man, who, after having lavished every attention to gain the affections and esteem of her he pretends to love—after the most solemn protestations of pure attachment—after having led her to believe that, if there be any truth in man, his whole soul centers in her, should, by the artful and insinuating arts of the grand deceiver, prevail on her, in an unguarded moment, to yield her virtue and innocence a sacrifice to his unhallowed desires, and then abandon her to infamy; to the scorn and derision of an ill judging and censorious world? Certainly the arch-fiend himself could not be guilty of more atrocious wickedness, more consummate villainy. Yet such men there are (to the disgrace of the sex be it spoken) who pride themselves in laying snares to draw aside and betray unsuspecting innocence, and who are not ashamed to triumph in their successes.
"Thorns be their pillows, agony their sleep; Nor o'er the merry given, to wake and weep! May screaming night-fiends, hot in recreant gore, Rive their brain'd fibres to their heart's rank core. Till starled conscience heap, in wild dismay, Convulsive curses on the source of day."
The following narration will serve to show the justness of my observations.
In a neighboring village Frederic , a young gentleman of brilliant natural talents, of engaging address, and suavity of manners, paid his devotions to Belinda , the daughter of a wealthy and respectful farmer. Tho' educated in an obscure village, far from the pomp and splendor of fashionable life, yet she possessed all those qualities which render woman lovely. Her form was elegant: Her manner, easy, graceful, and truly engaging: Her conversation was sprightly and cheerful; mixed with that natural modesty which never fails to interest and please. Strict virtue sat regent in her breast and governed her every word and action. In short, her attractions were of that kind which,
"Aure subtile they charm, and subtile they prompt forsook."
Frederic by his assiduous attentions, by many protestations, soon made a favorable impression on the heart of Belinda . For a long time the attachment seemed to increase, till it appeared ripened into the purest affection. For tho' Frederic was destitute of virtuous principles, and had no other views than to gratify a base and sordid passion; yet he had the address entirely to conceal his true motives. His professions were honorable, and the innocent and unsuspecting Belinda never harbored the most distant suspicion that he had a design upon her virtue. She reposed in him the most unreserved confidence, and looked forward with pleasure and satisfaction to that day when their hands should be joined at the altar of Hymen.

Frederic was all attention. He talked of rap- tures he never felt; of nuptial joys which he never meant to realize; he raised the most ex- alted hopes that he might have the satanic pleasure of disappointing them. At length, by watching the most favorable opportunities, by laying his snare with cautious and artful address, he found means, while her virtue, like a drowsy sentinel, nodded on its post, to grati- fy his wicked desires, to destroy her virgin in- nocence. Belinda still placed entire confidence in his solemn vows of eternal attachment, and tho' he had wantonly robbed her of her inno- cence, she could not believe him capable of treachery.
"Artful herself, she thought the world so too." Soon, however, she found that Frederic's visits were less frequent than before; and in a few weeks she received a billet informing her, that, for weighty reasons, he had concluded to break off the acquaintance with her—that he could not con- descend to give his hand to a woman, who had lost her innocence.
Belinda now too severely felt her fatal mis- take. She saw all her high hopes in a moment blasted. She found herself consigned to infamy and scorn, as she knew it would be impossible for her long to conceal her unhappy situation. Stung with the keenest remorse, she was unable to bear the heavy shock—she became frantic with agony and grief—a settled melancholy seized her frame—in a paroxysm of despair, with her own fair hands, she put a period to her existence!
Her parents, who doted on her as their idol, whose only wish on this side Heaven was to see her happy, soon sunk down with sorrow, and broken hearted followed her to the grave; nor could their pious souls refrain from calling down the curses of heaven upon him who has been the deliberate instrument of all their woe.
Pause for a moment, kind reader, and reflect on the pernicious, the baneful consequences of seduction. And, if you have one spark of hu- manity remaining in your breast, you will not fail to curse the man, who can be guilty of such treachery—who can prostitute his talents at the throne of unhallowed desire—and, with a dia- bolical smile, can boast that he has been able to desecrate the fair temple of female innocence.
Vinegar is mentioned as being more effica- cious than oil in cases of burns and scalds;— cloths constantly wet with it, should for some time be kept to the part affected.
BY JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States of America, A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the twenty-seventh day of February last, entitled "An Act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the depen- dencies thereof," it is enacted, "That at any time after the passing of the said act, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, by his order to remit and discontinue for the time being whenever he shall deem it expedient and for the interest of the United States, all or any of the restraints and prohibitions imposed by the said act, in respect to the territories of the French republic, or to any island, port or place belonging to the said republic, with which in his opinion, a commercial intercourse may be safely renewed, and to make proclamation thereof accordingly." And it is also thereby further enacted that the whole of the island of Hispaniola shall for the purposes of the said act be considered as a dependance of the French republic; And whereas the circumstances of the said island are such, that in my opinion a commercial intercourse may safely be renewed with every part thereof, under the limitations and restrictions herein after mentioned. There- fore I JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States, by virtue of the powers vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby remit and discontinue the restraints and prohibitions imposed by the act aforesaid in respect to every part of the said island, so that it shall be lawful for vessels of the United States to trade at any of the ports and places thereof.
Provided it be done with the consent of the government of St. Domingo: and for this purpose it is hereby required, that such vessels first clear for, and enter the port of Cape Fran- cois or Port Republican, in the said island, and there obtain the passports of the said govern- ment, which shall also be signed by the Consul General of the United States or their Consul residing at Cape Francois, or their Consul re- siding at Port Republican, permitting such ves- sels to go thence to the other ports and places of the said island; of all which the collectors of the customs, and all other officers and citi- zens of the United States are to take due no- tice and govern themselves accordingly.
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States of America, at the City L.S. of Washington, this sixth day of Sep- tember in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred; and of the independence of the said States the twenty fifth.
John Adams.
By the President, J. MARSHALL, Secretary of State.
Latest Foreign News.
Received by the arrival of the ship Cornelia , captain Prince , 27 days from Liverpool—Bringing London papers to August 31.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, AUGUST 31.
GOVERNMENT yesterday received accounts of increased exertions to prepare the Brest Fleet for sea; that considerable bodies of troops had been ordered thither from the interior, and that Bonaparte was about to repair to Brest to ac- celerate and animate the meditated enterprize.
Lord St. Vincent has moored his vessels in such a manner, that whilst the season will ad- mit of his retaining his situation, it is impossible that a vessel of any description can either leave or enter Brest —Our tars were in high spirits at the prospect of more active service.
The public funds yesterday experienced a further rise of one per cent. under a prevalent opinion, that France had expressed a desire to treat with the Allies collectively for a General Peace. —We are wholly unacquainted with the cir- cumstances which have induced this impression. We are assured, that Citizen Otto , the Agent for French Prisoners in this country, who has been mentioned as the medium of Pacific Over- tures from the French Government to our Cabinet, has not, directly or indirectly, received from M. Talleyrand , or any other individual composing the French Executive, any commu- nication which in the slightest degree in- volved the subject of Negotiation.
The flag of truce which failed from Dover on Tuesday, for Calais , returned on Thursday, and was again sent off for France on Friday.— She was charged with dispatches, stated to be from the Transport Office, but which were not directed to Captain Cotes , our Agent for Pri- soners, in France , or to Citizen Fortait , the Republican Minister of Marine, as the ordinary communications of that Board are wont to be addressed: but from this nothing satisfactory can be collected.
We can however with decision say, that the Court of Vienna , on signing the Treaty with this Country on the 12th instant, issued a de- claration to all the Courts of Europe, announc- ing the determination of his Imperial majesty not to treat with France , except on conjunction with England and his other allies. This in- strument is dated the 12th of August; we have seen an abstract of it; the Hamburgh mail due this day will most probably put us in posses- sion of the detail.
The late dispatches from Lord Whitworth , we have reason to believe, were less satisfactory than government had expected. The Danish minister, we are told, assumed a lofty tone, de- claring, that although his Danish majesty should be unaided by Russia or Sweden , he would ne- vertheless assert the rights of nations, and op- pose, to the extent of his powers, the growing tyranny of the British flag.—The subsequent intercourse between the ministers is stated to have been more moderate, but nothing less de- cided. We are not of opinion, that the inter- ference of admiral Dickson in the negotiation will be necessary but we are satisfied, that the presence of his force will powerfully tend to its adjournment.
The following letters were in circulation yes- terday; we do not attach much consequence or credit to them, but on a subject so important every thing has interest.
"Yarmouth, Friday Evening."
"The Martin sloop arrived here, left El- sineur on the 21st.—Admiral Dickson had a most boisterous passage thither; his force con- sists of seven ships of the line, one 50, two fri- gates, one sloop, four bomb-vessels, and five gun- vessels; but it does not appear, by the accounts I have seen, that the transports had accompa- nied him into the Sound. Our 74's are placed along side the Danish ships of the line; our frigates against their's; and the bombs, &c. are stationed close to the Castle of Cronenburg , waiting in anxious suspense, the result of Lord Whitworth's negotiations. Every ship was prepared for action."
"Dundee, August 26."
"Last night arrived here, the Hope of this port, Robert Anderson , master, from Riga , who reports, that he left Elaineur on Thursday the 21st inst. under convoy of the Martin sloop of war: that in a short time after Lord Whit- worth's arrival, the Danes moored four 74's across the Sound, so as to block up the passage: that on Tuesday the 19th, admiral Dickson , with seven sail of the line, and a number of fire ships, gun-boats, &c. arrived, and came to an- chor about three miles below the Castle , upon which the Danish Commodore sent his boat on board the British fleet; that early next morning admiral Dickson got under weigh in line of battle, with his men at their quarters, and brought up within pistol shot of the Danish squadron; that the Romney , of 50 guns, with a cutter, were dispatched up above Copenha- gen , for fear our merchantmen might meet with detention there. Next day, capt. Ander- son failed and left matters in the above situation.
We have much pleasure in announcing the safe arrival of the Jamaica Fleet, which passed by the Isle of Wright yesterday morning for the Downs, under convoy of the Hannibal , of 74 guns.
INUNDATION IN CHINA.
The late overland dispatch brought recent accounts from Canton , stating, that an un- common succession of rain had laid entire dis- tricts in China under water. The great river Hoambo had been swollen to such excess, as to tally to wash from its banks many of the villages which adorned them, and inundate all the ad- jacent country. Such of the inhabitants as es- caped this awful visitation, had fled with the remains of their property to the hills.
The beautiful and level plains, which lately exhibited all the rich variety of cultivation, were, at the date of these accounts, covered with boats employed in collecting the wreck of the country floating on the waters.
The overflowing of the Tay had occasioned like calamity in the province of Quecheu , where several magazines of grain had been swept away, and in many places the inhabitants, with their herds, had shared the same fate.
The rice alone remained secure, unless con- tinued rains should prolong the inundation be- yond the time of collecting it, in which even the consequences must be dreadful; for al- though even the mountains in China are under culture, yet these, to which the people are re- tiring, cannot long afford subsistence to so great a multitude; neither, from their limited inter- course with other nations, can they expect effi- cient assistance from abroad.
The Emperor has resolved to remit the collection of the revenues, for one season, in the provinces that have suffered most materially, and has adopted every measure that policy and humanity could suggest for the relief of the sufferers.
The last accounts from Bussorah state very serious commotions to have taken place in the neighborhood of Mecca , occasioned by the new religious doctrines instituted by a descendant of Abouol Wahaub , of which we have before made mention. This sectary does not deny Mahomet's mission, but considers him merely as a messenger from God, and possessing in himself no title to the homage and adoration of mankind; it rapidly gains proselytes in Syria , Arabia , and Egypt , and propagates its tenets by fire and sword.
The voluntary contribution of the inhabitants of Bengal , in aid of the war, &c. amounted on the 19th of December last to 139,332 l. 15s. 2d.
FRANCE.
PARIS AUG. 24.
The Consuls gave, on the 20th, according to custom, audience to the Ambassadors, and it was remarked that M. de Dreyer , Minister of Denmark , lately returned from Barcelona , was among the number.
We are this moment assured that Duroc has set out again for Vienna , accompanied by the Senator Barthelemy . We cannot say that this report is authentic, though it has been repeated to us by a number of persons who are in the way of being well informed. The only infer- ence we can draw from it is, that as yet nothing is decided respecting the great object that now interests all Europe , and that this rumour gives rise to some additional conjectures in favour of Peace."—( Journaal du Soir .)
By a letter from the Hague of the 20th of August, we learn that Admiral De Winter will be the Charge des Affaires from the Batavian Government at Paris , during the absence of the Minister Schimmelpenick , who is gone to Hol- land , with leave, on private business.
General Brune is named General in Chief of the Army of Italy .
General Macdonald is appointed General in Chief of the Army of Reserve .
General Jourdan arrived at Turin the 13th instant.
Bonaparte, the First Consul of the Republic, entered into his 32d year on the 16th inst. The Genealogists of Italy say, that his ances- tors established themselves about 400 years ago in Corfica , being obliged to leave their native country Sarzane , on account of the war be- tween the Guelphs and Gibelins , in which they had taken a part in defence of the National Independence.
MADRID, AUG. 8.
We have reason to believe that our court takes the greatest interest in the re establish- ment of good harmony between the French govern- ment and the Holy See. We are assured that our Minister, resident with his Holiness, and who is a member of the Sacred College, is com- missioned to negotiate, in order to terminate the difference between the Church and France .
If we may judge from the preparations and movements of our troops, our government is about to threaten Portugal with an invasion. It is not known whether this be done with a view to force it to ask for Peace, or whether it be done in order to make a powerful diversion in order to prevent the English from executing their design of disembarking on the Coast of France or Holland .
HAGUE, AUG. 19.
The day before yesterday news was receiv- ed here from Flushing , that five English line of battle ships several frigates, and a number of transports, had appeared in sight of that port. On the preceding day they had ap- peared off the Heights of Cadland , South- west of Flushing .
Yesterday morning early, a strong cannon-
ade was heard from the side of the Mouth of the Maese . In the evening, we learnt that the English had attempted a landing at the break of day on Zealand , near the Briel .— They had actually landed a few troops on the most convenient part of the Coast, but no consequence seems to have resulted from it.— The English have also failed in their attempt to cut out a Batavian ship of the line. As soon as this landing was known, General Charier marched with some Batavian troops to the spot, and obliged the English to re- embark. They lost five men. Our loss con- sists in two men killed and three wounded. Every precaution is taken to place our Coast in the most formidable state of defence, and General Charier is left in the command of the Mouth of the Maese .
AUG. 20.
The projects of the enemy are no longer doubtful. They wish to establish themselves in Zealand , of which they wish to take pos- session in the name of the Stadtholder. He has there a great number of Partisans.— Masters of Zealand , they could unceasingly harass the other parts of the Batavian Re- public , as well as the low countries, and would oblige the French and Batavians to keep con- stantly in them a great number of troops.
BAMBERG, AUG. 11.
The Gazette of this place gives the prelimi- naries of Peace, which, according to it, are agreed upon between France and Austria . If it can be believed, this treaty, which has been concluded at Paris , contains thirty one articles. According to this treaty, the Austrian posses- sions in Italy are to be extended as far as the Oglio . There are to be three Republics estab- lished in Italy , the Cisalpina , the Cispadine , and the Piedmontese , which may in the sequel, if it is thought expedient, be united into one, and will then have the rank of a Power of the first class. The French republic will occupy the territory of these three republics for a year, but shall not leave in them after that time more than 20,000 troops.
STRASBOURG, AUG. 30.
Nothing positive is known of the answer carried by Duroc . It is said that it is very pacific, and that Austria eagerly wishes for peace. Some pre- liminary points, it is added, are agreed on. "To- morrow," lays a letter from Vienna of the 7th, "the answer of our court to the last Propositions of Bonaparte, will be sent off. A happy issue is hoped for from it. Some people say, that the Preliminaries are almost settled.—The presence of General Moreau in this place gives the greatest pleasure. This General has acquired great honor by his Campaigns, as well with regard to his mi- litary genius and his bravery as his zeal. His arrival here would seem to confirm the hopes of Peace."
General Lecourbe , who has had so great a part in effecting the fortunate termination of the Campaign, has arrived at Colmar . He is expected here on his return to Paris .
The Elector of Bavaria has appointed Baron Rich- berg his Envoy at Berlin , and the Chevalier Bray his Envoy at London .
BORDEAUX, AUG. 20.
General Alexander Berthier passed our walls on the day before yesterday, travelling post in a Berlin with six horses, on his road to Spain . He stopped no longer than was necessary for him to change horses, and ap- pears to be very anxious to get to Madrid , where, it is said, he has a mission of importance to fulfil.
VENICE, AUG. 8.
The Austrians are raising strong Entrenchments in the environs of this City. The works in the Arsenal are also continued, for the construction of a number of Gun-boats intended for the defence of our Canals. The Army of General Melas has, within this month past, been reinforced with 27,000 men.
AUGSBURGH, AUG. 15.
A French Commissary, on his way from Neuburgh to Augsburgh with the sum of 11,000 florins, was as- saulted in a wood by a number of peasants from the environs of Potmels . The French soldiers succeeded in discovering the Austrians and brought them in chains to Augsburgh , where they are imprisoned.
The French have taken from the Arsenal of Munich 11,192 muskets, 51,000 sabres, 114 gun carriages, 3,200 bombs, 1,662 grenades, 126,000 balls, 3,163 bayonets, 2,666 pistols, 2 small silver cannons, flutes, and cymbals of silver—They estimate the whole at 1,690,000 florins, more than 3,000,000 of French money.
Extract of a letter from Constantinople, July 28.
"A few days ago fresh intelligence reached us from Egypt ."
"General Kleber has been murdered, and General Menou has succeeded him in his command. It is re- ported that a Jamilla , under the pretence of delivering a petition to Kleber , stabbed him. General Menou , in a letter which he wrote to Sir Sidney Smith , says, that the assassin had been purposely sent from Gaza to com- mit the murder. But there are sufficient reasons to believe to the contrary; and Menou himself is accused of having hired the murderer, an Egyptian in disguise, who was cut in pieces immediately after the assassina- tion."
"Other reports say, that the murderer was probably actuated by private revenge, as the French had com- mitted unheard of cruelties, especially at Boulaq , a sub- urb of Cairo , where they spared neither women nor children."
"What occasions the suspicion against General Me- nou are his Jacobinical principles, and his having been at the head of that French party in Egypt , which was always against the evacuation of that country."
"General Kleber , who was as much beloved by the other party as they hate his successor, is generally re- gretted here; and his death as the more unwelcome to the Porte as he was on the eve of adopting the capit- ulation of El-Arish for the evacuation of Egypt . Me- nou immediately broke off these negotiations, declaring that he first required the consent of his Government."
"The Porte will now take up arms again, and Grand Vizier and Captain Pacha are conjointly to decide the fate of Egypt by the sword. The former is said to have completed his army, and will have a reinforcement of 45,000 fresh troops, under the Pacha of Maden . The Captain Pacha has likewise a strong corps of Albanians on board his fleet, and the attack will be made in va- rious points. When the last letters left Gaza , the Cap- tain Pacha had sailed thence with his fleet."
"Tschitcheli Effendi, late Paymaster of the Army of Egypt , has been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is a man of great talents and industry, and highly esteemed by the Grand Signior."

By the Mail.
NORFOLK, SEPT. 25.
Captain Webb, from Kingston, Jamaica, in the ship La Vengeance, French frigate, of 50 guns, prize to La Seine British frigate, of 42 guns, capt. Milne.—La Seine fell in with the Frenchman in Mona passage, and after a chase of 48 hours, during which she started nearly all her water to lighten her, came up with her—For eight hours the combatants were within gun shot, and for four hours within pistol shot, when La Vengeance being entirely dismasted, and having suffered a dreadful carnage, struck her colours. La Seine suffered much—her second and third Lieutenants and 16 of her men were killed, and 22 wounded. La Vengeance is a fine ship, mounts 28 twenty-four pounders, 8 fifty-six brass carronades, and 14 long nine pounders. La Seine mounted 46 eighteen and nine pounders.—This frigate is the same that was so much crippled about 12 months since, by the Constellation, of 36 guns, captain Truxton.
Captain Milne is one of the most intrepid officers in the British navy.—He was second Lieutenant of the Blanche, of 32 guns, when he took La Pique of 38 guns; he afterwards commanded La Pique, and in company with others, took La Seine of 42 guns, which was given him, and in her has now captured a 50 gun ship, full of men, and a great number of the passengers she had on board when the engaged the Constellation.
CHARLESTON, SEPT. 14.
There are accounts in town from Georgia, which state it as certain, that the Electors of President and Vice-President in that state, will be those who will pledge themselves to vote for the "Adams and Pinckney" ticket. In this the expectations of the true Federalists are flattering and well founded.
BOSTON, OCT. 11.
CONTRADICTION.
Capt. Henry Kennedy, of the frigate Nancy, and Captain A. Oakford of the frigate Experiment, lately arrived at Fort Mifflin whose vessels were taken by the French, inform, that they failed from Guadalupe on the 31st August, that the expedition against Curacoa failed from thence on the 29th and that no account was received from them nor could be under eight or ten days therefore the account of the capture of Curacoa being published in the Guadalupe papers in August is unfounded. It was generally believed at Guadalupe, by many well informed persons, the expedition would not succeed—the number of troops embarked did not exceed 500, which were confined in five transports.
It is asserted, in a paper printed at the seat of Government, that no dispatches have been received from the Envoys of a later date than March 17. If any were brought by capt. Bradford, who arrived here Sept. 26, in 35 days from St. Sebastians, they could not have reached the Secretary of State at the time the above assertion was made.
A Capt. WARDEN has arrived at New-York who left Paris Aug. 7. The day before he had an interview with Mr. MURRAY, one of the American Ministers, and was informed that the negotiations were in an uncertain state—that nothing had then been done.
A letter received at New-York from St. Sebastians, dated Aug. 19, says, "Our ministers proceeded with the Negotiation at Paris. Letters from Bourdeaux, of the 14th, express expectations of a speedy renewal of intercourse—not of the completion of a treaty. French privateers are ordered to respect the American flag. Several vessels bound to this port have been boarded from British cruizers, and treated politely."
Upwards of 80,000 bbls. of flour have arrived this season at the Havanna.
The 13th November is appointed as a Day of Thanksgiving in New-Hampshire.
The Town Council of Providence, has officially notified, that no new case of the malignant fever exists either in town or at the Hospital.
The number of deaths at Baltimore, for the week ending the first inst. was 28. Twenty of this total died at Fell's Point, on the West side of Jones's Fall.
Three Midshipmen and 16 seamen and marines have died this season of the yellow fever, aboard the Ganges sloop of war; and three Midshipmen, a Surgeon's mate and six seamen and marines were left sick in the Hospital at the Havanna.
The black General Gabriel, Chief of the negro insurgents in Virginia, has been secured.—promises to make important discoveries.
From a London Paper—August 30.
There is now in the river an astonishing large fish Wild Man, caught four hundred miles from the Cape of Good Hope, brought over the Rambler, South Sea Whaler; he is of astonishing muscular strength, a specimen of which had nearly proved fatal to one of the ship's officers, who inadvertently went near him; he seized hold of the man, and killed him about two or three times with his greatest velocity, and then threw him over side. Luckily the man escaped with a slight wound and blood-letting.
Portland, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1800.
By the arrival of the ship Cornelia, Captain Prince, at this port from Liverpool, London papers have been received as late as the 31st of August—four days later. Their contents are not very important;—the most interesting articles will be found in the preceding columns. Not a syllable is mentioned in the London papers respecting our Envoys to France, later than before published.
At the Supreme Judicial Court held at Pownalborough, in the county of Lincoln, on the last Tuesday of September last, DAVID HILDRETH was tried upon an indictment against him, for riotously assaulting, in company with divers other persons not yet discovered, the dwelling house of a Mr. Purington, in Lewiston, on Androscoggin River—breaking and entering the said house, and assaulting with intent to murder Col. Josiah Little, of Newbury, who was a traveller, and for that night a guest of Mr. Purington. The facts were clearly substantiated by the testimony of Mr. Purington and Col. Little, and they both swore positively that Hildreth was one of the gang who perpetrated the villany. The jury returned their verdict that he was guilty; and he was sentenced to sit one hour upon a gallows, in some public place, with a rope round his neck, and one end thereof cast over the gallows—to be imprisoned twelve months, and to pay costs of prosecution.
As this outrageous attack upon the dwelling house of one peaceable citizen, and upon the person of another, in the silent watches of the night, was unquestionably committed by persons irritated against Col. Little, on account of his claims to land on which the perpetrators were settled; it may be considered as connected with the many daring violences lately committed by settlers in other parts of Maine. It is hoped the ignominious punishment to be inflicted upon one of their brethren, will operate as a check upon such disgraceful conduct in future, more especially as it was observed by the Court; and no doubt the observation is well founded in law, that had the bill been found for a capital offence, the same evidence would have convicted the offender, and his fate would then have been dreadful indeed.
From a Boston Paper—Oct. 6.
On Friday last, there was an exhibition, at the Museum Hall, in this town, of the talents, taste, and ingenuity of Mrs. Rowson's pupils. The Embroidery, Painting and Penmanship, which adorned the room, gave a new and striking evidence of that application and force of intellects which will ever show itself in the female mind, when directed and enforced by a skillful and ingenious Preceptress. In the delivery of the pieces, which closed the exhibition, though from the lips of childhood, and addressed to a numerous body of respectable ladies and gentlemen there was every thing to approve and admire more particularly in the Eulogium on the life of Washington, so enchantingly pronounced by the accomplished Miss Octavia Southgate.
MARRIED—At Shrewsbury, Mr. DANIEL JOHNSON, merchant, of this town, to Miss MARY BARKER, eldest daughter of Doctor Jeremiah Barker.
The blooming Fair, The pride of all the country round; In her The charms of virtue, taste, and elegance combine To form the matchless Maid Congenial Who her best, the Swan she loves Who is her best; and Hymen justifies Their mutual vows.
DIED—In this town, Mr. ROBERT GORDON, ET. 57. On the 10th inst. Thomas Hale, only child of Mr. David Hale, of this town, aged 14 months.
Three happy infant! freed from care, From sorrow, pain and wailing grief! Nor soon'd life's lengthened line to bear, Till crippling age should seek relief! Thus time the crown of bliss to crown, Ere yet the conflict was begun; Ere thou hast proved the power of sin, Unhurt, its poison'd darts to shun!
Marine Articles.
Port of Portland.
FRIDAY, OCT. 10.
Arrived ship Cornelia, Captain Benjamin Prince, 37 days from Liverpool. Left there ship Morning Star, Stover, to sail in 4 days for Boston; ship Nabby, Crandal, in 30 days. Sailed in company with ship Merchant, Fitzgerald, of this port; brig Felicity, Tucker, do. for Baltimore; ship Washington, Coffin, of and for New-York. Ship Sifers, Knight, of this port, failed one day before captain P.—Spoke an English frigate off the coast of Ireland, by whom he was examined, and treated politely. The day captain Prince left port, arrived the ship Polly and Harriet, F. Noble, of Boston.
SUNDAY, OCT. 12.
Arrived Schooner Swallow, captain Thomas Waite, 11 days from Bermuda. The following article is extracted from a Bermuda paper brought by capt. W.
Bermuda, Sept. 13.
Tuesday morning a heavy gale of wind came on here with the wind at N. E. which continued all that day and Wednesday, the wind varying a little till it got to the southward, when it blew almost a hurricane; at intervals very heavy squalls were felt. The Porcupine frigate, Capt. Evans, (which was ready for sea and would have got out in half an hour had there been a breeze on Monday evening) parting her cables, was obliged to cut away her masts to save her from drifting amongst the rocks.
The ship Lord Hawkesbury went ashore and received considerable damage, as did a few others—The sloop Bebe, William Sears, from North Carolina, with lumber, &c. which was off the South Side at the time carried her mast away, and is lost against the rocks, crew saved—The Schooner Swallow, Waite, from Portland, with lumber, was obliged to run over the rocks in the height of the gale, at the West End, and got in safe.
Letters remaining in the Post-Office at Biddeford—October 10.
Table with 2 columns: Name, Location. Includes Capt. Stephen Bryant, Capt. Samuel Collyer, John Chandler, Benjamin Eddes, Ichabod Fairfield, Capt. Benjamin Gillpatrick, Joseph Gogins, William Hayden, Capt. Noah Kindrick, Samuel Kindrick, Timothy Keazer, Captain Sylvanus Lowell, Stephen Luttel, James Murch, Capt. Benjamin Nason, Capt. Jonathan Perkins, John Tapley, Zachariah Usher, Capt. Abijah Usher.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Nonresident Proprietors of unimproved Lands in the town of Dresden, in the county of Lincoln, that the following Lots of unimproved Lands in said town, are taxed in three several bills: committed to me to collect for the years 1798, 1799, and 1800, for the State, Town, County, School and School-house, Minister, Highway and Ammunition tax, as follows, viz, Part of Lot No. 19, 1200 acres—sum total } Dols. Cts. of the Taxes in said three bills } 46 19 Lot No. 11, on the west side of Eastern River—sum total of the taxes in said three bills } 4 94
And unless said taxes and intervening charges are paid to me the subscriber, on or before Wednesday, the tenth day of December next, so much of each of said Lots will be sold at Public Auction, at the dwelling-house of the widow ANN GOODWIN in said Dresden, on the said tenth day of December next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will be sufficient to pay the respective taxes on said Lots, and intervening charges.
George Goodwin,
Collector of Dresden for 1798, 1799 and 1800. Dresden September 30. 1800.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, SEPT. 30, 1800.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 23d day of April, one thousand eight hundred, entitled, "An act to establish a General Stamp-Office."
I. THAT a General Stamp-Office is now established at the seat of government, in the city of Washington, from whence there will issue, from and after the date hereof (upon the application of the supervisors of the Revenue, under whose management the collection of Stamp duties is placed) any quantities of paper, parchment and vellum, marked or stamped, and duly counter-stamped, with the rates of duty which are demandable by law.
II. THAT the power of the Supervisors of the Revenue to mark or stamp any vellum, parchment or paper, chargeable with duty, will cease and determine from and after six months from the date hereof, to wit, on the last day of February 1801.
III. THAT, if any person shall, after the last day of February 1801, have in their custody or possession any vellum, parchment or paper, marked or stamped by the Supervisors of the Revenue, upon which any matter or thing, charged with duty, shall not have been written or printed, they may at any time within the space of sixty days after the said last day of February 1801, bring or send such vellum, parchment and paper, unto some office of inspection, and in lieu thereof receive a like quantity or value of vellum, parchment and paper, duly stamped in pursuance of the act herein before recited. And in case any person shall neglect or refuse within the time aforesaid, to bring or cause to be brought unto some officer of inspection, any such vellum, parchment or paper, it is hereby declared that the same will thereafter be of no other effect or use than if it had never been marked or stamped, and that all matters and things, which may after that time be written or printed upon any vellum, parchment or paper, authorized to be exchanged in manner aforesaid, will be of no other effect, than if they had been written or printed on paper, parchment or vellum, not marked or stamped.
IV. AND for the convenience of those persons who may be inclined to have their own vellum, parchment and paper stamped or marked, it is hereby declared, that when any person shall deposit any vellum, parchment or paper at the office of a Supervisor, accompanied with a list, specifying the number and denomination of the stamps or marks which are desired to be thereto affixed, the same will be transmitted to the General Stamp-Office, and there properly marked, stamped, and forthwith sent back to the same Supervisor, who will thereupon collect the duties and deliver the paper, parchment or vellum, to the order of the person from whom the same was received. GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of the Treasury, at Washington, the day and year above-mentioned.
(L. S.) OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
THE subscribers having mutually agreed to dissolve the copartnership under the firm of
WEEKS AND TUCKER,
on the first day of January next, they request all persons who are indebted to, or have claims upon them, to call at their Counting-Room for settlement prior to that time.
Lemuel Weeks, Daniel Tucker.
Portland, Sept. 29, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the articles of copartnership between the subscriber and EPES SAVILLE, expired on the twenty-ninth day of July last, on which day the said copartnership was dissolved. All persons owing said company are hereby called on for payment—and those to whom said company are indebted are requested to exhibit their demands without delay to Lemuel Bradford.
Portland, Sept. 25, 1800.
RUN away from the subscriber, on the 24th inst. EDWARD GILMAN, an indentured apprentice. This is to forbid any person trusting or harbouring him, as I shall not be accountable for any debt of his contracting. EBEN EZER WINSLOW. Falmouth, 31st Mo. 27, 1800.
Take Notice.
THE public are hereby informed: that the MARKET-HOUSE is now completed, and open for the convenience of those who bring any provisions in this town for sale; at which place they are invited to take their stand. The inhabitants of the town are also requested to call there to purchase—The committee appointed to superintend the same, will use their endeavours that they shall be accommodated agreeable to their wishes.
James Neal, per order.
Portland, October 13.
A BARGAIN.
To be sold, by order of Court, on Thursday the Sixth day of November next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, on the premises, the Real Estate of Thomas Goold, late of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, consisting of One Hundred acres of LAND, with the BUILDINGS thereon. Royal Lincoln, administrator. Falmouth, Oct. 4. 1800.
DISTRICT of MAINE.
BY virtue of a Writ of venditioni exponas, from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maine, will be exposed to Sale, at a place called Clay-Cove, in the town of Portland, on Wednesday the Fifteenth day of October next, at Twelve o'Clock, Noon, the FISHING BOAT or SCHOONER called the JACK, with her tackle, apparel, furniture and appurtenances—which Schooner, &c. have been decreed by the aforesaid Court to be forfeited for a breach of the Revenue Laws of the United States.
Conditions of Sale to be made known at the time and place of sale, or before, at the Office of the subscriber.
Isaac Parker, Marshal
of Dist. of Maine. Portland, 27th Sept. 1800.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice, that he hath just set up the Clothier's Business, in Windham, at the Mills commonly called Mabbey's Mills, where he will dress any kind of CLOTH at a reasonable rate. Any persons who will favor him with their custom may depend on particular attention being paid. Nathan Pope. Windham, 24th Sept. 1800.
To the Honorable the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now holden at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland, on the third Tuesday of September, Anno Domini, 1800.
THE petition, and representation of MARY SMITH, the wife of JAMES SMITH of Portland aforesaid, laborer, humbly shews—That her said husband hath for a long time, to wit, for the space of six years last past, absented himself from this Commonwealth, and abandoned his wife and family, without making any provision for their support and maintenance—that your petitioner's industry alone is incompetent to the support of herself and family; and that in order to provide herself with the necessary articles of support, she has been driven to the necessity of contracting debts which she has no means to discharge, having no personal estate except a few articles of household furniture, which are indispensably necessary, and that she can no longer obtain credit for the future support of herself and children.—Your petitioner further shews, that at the time of her marriage with the said James she was and still is seized in her own right of sundry parcels of real estate in said Portland, in fee simple, and also of a parcel of land lying in said Portland between the land of John Kent and the heirs of Edward Watts, of which she is tenant in dower, the same being part of the real estate whereof her former husband John Holiday died seized; from the sale of which, or part of which, she could be enabled to pay the said debts, realize the means of support in future, and thus be relieved from her present distressed situation. Wherefore your petitioner prays your honors that pursuant to the statute in that case made and provided, she may, during the absence of her said husband, be empowered and enabled to make sale of the whole or part of said real estate for the purposes aforesaid, or that your honors would grant her such other relief as in your wisdom shall be deemed meet, and as the circumstances of her case may require. And as in duty bound shall ever pray.
MARY SMITH, by J. D. HOPKINS, her Attorney.
September Term at Portland, A. D. 1800.
UPON the Petition aforesaid—ORDERED, That the said Mary notify the said James to appear at the next term of this Court to be holden in this county, on the third Tuesday of May next, by publishing an attested copy of this Petition, and Order thereon, in the Portland Gazette, three weeks successively, the last publication to be at least thirty days before the sitting of said Court, that he may then and there appear and shew cause, if any he hath, why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
A true copy. Attest, EDWARD P. HAYMAN, Clerk.
Strayed or Stolen,
FROM Old Salisbury, on the first day of September, inst. a dark chestnut coloured MARE, with a star in her forehead—fourteen hands high, 4 years old this fall, trots and paces.—Whoever will return said Mare to the subscriber, or leave her where he may receive her, shall be entitled to FIVE DOLLARS, and all necessary charges. Thomas Bayley. Durham, Sept. 19.
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MUSES.
ODE TO MORNING.
THOU who wrapt the infant day In varied robes of blushing grey, Whose dewy tresses wreath'd with light, Wave bright'ning o'er the mountain's height, Who wak'st the vap'ry skirted vale To fongul life—fair Morning hail! Yok'd with bonds of beamy red, The blushing hours and pleasures lead Thy gemmy car, which the young ray Gilds softly o'er the op'ning day, And lights upon the dew-prefl flower, The pouring stream, or ivied tower.
Lo, zephyr, how thy wand'ring child, Couching amid the violets wild, Bathes his young wing with fcented dews, And brifk his favorite toil renews; Sweeps lightly o'er the breathing fcene, And wakens all his breezy train. Go, airy band! fwift fped away, Collect each dawning charm of day, Each lufcious fweet infatiate fip, And pour it on my Julia's lip.
Light as her morning dreams repair, Throng gently round my blooming fair; Soft on her pillow whifper'ing fland; Say, that e'er morning's orient hand Hath painted gay the fields of light, Cold, dripping from the damps of night, Penfive befide this defert ftream, I've figh'd, and call'd on Julia's name!
ARTICLES FROM ENGLISH PAPERS.
FRACAS!
From the London Times—Aug. 20.
A rencontre took place on Monday in the shop of Mr. Wright, the bookfeller, between the celebrated Peter Pindar and Mr. Giffard, author of the Baviad. In reply to the many farcafms thrown out by Peter Pindar againft the author of Baviad and other poems, Mr. Giffard lately publifhed a fevere fatire againft Peter. In a fecond edition an allufion is made of a kind too grofs for decency to record.—This literary combat on Monday produced blows. Dr. Walcutt went into the shop of Mr. Wright, where Mr. Giffard was feated reading a newfpaper; he afked him if his name was not Giffard? He replied in the affirmative. Upon which the Doctor aimed a blow at his brother poet with a cane, which Mr. Giffard dexteroufly warded off, wrefted the cane from Peter, and in an instant broke the head of his affailant with his own ftick. Some gentlemen who were prefent interfered, and Peter was thruft into the ftreet, where a mob collected, to whom he made his appeal. He had loft his hat in the affray, which was thrown out to him; but the poet of the Baviad kept poffeffion of the cane as a trophy of his triumph.—Peter threatens a profecution.
Peter is faid to be getting into years; we would have Pindarum Quifquis fudet aemulari, be able to plead otage at leaft in his excufe.
That which should have been done two hundred years ago, has lately been undertaken by order of Lord Cornwallis.—Sydney, who wrote in Queen Elizabeth's time, on the means of civilizing Ireland, fays, "That the favage Irish would never be fubdued or held in obedience, until the mountain diftricts of Wicklow, Carlow, and Wekford, were laid open by wide and convenient roads, and until a fort was built at Ballymanus,"—There are at prefent many hundred foldiers employed in opening roads through the tract defcribed by Spencer; the men are allowed 1/ per diem, befides their pay; and the officers who overfe them 5/ per diem. 'Tis certain, that by making a direct road from Dublin to Waterford, no lefs than nineteen miles and an half of diftance may be faved.
A piece of beef, on being toafted fome months fince, was put into a block-tin cafe, and the vacant fpace being completely filled with dripping, which covered and furrrounded the meat, the cafe was foldered on, in which cafe it was conveyed to Philadelphia, where it is fated to have arrived in the fame perfect ftate as when it had been drefted.
The famous Salvator Rofa, the celebrated Painter, was earneftly preffed upon his death-bed to marry his miftrefs, by whom he had fome children; but as he knew her to have been liberal of her favors to others, he rejected the proposal: being, however, folemnly affured by his confeffor, that if he did not comply he could not go to Heaven, "Then I muft fubmit," faid Salvator, "but it is a hard thing that a man cannot go to Heaven with being a cuckold."
As fo many of our young mafters have been inoculated for the cow pox it will be lefs furprifing if when they grow up they should wear horns.
A New Line STAGE,
HAS begun to run from Portland through Berwick and Dover to Portsmouth. The Subscriber, one of the Proprietors, informs the public, that said STAGE will let off from Mr. PAINE's, in Portland, every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, at an early hour, and arrive at Portsmouth on the evenings of the same days;—and will leave Portsmouth on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and FRIDAYS, and arrive at Mr. PAINE's, in Portland, on the evenings of those days.
The Public will please to notice, that this Stage will leave Portland, and arrive at Portsmouth, on days different from that which conveys the Mail:—So that by the present arrangement a Stage will pass from Portland to Portsmouth and from Portsmouth to Portland every day in the week, Sundays excepted.
Those who wish for seats will please to apply at Mr. PAINE's, in Portland, where Stage-Books will be kept.—Careful Drivers will be provided, and every necessary accommodation for passengers.
Aaron Chamberlain.
Portland, Sept. 28th, 1800.
For Sale, By Hatch & Dearborn, At their Shop in Fifth-street, Superfine Black and Navy blue BROADCOTHS, of a superior quality.
The TAILORING BUSINESS is carried on at said Shop as usual—where garments of every description may be had at the shortest notice. Sept. 15, 1800.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that the subscribers have been duly appointed joint Administrators on the Estate of SILVANUS PRINCE, late of Northyarmouth, Yeoman, deceased, and given bonds as the law directs.—All persons having demands on said Estate, are desired immediately to exhibit the same for settlement; and those indebted to make payment to
Thomas Prince, John Prince, Administrators.
Northyarmouth, August 19, 1800.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that the subscribers have been duly appointed joint Administrators on the Estate of SAMUEL MERRILL, late of Northyarmouth, Esq. deceased, and given bonds as the law directs.—All persons having demands on said Estate, are hereby called upon to exhibit the same for settlement; and those indebted to make immediate payment to
Mary Merrill, Moses Merrill, Administrators.
Northyarmouth, August 19 1800.
GENUINE BILLIOUS PILLS,
PREPARED by SAMUEL LEE, jun. of Windham, Connecticut. Secured to him by Patent, by the President of the United States, dated April 30th, 1796; agreeable to an act of Congress.—They are approved of by Physicians, and others, for their singular virtues; and particularly as a sovereign remedy against an overcharge of bile in the stomachs of men, women and children. They remove pains in the head, stomach and bowels—the gripes, and obstructions. They are an excellent help for the gravel, scurvy, cholick, jaundice and dropsy; and a most effectual remedy for costiveness, and in-refore convenient for all travellers by sea and land. They have proved to be very effectual in preventing the yellow fever. After a debauch by eating or drinking, they restore the loss of appetite, and easily purge the stomach and bowels, without pain or griping. They are very necessary for seamen, as they prevent many of those diseases which they are afflicted with.
The above Pills may be had of JOHN P. WHITWELL, Boston; of SHIRLEY ERVING, Portland; and of
JAMES CUSHMAN, Topsham; who has constantly for sale, a general assortment of Drugs & Medicines. Topsham, August 16, 1800. (8w—22)
War Department.
August 4th, 1800.
THE commanding Officers of corps, detachments, posts, garrisons, and recruiting parties, belonging to the military establishment of the United States are to report to, and receive orders from Brigadier General WILKINSON, in the city of Washington, and all officers on furlough are to report themselves to the same officer with all possible dispatch.
SAMUEL DEXTER, Secretary of War.
TO BE SOLD BY THE SUBSCRIBER,
Or Lot for a number of years, to build on, PRIVILEGES for ten Saws on Saco River, in the town of Standish, in the county of Cumberland, with Land to accommodate the same, or as will best suit the purchaser—Also, a number of Shares in three Saws now under improvement, with a Grist-Mill. It is a very fine place for young men to carry on business in the country—being 18 miles from Portland, 17 from Saco, 20 from Kennebec, and 16 from Dunston, with good roads to either, which makes it a very good country stand.—Also Water and Timber in plenty—Any young Gentleman who wishes to be concerned, will do well to see it himself, as may be had on reasonable terms.
Robert M'Donald.
Buxton August 16.
TO BE SOLD, A FARM, lying in Parsonsfield, containing one hundred and eighty acres of good Land, good Buildings, and an Orchard of one hundred and fifty trees—being a very delightful situation.—Whoever may wish to be furnished with a pleasant seat in the country, may now have one by applying to MOSES MIGHEL, on the premises. Aug. 18
A variety of Music, Consisting of the Newest Pieces, may be had at JENKS' BOOK-STORE.
Bowdoin College.
THE TRUSTEES of Bowdoin College are hereby reminded, that their Semi-Annual Meeting is to be held at the house of Mr. JOHN DUNNING, in Brunswick, on the Fifth day of November next, being the first Wednesday of said month at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
John Frothingham, Sec'y.
Portland, Oct. 4, 1800.
THE OVERSEERS of Bowdoin College are hereby notified, that their semi annual meeting will be held on the first Wednesday of November next, being the fifth day of said month, at ten of the clock, A. M. at the house of Mr. JOHN DUNNING, in Brunswick.
MARK LANGDON HILL, Secretary.
September 1800.
THE nonresident proprietors of the following Lots of unimproved Land in the town of Bucksport, and county of Hancock, are hereby notified that the same are taxed in the bills committed to the Subscriber to collect for the year 1799, in the respective sums following, viz.
Table with 4 columns: Range, No. Lots, C. M., and another Range, No. Lots, C. M. listing various lot numbers and their corresponding tax amounts.
If no person shall appear to discharge the taxes aforesaid, and all intervening charges, on or before Monday the first day of December next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to much of said Land as will discharge the same will then be sold at Public Auction, at the Store of Mr. ASA PEABODY in Bucksport, according to law.
ANSON LANPHER.
Collector of Bucksport for 1799. Bucksport, 26th August, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given to the following nonresident proprietors of Land, in Union, county of Lincoln, that their Lands are taxed in the State Town and County taxes, and arrears of High way taxes, and committed to the subscriber, collector for the year 1799, to collect, viz.
Table with 4 columns: Name, State, County, Highway, Sum total. Lists tax amounts for Josiah Reed, Daniel Kirkpatrick, and Samuel Donham.
And unless said taxes, with all intervening charges, are paid, on or before Monday the tenth day of November next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to much of said Lands will then be severally sold at Public Vendue, at the dwelling-house of David Gillman, innholder in said town, as will be sufficient to pay the same, as aforesaid.
Nathaniel Robbins, Collector.
Union, August 25th, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident Proprietors of Land lying in the town of Poland, in the county of Cumberland, that the following Lots are taxed in the State, County and Town Tax, for the year 1799, in the bills committed to me to collect, as follows:—
Table with 4 columns: No. Lots, No. Acres, Land, County tax, Highway tax, Total. Lists tax amounts for various lots in Poland, divided into First and Second Divisions.
If no person shall appear to discharge said taxes and all necessary intervening charges, on or before Wednesday the twenty-sixth day of November 1800, at 10 o'clock, A. M. to much of the said Lots of Land as will be sufficient to discharge the same will then be sold at Public Auction to the highest bidder, according to Law, at the house of WENTWORTH RICE, innholder in said Poland.
John T. Merrill, Collector.
Poland, August 10, 1800.
To be sold at Auction,
On Monday the 15th day of December next,
A Certain piece of excellent Wood LAND, containing one hundred and twenty acres (mostly white oak) lying in the town of Biddeford, about three miles from Saco falls.—Said Land will be sold at the house of JOSEPH BEAL, living in said town. The land may be seen any time previous to the day of sale, by applying to the said JOSEPH BEAL.
Moses Davis,
BEGS leave to inform the public, that he has taken a shop in Main-street, next to Mr. MOTLEY's Tavern, Portland, where he intends to carry on the CHASE-MAKING BUSINESS, if encouragement is given.
For sale as above, a new CHASE. August 25.
B. ADAMS,
SCULPTOR AND STONE-CUTTER.
Respectfully acquaints the public, that he has commenced business, in Federal Street, near the head of Fifth-Street, where he has an assortment of Connecticut and Quincy SLATE STONES, suitable for hearths, jambs, and mantels—Also, TOMB-STONES and GRAVE-STONES.—Likewise, a few Italian MARBLE TABLE SLABS. Portland, Sept. 15, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE.
ALL person indebted to the Estate of JOHN BURNHAM, late of Portland, deceased, are requested to make payment without delay—All accounts not settled within thirty days, will be lodged with an Attorney for collection.
Thomas Burnham, Peter Warren.
August 25, 1800.
JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE, WHOLESALE OR RETAIL,
By Abijah Cheever,
At his Store in Middle-street, opposite the Bank, 10 Boxes well assorted China Tea Sets,
Few Chests fresh Hyson, Souchong and Bohea TEAS:
Loaf and India Sugars.
8 Cales Men's, Women's, & Youth's English Beaver HATS.
Men's and Youth's Felt do.
2500 pairs of Women's and Misses' Kid, Morocco, and Cloth SHOES.
Men's and Boys Leather and Morocco do.
Brafs Pedicel Andirons, Shovels, Tongs and Hooks, Brafs Handles for door, &c.
All the above articles will be sold on very low terms for cash. Portland, Aug. 18.
FOR SALE.
(If applied for immediately.)
Sixty-two acres of LAND, with a House and Barn thereon, together with a young orchard, a good well of water, &c.—For further particulars inquire of the Subscriber, living on the premises. The payment will be made easy to the purchaser. DANIEL SMITH. New Gloucester, Sept. 10, 1800.
ALL persons are hereby forbidden to harbour, trust, trade with, or employ, on my account, DIMAN PERRY, jun. as I will not be answerable for any obligations he may contract. DIMAN PERRY. Poland, August 25, 1800.
Amoskeag Canal Lottery.
THE Managers of the Amoskeag Canal Lottery, having drawn the First, Second and Third Classes, agreeably to their engagement—present the public with the following
SCHEME
Of the Fourth Class of said Lottery.
Table with 2 columns: Prize, Dollars. Lists prizes for the 4th class of the lottery, including 1 prize of 2000 dollars, 1 of 60 finished shares, and various smaller prizes.
2000 Prizes. Amount of prizes, 22095 4000 Blanks. Deduction for the Lottery, 3105
6000 Tickets, at 4 dollars each, is 24000 The prize of 500 dollars abovementioned, will be allotted to the lot drawn blank.
The drawing of this Class will positively commence on the twenty first day of October next, at Boston, and continue from day to day (Sundays excepted) until it shall be completed.—The prizes will be paid by the vendors of the tickets, without deduction.—Those of 20 dollars and under, on demand; and all others, in thirty days after the list shall be published. The shares in the canal, mills, &c. will be conveyed by the proprietor, and finished without any expense to the holder of the prize. And all prizes not demanded within six months from the publishing the list, will be deemed as generously given to the proprietor of the lottery.
EPHRAIM ROBINSON, SAMUEL TINNEY, NATHANIEL PARKER, Managers.
EXETER, Newhampshire, August 5, 1800.
SCHOOL BOOKS,
FOR SALE AT JENKS' BOOK-STORE.
The American Preceptor, The Young Gentleman and Ladies' Instructor, Orator's Assistant, Columbian Orator, Webster's Third Part, The Maine Spelling Book, Webster's, & Perry's Spelling Books, Child's Companion, Young Ladies' Accidence, &c. Also for sale, a handsome assortment of Children's Books.
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 per year, exclusive of Postage. Semi-Annual payments are requested. The extensive and rapidly increasing circulation of the Gazette, renders it highly advantageous for ADVERTISERS, which will be inserted in a very expeditious manner.