Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1800-09-29 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 127.]
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1800.
[VOLUME III.]
Portland,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1800.
AUGSBURGH,
Which is now spoken of in the French papers, as the theatre of Negotiation, is celebrated in history for the loss of its cannon after the battle of Hochstet, which the French and Batavians carried off. The former, however, to make some amends, left behind them no less than 1500 little citizens, who were born a few months after their departure, and who by a droll mistake got the name of Schadet-nichts .—It being customary in Germany to ask unmarried women in a state of pregnancy, who is the father; And the same question being put to the girls here whom the French had left in that state, they were afraid to own their intrigue with the enemies of their country, and therefore said Schadet nicht (no matter) by which name the children were all christened, and which the mongrel French and German breed that have sprung from thence are called to this day. London paper.
PORT OF HULL.
The Dock Company of Hull, in England, have reduced the tonnage dock fees on American vessels from 36 per ton, to 1/9. [The port of Hull, now allowed to be third in consequence, in Great Britain, is situated about twenty miles from the mouth of the Humber, the largest river in England, and navigable up to the port by the largest ships. There is a very spacious Wet Dock within the port. The mouth of the Humber entering the German Ocean is nearly opposite the mouths of the Elbe, the Ems, and the Weser; with the cities and towns on these rivers, Hull carries on the greatest trade of any port in Great Britain. London excepted, and from thence to those ports, there are regular convoys once a fortnight in time war; it is also next to London in its trade, to all the ports in the Baltic, and in times of peace to those of Holland, Flanders, and the northern ports of France, exporting to all those places immense quantities of woolens, ironmongery, and other goods, the produce of Yorkshire. Its trade is never interrupted by sea; no frost, however severe, was ever known to shut the port, and ships at all seasons, and in all weathers, may enter and find shelter in the Humber; and late the Parliament of Great Britain hath passed an act for the regulation of Pilots, conducting ships into, and out of the Humber, which effectually prevents abuse and imposition.]
With the United States its trade hath greatly increased of late years, and being so well situated for the sale of their produce to the large internal manufacturing towns in England, and for the exportation of tobaccos and West India produce to Germany, Holland and the Baltic must increase further, particularly as cargoes consisting of woolens, earthen ware, cutlery, and all kinds of implements for husbandry, together with alum, copras, lead, &c. can be obtained as freight back to the States.—Hemp, linens, iron, cordage, and all other articles, the produce of Russia, Germany and the States bordering on the Baltic Sea, can here also be obtained on easier terms than in any other port in Great Britain, and at a season when the ports in those countries cannot be approached for ice.]
Extract of a letter from the city of Washington.
"I have at length become reconciled to absence from my native city, by the interesting novelty of a city growing up on a vast extended plan, covering near four miles square. The houses now between six and seven hundred in number, are in general of brick, and about half of them elegant buildings. Indeed I think there is not a proportionate number of ordinary buildings, for the poorer class of mankind are certainly far more than two to one.
"The capitol I believe to be the most elegant building in the world, and does great credit to Dr. Thornton's taste. The Lottery Hotel is in fact three hotels in one, each 40 by 60 feet, making a complete pile of 120 by 60 feet, and four stories high. It is situated in the centre of the city, and one of the buildings is talked of for the Bank of the United States, for which it is well calculated, being better built, and with thicker walls than either of the Banks now occupied. Another part of the Hotel has made an excellent temporary play house, but we are told that there is at present no owner to this building, nobody having yet appeared to prove property and demand the prize, tho' it is said the bank of the United States have an indirect claim to it, by the failure of the prize ticket holders in their debt.
"In the territory Columbia of ten miles square there are two maritime towns, beside Washington, and both close built. Altho' the yellow fever has been brought to both several times, it has never yet been contagious, owing to the high ground and the purity of the air; there being no marshes within the territory.
"This circumstance has occasioned several
removals from Norfolk and Baltimore, to Washington, since the prevalence of a fever in those towns, and will be among the chief causes of making the territory extremely populous.
"There are twelve newspapers advertised for this city, where two would be enough in all conscience."
From the Georgia Gazette.
Vice Consulship of Spain for the States of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Messrs. Nicholas Johnston and Co. Gentlemen,
HIS Excellency Lieutenant Colonel Don Vincents Folch, Governor of the Province of West Florida, in a letter dated Pensacola, 1st August, has been pleased to communicate to me the following:
"I have issued a Proclamation offering FOUR THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS to any person who will deliver here, or in Apalache, the body of WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BOWLES, or else produce sufficient proof of having killed him; which information I will thank you to make public, in order that some clever fellow at the cheap rate of one gun shot, will place in his pocket the said sum, which shall be paid, with the greatest acknowledgment of gratitude, in good Spanish dollars, without the least delay."
Therefore I request you to give this a conspicuous place in your paper. It is, doubtless, a very interesting subject to Spain, America, and the Indians, that they be rid of this noted vagabond.
I am, with respect, your obedient servant, EMMANUEL RENNILL. Savannah, 25th Aug. 1800.
Medical.
KINE-POX.
From the Columbian Centinel.
MR. RUSSELL. HAVING several times conveyed to the public thro' the medium of your paper whatever I found most important respecting the peculiar nature of the Kine-pox , in hopes that this comparatively mild distemper would one day banish from the face of the earth one of the most shocking disorders that afflicts mankind, I now wish to convey through the same medium the result of my final experiments on my own family, especially as I could not make these trials time enough to insert them in my treatise.
Four of my children with their mother entered the hospital at Brookline, about a fortnight ago. One a girl between seven and eight years of age; another a boy between five & six; the third a boy of three; and the last an infant of about an year old; the other a boy of twelve. All of them had the symptoms of the Kine-pox very distinctly (as may be seen in my late publication) excepting the little girl first mentioned, and her's were so light, that it was somewhat dubious whether the infection had penetrated further than her arm. Dr. Aspinwall inoculated all these at the same time, excepting the boy last named, who underwent the experiment a fortnight before.
The mother of these four children (who had the small pox by inoculation more than a dozen years ago) suffered herself on a former occasion to be re-inoculated with the small pox matter, in order to compare the appearances on her arm with theirs from hour to hour.—They were exactly similar, both having a redness, soreness, and by the 6th day a felted appearance, but void of that deep felt hardness, which characterizes the small pox in common with the Kine-pox , and that peculiar bruise-coloured hue, known only to the eye of experience. On the 7th day, when absorption would have taken place, had not the system been proof against it, the fores suddenly changed their aspect, dried up and every sign of inflammation vanished, leaving no vestige of disorder behind; nay, these recovered at Brookline that ruddiness which they had in some degree lost by pulling through the Kine-pox , so that excepting the infant, who was under the process of teething, six heartier looking young persons are seldom seen in one family.
Thus have I confirmed the truth of my assertion that THE COW, OR KINE-POX IS A PERFECT SECURITY AGAINST THE SMALL-POX, by actual experiment on six persons of different ages and habits, and performed too by as careful and skillful an inoculator as is in the country, and who has not failed in a single instance to communicate the infection for a long time.
To determine the contagion, or non-contagion of the Kine-pox I made several experiments—I have rubbed the matter on the tender skin of my children, without any effect whatever. As I inoculated my family in succession, I kept the disease in it from the first week in July to the present time. And altho' one child who had it, slept with another who had it not, no one of them has ever taken the distemper any other way than through the wounded skin : and having inoculated nearly an hundred since, I have met with nothing that contradicts this assertion. The reasons inducing some physicians in London to suspect it's contagion, I have endeavored
to explain it in a letter, written not long since to the board of health, lest any one should imagine that the disease I imported belonged to that genus of disorders, which that board is so careful to watch and expel.—Should I discover that the Kine-pox is infectious by any other way than by inoculation, the board of health shall know it without a moment's delay.
It would be wrong to terminate these communications without saying that I could not have thus completed my experiments without the assistance of Dr. Aspinwall. The Dr. met these experiments, which apparently militate at present, with his interest, with a candor, and ingenuousness much to his praise. His conduct through the whole business has done honor to his liberality as a practitioner, and to his patriotism as a citizen. If the public have been gratified by the result of these experiments, they have reason to thank Dr. Aspinwall for his assistance, as I have to reiterate mine for his generosity. B. WATERHOUSE. Cambridge, Sept. 15, 1800.
Politics.
BURLEIGH.—No. X.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
THE Federalists have for a long time charged the Jacobin party in this country with a wish to subject this country to France. This they have argued from their continually harping on the exploded subject of gratitude to that nation; from the artifices which have been used to draw us into the European war; from the mighty affection which they profess to feel for the French; from their always finding an excuse, if not justification, for all the cruelties, and atrocities of the French Revolution; from their always siding with the party, or the individual, who happens to be uppermost in that country; and from their being able to find the pure spirit of Republicanism in every despotism which has existed in France, from the death of the king, to the accession of THE CHIEF CONSUL BUONAPARTE. From these, and a thousand other sources, evidence sufficient to satisfy all thinking men, might be drawn. But, lest there should be some who have not bestowed much attention to the subject, let me adduce a new piece of proof, of modern date. In the Constitutional Telegraph of June 28, 1800. (a Jacobin newspaper printed at Boston) here is a publication taken from the Republican Watch-Tower, (of what date it does not say) a paper which was formerly Greenleaf's Argus, in New-York, from which the following passage is extracted.
"To the people of the United States. Countrymen!
An important privilege will speedily result to you. Your destinies are staked on the conduct you shall observe in its exercise. Peace and amity are about to return and in their train, war with your old inveterate foe. Doubt it not. In the eye of a Briton, to be on good terms with France, is a vice, an inexcusable offence. The British government is uniform in its conduct and maxims. We cannot be at once its friends, and the friends of its enemy. Thus exposed to the eminent hazard of a war with England, by which of the candidates for the presidency, will government be most successfully administered? To France, with whom in THAT EVENT WE MUST BE STRICTLY ALLIED, Mr. Adams is both personally, and politically odious. Mr. Pinckney has been twice refused to be acknowledged as our ambassador to that government, for the avowed reason, that his politics were unfriendly to them, and partial to Britain. With the prejudices almost necessarily inspired by the double relief, with what cordiality can Mr. Pinckney cherish an alliance, which to us is like to prove so precious, so indispensable? On the other hand how inviting is the prospect before us. Mr. Jefferson, from the moment when the declaration of our Independence (that authentic monument of patriotism) was presented by him for the sanction of Congress, and by them unanimously ratified, HAS BEEN THE UNDEVIATING FRIEND OF FRANCE."
It is often extremely fortunate, that in moments of exultation, and rapture, men throw off that mask of hypocrisy, which in cooler hours, they preserve with less difficulty, and unguardedly discover truths, which otherwise might be buried for years in deep obscurity. In this instance, the truth bursts forth. Elated with some favorable turn of fortune to the Jacobin cause, and looking forward to a period not far remote, when the full tide of victory shall set in upon them, a Democrat, a friend to Mr. Jefferson, and a promoter of his election tears away the veil, and openly, and without disguise declares the real truth—We are now about to be strictly allied to France; Mr. Adams and Mr. Pinckney (the Federal candidates for President and Vice President) are obnoxious to France; Mr. Jefferson, ever since the declaration of Independence, has been the undeviating friend of France; therefore, to please France, and do as she bids us, you must choose Mr. Jefferson president. Then we shall not only have a war with Great Britain, which we have long been striving for, but a close alliance
with France, thro' which we shall share in all the blessings which follow her dominion.
I have been led to introduce this passage, not only for the "precious confessions" which it contains, but also that you may see why the Proclamation of Neutrality was opposed by Mr. Jefferson's party, why every other measure of the Government, which tended to wrest us out of the clutches of France, was opposed and resisted; and also, that you may learn, what, instead of the six years peace, prosperity and happiness, which we have enjoyed, would have been the lot of this country, if Mr. Jefferson, instead of Presidents Washington and Adams, had been at the head of our government. War, with all its horrors, with Great Britain—Fraternization, with its ten fold greater horrors, with France.
It cannot be expected of me, that I shall draw a picture of the present state of society, the benign effects of our general Government, or of the peculiar blessings, which the various states enjoy, and which must be altered at least, if not destroyed, by a revolution in our government. My acquaintance extends only to a few of the northern states; the southern I am altogether a stranger to. I shall however take it for granted, that as each individual state, enjoys a government which it likes, and is governed by men whom the people choose, they are equally happy. I shall therefore make my remarks from the state of society around me, and with it to be considered as applying to the country at large.
The present great subjects of clamour against the Federal Government, are the taxes, the aristocracy, the expenses, and the increase of the national debt. If all this clamour is unfounded, will our countrymen coolly say they are oppressed, and unhappy?
I have already remarked on the direct tax, which is the most complained of. I will only add, that if it had not been for this undeviating friendship of Mr. Jefferson, and his party to France, their disposition to link us into the chain of French government, and the encouragement they constantly gave to the French to commit piracies upon us, we should not have been obliged to build a Navy, and of course should have avoided that expense. But, as we were reduced by them to the necessity of having a navy, and as the effect of the navy has been, to enrich our merchants, our mechanics, and our farmers, and at the same time, to lower the price of foreign goods, the direct tax cannot be considered as a burthen. Let me ask, which would our farmers choose—to pay the small direct tax which they now pay, and keep the price of country produce, and West India goods where they now are; or to be freed from the tax, and have the price of our country produce sink down where it was in the spring of 1798.
The charge of Aristocracy, or Monarchy, if the Democrats choose against the Federalists, is too silly to be noticed. I am not afraid to assert, that if there ever is a monarchy established in this country, it will be the consequence of the destruction of the Federal Government, by the Democratic party. In this way, demagogues ever accomplish their ambitious purposes. In this way Mr. Jefferson will accomplish his purposes, unless checked, and frustrated by the vigilance of the friends of the Federal Government.
With respect to the expenses of the government, I should hope it would satisfy every reasonable mind to know, that every man, probably almost without exception, who is concerned in the government, leaves business much more profitable, and that the government scarcely pays a single person concerned in it, whose wages are fixed, more than a decent, economical support, and many not even that. Government requires able men to administer it—Very few men can afford to give the country their time. We ought not to expect it. We must give them enough to induce the best men to take it upon them, or else take up with the poorest. Will any man hesitate which to prefer? If you have a lawsuit to manage, do you deliberate whether to give a few more dollars to an able lawyer, rather than to take up with a pettifogger because he is cheap?
With respect to the national debt, with all our embarrassments from the Democratic party, all the French plunderings, our navy, &c. &c. the national debt, as appears by the report of the Committee of Congress, at the last session, since the organization of the Federal Government, has lessened between three and four millions of dollars.
From the Gazette of the United States.
NOTES ON GALLATIN.
IN a new pamphlet by Gallatin, it is asserted that the Committee of Congress, instead of matter of fact, imposed the "private opinion of a few individuals" on the people of the United States; that the statement by the committee, of the amount of bonds receivable, was improper, because the people, i. e. the United States, still owed the money, the amount of these bonds;—thus if what people of the United States, owe the people of the United States is a fallacious item in account, the public debt

due to our own citizens is not due at all.— Bravo Mr. Gallatin, you have wiped away the debts at once without intending it.
But how do you prove that the mere arrangement of an old debt, by the new government, makes the whole a fair charge to the incidental expense account of the references only.
Why tell us, how much it cost us to prepare for our defence against the masters of your country, and conceal the amount of the savings thereby.
Are not the arms purchased still on hand; is not our Navy entire, with the addition of a fine frigate taken from your masters; is this the guil-ling thought that makes you forget your obligations to America; have we not taken and retaken 500 sail of vessels from the enemy; has not the convoys, &c. by the navy fixed twenty per cent. on the imports and exports, and on the shipping employed by our commerce for three years past? Answer these questions if you can. A True American Farmer.
Foreign Articles,
By an arrival at Boston, with London papers to Aug. 9.
PARIS, JULY 31.
CITIZEN DUROC, aid-de-camp of the first consul, the same who was so well received by the king and all the court, departs this night for Vienna with general count St. Julien.—This mission, which certainly relates to the negotiation, must be a good augury.
The report current yesterday of the signing of the preliminaries of peace enhanced a little the price of stocks.
It is said certain propositions have been made to Bonaparte, by the king of Sardinia.
Bonaparte granted a passport for the Queen of Naples, to proceed by land from Leghorn to Vienna.
It is asserted Malta is completely supplied with provisions.
A union of the Piedmont and Cisalpine governments is talked of.
The Portuguese Minister has left Russia.
LONDON, AUGUST 6.
The harvest throughout France promises to be more productive than in any other year since the Revolution.
AUGUST 8.
A private letter from Hamburg, received by yesterday's mail, contains the following passage: "It is reported, on the authority of some very respectable letters from Vienna, that count Cobenzel has had a conference with the Russian minister at Carlsbad, at which a Prussian minister was likewise present. At the close of this conference, proposals were sent to the French agent at Dresden, who forwarded them to Paris. The northern alliance will, it is said, act an important part at the negotiations of peace, which are now expected for a certainty to take place. The new preliminaries of peace, which the Austrian cabinet has sent to Paris by gen. count St. Julien, are offered under the mediation of the cabinets of Berlin and Petersburg. A new Russian ambassador was likewise expected to go to Vienna, where the Government Bills have again risen 4 per cent. so sanguine are the hopes of peace in Austria."
Notwithstanding the menacing aspect of affairs in the North, it seems not to have excited any considerable alarm at Lloyd's, for the insurance to the Russian and Swedish ports in the Baltic has risen only two per cent.
A fleet which failed on Wednesday from Sheerness for the Baltic, has been prevented from proceeding. A cutter was sent after the convoy to order the whole into Yarmouth Roads.
Eight French and Spanish ships of the line, and five frigates, are said in a letter from Tarifa, in the southern extremity of Spain, to have passed the straits of Gibraltar.
TOUSSAINT'S DOMINIONS.
Extract of a letter from the Consul of the United States at Port Republican, dated August 12.
"A complete and unconditional submission of the Southern department of this island to the Commander in Chief Toussaint Louverture, has taken place. Jeremie, that was the last given up, official accounts have been this day received of its surrender. Thus the whole department is under the jurisdiction of general Toussaint, whose conduct towards the deluded inhabitants has been marked by the most honourable humanity. Almost a general amnesty has been accorded, and the citizens of all colours in that quarter, now hail him as their deliverer. His opponent, Rigaud, with 40 or 50 of the officers attached to his person, have made their escape, by embarking in a small boat, where destined is not known. The general is now actively employed in organizing the department; and a short time will secure to us, in this place, an intercourse with that rich country, which must generally benefit our commerce. Several mercantile expeditions are already on foot for Jeremie, which promise an advantageous result. It is also proper to state, that this conquest has put an end to the barges that have so long infested the Bite, and that no further necessity exists for vessels bound to this port, to touch at Cape Francois or the Mole for convoy. I am confidently informed, that not only a considerable quantity of coffee is in the mountains of the Grand Ance, but there is also a large collection of produce in store at Jeremie, which will all find its way here, and give an activity to our business."
THE FOLLOWING IS THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM ABROAD, RECEIVED BY THE MAIL.
LONDON DATES, VIA NEW-YORK, TO AUG. 10.
"AMERICAN ENVOYS."
LONDON, AUGUST 7. BY letters from Paris, we find the American Ministers make no progress in their explanations, and that the two republics are not for the present likely to be better reconciled. The object of this suspension and delay is obvious. France, by holding a doubtful conduct, will animate her partisans in America, and intimidate her opponents; and in this course she will the more probably continue to steer, with the view of effecting a change in the President, the election of whom comes on in a few months.
PEACE ARTICLES.
AUGUST 10.
Friday, Paris papers to the 6th were received; and others up to the 8th instant reached town yesterday. They afford no official intelligence respecting the negotiations between Austria and France; but their general complexion augurs favorably for peace.—The return of count St. Julien from Paris for Vienna, and the departure of citizen Duroc, first aid-de-camp to the Chief Consul, for the same capital, have given rise to a very natural supposition that preliminaries of peace are in a state of forwardness.—They left Paris on the same day, but did not travel in company.—Citizen Duroc arrived at Strasbourg on the 2d instant; he is to carry with him the ultimatum of the French government, and to be authorized to terminate the negotiations, by ratifying a formal treaty of peace. It is, however, to be observed, that there is not the smallest remission of industry in the hostile preparations either of France or Austria.
The Journal du Commerce positively asserts that the present armistice between the French and Imperialists is concluded for the space of three months.
The Baron de Dohm, the Prussian minister, who presides in the congress of the German states included within the line of neutrality, the deputies of which are assembled at Hildesheim, has just announced that the supplies for the army of observation, which protects the north of Germany, must not be extended beyond three months, as there is every reason to hope, that by that period, peace will be restored to Europe.
An article from Berlin says, we are assured that, exclusive of the late successes of the French the court of Vienna was forced into a negotiation by the people, who opposed both the forced loan and a new levy of troops, and began to insult the English ambassador, as the cause of all their sufferings.
WAR ARTICLES.
The French have taken possession of Frankfort, entering that city on the 27th ult. with two battalions and 400 cavalry, three pieces of cannon, and several ammunition waggons.—The magistrates resisted a considerable time, but being at length compelled to yield to force, they consented to give up the place, and accordingly billets being granted, the troops were distributed in the houses of the citizens. The sensation caused by this unexpected movement upon the inhabitants, is said to have been inexpressible. The energy of the magistrates, it is also observed, do them honor, as they persist in refusing to pay the contribution demanded; but, on the contrary, insist upon claiming the rights due to a neutral city.
The French are making vigorous preparations for the defence of their Western Coast against the English. They consider Belleisle as the object against which one of our Secret Expeditions is destined.
The Paris papers of the 15th confirm the report of the capture of 20 English gun-boats, coming out of Gibraltar, by Spanish gun-boats, and corsairs belonging to Barcelona. Two of the above were from Tuscany, and defended themselves with obstinacy against the Spaniards.
EGYPT, &c.
From Constantinople it is reported that the English troops, under Colonel Murray, have abandoned the isthmus of Suez, of which they had taken possession previous to the dispersion of the grand Turkish army.
An article from the Hague, of the 26th ult. states, that the intelligence first circulated in Paris of the departure of the Russian Ambassador from Constantinople, is fully confirmed by letters from Hungary, and several other places. All the Russians have also quitted that city.
Letters from Constantinople and Smyrna afford new grounds to believe that Kleber is de-
termined to maintain himself in Egypt. A squadron of French and Spanish ships of war, consisting of eight sail of the line, and five frigates, have been seen entering the Mediterranean.—It is conjectured that this is the squadron that was stated to have sailed from Brest about a month ago, and that its object was to arrive at Egypt by steering close to the African coast.
Our accounts from Egypt by last mail, state the renewal of hostilities to have been even more calamitous than had been before represented; as, instead of only ten thousand men having fallen in the battle with Kleber, the Turks lost upwards of twenty thousand by the sword, and by subsequent hunger, thirst and fatigue in the desert; whilst the multitude attributable to these latter causes the plague, which has made, and continues to make the most dreadful havoc in the remains of the Ottoman army.
ENGLAND AND THE NORTHERN EUROPEAN POWERS.
It is stated that Russia and Sweden cordially concur in the plan of an armed neutrality against the uncontrolled maritime domination of England, but that Denmark is averse to become a party in the confederacy, from the prudent consideration that she would thereby hazard the loss of her valuable possessions in the East and West Indies, and the lucrative trade she has carried on during the war.
Accounts from Hamburg, of the 26th ult. assert, that all the attempts of Russia and Sweden to draw Denmark into the new alliance against England have proved fruitless. At Copenhagen, it is added, they tremble at the idea of a rupture, which would expose the country and their continental possessions to the resentment of the English.
It is currently reported and generally credited at Hamburg, that the court of London is upon the point of a perfect reconciliation with the Emperor Paul. What renders this desirable event more credible is, that the armed neutrality is no longer the topic of discourse.
It now appears that the Portuguese ambassador had no orders to leave Peterburgh, but justly apprehending such an event, had demanded leave of his court to return home.
Domestic Affairs.
PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 18. ACCOUNTS from Tennessee, mention, that canvassing for electors of President runs high; but doubtless persons will be chosen who will vote for Adams.
"HOLY INSURRECTION."
"The SPIRIT OF THE MASTER IS ABATING, that of the SLAVE, RISING from the dust, his condition mollifying."
Jefferson's Notes.
Truly Mr. J. the Spirit of the Slave is RISING, and from the following account it appears has already rose to blood heat.—Should the business end in Massacre, you and your disciples are the men who are the cause of it; and for every outrage and murder the Negroes may commit you stand accountable. From the Proclamation issued by Monroe (who is also one of your flickers for "Liberty and Equality") it appears that should poor GABRIEL be caught, whatever height his SPIRIT may have risen to, there is a probability of his BODY rising to a much higher station than he could wish.
From a Richmond Paper of September 12.
The public mind has been much involved in dangerous apprehensions, concerning an insurrection of the negroes in several of the adjacent counties. Such a thing has been in agitation among the blacks, principally instigated by an ambitious and insidious fellow, a Slave, by the name of GABRIEL, the property of Mr. Thomas Proffer, of the county of Henrico. This villain, assuming to himself the appellation of General, through his artfulness, has caused some disturbance, having induced many poor, ignorant, and unfortunate creatures to share in his nefarious and horrid design. The plot has been entirely exploded, which was shallow; and had the attempt even been made to carry it into execution, but little resistance would have been required, to render their scheme entirely abortive. Thirty or forty of the party have been arrested and confined in jail for trial. Yesterday a cailed court was held for that purpose, at the Court House in this city, when six of them were convicted and condemned to suffer death this day at 12 o'clock. It is said that the evidence which has been procured will go to prove nearly the whole of them guilty.—To day the court will proceed to go through with the rest of the trials.
Governor Monroe has issued his proclamation, offering a Reward of Three Hundred Dollars for the above-mentioned Negro GABRIEL, and a full and free pardon, to any of his accomplices who will give information so that he may be brought to justice, in addition to the above reward.
FRIES.
To the astonishment of every true Republican, it is found to be a fact that Fries, convicted by
a legal court and constitutional jury, of a crime which forfeited his life, has been elected to command a regiment of militia in Pennsylvania, and is commissioned by Governor THOMAS M'KEAN. Let true Americans reflect on the enmity which this measure discovers towards the Federal Government—the insult which is thus offered to the people of the United States, in their legally elected rulers. Let thinking democrats pause and consider whither they may be led, if they continue to associate themselves with all the wretches who pretend to be Republicans.
Black GABRIEL, for whom Monroe has offered a reward, may shortly be expected in Pennsylvania, where, if he do not obtain the title of General, he will at least stand a good chance of being appointed Major of Fries' regiment of Militia! he has great claims, having been a Leader of Insurgents, for the purpose of gaining his liberty, !!! This is considered very meritorious, by those who can appoint him, in our state.
TWO SPLENDID RIVAL COMETS.
Pitt and Bonaparte have, by their immense fiery trains, acquired an entire ascendancy over the political affairs of Europe. Thus, while Pitt, with absolute supremacy, rules the ocean, Bonaparte seems, by the last intelligence, to have acquired an entire ascendancy over the terra firma of Europe.
The blow struck at Denmark, for daring to alter the Laws of Nations , on the plan of the Austrian amendment , to which England has ever been opposed, will either ruin the Danish commerce and navy, or involve Sweden and Russia in the most tremendous naval warfare that ever existed. How England will succeed against world, Portugal, Turkey and America excepted, time only can shew. The truth, however must be obvious to every American, with such a war, which may Heaven avert, the next year will be the most favorable to American commerce than our country ever knew, provided our neutrality is permitted to continue.
NEW-YORK, SEPT. 22.
Extract of a letter received from a gentleman in Edinburgh, to his friend in this city.
"America has lost in Gen. Washington a man whose memory all the world reveres, and whose fame will last forever. President Adams whom I know chiefly from his book on the American constitution, appears to be a man of wisdom and virtue, and the choice of such a man to be Washington's successor gives me a high opinion of the Americans, at least of the great body of the nation; for I know there is a mad party in politics with you, as well as on this side of the atlantic."
Capt. Coppinger, in 17 days from St. Croix, informs, that on the 2d. of Sept. off St. Croix, an engagement took place between the Danish Schooner Aravagan, capt. Pedder, and an English privateer of 14 guns, which lasted three quarters of an hour, in which the captain of the Dane was killed.—The Schooner returned to St. Croix.
Capt. C. further informs, that on the 5th of Sept. off St. Thomas, he saw an engagement between the Danish brig Lougen, capt. Flemberg, of 18 guns, and an English privateer sch. which lasted 15 minutes, when the privateer struck her colors, and was carried into St. Thomas.
BOSTON, SEPT. 26.
FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES.
New-Hampshire —The Hon. Abiel Foster, Samuel Tenney, George B. Upham, and Joseph Peirce, are declared by Authority to be chosen by a very large majority, to serve after the 4th of March next. They are firm Federalists. There is no choice of a successor to Mr. Gordon in the present Congress. The rival Candidates, Messrs. Tenney, and Upham, are of the above list.
STATE OF DISEASE.
Baltimore, Sept. 16. Deaths, the last 24 hours, twenty.
Sept. 17. Deaths, the last 24 hours, twenty eight.
Sept. 18. Deaths, in the last 24 hours, thirty one; sick, in the Hospital, 54.
Norfolk Sept. 16. The publication of the papers has been suspended by the prevalence of the fever; but it has now almost disappeared.
A Duel—and its Consequences.
Extract of a letter from Norfolk, to a gentleman in New-York, dated Sept. 6.
"Request you to get the following statement published, of an unfortunate affair which took place lately in an adjoining state."
"We yesterday learnt the disagreeable news of the death of Dr. Rameck, of Edenton, which is as follows: Dr. Rameck has been a long time at variance with Dr. Ryan Butler, of Kempville. They met near Edenton, and exchanged three shot; when the magistrates interposed and put an end to the business. On Thursday last they met again on the line which separates Virginia from Carolina, and again exchanged three shots; when the last of Dr. Rameck's shots entered the thigh of Dr. Butler and broke it—the business thus ended. Dr. Rameck went home and sat up the greatest part of the night with some friends; in the morning he arose, dressed himself, and ordered his servant to saddle his horse, as he wanted to ride out. When the servant was gone, he went into a small room adjoining his shop, and put a pistol to each of his temples, and blew his brains out—thus ended Dr. Rameck."

Portland,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1800.
ELECTION OF PRESIDENT.
The Legislature of this State is soon to meet for the purpose of choosing Electors of President and Vice President. On this important subject some interesting facts and speculations may soon be expected, which will be laid before the public. If the Federal interest is united, a friend of America will be elected—If not, a friend of France will become our chief ruler. The jacobins are perfectly united in their candidate:—But there is reason to apprehend that there will be TWO FEDERAL CANDIDATES FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
Speculations only, appear on the subject of the American Negotiation at Paris. The stale question “what news of our envoys?” has become tedious to the ear. The public mind has been agitated with a thousand rumours, which have been a thousand times contradicted. Let the reader consult his own judgment on the following articles, and the one under the London head; and then consider how much he is informed on this worn-out subject!—Eleven months have elapsed since “our envoys” failed for France; and it was expected one half that time would be sufficient to determine the business of the legation;—for, it was not believed by the American public, that a second embassy was to remain at Paris, to be tampered with by Frenchmen, and be made the dupes of their equivocation and finesse.
“Philadelphia, Sept. 19.”
“Nearly a fortnight since, we were privately advised by an intelligent character, that from the tenor of his letters received from the Seat of Government, it appeared that the Negotiation with France was at an end, and that the frigate Portsmouth with our Commissioners, and no Peace, might be expected in all this month. It was thought proper to withhold this information for a time. But the following article from a Raleigh paper sanctions the publication of this paragraph.”
“RALEIGH, (N. C.) SEPT. 9.”
“In confirmation of what we stated in our last, of the suspension of the negotiation between this country and France, we are now able to say it may be RELIED ON. The gentleman who informed us of this, had it verbally from Mr. Marshall the Secretary of State. It appears that on Buonaparte’s returning conqueror to Paris, and being elated with success, he informed the American Commissioners that when our country would enter into a treaty offensive & defensive, then the French would indemnify the United States for the depredations committed on our commerce.”
VIOLENCE!
By a person from Lewiston, it is stated, that on Monday night last about thirty persons, disguised and armed with muskets, clubs, &c. surrounded the house of a Mr. Purington, of that town, and demanded Colonel Little, of Poland, who had taken lodgings there. On discovering the Colonel at the window one of the party threw a stone at him which wounded him severely in his lips—and others discharged several muskets with balls thro’ the window, but fortunately without effect. Mr. Little retreated to the cellar, and Mr. Purington made the mob believe he had fled from the house—they then made off. It is much to be regretted that such acts of violence against land owners should disgrace any of the settlers of Maine. But if they are persisted in, Legislative authority must doubtless interfere.
A very simple and economical method to take out every kind of spot occasioned by fruits, such as strawberries, gooseberries, &c. Cause the spotted part to imbibe water, and afterwards burn one or two common brimstone matches over the place: the sulphurous gas which is discharged soon causes the spot to disappear.
Extract of a letter from a Lady who sailed from Boston, in the Packet, capt. Trott, dated at Livorno.
“You know it was our intention to have our little G — inoculated for the small pox before we carried him up to London, but we have had him inoculated for the cow pox, as we found no one now inoculates for the small pox, as the cow pox is found to prevent the other entirely, and is now established throughout England, and will soon be established all over Europe, and I hope America too. Our little boy is now in the ninth day of the disease and is scarcely sick at all.”
“BOURDEAUX, (in France.)”
By private letters from Bourdeaux, says a London paper, we are informed that the only carriage now in that once opulent city, belongs to the American Minister’s lady, Mrs. Fenwick; in that city which once contained five hundred splendid carriages!
At the last Superior Court at Dover N. H. Isaac Mersevers of a place called New Madbury, was convicted of perjury, in two instances. He was sentenced to pay a fine to the county—stand two hours in the pillory—to be imprisoned 16 months, and pay costs of prosecution, amounting to 110 dollars. He has broke goal and made his escape.
“From Hartford (Con.) Sept. 22.”
Notwithstanding the base tricks of the democrats, which must excite the indignation of every honest man, our State Election has resulted in the choice of the usual large majority of federal characters.
Madame Bonaparte’s table is served up with taste and elegance, but without any display of luxury or protusion. Amidst the numerous servants of the First Consul, twelve Egyptians are particularly conspicuous. They are dressed in a fantastic kind of uniform, and their business is to wait on himself exclusively.
The Bankers of Paris have lately introduced a new mode of engraving for their notes and checks. It is done from glass plates, according to a method suggested by citizen Boudier, which, it seems, precludes all possibility of forgery.
The Danes have discovered a fine sand in the island of Biornholm, of which they have already begun to make a beautiful kind of porcelain.
“A demagogue in ancient times began his political career with begging and coaxing the people, calumniating the government of his country exclaiming Obt bat I were made Judge in the land , and professing that he would do great things for the public good. The progress of his career was marked with incest, rebellion, and civil war; the end was destruction to him and his party.”
No one can doubt the applicability of the following lines to Frenchmen:
“They can laugh at virtue, Mock the fools that trust them; And in the end disclose a face, That would have shock’d credulity itself.”
ORDAINED —At Bangor, on the 10th inst. Mr. JAMES BOYD, to the pastoral care of the church in that place and the congregational societies in Orrington and Hampden.
DIED —At Cape-Elizabeth, on Thursday night last, Mrs. DEBORAH FAIRBANKS, aged 75. On the 15th inst. a Child of Mr. Thomas Stevens, at Casine, was thrown from a chaise, and instantly killed.
Marine Articles.
Port of Portland.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 27.
Arrived, Schooner Argo , George Mead, master, 27 days from Demarara. Left there, sloop Britannia , Drinkwater, Northarmouth; Schooner Ruby , Lovell, Boston; sloop —, Williams, New London; to sail in two or three days; Schooner Adventure , Freeman, Boston; brig Polly , Neal, Portsmouth; brig —, Smith, New London; and a Schooner from Kennebec, belonging to Boston, to sail in about twenty days; the Schooner Friendship , Stone, Newburyport, just arrived.—Sailed in company with Schooner Nancy , Pool, Gloucester, bound to Bermuda. In lat. 34, 30. long. 64, spoke a brig from Halifax bound to Barbadoes, 14 days out. In lat. 38, long. 65, spoke brig Hannah , Leach, 8 days from Boston, bound to Demarara, all well. Sept. 23 on Georges, spoke ship Lark , Boston, 47 days from Jamaica. Same day spoke a brig from Amsterdam, for Philadelphia, 46 days out.
Boston, Sept. 25.—Arrived from Mary, Cobb, Russia, 86 days. The Americans are treated with great respect there.
The tempests of the 8th and 18th inst. were very extensive in their destructive effects—we have already mentioned several instances—and every arrival and post furnishes others.
An American fleet, under convoy of the U.S. brigs Richmond and Eagle , was to sail Sept. 5, from St. Thomas.
WORTHY OF ATTENTION!
Adventurers have still a chance for a Prize of 2000 Dollars!
Also, one of 600—one of 500—and thirty of 100 dollars, in the 4th class of the Amoskeag Lottery , by applying soon at Jenks’ Book-store , where a few Tickets in said Lottery are for sale. Price Four Dollars.—The drawing to commence twenty-first of October .—Prizes paid at said Bookstore, without deduction. Sept. 29.
A paved Gutter,
Of about eighty rods in length, and six feet in width, is to be made in this town.—If any person or persons incline to procure stones and make the same, they are desired to apply to the Selectmen. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Chairman. Portland, Sept. 6.
Wanted—An Apprentice
to the HAIR-DRESSING business.—Good encouragement will be given. Apply to MOSES ADAMS. Portland, Sept. 8.
THE subscribers having mutually agreed to dissolve the copartnership under the firm of WEEKS AND TUCKER , on the first day of January next, they request all persons who are indebted to, or have claims upon them, to call at their Counting-Room for settlement prior to that time.
Lemuel Weeks, Daniel Tucker.
Portland, Sept. 29, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the articles of copartnership between the subscriber and EPES SAVILLE , expired on the twenty-ninth day of July last, on which day the said copartnership was dissolved. All persons owing said company are hereby called on for payment—and those to whom said company are indebted are requested to exhibit their demands without delay to Lemuel Bradford. Portland, Sept. 25, 1800.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice, that he hath just set up the Clothier’s Business, in Windham, at the Mills commonly called Mather’s Mills , where he will dress any kind of CLOTH at a reasonable rate. Any persons who will favor him with their custom may depend on particular attention being paid.
Nathan Pope.
Windham, 24th 9th mo. 1800.
THE Subscribers, being by the Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, appointed Commissioners to examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of
Benjamin Carr,
late of Bucksport , in said county, yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months from the 29th day of July last being allowed for the said creditors to bring in their claims and prove their debts, give notice that they will attend the business of the said appointment at the office of Josiah Stebbins , in New Milford, on the first Mondays of the four months next following the date hereof, from two to six o’clock P. M. on each of the said days.
JOSIAH STEBBINS, } Commis- PITT DILLINGHAM, } sioners. New Milford, Sept. 19, 1800.
TAKEN from Titcomb’s Wharf , on Saturday night, the 6th instant, A new 15 feet YAWL, her whale painted black and yellow, red inside, with light blue paneled quarters.
Whoever will give information of said Yawl, so that the owner may recover her, shall be handsomely rewarded. Apply to the Gazette-Office . Sept. 19.
COMMERCIAL INFORMATION.
TAKE NOTICE.
WHEREAS several recent instances having lately occurred of vessels going to the Havana, and other ports in the island of Cuba, without their papers being first certified to by the Consul of his Catholic Majesty, agreeable to Notification published in the different papers of the United States, by order of Don Joseph Ignacio de Vier, his Catholic Majesty’s Consul-General, residing in Philadelphia; and that much to the prejudice and injury of some individuals, by a detention of property in not being admitted to an entry, until duplicates of their invoices are again forwarded with their necessary certifications thereto annexed, accompanied by bills of health, also duly certified.
Documents to that purpose, having been already exhibited and executed in said Consular Office for the Eastern States, with this knowledge and the information received of the penalty liable to be paid in transgression of said order, his Catholic Majesty’s Consul residing in Boston, has thought proper to make this more publicly known by the foregoing advertisement.
JUAN STOUGHTON,
Consul for the Eastern States.
Boston, Sept. 8, 1800.
RUN away from the subscriber, on the 24th inst. EDWARD GILMAN, an Indented apprentice. This is to forbid any person trusting or harbouring him, as I shall not be accountable for any debt of his contracting.
BENEZER WINSLOW.
Falmouth, 8th Mo. 27, 1800.
ALL persons are hereby forbidden to harbour, trust, trade with, or employ, on any account, DIMAN PERRY, jun. as I will not be answerable for any obligations he may contract. DIMAN PERRY.
Poland, August 25, 1800.
Strayed or Stolen,
FROM Old Salisbury, on the first day of September, inst. a dark chestnut coloured MARE, with a star in her forehead—fourteen hands high, 4 years old this fall, trots and paces.—Whoever will return said Mare to the subscriber, or leave her where he may receive her, shall be entitled to FIVE DOLLARS, and all necessary charges. Thomas Bayley.
Durham, Sept. 19.
CAME into the inclosure of the subscriber, on Friday the 22d inst. a black HORSE, with a star in his forehead, about fifteen hands high. The owner may have him again by proving property and paying charges. Apply to the subscriber. NATHANIEL HODGKINS. Falmouth, August 29, 1800.
FOR SALE.
(If applied for immediately.)
Sixty-two acres of LAND, with a House and Barn thereon, together with a young orchard, a good well of water, &c.—For further particulars inquire of the Subscriber, living on the premises. The payment will be made easy to the purchaser. DANIEL SEWALL. New Gloucester, Sept. 19, 1800.
DISTRICT OF MAINE.
BY virtue of a Writ of venditioni exponas, from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maine, will be exposed to Sale, at a place called Clay-Cove , in the town of Portland, on Wednesday the Fifteenth day of October next, at Twelve o’Clock, Noon, the FISHING BOAT or SCHOONER called the JACK , with her tackle, apparel, furniture and appurtenances—which Schooner, &c. have been decreed by the aforesaid Court to be forfeited for a breach of the Revenue Laws of the United States.
Conditions of Sale to be made known at the time and place of sale, or before, at the Office of the subscriber.
Isaac Parker, Marshal of District of Maine.
Portland, 27th Sept. 1800.
A New Line STAGE,
HAS begun to run from Portland through Berwick and Dover to Portsmouth . The Subscriber, one of the Proprietors, informs the public, that said STAGE will set off from Mr. PAINE’s, in Portland, every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, at an early hour, and arrive at Portsmouth on the evenings of the same days;—and will leave Portsmouth on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and FRIDAYS, and arrive at Mr. PAINE’s, in Portland, on the evenings of those days.
The Public will please to notice, that this Stage will leave Portland, and arrive at Portsmouth, on days different from that which conveys the Mail:—So that by the present arrangement a Stage will pass from Portland to Portsmouth and from Portsmouth to Portland every day in the week, Sundays excepted.
Those who wish for seats will please to apply at Mr. PAINE’s, in Portland, where Stage-Books will be kept.—Careful Drivers will be provided, and every necessary accommodation for passengers.
Aaron Chamberlain.
Portland, Sept. 28th, 1800.
Bowdoin College.
THE Overseers of Bowdoin College are hereby notified, that their semi annual meeting will be held on the first Wednesday of November next, being the fifth day of said month, at ten of the clock, A. M. at the house of Mr. JOHN DUNNING, in Brunswick.
MARK LANGDON HILL, Secretary. September 1800.
A variety of Music,
Consisting of the Newest Pieces, may be had at JENKS’ BOOK-STORE.
Excellent Rhode Island Cheesee, just received and for Sale, By WM. FENNELLY, 4000 wt. by the hundred or single Cheesee. 20 kegs genuine Fig Tobacco, A quantity of live Geese Feathers, One trunk white Threads and Tapes, 100 Staws Tumblers. Portland, Sept. 15.
For Sale,
By Hatch & Dearborn, At their Shop in Fifth-street, Superfine Black and Navy blue BROAD CLOTHS, of a superior quality.
The TAILORING BUSINESS is carried on at said Shop as usual—where garments of every description may be had at the shortest notice. Sept. 15, 1800.
B. ADAMS,
SCULPTOR AND STONE-CUTTER,
Respectfully acquaints the public, that he has commenced business, in Federal-Street, near the head of Fifth-Street, where he has an assortment of Connecticut and Quincy SLATE STONES, suitable for hearths, jambs, and mantels—Also, TOMB STONES and GRAVE-STONES.—Likewise, a few Italian MARBLE TABLE SLABS. Portland, Sept. 15, 1800.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. YORK, ss.
AT a Court of Common Pleas, begun and held at Waterborough, within and for the county of York, on the fourth Tuesday of August, being the twenty-sixth day of said month, A. D. 1800—
ON the petition of TRISTRAM JORDAN, jun. and DANIEL GRAINGER , trader, both of Pepperellborough in said county, shewing—That they are interested in a certain tract or parcel of Land situated in Pepperellborough aforesaid, adjoining land possessed by Joel Sawyer, John Sawyer, and others, commonly called Goodwin’s lot: that said Jordan owns and is seized of two thirds of said lot, and the said Grainger one ninth part of the same, in common with other persons to the petitioners unknown: which proportions they are desirous of holding in severally—and praying that the same may be set off to them to hold in severally.
ORDERED, that said petitioners cause the substance of their said petition and this order thereon, to be inserted in the Portland Newspaper printed by ELIZER A. JENKS , three weeks successively; the last publication to be thirty days at least prior to the next term of this Court, to be held at Biddeford, within and for said county of York, on the last Tuesday of October next; to the end any person or persons interested therein, may then and there appear, and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said petition should not be granted.
DANIEL SEWALL, Clerk.

MUSES.
MR. JENKS,
I believe there are but few persons who possess your muses' department, who will not be pleased with the following Description of a Winter and Summer Evening, drawn by the pen of the justly celebrated author of the Pleasures of Hope .
So thy fair hand enamour'd Fancy gleams The treasur'd pictures of a thousand scenes! Thy pencil traces on the Lover's thought Some cottage-home, from towns and toil remote, Where Love and lore may claim alternate hours, With peace embosom'd in Italian bow'rs! Remote from busy life's bewild'ring ways, O'er all his heart shall Taste and Beauty sway! Free on the sunny slope, or winding shore, With hermit steps to wander and adore! There shall he love, when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears, To watch the bright'ning roses of the sky, And muse on Nature with a poet's eye! And, when the sun's last splendor lights the deep, The woods, and waves, and murmur'ing winds asleep; When fairy harps th' Hesperian planet hail, And the lone Cuckoo sighs along the vale, His path shall be where streamy mountains swell Their shadowy grandeur o'er the narrow dell, Where moulderings and forrests intervene, Mingling with darker tints the living green; Heaven, Earth, and Ocean, blazing all around! No circling hills his ravish'd eye to bound.
The moon is up—the watch-tow'r dimly burns— And down the vale his sober step returns; But pauses oft, as winding rocks convey The still sweet fall of Music far away; And oft he lingers from his home awhile To watch the dying notes! and start, and smile! Let Winter come! Let polar Spirits sweep The dark'ning world, and tempest troubled deep; Though boundless snows the wither'd heath deform, And the dim sun scarce wanders through the storm; Yet shall the smile of social love repay, With mental light, the melancholy day; And, when its short and sullen noon is o'er, The ice-chain'd waters slumbering on the shore, How bright the faggots in his little hall Blaze on the hearth, and warm the pictur'd wall.
How blest the names, in Love's familiar tongue, The kind fair friend, by nature mark'd his own; And, in the viewless mirror of his mind, Views the sweet years of pleasure left behind, Since Anna's empire o'er his heart began— Since first he call'd her his before the holy man! Trim the gay taper in his rustic dome, And light the wintry paradise of home; And let the half uncourtin'd window hail Some way-worn man benighted in the vale. Now while the moaning night-wind rages high, As sweep the shot-stars down the troubled sky, While fiery hosts in Heaven's wide circle play, And bathe in livid light the milky way, Safe from the storm, the meteor and the shower, Some pleasing page shall charm the solemn hour— With pathos shall command, with wit beguile, A generous tear of anguish, or a smile.
From the Gazette of the United States.
SONG.
The trifling maid, who idly vain, Concerns a faithful lover's pain, His torments all her joy; Who changeful as an April day, With captive hearts delights to play, As infants with a toy; Deserves of Cupid's bitter draught To taste a drop, and from his shaft A stroke or two to feel; Then tremble, nymph; for, taught by me Strophon shall soon give wounds to thee No vanity shall heal.
ARTS OF A SEDUCER.
THE following elegant delineation of the arts practiced by a seducer, is taken from a speech of Lord Mulgrave , in the British House of Lords, the 4th April last, in a debate on the Divorce Bill . This bill prevents the parties in seduction from marrying—His lordship was opposed to the bill, as depriving the seducer of all the reparation he could make to the unfortunate female he had seduced. In answer to some observations on the bill by the bishops of Rochester and London , his lordship said—"The reverend and learned Prelates would forgive him, if he must take it for granted that he knew rather more of the gay and fashionable world, its customs, its frivolities, its pursuits, its pleasures, than they did. It was natural his knowledge in this respect should be greater, for his opportunities of acquiring it were certainly more numerous. Now from all he knew of the habits of a fashionable and accomplished seducer, a character he only studied to detect, it was not the style of such a person—it did not at all accord with his manner—to begin by suggesting, clumsily, that the difficulties in the way of marriage were great or few; that marriage would be the reward of compliance, the ultimate con-
summation of illicit love.—No! such a man knew better how to approach the citadel of honor, and lay siege to unexpecting virtue. His manners would be easy, full of grace, marked by peculiar and minute attentions, rich in exquisite sensibility, patient of reproof, but vigilant to discover the almost evanescent changes of aspect, of tone, or of deportment; turning all to ultimate advantage, by appearing to admire that reserve and simplicity which, though the interesting traces of a polished and virtuous education, yet were in fact the most powerful incentives to love, because they threw around beauty that lustre which was to fascinate and lead captive the firmest and the proudest spirit. Such, or similar to these would be the feelings, the language, and the arts of an accomplished seducer."
ARTICLES OF CONVENIENCE!
In Brown's Travels in Egypt, &c. may be found the following passage—"In many of the villages are Women for the convenience of strangers—a part of whose profits is paid to the government, which tolerates them. I did not observe, however, that the nature of their calling created any external levity, or indecency of behavior."
Circulating Library,
At JENKS' BOOKSTORE, next to the Bank.
LATELY received at said Library, a variety of the newest Novels, &c. which have arrived from London—CATALOGUES of which are now printed, and may be had gratis. The following are the
CONDITIONS,
On which BOOKS may be taken from the LIBRARY. QUARTERLY subscribers to pay one dollar and fifty cents per quarter; paying one half the sum at the commencement of the quarter: to have the privilege of taking out two volumes at a time, and to change them when agreeable. Persons once subscribing to be considered subscribers until their names shall be erased, and their accounts settled. Persons who do not subscribe, to pay ten cents per week for octavo volumes, and six cents per week for duodecimo volumes.—No books to be let by the day.—Any book retained longer than seven days by non-subscribers, must enter upon a second week, and so on.
Compensation must be made for books lost, abused, leaves folded down, written upon, or torn; and if belonging to a set, the whole must be paid for.
Unless the above conditions are strictly complied with a Circulating Library cannot be maintained and properly supplied in Portland. Should the encouragement prove sufficient very considerable additions of Books in the different branches of Literature will be speedily made.
All persons now in possession of books which have been out more than a week, are desired to return them—And those who are indebted to said Library are requested to make immediate payment. Portland, Sept. 6, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE.
ALL person indebted to the Estate of JOHN BURNHAM, late of Portland, deceased, are requested to make payment without delay.—All accounts not settled within thirty days, will be lodged with an Attorney for collection.
Thomas Burnham, Peter Warren.
August 25, 1800.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that the subscribers have been duly appointed joint Administrators on the Estate of SILVANUS PRINCE, late of Northyarmouth, Yeoman, deceased, and given bonds as the law directs.—All persons having demands on said Estate, are desired immediately to exhibit the same for settlement; and those indebted to make payment to
Thomas Prince, John Prince, } Administrators.
Northyarmouth, August 19, 1800.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that the subscribers have been duly appointed joint Administrators on the Estate of SAMUEL MERRILL, late of Northyarmouth, Esq. deceased, and given bonds as the law directs.—All persons having demands on said Estate, are hereby called upon to exhibit the same for settlement; and those indebted to make immediate payment to
Mary Merrill, Moses Merrill, } Administrators.
Northyarmouth, August 19, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a further time of six months from the date hereof, is allowed by the Judge of Probate for the county of York, to the Creditors to the Estate of Joseph Gilpatrick, Esq.
late of Limerick, deceased, to bring in their Claims to the subscribers, Commissioners to said Estate; who will attend that business at his late dwelling house, on the first Monday of July, and the first of the five following months, from three to six o'clock, P. M.
John Baker, Samuel Bradbury, } Commissioners.
Limerick, June 23, 1800.
The Author of a Work, entitled The Oriental Harmony , TAKES this method to express his sentiments of gratitude to those Gentlemen who have encouraged it by their subscriptions; and informs them, that the encouragement thus given has brought him to the determination to commit it to the press by the first of next autumn; and to have the books ready for subscribers by the last of that season.
Subscribers may depend upon it, that no pains have been spared to render the work worthy the approbation of all impartial friends to sacred vocal music. ABRAHAM MAXIM.
William Brown, Offers for Sale, a Handsome Assortment of SUPER-Village Straw, and Norway Bonnets; Satin Beavers; Fur'd Travelling Caps; York Bands, and Limerick Gloves for Ladies.—The above are offered wholesale or retail, at reduced prices. ALSO,
10 Boxes dipp'd CANDLES, Bbls. N. E. RUM, Do. 18 proof BRANDY, Few dozen PORTER.
Portland, Sept. 1.
Moses Davis,
BEGS leave to inform the public, that he has taken a shop in Main-street, next to Mr. Motley's Tavern, Portland, where he intends to carry on the CHASE MAKING BUSINESS, if encouragement is given.
For sale, as above, a new CHAISE.
August 25.
GENUINE BILLIOUS PILLS,
PREPARED by SAMUEL LEE, jun. of Windham, Connecticut. Secured to him by Patent, by the President of the United States, dated April 30th, 1796; agreeable to an act of Congress—They are approved of by Physicians, and others, for their singular virtues; and particularly as a sovereign remedy against an overcharge of bile in the stomachs of men, women and children. They remove pains in the head, stomach and bowels—the gripes, an obstructions. They are an excellent help for the gravel, scurvy, cholie, jaundice and dropsy; and a most effectual remedy for collyvencis, and th' restore convenient for all travellers by sea and land. They have proved to be very efficacious in preventing the yellow fever. After a debauch by eating or drinking, they restore the loss of appetite, and easily purge the stomach and bowels, without pain or griping. They are very necessary for seamen, as they prevent many of those diseases which they are afflicted with.
The above Pills may be had of JOHN P. WHITWELL, Boston; of SHIRLEY ERVING, Portland; and of
JAMES CUSHMAN, Topsham; who has constantly for sale, a general assortment of Drugs & Medicines.
Topsham, August 16, 1800. (8w—22)
War Department.
August 4th, 1800.
THE commanding Officers of corps, detachments, posts, garrisons, and recruiting parties, belonging to the military establishment of the United States are, to report to, and receive orders from Brigadier General WILKINSON, in the city of Washington, and all officers on furlough are to report themselves to the same officer with all possible dispatch.
SAMUEL DEXTER, Secretary of War.
S. Harding,
INFORMS his customers and the public, that he has REMOVED from Fifth-street to Union-street a few doors below Mr. How's Store, where he keeps for sale, as usual, an assortment of
Medicines & Groceries,
of the first quality; which may be purchased on reasonable terms. Portland Aug. 13.
JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE, WHOLESALE OR RETAIL,
By Abijah Cheever,
At his Store in Middle-street, opposite the Bank.
10 Boxes well assorted China Tea Sets, Few Chests fresh Hyson, Souchong and Bohea TEAS. Loaf and India Sugars. 8 Cales Men's, Women's, & Youth's English Beaver HATS. Men's and Youth's Felt do. 2500 pairs of Women's and Misses' Kid, Morocco, and Cloth SHOES. Men's and Boys Leather and Morocco do. Brais Pedicel Andirons, Shovels, Tongs and Hooks, Brais Handles for door, &c. All the above articles will be sold on very low terms for cash. Portland, Aug. 18.
TO BE SOLD BY THE SUBSCRIBER,
Or Let for a number of years, to build on,
PRIVILEGES for ten Saws on Saco River, in the town of Standish, in the county of Cumberland, with Land to accommodate the same, or as will best suit the purchaser—Also, a number of Shares in three Saws now under improvement, with a Grist-Mill. It is a very fine place for young men to carry on business in the country—being 18 miles from Portland, 17 from Saco, 20 from Kennebec, and 16 from Dunston, with good roads to either, which makes it a very good country stand.—Also Water and Timber in plenty—Any young Gentleman who wishes to be concerned, will do well to see it himself, as it may be had on reasonable terms. Robert M'Donald. Buxton, August 16.
TO BE SOLD,
A FARM, lying in Parsonsfield, containing one hundred and eighty acres of good Land, good Buildings, and an Orchard of one hundred and fifty trees—being a very delightful situation.—Whoever may wish to be furnished with a pleasant seat in the country, may now have one by applying to MOSES MICHEL, on the premises. Aug. 18
To be sold at Auction,
On Monday the 15th day of December next,
Certain piece of excellent Wood LAND, containing one hundred and twenty acres (mostly white oak) lying in the town of Biddeford, about three miles from Saco falls.—Said Land will be sold at the house of JOSEPH BEAL, living in said town. The land may be seen any time previous to the day of sale, by applying to the said JOSEPH BEAL.
THE nonresident proprietors of the following Lots of unimproved Land in the town of Buckstown, and county of Hancock, are hereby notified that the same are taxed in the bills committed to the Subscriber to collect for the year 1799, in the respective sums following, viz.
   Range. No. Lots. C. M. Range. No. Lots. C. M.    6 90 51 3 7 108  2 7 36 9 3 47  6 91 38 9 7 111  2 6 46 4 7 94  3 39 30 7 2 11  7 116 46 4 7 61  4 58 38 9 5 123  6 81 46 4 7 101  2 21 58 1 3 35  6 86 50 3 4 64  2 16 46 4 4 59  5 121 46 4 2 20  7 62 69 9 5 125  3 43 60 1 3 24  5 124 46 4  
If no person shall appear to discharge the taxes aforesaid, and all intervening charges, on or before Monday the first day of December next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to much of said Land as will discharge the same will then be sold at Public Auction, at the Store of Mr. ASA PEARBODY in Buckstown, according to law.
ANSON LAMPER,
Collector of Buckstown for 1799.
Buckstown, 26th August, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given to the following nonresident proprietors of Land, in Union, county of Lincoln, that their Lands are taxed in the State Town and County taxes, and arrears of Highway taxes, and committed to the subscriber, collector for the year 1799, to collect, viz.
   Town State. County. Highway. Sum total.    Josiah Reed, 60 2 69 3 29  Daniel Kirkpatrick, 9 40 49  Samuel Donham, 4 88 4 88  
And unless said taxes, with all intervening charges, are paid, on or before Monday the tenth day of November next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to much of said Lands will then be severally sold at Public Vendue, at the dwelling-house of David GILLMAN, inhoulder in said town, as will be sufficient to pay the same, as aforesaid.
Nathaniel Robbins, Collector.
Union, August 15th, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident Proprietors of Land lying in the town of Poland, in the county of Cumberland, that the following Lots are taxed in the State, County and Town Tax, for the year 1799, in the bills committed to me to collect, as follows:—
   FIRST DIVISION.   No. Lots. No. Acres. Land. County Tax. Town Tax. Residual Tax.   C. C. C. C.    61 100 200 9 28 48  22 100 50 2 7 12  10 100 100 7 21 12  63 100 200 9 28 48  83 50 50 2 7 12  13 100 100 5 14 34  94 100 100 5 14 34  20 100 30 2 7 12  99 100 150 7 21 36  14 100 150 7 21 36   SECOND DIVISION.  104 100 150 7 21 36  143 100 100 5 14 34  106 50 50 2 7 12  56 100 150 7 21 36  126 100 100 5 14 34  64 100 200 9 28 48  155 100 200 9 28 48  133 100 50 2 7 12  8 100 100 5 14 34  132 100 50 2 7 12  75 100 50 2 7 12  102 100 50 2 7 12  91 100 50 2 7 12  74 100 50 2 7 12  17 100 150 7 21 36  61 100 200 9 28 48  32 50 75 3 11 18  
If no person shall appear to discharge said taxes and all necessary intervening charges, on or before Wednesday the twenty-sixth day of November 1800, at 10 o'clock, A. M. so much of the said Lots of Land as will be sufficient to discharge the same will then be sold at Public Auction to the highest bidder, according to Law, at the house of WENTWORTH RICHER, inhoulder in said Poland. John T. Merrill, Collector. Poland, August 10, 1800.
SCHOOL BOOKS,
FOR SALE AT JENKS' BOOK-STORE.
The American Preceptor, The Young Gentleman and Ladies' Instructor, Orator's Assistant, Columbian Orator, Webster's Third Part, The Maine Spelling Book, Webster's, & Perry's Spelling Books, Child's Companion, Young Ladies' Accidence, &c.
Children's Books.
A few copies of Dr. Emerson's ORATION ON MUSIC lately delivered in this town, may be had at JENKS' BOOK-STORE.
STAMPED PAPER,
For Sale at JENKS' BOOK-STORE.
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