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PORTLAND GAZETTE, And Maine Advertiser.
PORTLAND, PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR SHIRLEY... FISH-STREET.
No. 47, of Vol. XI.]
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1809.
[Whole No. 567.]
FOR THE GAZETTE.
THAT the councils of our nation are influenced in a very great degree by the French emperor, particularly as it relates to the adoption of the embargo, no one, who is not an absolute devotee to prejudice, or is not almost totally ignorant of our own and foreign concerns, can entertain a doubt.
It is not contended by our administration, that we have not as great, if not a greater cause of complaint against France as England. The former, by issuing her decrees, was the first violator of the rights of neutrals. She was the aggressor. The latter, by adopting her orders in council, conducted as any independent nation would, situated as she was. If France violated the rights of neutrals, involving in their violation the destruction of her immediate enemy, could that enemy do any thing less for her own safety than by resorting to the same means which had been used in aiming a blow at her political existence? For instance, were two neighbors involved in a quarrel, & the instigator of it should set fire to the dwelling of his adversary, involving the safety of that of a third neighbor, in no wise concerned in the quarrel, and this adversary, in order to preserve his own, and consequently the third neighbor's property from destruction, entered his (the third neighbor's) house for the purpose of quenching the flames bursting from his own; in doing which he injured the dwelling of this third neighbor—I ask, to whom ought he to look for remuneration? Certainly to the base incendiary who placed the firebrand to his enemy's dwelling, for the purpose of executing his diabolical plan.
The rights of neutrals we say, ought to be preserved sacred. True they ought. But the proper method of obtaining redress, should be resorted to. As France was the first infractor of neutral rights, to her we ought to look for redress. At least to measure out as full a cup of inveteracy to her, as to England. No one pretends to say that England has not violated the rights of neutrals. But it is our duty to inquire the cause of such violation, and not sacrifice substance too much to sound. It shows a depravity of the human heart and understanding, to be participators in a violation of this right, and it amounts to no less than a participation in such violation, to countenance, not by words, but by actions the first violator of it.
That the adoption of the embargo is an offspring of Bonaparte's policy, I think cannot now be doubted. It was a measure anticipated by him. One of his greatest designs has been a destruction of so vast a monopoly of European commerce by England. He was sensible of the commercial power of his rival, and knew that ours constituted an important source of it. The sacrifices he should himself make, to accomplish his object, were comparatively trifling. Hence his views in putting the English cabinet and ours at variance. Hence did he issue his unjust decrees, knowing England must reciprocate them, or resign her pretensions to independence. Hence did he foresee the effects of such reciprocity on our government, before blinded by his delusive and false professions. Does any one doubt that Bonaparte is in favor of the system now pursuing by our administration?—let him look at his late speech delivered at Paris, in which he gives the most unequivocal sanction to it. Does any one doubt that the embargo was anticipated by him, and that his policy dictated the adoption of it; that the destruction of British commerce was his principal object, and that he supposed this measure an important step towards accomplishing it—let him look at an "Exposition of the situation of the French empire, made by Mr. Cretet, minister of the interior, in the Legislative Body at Paris, Nov. 3, 1808,"—in which he declares, with-
out disguise, that Bonaparte's principal aim has been for a considerable length of time, to reduce the commerce of Great Britain; that her power on the ocean was incompatible with his views; that so great a monopoly of European trade, must and should be annihilated . He says that "France has concurred with energy in excluding the monopoly of commerce from Great Britain"—and after mentioning the privations which France is obliged to bear in consequence of the Spanish war, and probably our embargo, which constitutes but a small portion, says, the "property of the nation has not been injured, and that she familiarises herself to the passing state, the duration of which she beholds without fear.—The allies of France and the United States, sacrifice with her, and with an equally generous resolution, their present conveniences ." Does all this appear like coercion to France? Would any one suppose the embargo a measure intended to operate against her? Or would he not have a greater reason to believe, that it was intended, if intended for any thing, for the purpose of acting conjointly with her. That French policy is the predominating policy of our administration, whether wittingly or through ignorance I will not pretend to say, is unquestionable.
To what state then, fellow-citizens, have we arrived? To a most deplorable one. Should Bonaparte succeed in his designs against England, America is his next victim—at least "in his mind's eye."—If these things are so, and to prove that they are, requires no superhuman power, why do we still rush on, blindfolded, to destruction? Is it for the pitiful purpose of supporting a party, the leaders of which have abused the confidence we reposed in them?—They have proved themselves a set of disorganizers, of demagogues, for the sake of enjoying the "loaves and fishes" of office—and shall we now uphold them, to pay them for abusing that confidence? Shall we pay them for making us dupes? It is time for us to pause. Specious names have deceived us. Let us attend more in future to the substance. The common slang of tory , British hireling , Effex Junto , and such scurrility, will never have a tendency to retrace our steps to good old Washingtonian times. Let us return before it is too late to the Constitution, the bulwark of our Liberty; and as that has been wantonly violated by those whom we elected for the purpose of preserving it, let us withdraw from such our confidence, that they may reap with us, the fruits of their iniquity, in private life.
A CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICAN.
Legislature of Massachusetts.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, FEB. 23.
A bill to divide Kennebec County, and to constitute the northerly part into a new county by the name of Somerset, passed to be engrossed with amendments.
A bill providing for the appointment of inspectors, and regulating the manufacture of gunpowder, was received from the Senate, where it had passed to be engrossed. Read a first time in the House, and Friday assigned for the second reading.
A bill to secure the people of this Commonwealth against unreasonable searches in their dwelling houses, was received from the Senate, where it had passed to be engrossed. Read in the House twice, Friday assigned for the third reading, and committed.
The "Hampshire Leather Manufacturing Company" Bill was read a first time, and Friday assigned for the second reading.
A bill for the regulation of paper manufacture was negatived.
REPORT
Of a committee of the House of Representatives, respecting certain Military Orders issued by his Honor LEVI LINCOLN, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
THE Committee appointed "to inquire what military orders have been issued by his Honor the Lieutenant Governor of this Commonwealth, or by the Adjutant-General, for the purpose of calling on the militia of this Commonwealth to enforce the embargo laws; and the manner in which said orders have
been issued and executed," with orders "to proceed on said business and report on the subject at large to this House as soon as possible," have attended to that service, and ask leave to report—
That on the first day of February, instant, military orders were issued through the Adjutant-General's office, by his Honor LEVI LINCOLN, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of this Commonwealth; a copy of which orders accompanies this Report.
They find by the statement of the Adjutant-General, that these orders were directed and sent to the following officers severally, viz:—Thomas Badger, Lieut. Colonel Commandant; Charles Turner, Lieutenant-Colonel; Ebenezer Lothrop, Brigadier General; David Nye, Lieutenant-Colonel; Baker Loring, Ebenezer Bowditch, and Thomas Williams, Captains; James Brickett, Major-General; Charles Bean, Simon Nowell, and Moses Bradbury, Captains; James Merrill, and Charles Thomas, Lieutenant-Colonels; Joshua Davenport, Captain; Samuel Root, Lieutenant-Colonel; and John Cooper, Brigadier-General: with the exception that the following words were not inserted in the order sent to Colonel Badger; which the Adjutant-General states to have been omitted by mistake, viz:—"Recollecting that in the happy government established by the American people, the character of the citizen is not lost in that of the soldier, and that coolness, firmness, prompt obedience, and a sacred regard to the rights of society, and individuals are essential to both; you will duly appreciate this opportunity of serving your country, and of even increasing the confidence she has placed in you."
Your Committee find that the officers above named were designated and appointed as "the militia officers" near several Ports of Entry within this Commonwealth, "to whom the Collector of the District is to apply, if it shall be necessary, to accomplish" the "purposes of the National Government," as "specified" in the orders. They are required to "be prepared and hold themselves in readiness with those under their command, armed and equipped, at the call of the Collector, and subject to his discretion, to aid him with their whole force, or such part thereof as may be sufficient to enable him within his district to discharge his duties, prevent disorders and opposition to the authority of Government, and carry the aforesaid laws into execution;" and to "make correct muster and pay rolls of such militia as shall be employed in actual service, and transmit the same to the War Department of the United States."
The places of abode of the officers, and the Ports of Entry comprised within their several commands, are stated in a Schedule from the Adjutant General's office accompanying this Report.
Your Committee find, according to the statement of the Adjutant-General, that an officer has not been appointed "in or near to each Port of Entry within this State." No officer has been appointed, according to his statement, whose command appears to extend to either of the ports of Castine, Frenchman's Bay, Nantucket, Dighton, or Gloucester, unless the name of Gloucester ought to be added in the Schedule to the names of Newburyport and Ipswich, opposite to the name of General James Brickett, of Haverhill; which the Adjutant-General "believes" ought to be the case, and which he says was accidentally omitted.
It will be seen by the said Schedule, that Machias, Passamaquoddy, and Moose Island, are all placed opposite the name of Brigadier-General John Cooper, of Machias. By the same document it appears, that the number of infantry , rank and file, of the entire command of the General and Field Officers, aforesaid, amounts to fifteen thousand two hundred and sixty-nine. The Adjutant-General does not state whether there are troops of any other description under their command. Your Committee could not ascertain the number of men under the command of the seven Captains, thus appointed, because the returns of Companies never appear in the Adjutant-General's office.
Contrary to military custom and the uniform usage of this Commonwealth, the orders to the Brigadier-Generals, Lieutenant-Colonels and Captains were sent directly to them respectively, without passing through the hands of their superior officers, and without consulting them, or giving them any notice of the same.
The Adjutant-General informed your Committee, that he had seen a letter from the Secretary at War to his Honor the Lieutenant-Governor, upon the subject of these appointments, but that he had no copy of the same; and that he believed it had always been the practice with other Governors of this Commonwealth to retain any communications to them
from the Secretary at War of the United States.
Your Committee did not think it expedient to apply to his Honor for any communications which he might have received from the President or the Secretary at War.
Your Committee, under the injunction to report as soon as possible, have confined their inquiries respecting the manner in which the orders of his Honor have been executed, to the District of Boston and Charlestown. They find that Colonel Badger received the orders of the Commander in Chief on the second or third of February instant; that by an order dated the seventh instant he directed the commissioned officers under his command to meet on the following evening on military business; that the officers having accordingly convened, the orders of the Commander in Chief were read to them, and they were required to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's warning, with the men under their respective commands, for the purpose of enforcing the Embargo Laws, agreeable to the said orders.
Your Committee find that some of the officers so convened, belonging to a detachment consisting of five Companies, with a suitable proportion of officers, which had lately been detached from said Colonel Badger's command, and put under the command of Colonel Barnes, of Roxbury; and that they form a part of the 100,000 men lately drafted for the service of the United States. Application was made to Colonel Badger, by some of his officers, at the time of said meeting and afterwards for a copy of said orders, but they could not obtain them. Application was also made to the Adjutant-General for a copy of the orders, but without success. It was stated to your Committee, both by the Adjutant-General, and Colonel Badger, that doubts having been entertained respecting the authority of the Naval Officer of the District of Boston and Charlestown, he had not been informed of these orders, and it was intimated that this circumstance had prevented the circulation of the orders in the usual mode.
Your Committee find, that by the Constitution of the United States, Congress is authorised "to provide for the calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions;" and that the President is the "Commander in Chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States."
Your Committee also find, that by a law of the United States, passed February 28, 1795, entitled, "An Act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions, and to repeal the Act now in force for those purposes," it is enacted "that whenever the laws of the U. States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed in any State, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshal by this Act, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia of such State, or of any other State or States, as may be necessary to suppress such combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed; and the use of the militia so to be called forth may be continued, if necessary, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the then next session of Congress;" "Provided always, that whenever it may be necessary in the judgment of the President to use the military force hereby directed to be called forth, the President shall forthwith, by Proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time."
Your Committee find that when there was an insurrection in the west-
tern parts of Pennsylvania, in the year 1794, and the insurgents finally perpetrated acts which amounted to treason, being overt acts of levying war against the United States, President Washington then proceeded most scrupulously, in conformity to the Act of Congress then in force, "to provide for calling forth the militia, to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions;" and troops were called forth from several States at the request of the President, by the Governors of the same, in the usual manner, according to law and custom. The Committee presume, however, that it will be readily perceived that nothing in the Constitution or Laws of the United States authorises the President, under existing circumstances, to call forth the militia of this State, or any part thereof.
By the 10th section of an Act of Congress passed January 9th, 1809, it is provided, "That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such other person as he shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces, or militia of the United States or the territories thereof, as may be judged necessary, in conformity with the provisions of this and other Acts respecting the Embargo, for the purpose of preventing the illegal departure of any ship or vessel, or of detaining, taking possession of and keeping in custody and guarding any specie or articles of domestic growth, produce, or manufacture; and also for the purpose of preventing and suppressing any armed or riotous assemblage of persons, resisting the Custom-House Officers in the execution of the Laws laying an Embargo; or otherwise violating, or assisting and abetting violations of the same."
The present Legislature of this Commonwealth, have "Resolved, that the said act of Congress, passed on the 9th day of Jan. in the present year, for enforcing the act laying an embargo, and the several acts supplementary thereto, is, in the opinion of the Legislature, in many respects unjust, oppressive and unconstitutional, and is legally binding on the citizens of this State."
But even if this act were admitted to be constitutional, your committee do not find that by the said act, Congress have provided any new mode for calling forth the militia; and they conceive that the militia cannot legally be "employed" by the President of the U. States, or by any person empowered by him, until they have been called forth in the mode which Congress had previously prescribed.
Your committee find that by the Constitution of this Commonwealth, chap. II, sec. 1, art. 7, the Governor is "entrusted" with all the "powers incident to the offices of Captain-General and Commander in Chief and Admiral, to be exercised agreeably to the rules and regulations of the Constitution and the Laws of the Land, and not otherwise."
The same Constitution, Bill of Rights, art. 17, declares that "the military power shall always be held in exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it." This great principle is repeatedly recognized by our laws, and was respected even amidst the horrors of a rebellion. By a law passed Feb. 20th, 1787, the preamble to which states, that an unnatural and dangerous rebellion actually existed at that time in this Commonwealth, it is declared that "In a free government, where the people have a right to be at arms for the common defence, the military power is held in subordination to the civil authority."
In the 33d section of the militia law of this Commonwealth, passed June 23d, 1793, which provides for calling out the militia "in case of threatened or actual invasion, insurrection, or other public danger or emergency," it is enacted, that whenever a detachment is made in any such case, "the officers, non commissioned officers and privates, being able of body, shall be detailed from the regiments or corps which shall be kept for that purpose." And your committee do not find that the Commander in Chief of this Commonwealth is authorised in calling out the militia, to select and designate particular officers, and particular corps of men, without regard to the rosters or rolls which shall be kept for that purpose.
Wherefore, Resolved—
That in the opinion of this House, the said military orders of the 1st of Feb. inst. issued by his Honor LEVI LINCOLN, Lieut. Governor and Commander in Chief of this Commonwealth, are irregular, illegal, and inconsistent with the principles of the Constitution; tending to the destruction of military discipline, an infringement of the rights, and derogatory to the honor of both officers and soldiers, subversive of the militia system, and highly dangerous to the liberties of the people.
All which is respectfully submitted.
ISAAC MALTBY, Per Order.
The above Report was accepted—172 yeas, 104 nays.
Nathaniel Williams, of Taunton, appointed Collector at Dighton, vice Nat. DAYLIES, resigned.

Legislature of Massachusetts.
REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE Late Treasurer SKINNER'S accounts, Published by order of the Legislature.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In SENATE, Feb 27, 1809.
Ordered , That the report of the Committee appointed to settle the Accounts of the late Treasurer T. J. Skinner, Esq. dated the 9th day of July last—the advice of the Hon. Council, and Order of His Excellency, the Governor thereon, dated 9th of July last—the Message of His Excellency of the 10th Nov last—and also the report of the Committee thereon, made the 24th instant, be published in all the newspapers printed in this Commonwealth.
Sent down for Concurrence,
H. G. OTIS, President.
In the House of Representatives, Feb. 27, 1809;
Read and concurred.
TIMOTHY BIGELOW, Speaker.
Attest, N. COFFIN, Clerk of Senate.
May it please your Excellency and your Honors:
The Committee appointed by the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at their last session, by a resolve of the 4th June, to examine, adjust and settle the accounts of the Treasurer and Receiver General of this Commonwealth, and by a resolve of the 10th of June, to make a regular transfer of the books and property in the Treasury, to the present Treasurer, on his giving bonds with sureties according to law; said Agents to make said settlement in the recess, and to report a statement thereof to the Governor and Council, that the same may be laid before the General Court at their next session; beg leave to state to your Excellency and your Honors, that they have attended to the duty assigned them, as constantly and expeditiously as the state of the accounts in the Treasury, and the health of Gen. Skinner, the late Treasurer, would admit. That the present state of the said accounts, will not now allow them correctly to ascertain the present situation of the Treasury. The Committee however take leave to enclose a statement from the first Clerk of the Treasury, of the state of the public monies, which is supposed to be as correct an account as can now be obtained; they also enclose a statement from the present Treasurer, to the amount which has been paid over to him; by the former of these documents it appears, that the balance due from Gen Skinner to the Commonwealth is dls. 171,661 16 and by the second, it appears, that the present Treasurer has received of the said Gen Skinner the sum of 99,320 47 leaving the amount of dls. 72,340 69 due to the Commonwealth from Gen Skinner, according to the statements; but according to the verbal supposition of General Skinner, the balance due from him was stated to be about dls. 20,000; and as neither of these amounts have been paid over to the present Treasurer, although the Committee have urged the doing it, they think it their duty to make known the circumstances to your Excellency, and your Honors, that such order may be taken thereon as may be thought proper.
The Committee will attend your Excellency and the Council, at any moment when requested should it be deemed useful—All which is respectfully submitted.
July 8th, 1808
J. JACKSON, JAMES LLOYD, jun. JOSEPH HEAD, GEO. BURROUGHS, MATTHEW BRIDGE.
His Excellency the Governor and the Honourable the Council of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, } Sept 20, 1808. }
The foregoing is a true copy from the original on file in this Office.
Attest,
WM. TUDOR, Sec'y.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In Council, July 9th, 1808.
The Committee appointed by a resolve of the Legislature of the fourth of June last, to examine, adjust and settle the accounts of the late Treasurer and Receiver General of this Commonwealth, having by their report and statement, in writing, made to the Governor and Council, under date of the 8th instant, shown that there is a balance due from Thompson J. Skinner, Esq. late Treasurer of the Commonwealth, of the sum of 72,340 dls 69 cts and it appearing evident from the course of proceedings, observed by said Committee, and by the examination of Josiah Dwight, Esq. the present Treasurer and Receiver General, that the said Skinner, hath not paid and delivered over to him, the said Dwight, as his successor in said Office, the public monies by him, said Skinner, received, as Treasurer aforesaid, and which he had not applied to the uses by law provided, all which he ought to have done without delay, and there is a material deficiency of the money, that now ought to be in the public Treasury of this Commonwealth, arising from the neglect, delay and apparent misconduct of him, the said Skinner;—The Council thereupon advise His Excellency the Governor, that the two bonds given by said Skinner, to the Commonwealth, as Treasurer, one dated June the 18th 1806, and the other June the 11th, 1807, be immediately put in suit against the principal and all the sureties, and that he direct the Solicitor General, to institute those suits, and cause all their real and personal estates, (household furniture, farming utensils and cattle, excepted) to be attached, and use such other means as shall be expedient to secure the amount due from said Skinner; and to employ express and such assistance as he may find necessary to secure the object of this advice, and to obtain final judgement on said bonds and execution and satisfaction thereof.
In Council 9th July, 1809. The foregoing advice being given unanimously by the Council, it is, Ordered that the same be entered upon the Journals of Council.
Attest,
WM. TUDOR, Sec'y.
In Council, July 9th 1808.
To Daniel Davis, Esq. Solicitor General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The report of the Committee of the Legislature, before referred to in the foregoing advice being made to the Governor, and by him laid before the Council for advice, and the Council having given him their advice thereon as above expressed: You are directed immediately to commence suits on both the said bonds of the said Thompson J. Skinner as well
against his sureties, as against himself, and to attach their property as is expressed in the foregoing advice, making such attachments and taking such means, as is therein directed, to secure and recover whatever debt or money may be due to the Commonwealth on the said bonds, or either of them and the actions thereon to prosecute to final judgement and execution; and to employ all such express, agents and assistants, at the public expense as you may find necessary in the business; and the Secretary will deliver authenticated copies of the same bonds, and of such other documents and papers as may be wanted by the Solicitor General, as he shall call for the same.
JAMES SULLIVAN,
By the Governor, WM. TUDOR, Sec'y.
Secretary's Office, Sept. 20th, 1808.
The foregoing advice of the Council, and direction of His Excellency the Governor, are true copies of the originals on file in this Office. Attest—WM. TUDOR, Sec'y.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
My first message of this session informed you that I should by special message lay before you the state of the Public Treasury. According to my engagement, I send you the Documents concerning the Treasury, and relating to the unfortunate circumstances in which it is involved; and I am happy to inform you that the Public Treasury will probably sustain no loss by the great mismanagement of its funds.
10th Nov. 1808.
JAMES SULLIVAN.
IN SENATE, JUNE 10, 1808.
Read, and with the documents accompanying, committed to the Hon. Enoch Titcomb and Nathaniel Morton, jun. Esqs. with such as the Hon. House may join to consider and report.
Sent down for concurrence.
H. G. OTIS, President.
In the House of Representatives, Nov. 11, 1808.
Read and concurred—and Mr. Head, B. Mr. Bridge, and Mr. Ingraham, are joined.
TIMOTHY BIGELOW, Speaker.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The Committee of both Houses to whom were referred the late Governor's Message of November 1808, with the accounts and documents relating to the late Thompson J. Skinner, Esq. when Treasurer of the Commonwealth—having attended to the duty assigned them,
Report , That it appears from the Report of the Committee of the General Court, made under date of the 17th October, 1808, on a statement of the accounts of Thompson J. Skinner, Esq. late Treasurer of the Commonwealth, from the first day of July, 1807, to the tenth day of June, 1808, both days inclusive, after which last mentioned day, he ceased to act in his office as Treasurer—that a balance was found to be due from said Thompson J. Skinner, Esq. late Treasurer, of seventy one thousand nine hundred and fifty four dollars and ninety-two cents exclusive of interest.
towards which balance, the Committee find, that on the 25th July, 1808, the late Sheriff of the County of Suffolk, lodged in the Treasury Office, a sum of Money he attached in a chest in said office, which the present Treasurer has received and by Bank Bills left in the Treasury Office by said Skinner, and also that, on the 19th November, 1808, the present Treasurer received of James Prince, Esq. Agent for the Bondsmen of said T. J. Skinner, as Treasurer, amounting to
dls. 6116 85
14
7646 10
dls. 18,776 45
dls. 58,178 47
leaving a balance due to the Commonwealth from said Thompson J. Skinner, exclusive of interest, of Fifty eight thousand one hundred seventy eight dollars forty seven cents.
The Committee further Report, that no Legislative order has been, or in their opinion is now necessary to be passed on the Report of another Committee of the General Court, made under date of the first of April, 1808, of the settlement of the accounts of the first year's business of said Thompson J. Skinner, Esq. as Treasurer of the Commonwealth, from the 21st June, 1806, to the 30th June, 1807, Which is respectfully submitted.
ENOCH TITCOMB, Per order.
Feb 23, 1809.
In Senate, Feb. 24, 1809.
Read and accepted,
Sent down for concurrence.
H. G. OTIS, President.
In the House of Representatives, Feb. 24, 1809.
Read and concurred.
TIMOTHY BIGELOW, Speaker.
By the Wails.
Mr. WILLIAMS, member of Congress from S. C. a violent democrat, said in a late debate, that all the wool in our country would not make every man a jacket, and we must freeze without British woolens, as no other country could supply us. The same Mr. Williams has said, that the Providence people were guilty of treason, for voting that the new embargo law was inexpedient, when they did not say it was unconstitutional.
A Grand Jury in the Mississippi Territory has presented the Governor of that Territory (Williams) for interfering with the Judiciary—removing men from office without assigning any reason—proroguing the Legislature, &c. Williams was appointed by Mr. Jefferson. Talk of New England oppression! Look to your Southern Grand Jury!—Pat.
The Reign of Proscription.
We have to announce to our fellow citizens, the removal of the federal Collectors of the Customs, in the county of York. The President has thought it expedient, once more to extend the letter of the law, and to create vacancies, that he may fill them with the creatures of his party.
The honourable JEREMIAH HILL & JONAS CLARK, Esquires, are displaced to give room for the spawn of democracy, in the persons of Daniel Granger & Joseph Storer. Oh, shame, where is thy blush?
The collector of Saco, Mr. Hill, is an old revolutionary patriot, educated in the school of Washington, and appointed by him to the collectorship, on the adoption of the constitution. He has invariably conducted himself, while in office, with skill, with care, and with perfect integrity; and by his attention and constant desire to oblige those who had business there, he has gained the affection of every citizen, and his removal is sincerely regretted.
Mr. Clark, the collector at Wells, has long been a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of York, and is well known for the urbanity of his manners, the goodness of his heart, the soundness of his intellect, and the uprightness of his mind. In his dismissal the citizens of Wells have lost a most faithful officer.
Their only crime was the unpardonable sin, with Mr. Jefferson, of being federalists; not men active and zealous in party, but cool and quiet citizens, who love political liberty, and will never sacrifice the freedom of opinion for the smiles of presidential patronage.
And who are their successors, and what are their merits? Are they honest, are they capable?—Daniel Granger keeps a small shop in Saco, and is a petty judge of the miserable court of sessions of this county. His only merit is that of a compliance with the views of his party, and of holding the very honorable situation of toad-eater to Mr. representative Cuts. As to his honesty, time will determine. Wilkinson and Skinner were the fashionable leaders of the day; and no doubt they will have their followers. As to his capacity, the learned differ; but report says, he can tell that two and two make four, without resort to slate and pencil.
Of Joseph Storer, the successor of Judge Clark, it is impossible to proclaim his merit. He has been known as a Senator from this county, and is well recollected at the Senate board for the elegance of his manners, and the acuteness of his wit. One short anecdote concerning this minion of executive favor will suffice. Although he has repeatedly been a democratic Senator from York county, yet in his own town, he has never been put into the jury box, on account of incapacity.
Such are the men destined to revive the dying cause of democracy in Massachusetts. Such are the men to make good the places of HILL and CLARK—Such are thy Gods, O Israel! Wells, Feb. 25th, 1809.
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Extract of a letter from Washington, dated February 24.
The non-intercourse bill from the Senate is now under consideration. We are now discussing a motion, made by D. R. Williams, of South Carolina, to strike out from the 4th to the 10th sections, inclusively. It begins to look very like doing nothing efficient with the embargo before we adjourn, I, however, hope better things.
2 o'clock, P. M. The question for striking out the sections, mentioned above, has this moment been taken in committee of the whole, and was lost—Ayes 50—Noes 51.
4 o'clock, P. M. The committee of the whole rose and reported the bill to the house. A motion was then made to strike out the clause of the 11th section authorizing letters of marque and reprisal, and carried—Ayes 74—Noes 53.
A motion was then made to strike out the 12th section, repealing the embargo, and lost—Ayes 33—Noes 82.
Extract of a letter from Baltimore, dated Feb. 25, to a gentleman in this town.
On the 24th, in the House of Representatives of the United States, the Committee of the Whole, on the Non-Intercourse Bill from the Senate, rose and reported it to the House, with only two amendments, one only of which is essential, namely, to strike out the section authorising the President to raise the Embargo in favour of that belligerent which shall revoke its orders; and after a reasonable time issue letters of marque against the other. In discussions before the House, motions were made to strike the 4th of March for raising the Embargo, and inserting the 15th; and then the 20th of May—and both lost by large majorities. J. C. Jackson moved to insert, in room of the section respecting letters of marque, a section to authorize the President, in case of a revocation, to remove the Embargo in favor of the nation revoking, in 20 days, instead of a "reasonable time." The House rose without taking the question on this motion. It appears probable the nonintercourse bill will pass, unless the Senate's not a-
greeing to the amendments of the House, should occasion its failure.
The Additional Duty Bill has been read twice in the Senate, and amended.
BOSTON, MARCH 3. State Legislature.
Yesterday, in the House of Representatives, an Address to the People of this Commonwealth, was read and passed—yeas 133, nays 73. [The Address had been previously passed in the Senate, yeas 16, nays 9.]
An order passed, directing the printing of 1000 copies of the Address to the People, and 1000 copies of the Remonstrance to Congress—two copies of each to be sent to each town within the State.
A bill prescribing uniformity in the bills of all banks within the Commonwealth, of one, two, three, four, and five dollars—and prohibiting the currency of "foreign" bills of a less denomination than five dollars—was passed to be engrossed.
Yesterday, in the Senate, a new general Militia Law was under consideration.
From GLOUCESTER, Feb. 22, 1809. "The following terror-striking and armed fleet is now in this harbour, viz. 2 Gunboats, No's 47, Jos. Nicholson, and 57, James Eaken; the cutter Nancy, Jos. Babson; Cole's Pilot boat; and the Marblehead guarda-costa Dido, Linzee. This mighty and much to be feared squad, are "majestically riding, and proudly waving the flag of the U.S." for the purpose (as we poor ignorant wretches suppose) of watching our property and preventing its falling into the hands of some of John Bull's ravenous tribe; "the hands of Napoleon is in this thing" more or less; and perhaps it is that expedient that we have these strong plasters to cure our "little sore." When I call to mind the illustrious Saviour of his Country, (whose birth day it is) and contrast him with the conduct of his present successor; my indignation and abhorrence are involuntarily excited against the rulers of this once "land of Commerce and Freedom," but now land of ruin and slavery."
From SALEM, Feb. 28, 1809. "Arrived brig Betsey, Tucker, from Savannah, Georgia. Capt. T. informs, that trade is very brisk at that place: Just before he sailed three vessels belonging to that port went off in one night, accidentally leaving their papers behind. He was told by a revenue officer, that as the natural advantages of that State afforded opportunities for trade, so the people were fully disposed to improve them—the bags of cotton once across the middle of the St. Mary's, they were out of the control of the Embargo.—From the accounts we continually receive of business going on in the southern States, we are sure that Mr. Morton was greatly mistaken, when he said in our Legislature, that those States were "in their proportion affected by the Embargo"—and that "it was not the interest, but the patriotism of the South, that continued the Embargo." They know nothing, comparatively of its evils."
Portland,
Monday, March 6, 1809.
Of the European Intelligence.
Some of the papers have loaded their columns with a mass of French HUMBUGS, called Bulletins. They reach down to the 15th November, on which account, if they were even true, they would not be very interesting.
Instead of those obsolete Arabian Nights Entertainments, the public are anxiously waiting for the details of the defeat of the French near Madrid, about the beginning of December.—North American.
Important if true. —The following article is copied from a Charleston paper received by an arrival at that place
Charleston, Thursday Feb 16.
REPORT. —A gentleman who came passenger in the Revenge from Bermuda, states that a British Cruiser had arrived there, which had spoken a vessel from Spain with dispatches for Havana. They informed them that a desperate battle had been fought on the 16th December, near Madrid, between the French and the combined forces of Spain and Britain; there were 27,000 men left dead on the field.—The French were totally defeated.
Communications.
Governmental Riot: or, the Military usurping the Rights of the Civil Authority.
On Sunday, the 26th ult. eleven men, by direction of the new Collector of the District of York, armed with guns and bayonets, in a riotous and tumultuous manner, assembled, in open violation of the laws of God and man, and took possession of a brig, lying in the harbour of York, belonging to William Boyd, esq. of Portsmouth, under pretence that she was a suspicious vessel. On Monday, they were all arrested for a riot; and yesterday, carried before Jacob Fisher, esq. of Kennebec, for examination. The Justice, after an elaborate investigation of the cause, ordered them to recognize, in the sum of fifty dollars each, to appear at the next Supreme Judicial Court in the county.
The persons arrested, were the Inspector of the Port, David Baker; a Captain Beam, who pretended to justify himself, and nine of his men, under orders from his Honor Levi Lincoln.
No evidence appeared on the trial, that an evasion of the laws had taken place or was contemplated, but on the contrary it did appear, that the suspicion of the Collector was groundless, if not malicious and wicked. Twice, March 1, 1809.
Mr. Shirley,
I noticed in a late Gazette, the protest and resolve signed by Cyrus King and others, of Saco, respecting the proceedings of that town, Jan 26th, when resolutions were adopted highly approving of the embargo policy of our democratic Congress. These resolutions were offered, read and committed in the Legislature, without opposition—On the 18th ult. a memorial was presented to the same body, signed by the same persons the protest was. The memorial was written in respectful but firm language; stating, with a spirit worthy of freemen, the severe distress and privations endured by the memorialists in consequence of the unjust, tyrannical, and unnecessary interdiction of all commerce. After the memorial was read, a motion was made to commit it to the committee, who had under consideration similar applications. This motion was opposed by Mr. Moody, one of the representatives of that town. He said many of the signers were not legal voters, and were probably induced to sign for a glass of grog. As this Mr. Moody is one of your pretended, dear lovers of the people, keeps tavern, and probably has often experienced the efficacy of a "glass of grog" on popular election days, I shall not presume to question his knowledge on this part of the subject. But to question the right of a citizen to petition his government, because he is a poor man, is to say the free citizens of Massachusetts shall not exercise a privilege which the slaves of the southern and Westindia planters are allowed.—The ruinous and tyrannical measures which have been adopted and pursued by Mr. Jefferson and his partisans, have reduced thousands of our honest and industrious citizens to a state of poverty and distress; and many who now possess that little property which makes them legal voters, will soon be obliged to part with it, to support themselves & families. In that case, upon Mr. Moody's and other democrats' doctrine, they must suffer in silence, and be starved according to law. Lest members of Congress, Marshals, Navy Agents, &c. should lose their offices and fat salaries, democrats, now they have got into power and place, preach up passive obedience: not a complaint shall be made, for fear it shall disturb the philosophical and delicate nerves of Mr. Jefferson, in his retreat to Carter's Mountain. The democrats oppose every measure brought forward by the federalists to check the progress of that ruinous policy pursued by the general government. An appeal will soon be made to the people, in the election of their state officers, and as the only means of insuring them effectual and permanent relief, let them place the friends of WASHINGTON & COMMERCE in office. Then, and not till then, will they experience— BETTER TIMES.
A SPECTATOR.
Mr. Shirley,
IF there were any doubts of the complete devotion of our Democrats to the French Emperor, they must be entirely removed by the recollection of their advocating all his acts of oppression and tyranny—particularly their approving his treachery and cruelties towards the brave Spaniards, and their exultations upon the prospect of his conquering that patriotic people. Yes, our exclusive republicans do justify the attempt of Bonaparte to place his Brother on the Throne of Spain, upon the idea, that the old King and his Premier had consented to the plan, and had bargained away the citizens of that country to his Imperial Majesty. Let this be noted—let it be remembered. Let the common people, who really love liberty, think of this—and let them hence take warning of the artifices and pretexts of democratic Demagogues.
The citizens of this Commonwealth are justly characterised as a republican and commercial people. Will they, then, elevate to the Chair of State, a man, who approves and advocates the commerce-destroying policy of our Southern Rulers, and censures the peaceable and orderly meetings of the people to petition for relief under the great evils they suffer? It would be a libel on the good sense and virtue of the people of this State to admit the supposition. It is certain the policy of the Embargo and Non-Intercourse will soon ruin the country. Yet this policy is approved and eulogized by Lt. Governor Lincoln. And his late Speech to our Legislature contains sentiments as favorable to arbitrary power and as hostile to republican liberty as can be found in those of Hutchinson and other supporters of Lord North in 1773 and '75. Such things are. The people should ponder over them.

The Democrats boast that John Q. Adams, & Mr. Gray of Salem approve of the Embargo—without laying stress on the idea that Mr. Adams has long since ceased to approve of it, or advertising to the motives of his approving it at first; or that Mr. Gray has feintly approved of the embargo, and only declined censuring and opposing that measure. Laying these instances aside, we may ask the “Embargorooons” to consider the following facts:—That the Emperor of France has declared his approbation of the Embargo—that he had requested our Government before to discontinue all commerce with England—that the British, tho’ not pleased with the embargo, are finding new channels of trade to other parts of the world—that this policy is infinitely more distressing to us, than to England or France—that if proper at first as a measure of “precaution” for 60 or 90 days, it is now without any such reason in its favor—that Messrs. Elliot, Lyon, Rowan, Masters, and Randolph, all democrats, were opposed to the embargo when first proposed—and that they, with Gardiner of N. Hampshire, Sloan of N. Jersey, and other democrats who were formerly in favor of the measure, do now condemn it as impolitic and ruinous.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
Mr. Pinckney’s Letter to Mr. Canning.
MY duty to my fellow citizens and friends urges me to give this extraordinary diplomatic paper a little notice. A thorough canvass of it would spread a whole folio sheet; suffice it for me to make some extracts, accompanied with brief remarks, just to awaken the reader’s attention, and he will then discover its deformities without the aid of a perspective. This letter is in answer to Mr. Canning’s which some few weeks since crawled out of the executive budget at Washington, and created a host of unpleasant faces among the “royal cousins.” It is a curious studied production, and appears to have been calculated for the meridian of the “Washington Parliament,” rather than for that of the Court of St. James. It is dated seventeen days after Mr. Canning’s, and undoubtedly considerable part of that time was consumed in giving this letter a “shape” that would cause it to meet the desired “reception” in the United States. Mr. Pinckney is not a federalist—and never was.
1st Extract. “At our first conference, I told you explicitly that the substance of what I then suggested, that is to say, that, [hear the substance, reader] your orders being repealed as to us, we would suspend the embargo as to Great Britain, was from my government.”
2d Extract. (From Mr. Pinckney’s first note on the subject of this “overture,” dated, August 23, 1808, in which his instructions and the great, “generous offer” to the British government, are in these words.) “I had the honor to state to you, sir, that it was the intention of the President, in case Great Britain repealed her orders, as regarded the U. States, to exercise the power vested in him by an act of the last session of Congress, [here the title of the act is given] by suspending the embargo law and its supplements, as it regards Great Britain. I am authorised to give you this assurance in the most formal manner.” Mark, reader, the “substance” of Mr. Pinckney’s “overture” which “was from his government.” The substance was this, that the President “intended” to “exercise” his power over a municipal law, if Great Britain would actually rescind her orders.
3d Extract. “I said, undoubtedly, that I had been directed to require the revocation of the British orders in council; but I said also that, although the government of the United States still supposed itself to be authorised to expect their repeal upon the ground of right, as it existed from the first, (a subject, however, which I informed you I did not wish at that time to agitate,) I was notwithstanding empowered to give you the abovementioned assurances, [remember, reader, what the ‘assurances’ are] which would, as I perceived, hold out inducements to Great Britain, as well on the score of policy as on that of justice, to fulfil that expectation.”—Who cannot see the trick; who is so blind he cannot discover the deception?
On the 26th of August Mr. Pinckney and Mr. Canning had a third interview.
4th Extract. “Something was said, at this interview of the affair of the Chesapeake, and the President’s proclamation, which it is not, I presume, necessary to repeat. It will be sufficient to state that you asked me, what was to be done with these subjects? and that my reply was, that they had no connection with the present.”—There is a willful evasion of an accommodation with England in all the proceedings of our French-citizen rulers.
5th Extract. [Same interview.] “You state in your letter, that ‘there was one point upon which you were particularly anxious to receive precise information, and upon which, from my candour and frankness, you were fortunate enough to obtain it.’ This was, ‘whether in fact the orders in council of November, had been known to the government of the United States previously to the message of the President proposing an embargo, so as to be a moving consideration to that message.’ My suggestions were to the following effect: that I believed that no copy of your orders of November had arrived in the United States at the date of the President’s message; that a recent change in the conduct of France to our prejudice did appear to be known; and that the embargo was a measure of wise and peaceful precaution, adopted under this view of seasonably anticipated peril.”
I believe this great “overture to England,” as it is called, has been most hypocritically
represented to the American people. England has been called a monster for not accepting it. I wish my countrymen would examine things for themselves, and not trust so much as they do to their deceiving oracles. From the foregoing extracts I will make my conclusions, simple, plain, and I presume, uncontroversial, and leave the reader to say how many ‘new titles to respect the government will derive from a full examination’ of this subject.
I therefore make these conclusions: That our government has demanded of Great Britain a repeal of her orders in council on the ground upon which they existed at first, and upon no other—[extracts 1 & 3.]
That as an ‘inducement’ to this repeal, our President has said, your orders being repealed, (that is, being first done) I intend to suspend the embargo, [extracts 1 & 2] but Congress when they meet might take a freak by a back-stair hint and ‘do the thing over again.’
That the embargo in its enactment was contemporaneous with the British orders, and that Mr. Pinckney considered its presentation to be principally to save our property from French aggression—[extract 5.]
That the embargo, adopted without the knowledge of the British orders, was a mere precautionary measure, and therefore the offer of its repeal could not be considered an ‘overture’ to procure the repeal of the orders in council, which were a belligerent measure—[extracts 3 & 5.]
That the offer of an ‘intention’ to suspend the embargo was coupled with nothing else—with no kind of proposal for settling other difficulties existing between the two countries—[extract 4.]
That this ‘generous offer,’ as it is termed by Terrapins, was nothing but a mere jacobine-jesuitical trick to blind the eyes of the people of the United States.
What inducement could the suspension of a municipal law be to cause the repeal of a ‘belligerent edict’?—This proposal was no more or less than to say to Great Britain, you cease to retaliate upon our enemy the ‘evils of his own injustice,’ and we will remove a stone from our own door. Mr. Pinckney says in this letter to Mr. Canning, that a compliance with his offer, will not be concession to the United States, but that, to France, indeed, it might be concession.
Remember, reader, that a demand of the repeal of the British orders was made by Mr. Pinckney, and nothing but an ‘inducement’ to that repeal offered, and that inducement arose from a mere ‘assurance’ that an ‘intention’ existed in our President to place the two countries in the situation they were in before the orders and embargo were used. I care not now to speak of the demand itself; all I wish is that things should stand on their own bottoms.
Another extract. ‘If it is merely intended (as I doubt not it is) [that is, in Mr. Canning’s letter] to say that I did not make, or declare my intention to make, my overture in writing, before I had endeavoured to propose for it, by personal explanations, such a reception, as I felt it deserved, and before I could ascertain what shape it would be most proper to give to it, or how it would be met by this government, nothing can be more correct.’
It appears astonishing to me, when I view the situation of the two countries, and squint at the ‘benefits’ that would result from a ‘return to mutual kindness,’ that a proposal, explicit in every view as this was, should require two or three months’ time to ‘ascertain what shape to give to it,’ and to feel out how it ‘would be met,’ when in fact, it was, as it is pretended to be eventually made let it be ‘met’ as it would. Besides, at their first interview, 29th June, [extract 1] Mr. Pinckney had told Mr. Canning ‘explicitly that the substance of what he then suggested was from his government, and that was, that the orders in council being repealed as to the United States, the embargo was intended to be suspended as to Great Britain.’ Now why was two months taken up in unnecessary personal explanations, before the proposal could be made in such a manner as to obtain an answer? Did Mr. Pinckney suppose he could cajole and deceive the court of St. James, as Bonaparte had done the ‘Sage of Monticello,’ his master?—Mr. Pinckney had his lines drawn, he was butted and bounded, and I wish, for the benefit of my country, his ‘instructions’ could come before the public. He did not, in my belief, dare to make his offer formally till he had a hint from some hundred or two miles channel-wise; though he ought to have had eyes enough to have seen beforehand what the fate of such an offer would be.
Another extract. ‘If your orders and our embargo should be rescinded in the manner suggested, our commercial intercourse would be immediately revived.’
Did not Mr. Pinckney know—had he not told Mr. Canning—and does not all the world know, That if the orders in council of November, and the embargo were rescinded, the two countries would, in relation to each other, be exactly in the ‘commercial’ situation in which they were supposed to be by our government when the embargo was recommended by the President and adopted by Congress? And what security would the British government have had that some measure equally ‘coercive’ would not be resorted to immediately again by the United States, if she had complied with Mr. Pinckney’s proposal? I speak this, because I believe that none but feasible ground ought ever to be taken by a government that wishes reputation and respect.
I do not wish to defend the British government; I care for no foreign power in any light further than my country’s interest directs.—I wish to lead the people into a knowledge of their real situation, that they may, if possible by any means, avoid staining their hands unrighteously in blood; for a war unjustly originated will eventually redound to the disgrace and ruin of its originators.
One other extract. ‘That its [the success of Mr. Pinckney’s project] necessary tendency was to place us at issue with that power, [France] or in other words, in the precise situation which you have maintained we ought to be placed, if it should persist in its obnoxious edicts.’ I make this extract to exhibit in a little instance what sort of things our self-styled republican rulers are, who now offer, or have offered, after eight months of self willed misery, to place their country in the ‘precise situation’ in which the British government asked them to place it to prevent the issuing of their orders in
council, and in which the federalists throughout the union said it would be proper to place it: and in the ‘precise situation’ in which the country stood as to Great Britain, as our rulers supposed, at the time they adopted the self-murderous measure of starvation.
When the British government demanded of ours an assurance that it would resist the Berlin extraordinary blocking decree, or in other words, when the British government requested ours to place this country in the same position in which ours has lately requested theirs to place it, every democrat who could yelp as loud as a lap-dog, began to snarl and bark, and almost bite,—declaring that such a requisition was an insult upon the dignity of the United States, and that our government ought not only to refuse to give them such assurance, but ought to spurn their conduct with contempt!
When, a few months ago, it was said, from taking into view the full import of the President’s October message, that our government had offered to place the U. States and France in the same position in which it was required to place them by the British government two years since, and which, if done then, would have saved us much of our lost credit, wealth and peace, the democrats yelped out, “It’s a federal lie!”
I wish these democrats, (a name that has become odious to every honest man) would in future have a little more regard for public good, and a little more decency for their own credit.
DETECTOR.
The Nominations of the Hon. Christopher Gore, For GOVERNOR, and Hon. David Cobb, For Lt. GOVERNOR
of this Commonwealth, we are happy to learn, receive the universal approbation, & will secure the zealous support of all such as prefer the policy which enabled Washington and his immediate successor to bestow on us the enjoyment of Freedom, Peace, and Independence, to that suicide, pusillanimous, terrapin system which has wrought the misery and distress which afflict this once happy land.
WE have been requested to state that the Hon. Theodore Lincoln, AND Mark L. Hill, Esq.
Are candidates for Senators, for the counties of Lincoln, Hancock, and Washington, at the ensuing election. They are gentlemen of known and approved character.—They unite in themselves ability and principle; and are friends to liberty and order. Sound in morals and strong in politics, they will be generally supported.
“Coercion.”
Mr. Williams, after laboring for a year to convince his country that the embargo coercion (to use the stale phrase of the day) would bring Great Britain to our feet, and raving about having his head cut off, and burying all his countrymen, and washing his hands in the heart’s blood of our British oppressors, has all at once given up his favorite system, and discovered that all the coercive powers are on the side of our opponents. As an argument against the Non-Intercourse, he says that all the wool in our country would not make every man a jacket, and that we must freeze without British wools, as no other country can supply us. Admitting his statement to be correct—which we do not in its full extent—it would seem that all the coercive energies of which we have prated so much, as appertaining to our famous war of commercial regulations, belong to our enemies and not to ourselves. Experience has proved to the satisfaction of all, that we can neither freeze nor strave a single subject of Great-Britain in any quarter of the globe.
Freeman’s Journal.
New Doctrine.
Mr. Williams says that the people of Providence, in expressing an opinion that the new embargo law is inexpedient—he observed that they refrained from expressing an opinion that it was unconstitutional—were guilty of treason. Not technically, says he, for of that I know nothing, but vitally: it is treason against the public liberties. This seems to be a refinement upon Gov. Lincoln’s position, who, by the bye, is a technical man that “opugnation and disrespect” belong to the catalogue of treasonable crimes. New times produce new manners and new laws. The expression of an opinion that a thing is inexpedient is treason, is it? O Trumpetry! O Mush! As the wits of Baltimore would say.—Ibid.
Northern Senators!
On the non-intercourse and embargo-repealing resolution, only three Senators were absent from their seats, two of whom were Messrs. Bradley and Robertson of Vermont! Upon Mr. Bayard’s motion to repeal the embargo, independently of non-intercourse, the Senators from New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Delaware, AND NOT ONE MORE, voted in the affirmative.—Ibid.
Table Expences.
General Wilkinson and Gov. Claiborn charged the United States, for their “table expences” at New-Orleans, for two or three months, upwards of SIX THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS! Among the articles furnished for a table at which
these heroes fared sumptuously every day, we find 11,459 Spanish segars. General Wilkinson must be very fond of Spanish segars, but report says he is still fonder of Spanish milled dollars. ib.
Bad Prospect!
It is supposed by some that the Senate will not accede to the vote of the House of Representatives, rejecting the new doctrine of BELLIGERENT CONTINGENCIES, that each branch will obstinately adhere to its own ground, and that the Embargo will be left in full operation at the close of the Session. We are inclined, however to think that the business will be brought to an “issue of some sort,” by means of a spirit of compromise and mutual accomodation. Ibid.
A Pillar of Fire!
Mr. G. W. Campbell, Chairman of the two important committees, of Ways and Means, and of Exterior Relations, has been a long time sick and unable to attend to his duty in the House. He has at length been able to resume his seat, and deliver another oration. He seems to think every thing has been going wrong in his absence, and that the House has become strangely beclouded and bewildered. Mr. Randolph said it was no wonder they were groping in the dark, when they had lost their GUIDING STAR—when the Chancellor of the Exchequer was in eclipse! Mr. Campbell is indeed a shining orb, but an erratic one; not so portentous, however, as that described by the poet, which
In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
To drop the mataphor, Mr. C. is a speaker and a statesman of no-common cast. A senatorial debater was once called a gallery-clearing speaker. Our chancellor is certainly one of the most gallery-clearing and house-chilling orators that ever thundered either from the Roman or Columbian Capitol.
Mr. C. is a mighty man of war in the fields of argument and eloquence, but unfortunately deals too much in blunt arrows, to borrow one of the fine figures of the classical and correct Mr. John G. Jackson. ib.
FROM THE UNITED STATES GAZETTE.
Embargo, War, or Submission.
The Solomons, whom our great nation Assigned the task of legislation, Declared, we’ve got into a scrape, From which we never can escape, Except it be upon condition Of War, Embargo, or Submission! Now, nothing short of sheer insanity, Or heads the essence of inanity, Forbids said Solomons to see The Embargo scheme includes all three. To France and England ‘tis submitting, (The biter being sorest bitten) For Bayard viewing it with pleasure, Has stamped his sanction on the measure; And Canning makes out in his letter, That nothing suits Great Britain better; And plain indeed the thing at once is, To all but democratic dunces, That were she such a blunderbuss That she could wish to injure us, And thus induce us to enhance The overwhelming power of France, Nothing so well her cause could aid, As this our stupid self-blockade. For if she could, ‘tis all she would do, And, if she would, ‘tis all she would do. That it involves a war is plain To any mortal not insane, A civil war, none worse in kind, Has stained the annals of mankind: A dreadful war of depredation Of Jacobins against the nation. A war of rogues ‘gainst honest men, That would disgrace a bandit’s den, Which our own countrymen attacks, But shows our enemies our backs.
122 patriotic citizens of Buxton, in imitation of their worthy friends in Saco, have placed their names to a protest against a late meeting in that town, “to prevent the curses of posterity from being heaped upon their memories, and to convince the world that they are not the supporters of TYRANNY in any form or shape whatever.” This spirited protest will appear in the next Gazette.
Married,
In Falmouth, by the Rev. C. Bradley, Mr. David Barbour, to Miss Polly Brackett, daughter of Maj. William Brackett.
Died,
Lately in the village of Abenfeldie, Port-shire, John Stewart, commonly known by the name of Col. John Stewart, at the very advanced age of 111 years. The history of this man is not a little remarkable. At the age of 13 he joined the pretender’s banners, and was present at the battle of Sheriff Muir, near Stirling, as a young piper. In the year 1745, he again took up arms in support of the pretensions of the house of Stewart, and was present in the same capacity in the battles of Falkirk, Preston Pans and Culloden, in which last he received a severe wound in the thigh, in consequence of which he was so lame that he made use of crutches ever after.
In Poland, Mr. Reuben Barnes, aged 30. He lived a life exemplary for truth, sincerity and correctness of deportment; and died after a long and painful illness, in which he displayed christian fortitude and resignation to the will of God, in the 14th of Christ, and a comfortable hope of glorious immortality. His remains were interred to the tomb with Masonic Honors, by Cumberland Lodge, of which he was a worthy and esteemed member.
Equity of Redemption.
CUMBERLAND, ss.—Taken by Execution and to be sold at Public Vendue on THURSDAY the sixteenth day of March next, at two of the clock in the afternoon, on the premises, ALL the right in Equity of Redemption in and unto the following Mortgaged Real Estate, situated in Falmouth, in said county, being forty-four acres, the gr. w. of which is oak, walnut and ash, bounded as follows, viz:—beginning at the county road adjoining land now in the possession of Ruben Merrill; thence south twenty-three degrees west to Presumpscot river; thence up the river as the river runs forty rods; thence north twenty-three degrees east to the county road; thence as the road runs to the bound first mentioned, with all the privileges and appurtenances.—Said estate being mortgaged January 21, 1805, for four hundred and fifty dollars.
EZRA GIBBS, D: Sheriff. Portland, Feb. 14, 1809. (20)
NOTICE.
JOHN FARWELL requests all those who have unsettled accounts with him, to call and have them adjusted as soon as possible, as he expects shortly to leave town. Portland, March 6, 1809.
PORTLAND ACADEMY.
WHEREAS, Mr. Davis has declined any further engagement in the Academy after the expiration of the present quarter, the Trustees give notice, that on the first of April next the Rev. WILLIAM GREGG will take charge of the institution as Preceptor.
Those who wish to place their children or wards under his instruction are requested to make application to the Hon. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Esq. as heretofore.
Tuition, four dollars per quarter. Females will be admitted as formerly; and if a sufficient number should offer, a Preceptress will be procured to take charge of certain branches of their education, in a separate apartment of the Academy.
By order of the Board of Trustees. ELIJAH KELLOGG, President. Portland, March 6, 1809.
FOR SALE,
A FARM in Cape Elizabeth, containing about 50 acres of land, well watered, and cutting 20 tons English, and some salt hay, and having thereon a two-story brick Dwelling-House, a Barn 51 by 34, well finished, and other out houses. This Farm is very pleasantly situated, having a complete view of the Town and Harbor of Portland; it is also connected with the waters of Fore river, and within half a mile of the contemplated Bridge to Malan’s Neck. Terms will be liberal.—For further particulars, inquire of NATHANIEL FREEMAN. Cape Elizabeth, March 6, 1809. (15)
Come and See.
AN excellent FARM for sale, situated in Falmouth, on the main road leading from Portland to Brunswick, in the Province of Maine, and within four miles of Portland.—Said Farm lies between New-Casco meeting-house and Presumpscot bridge, within a few rods of each, and contains about two hundred acres by estimation, be the same, more or less. The house on said farm is large, commodious, and very pleasantly situated, commanding a fair prospect of the open sea at the entrance of Portland harbor, as also a very considerable part of that beautiful town.—The barn is 32 by 74 feet. Said farm is sufficient to produce hay enough for forty cat. &c. contains about eighty acres of good pasture, well supplied with fresh and salt water through the whole season, as it is bounded on the sea shore. It is an excellent seat for a house of public entertainment, and will beautifully accommodate merchants and mechanics with house-lots, in addition to that little neat village, above the shipyard, which has already been sold off the farm.
Within half a mile of the ship-yard are nearly twenty-five acres of perhaps the best white oak ship-timber in the whole town—Within one mile of the house lie twenty acres of land, well covered with wood and timber. Within two miles of the house, are about twenty acres of good land situated on the abovementioned high-way leading from Portland to Brunswick.
There is also a valuable piece of salt-marsh, which produces from six to eight tons of hay in the year, within half a mile of the barn, which may be purchased with said farm.—Farming utensils of all kinds necessary to carry on said farm, may also be purchased. A view of the farm will afford its best recommendation. The terms of payment will be made easy to the fortunate purchaser. For further particulars inquire of
DAVID MCGREGORE, of Bedford, N. H. or of ADAMS MERRILL, on the premises.
N. B. Now or never; for the farm will doubtless be sold within three months. March 6.
THE subscribers having been appointed by the Hon. Samuel Freeman, Esq. Judge of Probate, &c. for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of creditors to the estate of
BENJAMIN ALLEN JORDAN,
late of Gorham, in said county, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice, that a further time of three months from the eighth day of the present month are allowed by said Judge, for the creditors to said estate to bring in and prove their claims, and that we shall attend that service at the house of the widow Sarah Jordan, in said Gorham, on the last Saturday of March and April next, from two to six o’clock in the afternoon.
LOTHROP LEWIS, } Commissioners. JOSIAH ALDEN, } Gorham, Feb. 13, 1809. (20)
WE the subscribers being appointed by the Hon. Silas Lee, Judge of Probate for county of Lincoln. Commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of
SAMUEL WOODWARD, JUN.
late of Bristol, deceased, represented insolvent, and four months being allowed said creditors to bring in and support their claims, do hereby give notice that we will attend the business of our appointment at the dwelling house of R. Hudson, Esq. in said Bristol, on Monday the 13th day of February next, and the second Monday in the three following months, from one o’clock P. M. till five.
WM. CHAMBERLAIN, JAMES CRUMMOND JUN. Bristol, Jan. 31, 1809. (21)

Spirit of the Times.
Belfast Town Meeting.
AT a legal meeting of the inhabitants of Belfast, held by adjournment, at the fourth Meeting House, on Monday the 20th of February, 1809, the following Resolves were reported by a Committee, and accepted by a majority of 92 to 6.
Resolved , That, in times of imminent danger, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of the people, peaceably to assemble and express their opinions on the measures of government and the state of public affairs, to investigate the cause of the calamities they suffer, and to use all lawful means in their power to remove them.
Resolved , That, under the administrations of Washington and Adams, the people of the U. States, by a successful pursuit of commerce and the consequent flourishing state of agriculture and manufactures, arose, with astonishing rapidity, to an unexampled height of prosperity and happiness, from which, by the destructive measures of the present administration, they have been as suddenly plunged into an abyss of wretchedness and misery.
Resolved , That the primary cause of the political evils we suffer may be traced to an error of the people, in listening to the vile calumnies uttered by ambitious and designing demagogues, against the former administrations, and in elevating, by their suffrages, to the national government, men, unworthy their confidence; men, who have evinced their attachment to the constitution by violating its sacred provisions; their affection for the people, by reducing them to poverty and ruin; their love of justice, by establishing iniquity by law; their love of liberty, by wanton acts of tyranny and oppression; and their patriotism and magnanimity by prostrating our national rights and independence at the feet of a foreign despot.
Resolved , That the acts of Congress laying a perpetual embargo, and the act of the 9th of January last, for enforcing the same, are unconstitutional, oppressive, and tyrannical, and therefore not binding on the people; and that every citizen or soldier, who shall voluntarily aid or assist in carrying them into effect, is an enemy to the constitution and to the liberties of his country, and ought to be treated as such.
Resolved , That we view with horror, "but without dismay," the "conscription" of an hundred thousand militia, and the raising in time of peace a standing army of fifty thousand men, delusively called volunteers, to overawe the community, and enforce, at the point of the bayonet, one of the most preposterous, oppressive, and despotic acts that ever disgraced a civilized nation.
Resolved , That the hostility of the present administration to an independent judiciary, which is the shield of liberty; and the attempt to place the executive above the judicial, and the military above the civil power; and to unite, in one man, legislative, judicial and executive powers, indicate a design against public liberty, and is laying a foundation for a military despotism.
Resolved , That, in our opinion, no just cause of war exists against Great Britain, and that all difficulties with that nation might, long since, have been honorably and amicably adjusted, had the negotiation, on the part of the present administration, been conducted with the same ability, fairness and sincerity, which characterized the former administrations;—But, from a careful review of the conduct of France, we are fully convinced that the United States have had just cause of war with that power ever since the promulgation of the Berlin decree of November 1. 06, which was not only a gross violation of our neutral rights and the acknowledged laws of nations; but a direct infraction of an existing treaty between the United States and the French government; we cannot, therefore, but view with alarm, an apparent disposition in our government to aid, instead of adopting suitable measures to counteract, the ambitious projects of the tyrant of Europe, by provoking a war with Great Britain, which in all probability, would terminate in the subversion of our republican form of government and national independence—as it would lead to a close connection with France, "whose friendship is enmity, whose alliance is slavery, and whose embraces are death."
Resolved , That the sufferings inflicted on us, through the medium of a weak, pusillanimous, or treacherous administration, by "the invisible hand" of a foreign despot, excite in us the most lively sympathy for the brave Spanish Patriots, whose illustrious example is worthy the imitation of every oppressed people on earth.
Resolved , That "the mouth of labor" cannot feel upon lumber alone, and as government have deprived us of bread, we hesitate not to declare our preference of a sudden and honorable death, to one that is lingering and inglorious.
Resolved , That if "resistance to tyrants was obedience to God" in 1775, under the reign of George the Third, similar obedience has become a more indispensable duty in 1809, under the reign of Terror.
Resolved , That we view with the utmost detestation and abhorrence, but not with surprise, (as despots, among genuine republicans, is the order of the day) the anti-republican, monarchical, star-chamber doctrine, for the first time advanced in Massachusetts since the days of Governors Hutchinson and Gage, by his Honor the Lieutenant Governor, in his address to the legislature, which we are happy to see repelled by the honorable Senate and House of Representatives, in a manner that becomes the public guardians of our rights and liberties.
Resolved , That it is our fixed and unalterable determination to maintain, at all hazards, and transmit to posterity, the sacred rights and liberties, purchased with the blood and treasure of our ancestors, and by them bequeathed to us;—at the same time we concur in our duty, earnestly to recommend to our fellow-citizens, to refrain from a acts of violence and forcible resistance to the oppressive measures under which we suffer; and to seek redress by applying to the laws and independent tribunals of our country.
Resolved , That, if it be the intention of Gen. Ulmer, Esquire, and others, who, to the number of twenty, more or less, met at Capt. Milliken's in Frankfort, on the 9th of January last, to influence by their publication in the Eastern Argus of the 15th of the same month, that it was a general County Meeting, held in consequence of public notice, and that the sentiments expressed in their resolves were the general
sentiments of the county, it is a gross imposition upon the public, and a libel upon the good sense and patriotism of the inhabitants of the county of Hancock.
Resolved , That the Town Clerk be directed to forward to our Representative in the General Court a copy of these resolves, and, in the name of the town, request him to use his best endeavours to promote, in our legislature, the adoption of such wise, prudent, firm and dignified measures as will best tend to unite the friends of the constitution, of liberty, and good government throughout the Union; and restore to their wonted rights and privileges an injured, insulted, and oppressed people.
The Dictatorship!
Violation of the Constitution!!
The Constitution of the United States has vested in Congress a power to establish post-offices and post roads.
The Post-Office Law, passed in pursuance of that provision of the constitution, has vested in the Post Master General, and in him alone, the power to appoint and remove his deputies.
Various attempts having been made, by the good republicans of Bennington, in Vermont, to induce Mr. GRANGER to remove from office Dr. MICAH J. LYMAN, Deputy Post-Master at that place, without success, application was made, for the same purpose, in February last, to Mr. BRADLEY, Assistant Post Master General, then acting as the head of the department, in the absence of Mr. Granger. This application, also, was unsuccessful.
Judge ROBINSON, a member of the Senate of the United States, who wished the office to be given to his young son-in-law, Mr. Orsamus C. Merrill, was not thus to be repulsed. Application was now made to the President of the United States!
The President usurped the constitutional and legal power of the Post-Master General, removed Mr. Lyman, and appointed Mr. Merrill. Whether he actually did the business with his own arm, or compelled Mr. Bradley to do it, against his opinion and his will, is in substance and in principle the same.
So glaring and gross is this violation of the constitution and the laws, that it was once intended to exhibit it, as a solemn article of impeachment, at the Bar of the House of Representatives of the United States. But, at a crisis so awful as the present, and when the President has but a few days to remain in office—considering, also, the excessive litigiousness as well as meanness and baselessness of the act, it has been deemed most proper, upon mature reflection, to arraign the offender before the August Tribunal of the Sovereign People of the United States.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States, did, on or about the fifteenth day of February, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight, regardless of his oath of office, which requires him to support the Constitution of the United States, and of that provision of the said Constitution which requires him to cause the laws to be faithfully executed, usurp and exercise in person a constitutional and legal function of the Post Master General, and of that officer only, in removing MICAH J. LYMAN from the office of Deputy Post Master at Bennington, in the State of Vermont, and appointed Orsamus C. Merrill to the same office, and compelling, in pursuance of the said usurped power, the Assistant Post Master General to become the instrument of such removal and appointment, against his opinion and his will: IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
N. B. Competent legal evidence of the truth of the above charge is in the power of the Editors of the FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, who feel themselves impelled, by a solemn sense of duty to their country and the cause of liberty, to make so singular and serious a transaction known to the people of the United States.— Freeman's Journal.
Joshua Shaw,
INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has removed from his former stand in Fifth-street, to No. 1, Mufey's Row , Middle-street, where he has for sale a general assortment of
Hats, Shoes and Boots,
suitable for Gentlemen, Ladies or Children, which he offers on as reasonable terms for cash, lumber, or country produce, as can be purchased at any store in town. Portland, Feb. 27. (tf)
NOTICE!
THE subscriber being about to close business in this place, requests all those with whom he has unsettled accounts to call and have them adjusted; and all those indebted to make immediate payment. NEHEMIAH CRAM.  Portland, Jan. 30. (8w)
N. B. The subscriber offers the remaining part of his stock, consisting of W. I. Goods & Groceries, at reduced prices for cash only.
FLOUR FOR SALE,
At a reduced price for Cash. 260 Barrels Philadelphia superfine FLOUR; being a consignment, will immediately be sold very low for Cash. Inquire at No. 5, Union Row, Middle-street, of JOSEPH CROSS, Jun.  Feb. 20.
NEW GOODS.
JUST received and for sale by Joseph Cross, jun. No. 5, Union-Row —a general assortment of English & West-India Goods , which he offers on the most reasonable terms for cash or country produce—Among which are,
 Broad Cloths; Kerseymeres  Patent Plane; Parent Cord  Black and Olive Velvets; Baizes; Blankets  Flannels, white and yellow; Ruffles  Calimancoes; Linens; Dimities  Swandown; Toilets; British Cottons  Calicos; Cambricks, white and colored  Pins; Buttons; Sewing Silks; Binding  Suspenders; Shawls; Worsted and Cotton Hosiery  Millinets; Pariset gauze; Ribbands  Laces; India Cottons; Check Do  Linen Cambricks; Bombazetts  Silk Hosiery; Plaids and Plane Lustring  Gingham; Furnitures; Silk Chambrays  Gentlemen and Ladies Silk Gloves  Gentlemen's beaver Gloves  Russia Diapers; Cotton Umbrellas  Table Linens; Carpeting  White Woolen suitable for soldiers dress  Check Linens; China Handks.  Linen and Cotton do  Book and Fancy Muffs  Bilk Modes; India Calicoes  10 Hhds St. Croix Rum  8 Hhds Molasses, best retailing  3 Pipes Ginn; Cogniac Brandy  Port and Malaga Wines  36 Casks Souchong  Hyson, Young, TEAS  Hyson & Bohea  4000 lb White and brown Havana Sugars  1000 lb Coffee; Pepper; Peccato  Ginger; Cashes; Indigo  12 Bales Cotton  30 Boxes No. 2 Chocolate  20 Boxes Raisins  30 Casks Nails, 4d, 6d, 10d, 20d.  Fish and Salt  100 Barrels superfine Flour  English Shovels.  Feb. 27.
NOTICE!
THE Subscriber offers for sale his flock in trade, consisting of a good assortment of Cotton and Woolen Goods, &c. on very low terms for Cash only.
Those persons indebted are called on for payment; and reminded, that no excuses (as good times were not guaranteed by the subscriber) will be taken for longer delay—but all demands which are not paid in a very short time will positively be put in suit for collection. JOSEPH BARBOUR.  Portland, Feb. 27. (tf)
William McLellan, jun.
INFORMS his friends and the public, that he is now opening a very large assortment of
English & India Goods, & Groceries,
with a large assortment of Gilt and Framed LOOKING GLASSES,
which he will sell very cheap indeed, for cash or country produce. N. B. He requests those who are indebted to him, of a long time standing, on Note or Book, to pay immediately, or there will be cost added to them. Portland, Feb. 27.
E. GREELY & Co.
Have for sale, 10 Hhds Rum, 4 Pipes Brandy, 2 do Gin. [3 w]
REMOVAL.
WM. GORHAM respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he has removed up in Main-street, nearly opposite Mr. William Rols's, where he has just received, and has for sale, a fresh and general assortment of English and W. I. GOODS and GROCERIES; among which are, superfine and low priced Broad Cloths; blue Plains; Velvets; Baizes; Flannels; linen and cotton Checks; 11, 16, & 24 yds pieces India Cottons; gilt Buttons; sleeve do; black Silk, and Threads, per lb.; a few lbs. best Batavia Nutmegs, Cuffs, Pimento, and Cloves; English Currents; Tamarinds; W. I. Peppers; Mustard; Ginger; Souchong, young and real hyson Teas; Coffee; loaf, brown, and Havana white Sugars; Flour and Pork per barrel; hulled Barley; hollow Ware; 6 and 10 plate cast iron Stoves; Gin Cales; Redwood, Logwood, and Fustic; India long and round floor Mats; bed Cords; dust and hearth Brushes; corn Brooms; boxes smoked Herring; Beeswax; brais lunkhads; steel top Thimbles; Scissors; large and small Trunks; Razors & Cakes; Hammers; Coffee Mills; Chocolate; Wool Cards; Tobacco; Scotch and Kippe Snuff; white Beans; Rye and Indian Meal; Corn; roll Brimstone; water Pails and hang Buckets; water and nest Boxes; rum Barrels, and Kegs, of all sizes; a few barrels Cider; glass Gaffles; Tumblers; stone Jugs; Rum; Gin; Brandy; Cherry; Vinegar; Molasses; Rose and Annie Water; Cordials; diamond B. upland Cotton; cod and pollock Fish; Essence Spruce; best Lemon Shrub; Rice; Indigo; Candles; brown Soap; herds grais and clover Seed.
FOR SALE,
And W. I. Goods or country Produce taken in payment, a lot of Land in Washington street , convenient for a Soap House, on account of the Water.—Also, for the same kinds of payment, a lot of Land, with a convenient dwelling house, pleasantly situated on High-street. Inquire as above. Portland, Feb. 27, 1809. (3 w)
NOTICE!
THE Co-partnership of O. & J. Blood, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. OLIVER BLOOD.  Wells, Feb. 9, 1809. (20)
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of an administrator on the estate of CHARLES M'NEAL,
late of Gorham, in the county of Cumberland, merchant, 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 JAMES BURNHAM.  Feb. 27, 1809.
Factory Yarn & Thread Store.
JOSEPH POPE, informs his friends and the public that he is appointed Agent for Almy & Brown , of Providence, who will keep him constantly supplied from their long known & well established Factory, with a general assortment of
Cotton Warp and Filling, White and colored Stocking, 2 & 3 thread, ditto ditto Thread in hanks and balls, Wirk Yarn, Cotton Shirting and Sheeting, do. Check and Stripe, Bed Tick, &c. Which will be sold wholesale and retail at the Factory prices. Shopkeepers in town and country may be supplied on the same terms as at the Manufactories, by applying at No. 7, Mufey's Row. (6m) Dec. 19.
William Goddard,
HAS received by ships Globe and Hannah from Liverpool, an addition to his stock of Hard-Ware Goods, Which are offered for sale on the most favorable terms, by wholesale or retail. Portland, Nov. 7. (tl)
Muffs & Tippets,
A. Cheever & Co.
HAVE REMOVED from their former stand to the store nearly opposite, (formerly occupied by N. P. Poor ) No. 1, Union-Row , where is for sale, a large and elegant assortment, manufactured under their own inspection and warranted free from damage. They consist of every kind fashionable and useful, and will be sold cheaper than can be purchased elsewhere in the District of Maine, at retail—at wholesale, as low as can be purchased in Boston. HATS, they have of their own manufacturing, of every kind, which will be sold and warranted to give the purchaser satisfaction. Household Furniture. New Beds and Bedsteads, with a variety of Parlour and Kitchen Furniture. Cash given for hating & shipping Furs. Portland Jan. 30. (tf)
FOR SALE—BY
Charles & John Fox,
FEW pipes American GIN—superior quality, ALSO, Few chests HYSON TEA. Feb. 20.
NOTICE!
THE subscriber informs his friends and customers that he shall positively leave town by the first of March next—and again requests all those who have unsettled accounts with him to call and settle the same before the first day of March, or he will be under the necessity of leaving them with an attorney for collection. NEHEMIAH CRAM.  Portland, Feb. 20.
INN—open for Entertainment.
REMOVAL.
THIS is to inform the public that I have taken the stand formerly occupied by Mr. Johan Paine, as the Portland Stage House, in Court Street, where I am ready to wait on all who please to favour me with their custom.—The best of accommodations for Horses and Carriages under cover secure from the weather. Feb. 20.  STEPHEN LEE.
TO BE LET,
A convenient DWELLING-HOUSE, situated in Free-street, on reasonable terms.—Enquire of WILLIAM GODDARD.  Portland, Nov. 7. (tl)
FARM FOR SALE.
THE subscriber offers for sale, on terms which cannot fail to suit the purchaser, his fertile and well cultivated FARM, pleasantly situated in the town of Baldwin , (about thirty miles from Portland) consisting of sixty acres of Land of a superior quality. Said farm has yielded forty tons of hay—and has on it three good orchards—a nursery—a Barn 56 by 30 feet—a House calculated and well situated for a tavern—and accommodated with a good well of water, close by the door. The above farm will be exchanged in part payment for a Ship or Brig. For further particulars inquire of PETER BLAIR.  Baldwin, Feb. 20.
TAKE NOTICE!
ALL persons indebted to the late firm of John & Ephraim Morse, are hereby notified that unless payment be made to the subscriber, the surviving partner, within thirty days, their demands will be left in the office of Messrs. Hopkins & Metcalf, his Attorneys, to be sued without further notice. Ephraim Morse.  Portland, Feb. 16, 1809. (20)
FOR SALE,
A ONE STORY DWELLING-HOUSE, with five Rooms completely finished on the lower floor, and one in the chamber, together with the lot of land it stands on, with an excellent well of water, situated on Cumberland-street, occupied by John Light.—For further particulars apply to OLIVER EVERETT.  Portland, Feb. 20. (5w)
A FARM FOR SALE,
IN the town of Falmouth , in the county of Cumberland , consisting of one hundred and five acres of Land, of which thirty is Interval, and lying on Pensumpscot River , and five miles from the town of Portland , and on the poll road that leads from Portland to Augusta , and into many of the back towns. Said farm is conveniently situated for a Public House, with a large two story House and Barn, with out houses. The soil of said farm is inferior to none. Asp.—In said town, a Wood Lot, containing 60 acres.—Inquire of  OLIVER WINSLOW.  Oct. 17. (t f)
Dissolution of Partnership.
THE Copartnership under the firm of STEVENS & HEATH, was dissolved on the first day of January, 1809. All persons having demands against said firm, are requested to present the same for settlement. WILLIAM STEVENS,  ANDREW HEATH.  Bath, Feb. 20.
To Let,
TWO Chambers situated in Court Street—a convenient tenement for a small family; Apply to JOHN PHILLIPS.  Portland, Jan. 30. (t)
Real Estate—for sale.
FOR sale on liberal terms, a DWELLING-HOUSE, pleasantly situated on Free-street, in complete repair, containing seven well finished Rooms, a convenient yard, wood house, barn, and a good well of water—For further particulars inquire of DANIEL COBB.  Portland, Feb. 13, 1809.
TAKE NOTICE.
ALL Persons indebted to the late firm of BRADISH & BROWN, or to LEVI BRADISH, either by Note or Account, are hereby called upon to make payment by the fifteenth of March next—at which time all unpaid Notes and Accounts will be left with an Attorney for collection. LEVI BRADISH.  Portland, Feb. 16, 1809.
Daniel Bucknam's Will.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the last Will and Testament of Daniel Bucknam , late of Hebron in the county of Cumberland , yeoman, deceased, has been presented to me for Probate by Shepherd Bucknam and Calvin Bucknam , the Executors therein named—and that Wednesday the twelfth day of April next, at ten o'clock A. M. is assigned to take proof of the same, at a Probate Court, then to be held at the office of John Freelingham , Esq., in Portland , when and where all persons concerned may be present, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Will should not be approved and allowed. SAMUEL FREEMAN.  Feb. 27, 1809.  Judge of said Court.
John Baker's Estate.
THE Creditors of the Estate of John Baker , late of Portland , Baker , deceased, are hereby notified, that Nabby Baker , Administratrix on said estate, has exhibited to me her account of Administration, and that the same, together an allowance to her as widow of said deceased, will be considered at a Probate Court to be held at the office of John Freelingham , Esq., in said Portland , on Wednesday the twelfth day of April next, at nine o'clock A. M. when and where they may be present to contest the same if they see cause. SAMUEL FREEMAN,  Feb. 27, 1809.  Judge of said Court.
To the Honorable the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of York, now held at Alfred , within and for said County, on the first Monday of January, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nine.
THE petition of Jonathan Downing of Arundel , in the county of York , yeoman, and Ephraim Wides , of Arundel , and Temperance Wides , wife of said Ephraim , in her right, humbly shew, That they are tenants in common, and are seized and possessed of the following three pieces or parcels of land, lying in Arundel aforesaid; the said Jonathan in one eleventh part, and the said Temperance in one eleventh part, as tenants in common and undivided with John Downing , of Arundel aforesaid, yeoman, Hannah Boothby , of Wells , widow, and Sarah Clark , of Wells , widow, and Benjamin Downing , of said Arundel , yeoman, and others to your petitioners unknown, of the following pieces of land, bounded as follows, viz. beginning at a forked beech tree by a cove a little above the upper salt water falls, marked on four sides and with the letters I. D. near Kennebunk river , thence up said river one hundred and sixty rods to a white pine tree, marked on four sides and with the aforesaid letters, thence on a north north-east line two hundred rods, to a white pine tree, thence on an east south-east line one hundred & sixty rods, to a small beech tree marked on four sides and with the letters I. D. near the river, thence on a south south-west line to the bounds first mentioned; and also one other piece of land lying in said Arundel , and bounded as follows viz. beginning at a small beech tree standing by Kennebunk river , and so adjoining as the river runs on a parallel line, and so go straight from side to side on a south south-east half east course two hundred and ninety two rods, in width by the said river down to a hemlock tree standing by said river, marked R. P. and B. D. thence running north-east thirty six rods, to Robert Patten's land, and so by Patten's land to land lately belonging to Joshua Nason , deceased, and by said Nason's land to land formerly belonging to Timothy Hodgdon , and by said Hodgdon's land till it comes to land lately belonging to Benjamin and Richard Downing , and joining with said land on a north-west and by north point until the first mentioned bounds bear west south-west, being two hundred and seven acres; and also one other piece of land lying in Arundel aforesaid, containing eighty three acres, and bounded as follows, viz. beginning at a bunch of bals trees standing in Curtis's line, marked on two sides with the letters B. D. and running down Kennebunk river and adjoining said river, and bounded by the same south south-east from side to side eighty rods to a rock maple tree marked B. and B. D. which is Burnham's corner, and so running north-east on the upper side joining to Curtis's land, and on the lower side joining to Burnham's land, east north-east, bearing the breadth until eighty three acres are completed.
Your petitioners therefore pray that their aforesaid shares may be set off to them, to hold in severality as the law in such cases provides, and your petitioners in duty bound shall ever pray. By JOSEPH THOMAS,  Attorney to petitioners.
Copy examined, by DANIEL SEWALL, Clerk.
YORK, ss.—In Court of Common Pleas,
January term at Alfred, A. D. 1809.
ON the petition aforesaid, Ordered, That the petitioners serve all the above parties living in the county of York with an attested copy of their said petition, and this order thereon, or by reading the same to each of them, and also cause an attested copy of said petition and order to be published in the Portland Gazette , three weeks successively; the last publication thereof, and the services aforesaid, to be thirty days at least before the next term of this Court to be held at York , within and for said county of York , on the third Monday of April next; to the end any persons interested may then and there appear and show cause if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. Attest. DANIEL SEWALL, Clerk.