Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser (Portland, Me.), 1808-08-22 00:00:00

Capt. Godman PORTLAND GAZETTE, And Maine Advertiser.
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PORTLAND (MAINE) PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY ISAAC ADAMS, No 7, FISH-STREET
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No. 19, of Vol. XI.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1808.
[Whole No. 53]
Communication.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
Mr. Editor, I WAS gratified by reading in your paper, a few weeks since, a publication of the grand jurors of this county, concerning a neglect in the execution of certain laws, and evincing their determination to use their endeavors that transgressors should in future be noticed, and that the laws should not be suffered to remain a dead letter. The laws in question relate to the observance of the Sabbath, the regulation of licensed houses, to profane swearing, &c. It cannot be concealed, that there is a prevalent, open transgression of these laws; still, they have not been executed, but offenders are suffered to pass unpunished. This neglect, in them whose duty it is to execute the laws, or complain of breaches of them, has probably arisen from an idea, that these evil practices have become so common, and the habits of many so rooted, that an attempt to enforce obedience would be vain, and perhaps aggravate the evils. If this be not the cause, it is perhaps difficult to imagine what excuse tythingmen, selectmen, sheriffs, &c. can frame for themselves, in neglect of their duty, and their oaths of office. If this be the true reason, it argues a deplorable state of our civil society. If vices are so common, and so deeply rooted, that the laws must exist only in books, and no attempt be made to bring offenders to justice, surely the virtue of the people is low indeed, and the situation of society alarming.
Let us examine this plea, and the consequences of adopting it. If those who are placed as guardians of the laws may neglect their duty in one instance, why not in another, and every instance? If they take no notice of the transgression of these laws, they may in those cases which more immediately endanger the property and lives of the citizens, and the safety of the state. If this principle be adopted with respect to crimes comparatively small; under similar circumstances they may refuse to convict the thief and the robber, and turn the murderer loose upon society. And while small crimes are tolerated, we are fast approaching to those circumstances where the same principle may be applied to more enormous crimes. Besides, how great a temptation would be required to persuade men, who can prevail upon themselves to desert their posts in the execution of these laws, from the idea that it is common, to extend the same principle, by degrees, to more enormous crimes, and even to the most atrocious? But admitting that the principle will not be extended to other crimes, does not every allowance of transgression produce in the people a contempt of the law? It is of no consequence to say, that these are minor crimes, and may be punished or overlooked at pleasure, without any bad consequence. They have been deemed crimes of sufficient magnitude to be forbidden under heavy penalties in the laws of the state; and certainly all who are acquainted with the exercise of family authority, or of any government whatever, know of what importance and necessity is a strict adherence to the rules prescribed. All governments have found the necessity of being respected, in order for the security of their authority, and the happiness of the people. Neglect of enforcing laws in the written code, invariably emboldens offenders, and produces a want of confidence in government, even among those who are well disposed. It is of the first consequence therefore, that good laws should be enforced, & that those which are found bad in the execution, should be repealed.
Perhaps it will be contended, that with respect to the statutes under consideration, officers appointed to attend to their observance have a discretionary power, and may exercise their own private judgment with respect to the necessity or propriety of a prosecution. With respect to a few of the crimes, they must undoubtedly exercise their own good sense in determining whether a particular case, comes within the intention of the law; but in evident acts of offence, within their knowledge, nothing is left to their discretion.
With respect to an individual's entering complaints, the law bears on a slender reed. Individuals have not sufficient inducements to render them satisfied in complaining of offenders. When a man has been robbed, has lost his property by the thief, or finds his character has been traduced by a calumniator, he can exert himself to detect and apprehend the offender, and evince a strong attachment to the laws of his country. But when his neighbor profanes the Sabbath, gets drunk, quarrels, games, sells liquors contrary to law, &c. he does not feel himself immediately affected either in person, property, or character, and therefore feels no immediate interest in executing the laws. He sees indeed the public good infringed, and laments, perhaps, that the offender injures himself.
It is said, the crimes of which we speak are small crimes, and that a toleration of them is of little consequence? It is admitted that they are neither robbery nor murder, but it is asserted that they are destructive of the good order, peace, happiness, and prosperity of the community, and often productive of the destruction of the property and lives of the citizens. We need not mention the degradation of character even below the brutes, which man sustains by drunkenness and profanity. We need not insist on the degraded and demoralized state of that society, where such vices prevail. Let us only advert to the effects of such vices in the offenders themselves. In the first place, one of these vices
leads to another: he that drinks will commonly swear; and he who takes the name of his God in vain, will feel little compunction of conscience in profaning his Sabbath, and to either of these characters but little temptation is necessary, to induce him to games of hazard and other similar and attendant practices. Sometimes one, and sometimes another has the first hold of a person, but whichever it is, the others pass in for their share. In a habit of drinking, there may be comprised those vices of which we speak; and who does not know the direful effects of drunkenness, idleness, and gaming? If any does not, let him reside in the vicinity of grog shops, and learn how wrangling, quarrelling, fighting, and sometimes death, follow in their train. Let him learn that they produce poverty, want, and misery—loss of character, health, and life. But few have swung from the gallows, without confessing that a habit of idleness, drunkenness, gaming, and profanity, was the means of bringing them there. They could then see how they had progressed in iniquity from one step to another; they could then tell any one who enters this course, how liable he is to proceed to the end, and how difficult it is to stop short of it.
Is not every one, who values the temporal and eternal felicity of his fellow men; every one who regards our civil and religious institutions; every friend to his country, solemnly called upon to use his endeavors for the execution of the laws, and the suppression of vice? But you will say, what can be done? I answer, much can be done, if they who possess the power, will have the resolution to effect it.
PHOCION.
[TO BE CONTINUED]
Interesting Political Miscellany.
FROM THE NEW-YORK EVENING POST.
WARNING TO AMERICANS.
At a time when Mr. Jefferson, from a servile dread of Napoleon, not only persists in refusing to settle our differences with England, but even, like a mere Prefect obeying the orders of his master, seems determined on going to actual war with that bulwark of our country—that only remaining hope of nations; and, of course, to form an alliance with France; it may not be amiss, at this very gloomy and portentous moment, when the public indignation is alive for the finishing blow given to Spain, and when we are about to be plunged into the same abyss of destruction, to give a faint description (taken from the most authentic documents) of the barbarities, rapacities, and cruelties, committed by the French in those countries which they have entered either as FRIENDS or foes.
ITALY.
In 1796, Bonaparte, at the head of a numerous French army, invaded Italy, declaring to the people, that he came as their friend and their brother to deliver them from taxes and slavery, and promising them safety for their persons, security for their prosperity, respect for their laws, and reverence for their religion. They listened, they believed; they threw open their gates, they laid down their arms, they received the Gallic Serpent to their bosom! and fatal indeed were the effects of their credulity! His reverence for their religion he displayed by giving up all their places of worship to indiscriminate plunder, and by desiling them with every species of sacrilege; his respect for their laws was evinced, not only by the abrogation of those laws, but by the arbitrary enforcement of an unconditional submission to the mandates of himself and his generals: the security which he promised to their property, was exhibited in enormous contributions, in the seizure of all public funds, as well as those of every charitable foundation, not excepting schools, hospitals or any other resource of the poor, the aged and helpless; and as to the persons of the unfortunate people, he provided for their safety, by laying the whole country under the severest military execution; by giving up their towns and villages to fire and sword, and by exposing the inhabitants to be pillaged and murdered by his rapacious and inhuman soldiers, whom he authorized and even ordered to shoot every man that attempted to resist them, whatever might be the crimes in which they were engaged.
EGYPT.
Bonaparte invaded Egypt, where he repeated his promises to respect religion; and where, the more effectually to disguise his purposes, he issued a PROCLAMATION, declaring himself and his army to be true Mahometans; and boasting of having made war upon the Christians, and destroyed their religion. One of his first deeds, after this act of apostasy, was to massacre almost all the inhabitants of the populous city of Alexandria. "The people," says one of his Generals, "betake themselves to their Prophet, and fill their Mosques, but men and women, old and young, and even babes at the breast, are all massacred!" Sometime after this sanguinary transaction, Bonaparte having made prisoners of three thousand eight hundred Turks, in the fortress of Jaffa, and wishing to relieve himself of the trouble and expense of guarding and supporting them, ordered them to be marched to the open place, where part of his army fired on them with musketry & grape shot, stabbing and cutting to death the few that escaped the fire, while he himself looked on and rejoiced at the horrid scene. Nor were his cruelties, while in Egypt, confined to those whom he called his enemies; for finding his hospitals at Jaffa, crowded with sick soldiers, and desiring to disencumber himself of them, he ordered one of his physicians to destroy them by poison; the physician refused to obey;—but an apothecary was found willing to perpetrate the deed; opium was mixed with the food, and thus five hundred and eighty Frenchmen perished by the order of the General under whose banners they fought; by the order of that very man, to whose despotic sway the whole French nation now patiently submit.
Let them so submit; but let not Americans (whatever may be Mr. Jefferson's determination) think of such shameful, such degrading submission.
Such was the treatment which the country experienced under Bonaparte. But when he had disgracefully fled from the land which he had thus fleeced, ravaged, and scourged, his vile army still continued to commit those abominable excesses which had marked their progress in every country so unfortunate as to fall under their tyranny.
SWITZERLAND.
In Switzerland, where high rank and great riches were unknown, where men were nearer upon an equality than in any other country in the world; in a country having no commerce, scarcely any manufactures, and possessing few of the four sources of wealth and distinction; a country of shepherds and labourers; a country which might be truly said to contain a nation of poor men; in such a country to cry "war to palaces" seemed useless and absurd.—Yet did the French find a pretext for war with this poor and harmless race, and for invading and laying waste their territory. After having by means of an armistice, joined to a most solemn promise of respect for persons and property, lulled the people into a state of imaginary security, the armistice was broken, and the French pushed on their forces, when those of the Swiss were dispersed. Resistance on the part of the latter whose numbers did not amount to a tenth of those of their flagitious enemy, now became hopeless; and though the little army was brave, tho' the people were faithful and active, though the last battle was long, obstinate and bloody; though the Swiss achieved wonders, and though the women fought by the side of their husbands, inciting them to victory or death, all was in vain! Hundreds and thousands perished by the sabres of the French, and while the earth was strewed with their dead bodies, and while the flames ascended from the once happy dwellings of this valiant and innocent peo-
ple, the hard-earned and long preserved LIBERTIES of Switzerland expired.
HOLLAND.
Inhabitants of New-York—the first settlers of this great and powerful State, listen to the situation of your mother country. What has become of her liberties, her commerce, her independence? all gone to the Carnol House of Corsican perfidy and rapacity. The brave, hardy, enterprising, and frugal sons of Batavia, after having patiently borne every species of oppression, and drained of almost their lastilling, have had a king placed over them, the mere creature, to execute the diabolical mandates of the Great Bandit.
When the French armies entered the territories of Holland, her motto was, "War to the Palace, but Peace to the Cottage." They came to deliver the people from their rulers, and from the burthens which those rulers imposed. The Dutch, like Italians, lent an ear to their artful and perfidious declarations, believing that their cottages would be spared, and careless of the fate of the palace. But, alas!—They soon found that French rapacity, like the hail and the thunder, fell alike to the thatched roof, & the gilded dome. The palaces once seized on, the cottages soon followed; while those who were found in the intermediate space, the merchant, the manufacturer, the farmer and the tradesman, were sunk in the common ruin: happy if by the loss of property they had the good fortune to preserve their lives! These miserable beings possess nothing of their own; they can acquire nothing with the hope of enjoying or bequeathing it; they can make no provision for the weakness of disease, the feebleness of old age, or the helplessness of infancy; they are the mere political drudges of the servile tool of a hard hearted tyrant, who suffers them to live only while their labors administer to their projects of ambition, and who, when his purposes demand it, puts an end at once to their toils and existence.
GERMANY.
Brave sons of Herman, inhabitants of these States—such of you as have had sense and spirit enough to keep your souls free from the poisonous influence of the all corrupting agents of Napoleon, who swarm in this country, how must your hearts be torn by the mingled emotions of sorrow and indignation at the fate of the late happy, powerful, and independent land of your warlike forefathers? How must your bosoms sympathize in the deep distress and degradation of your enslaved countrymen? How must they swell with patriotic vengeance against the universal desolater, who, by his deceitful wiles and treacherous arts, more than by the honorable open prowess of his arms, has subjugated, and now scourges with savage cruelty the once happy plains of Germania? The invasions of this country were attended with crimes too atrocious to be credited, were they not proved by indisputable evidence, and did they not accord with the general practice of the wretches by whom they were committed. In adverting to these detestable acts of oppression and barbarity, we must recollect, that they were perpetrated upon a people, who, seduced by the tyrant's insidious pioneers, had made no resistance of any sort against the invaders, and who, in every instance, had entered into an agreement with the French Generals TO PAY THEM GREAT SUMS OF MONEY* in order to preserve their country from plunder. In consequence of the ransom thus wrung from the people, the invaders declared, by public proclamation, that the persons and property of the inhabitants should be strictly respected, and that their rights, usages,
laws and religion, should remain inviolate and undisturbed. On these assurances thus solemnly made, the credulous people (unused to perfidy themselves) all implicitly relied, while some of the poorer class regarded the French, not as enemies, but as their deliverers from taxes and labour.
No sooner had the invasion taken place, no sooner had the French become masters of the country, than they spread themselves over it like beafts of prey, devouring and destroying every thing before them. They spared neither cities nor towns, neither villages nor hamlets, nor solitary houses; from the church to the cell, from the castle to the cottage, no state of life, however lofty and humble, escaped their rapacious assaults; no sanctity excited their veneration; no grandeur their respect; no misery their forbearance or their pity. After having plundered the houses of the gentry, the clergy, and the tradesmen; after having pillaged the shops, warehouses and manufactories, they proceeded to the farm houses and cottages, they rifled the pockets and chests of the inhabitants, cut open their beds, took up the floors of their rooms, dug up their cellars, searched their newly made graves, and broke open the coffins, in hopes of finding secreted money. They sometimes threatened people with immediate death, sometimes put them to the torture, sometimes lacerated and crippled them, in order to wring from them a discovery of their little pittance of ready money. The deepest, most apparent poverty was no protection against their rapacity; grey hairs and liping infancy, the sick, dying, women in child-bed, were alike exposed to the most inhuman treatment, dragged from their beds, kicked, wounded, and frequently killed, under the pretence that they were the keepers of secreted treasure.—The teams and flocks, cattle of every kind, the marauders drove off, cut to pieces on the spot, or in a state of mutilation; corn, hay and straw, they wasted or burnt. They demolished the household furniture; destroyed the utensils of the dairies, the barns, and the stables; tore down the gates; levelled the fences. In many places they stripped the clothes from the backs of the people, set their liquor flowing in their cellars, burnt their provisions to ashes. The churches, whether Romish or Protestant, they rendered a scene of indiscriminate robbery, of sacrilege and blasphemy, to describe. Towards women, of all ages and condition, they were guilty of brutality never before heard of—neither extreme youth nor extreme age; neither weakness, nor deformity, nor the most loathsome diseases; neither the pangs of labor nor the agonies of death could restrain them;—shrieks, tears, supplications, were of no avail; and where fathers, husbands or brothers interfered, murder seldom failed to close the horrible scene.
Germans, and descendants of Germans, in every part of the globe, but particularly in America, does not your blood chill with horror at this dreadful picture? Yet such will be the fate of your adopted country, unless you come out to oppose these fiend-like wretches, the Duane, and other agents of Bonaparte, who are pursuing the same hellish steps which have led to the heart-rending scenes above recited. Such are the barbarities which have been inflicted on other nations. The recollection of them will never be effaced; the melancholy story will be handed down from generation to generation, to the everlasting infamy of the treacherous Corsican and his bloody myriads, and as an awful warning to all those nations who may hereafter suffer themselves to be first betrayed and then invaded. The United States is one of those nations; we are the people whom they have already almost seduced to their purposes of assisting
* How fatally parallel will be the situation of the United States in a short time, judging from the disposition and past conduct of our present rulers!

to destroy the power of Britain, whose navy is our own bulwark; we are the people whom they will then invade; awful indeed, is the warning which we have from the fate of all continental Europe, and if we despise it, tremendous will be the judgment!
Foreign Intelligence.
By the ship Isabella , Capt. Higgins, from Liverpool.
London date to July 9,
FRENCH KING OF SPAIN.
Our intelligence from the continent announces that Joseph Bonaparte was proclaimed King of Spain, at Bayonne, on the 11th June, by a Council or Junta, consisting of a few Spaniards, who had been unable to resist the influence of Napoleon, or who were real traitors to the liberties of their country, and the civil and military officers, accompanying the Emperor. King Joseph had addressed a Proclamation to his new subjects; and received the congratulations of those bodies, which had sanctioned his nomination.
Murat was at Bayonne; but how, or in what manner he got there, is not mentioned.
A letter from Oporto, of June 7, states the following:—"Yesterday evening, at 7 o'clock, the commander of the Spanish forces in this city, took the French General and the whole of his staff prisoners; he then delivered up the government of the city, to the former governor, who immediately resumed his functions, and ordered the Portuguese flag to be hoisted upon all the batteries and forts."
RUSSIA COMING ABOUT.
JULY 5.—There is a report very generally circulated, that Negotiations are actually going on between this country, Sweden, and Russia—that this is the real cause of the inactivity of military operations in the North—and that, in consequence of these negotiations, Sir John Moore and the troops under his command are immediately coming home. So much was this report believed, that many of the articles of Russian produce fell considerably yesterday.—Hemp fell no less than 10 s. a ton, and tallow in proportion.
ORDERS OF COUNCIL.
JULY 5.—At the Court at the Queen's Palace the 4th of July, 1808, present, the KING's most Excellent Majesty in Council. His Majesty having taken into his consideration the glorious exertions of the Spanish Nation for the deliverance of their country from the tyranny and usurpation of France, and the assurances which his Majesty has received from several of the Provinces of Spain, of their friendly disposition towards this Kingdom: it is His Majesty's pleasure, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered:
First, That all hostilities against Spain on the part of his Majesty shall immediately cease.
Secondly, That the Blockade of all the Ports of Spain, except such as may be still in the possession or under the controul of France, shall be forthwith raised.
Thirdly, That all Ships and Vessels belonging to Spain shall have free admission into the Ports of his Majesty's Dominions, as before the present hostilities.
Fourthly, That all Ships and Vessels belonging to Spain, which shall be met at sea by his Majesty's Ships and Cruisers, shall be treated in the same manner as ships of States in amity with his Majesty, and shall be suffered to carry on any trade now considered by his Majesty to be lawfully carried on by neutral ships.
Fifthly, That all vessels and goods belonging to persons residing in the Spanish Colonies, which shall be detained by any of his Majesty's Cruisers, after the date hereof, shall be brought into Port, and shall be carefully preserved in safe custody, to await his Majesty's further pleasure, until it shall be known whether the said Colonies, or any of them, in which the Owners of such ships and goods reside, shall have made common cause with Spain against the power of France.
And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Judges of the Courts of Vice-Admiralty, are to take such measures herein as to them may respectively appertain.
STEPH. COTTRELL.
GEN. DUPONT'S ARMY.
It is stated in some of the letters which have been received from Spain, that the Patriots made use of an excellent ruse de guerre in their attack upon General Dupont. A part of the force that attacked that General was composed of Regular Troops, and before the action commenced they changed cloaths with the peasants, and others, who formed the remainder of the Army. This artifice, it is stated, was completely successful, for General Dupont directed his principal efforts against those whom, from their uniform, he took to be regular troops, and had taken very few precautions against those whom he considered to be an undisciplined mob. The consequence was, that his army was thrown into confusion, and completely defeated.
The geographical position, as well as size of Spain renders it the most difficult conquest which the French have hitherto undertaken. The distance at which her most important cities are placed from one another, and the little connection that subsists between them, prevents the possibility of its being subdued by any single army, however large; or by any single victory however brilliant and decisive. The number of her harbours renders the possession of them by foreign troops impracticable, and the situation of them, combined with our naval superiority, secures her intercourse with Great Britain, with her own colonial possessions, and with any other power from whom she can derive resources or assistance. The obstructions which the country presents to the operations of an army, are in favor of the inhabitants; and even those disadvantages, neutral and artificial, which have retarded the progress of their prosperity, may, in this season of distress and difficulty, contribute not a little to the efficacy of their defence; when we state that the provinces are mountainous, that many of their defiles and even towns are inaccessible to artillery, that between France and the fertile plains of Andalusia there are no less than three ridges of mountains to be passed.
FROM SWEDEN.
We have been favoured with the following Extracts from the Stockholm Gazette , of June 25;
"The first is a report from Field-Marshal KINNESSON, dated Brathafvad June 10. It sets forth that after Colonel SANDEL had driven the Russians from Rautalampi, Lappavirta, Jorci, and Warkaus, taken all their magazines and artillery (ninety-nine cannon in all) he proceeded to Koivisto, where, after a severe conflict, the Russians were again defeated, when a number of prisoners and considerable stores fell into the hands of the Swedes. Sander was still pursuing the enemy. His head quarters was at Cuopie."
FROM THE TAGUS.
A letter from an officer on board the fleet off the Tagus, of June 13, states;—"That an army of 30,000 Spaniards were on their march towards Lisbon; that Ad. Cotton had sent a flag to the Russian Admiral advising him of the events which had taken place in Spain and Oporto, and proposing to accept his surrender, on the condition of his fleet's being restored to the Emperor Alexander on the conclusion of peace; that a body of French troops on their march from St. Ubes to Lisbon, had been surrounded by a detachment of Portuguese, and Spaniards, and taken prisoners:"—The letter concludes, thus—"We expect to go into the Tagus every hour. I shall probably come home in a Russian man of war."
The official accounts from Stockholm are of the most gratifying nature. The Russians have certainly evacuated nearly the whole of Finland, and have given up Abo and the important fortress of Sweaborg. The peasantry throughout the country fought most bravely against them, and, by depriving them of supplies, or the means of obtaining them, forced their enemies to retreat.
"It is now said, that one of the objects of this Expedition was the possession of Norway, but a Deputation from the inhabitants of that country having, on the first arrival of the troops here, waited on Sir J. Moore, with a proposition, offering to open their harbours to all British subject and to furnish them with whatever articles of supply their country affords, provided they were suffered to remain independent of the Swedish Government; the General considered it proper to wait the decision of his Government on that subject; and it was on a special mission of such a nature that Colonel Murray went to England."
JULY 9.—It is confidently and generally reported in the City, that a Treaty of Peace has been signed between Russia, Sweden, and Denmark; and that Sir John Moore's expedition was in sight of Portsmouth this morning, steering down Channel for Lisbon.
The Earl of Chatham is to command a grand Expedition, and he is to have two Lieutenant-Generals under him, Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley. His army will be in all 40 000 men.
FROM LONDON, JULY 9.
"Cotton Goods have risen from 10 to 20 per cent; and all kinds in great demand. Ashes and Cotton have fallen; Flaxseed no sale. The people of England in high spirits—and looking forward to events of glorious import."
[So we go on DISTRESSING England by our Embargo; while we are FLOURISHING ourselves.]
Another letter from Liverpool, of same date, says "The prospect of Peace with the Northern Powers is so great that Wheat and Russian Goods have fallen 20 per cent within ten days; and colonial productions considerably advanced, in the expectation of a market being opened with Spain and the continent."
[Thus the English are to have the monopoly of all the markets in Europe; while our wise and philosophic President is trying the experiment of an Embargo.]
By the Quails.
FROM NEW-YORK, AUG. 12.
SPANISH REVOLUTION.
We yesterday received a letter from our correspondent at Havana, under date of July 21, which contains the subsequent information.
"The French here are in the greatest consternation, flying off in every direction; but those in the north-east parts (St. Jago de Cuba, &c.) where there are considerable numbers, some apprehensions are indulged by the government."
It is certain, I am told, that some commissions have arrived from Murat as Regent, and of those it is supposed some use will be made in the parts alluded to. One of the principal officers here received one as inspector general of the troops, fortifications, &c. of the Island, but went immediately and delivered it up to the Governor and Council. Similar ones it is supposed have gone to different parts of South America, and for the result of which they are very anxious."
Yesterday arrived the sch. Packet, Magrath, in 34 days from Tenerife, which place he left on the 7th of July. Capt. M. informs, that a Spanish corvette arrived at Tenerife, on the 3d of July, from Cadiz, having sailed from that port on the 17th June, and brought the news of the Spanish Revolution, &c.
Capt. M. further states, that the Governor General of Tenerife, had issued a Proclamation, in favor of King Ferdinand the 7th, and a Declaration of War against France.
From the American Consul.
I, Thomas Armstrong, Consul Agent of the United States of America, residing in the port of Oratava, in Tenerife, do hereby certify and make known to all to whom these presents may come, or may concern, that on the 6th of June last, Spain declared War against France, [in Seville,] and the same happened in the island of Tenerife, on the 5th July. I also add, that an armistice for six months has taken place between Spain and England.
Witness my hand and seal of office at the port of Oratava, the 6th day of July, 1808.
THOMAS ARMSTRONG, Consular Agent U. S. A.
M. Costello Bulla & Co. write to Thomas Cologen, the 18th June, as follows:
"An armistice has been just concluded between us and the British forces off this port. Our communications with England are opened, and, yesterday morning, ambassadors to the Court of St. James, sailed from this Bay in the Revenge , English man-of-war, to conclude a treaty of peace between the two Countries, which, God grant, may never be again interrupted. Portugal is also up in arms, and the English have landed about 7000 regular troops in the Algarves."
Extract of a letter from Tenerife, dated July 8.
"This day arrived from Cadiz, the Spanish frigate Iphigenia , on her way to Buenos Ayres, with dispatches for our Governor-General—Informed that War had been declared by Spain against the tyrant Bonaparte, and a peace with England for six months. Our islanders are delighted with the prospect of being again on good terms with John Bull."
Portland,
Monday, August 22, 1808.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
BY an arrival at Boston on Wednesday last in 33 days from Liverpool, London dates to July 9th, are received, which furnishes much interesting intelligence.
The British Government have rescinded their orders in Council for blockading the ports of Spain and Portugal in consequence of peace having taken place with those nations. This would be an important event and highly advantageous to American vessels if they were permitted to go to sea. The British Ministry are sending powerful assistance to the Spanish patriots, to aid them in their struggle for their liberties and independence. The whole Spanish nation appear to be actuated with a spirit and zeal worthy the glorious cause they are contending for, and in several instances have been successful in their opposition to the common enemy of the world. Murat who had been appointed generalissimo in Spain and commander of the French army in Madrid has made his escape to Bayonne, where Bonaparte and the mock Spanish Council are, who have proclaimed Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain. Spain appears resolutely determined not to submit to French domination, and from the nature of the country and number of inhabitants, there is strong grounds to believe that Bonaparte will not be able to reconquer Spain.
Portugal has joined in the opposition to France; and verbal accounts inform that Lisbon is in the hands of the Portuguese, and the Russian fleet in the Tagus has been surrendered to the English. Sweden has regained possession of Finland, and defeated the Russians. Hopes are entertained that peace will speedily take place between England and Russia.
In consequence of peace between England, Spain and Portugal, U. States vessels were in great demand, freights high, and the price of American produce continues high. The enemies of our commerce may now rejoice as they see our ships and country produce perishing for want of liberty to go to market.
FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS.
The advocates for a continuance of the embargo laws say, we should have no commerce if the interdiction were taken off tomorrow. They say that so long as France and England persist in their decrees and orders, no merchant would send his vessel to sea, as there would be no markets to go to. If this was true, there was no necessity for laying the embargo in the first instance. That the measures adopted towards the United States, by both France and England are unjust and oppressive, no one will deny. But at the same time let it be had in remembrance that the orders of the latter would never have been thought of, if Bonaparte had not in the first place, issued his decrees against neutrals, in hopes to compel neutral nations to join him in the war. But notwithstanding the present situation of Europe, the citizens of this country might now have enjoyed an extensive commerce, but for the strange and ruinous system of policy, pursued by the present administration.
The following statement founded upon official documents, will show the amount of trade we might (if we were not forbidden by the laws of Congress) have been now in possession of, to ports and places not included in the decrees and orders. Read it, ye advocates for the annihilation of commerce, and answer this. Is not a large proportion of the evils and embarrassments which the community is now suffering under, owing to the folly and unaccountable conduct of men in power.— Edit.
If the embargo had not been laid, it is true that we could not have traded to the continental possessions of France and her allies. The British orders in council forbade it, and the British navy would have carried those orders into execution. A considerable portion of our commerce, however, would have been able to evade the British cruisers, and reach the continent of Europe, where the profits of one voyage at such a crisis would have equalled the profits of three voyages in ordinary times. But independent of this casual traffic, the following statement from official documents will show that we could have a trade, free from the penalties of British orders and French decrees, amounting to upwards of $7,000,000 of domestick, and of $17,000,000 of foreign produce.
   Domestick. Foreign.     To Swedish W.   Indies, $416,509 $911,155   Madeira, 528,378 69,194   Azores, 21,957 140,076   Cape de Verds, 15,237 44,113   Morocco and Barbary states, 8,358 34,984   China, 84,022 113,258   Africa, 369,924 1,026,632   South Seas, 3,385 5,266   N W. coast of America, 10,777 92,933   Floridas, 146,276 537,178   Spanish West-Indies and Colonies, 2,470,473 9,870,753   Campeachy and Musquito Shore, 146,376 537,178   Canaries, 158,730 206,659   Turkey, Levant and Egypt, 4,520 424,855   French West Indies, 2,901,516 2,968,816   Bourbon and Mauritius, 145,247 149,191   Dutch East-Indies, 79,880 300,836   To this we may add the Cape of Good Hope, 67,422 96,316   This statement, however, is independent of the trade which we might have had to Great Britain, Ireland, India, and the British islands of Jamaica, Antigua, St. Kitts, Trinidad, Barbadoes, &c. For although France has forbidden us to trade to Great Britain or any of her dependencies, yet she has not a vessel on the ocean to enforce her decrees. Our ensurance companies and private underwriters would have insured our merchants at a premium little beyond the ordinary rates of ensurance. In addition therefore to the trade according to the above statement, amounting to upwards of $24,000,000, we might have had a trade to Great Britain and her dependencies, amounting to $31,015,623 according to the following official statement.   Domestick. Foreign.   England, Man and Berwick, $16,828,757 $1,880,289   Scotland, 2,449,941 117,261   Ireland, 1,651,854 28,522   Guernsey, Jersey, Sark & Alderney, 211,780 268   Gibraltar, 119,332 131,221   British African ports, 3,273 1,758   British West-Indies, 11,665 82,701   British E. Indies, 5,522,276 630,361   New Foundland & British Fisheries, 208,611 58,881   British American colonies, 1,129,588 165,944   Total, $31,015,623  
Thus if the embargo were taken off, the trade which would be left open to us would amount to upwards of $55,000,000.
This, it must be recollected, too, is owing to the greater lenity of the British orders in council, compared with the decrees of France and her allies. For France forbids us to trade with Great Britain and her dependencies, while Great Britain permits us to trade to the Spanish, Dutch and French colonies without interruption.
If we had not passed an Embargo, but had carried on this trade, amounting to upwards of $55,000,000, would it have produced a war? Assuredly not with Great Britain. She would not have produced hostilities with France.—She will pause before she goes to war with the United States; for what can she gain by it? The direct and immediate effect will be to throw us with all our weight into the scale with Great Britain. Her valuable W. India Islands will then be lost to her for ever, and this too without her gaining one solitary advantage.
Mr. Jefferson himself had the honesty to say that "Commerce and Agriculture are the great pillars of our prosperity." They are indeed the great pillars of our prosperity. It is undeniable that "Commerce should be left free to individual enterprise"—What, in fact, was the use of the Embargo?—Every man, as the old proverb says, ought to be believed in his own trade. This proverb, however, is strongly applicable to the merchants—to those whom Mr. Jefferson terms "the worthless part of the community." They are better able to judge of the hazards of commerce than he is, and if they had been fairly warned of those hazards—if Mr. Jefferson had told all he knew, instead of concealing it, even from Congress, no merchant would have sent his property where the danger was imminent. For if the risk were great, the ensurer would refuse to shelter his property, and thus he would be compelled to seek a safe channel of trade. One of our own writers says, "In all commercial regulations, the merchant is the person who is interested—He alone can determine where his trade can be advantageously pursued, and his conviction will resort to his leger. All the metaphysicks of a Locke, will
have no weight, when placed in opposition to the demonstration of his figures."
But admitting that some property would have been lost—it could not have been the millionth part of the property which has been sacrificed by the embargo. The farmer who raised his grain last year on the faith of the merchant that he might sell it to the government for exportation, instead of being offered six shillings a bushel, as is now the case, would not be able to sell it for double the price, and the waggons, which before the embargo, crowded the roads leading to Philadelphia, would still be seen in their accustomed trade. But why did not Mr. Jefferson warn the merchants of their danger, and "leave commerce free to individual enterprise?" Why did he not tell them "Great Britain will not let you go to France, France will not let you go to Great Britain or her islands or dependencies—there is risk—do not run into it?"—Would the merchants have encountered the risk? Assuredly not in England, "that whore," as Mr. Jefferson elegantly terms her in his letter to Mazzei when a speck of war is discerned in the horizon, the ministry announce the danger to the merchants—They dare not conceal it. Ensurance is immediately proportioned to the hazard, and "there's an end on't."—But this did not suit the views of our administration. "It is sufficient, as Mr. Jefferson said, that we arrest the system of ingratitude and justice towards France." Napoleon resolved to destroy the commerce which Great Britain had with us. He said he would have no neutrals. If a merchant could have sent his ships out, they would have gone to Great Britain; to those who pay him stay. This could be prevented only by the embargo, and therefore the embargo was laid, and thus Mr. Jefferson who twenty years since, to suit his purposes, said that we must have our work shops in Europe, now says, to suit the views of him, "whose hand is in the thing," that the farmer and mechanic must even sit down, and be contented in idleness and poverty.
WASHINGTON.
U. S. Gaz.
* As the time of laying the embargo, Mr. Jefferson did not know of the issuing of the decrees in council by Great Britain.
TOWN MEETING.
AT a legal Meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Portland, held at the Court-House in said town, on Monday, the 15th day of August, A. D. 1808, "to take into consideration the peculiar and distressing situation the community is placed in, by reason of the interdiction of all foreign Commerce, & to advise on the expediency of stating the same to the Executive of the General Government, and to petition for a repeal of the Embargo Laws, & to adopt such other measures as may tend to promote the general welfare"—SAMUEL FREEMAN, Esq. was chosen Moderator.
Voted, That the subject be committed at large to a committee of five, to confer and report thereon.
The following gentlemen were then appointed a Committee for that purpose:—Woodbury Storer, Francis Mellen, Matthew Cobb, Daniel Tucker, and George Bradbury, Esqs. Then adjourned until next day, 10 o'clock. Tuesday, August 16, 1808.
The Town assembled, according to adjournment, and the Committee made report, which was read, and after debate accepted, as follows:
The Committee, to whom was referred the first article in the warrant for this meeting, having considered the subject, beg leave to report, that it is in their opinion highly expedient to present a respectful Petition to the President of the United States, praying him to suspend the Embargo Laws, so far as he has power;—and if any doubt should arise as to his authority, that he would convene Congress for the purpose of repealing them. But your Committee cannot refrain from stating some of the losses and embarrassments to which the inhabitants of this Town are subjected, in consequence of the Embargo, and some of the reasons on which their opinion is founded. In that wise policy which raised a revenue for the support of Government, from duties imposed on vessels and on foreign merchandise, the merchants of the United States saw a sure pledge for the protection of their commercial interest, and under the influence of this assurance, the enterprising spirit of the inhabitants of Portland, fostered by the commercial advantages of their local situation, early induced them to vest their property in ships and to embark their fortunes on the ocean. The uninterrupted enjoyment of these rights and privileges for a series of years cherished a belief that they were permanently established and secured—but their hopes have been blasted and their enterprises defeated by a sudden and unlimited Embargo—On enquiry, your committee find that the whole amount of shipping owned in this district, as appears by a report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the U. S. is forty thousand and one tons, of this, about three thousand tons are now on foreign voyages that commenced before the Embargo, and about two thousand tons are employed in the coasting trade, leaving thirty-five thousand tons now Embargoed.
This 35,000 tons of shipping valued at 35 dollars per ton, the average price before the embargo, is 1,225,000 dollars. The interest on this sum at 6 per cent is, 73,500
The wharfage of 35,000 tons at 20 cents for every 100 tons, will amount in one year to 25,550
The quantity of shipping left on hand when the Embargo took place, owned by inhabitants of Portland, is about 35,000 quintals, which at 3 dollars per quintal, the current price at that time amounts to 105,000.
Under the operation of the Embargo, part of this last mentioned property has been wasted, & great expense has been incurred to save the remainder from spoiling. A large proportion of those fish were bought at the price above stated; & if what is now on hand were sold at the highest price that any one would buy since the Embargo, they would not fetch more than one dollar and an half per quintal, and the loss would exceed 53,500
The number of laborers formerly employed on the wharves, and in

the vessels which are now embargoed, was at least one hundred, who are now nearly destitute of employment, and the loss to them, at one dollar per day, allowing 300 working days in a year, is 30,000  The number of mechanics of different classes, who were regularly employed, about those vessels, & now out of employment, was at least one hundred & fifty, the loss to them at one dollar and fifty cents per day, is 67,500  Masters of vessels thrown out of employment by the embargo, say fifty, at sixty dollars per month, their loss is 36,000  The same number of mates of vessels in the same situation, at thirty dollars per month, their loss is 18,000  Making in the whole, a clear loss of 303,050  But if we calculate the charter of these vessels at two dollars per ton per month, and allow them to be employed ten months in a year, the charter would amount to 700,000  Your Committee further report, that the amount of duties paid at the Custom-House, in Portland, since the embargo took place, amounts (according to their best information) to about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; to pay which, great sacrifices of property, at public and private sale have been made, and have added greatly to the mercantile distress.
To these losses may be added the in calculable evils which arise from the restrictions and embarrassments of our coasting trade, the destruction of our fisheries, the loss of our seamen, the general stagnation of business, the loss of credit, the universal depreciation of property, and innumerable other losses, privations and embarrassments, which are daily oppressing every class of the Community. In the continuance of the Embargo we foresee also the destruction of the revenues of the country, which can only be supplied by superadding to our present distress the accumulated evils of a direct taxation.  But your committee confidently hope and proudly believe, that the inhabitants of Portland would sustain all these losses, privations and embarrassments with patience, firmness and cheerfulness, so long as the honor of their country or the preservation of their liberties and independence demand the sacrifice—and however dark and mysterious may have been the circumstances under which these restrictions were imposed, we will not impeach the motives of Government—but if the measure was adopted as an experiment, the event must long since have convinced its most zealous advocates, that instead of conciliating or coercing the nations of Europe, it has proved totally destructive to our own interest.
Impressed with these sentiments, and impelled by a belief that the political and commercial changes in Europe authorize the President of the United States to suspend or remove the restriction on our commerce, in whole or in part, your committee have prepared a Petition which is herewith respectfully submitted to the consideration of the town. WOODBURY STOREY, Per Order. Portland, August 16, 1808.
To the President of the United States.
THE Inhabitants of the Town of Portland, in the District of Maine, in legal Town-Meeting assembled, Respectfully represent—That the peculiar embarrassments under which they labor in consequence of the existing laws of Congress, passed at their last session, laying an Embargo on the ships and vessels in the ports & harbors of the U. S. & otherwise interdicting and perplexing their commerce, & the long and severe privations they have thereby endured, have urged them at this gloomy and alarming crisis, in a cool and dispassionate manner to state their grievances, and make their solemn appeal to the justice and patriotism of your Excellency for their speedy relief. Your Memorialists in so doing, are influenced by no motives which they hesitate to avow.—From principle, they reverence the laws: and will ever perform the duties of honest men and faithful citizens—but at the same time they deem it their duty as well as their acknowledged right, to adopt all constitutional and proper measures to procure freedom from those evils, which they have been and still are compelled to suffer. In the struggle for Liberty and Independence they were doomed to behold their houses in flames, their homes deserted and their property in ruins. Since the organization of the Federal Government, they have witnessed a total change in the prospect—They have seen the Town rapidly rising from its ashes to opulence and respectability, and crowned with the blessings of peace and prosperity—the rich and the natural fruit of industry cherished and protected by the laws of the country. At present the whole scene is changed—their commerce by its interdiction is destroyed—their property is wasting before their eyes—their exertions paralyzed—their joy is turned to sorrow—their hopes to disappointment, and the customary sources of income and subsistence are drying away around them. They do not here presume to enquire into the constitutionality or expediency of the laws above mentioned, disfiguring as they are in their operation, but they submit whether the objects contemplated by Congress have been in any degree attained, and whether the continuance of such severe restrictions, instead of producing concessions from foreign powers will not terminate in lasting injury to the Union at large, and in the total ruin of thousands who deserve a better fate.—In addition to this, your Memorialists apprehend that recent events in Europe and their consequent effects both of a political and commercial nature, fully authorize your Excellency either totally or partially, to suspend the operation of the embargo, and thereby set at liberty the imprisoned energies of the country. Deeply impressed with these sentiments, your Memorialists respectfully pray, that your Excellency would be pleased by virtue of the powers delegated to you by Congress, either totally or partially to suspend the operation of the above mentioned laws until their next session; or if any doubt remain as to such power, that Congress may be
forthwith convened, that they may take the subject into consideration and repeal the same, if in their opinion the public good will admit of it.
Voted, That the Selectmen be directed to send on to the President of the United States a fair and attested copy of the Petition, as soon as may be.
Voted, That the Selectmen apply to the several Printers in this town, to publish a copy of the Report of the Committee and Petition, also the proceedings of this meeting. Attest— SAMUEL HOMER, Town-Clerk.
At the close of the business, the Moderator addressed the Meeting to the following purport:
"Gentlemen—You have now taken a constitutional method to obtain relief from the distress you suffer, in consequence of a law of the U. S. laying an Embargo. You have hitherto been patient under those sufferings, and in the station in which you have placed me, I think it not improper to recommend to you that you continue so. While the Law is in force, let it be obeyed. A resistance to any Law, tends in some measure to overturn the Government you have engaged to support. Let a patient, peaceable disposition still actuate you, as it will be the most likely way of obtaining the blessings you wish for."
BATH, AUGUST 7, 1808.
In consequence of an application from several gentlemen of this town to the selectmen, a meeting of the people was this day convened. William Webb, Esq. was chosen moderator. After the object of the meeting was stated, and the proceedings of the town of Boston read, a vote was offered, that the people of this town highly approve of the sentiments expressed by the people of the town of Boston, in their vote and address to the President of the United States, relative to the Embargo laws, and that an address be forwarded to the President of the United States, expressive of our feelings and wishes on the subject of the said laws.—The Hon. Mr. King moved a postponement to the second Wednesday in October, when he declared, that though he would not pledge himself, he thought it highly probable he would then act with those who were for taking off the embargo. The motion however was overruled by a large majority, and the vote adopted. Mr. Davis then offered an address to the President of the United States, which passed without opposition, and a committee was appointed to forward the same, consisting of the Hon. Dummer Sewall, David Trufant, William Webb, William Sylvester, Jeremiah Loring, N. L. Mitchell, Jonathan Hyde, Enoch Jones, and Samuel Davis.
THE PETITION.
To the President of the United States, Sir, With that consideration which is due to the Chief Magistrate of our country, would the inhabitants of the town of Bath, assembled in town meeting, beg leave most respectfully to approach you. Submission to the laws, we consider not as an ordinary duty, but, at all times, our first and best obligation; and however hard may bear any imposition, yet, if called for by necessity, and adopted by the government on mature and deliberate reflection, we feel that we must and ought to submit. We therefore would not presume to question the wisdom, or investigate the policy of any law which has been sanctioned by the constituted authorities. We have met to express our wishes, rather than our opinions, and to assure you with what anxious solicitude we wait the removal of a burthen that has almost exhausted our strength, and is now pressing us to the ground. To prove this, we need not relate private embarrassment or individual calamity; we exhibit a town in distress.—Depending altogether on commerce, and but just growing into life, the people of this town feel the Embargo a peculiar grievance. The sight of the ships that line our wharves more than a mile in length, while it reminds us of past prosperity, embitters the reflection of the present times. Unless relief can be afforded, the property will soon be wasted and lost forever.
To suppose that our government can have any other object than the happiness and welfare of the people, the patriotism that glows in our bosoms forbids us to believe; we trust that when they have the power, they will not want the disposition to grant a redress of grievances; and we sincerely hope the time is now arrived when the President can take off the embargo, and neither hazard the public safety, nor commit the public honor. If this can be done, we will not undertake to declare, with what joy we shall hail the morning when the noise of business shall once more wake us from our slumbers.
With sentiments of the highest veneration for the President of the United States, with hearts devoted to our country's welfare, and a readiness at all times to make any sacrifice for its security, the inhabitants of the town of Bath, by their committee, would tender you the homage of their high respect. Signed by the Committee.
The right of choosing our rulers, is one of the most valuable privileges freemen possess. But the constitution secures to the people another right, which is more valuable than even their elective franchise. It is that of representing their grievances to the government, and petitioning for relief. The situation, the people of this country are now placed in, demands that they should exercise this right in a firm and dispassionate manner. Government is instituted for the protection of life, liberty, and property; and it is the bounden duty, the bounden duty, and a solemn trust confided to those who are designated to administer the government, to see that these important objects are secured to their constituents. If Congress, by their laws interdicting all commerce, and by imposing grievous and embarrassing restrictions on the coasting trade, have promoted the object for which that body was constituted, no good citizen or reasonable man will complain. But let us look at the present situation of the United States. Possessing a population of five millions, and owning one million two hundred thousand tons of shipping, imprisoned for eight months, and compelled to remain in this enchainable state as long as Mr. Jefferson, and a majority of Congress
shall please to continue the embargo; the ruinous effects of which are severely felt by nine tenths of the citizens of this country. Even now many of the advocates for the continuance of this measure, acknowledge that it will never have the effect it was really intended to produce; which was to force other nations to respect all our neutral rights. Its continuance only serves to increase our own distress, and add to the immense loss it has already occasioned. Its effect on this town, will convince every unprejudiced mind of the impolicy of the measure, and show the necessity of addressing the President on the subject. The idea of petitioning did not, as is falsely represented by the writers in the Argus, originate in party spirit. The application for the meeting was signed by those who have been stiled democrats, as well as federalists; & however much the writers in that paper may wish to impose on the people in the country, the fact is, that a large number of those in this town who have heretofore voted with Mr. Jefferson's party, now find that his policy is destructive of their best interests, and that if it is persisted in, it will bring ruin on themselves and families; and they are no longer to be deceived by interested and ambitious men, who, when they obtain their support, neglect to provide for their welfare.
A writer in the Argus, complains bitterly that two federal lawyers should advocate the expediency of petitioning the President to lighten our burdens and distresses. Pray Mr. Embargo-advocate, how many democratic lawyers opposed the petition. Will the Argus deny that Messrs. Dearborn and Lincoln are not lawyers, and are we informed that Mr. Widgery once attempted the practice of law? Messrs. Widgery, Dearborn and Lincoln, had an undoubted right to oppose the petition and use all their exertions to have the embargo continued. But have not Messrs. Longfellow and Hopkins an equal right to use their exertions to have it repealed; as it would be for the general good, if commerce "was left free to protect itself." The federal lawyers have no family or private interests to promote. There were between four and five hundred citizens present when the vote was taken for accepting the report of the committee, and not ten voted against it. The Argus represents that two federal merchants were opposed to the measure. This is not true. Two, only doubted as to the present, being the proper time. But were of opinion that it would become absolutely necessary at or before the meeting of Congress.
The Salem democrats are daubing the Hon. Wm. Gray with their fulsome encomiums; and in order to impose on the public a belief that Mr. Gray's situation applies to every other merchant, their remarks are circulated through every paper of the embargo party. But it "won't take." And besides, it comes with a very ill grace from those men who no longer ago than last March, contended for hours against Mr. Gray's being appointed a moderator of a town meeting. Then, his abilities, and knowledge in the opinions of these embargo patriots, did not qualify him for this humble office; now they represent him as one of the wisest, greatest politicians in the United States. But it is a fact, notorious to every one acquainted with Mr. Gray that he severely reprobates that policy of Mr. Jefferson, which has been one cause of placing the country in its present disastrous condition. But this gentleman possesses an immense fortune, if he never sent another vessel to sea he would still be a rich man. He also has on hand a large amount of Goods which are on the rise, for under our present situation not much more can be imported and the poor man will soon have to purchase those articles at a high price. There may be a few other merchants in the United States, but the number does not exceed ten, in a similar situation, who have eighty or ninety thousand dollars in France, which they hope to recover if the interests of the country should still be sacrificed by a time serving policy towards that nation.
The only arguments made use of in town meeting against applying to the President for a repeal of the restrictions on our commerce was, that it might possibly affect our negotiations with England. Now hear what Mr. Canning, the minister for foreign affairs, declared in the British Parliament, June the 24th, That NO COMMUNICATION HAD BEEN MADE FROM THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, SINCE THE RETURN OF MR. ROSE, in the form of complaint, remonstrance, or irritation of any description whatever. Mr. C. observed, That he mentioned this particularly, because it is notorious that there have been several arrivals from America, supposed to be of great importance, and that several special messengers have reached this country from thence, after having touched at France.—Thus it appears to be a serious fact, that the people of the United States have been gulled and deceived, by the idea that there is a pending negotiation between England and this country; and there is too much reason to fear, that the object in ordering the Osage from France to England, was a mere trick to amuse us in our sufferings.
The leaders of the democratic party in this town are highly enraged that Mechanics and Mariners should dare to sign their names to an application to the Selectmen for a meeting of the citizens to consult on the expediency of petitioning the President to take off the embargo, and to represent the sufferings and losses they are subject to in consequence of the interdiction of all foreign commerce.
Will any of the advocates of Mr. Jefferson's ruinous policy say, that a Mechanic or Seaman who depends on his daily exertions for subsistence, has not an equal right to exercise his constitutional privileges, as those who have been so fortunate as to acquire large fortunes, or those who through Executive partiality and favouritism, are enriched by the
bones and skins of office. These once "exclusive friends" of the people, when they were striving for the votes of these classes of our fellow-citizens, were constantly proclaiming that the interests and rights of these men should be the guide of the government. But these "exclusive friends" now they have got into power and good bread, say that the Mechanic and Mariner have no business to represent the losses and embarrassments to the government, and humbly petition for relief And when they meet in a legal and constitutional manner, they are branded as "a parcel of mal contents" and "idiots." Three years since, the doctrine with the leading democrats was, "down with the merchants," those "proud aristocrats," and "would be nabobs;" now their language is, that all wisdom and knowledge is centred in one or two rich men. But the citizens of this town have too much sense to be duped by any private interests or party of men. Thank God, we possess a Constitution which secures to the citizens of every profession, equal rights; and as freemen they will vindicate them, whoever may advocate oppression.
DIED,
In Cape Elizabeth, Mr. Ebenezer Winter Calef, aged 79. In this town, Mrs. Eliza Baker, wife of Mr. Samuel B. aged 27.
Marshal's Notice.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Maine District, ss— NOTICE is hereby given, that the following Libels are filed in the District Court of Maine, for breaches of the Laws of the United States—viz.
A Libel against one boat called Le Amer's, boat and lading seized by the Collector of the District of Pasaquoddy on the night of the 28th day of April last. Another libel against one foreign boat called James Clark's, boat and lading seized by said collector on the night of the 16th day of June last. Another libel against one foreign boat and 5 bbls. flour, seized by Elijah Brewer, an officer of the customs, under said collector, on the night of the 19th of May last. Another libel against one boat from Machias and twelve bbls. flour, seized on the 2d day of August inst. by John Godwin, master of one of the revenue boats, by order of said collector, being a Machias boat. Another libel against one other boat from Machias, laden with flour and corn, seized by said Godwin, by order of said collector, on the 2d day of August inst. Another libel against one cask of foreign rum and one bbl. sugar, for illegal importation and landing. Another libel against one foreign boat called Gubtain's, boat and her lading on board seized on the 7th day of June last, by Joseph Livermore, an officer of the customs, by order of said collector. Another libel against ten bbls. of flour, being the lading of two boats illegally shipped and thrown overboard by the shipper and seized in the waters, within said collector's district, by his order on the 6th of June last. Another libel against one boat called Cadneran's, boat and lading seized by Wm. Phelps, an officer of the customs. Another libel against one boat called Wilson's, boat and 7 bbls. pork seized by L. F. Delfernier, jun. inspector, on the 25th of April last. Another libel against one foreign boat and lading seized by L. F. Delfernier on the 28th of April last. Another libel against one other boat called Rich's, boat and 6 bbls. flour seized by the said inspector by order of the collector on the 6th day of May last. Another libel against one foreign boat called Small, boat and lading seized by L. F. Delfernier, jun. inspector, on the 5th of May. Another libel against Dolphin's boat and lading, and the boat called Tyler's boat, seized by said inspector. Another libel against 6 bbls of flour and the boat called Wilcox's, boat and lading seized by said inspector on the night of the 9th day of May last. Another libel against a vessel called Thornton's, launch and cargo seized by said inspector. Another libel against a white bottom whale boat and lading, and four bbls. pork seized by said inspector, on the 22d day of June last—also, 8 bbls. flour seized by Sargent Griffin, master of a revenue boat. Another libel against a boat called Johnson's boat and 15 bbls. flour seized in the night by Joseph Leavitt, jun. master of a revenue boat and inspector. Another libel against a certain boat called Kendal's boat and 17 bbls. tar seized in the night by Joseph Leavitt, jun. inspector. Another libel against two bales of cotton and 6 bbls. of flour, seized by Jonas Leavitt, jun. inspector, on the night of the 9th of May, in the waters of Pasaquoddy. Another libel against a Gondola called Buck's gondola, and a whale boat with her lading. Another libel against a boat called Lancy's boat, with her lading, and another boat called Clark's boat, with her lading. Another libel against a boat called Norwood's boat, with her lading, seized on the 26th of April last by Nehemiah Small, jun. inspector, in the night. Another libel against a boat called Lunt's boat, and lading and another boat called Barden's boat and lading seized by Henry Waid, inspector, on the 12th of May last. Another libel against a boat called Rice's boat, with her lading seized on the 23d of April last, by Nehemiah Small, jun. inspector. Another libel against a boat called Clark's boat, and the lading on board seized by Nehemiah Small, jun. inspector. Another libel against eight bbls. flour, four do. of pork, seized in the waters of Pasaquoddy. Another libel against the schooner Polly of Newburyport, Wm. Eaton, jun. master, by order of said collector, with the cargo on board. Another libel against the schooner Fortune of Newyork, John McKennie, master, seized by said collector. Another libel against the boat called the Independence and 47 bbls. flour, seized by Isaac Illey, Esq. collector of the customs for the District of Portland and Falmouth. Another libel against the schooner Hove of Portland, seized by said Isaac Illey, collector. Another libel against the schooner Union of Shelburne, with the cargo on board, seized by said Isaac Illey, collector.
A hearing will be had on each of the Libels aforesaid at a District Court to be held at Wilscasset, in and for the District of Maine, on the ninth day of September next, when and where any person or persons interested in any or either of the vessels or boats aforesaid, or any of the articles or merchandise mentioned in either of said libels may appear and show cause (if any can be shown) why the same should not be decreed, forfeited and disposed of according to law.
T. G. THORNTON, Marshal.
Dated at Portland, August 22, 1808.
Copartnership Dissolved.
THE Copartnership lately existing under the firm of TUCKER & BLANCHARD, is by mutual consent, this day dissolved. All persons having demands upon, or are indebted to said firm, are requested to call on JAMES BLANCHARD, who is authorised to settle the same.
JAMES B. TUCKER. JAMES BLANCHARD.
JAMES BLANCHARD, Respectfully informs the Customers of the late Firm of Tucker & Blanchard, and the Public in general, that he continues business at the Portland Wine Cellar, No. 1, Jones' Row, Fore-Street.
Where is for Sale, Draft and bottle Madeira Wine, Do. Sherry do. Old Port do. Claret do. Malaga do. SPIRITS, of all kinds, 150 dozen Cider for family use, 500 gross best velvet Corks, Sheet do. Brown Stout Porter, Burton Ale. Also for Sale, One hundred acres of LAND, lying in Standish, in lot 78 in the 3d division, one mile from Sabago Pond; a Pew in the Rev. Mr. Kellogg's Meeting House; bell-back, fan-back and bamboo Chairs. For sale, or to be exchanged, an elegant Horse and Chaise—all of which will be sold cheap for Cash, or on short Credit. J. BLANCHARD returns his sincere thanks for past favors, and solicits a continuance of public patronage. * Constant attendance from sun rise till 9 o'clock in the evening. (6w) Aug. 18.
NOTICE.
ALL whom this may concern, are requested to take particular notice. The subscriber being about commencing business under a new firm, calls on all persons indebted to him by note or account, to make immediate payment.—Wood, Bark, Boards, Staves, Shingles, Clapboards, and all kinds of Produce that is saleable, will be taken in payment till the middle of October next; after which time, all delinquents will be called upon without discrimination by a person legally authorized for that purpose. Having experienced almost a total suspension of business, for the last nine months, it is presumed no other apology will be necessary, and that a general attention will be given without further trouble from their humble servant. NATHL. JENKS. Northyarmouth, Aug. 20, 1808.
Copartnership Dissolved.
THE Copartnership of NATHL. & BENJ. CUSHING, of Camden, county of Lincoln is this day by mutual consent dissolved; all persons indebted to, or have any demands a gainst said firm, are requested to call on BENJ. CUSHING, for settlement.
NATHL. CUSHING, BENJ. CUSHING. Camden, Aug. 12, 1808. (22)
WHEREAS my wife HANNAH, has left my bed and board—this is to forbid all persons trusting or harbouring her on my account as I shall pay no debts of her contracting. SOLOMON HOPKINS. Saco, Aug. 22.
Strayed or Stolen,
FROM the subscriber, on the night of the eighteenth of June last, a large red MARE, about fifteen hands high, was low in flesh, seven years old, trots all, had a light streak in her fore-head, nigh fore hoof white, thin mane and tail;—Whoever will return said mare, or give information where she may be found, shall be handsomely rewarded. WM. GROTE. Waldoboro Aug. 13, 1808. (22)
Bowdoin College.
THE Trustees of Bowdoin College are notified, that their next meeting will be held at the College Chapel on Tuesday the 6th day of September next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon. CHARLES COFFIN, Sec'y. August 22.
Public Auction.
NOTICE is hereby given that the following Shares or rights in the Portland Monument Ground, will be sold at Public Auction on Saturday the 17th day of September next, at three o'clock P. M. to pay the assessments that have been assessed, and all incidental charges on the same, unless previously paid, viz.—Nos. 64 & 65—Sale on the premises. JONATHAN STUART, Treasurer. Aug. 15. (5w)
NOTICE I
INFORMATION is hereby given, that the Government of this College will attend to the examination of candidates for admission, on Thursday the 8th of September, at 9 o'clock A. M.
It will be remembered, that the laws of College require that candidates should produce, from their instructors, satisfactory credentials of good moral character. JESSE APPLETON, President. Bowdoin College, August 15.
REMOVAL.
SAMUEL WATSON, informs his friends and customers, that he has removed from the late stand of Dearborn & Watson, to the new Shop, next door above Dr. Coe's, Fish-Street, where he carries on the TAILORING BUSINESS in its various branches, and where all orders will be faithfully executed with neatness and dispatch, on reasonable terms. Wanted a Lad, about 14 years old, as an apprentice to the above business. Aug. 15.
BEEF FOR SALE.
WHOLE and half barrels Mefs and No. 1 BEEF, by I. RICHARDSON. Aug. 15.
ANOTHER 10,000 DOLLARS.
TICKETS and Quarters in the Amoyeque Canal Lottery, which will commence drawing in September next, for sale at I. ADAMS & Co. Store—80 cts. a

Poetry.
From the Savannah, (Ga.) Museum.
The 4th of July, 1808.—This great and glorious day was celebrated at my plantation in a comfortable style; being John, I chose myself President, and will venture to assert that a more perfect unity of sentiment and harmony of disposition never prevailed since the existence of our national independence.
1. The GLORIOUS DAY that I now celebrate— Purchased by heroes at so dear a rate, May every rascal get a broken pate, And his base name become obliterare, Who would attempt through malice to create Political dissensions in this state, At such a crisis.
Song—Firm united let us be, &c. 2. The sacred memory of the great Washington— His virtues shine resplendent as the sun— The day I now enjoy his valor won: I prithee, Death, doth think it was well done, To take him from us? Song—Faithful below he did his duty, but now he's gone afloat.
3. The philosophic friend of TROMAS PAINE— A lack of firmness—not a lack of brain, But want of nerves may make a man insane, —Our crops are very much in want of rain— But these embargo times I won't complain, Because 'tis nonsense. Song—Poor Tom's cold—long metre.
4. The constitution as it was of old, Pure as unadulterated gold, Alas, alas! I could a tale unfold; But no, 'twould make my boiling blood run cold, And crack my heart-strings. Song—God save the United States, &c.
5. The State of Georgia, as it ought to be— I hope to live the happy time to see, Among all parties perfect harmony, And honest dealings. Song—A light heart, and a thin pair of breeches, &c.
6. Our sister states throughout the continent— I do not think the money was well spent, That for the Lousy-Aunty purchase went To Bonaparte. Song—Mill in the Wad and I fell out.
7. Nothing for tribute, for science a million— We'll make Napoleon dance a new cotillion If arbitrary measures he keeps still on, To rule our great men. Song—No foreign land shall give us law, &c.
8. The British Council—it appears to me, They will to take a trip across the sea, And with us drink another dish of tea In Massachusetts. Song— Yankee Doodle.
9. A free and open trade with all the world— May every tyrant from his throne be hurled, And with hot pokers have his whiskers curled, That would prevent it. Song—America, Commerce and Freedom.
10. Our infant navy—once it promis'd well— Its nurse was chang'd, and wonderful to tell, Like Tarra pin crawld into its shell, At the new city. Song—I'm safe from Davy's locker.
11. The Chesapeake—don't let her be forgotten— The captain sure (but not the ship) was rotten; Sooner than strike, by Jove, I'd eat my cotton— I can't digest it! Song—Hearts of oak are our ships.
12. Brave WASHINGTON, MERCER, and MONTGOMERY— Who died like heroes for our liberty, Their memory shall be ever dear to me— Peace to their ashes. Song—Soldier's Adieu.
12. Traitors and vagabonds of every kind— May they like my old horse become stone blind, And be compell'd a new road to find, To Carter's Mountain. Song—O ye scamps, ye pads, ye divots.
14. The American Fair—kind heaven bless them all, For their protection at a moment's call, Would I turn out & firmly stand or fall, Although a coward. Song—And when the war are over, we'll come and live with you.
15. My planting friends—the neighborhood around— Of honest hearts and principles right found, May cotton fetch us fifty cents a pound, And rice five dollars. Song—Hospitality, all reality, no formality, here you'll ever find.
16. Myself—poor fellow! though the last not the least— May I grow better as my years increase, And when death comes—Oh may I die in peace— 'Tis hard, by gracious. Song—In the downhill of life, &c. A CRACKER PLANTER.
A poor infatuated fellow was discovered hanging by the neck in Herman street on Tuesday evening. He was cut down just in time to save his life. This is his third attempt. What untoward accident has tempted him thus to "jump the life to come," (whether a scolding wife, a remorseless creditor, or hopeless love) we have not been able to ascertain.—Mer. Adv.
New Goods.
Joseph Barbour, Esq. Just received an additional assortment of NEW GOODS, Consisting of Linens, British Cottons, Cambries, fancy Mullins, brown Linens, black Grapes, do. Lustrings, Bandanna Hkfs. fancy silk do. silk Shawls, long & short silk Gloves, kid do. coloured Lustrings, blue and yellow Nankenees, cotton Kersemeres, Ladies' white and coloured cotton Hose, Calicoes, Ginghams, Dimities, English Nankenees, India Cottons, Gentlemen's mixed cotton Hose, white do. black and white silk ditto, Sarfnetts, Linen Cambrics, superfine and common Broad cloths and Kersemeres, &c. &c. The above, together with his former stock will be sold at a very small advance for Cash only. (t.f.) May 23.
TAPPAN & SEWALL, Have removed to their late stand, No. 12, HAYMARKET-ROW—MIDDLE-STREET, WHERE they offer for sale, by piece or package, a general assortment of European and India Goods. From England, by late arrivals, they have received their Spring supply of London and Manchester GOODS—comprising Thicksets—Velveteens—Jeans—Printed Jeans—Princes' cord Velvings—Sarfnetts Calicoes—Patent Nankins—Dimities—Cambricks—Fancy and Book Mullins—Shawls—Cotton Bandannas—Prints—Ginghams—7.8 and 6.4 black and colored Cambricks—Cotton Sewings—Millinets—British Cottons—Hosiery—Umbrellas, &c. On hand, fine and superfine Broadcloths—Kersemeres—Plains—Kersemeres—Stuffs—Bazies—Flannel—Cotrain Linens—India Cottons—Laces—Gauzes, &c. (tf) June 20.
Henry Smith & Co. No. 4, Muffey's Row, HAVE just received, a large and fashionable assortment of light and dark Ginghams; coloured corded Cambrics; white do; black do; purple, brown and slate do; Linen do; fancy Mullins; India do; Jacomet do; spotted mull do; Cambric and common light & dark Calicoes; Robes; damask silk Shawls; Cotton do; black and salmon coloured Taffeties; black, white, purple, brown, slate, plum and dove coloured Lustrings; Grapes; black, white, slate and rose coloured ladies and gentlemen's silk and cotton Hose; English and French long silk Gloves; short do; kid do; Dimities; bandanna, madras, barcelona and fancy Handkerchiefs; silk and cotton Sewing Silk; Velvet Velving; plain black do; craps and tiffany Fans; Linens; British Shirtings; India Cottons; Tabby Velvers; Cotton and Linen Checks; Broadcloths and Cassimeres; English Nankenees; Granderulis; Shallons; Durrants; Russells; Duroys; Carpeting, &c. &c. Portland, June 6. (tf)
Factory Cotton. Henry Smith & Co. No. 4, Muffey's Row, HAVE for sale a large assortment of factory, Warp and Filling, and two threaded whitened Cotton. July 13. tf
Land for Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale the following parcels of LAND. A FARM, well calculated for a Trader, Farmer, or Mechanic; one mile from the Meeting-House in New-Gloucester, pleasantly situated on the County Road, with which will be sold eleven acres of interval LAND. Also—in the town of Jay, in the county of Oxford, Three Thousand Acres of LAND of the first quality, situate in different parts of that town, which is one of the best towns in the county. It will be sold at a reduced price; the whole will be sold together, or by the single lot, as may best accommodate purchasers. And one lot in the town of Bethel—Inquire of JAMES STARR, jun. Esq. for information. Also—at Penobscot, in Township No. 5, of the 7th Range of Townships on Penobscot river, in the county of Hancock, Five Thousand Acres of Land, in Lots of 100 acres each. This is one of the finest Townships in that country; Saw and Grist Mills are already erected, from whence any kind of Lumber may be rafted aside the shipping in Bangor. This township is rapidly settling. Young Farmers are invited to examine for themselves—Inquire of Mr. DANIEL BULLIN, of said township, for further particulars. Also—Thirty thousand acres of ST. JOHN'S LAND, (so called) in the county of Washington. This land is situated in the best tract of Land in the District of Maine; the soil is very rich and fertile, the growth principally Hard Wood and Button Nut. A road is laid out through said Land from Penobscot to St. John's River. Twenty thousand acres of this Land is situated but seven miles from the rich Farmers on St. John's River, and the Port Road from thence to Quebec. Should 30 or 40 good Farmers associate together and purchase this whole tract, for their own actual settlement, they would ensure a fortune to themselves and their children after them. For further particulars please to inquire of the subscriber. JOSEPH E. FOXCROFT. New-Gloucester, May 9, 1808. (6 mo)
TO BE SOLD, A DWELLING-HOUSE, forty feet by thirty-two, two stories high, with a commodious Stable and other out-buildings, with about half an acre of Land, situated near the bridge in Topsham, accommodated with excellent water by Acqueduct from an unfailling source, which abundantly supplies the house, stable and garden in the driest seasons. The house has been built about ten years—the other buildings not three years since. They stand in a flourishing village, within one mile of Bowdoin College, in Brunswick and about sixty rods from the Court House in Topsham. To a person who wishes to be concerned in the Lumber business, to the trader or industrious mechanic, the opportunity to purchase a good stand, may be worthy attention. Further information may be had of the subscriber at Bath. JONA. ELLIS. April 25. (4 w)
Maccoboy Snuff, Of a superior quality, for sale, by ISAAC ADAMS. July 18.
Dr. Barker, HAS removed to the house formerly occupied by Mr. John Veazie, near the Rev. Mr. Kellogg's meeting house, Middle-street, where he is still ready to pursue the practice of Medicine in its different branches. Aug. 8.
Cotton Factory. THE subscribers inform their friends and the public that they are appointed agents for a Cotton Manufactory, and have just received and offer by wholesale and retail, a general assortment of COTTON YARN, TICKING, &c. at the manufactory prices, for cash only. Stockbridge & Topey. Bath, August 8. (4 w)
Cotton Factory. THE subscribers inform their friends and the public, that they are appointed agents for a Cotton Manufactory, and have just received and offer by wholesale and retail, a general assortment of COTTON YARN, TICKING, &c. at the manufactory prices, for cash only. Wm. R. & C. Stockbridge. Northampton, August 8. (4 w)
Bowdoin College. THE Overseers of Bowdoin College, are hereby notified, that their next meeting will be held at the College Chapel in Brunswick, on the Tuesday preceding the first Wednesday in September next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. JONA. ELLIS, Secretary. Bath, August 8. (4w)
Nathaniel Martin, INFORMS his friends and the public that he has taken the store lately occupied by Messrs. CROSS & MARTIN, Fore-street, where he has for sale, a good assortment of ENGLISH & W. I. GOODS, among which the following is a part, viz. Broad Cloths, Kersemeres, Forecloths, Blue Plains, Serges, Patent Cord Calicoes, Cambricks, Irish Linens, Mullins, Ginghams, Copperplate Furniture, Linen Checks, Cotton do. India Cottons, English do. Marfeilles quilting, Cotton Shawls, Pocket Hkfs. Bandanna do. Velvets, Chambray Mullins, Diapers, Durant's, Duroys, Callimancoes, Russells, Silk Gloves, Cotton do. Velvet Velving, Boot Webbing, Cotton Hosiery, Worsted do. Guernsey Frocks, Pocket Books, Cotton Braces, &c. Also—Rum, Brandy, Gin, Lisbon Wine, Port do. Malaga do. Loaf Sugar, Brown do. Flour, Cotton, Nails, Shovels, Scythes, Salt, Fish, Cinnamon, Ginger, Pimento, Pepper, &c. LIKEWISE, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong, Bohea } TEAS, first quality. All the above articles and those that are not particularized in this advertisement, will be disposed of at the usual reduced prices of the above store. August 1.
NOTICE. ALL persons that have accounts open with the late firm of CROSS & MARTIN are once more requested to call and have the same adjusted, and those indebted to make immediate payment to the subscriber who is authorized to settle the same. NATHANIEL MARTIN. Portland, August 1.
Skirting Leather. Tappan & Sewall, No. 12, Haymarket Row, HAVE received a supply of SKIRTING LEATHER, of a superior quality, which will be sold for Cash only, by the roll or in larger quantities. July 11.
ASHES. WANTED, a few tons POT & PEARL ASHES, at Tappan & Sewall's, No. 12, Haymarket-Row. July 25. (tf)
FOR SALE, BY JOHN DICKS, No. 19, Long-Wharf, 50 puncheons high proof Jamaica RUM. August 1.
TO LET, A CONVENIENT DWELLING-HOUSE, with good accommodations, situated in Back-street,—For terms, apply to THOMAS SANFORD. July 18.
William Goddard, HAS received by ships Joseph and Henry from Liverpool, a very extensive addition to his stock of Sadlery, Cutlery & Hardware Goods—which he offers for sale by wholesale and retail, on the most reasonable terms. LIKEWISE, 530 boxes best Crown Glass, all sizes from 9 by 7 to 18 by 12 120 casks wrought Nails, all sizes 3 tons sheet Lead 70 doz. best English Shovels and Spades 25 doz. Frying pans 100 doz. best Sewing Twine 3 caks. flat Irons Large quantity Cart, Waggon, and Chaise Wheel Boxes Sets of Cart Iron, Weights 7, 14 and 28 lb do do Blocktin Tea Pots Clock Faces Few boxes double tin Plates Blacksmith's Anvils and Vices. ALSO, An assortment of LOOKING GLASSES, with gilt and Mahogany Frames LIKEWISE, A very great variety of Joiner's Planes.
NOTICE! ABSENTED from his master, in July last, a boy by the name of Henry Gerrif; said boy wore away a red jacket and trowels, and is about 13 years old, light complexion—whoever will give information of said boy shall be paid for their trouble by THOMAS HOVEY. Portland, August 8.
BOOKS & STATIONARY. Isaac Adams, AT his Book-Store, No. 7, Fifth Street, directly opposite the Maine Bank, has for sale on the most liberal terms, among many other articles, the following in the Book & Stationary line—viz.
ON LAW, Hawkins's Pleas of the Crown—Gilberts, Macnelly's & Peake's law of evidence—Leach's Crown Law—Strange's, Wilson's, Douglas's, Blackstone's, Williams' and Tyng's Reports—Buller's Nisi Prius—Graydon's digest of the Laws of the United States—Powell on Contracts—Chitty on bills of exchange and notes—Park on Insurance—Precedents of declarations—Justices Affidavit—Town Officer—Clerks Magazine—Probate Directory—Vattel's Law of Nations—Laws of Massachusetts new edition, with volumes to complete former editions.
PHYSIC. Chesheld's Anatomy—Cullen's Practice—ditto Materia Medica—New Edinburgh Dispensatory—Quincy's Medical Lexicon—Lavoißer Chimestry—Denman's Midwifery—Buchan's Domestic Medicine—Thompson's Family Physician—Parkinson's Medical Annotations—Hallers Physiology—Underwood on the diseases of Children.
DIVINITY. Stackhouse history of the Bible—Orton's Exposition—Hervey's works—Burgh's Dignity—Hervey's Meditations—Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul—Gill's survey of the christian system—Coles discourse on the sovereignty of God—Butler's Analogy—Adams' View of the different religious denominations—ditto Truth and Religion, illustrated in lives of men eminent for piety—Sermons and Lectures of the late Professor Tappan—Paley's Moral Philosophy—Edwards on the Will—Memoirs of Pious women—Baxter's Call—Power of Religion—Glimpse of Glory—Practice of Piety—Jenyns Lectures—Grove on the Lords Supper—Brown's concordance—Catechism—Posthumous works—Blairs Sermons—Saurens ditto—Clark's ditto—Necker on religious opinions—Stennets discourse—Orton's ditto—The life of Evangelical obedience—Pilgrim's Progress—Holy War—Bible and Jews—Life of Christ—Life of Whitfield.
ON HISTORY. Rollins Ancient History—Gordons ditto of the American revolution—Minto's history of Massachusetts—Belknap's History of New-Hampshire—Voltaire's history of Charles XII—Robertson's ditto of Charles V—ditto of South America—Stevens' ditto of the French Revolution, and the wars which have arisen out of it.
MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS. Biographical Dictionary, containing the lives of many eminent Statesmen, Philosophers and Warriors; Life of Fox; Sir William Jones; Barron Trenk; Johnson's Lives of the Poets; Goldsmiths works; Sterne's works; Mirror; Looker-on; Peregrine Pickle; Coquette; Smith's Wealth of Nations; Locke's Essays; Donquixote; Mason's Monitor; Preston on Masonry; Columbian Songster; Warbler; Sailor's Medley; Aikins Letters; Letter Writer; Aikins' art of Life; Cooke's Voyages; Warville's Travels; Life of Kotzebue; Milton's Poems, Youngs and Burns' poetical works; Elements of Morality; Gospel its own Witness; Politic Education; Pleasures of love; Milicres of Life 2d ed. Montgomery's poems, new edition; Benjamin's Architecture; Spectator; Cowpers Task and Life; Boyles Voyages; Man of Fortune; Letters from Switzerland; Cavalry Tactics; Stubens Exercise; Artillery Exercise; Harris' Encyclopedia; Moral Monitor; Wells' Letters; Sailor Boy; Tatler; Life of Washington by Ramsay; True Republican; Romance of real life; Spirit of Delpim; Oriental Moralist; Pleasures of Memory; Buffon on Insects; Memoirs of Halliburton; Life of Mahomet; Mills on Cattle; Mirth and Song; Bonaparte and the French People. Together with a variety of other Books on various subjects.
SCHOOL BOOKS. Fife's Natural Philosophy; Ainsworths, Youngs, Boyers, Johnsons Baileys and Perry's Dictionaries; Greek Lexicons; Horace; Virgil; Sallust; Eutropius; Erasmus; Aesop's Fables; Bigelow's Latin Primer; Clarke's Introduction; Adams and Smith's Latin Grammar; Greek Testament and Grammar; Xenophon's Anabasis; Astronomy; Morse's Geography; Aikins ditto; Murray's Sequel Grammar; Walch's, Pikes, Little's, Ad m's Temple's and Root's Arithmetics; Orator; Preceptor; Art of Reading; Dwight's Geography; Alexanders, Staniford's & Bingham's Grammars; Webster's, Maine, and Perry's Spelling Books, &c. &c.
SEAMEN'S ARTICLES. Blunt's Practical Navigator and Coast Pilot; Ship-Master's Assistant; Charts of the European and American Coasts, and of the West-Indies; Quadrants; Journals; Scales and Dividers; Log Paper; Cargo Books; Nautical Almanacs for 1808.
FAMILY BIBLES. Collins' elegant family Bible; Common Quarto Bibles; Carey's Bible; a variety of Pocket and school Bibles; Testaments; Prayer Books; Belknap's and Watts' Hymn Books.
ACCOUNT BOOKS. Ledgers; Journals; Day and Record Books Note and Receipt Books.
STATIONARY. Medium, Demy, Foolscap, and Pot Paper; Thick and Thin Folio Post; Wove, Hot pressed, Gilt and Plain Letter Paper; Drawing and Embellished do; Music and Blotting do; Quills, from 20 to 1,25 cents a bunch; Black and Red Inkpowder; Pocket, Wedgewood, Lead, Pewter and Desk Inkflasks; Ink-Glasses for writing desks; Durable Ink for marking Linen; Gentlemen and Ladies' Pocket Books & Purse; Memorandum Books; Pencils; Slates; Penknives; Desk seals; Steel filips; Sand and Boxes; Wafers and Sealing Wax; Court Plaster; Paint Boxes and Brushes; variety of Drawings; Playing Cards, &c. &c. Maps of the United States and Massachusetts. A general assortment of Commercial, Justice and other Blanks.
Cash given for Canvass, Fenn and clean Cotton and Linen Rags.
Lottery Tickets, For sale as above.
Sheriff's Sale. Taken by Execution on the petition of the Plaintiff, to the highest bidder, on THURSDAY the first day of September next, at two of the clock in the afternoon, at the Dwelling House of Thomas Means, Innholder in Freeport,
ALL the right which Thomas Miller of said Freeport, has to the redemption on a Mortgage of a certain tract or parcel of land situated in Freeport aforesaid, and bounded as follows:—viz Southwesterly by the Town Road northerly by land of Josiah Reed, and southeasterly by land owned by John Winlow, containing seventeen acres, more or less; together with all the buildings thereon. Said tract or parcel of land being part of lot numbered twenty-six on range C. JOSIAH REED, D. Sheriff. August 1.
To the Honorable Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, next to be held at Paris, within and for the county of Oxford, on the second Tuesday of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight.
THE petition of Nathaniel Merrill, Esq. of Brownfield, in said county, humbly shews, that he is interested in common with others to him unknown, in a tract or parcel of Land in Prefect's patten, (so called) now in the district of Hiram, bounded as follows, viz.—Beginning at the southernmost corner of Brownfield township, on the east branch of Saco river; thence running by Brownfield line about north, sixty degrees east, to the corner of said patten; thence south, thirty degrees east to the center of said Location, to a birch tree marked; thence south sixty degrees west, by a spotted line to a large stone in Hancock brook; thence north thirty degrees west, about forty rods by John Bucknel's land to his corner; thence south sixty degrees west to Saco river; thence up said river to the first mentioned bounds.—That your petitioner is seized and possessed in the eleven-fortieth part of said tract or parcel of Land aforesaid, in common, and your petitioner is desirous of holding and occupying his share and proportion in severality: Wherefore your said petitioner prays this Honorable Court that they would appoint a committee to set off said eleven fortieths of said tract, to hold in severality, according to law of this Commonwealth, made and provided—and as in duty bound will ever pray. NATHANIEL MERRILL.
Oxford, ss. . . . At a Court of Common Pleas, begun and held at Paris, within and for the county of Oxford, on the second of May, A. D. 1808.
ON the petition of Nathaniel Merrill, whereof the foregoing is a copy, the Court Order that the petitioner notify all persons concerned therein of the same, by causing a copy of said petition and of this order thereon, to be published in the Portland Gazette three weeks successively, the last publication to be at least thirty days before the next term of this Court, that all persons may then and there show cause (if any they have) why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted. Attest, CYRUS HAMLIN, Clerk. August 8.
SCHEME OF THE FOURTH CLASS OF Hatfield Bridge Lottery.
Table with 2 columns: Prize Amount, Number of Prizes. 1 Prize of 8,000 dls. is 8,000 dls. 1 do. - 1,000 - 1,000 3 prizes of 500 are 1500 100 do. - 100 - 10,000 100 do. - 50 - 5,000 125 do. - 20 - 2,500 3500 do. - 7 - 24,500 52,500 12,000 Tickets at five dollars each, are sixty Thousand Dollars.
Capital Prizes determinable in the following manner, viz. First drawn blank on the 5th day of drawing, entitled to 500 dls. do. - 10th do. - 500 do. - 15th do. - 1000 do. - 20th do. - 8,000 do. - 24th do. - 500 Five hundred numbers will be considered one day's drawing, and the fortunate blank determined accordingly. Tickets unfold may be returned to either of the Managers, Messrs. G. B. Dean, of Boston, or Mr. Isaiah Thomas jr. of Worcester. Prizes less than 50 dollars, will be paid in thirty days; of 500 and 1000 dollars in sixty days; and the highest prize in ninety days after the drawing is completed, in current bank bills. Prizes not demanded in one year after the drawing is completed will not be paid. Tickets for sale by the Managers, and at the usual places. SAMUEL PORTER, ELIJAH DICKINSON, ISAAC ABERCROMBIE, SAMUEL F. DICKINSON, JOHN HASTINGS, Jun. Managers. July 4, 1808.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of Administrator on the estate of JOSEPH STAPLE,
late of Freeport, in the county of Cumberland, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs. He 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 August 15. REUBEN STAPLE.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned that she has been duly appointed and has taken upon herself the trust of an administratrix on the estate of JAMES FLINT,
late of Bridgton, in the county of Cumberland, 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 ZIBA FLINT. August 15.