Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1800-04-28 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE
PUBLISHED BY EZEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 105]
MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1800.
[VOLUME III.]
Property of Elizabeth Allen Alexander Hamilton Ebenezer D. Jenks
From the Gazette of the United States.
THE CRITERION.—No. I.
A National CHARACTER is essential to national prosperity, and a permanent government. Unfortunately ours is not formed. Two great parties, styling themselves Federalists or Constitutionalists, and Democrats, or Republicans, decide every thing in Congress. But the fact is, neither of them act agreeably to their profession. Therefore a reformation in both is necessary to the well being of government, and the public welfare. To talk in the vulgar style of "Federalists and Anti-Federalists," is throwing words to the wind. Every American who carries any sentiments in his head, will look at men's actions; and fix upon the great points, on which a real republic is founded. If personal rights, if property are not secured by permanent laws, the people do not enjoy civil liberty. In such a government, whatever be its name, the strong bear down the weak; influence in the legislature, is every thing; wealth and art prevail over law and equity; and justice must be purchased. Hence the influential men in the legislature may obtain for themselves and friends, more than their legal rights, whilst the poor and friendless lose theirs. To this corruption all governments naturally tend; and is not ours going in this road to despotism? But it must, like other republics, pass through the whirlwinds and fire of democracy before it falls into monarchy, its final destination. That all parties are pushing the government to this point, let facts speak. Do we not see state legislatures exercise the supreme judicial powers, in deciding upon their own legislative contracts and obligations, directly subversive of the fundamental principles of a "government of laws," and in violation of the letter of the national constitution, which ordains that "no state shall pass any ex post facto laws, or law impairing an obligation containing a contract." And do we not see Congress countenance those infractions of the constitution, by exercising in the same manner a judicial power over its own legislative engagements? Hence the provision in the constitution that "all contracts made and engagements entered into by the former government shall be equally binding on this," amounts to nothing, as it gives no security to the creditors; nor in fact can any of the notes or contracts of the present legislature, give legal security, so long as it claims a power to decide upon its own contracts.
It is clearly evident that our legislatures do not act upon the principles of a free government. What avails then the high pretences and long speeches of our professing republicans, while in fact the rights of the common people are not so well secured as are the rights of the subjects of monarchy in England? Where is the difference between the Ties and Anties , when all unite to deprive the common citizens of their legal rights? We say common citizens, because the rich and influential of all parties may commonly obtain their rights by their influence in the legislature; but the poor and friendless have not this hope. Numerous facts might be mentioned, but we will select only two at present, and we name those because they are notorious to all who pay any attention to public transactions. The sale of lands by a state legislature and after receiving the money for them, declaring the sale void: by this operation many citizens in different states are defrauded, and reduced from affluence to poverty. Certain contracts of the United States, pledging their faith in the most solemn manner to pay the interest on them annually, have lain many years in the treasury for payment and the creditors have from year to year petitioned in vain for the fulfilment of the national engagement. Now we ask where is the remedy for the injury suffered by these defrauded citizens? In a government really free, there is a remedy in LAW, for every injury, and all property is secured to its legal owner. But where are these injured citizens to look for protection of their legal rights? Is there any other than the wretched hope of making friends in the legislature? What chance is there for a few poor citizens, after having been deprived of their property, to obtain friends and create an influence by begging for justice? Is not that a beggarly government, where legal rights must be bought in this way? The subjects in England (who we have been taught to view as mere slaves, compared with our free citizens) in such cases as these, might appeal to the judicial department, and their legislature although composed of the majestic names of king, lords and commons, would not dare to refuse them their legal property.
How vain then is our boast of a free government, whilst the citizens are deprived of rights secured even by a monarchical power? How inconsistent to amuse ourselves with names, while we lose things? Hunt the shadow of liberty, and lose the substance. Why then are our warm patriots, and long speech makers, of all parties, silent upon this fundamental principle of a free government? Do they not appear like children disputing about their marbles and nine pins, while their house is falling or on fire? Does not all history, and our own experience and common
sense teach us that a free government never can exist if the rights of the people are not secured by permanent laws? And that nothing has so corrupting a tendency, as the exclusive exercise of the judicial power by the legislature upon its own acts? Is it not obvious that there is no remedy for this baneful liberty, and legal rights, but an extension of the powers of the judicial department, at least equal to that in England? and is it not certain that until this shall be done we can never have a permanent public credit? Do not the above mentioned, with other precedents of violating public faith, assure us of the danger, that awaits this country whenever the calamity of a long war may happen? Could Congress, with our present monogrel character, support a seven years war which might call for twenty or thirty millions annually, more than all the revenue, aided by taxes. Let any sober man reflect upon this serious subject, and judge of the wisdom of continuing the present system, and the policy of continuing the breaches of public faith open—so long and loudly charged upon Congress in the above instance.
ACIREMA.
INTERESTING LAW DECISION.
(From a New-York paper, April 9.)
This morning Judge Washington delivered his opinion in the case of the Amelia .
The Amelia was a Hamburg ship and taken in September last, in going from Calcutta to Europe by a French privateer—after remaining about ten days in her possession, she was recaptured by the Constitution frigate commanded by Capt. Talbot. The ship and cargo were libelled in the District Court, one half of the nett proceeds given to the recaptor as salvage. From this decree the owners appealed to the Circuit Court of the United States. The appeal was argued on Saturday last. Mr. Burr and Mr. B. Livingston contended that the decree of the District Court should be reversed in toto, or that a much smaller salvage should be allowed. Gen. Hamilton and Mr. Harrison argued in favour of the decree.
Judge Washington, after taking notice of the arguments on both sides, gave his decided opinion that no salvage was due, and therefore reversed the decree of the district court.
It is but justice to Judge Washington to say, that we have never heard an opinion delivered in a manner more amiable, elegant, or perspicuous.
We understand the Amelia and her cargo sold for about 200,000 dollars, the whole of which will now be paid to the owners, a circumstance which reflects the greatest honor on the administration of justice in the United States.
MEDICAL INFORMATION.
Dr. Beddoes has just put in operation his long projected and much talked of Medical Pneumatic Institution. The first fruits are curious and interesting enough. He hastens to the press, on the spur of the moment, with a small pamphlet, to communicate the results of some experiments made by his assistant Mr. Davy and himself on what was originally named by its discoverer, Dr. Priestly, De-phlogisticated Nitrous Air . This gas was first breathed cautiously in a diluted state, then more boldly on finding no mischief to result, and finally in a state perfectly pure. The most extraordinary effect ensued. Giddiness, sense of fullness in the head and other feelings of incident intoxication were first perceived, then followed wild and uncontrollable gesticulations, extravagant and tumultuous joys, bliss, rapture and extacy, more exquisite than poetry ever imagined, or fable ever feigned. Many persons of great literary distinction, besides Dr. Beddoes, and Mr. Davy, were the subjects of the experiments. Some compared their sensations of muscular vigour and alertness to that which might enable them to mount aloft in the air like a balloon. Mr. Southey (the celebrated poet) after inhaling this gas for some time, exclaimed in a delicious paroxysm of enjoyment, that "the atmosphere of the highest of all possible heavens must consist of this air." Mr. and Mrs. Barnabild (the children's friend) among other very distinguished persons participated in these experiments. Some of them after feeling all the most delicious transports of the first experiments in their subsequent trials enjoyed a very fascinating pleasure of a more sedate and tranquil kind—others still continued to experience all the force and tumult of their primitive raptures. It is remarkable that no depression, fatigue or debility followed those high sensations, but that on the contrary more activity or alertness than usual remained for some time. Dr. Beddoes conjectures that the breathing of this gas might enable a person to dispense with sleep for a considerable time: as he found after using it, a singular degree of refreshment from very diminished portions of sleep, and that he awoke in the morning with all the propensity to active motions observed at the peurile age. This gas had been employed with remarkable success at the Pneumatic Institution, in a case of palsy.—Dr. B. imagines this remedy will be particularly adapted to the relief of persons whose constitutions have been worn out by debauchery
and intemperance, and to obviate and relieve the infirmities of old age. He supposes the efficacy of this gas to depend upon its oxygen being rendered more active by its combination with a portion of azotic matter.
[Philadelphia paper.]
Dr. Reiche, professor of medicine at Arlan-gen, (Germany) has, it is confidently said, discovered a specific remedy for fevers of all kinds. He offers to make it public on condition of a support being secured to himself and family; Dr. Bachmann has attested the efficacy of this remedy in great variety of instances.
NEWSPAPORIALS.
Gleanings from late English papers.
The Lelia Paulina of the present day, is Madame Buonaparte, who, it is said, on her own person exhibits gems, diamonds, and antiques to the value of more than 200,000. sterling. The Philanthropist who said he never looked at a lump of sugar without fancying that it was spotted with the blood of negroes, would see many strange images in those gems. Provinces desolated, and thousands of families straying naked and without bread, woe, without the assistance of much imagination, occur to the mind of any one who beheld the gaudy pageant of the day adorned with the spoils of ruined nations:
"Can all these gems make pallid Hippies glow, Or in her bosom heal the throbs below?"
By the last French Courier, there arrived in this country two private commissions, to the execution of which it would have been difficult to have found an objection. They were for persons of that importance which gives weight to trifles.
The Ex-Bishop Talleyrand begged permission to purchase four razors at Gray's, in Bond Street. Considering all the purposes a razor may be put to, no virtuous man would refuse Mr. Talleyrand any number he might desire of such useful instruments.
Madam Buonaparte wished to have a dozen pair of cotton stockings! She sent over one as a pattern. Could one refuse a favour to a Sovereign Beauty, who has given us the length of her foot?
The gentleman who brought up the dispatches executed both the commissions, and returned with the razors and stockings to Dover!
Queen Bonaparte is a Creole—Madam Stael a Swiss, and madame Tallien a Spaniard! All this is very fine for the Great Nation!
The Queen of Prussia has worked and sent to Buonaparte, a tricolored cockade.
General Murat was married on the 21st Jan. to the younger sister of Buonaparte.
The violent storm on Thursday night blew down the remains of King John's Castle, at Old Ford, near Bow. This ancient pile was built in 1203, and was the residence of King John. Here historians say he plotted the death of Prince Arthur; here he entertained the Brabancon chiefs; and here he usually slept, after having signed Magna Charta . This palace was first mutilated during the civil wars of Charles I. About forty years ago the chapel fell, and ten years afterwards two wings tumbled down. It is now all levelled. The ground belongs to the Blue-coat school. Some curious coins, &c. have been discovered in the ruins.
The Emperor of Russia has granted permission for the re-establishment of several printing presses throughout his dominions, which had been formerly suppressed.
Championet died at Nice of a putrid Fever early in January: Letters from Genoa state, that some days before his death, he demanded of that city 1,500,000 francs within 24 hours, and decreed on failure to imprison sixty four principal merchants and sequester their property.
A letter from Munich states, that the Emperor of Russia has invited Dumowier to Peterburgh, who in his way thither received from Louis the eighteenth a pardon for all his revolutionary sins.
In January last, died, at Berlin, the oldest statesman in Europe, the Prussian Minister of State, Count Finckenstein, aged 87; during his political life, he was Ambassador at most of the European Courts, and for full fifty years Minister of Prussia.
An English paper mentions that an aged seaman named Edward Hardcastle, died lately at Gosport. He was celebrated for the following exploit:—During the visit which the Duke of York paid to Admiral Rodney, on board the Marlborough , in 1761, he got to the very top of the vane of the mainmast, and stood there on his head, waving his hat several times with his foot. He received a present from his royal highness, with a request not to repeat so dangerous a proof of his dexterity.
From the Shop of Mess. COLON & SPONDEL.
PHISIOGNOMY.
I never read twenty pages in LAVATER, even in the abridged edition of his book, but I have my whims, when I peruse the human face. Shakespeare talks some where of a "forehead, villainously low," and I always feel suspicious, even of sparkling eyes, if a very punny and snub nose faintly appear underneath. The best physiognomy is where there is most interest and expression. The latent diamond may be found among meaner pebbles; the glitter of genius is often seen amid the markless features. Many countenances, when at rest, are like a good landscape obscured by the shadows of twilight. Such faces, when lighted up by the glow of sentiments, or the torch of fancy, are like the glory, in some of the pictures of the Italian school, or like the bright visage of the first christians Martyr, whose "face was, as it were, as the face of an angel."
AN OLD BOOK
Resembles an old cheese; it may have a dirty and worm eaten cover, but the inside is often a tid bit. How much more wretched would my small wares be than at present, gentle reader, if my preceptor had not pommelled me into the perusal of old books. I peep into them now; and they are certainly better than even the newest pamphlet of Mr. Thomas Paine. I even prefer the travels of Sir John Mandeville. They are full of lies, it is true, but they are told pleasantly. The novelties of Mr. Thomas Paine resemble the above travels in only one particular.
LAWS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred.
An Act to alter the time of holding the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace, now by law holden at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland, on the last Tuesday of April.
WHEREAS divers inconveniences attend the holding of the said Courts on the said last Tuesday of April, and the Justices of said Courts have petitioned the court to alter the same:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the Courts of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, which by law are now appointed to be holden at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland, on the last Tuesday of April annually, shall hereafter be holden at said Portland, within and for said county of Cumberland, on the last Tuesday of March annually. And all writs, matters and things, which might have been returnable to, have day in, be heard and determined at the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Court of Common Pleas, which was to have been holden at said Portland, on the last Tuesday of April next, shall be returnable to, have day in, be heard and determined at said Courts, to be holden by virtue of this act, at said Portland, on the last Tuesday of March next.
[This act passed February 21, 1800.]
An Act to incorporate the plantation heretofore called New Pennycack , in the County of Cumberland, into a Town by the name of Rumford .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the plantation heretofore known by the name of New Pennycack , in the County of Cumberland, and as described in the following bounds, together with the inhabitants thereon, be, and hereby are incorporated in a Town by the name of Rumford . Beginning at a hemlock tree standing on the line of the town of Bethel , thence running North, eighteen degrees and an half West, crossing the river Amerisoggin , seven miles and forty rods, to a spruce tree; then turning and running North, seventy one and an half degrees East, seven miles and forty rods, to a beech tree; then turning and running eighteen and an half degrees East, crossing Amerisoggin river again, seven miles and forty rods, to another beech tree; then turning and running South, seventy one degrees and an half degree West, seven miles and forty rods, to the bound first mentioned. And the said town are hereby vested with all the powers, privileges, and immunities, which other towns do or may enjoy by the Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Job Eastman, Esq. be and hereby is authorized to issue his warrant, directed to some suitable inhabitant of the said town, requiring him to notify and warn the inhabitants thereof to meet at such time and place as he shall appoint, to choose all such officers as towns are by law required to choose in the months of March or April annually.
[This Act passed February 21, 1800.]

BY THE LAST MAIL.
PHILADELPHIA, April 19.
Extract of a Letter from Mr. KING, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, in London, to Mr. Pickering, Secretary of State, dated London, December 31st. 1799.
THE provisional government of France repealed on the 20th instant the law of the 29th Nivose, 6th year (18th Jan. 1798) — and declared that the regulations of 1778 in respect to the rights of belligerents and neutrals should in future be strictly observed."
We have procured a faithful translation of the ordinance of the King of France alluded to above, which is as follows: —
REGULATION.
Concerning the navigation of neutral ships in time of war.
Published by order of the French King, July 26, 1778. THE King having caused the ancient regulations concerning the navigation of neutral ships in time of war to be laid before him, has judged it proper to renew the same, and to add thereto whatever to him appeared necessary for the preservation of the rights of neutral powers, and the interests of their subjects without authorizing any abuse that may be made of the neutral flag. In consequence whereof his majesty has ordered, and does hereby order, as follows:
1st. His majesty forbids all privateers to take and carry into the ports of his kingdom any ships belonging to neutral powers, even though they should have failed from an enemy's port or be bound thither; unless such ships shall be carrying succours to place, belonging to an enemy, then blockaded, invested, or besieged. In case the ships of neutral states shall be laden with contraband articles for the use of the enemy, such ships may be stopped, and the said articles seized and confiscated; but the vessel and remainder of the cargo, shall be released, unless the said contraband articles compose three fourths of the value of the cargo: in which case the ships and cargo shall be entirely confiscated. His majesty, however, reserves the power of revoking the liberty given by this article if the belligerent powers do not grant the same within six months from the day of the publication of this regulation.
2nd. The masters of neutral ships shall be obliged, when at sea, to prove their neutral property, by passports, bills of lading, invoices, and other papers on board; one of which at least must incontrovertibly prove the neutral property, or must contain a precise enumeration of it. — As to charter parties, and other papers which shall not be signed, it is his majesty's pleasure that such shall be considered as null and of no effect.
3rd. All vessels taken, of what nation soever, neutral or allied, upon its being proved, that papers have been thrown overboard from such vessels, or otherwise suppressed or withdrawn, shall with their cargoes be declared good prize, upon the simple proof of the papers being thrown overboard, and without the necessity of enquiring what those papers were, by whom they were thrown overboard, or whether the others remaining on board are sufficient to prove that the ship and cargo belonged to friends or allies.
4th. A passport or clearance, can serve but for one voyage only; and it shall be considered as null, if it be proved, that the vessel was not, at the time of preparing for such voyage, in one of the ports of the prince who granted such passport.
5th. No regard shall be paid to passports of neutral powers, when those who shall have obtained them shall be found to have acted contrary thereto, or when a passport expresses the name of a ship different from that it bears in the other papers on board, unless due proofs of the change of name, and the identity of the ship, are expressed in the said papers, and that they have been allowed by the public officers of the place from whence they came and registered by the principal public officer of the place.
6th. No regard shall be paid to passports granted by neutral or allied powers, either to owners or masters of ships, who are subjects of his majesty's enemies, unless they have been naturalized, or have moved their dwelling into the dominions of the said powers, three months before the first of September of the present year; nor shall the said owners and masters of ships, subjects of his majesty's enemies, who shall have obtained letters of naturalization enjoy the benefit thereof, if after they have obtained them, they shall return into the states at war with his majesty, and there continue their commerce.
7th. Vessels built by an enemy, or whose owner shall be an enemy, cannot be reputed neutral or allied, unless there are found on board some authentic papers executed before some public officers, which may ascertain the date, and prove that the sale or cession of such vessels has been made to some of the subjects of allied or neutral powers before the commencement of hostilities; and if the said act of transfer of the property of the enemy to neutral or allied subjects has not been duly registered before the principal officer of the place, whence such vessels departed, and signed by the owner or his agent.
8th. With respect to vessels built by an enemy, which shall have been taken by his majesty's ships, or those of his allies or subjects, during the war, and which shall afterwards be sold to the subjects of allied or neutral states, such vessels shall not be considered as good prizes, if there shall be found on board documents in due form executed before competent public officers, proving as well the capture as the sale or adjudication which shall afterwards have been made
to the subjects of the said allies or neutral states whether in France, or in the ports of any allied power; but in default of such papers, proving as well the capture as the sale, the said vessels shall be good prize.
9th. All foreign ships shall be deemed good prize, on board which shall be found a supercargo, clerk or other superior officer, subjects of his majesty's enemies; or whose crews shall be composed of more than one third subjects of his majesty's enemies, or who shall not have on board a proper list of the ship's company [role d'équipage] authenticated by the public officers of the neutral places from whence the vessels shall have failed.
10th. His majesty, however, does not intend to comprehend, within the meaning of the preceding article, such ships whose captains or masters shall prove, from authentic vouchers on board, that they were obliged to take such officers or seamen in the ports they shall have been in order to replace those of neutral countries who died in the course of the voyage.
11th. It is his majesty's pleasure, that, in no case, papers produced after the capture of any ship, shall have any credit given to them, or be productive of any avail either of the owners of the said ships, or of their cargoes: his majesty, willing that on all occasions, regard shall be had only to the papers found on board.
12th. No vessel of neutral powers, departing from the ports of France, and having on board no other commodities or merchandise than what they received in such ports, and which shall be furnished with a passport from the admiral of France, shall be stopped by any French privateers or brought into any of the ports of France under any pretence whatever.
13th. In case any French privateer shall contravene the provisions of the present regulation, such vessels and their cargoes, except what is liable to confiscation shall be delivered up, and the said privateer shall be condemned to pay such damages and interest as shall be thought just.
14th. His majesty orders, that this present regulation shall hold good with respect to ships running aground on any of the coasts dependent on his possessions.
15th. It is his majesty's further pleasure that the provisions, under the title of prizes in the ordinance of marine, of the month of August 1681 be executed according to their form and tenor, as far as they are not derogatory to the present regulation; which shall be read, published, and registered in all the courts of admiralty.
His Majesty orders and commands the Duke de Penthièvre, admiral of France strictly to attend to the execution hereof.
Given at Versailles, the twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight.
(Signed) LOUIS. (Counter-signed) DE SARTINE.
Sixth CONGRESS of the United States. FIRST SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — APRIL 16.
A bill to establish the District of Kennebec, &c. was read twice and committed.
APRIL 18.
The resolution to adjourn Congress on the second Monday in May, was concurred in.
The consideration of the bill respecting the Electors of President and Vice-president, is postponed till Monday next.
A duel has been fought at Richmond, Vir. between Capt. Meriwether Jones, and James Rind, Esq.; the former, editor of the jacobin paper called The Examiner ; and the latter, brother to the editor of the Virginia Federalist , printed at Richmond. The quarrel arose from a political difference. The latter received a wound through the body, but it is likely not to prove mortal.
CHARLES HOLT, editor of the New-London Bee , has been sentenced to pay a fine of 200 dollars, and to suffer three months imprisonment, for publishing a seditious libel against the government of the United States.
From a Dublin paper, of Feb 18.
In the high debate last night on the question of the Union, Mr. Grattan gave a smart philippic against the advocates of the measure. — In alluding to Mr. Corry, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Grattan called him "a parliamentary declaimer, a political pedlar, a trimmer, who comes to Parliament to prostitute his talents and his principles, first for bread, and then for a station; and for that station risking the peace of the country, and the lives of the people." Mr. Corry, in reply, said, if he meant to be personal towards Mr. Grattan, he "would have accused him of associating with traitors, and of having been privy to treason, of having created rebellion, and then flying from its consequences; and of having made that people, on whose bounty he subsisted, the wretched instruments of his ambition." He concluded by saying, "the Hon. Gentleman had returned to instigate that Parliament, which ought to be employed in an examination of his conduct." Mr. Grattan, in return, was pointed and severe; he almost in express terms called Mr. C. a ruffian, a jackanapes, and a coward; and said, that had Mr. C. uttered what he did without the walls of that house, his answer would have been a blow." The Chancellor of the Exchequer immediately retired, and sent in a message by Gen. Draddock to Mr. Grattan, demanding satisfaction. Mr. Grattan instantly left the House, accompanied by Mr. Metge. The parties met and fought. — Mr. Corry was wounded in the arm. The ball was immediately extracted, and the wound being dressed, Mr. Corry returned to the House before the division.
BOSTON, APRIL 25.
A letter from the Connecticut sloop of war, to the secretary of the navy, mentions, that on the 13th of March he chased on shore a fine ship of 22 guns, directly from France, which instantly bilged and filled.
A letter from on board the U. S. ship Petap-coo, says, "We are credibly informed, that midshipman Jarvis, who fell overboard from the Constellation in her late engagement, was picked up five days afterwards."
Information is received that about the 12th of March, in the Bite of Leogane, the U. S. frigate Boston, was attacked by 19 of Rigaud's buccaneering barges, completely armed, and having 500 men. They attempted to board the ship as she lay becalmed; but her how guns being brought to bear, most of the boats were sunk, and the crews perished.
A similar affair is said to have been performed by the Connecticut; sinking 13 out of 15 barges.
It is said to be the Connecticut, which fought Rigaud's barges.
On the 14th inst. a mutinous disposition was discovered on board the Congress frigate, lying at Norfolk. About 200 seamen assembled on the forecastle, and menaced the safety of the ship and officers. The Capt. in. First Lieutenant and the Lieutenant of Marines were on board. Order was restored by the exertions of the marines directed by the officers; and several of the ringleaders were committed to Norfolk goal.
Information has been received in a very circumstantial manner, that in an engagement of four hours between the U. S. brig Pickering and two French privateers, one of 10 and the other of 4 guns, Lt. Huller, who commanded the Pickering, was killed. The account adds, that the largest privateer was taken and the smaller one driven on shore. This story comes in such a roundabout manner, as to authorize hopes that it is untrue. So far as respects the death of the brave lieutenant.
Government not having received any advices respecting the hostility of the Bey of Tunis, occasions doubts of the truth of the report on that subject.
Miscellaneous Articles.
Nine principal Chiefs, and a large number of Indians, of the Cherokee nation, attended the funeral honors at the United States garrison at South West Point, and testified their grief by sighs and death songs, for the death of General Washington.
ELOISA.
"This romance, like the incoherence of Hamlet, has "method in madness." It is a jumble of philosophy and love, and, tho' the author himself is against me, may be read by susceptible fifteen without danger. Girls will comprehend but few of his pernicious ideas, except the first kiss of love in the grove scene; and kisses and groves are abundantly familiar: no information on this subject can be given by Rouffeau."
One of Crahan's Royal Patent Engines (says a New-York paper) received here in the ship Sarah, from London, was yesterday shipped on board a vessel for Boston. We are informed it is a present to the Boston Fire Insurance Company.
Mr. JOHN RUSSELL, of Boston, is publishing the 3d part of the Intercepted Letters from the French army in Egypt; from which the public will derive much information respecting the situation of the remains of the French army, and the affairs of that country since Bonaparte's desertion.
MR. GERRY.
[The following observations respecting Mr. GERRY, are taken from a Philadelphia paper. They may be generally true; but the writer was in an error when he asserted that Mr. Gerry would be Governor of Massachusetts.]
IN your paper of yesterday, I observe Mr. Gerry is considered a jacobin candidate for the chair of the State of Massachusetts; however the fact may be, this is not his general character. By all steady friends to their country, he is known by the name of the political Morpheus . Before the federal constitution was formed, he was anxious to obtain one; but when it was on the tapis, he opposed it with great industry. Whenever his private friends (of which he had many) counted upon him for an immediate exertion in any case of exigency, he was sure to occasion embarrassment by delay; and whenever the house, of which he was a member, were hungry at past meridian, as if to punish the members either for their political or private sins he was sure to talk and talk until the whole house, by their muscular contortions and grimace, would frequently resemble the personages in a pantomime.
When he was sent to France on an important embassy, as soon as it became important to the honor of his country that he should decide, and be off, for this very reason, he lagged behind, and further to shew that he is not a compleat and abandoned jacobin, when many, from his doubtful conduct, expected he would at the last election give his vote for Jefferson, he decided in favor of Adams; this last circumstance will make him governor of Massachusetts; but if any other friend to Mr. Adams, of any known importance, had been put up in opposition, Mr. Morpheus would have stood no chance for the chief magistracy.
Portland, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1800.
GOVERNOR.
In addition to the votes given last week, the following returns have been received making 291 towns. For the benefit and gratification of the people of this District, the list will be continued from all the towns in the state.
   Strong. Gerry Strong. Gerry     Portland 119 3 Deer Isle, 27 0   Edgecombe, 59 2 Dudley, 46 19   Canaan, 68 0 Hampden, 39 27   Belfast, 11 8 Ortington, 9 66   Machias, 65 28 Prospect, 12 79   Plainfield, 43 0 Litt. River, 29 0   Thompsonboro' 4 0 Hancock, 11 4   Union, 28 6 Clarkburgh, 0 30   Chatham, 46 6 Coxhall, 68 0   Marshallfield, 42 10 Shapleigh, 71 3   Halifax, 0 68 Parsangfield, 34 35   Carver, 57 5 Limerick, 24 0   Aspen, 0 26 Waterboro'   Gardner, 59 0 Limington, 0 4   Sullivan, 14 19 Alfred, 64 0   Wiscasset, 61 66 Newfield, 0 40   Wiscasset, 6 0 Cornish, 11 44   Wymore, 40 43 Swansey, 0 64   Harebom, 52 2 Southboro'   Frankfort, G 60 0 Newton, 40 0   Isleboro' G 17 0 Harrington, 46 0   Trundel G 35 25 Eastport, 11 29   Walthboro' 102 0 Frenchman's Bay, 1 44   Penobscot, 0 38 Farmington, 28 22   Addison, 42 0 Starks, 1 22   Bonadoin, 29 0 Wayne, 9 18   Bangor, 12 24 Thompson, 21 15   Carlisle, 3 63 Cushing, 51 6   Columbia, 40 0 Warren, 51 7   Total — STRONG, 18,959 — GERRY, 16,304.  
To the free Electors of the town of Portland.
THE time being at hand when you will be called upon to exercise the right of voting for this town's proportion of the State representation, I will mention for your consideration Mr. WOODBURY STOKER and Major LEMUEL WEEKS, as suitable candidates for this important trust. F, E, D.
Portland, April 28, 1800.
MR. JENKS,
PERMIT me through the medium of your paper, to nominate to the inhabitants of Portland Messrs. WOODBURY STOKER, and Capt. JOSEPH McLELLAN, as suitable persons to represent them in the Legislature of this Commonwealth. They are too well known to require any recommendation
A VOTER.
The Worcester Gazette says "In the District of Maine the votes are much in favor of Mr. Gerry." If the publisher of said paper will examine the list of votes in all the towns in this District, he must acknowledge his assertion very erroneous; — Mr. Strong has doubtless two thirds of the votes in Maine.
Above 20 culprits, have been indicted by the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court now sitting at Philadelphia. They are charged with murder, treason, libelling and conspiracy, among them are Price, Cooper and Duane .
The Petersburgh Court Gazette contains an order from his Russian Majesty for cultivating the Southern districts of Siberia bordering on China; for which purpose 10,000 colonists will be sent there consisting of dismissed soldiers and criminals under sentence of transportation.
At the Supreme Court held in New-York, the 3d inst. William Durell, late printer at Mount Pleasant, was tried for sedition, and sentenced to four months imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 50l.
The Frigate Philadelphia , capt. Decatur has failed on a cruise.
The Portsmouth sloop of war, failed for France on the 16th inst.
DIED — At Gorham, Mrs. Sarah Foller, nearly an hundred years old.
Marine Articles.
Port of Portland.
Tuesday, April 22.
Arrived brig Jane , Joshua Robinson, master, from Liverpool — sailed 25th February — Left there, brig Friendship , Capt. Patterson to sail in 10 days for Kennebec. Brig Sally , Collins, and ship Perseverance , Mores, for New-York to sail in three weeks. Ships Merchant , Fitzgerald — Mary , Baker — and the Sisters , Knight, of this port. — On the 29th Feb Capt. Robinson was boarded by a privateer sloop under French colors, — took on French credit two cheese and some porter — The capt. of the privateer informed that a ship their fight was Capt. Cooper, 46 days from Boston, bound to London — lat. 49. 30. N. long. 11. W. April 10. in lat. 42. 27. long. 58. to W. spoke ship Olive Branch , five days from Salem, bound to Copenhagen — all well.
Sunday, April 27.
Arrived brig William , captain McDonald, and brig Neptune , capt. Bragdon, from Boston.
The Atlantic , Lord, of Kennebec, for Nevis, was spoke March 29.
The Nestor , of this port, for Liverpool, was spoke April 10, from Philadelphia, 12 days out.

Drugs & Medicines.
TO be sold by S. ERVING, at his Shop in Middle-Street, DRUGS & MEDICINES, warranted good, of the last importation; which he ensures his customers he will sell, for cash, at the Boston prices.
GARDEN SEEDS,
of the last year's growth, imported from England. Portland, April 28, 1800.
DISTRICT OF MAINE,
BY virtue of an order from the Hon. DAVID SEWALL, Esq. Judge of the District Court for the District of Maine—Notice is hereby given, that a Libel is filed at said Court, by Lieutenant HILLER, commander of the United States' brig Pickering, in behalf of himself, and officers and crew of said brig, against the ship PORTLAND, of Portland, of two hundred and six tons burthen; and her Cargo, consisting of about six thousand weight of Coffee;—alleged to have been recaptured on the high seas, by said HILLER in said brig, after having been more than ninety-six hours in possession of her captors, being citizens or subjects of France.—The said HILLER praying that a decree for salvage may pass agreeable to the laws of the United States. And Thursday the first day of May next, is appointed for the trial of said libel. A Pepperellborough, in said District; at which time and place a special Court is to be held for that purpose, when and where all persons interested may appear and show cause, if any they have, why such decree shall not be passed.
Isaac Parker, Marshal of Maine District.
Portland, April 15, 1800. In this advertisement as published in the Trumpet, the abovenamed Cargo was accidentally omitted.
Notice.
THE copartnership of THOMAS & M c LELLAN, is this day dissolved by mutual agreement.—All persons having demands on said company are desired to call on ISAAC M c LELLAN, at his store on the head of Mr. Ingalls's Wharf, opposite Mr. Paine's, and receive their pay;—and those who are indebted, are requested to call on said M c Lean and settle immediately. Elias Thomas, Isaac M c Lellan.
Portland, April 28, 1800.
Take Notice.
THE subscribers, copartners in trade, under the firm of JOSEPH & BULKELLY EMERSON, having this day, by mutual consent dissolved their connection, hereby call upon all persons indebted to said firm, to make immediate payment to BULKELLY EMERSON in Bangor, otherwise their notes and accounts will be put in suit. Joseph Emerson, Bulkely Emerson.
Scarborough, March 26th, 1800.
THE Commissioners appointed by the Hon. WILLIAM GORHAM Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland, to the Estate of Benjamin MacIntire, late of Falmouth, in said county, yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice, that they will attend to receive and examine the claims against said estate, at the late dwelling house of the deceased, on the second Tuesday of May next, and the second Tuesday of the five following months, from two to six o'clock, P. M.
Moses Merrill, Joshua Merrill,
Falmouth, April 21, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administrator on the estate of BENJAMIN MACKINTIRE, yeoman, deceased, late of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, represented insolvent, and has taken upon himself that trust by giving bond as the law directs. He therefore desires all persons who have any demands on said estate to bring them in for settlement; and those indebted thereto to make payment. David Mackintire.
New Gloucester, April 14, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE Subscribers, appointed Commissioners by the Hon. JONATHAN BOWMAN Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, to receive and examine the claims to the Estate of EBENEZER EMERSON,
late of Topsham, in said county, physician, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice, that six months are allowed the creditors of said estate to bring in their claims; and that they will attend on the business of their appointment at the house of GIDEON WALKER of said Topsham, on the last Monday of March, and the first Tuesday of the five following months, from 2 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Jonathan R. Parker, William Wilson,
Topsham, March 17th, 1800. Commissioners.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, that having been duly appointed Administrator on the Estate of JOSIAH WATSON,
late of Gray, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, he has taken upon himself that trust, and given bond as the law directs. He therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate to make payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to Aaron Dwinel.
Poland, April 1800.
FOR SALE,
A HOUSE, situated in Middle-Street, with a good Lot of Land.—Also, one Share in Long Wharf, a ready built. Apply to the Printer. April 6.
Eulogies on Washington:
Subscriptions received at this office, for a handsome volume of the most celebrated Eulogies on Washington.
PUBLIC SALES.
NOTICE is hereby given, that by order of the Court of Common Pleas held at Portland, in and for the county of Cumberland, on the last Tuesday of March last past, all the share or right belonging to the Estate of SAMUEL WALDO, late of said Portland, merchant, deceased, in the Farm at Long-Creek in Cape-Elizabeth, commonly called and known by the name of the Waldo Farm, being one half of the remainder or reversion expectant on the life estate of SARAH WALDO of Boston in the county of Suffolk, will be sold at Public Vendue on Monday the ninth day of June next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of Thomas Motley, Inholder in said Portland, to satisfy the just debts which the said Samuel Waldo owed at the time of his death—Whoever will give most shall have the preference in said sale.
Sarah Tyng Waldo, Administrator in the Estate of Samuel Waldo. Portland, April 23, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, that by order of the Court of Common Pleas held at Portland, in and for the county of Cumberland, on the last Tuesday of March last past, the Farm at a place called Presemitic in Falmouth, containing about ninety acres of upland and marsh, with the buildings thereon, belonging to the Estate of EDWARD WATTS, late of said Portland, Physician, deceased, will be sold at Public Vendue, on Monday the ninth day of June next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the house on said farm, to pay the legacies given in the last Will and Testament of the said Edward Watts, and the just debts which he owed at the time of his death. Also at the same time and place will be sold all the Live Stock and Farming Utensils belonging to the premises—Whoever will give the most shall have the preference in said sale.
Mary Watts, Executrix of the last Will and Testament of Edward Watts. Portland, April 23, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE Stockholders in the MAINE FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY are hereby notified, that there were two thousand shares subscribed for; and by the Act of Incorporation, the Capital Stock of said Company is reduced to one thousand shares. In consequence of which, each subscriber will now hold half the number of shares he subscribed for—Twenty dollars on each of those shares, agreeable to said act, must be paid to the President and Directors of said Company, at their Insurance Office in Portland, on or before the ninth day of June next. Woodbury Storer, President. Portland, April 17, 1800.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
THE Trustees of Bowdoin College are hereby notified, that their next semi-annual Meeting is to be held at the house of Mr. JOHN DUNNING in Brunswick, on the third Wednesday, being the twenty-fifth day of May next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon. JOHN FROTHINGHAM, Secretary.
THE Overseers of Bowdoin College are hereby notified, that their semi-annual meeting will be held at the dwelling house of Mr. JOHN DUNNING in Brunswick, on the WEDNESDAY next following the second Tuesday in May next, being the 14th day of said month.
Gentlemen will recollect that by a standing rule of the Board of Overseers any member thereof who shall neglect to attend three semi-annual meetings for which he shall not have given substantial reasons therefor, shall be considered as having voluntarily vacated their seats. MARK LANGDON HILL, Secretary. Georgetown, 7th April, 1800.
VALUABLE SITUATION.
TO BE SOLD, BY THE SUBSCRIBER, THAT beautiful situation in Falmouth, two miles from Portland on the corner of the road leading eastward; now improved as a public house—having 38 acres of Land, a new House, 60 feet by 36, well constructed, with four stacks of chimneys, and a good cellar.—Also, a Stable 30 feet by 23, and a Shed 30 by 16. The land is under improvement, and has a living stream running through it. Whoever may be disposed to purchase said place, shall have it on the most liberal terms. For further particulars, apply to
IGNATIUS LORING, on the premises. April 21.
The Columbian Phenix,
NUMBER III, IS just received, for subscribers, and for sale, at JENKS' BOOK STORE. Subscriptions continue to be received at said store. By some mistake the Second Number has not yet been received. It will be obtained in a few days.
WASHINGTON'S POLITICAL LEGACIES, Are just received, and ready for subscribers, at Jenks' Book-Store.
A few copies of the above for sale. Also for sale as above. "COMMON SENSE IN DISHABELLE." A book of too much merit to require puffing.
The elegant fullbred Horse SPLENDOR,
WILL stand this season at the stable of the subscribers in New Gloucester, near JENKS' Tavern except Fridays and Saturdays, when he will stand in HEBRON, at Mr. ASA BEARCE's, at the reasonable rate of one dollar and fifty cents a leap, three dollars the season, and five dollars to insure a foal. Splendor is a beautiful dapple grey, seven years old this spring, fifteen and an half hands high, well formed either for saddle or harness, and equal in figure to any horse in the State. Gentlemen who please to bring their mares, may depend on a strict attention being paid to them, and their favours thankfully acknowledged by their humble servants, David & Cushman Bassett. New Gloucester, April 29.
FOR SALE.
By Boardman & Little, At Store No. 1, Fifth-Street, 5 hhds. 2d proof excellent flavored Tobago RUM. 2 Bales Carolina Cotton, cheap for cash or approved notes at 30 and 60 days. April 25th.
James Codman,
HAS for sale at his store, at the head of Flagg-Meadow Road, in Gorham, an assortment of West India Goods & Groceries, which will be sold at the lowest prices, for cash or country produce. For Sale as above, Best Salt PORK, by the barrel or smaller quantity. ALSO, 300 acres of Land, lying in Raymond, which will be sold on liberal terms, for cash or approved credit. Gorham, April 19.
Fresh Garden Seeds.
JUST received for sale, at WILLIAM HUDSON'S Grocery Store, Fore-street, an assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, of the latest importation. April 14.
JOSEPH LOVIS,
AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN WATCH, FISH-STREET, PORTLAND.
INFORMS his friends and customers, that he has just received a select assortment of the best warranted ENGLISH and FRENCH
WATCHES; WITH A VARIETY OF Fancy Articles,
CONSISTING OF Warranted Gold Necklaces; Lockets; Hair, Stone & pla Rings, Medallions. Miniature Chains, Ear Rings of all kinds, Stone Knobs. Silver Soup Ladles, Shoe and Girdle Clasps, Shoe and Knee Buckles. Bracelets; Gold and silver Clasps, Pendals, Table, tea, salt & mustard Spoons, Sugar Tongs, Gold and Coral Beads, Tumblers; Brooches, Watch Chains, Keys, Seals and Trinkets. All of which he will dispose of at the lowest Boston prices. WATCHES bought, sold or exchanged. Making and repairing of Watches, Jewelry, &c. &c. are carried on at the above place as usual, with fidelity and dispatch; and every favour thankfully acknowledged. April 21.
John F. Dyar,
HAS for Sale at his TOBACCO MANUFACTORY, sign of the African Prince, north side of the Market-House, Boston, all kinds of manufactured TOBACCO & NUFF.
Pigtail, Fine Twist, Segars, Smoaking and Keg TOBACCO, &c. Rappee and Scotch SNUFF, of a superior quality. N. B. All orders punctually attended to, either in town or Country. Boston, March 13, 1800.
New Rice,
For Sale at Store No. 16, Union Wharf, BY JOSEPH McLELLAN & SON. April 7, 1800.
ESCAPE!
Seventy Dollars Reward.
TWO prisoners escaped from the Goal in this town on Monday night last, viz. JOHN GLAN, 5 feet 11 1/2 inches high, dark eyes, dark hair and dark complexion, flout built, about 22 years of age—committed on conviction of an assault and battery.
WILLIAM JILES, 5 feet 10 inches high, sandy complexion, dark short hair grey eyes, about 30 years of age, an Irishman—committed on suspicion of having feloniously and burglariously stolen Goods at Standish.
A reward of seventy dollars is hereby offered to any person or persons who shall apprehend and secure them, so that they may be returned to said goal, or twenty dollars for said Glan, and fifty dollars for said Jiles, and all necessary charges paid.
William Caldwell, Gorler. Portland, April 17.
Post-Office, Portland.
THE Summer establishment commences this day.—The mails from the Southward will arrive every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening.—Those from the Westward every Sunday evening.—Those from the Northward every Tuesday evening—and those from the Eastward every Tuesday and Saturday evening.
Mails made up at this Office, will be taken from it precisely at nine o'clock on the following evenings, viz. For the Southward, every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evening. For the Westward, every Sunday evening. For the Northward, every Tuesday evening—and For the Eastward, every Tuesday and Saturday evening.
All Letters ought by law to be delivered into the Office half an hour before the time of closing the mail—They will however be forwarded either in mail or as away letters, if they be delivered ten minutes before nine. Samuel Freeman, P. M. April 21.
LIST of LETTERS
Remaining in Post Office at Kennebec, APRIL 22d, 1800.
BENJAMIN Adams; Nathaniel Butland; Benjamin Cousins, jr. Cobalt; Abigail Cousins, jr.; Benjamin Dehon; David English; Jonathan Gann, Arundel; Jonathan Forbes, Arundel; James Gould; James Harding; Nathaniel Leach; Samuel Lewis; Benjamin Littlefield, 4th; Daniel Lord; Ebenezer Mattson; John Miller; Arundel; Jonathan March; Abraham Peavy; Hannah Simonds Wells; Eliab Tomson; Thomas Washburn; Oliver Wakefield; John Wildes, Arundel; Mary Whiting. All those with no town annexed, are of Kennebec.
LIST of LETTERS
REMAINING IN THE POST OFFICE, WISCASSETT, APRIL 1, 1800.
ALBEE William, Wife of. HACE John, Wife of. Bridge Nathan el. Drefden. Hilton Meab, Postmaster. Barker Eliza, do. King William, Postmaster. Barker Lucy, Bootb y. Keen Mariah, Brist. Ball Joseph, do. Kimball Ebenezer, Wife of. Byant Joseph, do. Kingbury Timothy, do. Brewer Nathaniel, Wife of. Menden William, do. Barry John, do. Murray David, do. Colbun David, do. Montgomery John Boothby. Cutter Nebby, do. Niles Jonas, Superintendent. Culby Nathaniel, do. Patte ion Wm. Edgecombe. Creameare Edward, Boothby. Stephens Thomas, Wife of. Delano Ephraim, Wife of. Severy Samuel, do. Dunder Timothy, do. Smith Silas, do. Dexter Thomas jun. Kinnaboe, do. Still David, do. Dearng David, Edgewood, do. Stern Ezekiel, do. Gore Ebenezer, do. Shannon William, do. Goodwin Major, Postmaster. Sampson Charles, Postmaster. Gilman David, Postmaster. Saring John 2, Monkton. Harthorn John, do. Stinson Samuel, Postmaster. Hamden Samuel, do. Wright Joseph, do. Hanlon Robert, do. Williams Hannah, Wife of.
WHEREAS SARAH, wife of me the undersigned, has closed my bed and board; I hereby give notice to all persons, not to trust her; as I will not pay one farthing she may or should contract after this date. Thomas Dodge. Wife of. April 24, 1800.
WHEREAS the subscribers gave a Note to Solomon Rayns, of New Gloucester, for the sum of Fifteen Dollars, dated October 3d, 1799—and whereas said note has been discharged; this is therefore to caution all persons against receiving said note, as we declare that it has been paid. David Mackintire, Joshua Gowen, jun. New Gloucester, April 14, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administrator on the Estate of Capt. WILLIAM STANWOOD, late of Brunswick in the county of Cumberland, deceased and has taken upon himself that trust by giving bond as the law directs. He therefore desires all persons who have any demands on said Estate to bring them in for settlement; and those who are indebted to make payment. Flisha Williams. Brunswick, March 24, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE.
WHEREAS the Selectmen of the town of Gray, both on the day of the date hereof bound to the subscriber, as the law directs in that case made and provided, John Colley, a married person upwards of twenty one years of age, who has lived an idle and vagrant life;—This is therefore to forbid all persons whomsoever from harboring, trading or trouting him, as they would avoid the penalty of the law. JAMES COLLEY. Gray, April 7, 1800.
A Farm to be Sold,
IN Freeport, lying between the Meeting-House and the Corner, so called, containing about twenty-seven acres of land. A good House and other buildings convenient for a Farmer or tradesman thereon—cuts five tons of Hay—and there are six hundred cords of green standing Wood on the same. Also, a good well of water, and a young Orchard of about 40 trees, some of which bear several bushels of Apples in a year.—A great bargain may be made, as the subscriber is determined to sell. The purchaser may expect good terms, for payment. For further particulars inquire of the subscriber on the premises. Abia Chamberlin. Freeport, March 19, 1800.
THE nonresident proprietors of unimproved Lands in the town of Gray, are hereby notified that the same are taxed in the bills committed to me the subscriber, collector of the town of Gray aforesaid for the year 1799, to collect in the respective sums following, viz
   SECOND DIVISION. Town tax.   No. Lots. No. Acres. State tax. Cts. M. County tax. Cts. M.     10 60 4 2 6 1 18 3   14 60 0 0 0 0 18 3   20 60 4 2 6 1 18 3   THIRD DIVISION.   2 51 1/2 4 8 6 9 18 3   27 80 7 5 0 0 32 5   50 103 4 9 13 8 41 9   58 53 4 9 21 5   59 58 3 5 15 5   62 103 9 6 13 8 15 5   FOURTH DIVISION.   5 107 5 7 3 21 7   10 107 5 7 3 21 7   15 107 5 7 3 21 7   17 107 5 7 3 21 7   31 107 5 7 3 21 7   37 107 5 7 3 21 7   52 107 5 7 3 21 7   56 107 5 7 3 21 7  
If no person shall appear to discharge said taxes, and all necessary intervening charges, on or before Tuesday the 20th day of May next, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, so much of said land as shall be sufficient to discharge the same, will then be sold at public auction, to the highest bidder, according to law, at the dwelling house of Joseph Libby, Inholder in said Gray.
Dated at said Gray the 21st day of March, A. D. 1800.
George Small, Collector.

MUSES.
A MOST elegant and melodious translation has just appeared of "BASIL" or the Kisses of Secundus, the sweetest of the modern Latin poets, who, in singing the delights of Love, has combined the tenderness of TIBULLUS, the frolic of HORACE, and the warmth of OVID. The following is a specimen: [Gaz. U. S.]
"ONE kiss, enchanting maid, I cry'd; One little kiss, and then adieu! Your lips with luscious crimson dyed To mine with trembling rapture flew: But quick those lips my lips forsake, With wanton tantalizing jest; So flirts some ruffie from the snake Beneath his heedless footstep prest; Is this to grant the wish'd-for kiss? Ah, no, my love-'tis but to fire, The bosom with a TRANSIENT BLISS Enflaming unallay'd desire."
ANECDOLE.
From a Charleston, S. C. Paper.
How often the hardy roughness of the sailor encloses a generous, humane and feeling heart! An honest Tar, reading the Theatre advertisement—"On Monday the Distressed Mother , for the benefit of Mrs. Jones,"—What! is that the widow of the worthy little fellow who used to make us laugh so? cried he, (lifting a tear that began to glisten in his eye.) Ay, Ay, (said his beffmate)—'tis she, and Four little Chaps of the Old Block, to look up to Her for their stores, rigging and education. Bless them, says the first! You'll go, Jack, and Tom, and Ned, and Harry. That's just one a piece. He that's gone a-o'-ft, made us laugh often enough; and d—d me, if those that remain upon Deck shall ever Cry, if a Dollar of mine spent cheerfully in their service, can help to Dry up their Tears.
Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
ALL institutions deserve patronage from the public in proportion to their usefulness. The Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company is considered by many as coming under this denomination; it being incorporated for the benevolent purpose of guarding its associates against losses of buildings by fire, whether the same should happen by accident, lightning, civil commotion, or foreign invasion. The President and Directors, therefore, have thought proper to lay before the public, its principles, and general state of its funds, to induce all persons owning houses or other buildings within the Commonwealth, to become Members of the same, and avail themselves of its advantages. By a mutual insurance we bear one another's burdens. The loss sustained by one falls on the company; whereas individuals, heretofore, were obliged, in case of loss by fire, to apply to their particular friends, and to the benevolence of the public for assistance; but in the present case an opportunity presents of having their property secured upon the only just principles of insurance, by casting into the funds of the society a rate equal to the hazard only, and no more. Conflagrations are generally more alarming, and far more distressing to mankind than losses at sea; and the reason is obvious. In the former case little or no provision has been made in this country for the protection of property in case of fire, whereas in the latter it is almost universal. Under this consideration, it is to be hoped, that those societies, who have been established for the purpose of enlarging their usefulness towards mankind, as well as those gentlemen, who have been in the habit of issuing policies for the generous design of insuring on buildings, will so far extend their candor towards this Company as to suppose that their motives of pecuniary consideration are not so much attached to the final gain in the difference of the premium as to add another institution, and confer another opportunity on the citizens of this Commonwealth, for security and happiness.
The rates of premium are from 35 to 75 cents on one hundred dollars, governed by the judgment of the Trustees, which depends on the materials of which the house is built, the manner of occupying it, and the relative situation of the same as to other buildings.
Although the Policies are issued for seven years, it operates for any less time; as provision is made, that when the property insured shall be alienated by death, sale, or by any other means, the assured may surrender his policy at the office, and receive a sum not exceeding his deposit money.
The fees arising from the policies, transfers, endorsements, forfeits and interest accruing thereon, will, in the whole time (in all probability) pay the expense of Office; in which case nothing can be taken from the funds, but also use losses by fire. If fortunately no loss happens, the property with interest reverts back to the person who paid it (except his proportion of the reserved funds) as the whole funds of the company, are placed in the funded stocks of the United States; the interest of which is received quarterly, put into principal, and accumulates much beyond compound interest.
The calculations are made upon the whole number of buildings, consumed by fire in Boston for the term of forty years past, taken from the records of the Historical Society, commencing in 1759, and of course it includes the great fire of 1760; from which, and a comparison with the institutions of the same nature in England, Virginia, New York, &c. it clearly appears, that the funds are adequate to support the loss of more than sixteen houses annually, or 1600 dollars value each. But, in order to make each individual of the company, entirely satisfied of his indemnity in case of loss by a very great conflagration; provision is made, that each member shall be assessed a sum (in proportion) to make good such loss; but not in any event to exceed two dollars for one, paid as premium and deposit.
It is now thirteen months since the risks commenced, without any loss whatever. There is now 940,000 dollars insured in the Office, one fifth of which is in the country. The funds are already respectable and increasing rapidly.
By order of the President and Directors, Andrew Cunningham, Sec'y. Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Office. No. 18, State Street, Boston. March 7. (30-79)
War Department,
MARCH 12, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, That separate proposals will be received at the Office of the Secretary of the Department of War, until the expiration of the 25th of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of October, 1800, to the 30th day of September, 1801, both days inclusive, at the places and within the two districts herein after first mentioned; and also that separate proposals will be received at the said office until the expiration of the 25th day of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required as aforesaid, from the 1st day of Jan. in the year 1801, to the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive, at the place and within the several States herein after mentioned viz:
First—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Oswego; at Niagara; at Pittsburg; at Presqu'isle; at Michilimackinac; at Fort Franklin; at Le Boeuf; at Cincinnati; at Piqua town, and Loramies Rivers; at Fort Wayne; at Fort Defiance; at any place below Fort Defiance on the Miami river to Lake Erie; at Fort Knox, and Ouanaton on the river Wabash; at Maclac; at any place or places on the east side of the river Mississippi, above the mouth of the river Ohio, and upon the Illinois river.
Second—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at any place or places, on the east side of the Mississippi river, below the mouth of the river Ohio to the southern boundary of the state of Kentucky and within the said state; at Knoxville; at all other posts and places within the state of Tennessee; at South West Point; at Tellico Blockhouse; at Stevens, or other fort or post on the river Mobje or Tombigby, & any place or places within the Cherokee boundaries; below the southern boundary of the state of Tennessee and within the boundary of the United States.
Third—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Point Peter; at Coleraine; at Savannah, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Georgia; at all forts or stations on the Oconee and Altamaha, and at all other places in the Creek Nation, within the limits of the United States, where troops are or may be stationed.
Fourth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Johnson, at Fort Pinckney, at Charleston, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the state of South-Carolina.
Fifth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at the Fort at Wilmington, Cape Fear; at Beaufort Island, Ocracoke; at Charlotte; at Fayetteville; at Salisbury, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the state of North-Carolina.
Sixth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Norfolk; at Portsmouth, at Kempville, at Charlottesville, at Winchester, at Staunton at Richmond, at Alexandria, at Leesburg, at Frederickburg, at Carterville, at Harper's Ferry, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, in the state of Virginia.
Seventh—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort M'Henry, at Baltimore, at Annapolis, at Frederick town, at Leonard town, at Hagerstown, at Bladensburg, at George town, at Easttown, at the head of Elk, and at any other place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Maryland.
Eighth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Mifflin, at Philadelphia, at Lancaster, at Wilkesbarre, at Reading, at Bristol, at Yorktown, at Carlisle, at Lewistown (Mifflin county) at Bedford, at Greenburg, at Washington, at Easttown, at Wilmington, at Christiana, at Dover, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the states of Pennsylvania and Delaware, except the posts within the state of Pennsylvania enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Ninth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Hackinsac, at Elizabethtown, at New Brunswick, at Burlington, at Woodbury, at Trenton, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of New Jersey.
Tenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at New York, at West Point, at Poughkeepsie, at Hudson, at Newburgh, at Albany, at Cooshoatie at Cherry Valley, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of New York, except the posts within the said state enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Eleventh—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Hartford, at Hebron, at New London, at Brooklyn, at Windham, at Litchfield, at Guilford, at New Haven, at Fairfield, at Danbury, at Middletown, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Connecticut.
Twelfth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Wolcott, at Brinton's Point, at Newport, at Providence, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Rhode-Island.
Thirteenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Portland in the District of Maine, Gloucester, Cape Ann, Salem, Marblehead, Boston, at Springfield, at Uxbridge, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Massachusetts.
Fourteenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Portsmouth, at Exeter, at Windsor, at Bennington, at Rutland, or at any fort, place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of New Hampshire and Vermont.
The ration to be supplied, is to consist of the following articles, viz. Eighteen ounces of bread or flour, or when neither can be obtained, of one quart of rice, or one and a half pound of sifted or boulted Indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh beef, or one pound of salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted pork, and when fresh meat is issued, salt, at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations; soup at the rate of four pounds, and candles at the rate of a pound and a half for every hundred rations.
It is expected the proposals will also extend to the supply of rum, whiskey, or other ardent spirits at the rate of half a gill per ration, and vinegar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations. The proposals will specify the price of the several component parts of the ration, as well as those of substitutes or alternatives for parts thereof.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contracts be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Oswego, for six months in advance and at each of the other posts on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places or posts, to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper. It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and at all losses, sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops or
the United States, shall be paid for at the price of the article captured or destroyed, on the depositions of two or more persons of creditable characters and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles, for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring, that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued, until the supplies which have or may be furnished under contracts now in force have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the sea-board or Indian Frontiers not exceeding three months.
JAMES M'HENRY.
Secretary of War.
To the Honorable the Senate, and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, on the second Wednesday of January, 1800.
THE Petition of GREENLEAF RAND, of Windham, in the county of Cumberland, joiner, humbly shews—That your petitioner, together with his brother JOHN RAND, junr of said Windham, on the twenty fifth day of May, Anno Domini 1796, agreed with, and did then and there purchase of CALEB REA, of said Windham, physician, a certain hundred acre lot of land numbered 113, in the second division of hundred acre lots in said Windham, and did then and there receive of the said Rea his certain agreement in writing under his hand, in words following, viz. "Know all men by these presents, that I Caleb Rea of Windham, in the county of Cumberland and commonwealth of Massachusetts, physician, for the consideration of the sum of one hundred and eighty pounds, to be paid in manner hereafter mentioned, by John Rand, junr. and Greenleaf Rand, joiners; do hereby obligate myself to give and execute a Warranty Deed of sale to the aforesaid John and Greenleaf Rand, of a certain hundred acre lot of land in said Windham in number 113, in the second division of hundred acre lots—Provided the said John and Greenleaf pay me one hundred and twenty five dollars on demand, and one hundred and eighty dollars on or before the first day of November ensuing, and three hundred dollars on or before the first day of October, Anno Domini 1797, with interest till the payments are completed. Caleb Rea" And your petitioner says that he and his said brother entered on said lot in pursuance of the said purchase, and the writing aforesaid, and continued to perform and make the payments as in said writing mentioned; but that the said Rea, before all the payments became due or were made, was taken away by death, and that your petitioner's said brother afterwards was also taken away by death. Your petitioner also further says that he and his said brother, in his life time, and your petitioner, since his said brother's decease, have performed every thing that was incumbent on them or him to perform, and make all the payments either to the said Caleb, in his life time, or to his administratrix, Sarah Rea, since the said Caleb's decease, agreeably to the true intent of said purchase; but that your petitioner is now prevented from having his said Deed, by reason of the decease of the said Caleb Rea as aforesaid.
Your petitioner also further says that John Rand, father and heir to the said John Rand, deceased, and also his administratrix, and Sarah Rea, the widow and administratrix of the said Caleb Rea deceased, are very willing and desirous that your petitioner should have a Deed of said lot to himself only, as they have all amicably agreed concerning the same land, that the sale should take place, and that it would be very detrimental to all parties, and to said Rea's estate, if said Deed should not be made agreeably to the intent of the agreement made by the said Caleb Rea as aforesaid. Wherefore your petitioner prays that the Honorable General Court would, notwithstanding said writing or agreement is not under the seal of the said Caleb Rea, authorize the said Sarah Rea, administratrix as aforesaid, to sell and convey said lot, and make and execute as good and sufficient deed thereof to your petitioner as the said Caleb Rea could do were he now living, in pursuance of his said agreement: Or grant such other relief as the Court in their wisdom shall see fit.—As in duty bound, GREENLEAF RAND.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In the House of Representatives, Feb. 24, 1800.
ON the petition of Greenleaf Rand, praying that Sarah Rea, administratrix of the estate of Caleb Rea, late of Windham, in the county of Cumberland, deceased, may be authorized to make and execute to the said Rand a deed of certain land in said petition mentioned:
Ordered, That the said Greenleaf Rand notify all persons concerned, by publishing an attested copy of his petition and this order thereon, three weeks successively in the Portland Gazette, the last publication to be thirty days at least previous to the next General Court, that they may then appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted.
Sent up for concurrence.
EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker.
In Senate, February 26th, 1800.
Read and concurred.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President.
True copy—Attest,
EDWARD M'LANE, Clerk of Senate.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the SENATE and HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES, in General Court assembled.
THE Memorial and Petition of the subscriber, HUMBLE SHEWETH—
That your memorialist was entrusted with a petition from the greater part of the inhabitants
of the plantation of New Suncook, in the county of York, praying to be incorporated into a town. Your memorialist in packing up said papers left said petition at his house in Fryeburgh, and by reason of the great distance from this place to Fryeburgh, has not been able to obtain said petition. He therefore prays the Honorable Legislature, in behalf of said inhabitants of New Suncook, that the said plantation of New Suncook may be incorporated into a town, and invested with such privileges as towns in this Commonwealth do by law enjoy—And as in duty bound, will ever pray.
WILLIAM FESSENDEN.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In Senate, February 24th, 1800.
ON the petition of WILLIAM FESSENDEN, in behalf of the inhabitants of the Plantation of New Suncook, in the county of York, praying that said plantation may be incorporated into a town;
ORDERED, That the Petitioner cause an attested copy of their Petition, with this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the Portland Gazette, published by ELEZER A. JENKS, the last publication to be forty days at least before the second Thursday of the first session of the next General Court, that all persons interested may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer of said Petition should not be granted.
Seal down for concurrence.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President.
In the House of Representatives, Feb. 26, 1800.
Read and concurred
EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker.
True copy—Attest,
EDWARD M'LANE, Clerk of Senate.
To ANDREW PEPPERRELL FROST, Clerk of the Proprietors of the common and undivided Land in Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland.
WE the subscribers, more than five of the said Proprietors, hereby request you to warn a meeting of said Proprietors, to be held at your dwelling house at Stroudwater, in said Falmouth, on the 28th day of April current, at ten o'clock in the forenoon; being the 1st Monday in said month, to act on the following articles, viz:
 1st. To choose a Moderator.  2d. To receive the report of the Proprietors' Committee on accounts, and their report respecting the common and undivided Lands which are said to be sold at Vendue by their former Committee for laying out Land.  3d To see what measures the Proprietors will take concerning any lands to be sold by their said former Committee for laying out Lands, and to choose such Committee or Agents to prosecute for the same, as said Proprietors then see proper.  4th. To receive accounts, and to allow the same if they see fit.  5th. To approve of sundry laying out, by their Committee for laying out Land, if they see fit. 
James Merrill, Joseph Titcomb, Hutchinson Noyes, John Waite, Crispus Graves, James Folsdick, Benjamin Bailey, John M'Lellan. Henry Wheeler,
PURSUANT to the request to me directed, I hereby warn the Proprietors of the common and undivided Lands in Falmouth aforesaid, to meet at my dwelling house in Falmouth, at Stroudwater, on Monday 28th day of April current, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, there to act on the above articles as they see fit. Attest. ANDREW P. FROST, Prop's. Clerk. Falmouth, Feb. 24th, 1800.
TO BE SOLD, OR LET,
A FARM, in Dresden, containing about 160 acres, on the east side of Kennebec River, adjoining land lately belonging to Dr. Tupper. On said place is a House and Barn—and about sixteen tons of English Hay are commonly cut. Said Land is excellent for tillage—it is well wooded and watered. For further particulars apply to the subscriber.
THOMAS PATTEN. Topsham, March 28.
The elegant Horse called THE ISLE,
WILL stand at the stable of the subscriber in New-Beaufort, during this season. He is of a beautiful deep black color, 15 hands high, and of an elegant carriage.
The terms are one dollar and fifty cents a single leap, three dollars the season, and five dollars to insure a foal—Those persons who are desirous of bringing their mares, shall receive every attention. Stephen Larrabee. Scarborough, April 1800.
NIMROD.
WILL stand this season, the elegant horse called Nimrod, upward of fifteen hands high.—Said horse will stand this season at the stable of the subscriber in New-Beaufort—except the following days, viz. May 5th, 6th and 7th, at John M'Kinley's, North-Yarmouth; 8th, 9th and 10th, at Stockbridge's, Freeport; 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th, at Hammon's, Paris; 30th and 31st, at J. Smith's, Norway; June 16th, 17th and 18th, at Wilkin's; 16th and 17th at Stockbridge's.
Terms, 1 dollar and 50 cents a leap, 3 dollars the season, and 5 dollars to warrant a foal. Israel Smith. New-Beaufort, March 29th, 1800.