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No. 42, of Vol. X.]
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1808.
[Whole No. 310.]
Law of the United States.
AN ACT, Supplementary to the act entitled, "An act laying an Embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States."
BE IT ENACTED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That during the continuance of the act to which this act is a supplement, no vessel licensed for the coasting trade, shall be allowed to depart from any port of the United States, or shall receive a clearance, until the owner, consignee, agent or factor, shall with the master, give bond with one or more sureties to the United States, in a sum double the value of the vessel and cargo, that the vessel shall not proceed to any foreign port or place, and that the cargo shall be reloaded in some port of the United States.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the owner or owners of all vessels licenced for fisheries, or those bound on a whaling voyage, and having no other cargo than sea stores, salt, & the usual fishing tackle & apparel, shall give a general bond, in four times the value of the vessel and cargo, that they will not, during the continuance of the above-mentioned act, proceed to any foreign port or place; and will return with their fishing fare to some port or place within the United States: Provided, that it shall be lawful and shall be sufficient in the case of any licenced vessel whose employment has uniformly been confined to rivers, bays and sounds, within the jurisdiction of the United States, to give bond, in an amount equal to three hundred dollars for each ton of said vessel, with condition that such vessel shall not be employed in any foreign trade during the time limited in the condition of the bond.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any ship or vessel shall, during the continuance of the act to which this act is a supplement, depart from any port of the United States without a clearance or permit, or if any ship or vessel shall, contrary to the provisions of this act, or of the act to which this act is a supplement, proceed to a foreign port or place, or trade with, or put on board of any other ship or vessel, any goods, wares, or merchandise, of foreign or domestic growth or manufacture, such ship or vessel and cargo shall be wholly forfeited, and if the same shall not be seized, the owner or owners agent, freighter, or factors of any such ship or vessel shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum equal to double the value of the ship or vessel and cargo, & shall never thereafter be allowed a credit for duties on any goods, wares or merchandise, imported by him or them into any of the ports of the United States: and the master or commander of such ship or vessel, as well as all other persons who shall knowingly be concerned in such prohibited foreign voyage, shall each respectively forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, nor less than one thousand dollars, for every such offence, whether the vessel be seized and condemned or not; and the oath or affirmation of any master or commander, knowingly offending against the provisions of this section, shall ever thereafter be inadmissible before any collector of the customs of the United States.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the exception made by the act to which this act is a supplement, in favor of armed vessels possessing public commissions from foreign powers, shall apply only to public armed vessels, and shall not be construed to embrace either privateers, vessels having letters of marque, or any other private armed vessels; but such private armed vessels shall be permitted to depart in the same manner and on the same conditions as is provided for other private foreign ships or vessels.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any foreign ship or vessel shall, during the continuance of the act to which this act is a supplement, take on board any specie, or any goods, wares or merchandise, other than the provisions and sea stores necessary for the voyage, such ship or vessel, and the specie and cargo on board, shall be wholly forfeited, and may be seized and condemned in any court of the United States having competent jurisdiction, and every person concerned in such unlawful shipment, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, nor less than one thousand dollars, for every such offence.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures by force of this act, shall be sued for, recovered, distributed, and accounted for in the manner prescribed by the act entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage;" passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, and may be mitigated or remitted in the manner prescribed by the act, entitled "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities occurring in certain cases therein mentioned;" passed the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven, and made perpetual by an act passed the eleventh February one thousand eight hundred.
SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the time during which the act to which this act is a supplement, shall continue in force, shall not be computed as making part of the term of twelve calendar months, during which goods, wares, or merchandise, imported into the United States, must be re-exported in order to be entitled to a drawback of the duties paid on the importation thereof.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO. CLINTON, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. January 9, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
By the Sails.
From the United States' G. &c. etc.
MR. BRONSON,
Be so good as to publish the following extract from our convention with France of 1806, and let every publisher and reader bear in mind, that this convention cost the United States more than a 100,000 dollars; and, that while our administration are railing against England for what Mr. Jefferson denominated interpolations of the law of nations, an assertion which his secretary has not been able to substantiate, we hear not a word of complaint of the gross violation of the above compact by the French decree of the 21st November, 1806—Such conduct merits but one comment namely, That it is an obvious and criminal dereliction of duty, thus to abandon the rights, interest, and honor of the nation.
Article XII.
It shall be lawful for the citizens of either country to sail with their ships and merchandise (contraband goods always excepted) from any port whatever, to any port of the enemy of the other, and to sail and trade with their ships and merchandise, with perfect security and liberty, from the countries, ports and places of those who are enemies of both or either party, without any opposition or disturbance whatsoever, and to pass not only direct from the ports of the enemy, aforementioned to neutral ports and places, but from one place belonging to the enemy, to another place belonging to the enemy, whether they be under the jurisdiction of the same power, or under several; unless such ports or places shall be actually blockaded, besieged or invested.
Nor shall any vessel of either, that may have entered into such port or place before the same was actually (or in the French reality ) besieged, blockaded or invested by the other, be restrained from quitting such place with her cargo, nor if found therein after the reduction or surrender of such place, shall such vessel or her cargo be liable to confiscation, but they shall be restored to the owners thereof.
FROM THE U. S. GAZETTE.
MR. BRONSON,
If you conceive, that by inserting the following accurate view of the present crises of the country, the eyes of one honest man may be opened to see its impending dangers, you will give it a place in your patriotic paper, and thus oblige a subscriber, and sincere well wisher to his native land.
CITIZENS OF AMERICA!
Democrats or Federalists.
Look on the following almost certain consequences of a War.
With Great-Britain With France.
  1. The ruin of your farmers.  1. No ability to attack you and an exemption from her intrigues.    2. Bankruptcy of your merchants, annihilation of your commerce, stagnation of all business, privation of many comforts.  2. A war with Spain, and of course, security to Louisiana; an easy conquest of the Floridas, and a road opened to Mexico, Cuba, &c.    3. Conflagration of your seaports, or heavy contributions.  3. A flourishing trade effectually protected by a few coveting frigates to China, India, and all the British possessions.    4. No sale for your produce and oppressive taxes on your land.  4. Much to gain, little or nothing to lose.    5. The loss of your seamen captured on the ocean or deserting to the enemy.  5. The immortal honour of contributing to arrest the oppressor of Europe, and the proud pretender to universal dominion.    6. Every thing to lose, nothing to gain.  6. The smiles of heaven upon a war undertaken from necessity, and with reluctance.    7. Alliance with France, and its invariable consequences, vassalage subjection, immorality and atheism.  7. The sure vengeance of heaven upon a war founded in partiality and injustice.  
PEOPLE OF AMERICA, PONDER WELL THESE THINGS, AND ACT ACCORDINGLY.
A NATIVE AMERICAN.
Conundrum.—Why is the Embargo like an old musket?
Because old muskets so contrive it, As quite to miss the mark they aim at, And tho' well aim'd at duck or plover, Bear wide, and kick their owner over. M c Intal.
FROM WASHINGTON, JAN. 12.
MR. CLARK'S STATEMENT.
I arrived from Europe at New-Orleans, in December, 1786, having been invited to the country by an uncle of considerable wealth and influence, who had been long resident in that city.—Shortly after my arrival I was employed in the office of Secretary of the government. This office was the depositary of all state papers. In 1787, Gen. Wilkinson made his first visit to New-Orleans, and was introduced by my uncle to the Governor and other officers of the Spanish government.
In the succeeding year 1788, much sensation was excited by the report of his having entered into some arrangements with the government of Louisiana, to separate the Western country from the United States; and this report acquired great credit upon his second visit to N. Orleans, in 1789.—About this time I saw a letter from the General to a person in New-Orleans, giving an account of Colonel Connolly's mission to him from the British government in Canada, and of proposals made to him on the part of that government, and mentioning his determination of adhering to his connexion with the Spaniards.
My intimacy with the officers of the Spanish government, and my access to official information, disclosed to me shortly afterwards some of the plans the General had proposed to the Government for effecting the contemplated separation. The general project was the severance of the western country from the United States, and the establishment of a separate government in the alliance and under the protection of Spain. In effecting this, Spain was to furnish money and arms; and the minds of the western people were to be seduced and brought over to the project by liberal advantages resulting from it, to be held out by Spain. The trade of the Mississippi was to be rendered free, the port of New-Orleans to be opened to them, and a free commerce allowed in the productions of the new government with Spain and the West India Islands. I remember about the same time to have seen a list of names of citizens of the western country, which was in the hand writing of the General, who were recommended for pensions, and the sums proper to be paid to each were stated; and I then distinctly understood that he and others were actually pensioners of the Spanish Government. I had no personal knowledge of money being paid to Gen. Wilkinson or to any agent for him on account of his pension, previous to the year 1793 or 1794. In one of these years, and in which I cannot be certain until I consult my books, a Mr. La Cassagne who I understood was post-master at the Falls of Ohio came to New-Orleans, and as one of the associates with Gen. Wilkinson in the project of dismemberment, received a sum of money, four thousand dollars of which, or thereabouts, were embarked by a special permission, free of duty, on board a vessel which had been consigned to me, and which sailed for Philadelphia; in which vessel Mr. La Cassagne went passenger. At and prior to this period, I had various opportunities of seeing the projects submitted to the Spanish government, and of learning many of the details from the agents employed to carry them into execution.
In 1794, two gentlemen of the names of Owens and Collins, friends and agents of Gen. Wilkinson, came to N. Orleans. To the first was entrusted, as I was particularly informed by the officers of the Spanish government, 6000 dollars to be delivered to General Wilkinson on account of his own pension and that of others. On his way in returning to Kentucky, Owens was murdered by his boat's crew, and the money, it was understood was made away with by them.—This occurrence occasioned a considerable noise in Kentucky, and contributed with Mr. Power's visits at a subsequent period, to awaken the suspicions of Gen. Wayne who took measures to intercept the correspondence of General Wilkinson with the Spanish government, which failed through the address of Power.
Collins, the co-agent with Owens, first attempted to fit out a small vessel in the port of New-Orleans, in order to proceed to some port in the Atlantic Seas, but she was destroyed by the hurricane of the month of August, in 1794. He then fitted out a small vessel in the Bayou St. John, and slipped
in her at least 11,000 dollars which he took round to Charleston.
This shipment was made under such peculiar circumstances, that it became known to many, and the destination of it was afterwards fully disclosed to me by the officers of the Spanish government, by Collins, and by General Wilkinson himself, who complained that Collins instead of sending him the money on his arrival, had employed it in some wild speculations to the West-Indies, by which he had lost a considerable sum, and that in consequence of the mismanagement of his agents he had derived but little advantage from the money paid on his account by the Spanish government. Mr. Power was a Spanish subject resident in Louisiana, and the object of his visits to the western country became known to me in 1796, when he embarked on board the brig Gayoso, at New-Orleans, for Philadelphia, in company with Judge Sebastian, in which vessel, as she had been consigned to myself, I saw embarked under a special permission four thousand dollars, or thereabouts, which I was informed were for Sebastian's own account as one of those concerned in the scheme of dismemberment of the Western country.
Mr. Power, as he afterwards informed me, on his tour through the Western country, saw Gen. Wilkinson at Greenville, and was the bearer of a letter to him from the secretary of the government of Louisiana, dated 7th or 8th March 1796, advising that a sum of money had been sent to Don Thomas de Portel, commandant of New Madrid, to be delivered to his order. This money Mr. Power delivered to Mr. Nolan by Wilkinson's directions. What concerned Mr. Nolan's agency in this business, I learned from himself, when he afterwards visited New-Orleans.
In 1797 Power was intrusted with another mission to Kentucky, and had directions to propose certain plans to effect the separation of the Western country from the U. States—These plans were proposed, and there rejected, as he often solemnly assured me, through the means of a Mr. George Nicholas, to whom among others, they were communicated, but who spurned the idea of receiving foreign money—Power then proceeded to Detroit to see Gen. Wilkinson, and was sent back by him under guard to New Madrid, whence he returned to New-Orleans. Power's secret instructions were known to me afterwards, and I am enabled to state, that the plan then contemplated entirely failed.
At the periods spoken of, and for a long time afterwards, I was resident in the Spanish territory, subject to the Spanish laws, and without any expectation of becoming a citizen of the U. States. My obligations were then to conceal, not to communicate to the government of the U. States the projects and enterprises, which I have mentioned, of the Spanish government.
In the month of October, 1798, I visited Gen. Wilkinson by his particular request, at the camp at Loftus's Heights, where he had shortly before arrived. The General had heard of remarks made by me, on the subject of his pension, which had rendered him uneasy, and he was desirous of making some arrangement with me on the subject. I passed three days and nights in the general's tent. The chief subjects of our conversation were the views and enterprises of the Spanish government in relation to the U. States, and speculations as to the result of political affairs. In the course of our conversation he stated that there was still a balance of Ten Thousand Dollars due him by the Spanish government, for which he would gladly take in exchange Governor Gayoso's plantation near the Natchez, who might reimburse himself from the treasury of New Orleans.—I asked the general if this sum was due on the old business of the pension. He replied that it was; and intimated a wish that I should propose to Gen. Gayoso a transfer of his plantation for the money due him from the Spanish treasury. The whole affair had always been odious to me, and I declined any agency in it. I acknowledged to him that I had often spoken freely and publicly of his Spanish pension, but told him I had communicated nothing to his government on the subject. I advised him to drop his Spanish connections. He justified it heretofore from the peculiar situation of Kentucky, the disadvantages that country labored under at the period when
he formed his connexions with the Spaniards, the doubtful and distracted state of the Union at that time, which he represented as bound together by nothing better than a rope of sand, and he assured me solemnly that he had terminated his connexions with the Spanish government, and that they never should be renewed. I gave the general to understand, that as the affair stood, I should not in future say any thing about it.
From that period until the present, I have heard one report only of the former connexion being renewed, and that was in 1804, shortly after the general's departure from New-Orleans—I had been absent for two or three months, and returned to the city not long after Gen. Wilkinson sailed from it.—I was informed by the late mayor (of New-Orleans) that reports had reached the ears of the Governor of a sum of ten thousand dollars having been received by the Gen. of the Spanish government while he was one of the commissioners for taking possession of Louisiana. He wished me to enquire into the truth of it, which I agreed to do on condition that I might be permitted to communicate the suspicion to the Gen. if the fact alleged against him could not be verified. This was assented to. I made the enquiry, and satisfied myself by an inspection of the treasury books for 1804, that the ten thousand dollars had not been paid. I then communicated the circumstance to a friend of the General, Mr. Evan Jones, with a request that he would inform him of it.—The report was revived at the last session of Congress, by a letter from Col. Ferdinand Claiborne, of Natchez, to the Delegate of the Mississippi territory. A member of the House informed me, that the money in question was acknowledged by General Smith to have been received at the time mentioned, but that it was in payment for tobacco. I knew that no tobacco had been delivered, and waited on Gen. Smith for information as to the receipt of the money, who disavowed all knowledge of it, and I took the opportunity of assuring him, and as many others as mentioned the subject, that I believed it to be false, and gave them my reasons for the opinion.
This summary necessarily omits many details tending to co-operate & illustrate the facts and opinions I have stated. No allusion has been made to public explanations of the transactions referred to, as made by Gen. Wilkinson and his friends. So far as they are resolved into commercial enterprises and speculations, I had the best opportunity of being acquainted with them, as I was during the period referred to, the agent of the house who were the consignees of the General at New-Orleans, and who had an interest in his shipments, and whose books are in my possession. DANIEL CLARK.
Washington City, Jan. 11, 1808.
[To the above statement is annexed the oath of Mr. C. taken before Judge Cranch, in which he swears, that the foregoing so far as it regards matter of his own knowledge, is true; and so far as it regards matter whereof he was informed by others, he believes to be true.]
Necessity the mother of invention.—A new speculation!—It is rumoured that there is a very large drove of hogs, consisting of several thousands, now on their way from the country west of the Allegany, to Baltimore, for market.—But the proprietors finding themselves defeated in their original intention, of disposing of them at that place in consequence of the late embargo, have determined to proceed on with them to the West-Indies; which can easily be done, by swimming them over, without any violation of the law. This must be a relief to the poor animals, after so long a march upon land, as it is well known that they swim with great facility.
The owners presume that government (as by the embargo act they are deprived of their regular market) would be willing to furnish them with one or two gun-boats, to guard the drove from sharks and other sea monsters, as well as to supply them with the little food which could not be much, as they eat nothing after being out the second day. The saving of freight and the reduced price of salt in the West-Indies, must insure to the proprietors a large profit.

Legislature of Massachusetts.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, JAN. 22.
MR. RIPLEY'S RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas the peace and impartial policy pursued by the Government of the United States in relation to the belligerent powers of Europe appears, at the present period, to have no effect in exciting a fair and honest reciprocity in their conduct, and whereas from the aspect of our foreign relations it is altogether uncertain how long the blessings of peace continue to us, and whereas under circumstances of national danger, an expression of accordant sentiments on the part of the individual States will give force and energy to the General Government and convince our enemies that we are not a divided people—
Therefore be it Resolved, That the Legislature of Massachusetts view, with the highest approbation the wise, dignified, and energetic measures pursued by the Executive of the United States relative to the outrages on the Chesapeake, by the Leopard ship of war.
Resolved, That in the present convulsed state of the civilized world, when a war of exterminating aspect spreads destructive consequences over nations remote from the scene of its immediate fury, and when the experience of former ages affords no assistance in calculating its effects or duration, we repose with confidence in the wisdom and patriotism of the General Government, to avert from us, if possible, the impending danger, or to direct our energies in the event of encountering it with a spirit of decision, becoming a free and a sovereign people.
Gen. Ladd, moved a postponement of the subject until Wednesday next.
Mr. Fiske, observed that from a desire that every member should have time to reflect on the subject, and make up his mind deliberately, he had expressed a willingness when the Resolutions were proposed to assign them for Wednesday next; with the same view, he was therefore now disposed to second the motion of the gentleman from Brentford.
On the question's being put from the chair, Mr. Lloyd observed, that fully impressed as he was, with the force of reasons offered for a postponement until Wednesday next, he conceived it most advisable to assign Wednesday week for the consideration of the Resolutions. The points to be discussed between the Government of the United States and the British minister were important; there was little probability that any result would be announced in so short a time. He moved for Wednesday week.
Mr. Breen thought the sooner the House adopted the Resolutions the better. There was nothing but clamor in the federal papers against the measures of government and he thought it the duty of the House to counteract that clamor by expressing its approbation of executive measures & its confidence in the wisdom of government.
Mr. Shute spoke against any postponement. He said the Resolutions did not relate to what was now doing but what had been done.
Mr. Ripley repeated his willingness to have the Resolutions postponed for reflection.
Mr. Moody (of Saco) was against postponing the consideration of the Resolutions. It was notorious that there were two political parties in the United States, the federal and the republican. The Federalists took every opportunity to find fault with and sneer at government. The federal newspapers were full of falsehood and abuse. They took side with the British and encouraged them to go on. This being the case, one party being British and the other in favour of the republican government of the United States, he thought the State ought to show that all that was said in complaints against government, had no foundation; and as the federalists were using all their exertions to push up and support Mr. Rose, he thought that House ought to take measures to push up and support the administration, and that it was necessary to act immediately. He thought that the sense of the majority of that house could not be expressed too soon, as it would have a good effect at the seat of government, and in his opinion would HUMILIATE MR. ROSE!
Gen. Ladd wished to explain. He found that some gentlemen had chosen to impose a different construction on the house, of his former remarks, from what they were intended to bear. Every thing was resolved into party, and an opposition to the immediate consideration of the Resolutions was interpreted to imply a disaffection to the measures of the administration. Sir, said he, I intend no such inuendo. I trust the insinuations of the gentleman from Saco will receive no countenance from the feelings of gentlemen on this floor. He impugns no motives which I disavow. Most that monster party be conjured up to give a complexion to every measure? Away with it. We declare ourselves unqualified at this crisis with the limited state of facts before us, to pronounce on public measures. We ask indulgence—we wish to be informed, that we may act with understanding and consistency. I do not believe such a party exists as has been portrayed. I feel a confidence in the spirit of my countrymen generally, that in case of invasion, or hostility from any foreign power, they would cheerfully rally round the national standard. I do not believe they would approve any defensive measures the General Government should recommend, but that each man would declare for his country.
The Order of the British council counterfeiting the Imperial Decree of Nov. 1806, was a measure of serious import. When this house assembled its existence was doubted. That was now a force. It was doubted whether the British Envoy could be received. That point was now established—Thus a knowledge in two important points has been gained by delay. We do not know but Mr. Rose is the harbinger of Peace—if so, and the resolutions are intended for the British nation, I am not convinced of the policy of adopting them at this moment. If he is a messenger of Insult, there is no doubt but our fellow-citizens will, every where, display both unyielding and independence, as soon as it is ascertained. Under present circumstances, I cannot put my hand to those resolutions.
The gentleman from Stockbridge was impatient to pass the Resolutions, to put a check to clamor. I am not certain but passing them now would have a very opposite effect. It is a kind of argument which might perhaps produce neither conviction nor silence. It should be remembered that if they acted, they acted as a state; this state has never opposed the general government. Look at past events. At the time when the attack on the Chesapeake was announced, what was the general voice? Observe the disposition generally expressed by our militia; the speech of the Chief Magistrate; our response. Do not all these express a disposition far from equivocal? Why then is it necessary now to repeat. If it is now intended to give our sentiments in a distinct form, let us take time to enter fully into the subject and possess ourselves of the information necessary to a correct and prudent decision. Let us be temperate; and above all things let us do away this odious spirit of party.
Mr. McFarland, for his own part was perfectly prepared to adopt the resolutions on the table; and declared that even should Government hereafter pursue measures which should appear to him wrong, he should still think it his duty to conclude that Government were right!
Messrs. Prince, Apthorp, Goodwin and some other gentlemen spoke on the question, but our limits admit no more. The motion for assigning Wednesday week was lost; the motion for Wednesday next 11 o'clock carried by a large majority.
By the Quails.
FROM AFRICA.
A dreadful carnage has taken place in Africa, among some of the principal tribes there. From all we have been enabled to learn, it appears one of the Chiefs, a very rich and powerful prince, of the tribe of the Assenties, died, and in conformity with the custom, was buried, and a large portion of his treasure deposited in his grave. The Chief of another tribe found means to approach the tomb, from which he stole the money; the violation was discovered—the thief was pursued, who it was discovered had taken refuge with another Chief, with whom he had shared the booty, and these two were joined by a third. These three tribes were followed by the party aggrieved, with a very large army. One of the offending parties proceeded to the English fort at Anamaboo, where 7000 women and children had previously taken shelter; the fort was attacked by the Assenties, in the defence of which 1,700 of them were killed. They were afterwards informed, that the Chief of the tribe of whom they were in search had escaped to Cape Coast Castle, for which place they instantly commenced their march, and on their arrival there, he was given up by the governor, with whom they separated on the most friendly terms, and proceeded again to search of the other offenders, carrying fire and murder through the whole of the country through which they marched. When at Cape Coast, they had proceeded about 600 English miles from their native country, and it is said, that in the course of their march not less than from 30,000 to 40,000 persons had fallen victims to their ferocity.—N. Y. Paper.
FROM CADIZ.—Nov. 13.
The reigning family of Portugal are to be annihilated, and that country annexed to this. Some private disturbances in our Royal family, have occasioned two extraordinary publications. The fact is, the Prince of Asturias, & the Prince of Peace, are sworn enemies, and, of course, one or the other must fall. The whole country is kept in a state of suspense and alarm, which suspends nearly all commercial business.
Under date of the 5th inst. His Majesty sent to the council the following Decree:
"The voice of nature arrests the arm of vengeance; and where a son repents an inadvertent act, we cannot refuse to act as an affectionate father. My son has already declared the authors of the horrible plan—which they had caused him to enter upon—to be wretches—all which he has done in a proper manner, altogether consistent with that formality which the law requires in similar cases. His repentance and fear have dictated the representations which he has made to me, and which follow:
"Royal Sire—I have erred—I have sinned against your Majesty, as a King, and as a Father. But I repent and offer to your Majesty the most implicit obedience. I ought to have done nothing without the knowledge of your Majesty; but I was blinded. I have, however, discovered the culprits, and I beseech your Majesty to forgive me, & permit me to approach your royal presence, as your acknowledged Son.
FERNANDO.
"San Lorenzo, Nov. 5, 1807.
[The Prince also sent a letter to his Mother to intercede for him.]
"In consequence of these, and the entreaties of my beloved spouse, I pardon my son, and will restore him unto favor when his conduct shall prove that he has undergone a thorough reform. And I hereby command those Judges, who have been acquainted with the business from the commencement, to act according to the sentence of the law, according to the atrocity of the crimes, and the quality of the criminals, taking
as a guide for the formation of the charges, the answers of the Prince, which are drawn up and signed in his own hand writing, as well as the papers found in his desk, also written by him.
"All this you are to communicate to my Councils, and Tribunals, publishing to my people, that they may behold my mercy and justice," &c. &c.
FROM WASHINGTON, JAN. 17.
"You will have heard of the arrival of the British Envoy, Mr. Rose; and that he has had an audience of the President, and communicated his credentials, and the object of his mission. He has been received with decency. Report speaks of him as an accomplished man & skillful diplomatist.—He is an eloquent speaker; & his speeches, in the British Parliament shew him to be a man of talents, firmness and independence.—He appears to possess the true "savoir in mode, fortiter in re."—I understand he has intimated that the Embargo will not be considered by the British Cabinet as any cause of war, nor impediment to negotiation. He has added, that its effects will not be severely felt in England; and that the revenue receipts of the last quarter before his departure, exceeded by two millions and an half sterling, that of any former quarter.
"The Senate has been on Executive business, probably to confirm the nomination of a Negotiator to confer with Mr. Rose. Mr. MADISON, it is expected will be the man; and that the negotiation will commence immediately.
BOSTON, JAN. 28.
Extract of a letter from Rotterdam, dated Nov. 14, 1807, to a respectable merchantile house in this town.
"We still continue to be in a state of uncertainty respecting the issue of the disputes, which seem to exist between America and Europe; though the fear of their coming to extremities with England, seems to lessen, whilst that of the same fatal issue with France increases, and receives more authority from the Minister there, having again pressed all American ships to leave our harbors & get home as fast as they can. Ships that call in England for orders, are yet admitted to an entry here, but it is more advisable to come direct.
EMBARGO—IN FRANCE.
A letter from Havana, dated Jan. 8, received here, states the arrival there of a New York brig in 33 days from St. Sebastians, (Spain) bringing information, that an Embargo had been laid in France, on all American vessels; that their papers had been taken by government, and a guard of soldiers put on board each vessel. On the 27th November, 40,000 French troops passed through St. Sebastians for Madrid.
FROM THE PHILA. TRUE AMERICAN.
"We are told, that Caesar A. Rodney, Esq. Attorney General of the United States, has addressed a letter to the celebrated John Dickinson, Esq. (an eminent republican Lawyer, and author of the Farmer's letters) requesting his opinion of the ground, which Great Britain has taken regarding her Seamen; and Mr. Dickinson, in his answer has stated, that the ground she has taken, is a proper one."
Robberies have lately been so frequent in Philadelphia, that the citizens are compelled to form themselves into little companies and patrol the streets after dark. On Wednesday evening last, and at the hour of nine o'clock, a Mr. Joshua Preble was stopped by two foot Pads in the most public part of Philadelphia, and robbed of his pocket book, containing 125 dollars.
COMMUNICATION.
"Happy is the man who has sown in his heart the seeds of benevolence; the produce thereof shall be charity and love."
A NEAT, GOOD ACT.—A few days since, a gentleman, reduced by misfortunes, but highly esteemed, received through the post office in this town a sheet of paper, folded in the form of a letter, sealed and directed to him, without a postmark, including EIGHTEEN DOLLARS. How much happier is the donor, than he who trumps his own frothy fame! His pillow is soft—his sleep is sweet—and his reflections are a source of unceasing satisfaction.
Providence Gaz.
From the Guardian. Predictions and Prophecies by Anna Dorothea, for the year 1808, with notes and illustrations by Isaac Dickerstall, Esq.
1808.—May.—Being the season of love, many marriages to take place in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. A political courtship will commence this month between Napoleon the Great and Miss Columbia. Some sly looks will be cast by the former, and an effort to squeeze the fair maiden's hand will be made, which will be returned by a rousing box on the ear by the fair damsel.—Note by I. Bickerstall, Esq.—Miss Columbia will have many admirers this month, but she will lay an Embargo on the whole of them.
Portland,
Monday, February 1, 1808.
We have reason to expect that there will, ere long, be information of importance from the seat of government.
Massachusetts Legislature.
Mr. Ripley's Resolutions have passed the House of Representatives—Yeas 478, Nays 81. They must now go to the Senate for concurrence.
Extract of a letter from a mercantile house in Antwerp, dated Oct. 31, 1807, to a merchant in this town.
"We feel no small regret that the cargo of the ship is still detained by the Custom-house. We have used every mean in our power to get her released, as well as several other vessels in the same predicament. We have made several applications at Paris. The Emperor will not decide; he is probably waiting to see what turn things are likely to take. If you arrange your difficulties with England, it is much to be apprehended, France will become hostile to America. The Emperor (Bonaparte) it is said, has declared there shall be no neutrals—all must declare for or against him. The trade of the United States has never been placed in so awkward a situation."
"BRITISH INFLUENCE"
To prate about British influence, has of late, become the "path and narrow" of democratic eloquence; and employed by the advocates of Jeffersonian policy, as a knock-me-down argument by such as Sloan, in Congress, and Saco Moody, in the Massachusetts Legislature. If we oppose a ruinous and unnecessary war with England, we are charged by these Solomons in council, with being under British influence. If we say that the Embargo brings ruin upon the mercantile interest, and derives thousands of their employment, it is said we are under British influence. But the effects of Jefferson's measures will soon convince the people that the federalists have uniformly advocated the best interests of our country. It has long been the practice with demagogues, to conjure up some political scarecrow for the purpose of playing with the passions of the people. These "exclusive friends" of the public, finding that the epithet of "old tor" has lost its effect, now employ that of "British influence" and "partizans of England" on all occasions. This they are compelled to do, as it is impossible to defend the conduct of their leaders. But it is not a new thing for demagogues to employ falsehood and misrepresentation in the support of a bad cause.
QUAIL'S.
What has become of the two millions of dollars designed for the purchase of the Floridas? What has Mr. Bowdoin, our minister at the Court of Spain, (at an enormous expense) been doing all this time? Why has he resided a great part of his time at Paris with Mr. Armstrong? If Spain is but a province of France, what necessity for two envoys at the same Court?
COMMUNICATIONS.
A correspondent noticed some remarks in a late Newspaper on the defects in the act of Congress laying the Embargo. It seems that tho' it consists of two sections only, it cost that August Body as many or more nights and days to frame them; and after all, the thing was found so exceedingly defective that a new act, called a Supplement was deemed necessary to make this very wise measure of our Government complete.
It is now said that both taken together are so ineffectual as not to reach the case of our blessed Louisiana purchase, now a territory of the U. S.; and by virtue of these laws there can be no Embargo on the Navigation in that part of the world.—What other defects they contain, remain to be discovered.
The writer of this on perusing the 3d Section of the Supplement was struck with its peculiar phraseology, where it provides, "that if ANY SHIP OR VESSEL shall TRADE with or PUT ON BOARD of any other ship or vessel, any goods, wares or merchandise, &c. such SHIP or VESSEL &c. shall be wholly forfeited." Such a provision reminds us of the famous Senator Wright's Bill, which provided the penalty of hanging for ships offending in certain cases.
Congress in the present case have adopted or improved upon the idea by supposing ships capable of trading!—Perhaps the sentiment is as correct as if the constituents of that honorable body should deem the greater number of them good Legislators.
MR. ADAMS. THE resolves of Mr. Ripley, in the Massachusetts Legislature, appear to be rather premature. The eulogium "Well done good and faithful servant," is not usually bestowed, until the work is done, and well done. We all know that the negotiation with Mr. Rose is now pending—What the issue will be; what the demands of our government will be; or what measures they will pursue, is known neither to the Legislature of Massachusetts nor their constituents. It is so plain, that he who "runs may read," that an unqualified eulogium on the past measures of the administration, would be a most BITTER SATIRE! worthy of a JUVENAL.—It is a position somewhat paradoxical in theory, but challenges confutation in practice—that a man may be the bitterest enemy of his friends—Example: In the present session of Congress, by the ardent zeal of one of the Executive Satellites, a most important secret was divulged, not much redounding to their
honour. The overstrained labors of the supporters of a bad cause, in struggling to conceal its deformities, generally defeat their own object and intention:—And although Mr. McFarland may go so far as to make a prospective eulogium on the measures which the administration may pursue in some future time; and although government should hereafter pursue measures which should appear to him wrong, he should still think it his duty to conclude that government were right! yet I think he (as the "servant of the people," and their organ) pays no very high compliment to the understanding of his constituents: Neither do I think that they would fall down so devoutly at the feet of this idol, this Dagon, which he so fervently worships! O Tempora! O Mores!—Legislators of nations: Slocum, Moody, McFarland—What a Triumvirate! ANTONY, CÆSAR and LEPIDUS, hide your diminished heads—What a sublime spectacle for the enlightened nineteenth century! But to the point—What are these same "wise, dignified and energetic measures," which the President has pursued? Impunis—He issued a proclamation, interdicting all British armed vessels from the waters of the United States. But was this proclamation regarded? No—Not all the boasted flotilla of the U. States, with all the frigates in commission, could effect it. So much for the first wise, dignified and energetic measures adopted by the Executive, which has proved to be "vox et præterea nihil;" "sounding brass and tinkling cymbal."—Next, a sum of $1,000,000 has been appropriated for the building of fortifications and gun-boats—A sum by no means sufficient for the single port of New York—How much less, then, for FORTY-TWO seaports! Lastly—An act called an Embargo, has been passed, prohibiting all vessels of the U. States from sailing to any foreign ports.—These are the wise, the dignified and energetic measures, which, with all the pomp of a coronation, are to be emblazoned on the Presidential escutcheon! But the Embargo has elevated the Executive to the apex, the summit of glory. This is the sword which the commander in chief holds brandished over the head of the Ambassador with one hand, while in the other he holds the mandate of NAPOLEON!
Men of New England—You have suffered much, you have suffered cruelly, by this grievous, this unjust measure; but dare not murmur, dare not utter a sigh or complaint—The doctrine of "passive obedience and non-resistance" is inculcated by high authority. But think not that these calamities are the full price of this ruinous measure—Nay, they are but as the small dust of the balance. We have the most alarming fears that our independence has been the price, and France the purchaser!
QUINTIUS.
Relief for the Poor.
AT a large meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of Portland, on Monday the 18th ult. the Report of a Committee chosen at a former meeting, was accepted by the town—which report is as follows:—
REPORT.
The Committee appointed for the purpose of obtaining information, and devising a plan for the relief of the distressed poor in this town, and for considering what appropriations of monies raised by the town may be allocated, in order to carry such an object into effect; having considered the subject of their commission, submit the following report:—
Your Committee, from the result of their enquiries, and the best investigation they have been able to make, are unanimously of opinion that such are the calamities of the times, the house provided by the town will not afford shelter, and that the most prudent expenditure of all monies which can possibly be realized by the Overseers of the Poor from the specific appropriations of the town, from the payment of all dues from other towns for the support of their poor accidentally among us, and also from the speedy settlement of our demands upon the government for support of State's poor will be greatly inadequate to meet the extent of the calamities we now feel and which are increasing upon us to such an alarming degree.
Your Committee could not in the short time allowed them, ascertain the number of our fellow citizens who have heretofore been able by their own industry in their several employments to accumulate more than a sufficiency for the support of themselves and families, and are now by reason of their present public distress not only deprived of business and without the means of subsistence, but your Committee are painfully compelled to say that they are already very numerous and daily increasing.
Your Committee further beg leave to report that from a statement of the finances of the town furnished by the Chairman of the Selectmen, it appears that by reason of the late heavy misfortunes of some among us, who have until now contributed very largely towards the aggregate sum of our taxes, a very considerable deficit will be exhibited at the settlement of the town accounts for the present year, and by reason of other misfortunes of a like kind, your Committee believe that of all the numerous sums raised for specific appropriations, only the three following can be altered and applied to the objects referred to your Committee's consideration—viz.
Dls. Cts.
943: 32 raised for Women's School-Houses and lots.
184: 64 unexpended in repairs for the Work-House.
75: 00 raised for fencing on the Neck.
1205: 16
Your Committee therefore further report that the appropriation of the sums aforesaid amounting to 1203 dollars & 16 cents ought to be altered, and that the same should be applied towards the support of such of our Poor as the Overseers will not have the means to provide for. And your Committee would further suggest, that the Market House standing on the town's lot, near Dr. Collin's building, being a place which can be occupied without cost to the town, and situated near the center, can be with a very little expense, furnished with a Chimney and Apparatus for cooking, and that therefrom might be distributed daily, at least one meal of wholesome and cheap food for that part of the poor of the town which our Overseers may not be able to relieve.—It will

to furnish a convenient and proper place of deposit for the public and private donations of the humane of our own and the neighboring towns...
WOODBURY STORER, Chairman. At the same meeting it was also voted that a committee of twenty-two shall be raised to carry the objects of said Report into effect...
Woodbury Storer, Isaac Liley, George Warren, S. D. Hopkins, Wm. Waterhouse, David Ross, Smith Colby, Albert Newhall, David Smith, Samuel F. Hussey, Thomas Beck. This committee have met, organized themselves, and adopted among others the following resolutions...
J. D. HOPKINS, per order. The committee give information that the Market-House is open to carry all the objects of the foregoing Votes into effect...
THE Overseers of the Poor for the town of Portland, acknowledge to have received since the 14th ult. 8 cords of Wood from Mr. Gyles...
JOSEPH H. INGRAHAM. Portland, Feb. 1, 1808. We understand Job Norton, (better known by the name of "Doctor Velvet") was apprehended in this town the last week...
MARRIED. In New Castle, Mr. Robert Murry, aged 20, to (his Aunt) Mrs. Rebecca Murry aged 40!! In Falmouth, by the Rev. C. Bradley, Mr. Wm. Knight, to Miss Lucy Knight...
DIED. Deceased - Mr. Henry Bradbury, aged 21, son of Mr. Thomas B. of this town, was lost from the brig Betty, Capt. Mooty, on her passage from N. York, to Guadaloupe.
Carette Ship News. PORT OF PORTLAND - 1808. Arrived ship Commerce, Wm. Baker, 28 days from St. Bartholemews.
VESSELS LEFT. At Martinique, Dec. 20, sch. William Eaton, Lewis, of Bath. At Barbadoes, Dec. 17, Montezuma, Lincoln, of Bath, for Wilmington...
SHIPPING MEMORANDA. The French ship of war L'Eole of 74 guns, lies in the Chesapeake; and the British ship of war Triumph, of 74 guns, is ordered to cruise off the mouth of the Capes to watch her motions.
The sch. Minerva, Rhoades, 7 days from Rhode Island, for Turks-Island, was spoken Jan. 4, in lat. 29.
LIME. A Quantity of excellent THOMASTON LIME, for sale by THOMAS HOVEY, No. 10, Long-Wharf.
Premises Mellen, HAS removed his Office from the new Bank to the building lately occupied as the Post Office, and nearly opposite the Bank.
Patent Trusses. JUST received and for sale by JOHN S. DUPREE, at his store in Fore-street, head of Ingraham-Wharf, an assortment of Stone's Improved Trusses for Ruptures.
LAST NOTICE! THE subscribers inform those with whom they have unsettled accounts, that unless a settlement is made on or before the 15th instant, they will be lodged with an attorney for collection.
TO LET, A LARGE convenient two-story DWELLING-HOUSE, pleasantly situated in Federal-street, lately occupied by Mr. ISAAC MELLELLAN.
Cheap Store. JOHN DIX, No. 2, Fifth street, HAS just returned from Boston, and is now opening for sale, a large and elegant assortment of Silk, Cotton & Woolen Goods...
Charles & John Fox, No. 4 & 5, south side Long-Wharf, HAVE just received, 200 bbls. superfine Flour, 100 do. scotch do, 13 half do do.
Ship-Chandlery & Grocery Goods. All which they offer cheap for cash or credit.
TO LET, THE Office, lately occupied by James C. Jewett, Esq. - Also, the one lately occupied as the Argus-Office - Inquire of ZACHARIAH MARTIN.
SCHOOL DICTIONARY. FOR sale by ISAAC ADAMS, No. 7, Fifth-street, WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY - compiled for the use of Common English Schools.
BENJAMIN WILLIS, HAVING been driven from his late stand in Haymarket Row, (by the late fire) has taken the store lately occupied by Mr. John Dean...
NOTICE! In consequence of the severe loss which he has sustained by the fire he is under the necessity of again calling on those indebted to him...
LOST! AT the late fire in Haymarket-Row, a FIRE BUCKET, marked E. Public, No. 2. Whoever will give information of the same, so that it may be obtained, shall receive the thanks of the owner.
EZEKIEL DAY, HAS FOR SALE, 150 bbls. Liverpool SALT. A few bbls. St. Martins do. 300 quintals CODFISH, suitable for country use.
Gentel Boarding - in Boston, Mrs. ELIZABETH SMITH, at No. 12, Court-street, where every exertion will be made to accommodate and give satisfaction.
REMOVAL. THE copartnership between the subscribers, under the firm of BISHOP & WEBSTER, was dissolved on the 8th January, 1808, by mutual consent.
JOEL HALL, HAVING purchased the whole stock in trade of John P. Thurston & Co. has removed from No. 17, Long-Wharf, to Cent of Row...
200 crates C. C. Eastern Ware, 100 cases English Nails, 60 crates Junk Bottles, 17 gross Mustard Bottles, Boxes 12 by 18, 11 by 15, 10 by 15, 10 by 14, 10 by 12, 9 by 13, 9 by 12, 9 by 11, 7 by 9, and 6 by 8 Crown Window Glass.
Flour, Pork, &c. Charles & John Fox, No. 4 & 5, south side Long-Wharf, HAVE just received, 200 bbls. superfine Flour, 100 do. scotch do, 13 half do do.
Ship-Chandlery & Grocery Goods. All which they offer cheap for cash or credit.
Wanted Immediately, AS an Apprentice at this Office, a steady, faithful and capable LAD, about fourteen years of age. One that possesses and will practice these qualities, shall be well clothed, boarded and receive kind treatment.
Rowe & Keus, RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and the public in general that they have recommenced business at their former stand No. 6, Musty's Row - where they have for sale a general assortment of Fall and Winter Goods.
Factory Cotton. Henry Smith & Co. No. 4, Musty's Row, HAVE for sale a large assortment of factory, Wharp and Filling, and two threaded whitened Cotton.
FOR SALE, AN excellent Stand at Gambo, in the town of Windham, about 12 miles from Portland, consisting of large FARM, SAW and GRIST MILLS, with many valuable privileges.
Edward Howe, Upsholster, No. 2, Union-Row, INFORMS the public, that he has just opened an extensive assortment of English, French and American PAPER HANGINGS, with elegant Borders and Pannel Papers of the very latest and best patterns.
Henry Smith & Co. No. 4, Musty's Row, HAVE just received, AN elegant and extensive assortment of GOODS, consisting of Hamilton dice Ginghams, Dark check'd do - Striped do, Plaid do, a great variety.
REMOVAL. THE copartnership between the subscribers, under the firm of BISHOP & WEBSTER, was dissolved on the 8th January, 1808, by mutual consent.
Dark check'd do - Striped do, Plaid do, a great variety, Dice Chambrays, Hamilton colored corded Cambrics, S-4, 4-4 and 6-4 white and colored Cambrics, Elegant Grecian Robes - Fancy Dresses, Fancy Bordering - calicoes - Linen Cambrics, Cotton & linen cambric pocket Handks.
Charles & John Fox, No. 4 & 5, south side Long-Wharf, HAVE just received, 200 bbls. superfine Flour, 100 do. scotch do, 13 half do do.
Ship-Chandlery & Grocery Goods. All which they offer cheap for cash or credit.
TAKE NOTICE! At Public Auction at the Portland Bank, on TUESDAY the 2nd inst. at 2 o'clock, in the afternoon, WILL be sold, seventy-five SHARES of the Capital Stock of the President, Directors and Company of said Bank.
WILLIAM LORD, INFORMS his friends and the public in general, that he has just received a general assortment of W. I. Goods, Groceries & Hard-Wares, which are now ready for sale at his store in Fore-street, on the most reasonable terms for cash.
Drugs and Medicines. WILLIAM LORD, INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has purchased the stock in trade of JOHN COE, and that the business will be carried on at No. 4, Fifth street - where DRUGS & MEDICINES of a genuine quality will be kept constantly for sale on reasonable terms.
JOHN COE, REQUESTS all persons, having Accounts open with him, to call at No. 4, Fifth street, and have them adjusted.
LOST! ON the 20th inst. a RED MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK, containing one twenty dollar Bill of the United States Bank, and small bills to the amount of from thirty five to forty dollars, with sundry papers of no use to any person but the owner.
NOTICE! ALL persons indebted to STEPHEN CUMMINGS, for services in the line of his profession, as a Physician, are informed that unless payment is made to the subscriber on or before the last day of February, their accounts will be left with an Attorney and put in suit without further notice.
COFFEE. FOR sale by WILLIAM GODDARD, at his store in Middle-street - a few bbls. and bags best Green COFFEE.
TAKEN UP, A CHESNUT colored MARE, January 5, 1808. The owner may have her again by proving property and paying charges. Inquire of BENJ. WEBSTER.
REMOVAL. And more New and Cheap Goods. N. P. POOR, INFORMS the purchasers of ENGLISH GOODS, that he has removed from Musty's Row, to the store lately occupied by Munroe & Tuttle, corner of Middle and Union Streets.
Dark check'd do - Striped do, Plaid do, a great variety, Dice Chambrays, Hamilton colored corded Cambrics, S-4, 4-4 and 6-4 white and colored Cambrics, Elegant Grecian Robes - Fancy Dresses, Fancy Bordering - calicoes - Linen Cambrics, Cotton & linen cambric pocket Handks.
CRAM & ALBERTON, HAVE removed their Compting Room to No. 2, Long-Wharf.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that she has been duly appointed and has taken upon herself the trust of Administratrix on the estate of EENEZER HUMPHREY, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Trader, deceased.

Poetry.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
Mr. Adams,
WHILE I look around upon our needy inhabitants and view their sufferings, I cannot but drop a sympathetic tear for their misfortunes. To view the poor widow, with a family of small children clinging around her, crying for bread, what a sight! a fight that would stir and melt the hardest heart. View the labourer! who toils for his daily bread, but now robbed of his only means of support - And also view the mariner, who has exposed himself to storms, tempests, and all the winds of heaven, exerting every effort to support himself, and to lay up something for his family; but deprived, by the embargo, of all employment; - Lastly, view the lame, the sick, and the fatherless, at this inclement season; some, who, perhaps, have not a habitation to hover them from the chilling frost! These reflections produced the following lines; by giving them a place in your next, you will oblige yours, &c.
THE CRIES OF WOE!
ASSIST, Oh muse and hear a mother's sigh, Borne down with grief, with hunger and despair; My little offspring 'round my feet doth cry For food, and shelter from the piercing air.
My husband's gone far from this rugged coast, Left me to wander through the world's wide way;
Forlorn, deserted, and no house to dwell, No friends to keep me on this stormy day.
My husband was the glory of my life, His voice the softest of the human kind, But evil war, fierce monster of the night; Did rob me of the treasure of my mind.
Alas! my joyful hopes have passed o'er And I am doom'd to feel the sting of grief; My mind desponds, I can relate no more, I'll rest assured of some kind relief.
Pause, gentle reader, support her painful heart, Relieve her sorrows, and her cares suppress; For o'er her mind despondence doth impart, While anxious prayers implore your kind redress.
AUGUSTUS.
Shades of Retirement, Jan. 23.
FROM THE EMERALD.
A farmer driving toward Boston, Of good fat pork a cargo; By chance another farmer met him, Who warn'd him of the embargo.
"What's that? a yellow fever like?" Quoth Ned, who wanted gumption. "A yellow fever! no," cries Dick, "Tis a damn'd few Consumption." H.
The Monitor... No. 22.
Interesting and Important Sentences,
Selected from the word of God.
THE MESSIAH.
[CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.]
7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. By him were all things created - and he is before all things, and by him all things consist. - It pleased the Father, that in him should all fulness dwell. - St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians - chap. 1 - v. 14, 16, 17, 19.
Hear also, what Christ says of himself - 8. I am Alpha and Omega - which is, and which was, and is to come, the Almighty. I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive forevermore. - Revelations, 1 - 8, 17, 18.
While the writer is penning these papers from the Sacred Scriptures, he is deeply impressed with the importance of searching, reading, judging and meditating upon them, as the Oracles of Truth; and of knowing from them, what we ought to believe and what we ought to do, concerning the doctrines they contain, and the things which belong to our future and everlasting happiness. And, O Reader, let him express to you, in the words of St. Paul to the Ephesians (chapter 1) his earnest prayer, "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give unto you the Spirit of Wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints; and what is the exceeding greatness of his us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead." - And now
9. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. - Jude, last verse.
Boarders Wanted.
MR. LABOTTIERE will take on very reasonable terms, twelve Gentlemen to board - they will be accommodated with a private Hall to dine in, and separate rooms, well furnished, to lodge. - Mr. L. pledges himself to give entire satisfaction to those who may feel disposed to honor him with their company. - For terms, (which will be very moderate) to call at his house. Jan. 4. (6w)
REMOVAL.
WILLIAM FREEMAN has removed to the Office, near the house of G. Bradbury, Esq. in Middle-street. Jan. 25.
Samuel Butts,
BEGS leave to inform his Friends and the Public in general, that he has opened a BOOK STORE in Fifth-street, two doors below the Maine Bank - where he offers for sale, an extensive assortment of BOOKS, in the various branches of science and literature, which he will dispose of, on as advantageous terms as can be obtained at any Book Store in Boston or elsewhere - of which the following is a part:
LAW.
Laws of Massachusetts, 4 vols. - do. of the
United States, 7 vols. - Massachusetts Special Laws, 3 vols. - Freeman's (Mass.) Justice - Complete do. - Powell on Mortgages - Tucker's Blackstone - Craydon's Digest of U. S. Law - Massachusetts Term Reports - Peake's Law of Evidence - Coke's first Institute - Wyche's Practice - Wintworth's Pleadings - Story's do. - Precedents of Declarations - Burns' Law Dictionary - Sullivan's Lectures, 2 vols. - Study of the Law - Town Officer and Clerk's Magazine - Probate Dictionary - Jones' Law of Bailments - Marine Insurance - Powell on Divorces, &c.
PHYSIC.
Chelden's Anatomy - Brown's Elements of Medicine - Pinferton's Medical Admonitions - Bell's Surgery - Underwood on Children - Willich's Lectures - Denman's Midwifery - Townsend's Guide to Health - Default's Surgery - Caldwell's Medical Memories - Saunders on the Liver - Hunter on the Blood - Rush's Lectures - So. Essay's - Medical Electricity, &c.
DIVINITY.
Life of Christ; Sermons of Blair, Jay, Peirce, Logan, Lathrop, Tappan, Whitfield, Porteus, Fiske, Smalley, Massillon, and Strong; Lectures of Tappan, Blair, and Porteus; Works of Hervey and Doddridge; Whitby's Discourses; Rowe's Exercises; Winchell's Dialogues; Huntington's Calvinism; Memoir of Pious Women; Seraphic Shepherd; Adams' History of Religion; Pilgrim's Progress; Bunyan's Works; Flavel's Navigation Spiritualized; Cole's Discourses; Edwards on the Will; Hervey's Meditations; Fulfilling of the Scriptures; Paley's National Theology; Orton's Exposition; Empire of Christ; Gospel's own Witness; Cruden's Concordance; Andrews Universalism, &c. &c.
HISTORY.
Of American Revolution; of New-England, Robinson's America; Rollin's Ancient History; Voltaire's Charles 5th and 12th; Belknap's New-Hampshire; Hume's England; Mavor's Universal History; Milot's General History; Ancient Europe; History of Madrid; Clouden's Ireland; Bonaparte and French People; French War; Gibbon's Roman Empire; Williams' Vermont; Winterbotham's America; do. China; Rollin's Arts and Sciences; Goldsmith's Rome, &c.
BIOGRAPHY.
Life of Washington, of Franklin, of Bonaparte, of Moreau, of Sir Wm. Jones, of Nelson, of Edwards, of Darwin; Johnson's Lives of the Poets; Biographical Dictionary; Roscoe's Lorenzo de Medici, &c. &c.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Works of Sterne; Shakespeare and Goldsmith; Spectator; Tattler; Wealth of Nations; Hamilton on Education; Juvenile Letters; Acobies Travels; Locke's Essays; Harris' Masonic Constitution; Humphrey's Works; Bacon's Essays; Birds of Scotland; Austin's Letters; Elements of Christianity; the Gamester; Tale of Truth; Philip Quarll; Smalley, Morrell and Nelson's Letters; Homer's Iliad; Lacy's Cabinet; Vendomeur; Burlemagne; Holmes' Annals; Honale Palencia; Plutarch's Lives; Pleasures of Hope; Ira and Isabella; Letter Writer; Novice of St. Dominico; Carr's Tours in Holland; Stranger in France; Stranger in Ireland; Moore's Works; Juvenile Poems; do. Moore's; De Iretis' Romance; Mifflers of Human Life; Foster's Essays; Watts' Logic; Cowper's Task; Candid Reasoner; Gibby's Poems; Conquest of Peru; Beauties of St. Pierre; Modern Songster; Songster's Museum; Adventures; Aikin's Letters; Aikin's Pleasures of Imagination; Thompson's Seasons; Beauties of Blair; Beauties of the Spectator, &c. M'Kenzies Voyages; French Revolution; Columbian Eloquence; Cook's Voyages; Dream Book; Denon's Travels; Wilson's Egypt; Complete Justice; Paine's Works; M'Wells' do.; Select Plays; Scott's Beauties; Rural Economy; Echo; Biddulph's Observations; Butler's Hudibras; Clarkson on Slavery; Edwards on Baptism; Rule of Life; Study of the Bible; Popular Tales; History of the World; Jefferson's Notes; Vicar of Wakefield; Ovid; Triumph of Temper; Chaperone's Letters; Strove on Animation; Presley's Biographical System; the Idler; Caldwell's Memories; Clarke's Neos; Anacharsis Travels; Treatises on Fruit Trees; Volney's Ruins; do. View of America; Ferguson's Astronomy; Alcoran of Mahomet; Temple of Nature; Baron Trench.
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Shelden's, Boyers', Johnson's, Walker's and Perry's Dictionary; Greek Lexicon; Leduc's Testaments; Latin Cases; Latin and Greek Grammars; French do.; Lynde's Latin Primer; Morfe's Geography; Murray's, Alexander's, Bingham's and Staniford's Grammars; Walch's, Pike's, Adams', Dilworth's, Goodale's, Temple's, and Root's Arithmetics; Scott's Lessons; Orators; Preceptors; Art of Reading; Webster's third part; Parisi Geography; Webster's, Pory's, Pike's and Maine Spelling-Books; a great variety of Books for children, &c. &c.
SEAMEN'S ARTICLES.
Blunt's Practical Navigator & Coast Pilot; Ship Master's Assistant; Charts of the European, American, and West-India Coasts; Journals; Scales and Dividers; Log Paper; Cargo Books; Nautical Almanacs for 1808.
FAMILY BIBLES.
Brown's and Collins' Family Bibles; Common Quarto Bibles; Carey's Bible; School and Pocket Bibles; Testaments; Prayer Books; Watts', Belknaps', Tates and Brady's Belows, Richards', Smith & Sleeper's Hymn Books; do. Hartford's Collection.
ACCOUNT BOOKS.
Ledgers - Journals - Day Books - Record do. - Note do. - Receipt do.
STATIONARY.
Demy, Foolscap, and Pot Paper - thick and thin Folio Post, Wove, Hot pressed, guilt and plain Letter Paper - drawing and music Paper - blotting do. - Quills from 16 to 1 dol. and 12 cts. a bunch - red and black Ink Powder - pocket, brat, lead, pewter and desk Inkstands - Ink Glasses for Writing Deeds - durable Ink for marking on linen - gentlemen's and ladies' morocco Waiters - Camels Hair Pencils - Memorandum Books - Pencils - Slates - Penknives - Office Seals - Sand and Sand-Boxes - Wafers and Sealing Wax - Court Plaster - Paint Boxes - Cakes of Mathematical Instruments - Playing Cards, &c. &c. Maps of the United States - Massachusetts do. - a general assortment of Commercial, Judicial, and other Blank - Instructions for playing on Musical Instruments - Singing Books - various kinds - Holyoke's Columbian Repository - Registers and Almanacs for 1808.
Cash given for Junk, and clean Linen and Cotton Rags. 6w. Jan. 4.
NEW HATS.
JOHN LORD, at his shop in Fore-street, next door to Messrs. Cross & Martin's, has just received a handsome assortment of English, French and American Hats, among them are - real superfine Beaver - do. of second quality - a few real patent silk do. - Men's plaided do. - Youth's do. of various kinds and colors - men and boy's camels hair do. Likewise, a good assortment of Hater's TRIMMINGS - All of which he will sell as cheap as can be purchased in this town for cash or approved credit.
Also - 1 case of MUFFS & TIPPETS, consisting of Pole-cat, Elk, Bear, mock Sable, and Gennett.
Cash and the highest price given for all kinds of SHIPPING and HATTING FURS. Apply as above. (6w) Dec. 28.
E. GREELY & CO.
HAVE FOR SALE, 400 bbls. superfine Flour, 200 do. fine do. January 18.
Tappan & Sewall,
HAVE REMOVED to the store in Middle-street, lately occupied by Messrs. Cram & Atkinson, where will be found a general assortment of ENGLISH & INDIA GOODS, for sale by piece or package. Also - 26 crates of CROCKERY WARE, put up for the West-India market, and entitled to debenture. Jan. 18.
REMOVAL.
Charlotte Green,
ACQUAINTS her friends and the public that she has removed from Middle-street, to the store lately occupied by Messrs. Lord and Thomas, No 5, Jones' Row, Fifth-street - where she offers for sale (cheaper than can be purchased in Portland,) an extensive and elegant assortment of
Millinery & Fancy Goods.
BONNETS of every size and description, the most fashionable. She tenders unfeigned thanks to the public for past favors, and hopes by her constant endeavors to please, to merit a continuance. Portland, Jan. 18.
Gordon & Gay,
BEG leave to inform their Friends and Customers that they have sold their remaining Stock of Goods to Mr. WILLIAM LEWIS - and all persons having accounts to settle with them are requested to call on JAMES GAY, at Mr. Lewis's Store, to adjust the same. Portland, Jan. 9, 1808. (18)
William Lewis,
HAS to advise his friends that he has purchased the Stock in Trade of GORDON & GAY, consisting of a good assortment of English Goods, which together with his own previous importation, will, he trusts, enable him to execute those orders he may be favored with to the satisfaction and advantage of his friends. He has also taken the Store lately occupied by Gordon & Gay. Portland, Jan. 9, 1808. (18)
Wharf Timber.
WANTED to purchase 6 or 7 hundred tons of Wharf TIMBER to be delivered at Portland by the middle of April next, for which CASH will be paid. Apply to Jan. 18 RICHARD CODMAN.
POCKET BOOK LOST.
LOST at the fire yesterday morning, a red MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK, containing 31 dollars in Bank bills, 2 Notes, and a number of other papers, of no value to any one but the owner. Whoever has found said Pocket-Book, and will return it to the subscriber, shall receive Five Dollars Reward. - Apply to Jan. 18 JOHN REMICK.
BACK-COVE BRIDGE.
THE Proprietors of Back-Cove Bridge are hereby notified that their semi-annual meeting will be held at the house of Mr. Abraham Bowman, in Portland, on Monday the 5th day of February next, at two o'clock, v. m. for the following purposes, viz. To choose a Moderator. To receive such accounts as may be laid before them, and act thereon as they may think proper. By order of the Standing Committee. STEPHEN WAITE, Prop'rs. Clerk. Portland, Jan. 25.
NOTICE.
THE copartnership under the firm of JOHN P. THURSTON, & Co. was dissolved by mutual consent on the 25th of December last. All persons indebted or having demands by note or account are requested to call at the store formerly occupied by them and adjust the same with John P. Thurston, who is duly authorized to settle all accounts of the firm. DANIEL TUCKER, JOHN P. THURSTON, Jan. 18, 1808.
NOTICE!
THE connection in business between the subscribers, under the firm of Thomas & William Hovey, was dissolved by mutual consent the first day of January inst. - Every person having accounts with, or are indebted to said firm are requested to call on William Hovey, and have them adjusted without delay. THOMAS HOVEY, WILLIAM HOVEY. Warren, Jan. 18.
20,000 Dollars -
An object worthy of notice - IN DOLL. TIMES. FOR sale by SETH CLARK, Fifth-street, Tickets, Halves, Quarters and Eighths in the third class Harvard College Lottery, to begin drawing 14th January next. Tickets rise 50 cents on the 1st of January. Also, a subscription for 20 Tickets, (Nos. 17121, to 17130, inclusive, 18411 to 18420, inclusive) Tickets, &c. as above, may be had of STEPHEN PATTEN. Dec. 28. (6w)
Fresh Goods.
Joseph Barbour,
AT the store lately improved by BARBOUR & STOCKBRIDGE, opposite the Insurance Office, Fifth-street, has just received a variety of Fresh, Fancy and Staple Goods, partly consisting of the following - Bottle green, corbeau and fawn coloured ladies' Cloths - Peliece Flannels - Bilk mulberry, fawn, green and drab Tabby Velvets - A very handsome assortment of Fancy Muffins - Ladies' extra long white kid Gloves - Do black, white and slate habit silk do - Do kid and beaver do do - Do blk. white and slate long silk do - A large assortment of ladies & gentlemen's silk, worsted and cotton Hose - Silk Shawls - Pandana and fancy silk Hdkfs. - Black Barcelona do - Gentlemen's black and white silk Gloves - Linens and linen cambricks - British Shirting - A variety of fashionable cotton Shawls - Linen and linen cambric pocket Hdkfs. - Cotton cambric and common do do - White florance Lutrings - Black and other colored do - Black Italian and Dutch Crapes - Pink and white do - Fine and common 4-4 and 6-4 white cotton Cambricks - Black and other coloured do - Ginghams; Prints; Copper Plates - India Cottons; Long Cloths - Madras Calicoes - 7-8 and 6-4 Linen Checks - Velvets; Cords; Thicksets - Patent Cord, Toilonette and Swansdown Velving - Satin Florentine - Fine white Marselles - Gentlemen's fur lined Gloves - Doe skin, beaver and woollen do - Green, white, pink and blue Sarinetta - Cotton Laces - Fancy Purse - Ornamented and plain Combs - Glaz Buttons - A quantity best English Sewing Silk & Twist - Fashionable coat and vest Buttons - Silk, cotton, Doe and Morocco Suspenders - Fine and common brown Linens - Cambric and common Dimoties - English, Russia and Derry Diapers - Russells; Bombazetts; Wildbores - Duroys; Durants and Shalloons - 4-4, 9-8 and 6-4 Oil Cloths - Gentlemen's Lambwool Hose - Superfine, common and low priced Broad Cloths, all colours - DoubleMilled and common Kerseymeres do - Plains; Serges; D. Illis - Devonshire Kersey - Fine and common Coatings - Rose Blankets, some very large and nice Flannels; Baizes; Swankins, &c. &c.
Muffs and Tippets,
consisting of Sable, Pole Cat, Elk, Bear, and Mock Sable. Nov. 23.
Hard-ware Goods.
William Goddard,
HAS received by ships Joseph and Henry from Liverpool, a very extensive addition to his stock of Sadlery, Cutlery & Hard-ware 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 - 130 casks wrought Nails, all sizes - 7 tons sheet Lead - 70 doz. best English Shovels and Spades - 25 doz. Frying pans - 100 doz. best Sewing Twine - 5 casks flat Irons - Large quantity Cart, Waggon, and Chaise Wheel Boxes - Sets of Cart Iron, Weights - 7, 14 and 28w 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. Sept. 28. tf.
WE the subscribers, Commissioners, appointed by the Hon. Samuel Freeman, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of ELEAZER BARTLETT, late of Otisfield, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, give notice that six months from the eleventh day of November last, is allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend that service at the house of Nathaniel Cary, innholder in said Otisfield, on the second Tuesday of February next, and on the second Tuesdays of the three following months, from ten o'clock A. M. to five P. M. each day. DANIEL HOLDEN, BENJAMIN WIGHT. (25) Otisfield, Jan. 8.
WE the subscribers, Commissioners, appointed by the Hon. Samuel Freeman, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of GEORGE FURGESON, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Mer. deceased, give notice that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims, and that we shall attend that service at the house of Enoch Ilsey, in Portland, on the last Tuesday of this and the five following months, from two to five o'clock P. M. Enoch Ilsey, GEORGE WARRIN. Jan. 25.
TAKE NOTICE!
FOR sale in Turner, a Dwelling House, out houses and Store, conveniently situated for a Trader, being the property of Samuel Spear of Boston. - For further particulars enquire of the subscriber in Portland. Oct 12 EZEKIEL WHITMAN.
Who has found a Tippet?
LOST, on Sunday morning the 17th instant, in passing from Temple down Federal-street by St. Paul's Church, into Fore-street, A SABLE SKIN TIPPET. Whoever has found, and will leave it at this Office, shall be very generously rewarded. Jan. 25.
TO LET.
ONE large Tenement in a HOUSE in Fore-street, suitable for a Boarding-House, with a Store adjoining, which will be let together or separate. - For further particulars enquire of THOMAS BECK. Jan. 18.
To the Hon. Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace to be held at Portland, in the county of Cumberland, on the third Tuesday of March next.
MEMORIAL and Petition of the subscribers humbly shew, that whereas, a Country Road leading from Randall's Mills in Freeport to Northarmouth line, has been lately laid out and accepted by the Sessions in March last, which Road is found upon a more careful examination to be of less necessity or convenience than was expected, the difference in shortening the distance being very small, and is by no means sufficient to balance the expense it will be to the town of Freeport; and also some of the undersigned were considerably prejudiced to sign a petition for laying out said Road, we are now fully convinced of the inexpediency of the measure, and therefore pray that so much of said road as lays between the most westerly corner of Libbeus Tuttle's land in Freeport, to Northarmouth line, may be discontinued, and the old road established, with such alterations (if any should be thought necessary) and amendments as we find from a careful view of the same may be made, and the public equally as well accommodated and the expense saved - which upon a moderate calculation will exceed one thousand dollars. - Signed by JOHN CUSHING, and 64 others. Freeport, 5th Jan. 1807.
At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the county of Cumberland, begun and held at Portland, in said county on the first Tuesday of September A. D. 1807.
ON the Petition of John Cushing and others, whereof the foregoing is a copy, which was entered at last March term, and continued from that term to this term, the Court order, That the Petitioners cause the said petition and this order thereon to be published in the Portland Gazette, at least thirty days before the fourth Tuesday of March next, that any person or persons may have opportunity to appear before the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, then to be held at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland, and show cause if any they have why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk. Jan. 18.
CUMBERLAND, ss. Taken by Execution and to be sold at Public Vendue on Wednesday the seventeenth day of February next, at one o'clock, P. M. on the Premises, THE right in Equity of redemption in and to the following mortgaged real Estate, situate in New-Gloucester in said County, viz, a small lot of land containing about forty rods, lying on the road leading from the Dwelling-House of John Steele to the House of John Tufts, thirteen rods and five feet, and extending back three rods, being the land mortgaged by James Webber to David Steele, by deed bearing date the sixth day of June Anno Domini 1804. SETH MITCHELL, Dept. Sheriff. Jan. 28, 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 THOMAS HOPKINS, jun. late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Gentleman, 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 THOMAS HOPKINS. Jan. 14.
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 ISAAC OLDHAM, late of Sumner, in the county of Oxford, yeoman, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust, by giving bond as the law directs; and all persons having demands upon the estate of the said Isaac Oldham, are requested to exhibit the same, and all persons indebted to the said estate, are called upon to make payment to BENJAMIN HEALD, Administrator. Jan. 18.
THE subscriber hereby give public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of Administrator de bonis non on the estate of CARY M'LELLAN, late of Gorham, 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 ALEXANDER M'LELLAN. Jan. 13, 1808. (8)
WE the subscribers, Commissioners, appointed by the Hon. Samuel Freeman, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of JOHN BAKER, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Baker, deceased, give notice that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims, and that we shall attend that service at the house of Enoch Ilsey, in Portland, on the last Tuesday of this and the five following months, from 2 to 5 o'clock, P. M. Enoch Ilsey, GEORGE WARRIN. Jan. 25.