Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1801-02-23 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 148.]
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1801.
[VOLUME III.]
Miscellany.
Jefferson's Second Letter.
The following is the copy of a letter written by Mr. Jefferson, in reply to one addressed to him by a citizen of Berkeley. It will serve as a second part of his Mazzei Letter. The attention of the reader is solicited to peruse it with care, and comment on it with justice.]
"Monticello, Sept. 4, 1800.
"Sir, "YOUR favor of August 26, has been duly received, and is entitled to my thankfulness for the personal considerations you are pleased to express in it. How far the measure proposed might have the expected effect, you can best judge; however, in the great exercise of right in which the Citizens of America are about to act, I have, on mature consideration, seen, that it is my duty to be passive. The interests which they have at stake are entitled to their whole attention, unbiased by personal esteem or local considerations; and I am far from the presumption of considering myself equal to the awful duties of the first magistracy of this country. That there should be differences of opinion among our fellow-citizens, is to be expected always. Men who think freely, and have the right of expressing their thoughts, will differ. It is true that these differences have of late been artificially increased; but they are now again subsiding to their natural level, and will soon come right, if no acts of violence intervene. The great question which divides our citizens is, whether it is safe that a preponderance of power should be lodged with the monarchical or the republican branch of our government? Temporary panics may produce advocates for the former opinion, even in this country; but the opinion will be as short lived as the panic, with the great mass of our fellow-citizens. There is one circumstance which will always bring them to rights; a preponderance of the Executive over the Legislative branch cannot be maintained but in immense patronage, by multiplying offices, making them very lucrative, by armies, navies, &c. which may enlist on the side of the patron all those whom he can interest, and all their families and connections; but these expenses must be paid by the labouring citizen; he cannot long continue, therefore, the advocate of opinions, which, to say only the least of them, doom the labouring citizen to toil and sweat, for useless pageants.
"I should be unfaithful to my own feelings were I not to say, that it has been the greatest of all human consolations to me, to be considered by the republican portion of my fellow citizens, as the safe depositary of their rights. The first with my heart is, to see them so guarded as to be safe in any hands, and not to depend on the personal disposition of the depositary; and I hope this to be practicable as long as the people retain the spirit of freedom. When that is lost, all experience has shown, that no forms can keep them free against their own will. But, that corrupt state of mind must be very distant in a country where, for ages to come, unoccupied soil will still offer itself to those who wish to reap for themselves, what themselves have sown.
"Our chief object at present should be, to reconcile the divisions which have been artificially excited, and to restore society to its wonted harmony. Whenever this shall be done, it will be found, that there are very few real opponents to a government elective at short intervals.
"Accept assurances of the respect of Sir, your very humble servant. THOMAS JEFFERSON."
JEFFERSON'S SEAT.
"MONTICELLO, the seat of Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President of the United States of America, is in the Albemarle country, Virginia, about 100 miles W. of Richmond, and 25 N. W. of Warren, near Charlottesville. His farm consists of several thousand acres of excellent land, on the river Rapidonia, a N. W. Branch of James River. The mansion house, which is spacious and elegant, stands on a mount, 500 feet above the circumjacent country, and commands a view of about 7000 square miles. To the W. and N. W. the Blue Ridge appears in full view, for nearly 70 miles. To the northeast, E. and S. as far as the eye can extend, is a flat plain country, and in the spring and summer seasons appears like an extensive portion of the ocean, except here and there appears little mounds, rising in the form of sugar loaf. Mr. Jefferson has about 1100 acres of land under cultivation—320 of wheat, 160 of corn, 320 of clover, 320 of peas and potatoes, tilled and managed by about 128 slaves. He carries on the nailing business, in which the negro boys of about 12 years old are employed, who make about a ton of nails a month."
"Why, the King of the democrats hold his human beings in slavery?—Mr. Adams would abhor it."
From the PALLADIUM. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.
IN every town, or at least in every county, a society might be formed for agricultural enquiries. No politics should be allowed. For every man of sound mind must hate all political clubs. Such societies might ascertain a vast number of facts and principles of very great importance to agriculture which nobody knows much about. Useful experiments would be reported to them, and thus the treasury of the best kind of knowledge would be continually growing richer. A meeting on a new-years day would be enough for a year. For frequent meetings would be neglected. Committees might then be appointed to pursue certain specific enquiries and to report at the next meeting. The results, if important, might be sent to the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, and the most valuable might be printed in their next publication. Thus the whole State would be an agricultural academy, nothing precious would be lost, and the spirit of agricultural improvement would become as much more active than it is, as might be expected from the differences between cherished and neglected branches of science. Agriculture would gain new patrons, and new lights and guides; it needs them. It is therefore earnestly recommended to the members of the General Court, to begin in such a patriotic course. At present one county scarcely knows the course of husbandry in another, and, therefore, the spirit of imitation, so much the improver of all other arts is scarcely visible in this.
A SAFE AND EFFICACIOUS REMEDY FOR THE CANCER
"Take the narrow leaved Dock root and boil it in water, till it be quite soft, then bathe the part affected in the decoction as hot as can be borne, three or four times a day;—the root must then be mashed and applied as a poultice. "This root has proved an effectual cure in many instances;—it was first introduced by an INDIAN WOMAN, who came to the house of a person in the country, who was much afflicted with a cancer in her mouth; the Indian, perceiving something was the matter, enquired what it was, and, on being informed, said she would cure her. The woman consented to a trial, though with little hope of success, having previously used many things without receiving any benefit. The Indian went out and soon returned with a root, which she boiled and applied as above, and in a short time a cure was effected. The Indian was very careful to conceal what these roots were, and refused giving any information respecting them; but happening one day to lay some of them down, and step out, the woman concealed one of the roots, which she planted, and soon discovered what it was; not long after a person in that neighbourhood, being afflicted with the same complaint in her face, the informed her of this remedy, and in two weeks, she was cured. Some time after a man was cured of a confirmed Cancer upon the back of his hand; after suffering much, and unable to get any rest, being told of this root, it was procured and prepared for him; he kept his hand in the water as hot as he could bear it for some time; the root was then applied as a poultice, and that night he slept comfortably, and in two weeks, his hand was entirely cured.
"DANIEL BROWN's father having had a cancer in his head, had it cut out and apparently healed; but, some of the roots remaining, it again broke out; his doctor then informed him that nothing more could be done except burning it out with hot irons. This being too harsh a remedy to submit to, he was much discouraged. The Dock root was soon after recommended, and it cured him in a short time.
"In the beginning of the winter of 1798, a hard lump appeared in the middle of my under lip, and in a short time, became sore;—it continued in that situation till spring, when it increased and became painful; I then shewed it to a person of skill, and soon found that he apprehended it to be cancerous; after two or three different applications, the complaint increased and spread rapidly.
"LOT TRIP, having heard of my complaint, mentioned this root. I called on him to know the particulars of it—he gave me the necessary information—the root was procured, and used in the manner abovementioned—taking a mouthful of water, in which the root was boiled, and letting it drip over my lips as hot as I could bear it; this I did three or four times a day, and then kept the root to it a day and a night, and in two days the pain entirely left it, and in two weeks it was cured.
"This remedy is simple, safe, and not attended with any thing unpleasant."
ARTICLES OF INTELLIGENCE.
PHILADELPHIA, FEB 3.
If Great Britain and Russia should unfortunately be involved in hostilities, it is to be expected, that our commerce with the latter will be, if not wholly suspended, considerably restricted. This consideration, when it is also known, that we have not at present in our storehouses as
much Hemp as will answer the ordinary demand of more than three or four months, ought to attract the immediate attention of Congress.—To promote the culture of an article so important to a commercial nation, it is suggested, whether the offering a bounty would not operate successfully.
BOSTON, FEB. 14. SERIOUS EVENT.
Why suffer ye such creatures to travel the roads unpunished; On Friday last as Mr. Aaron Sargent was travelling peaceably along the highway in Leominster, he was by some taken by two fellows driving their horses in sleys on the run—when they set up a horrid out-cry—frightened the horse Mr. S. had in his sley, to that degree, he ran, upset the sley, and brought his head against a post, fractured the bone, and he expired in a short time after. The text to others—"Be ye also ready," applies in this instance, for it is a melancholy truth, we but too often meet with such unfeeling, hardy wretches.
By accounts from Calcutta, so early as in August last, it appears, that Jamalabad was evacuated on the 26th of June, and the English then took possession of that post. Several of the garrison were taken prisoners in their attempts to escape, and 49 had been sentenced to death at Mangalore, on the Malabar coast.—Nine have been hung by the English as deserters. These insurgents were troublesome near Sedashewghur in July. Doondia, their Chief, was said to have with him 15,000 horse, 4,000 foot, besides other forces in separate commands. An entire change has since been produced by the success of the English arms in this country.
The increase of population in the County of Rutland in Vermont, from the Census of 1791 to 1800, is from 15,565, to 23,715, an increase of 8,159. Clarendon, Danby, Pawlet, Poultney and Rutland have above a thousand inhabitants each. This county extends on its west line, from Pawlet on the Pawlet river, to Orwell near Ticonderoga.
It appears from a General report of the Philadelphia Society in France from Jan. 1, 1792, to 1797, that the Territory of the Republic had increased above 12 millions of acres, and the population had received an increase of more than 3 millions of souls.
National Legislature.
MR. HARPER'S SPEECH,
DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, ON THE RENEWAL OF THE SEDITION LAW.
AS a great part, Mr. Chairman, of what I have to offer to the committee on this question is connected with the statements of abuses which gentlemen, who oppose the continuation of this law, tell us have been committed in the course of its execution, I have chosen to offer it at this stage of the debate, in order that the correction of the errors with which those statements abound, may go forth with the errors themselves.
The objections of gentlemen, Sir, to the continuation of this law, have been directed, as usual, against its constitutionality and its expediency. Those against its expediency are reducible, as far as I have been able to understand them, to some instances of oppression, which gentlemen say have taken place under the law. In what did this oppression consist? If I understand gentlemen aright, they stated it to consist in the denial to persons who had been indicted under the law, of the proper time, means and opportunity of making their defence. The objections have been variously and very indistinctly expressed, but as far as I was able to understand them, this was their full amount.
Let us then, Mr. Chairman, examine the cases which have been adduced as instances of this oppression. Let us inquire whether they afford any foundation for the imputations which have been made on the conduct of their courts.
The first case is that which occurred in Philadelphia last year. ( The case of Mr. Cooper. ) In this case, we are told, the party was denied the means of making his defence; was prevented from adducing the testimony by which the truth of the publication for which he was indicted, might have been proved. Fortunately, there are many now present, many honorable Members of the House, who were present at the trial, and can bear testimony to the manner in which it was conducted.—They can testify that the party was allowed all the indulgence that he asked for, was permitted to carry before the jury all the testimony which he chose to adduce.
In the first place he summoned several Members of Congress to attend as witnesses in his behalf. I myself was summoned. An honorable Member from Pennsylvania, [ Mr. Gallatin ] was also summoned; and I see several other honorable Members in their places who were included in the summons. It happened that we were prevented from going into court as soon as we had intended, but we did so; and when we entered the court, we found the party preparing an affidavit, or prepared with one and holding it in his hand, in which our testimony was stated to be material to his defence, and our absence was alleged as a ground for postponing the trial. But our appearance disconcerted this scheme, and the trial went on. Why were we summoned, Sir? Nobody present was ignorant of the purpose. It was a mere trick to postpone the trial, and so universally understood. We were summoned in the expectation and belief that we would not attend. In that case our absence would have been alleged as a cause of postponement; and there was no difficulty about swearing that our testimony was material. If the trial has been postponed on this ground, the point would have been gained and justice eluded; and if the court had refused to postpone it, the opportunity which was sought, of abusing the court, and raising an outcry about the denial of justice, would have been afforded. Will any body deny this statement? No nobody will presume to deny it. The truth flashed on all who were within the verge of the court.—None were so blind as not to see the artifice; none were so shameless as not to blush at it.—Even the spirit of party was reduced to silence, and the most hardened votaries of faction hung down their heads, and were confounded at the detection. How did the detection take place? How was the design rendered thus apparent? The witnesses thus summoned with parade, thus called from their seats in the National Legislature to give evidence on the trial; the witnesses whose absence, when it was hoped and believed that they had declined attending, was about to be made the ground of an application on oath for a postponement of the cause whose testimony was about to be stated on oath to be material to the defence; the witnesses, when they did come, were not examined. They remained in court during the whole of the trial. The party was informed of their being present, and when he had gone through all his other testimony, was expressly asked by the court whether he wished to examine them, and he said no. They were not examined. Lest it should be said that through fatigue arising from the length of the trial, he had been unable to examine them, the court informed him that if he wished for time to refresh himself, there should be an adjournment of an hour or two for that purpose, but this indulgence he rejected, and still declined to examine these witnesses.—Thus the purpose for which they had been summoned was disclosed, and it became manifest to all, even those most unwilling to see, that their being called on was a mere trick, which their unexpected appearance had defeated.
But we are told, Sir, that this person was refused the opportunity of producing other testimony. What testimony? That of the President of the United States. And do gentlemen seriously contend that the President of the United States is liable to be called from the seat of government, where his high and important functions always require him to be, in order to travel up and down the United States as a witness on trials? If he may be summoned to attend one court, he may be summoned to attend another. If he must go as a witness into the courts of Pennsylvania, he must on the same principle, go as a witness into those of New-Hampshire or Georgia. Can gentlemen be serious in contending for such a principle? No, they are not serious; they cannot be serious; and I am firmly persuaded that the honorable gentlemen from Maryland ( Mr. Nicholson ) who has expressly contended for it, would, mutatis mutandis , be one of the first to concern and expose its absurdity.
The President, moreover, was called on in this case to criminate himself, which the best established rules of law protect every person from being compelled to do. The party was indicted for a false, scandalous and malicious libel on the President, whom he had accused of many atrocious acts. He plead the truth of the matter in justification, and wished to bring the President as a witness to criminate himself by proving their truth. This is forbidden by the positive rule of law, received and admitted in every day's practice. What would be the consequences of admitting it with respect to the President? A profligate fellow would have nothing to do but to accuse him in print of a crime, and when indicted for it, harass his person and degrade his office and character by examining him in a court of justice, as to the commission of that crime, and thus compelling him to give an account of his whole private conduct and public administration. This is the principle for which gentlemen contend!
But there was other testimony, we are told by gentlemen, which this person was denied permission to adduce. What other testimony?

Certain publications extracted from newspapers, and purporting to be answers of the President to various addresses. Was he prevented from adducing them? No. He was, on the contrary, permitted to adduce them. He was indeed told by the court, and most truly told, that these extracts from newspapers were not legal evidence. But that under the particular accusations of the case, he should be allowed to give them in evidence. He was told that he might read in evidence whatever he thought proper. He availed himself of this permission in its full extent. He read those extracts in evidence. Indeed, far the greater part of his defence, which lasted for nearly three hours, consisted in reading and commenting on the President's answers to addresses!
Will any one deny this fact? No: it will not be denied. It cannot be denied. It took place in the presence of many witnesses; of many who now hear me. And it proves incontrovertibly, that greater latitude of indulgence could not possibly be given in making a defence, than was given to this person. And yet, this is one of the instances adduced, of oppression, of denial of justice, under the sedition act.
The next instance is brought from Boston. We are told a melancholy story, decorated with all the graces of the pathetic, about a poor innocent printer in Boston, who was indicted under this law for a libel on the federal government, convicted, imprisoned, and at length sunk under the cold and dreary dampness of a dungeon, and yielded up his life a victim to the tyranny of the sedition act. This dismal tale, thus piteously told, is found to be completely destitute of truth in all its parts. This poor wretch, whose life fell a sacrifice to the rigors of imprisonment under sedition act, turns out to be still alive and in health. He is found to have been indicted in a state court, under the state law, and for a libel on the government. By a most singular infelicity of exactness, the fact appears, in every point, to be precisely the reverse of the story.
The last instance is brought from Richmond. There, too, according to gentlemen, a person indicted under this act, was denied the opportunity of producing evidence in support of his justification. Let it be recollected Mr. Chairman, that this person was indicted for a libel so atrocious, that no person, except its author, has yet been found profligate enough to defend or even quote it. A libel not on the administration merely of this government, or on the government itself, but on the nation, the constitution, our independence, the war of our revolution, the patriots who conducted it, the character of our people and country, and on the American name. A libel on every person and thing that is American, except one individual, whom alone it dishonors, by its praise; whom it disgraces as far as disgrace can be inflicted by the commendations of the wicked, whom it places alone on that bad eminence, where not even a generous enemy could wish to see him stand. A libel, Sir, which has made its supporters blush; which they sedulously endeavored to suppress, lest it should dishonor the cause which it intended to defend; which they have made to shun the light, and passed secretly from hand to hand, lest it should produce repulsion in the minds of those whom it was their wish to seduce. — This, Sir, was the libel for which the person in question was indicted, and which he had the effrontery to say that he wished to prove, by the testimony of honorable men. He wished to call men of character into court, and insult them by asking them on their oaths, whether "The Prospect before Us," was true. Is there one man on earth, Sir, profligate and hardened enough, to say, that he believes it? Would the gentlemen whom he pretended that it was his wish to summon, have appeared in court and said they believed what the book contained? No, Sir. One of them was in Richmond, and was summoned. He, Sir, is a man of honorable feelings, of a manly character, whose political prejudices and party animosities, strong as they are, never betrayed him into a mean or paltry action. He was summoned, and what did he answer? "Let the scoundrel run away and I will pay his recognizance; but as to appearing for him in court that would be too much." This is said to have been his answer; and whether he gave it or not certain it is that he did not attend. The other persons proposed to be summoned were within reach, and might have been had. — What did the court say? "You shall have a continuance till the next term, if you entitle yourself to it according to the rules of law, by disclosing to the court, on affidavit, the matter which you expect to prove by these witnesses, and showing that it is material — Even without complying with these terms, you shall have a postponement from day to day in order to procure your witnesses as long as the time allowed for the sitting of the Court will admit." But of this indulgence no use was made. No effort was made to procure the witnesses during the sitting of the court. That was not the object. The object was to postpone the trial till the next Court, under the pretence of the absence of witnesses; and the Court recollecting the Philadelphia case, where an attempt was made to practise a similar trick, were on their guard, and very properly resolved to defeat it. They resolved to bring on the trial, unless proper and legal grounds for a continuance should be shewn. As this could not be done, the trial was brought on and the party convicted by an honest, responsible, and independent jury.
So much, Mr. Chairman, for the oppressions exercised under this law, and for the objections to its expediency.
"The Prospect before Us."
As to the question of constitutionality, it has been waved by gentlemen very properly, in my opinion; and I certainly shall not enter into it. The constitutionality of the law has been, on many former occasions, triumphantly established by arguments to which not even the semblance of an answer has been given. Indeed, Sir, I have never so lowly appreciated the understandings of those who have clamoured about the constitutionality of this act, as to suppose that they themselves believed in their objections. I have ever considered those objections merely as instruments for working on the public mind, as party expedients for exciting discontent against those in power, and paving the way for their dismissal. I have ever considered the constitutionality of the sedition act, as a mere stalking horse behind which to fight the administration. I believe that it has always been so considered by those who most gladi-ly grasped, and most industriously wielded it, as a weapon whereby they hoped to demolish the power of their political adversaries, and open the way for their own. Hence, Sir, and hence alone, the clamors about the unconstitutionality of the sedition act. Hence, and hence alone, the odious epithets which have been heaped upon it, and the tales fabricated about oppressions exercised in the course of its execution. Hence the charge that Congress had no power to make a provision, which rests on the same principles whereon are founded nearly one third of the laws in our code; and which cannot be distinguished, and has never been attempted to be distinguished, from the first section of the same act, the sedition against seditious meetings, about the constitutionality of which a doubt has never been raised.
We are told, Sir, that the people have condemned this act; that the people, as one gentleman has eloquently expressed it, 'have declared their disapprobation in a voice of thunder.' Sir, gentlemen deceive themselves. They have indeed thought this reason a good one, and have proved that they thought so by the industry wherewith they have used it. But they greatly over rate its effects, which they measure by the erring standard of their own zeal. Let it be remembered that this act was passed in the spring of 1798, and in the summer and autumn of that year, and the spring of the next, when the clamour against this law was fresh and high, the American nation was called upon to express by a general election, its sense of the conduct of its Representatives. Let it be remembered that the persons who were instrumental in passing this law, never received higher or more general proofs of the approbation and confidence of their country, than in this election. A change, gentlemen say, has since happened. If this change be any thing more than apparent, or at most a temporary fluctuation in popular sentiment, it is owing to far other causes than the sedition act; causes which need not now be discussed. Suffice it to say, that this act has received the highest and most repeated proofs of approbation on the part of the American nation; and that industriously as the clamour against it has been excited and kept up, that clamour has never extended beyond certain parts of the country.
We are called on, Sir, for the reasons why this act should now be continued. I will give my reasons most freely. Whether they be the same with those which actuate the conduct of other gentlemen, I know not, but in my mind they deserve all consideration. I wish to revive this law, Sir, as a shield for the liberty of the press, and the freedom of opinion; as a protection to myself and those with whom I have the happiness and the honor to think on public affairs, should we at any future time, be found by the imbecility or the mistakes of any future administration in this country, to commence any opposition against it, not a factious, profligate and unprincipled opposition, founded on falsehood and misrepresentation, and catching at the passions and the prejudices of the moment; but a manly, dignified, candid and patriotic opposition, addressed to the good sense & virtue of the nation, and resting on the basis of argument and truth. Should that time ever arrive, as it may, though I earnestly pray that it may not, I wish to have this law which allows the truth to be given in evidence on indictments for libels; I wish to have this law as a shield. When indicted myself for calmly and candidly exposing the errors of government and the incapacity of those who govern, I wish to be enabled by this law, to go before a jury of my country, and say that what I have written is true. I wish to interpose this law between the freedom of discussion, and the overbearing sway of that tyrannical spirit, by which a certain political party in this country is actuated; that spirit which arrogated to itself to speak in the name of the people, like fanaticism arrogating to itself to speak in the name of God, knows neither moderation, mercy, nor justice; regards neither feeling, principle nor right, and sweeps down with relentless fury, all that dares to detect its follies, oppose its progress, or resist its domination. It is my knowledge of this spirit, Sir, of its frantic excesses, its unfeeling tyranny, and its intolerable revenge, that makes me anxious to raise this one mound between its fury and public liberty; to put into the hands of free discussion, one shield against its darts. — This shield, I have little doubt, will, at length and perhaps very soon, be torn away; for the spirit of which I speak, goaded by conscious inferiority, stimulated to madness, by the envy of superior talents, reputation and virtue, knows to brook no check upon its rise, no censure upon its excesses; but I will not sanction my own death by my own voice. I will not yield one barrier to free discussion and the right to opinion; while I can defend it. I regard this
law as such a barrier; feeble perhaps, indeed, and ineffectual to check the progress of that tyrannical spirit which even now can scarce restrain its rage; but though feeble, yet dear to freedom, and never to be abandoned by freedom's friends. And in order to keep up this barrier to the last, I shall now, while I may, vote for the continuation of that law, which mitigates the rigour of the common law in this respect, and protects the liberty of the press and of opinion, by enacting that the truth may be given in evidence on indictments for libels against the government.
FEB. 3. A bill was reported to amend the act laying a tax on houses, &c. — to repeal the part which provides for surveyors of the revenue.
FEB. 4. The Senate by message informed, they had altered the bill for erecting a mausoleum to Washington, to the erection of a monument. value not to exceed 50,000 dolls. to be expended under the superintendence of the Hon. Messrs. J. Marshall, B. Washington, J. E. Howard, and T. Lear.
NAVY.
The Secretary of the Navy, in a report, dated the 12th January, 1801, informs Congress, that if an honorable treaty could be formed with France, it would be good economy to sell all the public vessels, excepting the thirteen following frigates, viz. — The United States, President, Constitution, Chesapeake, Philadelphia, New York, Constellation, Congress, Essex, Boston, John Adams, Adams, and General Greene; the rest being built of materials which do not promise long duration, or are too small to form a part of the national defence. In future wars, the Secretary is for having the small vessels consist of privates. He then gives statements of the annual expense of these frigates upon the war and peace establishment; and for allowing half pay to all the commissioned officers and midshipmen now in service; as well as that of the marine corps. He informs, that contracts have been made for eight frames for 74 gun ships; that six of them will be completed the present winter; and that a considerable part of the other timber necessary for six ships has been procured. That ground for capacious building and dock-yards, has been purchased at Portsmouth, N. H. Charles-town, Mtl. Philadelphia, Washington, & Norfolk; and measures taken to purchase ground at New-York. — That contracts for copper-bolts, spikes, and sheathing copper, have been made and money advanced to procure them. — The following are items of expenditure.
   DOLLARS.     For ground and improvements, - 186,800   Timber, - - - - - 210,070   Copper purchased, and advances on contracts, - - - - - 76,913   Cannon, - - - - - 33,000   Purchase of Grover's Island, &c, - 22,516   529,299  
The Secretary then states the calculations for building a 74 gun ship, and 44 gun frigate, and says when the United States own twelve ships of the line, and 24 strong frigates; and it is known that they possess the means of increasing with facility their naval naval strength, confidence may be indulged, that they may then avoid those wars in which they have no interest, and without submitting to be plundered. He then proposes the appropriation of an annual sum for purchasing timber, &c. that the United States may acquire the means of suddenly raising their navy to any size, which the exigency of their affairs may demand.
Legislature of Massachusetts.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, FEB. 13.
The Lincoln Court Bill passed to be enacted. The Kennebec Agricultural Society Bill passed to be enacted.
A bill for rendering processes in law less expensive, was read, and Tuesday next, 11 o'clock, assigned for the second reading.
SATURDAY, FEB. 14.
A petition of Thomas G. Thornton and others, to be incorporated for conducting water in pipes into the town of Pepperellborough, was committed to Messrs. Leonard, Jackson and Little.
MONDAY, FEB. 16.
The new tax bill was read a second time, and to-morrow, 10 o'clock, assigned for the third reading.
Rapid increase of Population
Fifteen years ago the village of Troy, (near Albany) contained but two dwelling houses, and fifteen inhabitants; at present it contains three hundred dwelling houses, and the population exceeds eighteen hundred souls.
The Rev. Aaron Bankroft, of Worcester, is chosen to deliver the annual Election Sermon in May next.
An Academy at Colchester, (Conn.) has been lately endowed by the will of Mr. Pierpont Bacon, with the gift of his whole estate, amounting to 30,000 Dollars. Colchester is about 25 miles S. E. from Hartford, and about the same distance N. W. from New-London.
Fifty eight of the Irish Peers will have seats in the Parliament of Great Britain when the union takes place.
IMPOST DUTIES.
Extract of a letter from Cape Francis, dated Jan. 6. "Impost duty on 150 barrels Flour, 420 dolls. — 2600 in. candles, dipped, 120 — 65c lb. spermaceti do. 63 — 50c but er, 18 — 1800 lb. lard, 37 — 25 bbls. pork, 110 dollars."
Portland, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1801.
NO NEWS.
The last mails brought no news of moment. The reader will therefore turn his attention to other articles which occupy this days Gazette; the most important of which is Mr. Harper's valuable and interesting speech on the Sedition Law; which subject has so long occasioned
"The grand debate, "The popular harangue, the tart reply, "The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit."
"WHO IS TO BE PRESIDENT?"
The next Gazette will probably officially answer this important question.
Intelligence has been received from Washington, that Mr. Dexter, late Secretary at War, is nominated by the President to carry to the French Executive the treaty lately ratified by the Senate; and also to treat on the second article, and on any other points the convention may have left unsettled.
The present House of Representatives of the United States, will be dissolved on the 3d of March, but the Senate will continue in session.
The Hon. John Marshall, lately appointed Chief Justice of the United States, was sworn into that office, and took his seat at the late session of the Supreme Court, at the city of Washington.
The following is the SECOND ARTICLE of the Convention with France, omitted in the ratification.
"The Ministers Plenipotentiary of the two parties, not being able to agree at present respecting the treaty of alliance of the 6th February 1778, the treaty of amity and commerce of the same date, and the convention of 14th of November 1788, nor upon the indemnities mutually due or claimed; the parties will negotiate further on the subject at a convenient time, and until they may have agreed upon these points, the said treaties and conventions shall have no operation." &c.
REGISTER OF DEEDS.
MR. JENKS. You may render a service to the several towns in this and the adjoining counties, by hinting in your Gazette, that there is a standing law of this Commonwealth, which it will be necessary for the Selectmen of each town to attend to in their warrants for the next annual meeting in March or April. The following extract from said Law will explain what I allude to, and prove a reasonable notice to the several Selectmen for inserting a proper article in the warrants for the next meeting.
"That the qualified voters in each respective town within this Commonwealth, at their annual meeting in March, seventeen hundred and ninety one, and every five years from thence successively following, forever at their several Town meetings in March [or April] shall be and hereby are empowered and required, to proceed to choose a Register of Deeds for each county respectively within this Commonwealth."
[COMMUNICATED.]
AT THE EXHIBITION
On Tuesday evening last, the Scholars of Mr. PRENTISS, gave new proofs of their own improvement in the Art of Speaking, and of the uncommon attention of their Preceptor. — Proofs which delighted the eye and the ear of a numerous and very respectable audience, composed of the parents and friends of the Pupils.
A Preceptor so well qualified to teach, and of such unwearied application, is entitled to the generous patronage which Mr. P. has hitherto received, and which it is believed he will continue to receive from the Citizens of this town.
One circumstance during the Exhibition, is to be regretted. — It is, that some of the auditors retired a short time before the close. A circumstance, however, which is to be attributed, not to a diminution of pleasure among the hearers, or want of that respect so justly due to the Preceptor; but solely to the late hour to which the performances were continued.
The pleasures of the evening were greatly heightened by occasional airs of instrumental Music — for which the auditors were indebted to the politeness of a number of young gentlemen belonging to the town.
CORRESPONDENTS
Will do well to take advantage of the present scarcity of intelligence, to forward their literary and political favors.
"The Monitor, No. 1," will appear next week. The communication from Standish, respecting some disturbances in religious matters, cannot have place in the Gazette. The an enemy to religious imposters, the Editor is averse to bringing before the public private characters who may be under a harmful delusion.
MARRIED — At Falmouth, by the Rev. C. Bradley, Mr. Nathan Hunt of Gray, to Miss Mary Haskell. At Pittston, Mr. George Crafts of Augusta, to Miss Betsy Swan, daughter of William Swan, Esq. of Pittston. At Hallowell, Mr. Nathan Batchelder to Miss Nancy Rollings, of London, N. H.
DIED — In Gray, Mrs. Susannah Webster, aged 31 years, wife of Mr. James Webster, jun.
Portland Marine List.
Monday, Feb. 16 — Arrived fchr. Dolphin, capt. Bagley, 26 days from the Havannah. Left there the ship John, capt. Morley, ship Portland, capt. Dix, and ship President, capt. Crabtree, of this port. Capt. W. and D. Lowell were at the Matanzas. Thursday, Feb. 19 — Arrived fchr. Polly & Betsey, capt. Cross, 37 days from Demerara. Spoke brig. Trapper, capt. Blanchard, of and bound to this port. Same day — Arrived brig. William, capt. Wilson, M'Lehan, 25 days from Port Republican. No Amity.

MUSES.
MR. JENKS, The following is supposed to be from the pen of Mrs. Robinson. The appearance of it in your Ga- zette may please many of your readers. OSCAR.
SAPPHO, TO A GENTLEMAN WHO ASKED HER OPINION OF A KISS.
WHAT is a Kiss? 'tis but a seal That, warmly printed soon decays; 'Tis but a zephyr taught to steal— Where fleeting, faithless smiling piays.
The breeze will kiss the flow'r! but such From flow'r to seed inconstant blows; Such is the Kiss of Love, the boon, Which fickle fancy oft bestows.
A balmy kiss once VENUS gave The Rose that caught her lover's sigh; That Rose with ev'ry gale would wave, At ev'ry glance of morning die!
Would ope its bosom to the beam That growing noon promiscuous threw; Or, to the twilight's panting gleam Would yield responsive tears of dew.
Oft to the Bee its sweets would give, And flout its odour wild around, With honey'd breath bid pleasure live, Or with its hidden mischief wound.
This Rose was white, and to be blest Around it insect myriads flew, Charm'd by the wonders of its breath, Thrice essenc'd in the summer dew.
But when the lip of beauty shed A rival sweetness on that breath, It blush'd, and droop'd its flagrant head, Asham'd to be so proudly blest.
Its colour chang'd, a crimson glow, Fix'd on its altar's form appears; While round the sighing Zephyrs blow, And nature bathes its leaves with tears.
Then does not ev'ry kiss impart, In magic thrills of speechless pleasure, Reproaches to the wand'ring heart, That knows not how to prize the treasure!
O yes! then let my bosom prove No throbb—but FRIENDSHIP's throb divine; And let the kiss of fickle Love Capricious visitor—BE THINE.
EPITAPH ON MRS. NOT.
Not born—Not dead—Not christen'd—Not begot— Lo! here she lies, that was, and that was Not! She sled, was born, baptized, and more; Was in her life Not honest, not a w—c— Reader! behold a thing most rarely wrought, Which, whilst thou seem'st to read, thou readest Not;
Solis's Genuine Spice Bitters.
ONE paper of these bitters may be infused in a quart of Brandy, Wine or Spirits, in a gentle warmth for two or three days, frequently shaking the bottle, and after settling the clear may be poured off and kept in a bottle for use.
Half a glass, or a glass full of these bitters may be taken in the morning, fasting; or at the middle of the fore or afternoon, and repeated so long as occasion may require.
These bitters have been celebrated for their pec- uliar virtue in fortifying and strengthening the stomach, they procure an appetite and help diges- tion, sweeten and purify the blood, remove ob- structions, and are found very useful in preventing the jaundice. They produce a sweetness of the breath, removing all scorbatic and unfavourable breaths and agues. They are useful in all seasons of the year, but more particularly so in the spring, by brazing the fibres and preventing that disagree- able listlessness, and weakness arising too frequently from relaxation on the approach of warm wea- ther.
The above Bitters are for sale by
A. Solis,
At a shop he has taken in Fore-street, nearly op- posite Mrs. Fox's; where also may be had a great variety of imported PATENT MEDICINES, which will be sold at a cheap rate for cash. Portland, Feb. 16.
Valuable Farm.
FOR SALE, that valuable Farm in Poland, belong- ing to Deacon MOSES EMERY; containing 400 acres of Land, on which are a good House, Store, and out houses, a Saw-Mill and a Grist-Mill; also another excellent mill privilege, with a dam already made, on the little Androscoggin stream, within half a mile of the meeting house—For further particulars inquire of said Emery on the premises, or of the Printer. Poland, Feb. 11.
A Bargain.
TO BE SOLD, an excellent FARM in the town of Effingham, state of New Hampshire, 40 miles from Portland, and about 30 from Saco, on the post road—Containing 100 acres, with a good dwelling house, a large barn and other out- houses, together with a shop thereon. Said house has been occupied as a tavern, and is a good stand for a trader. There is an orchard on the premises containing about four hundred apple trees, one hundred of which began to bear last year. There is a fine well of water near the house, and every part of the farm is well watered. In a favorable season, nearly thirty tons of hay may be cut. A- bout 10 acres are already ploughed and manured for the next season.—For further particulars in- quire of the subscriber on the premises. JOHN BAKER. Feb. 16.
WANTED, A YOUNG WOMAN, to do Cooking in a small family—where two will be kept.—Inquire of the Printer. Feb. 9.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all con- cerned, that having been duly appointed ad- ministratrix on the Estate of Luke Libby, late of Pejepscot Claim, in the county of Cum- berland, yeoman, deceased, has taken upon her that trust, and given bond as the law directs:—She therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to ELIZABETH LIBBY. Feb. 16, 1801.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all con- cerned, that having been duly appointed Ad- ministrator, with the Will annexed, on the Estate of Timothy Davis, late of North Yarmouth, in the county of Cum- berland, yeoman, deceased, has taken upon him that trust, and given bond as the law directs:—He therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to ex- hibit the same to THOMAS DAVIS. North Yarmouth, Feb. 11, 1801.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a further time of three months from the date hereof is allow- ed by the Judge of Probate for the county of York, to the Creditors to the Estate of Joseph Gillpatrick, Esq. late of Limerick, deceased, to bring in their claims to the subscribers, Commissioners to said estate; who will attend for that business at his late dwell- ing house, on the first Monday of February, and the first of the two following months, from three to six o'clock, P. M. JOHN BAKER, } Commis- SAMUEL BRADBURY, } sioners. Limerick, Jan. 19, 1801.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all con- cerned, that having been duly appointed Ad- ministratrix de bonis non on the Estate of Michael Howland, late of Bowdoinham, in the county of Lincoln, Physic*, deceased; and hath undertaken that trust by giving bond as the law directs:—He there- fore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's Estate to make immediate payment. SAMUEL BLAKE, Administrator de bonis non. Turner, Jan. 22, 1801.
WE the subscribers having been appointed by the Hon. Jonathan Bowman, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, to receive and examine the claims of creditors to the Estate of Dr. Michael Howland, late of Bowdoinham, in said county, deceased, re- presented insolvent, do hereby give notice that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend at service at the Dwelling House of James Rogers, Esq. in said Bowdoin, on the third Tuesday of Fe- bruary next, and on the third Tuesday of the five following months. EZEKIEL THOMPSON, } Commis- LUTHER CARY, } sioners. January 28, 1801.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Executrix of the last will and testament of George West, late of Union, in the county of Lincoln, yeoman, deceased, and has undertaken that trust by giving bond as the law directs:—All persons therefore, having demands against the estate of said deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement; and all indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment. MARY WEST, EXECUTRIX. Union, January 21, 1801.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed administratrix on the estate of Robert Malcomb, late of Topsham, in the County of Lincoln, yeoman, deceased; and has undertaken that trust by giving bond as the law directs: All persons therefore having demands against the Estate of said deceased are desired to exhibit the same for settlement, and all indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to her SUSANNAH MALCOMB. Topsham, December 16, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Executor of the last will and testament of Nicholas Orff, late of Waldoborough, in the county of Lincoln, yeoman, deceased; and has undertaken that trust by giving bond as the law directs:—All persons therefore, having demands against the estate of said deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settle- ment; and all indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment. HENRY ORFF, EXECUTOR. January 12th, 1801.
THE Subscriber hereby gives notice to all con- cerned, That having been duly appointed ad- ministratrix on the estate of Jeremiah Merrill, late of Freeport, in the County of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, has taken upon her that trust, and given bond as the law directs: she therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said de- ceased's estate to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same, to LYDIA MERRILL.
TAKE NOTICE, THAT a further time of three months is allowed, from the thirteenth day of January instant, by the Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, for the creditors to the estate of Capt. William Lackey, late of Thomaston, deceased, to bring in their claims. The Commissioners hereby give notice that they will attend said business at the dwelling house of Capt. Da- vid Fales Jun. in said Thomaston on the first Tuesday of February next, and the last Tuesdays of the two fol- lowing months from two to six o'clock in the afternoon. DAVID FALES, Jun. } Commis- SAMUEL M. MARTAIN, } sioners. Thomaston, Jan. 17, 1801.
REMOVAL. William Hudson, INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has removed from Fore-street to one of the brick build- ings in Middle street, near the head of Union street, where he has for sale an assortment of English & West-India Goods, Groceries, &c. Feb. 9.
TO THE HONORABLE THE JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS HOLDEN AT PORT- LAND, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF CUMBER- LAND, ON THE THIRD TUESDAY OF OCTOBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED.
THE Petition of Edward Oxnard, of said Portland, merchant, and Mary Oxnard, wife of the said Ed- ward, in her right, and Daniel Fox, Charles Fox, John Fox, Sarah Fox, Caroline Fox, George Fox, and Rebecca Flemming Fox, all of said Portland, heirs of John Fox, late of said Portland, Esquire, deceased, and minors under the age of twenty one years, who petition by Sarah Fox, of said Portland, Widow, their Guardian and next friend— Humbly shews, that your petitioners are interested in and stand seized in fee as tenants in common, one moi- ety to the said heirs of John Fox, and the other moiety to the said Oxnard and wife, in her right, of two par- cels of Land situated in said Portland; the first where- of is bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake standing in the northerly side of Fore-street, at the most easterly corner of the lot of Land whereon the said Oxnard now lives; thence northwesterly by said Oxnard's Land to the most northerly corner thereof; thence north- westerly by said Lot to Godman's Land; thence by said Godman's Land northwesterly to Danforth-Street, thence by said Danforth's-Street about four rods to Col. Waite's Land; thence by said Waite's Land south- easterly twenty rods to Fore-Street; thence by said Fore-street to the first bound. The second parcel be- gins at a stake standing in the northerly side of Fore- Street, six rods from the southwesterly side of Fifth- Street; thence northwesterly on a course parallel with Fifth-Street by Mr. Kellogg's land, eleven and a half rods to a stake; thence north fifty nine Degrees east adjoining said Kellogg's Land six rods to Fifth-Street; thence by said Fifth-Street four rods to land belonging to William Widgery Esq.; thence by said Widgery's Land on a course south sixty nine degrees west eleven and a half rods to a stake; thence south twenty two and a half degrees east seventeen rods and four links to Fore-Street; thence north fifty nine degrees east adjoin- ing Fore-street to the first bound. And your Petition- ers further shews, that they are interested in and stand seized in fee as tenants in common with Lucy Greenleaf of Newburyport, in the county of Essex, Widow (one moiety to the said Lucy, one quarter to the said Oxnard and wife in her right, and the other quarter to the said heirs of John Fox) of two other parcels of land situated in said Portland; the first whereof is bounded as fol- lows, viz.—Beginning at a stake standing in the norther- ly side of Danforth Street at the southerly corner of land belonging to the heirs of the late Benjamin Mulsey; thence north seventy two degrees and three quarters west to Pleasant-street; thence along Pleasant-street two hundred and fifty four feet and three quarters to a stake; thence south fifteen degrees east two hundred and seventy two feet to Danforth-street; thence adjoin- ing Danforth-street to the first bound. The second par- cel beginning at a stake standing in the northerly side of Pleasant-street at the southerly corner of land belonging to the heirs of said Mulsey; thence north seventy two degrees and three quarters west adjoining to said Mul- sey's Land, one hundred and fifty feet to a stake; thence south fifteen degrees west, fifty eight feet to a stake; thence south fifteen degrees east to Pleasant-street; thence adjoining said Pleasant-street to the first bound. And that your petitioners are desirous of holding their said properties of the above described land in sever- alty:—Wherefore your petitioners pray that the two first described parcels of land may be divided and set off, one moiety to the said Oxnard and wife, and the other moiety to the said heirs of John Fox; and that the two last described parcels of land may be divided, and one quarter thereof set off to the said Oxnard and wife, and one quarter to the said heirs of John Fox, to hold the same in severalty, agreeably to the law, in that case made and provided. And as in duty bound shall ever pray, by SALMON CHASE, Attorney for the Petitioners.
AT A COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE COUN- TY OF CUMBERLAND, BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT NEWGLOUCESTER, IN SAID COUNTY, ON THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. 1801.
ON the Petition of Edward Oxnard, and other entered the last Term and continued to this term whereof the foregoing is a copy—the Court order- That the Petitioners cause the several persons interest- ed in said Estate, and living within the State, or the Attorneys of such as are absent, and have Attorneys residing within the State, to be duly notified of said petition by serving them personally with a copy thereof, or leaving a copy at their dwelling House or last place of abode, or by inserting the substance of the same in one or more of the public Newspapers three weeks successively, the last publication to be at least twenty days before the last Tuesday of March next, that they may have opportunity to make their excep- tion to this Court, then to be held at Portland within and for said county, to their granting the same. Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk.
At a Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cumberland, begun and held at New Gloucester in said county, on the first Tuesday of January, A. D. 1801:
ON the petition of PETER THATCHER SMITH of Windham, in said county, Esquire, shewing that he is interested as tenant in common with some person or persons to him unknown, in two sev- eral Lots or Parcels of Land, which, in the division of his late father, the Rev. Thomas Smith's estate, was set off to the heirs of the late Mrs. Lucy Saunders, who was one of the children and heirs of said deceased; which Lots are upon the plan of said division (a copy whereof is annexed to said petition) numbered One and Four; and that he is desirous to hold and enjoy his share of said Lots, being two eighths in severalty, and therefore pray- ing that partition thereof might be made, and his share set off and divided from the rest, agreeably to a Law of the Commonwealth passed A. D. 1784, intitled "An act for the more easy partition of Lands, or other Real Estate."
ORDERED, that the petitioner cause the several persons interested in said estate, and living within the State, or the attorneys of such as are absent, and have attorneys residing within the State, to be duly notified of said petition by serving them per- sonally with a copy thereof, or leaving a copy at their dwelling house, or last place of abode, or by inserting the substance of the same three weeks successively, in one or more of the public newspa- pers, that they may have opportunity to make their exception to this Court on the last Tuesday of March next, to their granting the same. Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk.
MAINE, ss.—By virtue of an order from the Hon. DAVID SEWALL, Esq. Judge of the United States for said District.— NOTICE is hereby given, that a li- bel is filed in said Court by Frederick Lewis Dellestier, Collector of the United States for the Dis- trict of Passamaquoddy, against three bales of CARPET- ING, and one trunk of MUSLINS & THREADS; al- ledged to have been illegally imported into the United States—and that a hearing will be had thereon before said Judge at the next District Court to be held at Pownalborough, within the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday of March next: at which time and place, all persons concerned may appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the above mentioned articles should not be decreed forfeited. ISAAC PARKER, Marshal. Portland, Jan. 24, 1801.
Post-Rider's Notice. THE subscriber, who rides Post from Portland to Monmouth (being part of the Route to Wilscasset by the way of Augusta) hereby gives notice, that by the consent of the several Postmasters on his route, he shall, in future, perform the same as follows, viz. Leave Monmouth every Monday at seven o'clock, A. M. and arrive at Portland the next day, viz. on Tuesday at eleven o'clock, A. M. Leave Portland every Tuesday at three o'clock P. M. and arrive at Monmouth the next day, viz. Wednesday at six o'clock, P. M. The next morning another Rider takes the Mail— goes on to Wilscasset, and returns to Monmouth on Sat- urdays as usual. Feb. 6, 1801. JOHN BLAKE.
Enoch Plummer, TAKES this method to acquaint the inhabitants of New Gloucester and vicinity, that he has taken a shop nearly opposite Mr. Jenks' Tavern in said town, where the TAILOR'S BUSINESS will be carried on in all its branches with neatness and dispatch. Every fa- vor in the above line of business thankfully received. New Gloucester, Feb. 9.
CUMBERLAND, ss.—To the Honorable Court of General Ses- sions of the Peace, to be held at New Gloucester, within and for the county of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of Ja- nuary next.
THE petition of Benjamin Spaulding, Abijah Buck, Mark Andrews, and Dominicus Re- cord, all of Buckfield, in said county, and others, the subscribers, humbly sheweth—That having great occasion of frequent use of that part of the County Road which now leads over Hearsy hill, so called, through said Buckfield, by said experience find the same to be very bad, more especially on account of its roughness and the extraordinary bad hills over which it extends; and being well ac- quainted with the make of the land westerly of said road, are fully of opinion that by laying a road over Bradbury Hill, so called, the public might be greatly benefited, viz. by laying it as follows, that is to say—After following the County Road leading from Moses Emery's to Capt. John Bridgman's till it comes to the place or somewhere not far from the place where a private way from said Bradbury Hill meets the same; from thence to run along by Moses Bradbury's; and from thence running nor- therly over Bradbury Hill, so called, in the most convenient place, till it comes to the house of Joshua Keene, jun.; and from thence continuing northerly till it meets the County Road first mention- ed, within the said town of Buckfield; in the whole about five miles:—Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray your Honors to appoint and authorize a Committee of Inspection to view and lay out this new road, and make report thereof to your Honors; and that the same may be accepted, and the said piece of road established as a part of the county road leading through the said town of Buckfield— And your petitioners in duty bound will ever pray.
Dated at Buckfield the 20th day of December, A. D. 1800. Benjamin Spaulding, Abijah Buck, Mark Andrews, Dominicus Record, Benjamin Spaulding, jun. Thomas Allen, Alvan Robinson, William Tucker (by desire) Joshua Paris, Abraham Harden, Jacob Pratt, Ger- sham Cole, William Doble, jun. Jonah Peabody, Sam- uel Frink, William Soule, Samuel Thomas, John Warren, Owen Record, Leonard Spaulding, Joseph Barrett, Davis Parsons, John Banks, Benjamin Hale, Zadock Keen, Joseph Cole, Zemus Hall, Mala- chi Bartlett, Nathaniel Buck, jun.
At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the county of Cumberland, begun and held at New- gloucester in said county, on the first Tuesday of January, A. D. 1801.
ON the petition of Benjamin Spaulding and others, whereof the foregoing is a copy, the Court order—That the petitioners give public notice thereof by publishing the same three weeks in Jenks' Portland Gazette, the last publication to be at least twenty days before the last Tuesday of March next, that any person or persons may appear at the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, then to be held at Portland within the county afore- said, and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk.
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