Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1801-10-12 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 181.]
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1801.
[VOLUME IV.]
Lemuel Bryant,
INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has imported by the last arrivals from Bristol and Liverpool, and is now opening at Store No 10, opposite Mr. Kent's, Fifth-street, a general assortment of Fall and Winter GOODS, which will be sold at the lowest prices, Wholesale and Retail, for Cash or Approved Credit.
Westindia Goods & Groceries.
As the store will be kept open evenings, customers may be supplied until nine o'clock. Portland, Oct. 5.
John Jenks,
INFORMS the public, that he has REMOVED to No. 6, Yacht Row, Fifth-street; where he has received, by late arrivals, a fresh supply of Fall and Winter GOODS,
direct from the Manufacturers.—Consisting of Superfine Middling, and low priced BROADCLOTHS and CASSIMERES, of the most fashionable colors; an assortment fancy SWANS DOWN VESTING; ELASTIC and FOREST CLOTHS; dark blue and brown COATINGS; scarlet, crimson, green, and yellow BALES; white and yellow FLANNELS; white Twilled do; spotted SWANSKINS; blue and olive SHAGG DUVELS; 7-4, 8-4, 9-4, and 10-4 Rose BLANKETS; striped Duffel do. Also for sale, wide INDIA COTTONS, suitable for sheeting; INDIA CALICOES; Bandanna HANDKERCHIEFS; black and check'd Barcelona ditto; Men's Worsted HOSE; a variety of Men's and Women's SHOES, at reduced prices. The above Goods are offered for sale at Wholesale and Retail upon the very best terms, for Cash only. Portland, Oct. 5.
THE subscribers respectfully inform the public, that they have lately formed a connection in business, under the firm of
M c Lellan & Brown,
and have imported by the late arrivals, a general variety of English, Scotch, and Hardware GOODS,
(direct from the manufacturers) which they offer, wholesale and retail on the most reasonable terms for cash or approved credit, at No 3, JONES' ROW, foot of Fifth-street.
Westindia Goods.
STEPHEN M c LELLAN, WILLIAM BROWN. Portland, Sept. 21, 1801.
REMOVAL.
ELEZER A. JENKS, informs his friends, and the public in general, that he has removed his Book-Store from Middle-Street, to the center store in JONES' Row, Fifth-street, where (having formed a connection in business, with Mr. THOMAS CLARK,) the Bookselling and stationer's business, will in future be carried on under the firm of
JENKS & CLARK,
Who have just received, and are now opening for sale at the lowest cash prices, a general assortment of Books and Stationary.
AMONG WHICH ARE
American and imported BIBLES, $3 Dollars to $4 50 cents each; Testaments of different prices; Beknap's and Watts' Psalms and Hymns; Burke's Exposition of the Bible; and an assortment of BOOKS, on Divinity, Law, Physic, History, Geography, Biography, Travels, Voyages, Architecture, Navigation, Poetry, and Novels. Also, the most approved Music Books, School Books, and Children's Books.
A variety of Ladies' and Gentlemen's Morocco Pocket Books, Albin Memorandum do. Thread Cakes, Purse &c. Desk and Pen Knives, Razors and Razor Straps, Tooth-Brushes, and Spec-Glasses, with a general assortment of Fancy Articles.
Pot, Foolscap, Folio post, large and small quarto post, Wove, Hotpress'd, Gilt, Black edged, and Plain do. Wrapping and Press Paper, Quills of all prices, Black and red Sealing Wax, Plain and coloured Wafers; Glass, Wedgewood, blocktin, and pocket Inkstands; Pounce, Copy Slips, Lead Pencils, Inkpowder, India Rubber, Paint Boxes, Drawing Books, Marking Instruments, Black Sand, and Sand Boxes.
Account Books.
Ledgers, Journals, Wastes, Record, Letter and Memorandum Books;—a supply of which will be kept constantly for sale.
Seamen's Articles.
Quadrants, Cages of Mathematical Instruments, Gunter Scales and Dividers, Slates and Pencils, Ship Master's Assistant, Blunt's new Practical Navigator, American Coast Pilot, Malham's Naval Gazetteer, Seamen's Journals, Log Books and Paper;—with a general supply of
MAPS AND CHARTS:
among which are,—general and separate Charts of the West-Indies, Guinea Coast Pilot, Charts of the British Channel, Coast of Ireland, Great Britain and do. Channel, Coast of Ireland, Baltic, Passage of the Sound, Mediterranean, Coast of Africa, Bay of Gibraltar, coast of Holland, Delaware river, East and West Florida, Harbour of Newfoundland, Island of do. Harbour of St. Johns, &c.
Blanks and Stamps
of every description, kept constantly on hand at the Store.
Where also may be had, a fresh supply of Valuable Patent Medicines, the importance of which has caused them a rapid sale in every part of the Union. Sold on a rapid payment. N. B. Cash and the highest price given for all kind WAGS and JUNK. Portland, Sept. 17.
THE FAIR SEX.
"In them 'tis graceful to dissolve at woe; With every motion, every word to wave, Quick o'er the kindling cheek, the ready blush; And from the final violence to shrink, Unequal, then the loveliest in their fears; And by this silent adulation, soft, To their protection more engaging man. May their tender limbs Float in the loose simplicity of dress; And fashioned all to harmony, alone Know they to seize the captivated soul, In rapture warbled from love-breathing lips; To teach the lute to languish; with smooth step, Disclosing motion in its every charm, To swim along, and swell the mazy dance; To train the image o'er the snowy lawn, To guide the pencil, turn the tuneful page; To lend new flavour to the fruitful year, And heighten nature's dainties; in their race To rear their graces into second life; To give society its highest talie; Well-order'd home man's best delight to make; And by submissive wisdom, modest skill, With every gentle, care eluding art, To raise the virtues, animate the bliss, Enchain the pains to something more than joy, And sweeten all the cares of human life, This be the female dignity, and praise." Thompson's Autumn.
LOVE—by Fletcher.
"The happiness of Love is contemplation, The blessed is of Love is pure affection: Where no alloy of actual dull desire, Of pleasure that partakes with wantonness, Of human fire that burns out as it kindles, And leaves the body but a poor repentance, Can ever mix. Let us fix on that— That is everlasting; the other casual— Eternity breeds one, the other fortune, Bind as herself and full of all afflictions, Shall we love virtuously!"
From the Boston Gazette.
THE morning was fair, and the hamlet look'd gay; Not a cloud on the welkin was seen. When with ANNE I trip'd to the village away, To dance with the swains on the green.
The bright smiling sunbeams, that play'd in my view, Having chas'd the chill cloud of the night, Seem'd halting to dry, for her footsteps, the dew, That was wept for the loss of the light.
And off the wild music our progress delay'd; Or the talk'd of the landscape around; So sweet was her voice, every word that she said, Echo caught, and repeated the sound.
But when to the joy-looking group we drew nigh; While hope kindly gild'd the scene, The dark vernal shower, that obscurd the blue sky, Cast a sorrowful gloom o're each mien;
And such I reflected is life's doubtful day, Joy oft is o'erclouded with care; But the rude winds of March give a mildness to May, As the rose by the thistle's more fair.
By grief, in its turn, we are taught to apprise, Each blessing that nature bestows; And to whom the adversity's lesson denies, No value of happiness knows. Cambridge, 1801. AMYNTAS.
Late from Europe.
By the ship Franklin, capt. Tucker, arrived at this port from Liverpool, since our last.
LORD NELSON'S EXPEDITION.
(COPY.) "MEDUSA, (Downs) AUG. 18. "Vice Admiral Lord Nelson has the greatest satisfaction in sending to the Captains, Officers, and Men under his command that were employed on the late attempt on the enemy's flotilla off Boulogne, an extract of a letter which he has received from the First Lord of the Admiralty, not only approving of their zeal and persevering courage, but bestowing the highest praise on them. The Vice Admiral begs to assure them, that the enemy will not have long reason to boast of their security; for he trusts, ere long, to assist them in person in a way which will completely annihilate the whole of them. Lord Nelson is convinced, that if it had been possible for men to have brought the enemy's flotilla out, the men that were employed to do so, would have accomplished it. The moment the enemy have the audacity to cast off the chains which fix their vessels to the ground, that moment Lord Nelson is well persuaded they will be conducted by his brave followers to a British port, or sent to the bottom. (Signed) "NELSON AND BRONTE."
(COPY)
Extract of a letter from Earl St. Vincent, to Lord Viscount Nelson, K. B. dated the 17th inst.
"It is not given to us to command success. Your Lordship's and the gallant Officers and Men under your orders, most certainly deserve it; and I cannot sufficiently express my admiration of the zeal and persevering courage with which this gallant enterprise was followed up; lamenting most sincerely the loss sustained in it. The manner in which the enemy's flotilla was made fast to the ground, and to each other, could not have been foreseen: the highest praise is due to your Lordship, and all under your command, who were actors in this gallant attempt."
DEAL, AUGUST 24.
The French position at Boulogne is very strong, being covered by eleven batteries on
shore, and the assistance of seventeen thousand troops, encamped, which together with the danger of approaching the shore near enough with large ships renders any attack very difficult. The French have much the same sort of craft all along shore to the Westward, as they have at Boulogne, which are laid, it is reported, as traps, to draw our ships and men into a greater danger unseen. A ship lately got two men wounded, and her rigging much cut, in going in to cannonade some gun-boats; the French batteries being on the cliffs have a great advantage over our ships, and are so masked as not to be perceived until they open their fire.—Our cruisers continue to block up Calais and Boulogne.
LONDON, AUG. 24.
The French Admiral does not pretend to deny that our brave tars boarded their vessels with the utmost intrepidity; and it is easy to collect from his statement that they were compelled to retire merely in consequence of the impracticability of getting the ships off and the strong fire of musketry kept upon them from the troops. He however denies, that a single shot was fired from the land batteries from a dead of wounding or killing their own men. The loss we sustained in killed and wounded we know to be highly exaggerated;—he states it to be not less than four or five hundred men. The loss they themselves suffered is on the contrary diminished to a degree which exceeds all belief. The statement of the affair is given without the smallest comment, either in the official Journal or in any other of the prints. We cannot pretend to account for a silence which is so contrary to all their habits on similar occasions.
The French, to be sure, in our last attack upon Boulogne, had some cause for exultation; they are right, however, in adopting moderation on the occasion, as it is possible their triumph may prove very short lived; for we learn by our letters from Deal this morning that Admiral Lord Nelson has again sated from the Downs with several gun-boats, bombs, &c. and of course we may soon expect to hear of his being on some part of the enemy's coast.
FRENCH ACCOUNT.
PARIS, AUG. 18.
Rear-Admiral Latouche, to the Minister of the Marine.
"Boulogne, August 16.
CITIZEN MINISTER—I had the honor to inform you by my Dispatch of the 17th Thermidor, of the battle of the 16th (August 4) in which the leading division of the fleet of small vessels under my command of itself frustrated all the efforts of the English fleet, and kept the enemy at a sufficient distance from Boulogne to prevent the bombardment of the port, and to ward off all danger from the other divisions of the fleet. Admiral Nelson seeing that all his efforts were ineffectual, disappeared on the 17th, no doubt to procure reinforcements, and to lay in ammunition. He again made his appearance yesterday with several ships of the line, and a great number of frigates, brigs, pinnaces, gun-boats, &c. He anchored at the distance of 3000 toises from the leading division, which still kept its original position about 500 toises from the mouth of the harbor. I had augmented it by one section, and had strengthened it by the addition of several bomb ships. I could easily perceive in the evening that the enemy meditated an attack, their ships being surrounded with boats and small craft of all sizes. I had therefore ordered several boats to keep watch that I might have timely notice of the approach of the enemy. About three quarters of an hour after 12, one of the boats discovered the enemy, and was immediately attacked. The firing opened with uncommon briskness on both sides:—the bombs, the cannon, and the musketry presented amid the waves a spectacle truly grand. The land batteries could be of no assistance to us, for fear of firing upon our own boats. The enemy had embarked from two to three thousand men in pinnaces and boats. Six of these attacked the Etna gun-boat, carrying Captain Peireux, who commanded the division, and killed two English sailors with his own hand. Almost all the gun-boats of the leading division were at the same time boarded by English pinnaces; but these every where found the same resistance—every where they were repulsed. The bravest of the English who attempted to board were either thrown into the sea or made prisoners. The farthest off gun-boat on our right, the Vulcan, was attacked again and again, but always repulsed the enemy. The gun boat the Surprise, commanded by Lieutenant Carrau, ran down four of the enemy's pinnaces, and took a considerable number. While these things were going on in front, a division of the enemy attempted to get between us and the shore. Here, as at Algefiras, the English were the dupes of this maneuvre.—Our boats accompanied the retreat of the enemy with a heavy cannonade, which did not cease till four in the morning, when the English had got beyond gun-shot. Of the enemy's boats eight were run down and four pinnaces were taken. I must be within bounds when I state their loss is killed, wounded, and prisoners, at four or five hundred men. Every moment the dead bodies of the English are cast up upon the beach.
The battalions of the 46, 57th, and 108th embarked in the leading division, covered themselves with glory. I shall not fail to send you the names of the brave fellows who deserve to be particularly distinguished by the Chief Consul. On our side we had ten men killed, and thirty wounded."— Moniteur .
OF THE WAR IN EGYPT.
LONDON, AUG. 24.
After our Paper was at press on Saturday the Hamburg mail due the preceding Wednesday arrived, and at the same time Maj. Moustier with dispatches from Gen. Hutchinson announcing the capitulation of the French troops in Cairo. They were published yesterday in a Gazette Extraordinary. There had been no attack on the place, and the very favourable terms granted to the enemy shew that the Commander in Chief must have had powerful motives for wishing to avoid one. We hope the present capitulation will be better observed than the Treaty of El Arish.
This important conquest, which is rendered the more advantageous by being gained without bloodshed, is undoubtedly the prelude to the expulsion of the French from Egypt. It is altogether a most brilliant achievement for the British arms! In four months a handful of troops, inferior in numbers to the enemy (who were in possession and every were acknowledged,) new to the climate and exposed to every species of annoyance, have succeeded in the deliverance of a country, to the attainment of which the Chief Consul had bent all the talents and the ambition of his soul, and upon which he had lavished the strength of the Republic.
In the course of yesterday, we also received Paris Journals to the 20th inst. inclusive. Though they were in possession of our first accounts respecting the fall of Cairo, they are full of accounts of the complete defeat of the Anglo-Turkish army! &c. &c. General Hutchinson's letter will soon put an end to the manufacture of French Victories in the East.
HAMBURGH, AUG. 18.
Letters have been received from Smyrna by an opulent Greek banking house, at Vienna, stating, that General Menou had informed General Hutchinson that he would surrender the fortress and harbor of Alexandria to the Anglo-Turkish forces, if in the course of six weeks he received no succours from France. According to the reports of some deserters from Menou's division, they were in extreme want of water and various necessaries, but particularly medicines for the sick. Menou is said to have requested a limited supply of the articles of which he is most destitute, until the expiration of that period. This proposal General Hutchinson rejected; signifying to the French Commander that he would grant him no longer than ten days to surrender Alexandria, on the same terms given to the French at Cairo; but, that afterwards he must surrender at discretion.
General Hutchinson had, by all accounts, received a reinforcement of 7000 men, with which he hoped to terminate the war in Egypt in a few weeks. Should Menou refuse to surrender on the terms proposed to him, it is intended to carry Alexandria by storm.
PASWAN OGLOU.
Paswan Ogloou, since his last victory over the Turks at Widdien, menaces the neighboring Pashas with an expedition, immediately after the harvest is got in. His army is greatly increased by deserters, and it is certain that he has some French officers and soldiers with him, who made their escape from the Austrian part of Hungary, where they were detained as prisoners of war. He collects vast magazines of provisions, and has lately sent a Firman to the Caimacan of Kladowa, with orders to assemble the richest Bojas in Wallachia, and to signify to them, Paswan Ogloou would, for the present moderate his first anger against them, and offer them a peace of seven years, if they would acknowledge his authority; but if they did not, he swears by the Great Prophet, that he will leave them nothing to fix their eyes upon but flames and ruins. Owing to these threats, a great number of rich Bojas are moving with their most valuable effects to the Austrian part of Hungary.
HAMBURGH MAIL.
HARLEM, AUG. 10.
The French General Angereau, after visiting the Dutch fleet at Helvoet-sluis, &c, proceeded to inspect the works of defence at the Brill, Goree, and the maritime posts; he is now on his route to survey the fortifications at the Helder, and in North Holland; the active operations of the English Commanders having obliged the French and Batavian Governments to change their projects of offence into measures of defence. The Legion of Northern Franks has been dissolved. The Prussian and Hanoverian Pontoons, under General Schlagen, were about to retire from Wessel. All the Flemish vessels of war are to rendezvous at Dunkirk, where an attack from the British cruisers is daily expected.
MACUE, AUG. 14.
The greater part of the Batavian and French

troops in our Republic are now in motion to reinforce the several military corps, in North Holland, on the Meuse, and in Zealand, for the defence of the country against any attack of the English. Three camps are likewise formed near Helvoetsluis, and in the islands of Goree and Walche-en. The two battalions of the new corps of marines go into the camp at Helvoetsluis; the 17th French demi-brigade from Utrecht will occupy that at Goree, and the French troops in and near Bergen-op-Zoom, will go to Zealand.
August 15.—Since yesterday it is reported that the harbour of Flushing is blockaded by the English. About 100 English ships of war of different sizes are cruising along the Dutch coast, and between that and the Downs: all trade to the Belgian and other ports is entirely stopped.
The closest harmony prevails between the Courts of Berlin and Petersburg; and the King of Prussia has lately sent a most flattering and obliging letter to the Sovereign of Russia, in which this Monarch's political conduct is highly approved of.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 13.
They write from Ostend that a strong English squadron had appeared before Dunkirk. The French flouilla there is in the best state of defence, and all the commandants of the batteries, and of fort Risban near Dunkirk, are ready to fire on the English with red hot balls, if Lord Nelson should attempt any attack. French troops are continually coming down to the Coast, and the number already assembled between Brest and Dunkirk amounts it is said, to above 100,000 men.
LONDON, AUG. 24.
The preparations along the Dutch and French coasts continue, and their ostensible object is defence against any attack from our fleet. No less than 100,000 men are said to be collected, be wixt Dunkirk and Brest, but we believe this number is much exaggerated.
EVACUATION OF GRAND CAIRO.
[OFFICIAL.]
Downing Street, Aug. 22.
The following Dispatch has just been received by Lord Hobart, one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state, from General Hutchinson.
Head quarters, Camp before Gizah, June 29, 1801.
MY LORD,
The combined armies advanced on both sides of the river on the 21st inst. The British troops, and those of his Highness the Capitan Pacha, invested Gizah, on the left Bank of the Nile, whilst the army of his Highness the Grand Vizier moved forward, and took a position nearly within canon shot of Cairo. On the 22d, in the morning, the enemy sent out a flag of truce, and informed me, that they wished to treat for the evacuation of Cairo, and the forts thereunto belonging, upon certain conditions. After a negotiation of several days, which was conducted by Brigadier General Hope, with much judgment and ability, they agreed to surrender the town and forts on the conditions which I have the honor to inclose.
We took possession of the Gate of Gizah at five o'clock yesterday evening, and also of the fort Sultoké on the Cairo side of the river: hostages have been mutually exchanged, and the final evacuation will take place in about ten days.
I should suppose that there are near six thousand troops of all kinds, in the town, but I speak without a perfect knowledge on the subject, as I have not yet received any returns.
This has been a long and arduous service: The troops, from the great heat of the weather, the difficulty of the navigation of the River, and the entire want of roads in the country have suffered a considerable degree of fatigue, but both men and officers have submitted to it with the greatest patience, and have manifested a zeal for the honour of his Majesty's arms that is above all praise; the conduct of the soldiers has been orderly and exemplary; and a discipline; and a discipline has been preserved, which would have done honour to any troops. I am extremely obliged to Lieut. Col. Anstruther, Quartermaster General, for the great zeal and ability which he has shown, under very difficult circumstances, in forwarding the public service. From Generals Craddock and Doyle, who were the General Officers employed immediately under my order, I have derived the greatest assistance, and I beg leave to recommend them as highly deserving of his Majesty's favour. The exertions of Capt. Stephen of the navy, have been extremely laborious and constant during this long march; they have done every thing that was possible to forward our supplies; and indeed without their powerful aid, it would have been impossible to have proceeded. Your Lordship will recollect that the river is extremely low at this season of the year, the mouth of the Nile impassable for four days together, and the distance from Rosetta to Cairo, between 160 and 170 miles. Capt. Stevenson has been ably supported by captains Morrison, Curry, and Hillyar, who were employed under him. The service in which they have been engaged has not been a brilliant one, but I hope it will be recollected that it has been most useful, and has required constant vigilance and attention; it has lasted how for many weeks; the labour has been excessive, and the fatigue greater than I can express. This dispatch will be delivered to you by my Aid de Camp, Major Montresor, who has been in the most intimate habits of confidence with me since my arrival in Egypt, and will be able to give your Lordship a most perfect account of the situation of affairs in this
country. I beg leave to recommend him to your Lordship's protection, as an officer of merit, and highly deserving of his Majesty's favour.
(Signed) J. H. HUTCHINSON, Maj. Gen. To the Right Hon. Lord Hobart, &c. &c.
[The Convention for the evacuation of Cairo, stipulates, that the French and Auxiliary troops shall retire by land to Rosetta, proceeding by the left bank of the Nile, with their arms, baggage, field artillery and ammunition, to be there embarked and conveyed to the French ports of the Mediterranean, with their arms, artillery, baggage, and effects at the expence of the Allied powers. The embarkation of the said French and Auxiliary Troops shall take place as soon as possible, but at the latest within fifteen days from the date of the ratification of the present Convention—It is also agreed that the said troops shall be conveyed to the French ports as above mentioned by the most direct and expeditious route.—The baggage, ammunition, and other articles transported by water, shall be escorted by French detachments and by armed boats belonging to the allied powers.—The French and auxiliary troops will be provided by the Allied powers with a sufficient convoy for their safe return to France.—After the embarkation of the French troops, the Allied Powers pledge themselves, that to the period of their arrival on the Continent of the French Republic, they shall not be in the least molested; and on his part the General of Division Beliard, and the troops under his command, engage that no act of hostility shall be by them committed, during the said period, against the fleet or territories of his Britannic Majesty, of the Sublime Porte, or of their Allies.—All inhabitants of Egypt, or whatever nation they may be, who wish to follow the French troops, shall be at liberty so to do; nor shall their families, after their departure, be molested or their goods confiscated.]
ALGIERS.
LONDON, AUG. 25.
It is said that an English and Turkish squadron has failed to enforce the tribute payable by the Dey of Algiers to the Porte. A hint is also thrown out of a scheme which is in agitation to curtail the depredations of the Barbary Pirates, and indeed it is impossible to think without astonishment of the outrages of which they have been guilty for a long period with comparative impunity, and without considering their lawless plunder as a disgrace to all the civilized nations of Europe.
MISCELLANEOUS
PETERSBURGH, JULY 30.
Citizen Duroc having failed in the objects of his mission at this Court, is about to leave Russia for Stockholm. Count Markow, who is to succeed Count Kalitschew as Minister at Paris, left Petersburg on the 23d inst. but he is to pass some time on his estate, for the arrangement of his private affairs. By an Ukase, all games of hazard are prohibited, under severe penalties. The Italian Opera and German Players at Petersburg, have been dismissed by the Court. The trade between Astracan and India is reviving rapidly; great quantities of Indian produce have arrived there by land carriage.
FLORENCE, JULY 27.
On the 20th inst. the Pope held a Consistory Court, in which he nominated eighteen Bishops. The affairs of the Gallic Church did not come under discussion in that assembly, at which Cardinal Moury was present.
The King of Etruria is still at Parma, where grand festivities are daily taking place, in honour of that Prince. We are still ignorant with respect to the time of his arrival here. The fertile district of Ferrara has been converted into a desert, by a tremendous hail storm, to the extent of 12 miles. The wind raged in such a manner, on that occasion, that trees, houses, and whole flocks were carried off by it. The three Neapolitan frigates, which had arrived in the port of Ancona, about two months ago, have now hoisted the tri-colored flag, and are manned by Frenchmen. They would perhaps have sailed some time ago, with troops on board, but for the five English ships that still continue cruising off that port.
PARIS, AUG. 18.
Citizen Duroc, with the Envoys of Hesse Darmstadt, Bavaria, and Wurtemberg, has been invited by the Emperor Alexander to the Coronation at Moscow.
LONDON, AUG. 26.
Thirty five gun brigs and Schooners have escaped from Dunkirk to Calais. Some of our cruizers, with a view to prevent their passage, had moored close in shore, which the French observing, and being favoured by a dark night, stood out to sea, and reached Calais in the morning, before our vessels could get up with them. Circular letters have been sent to all naval Officers to repair on board their respective ships immediately.
A sufficient force for the protection of Madeira is immediately to be embarked for that island.
We are truly happy to state, that bread and every other necessary of life continue falling in price throughout the country, and from the abundant crops and fine weather, every kind of subsistence may be expected to be yet considerably lower.
Sir Henry Brown Hayes, who stood convicted since the Spring Assizes, at Cork, of forcibly running away with Miss Pike, a Quaker lady, of great fortune, has received sentence of death, to be executed on the 7th of September.
The Governor of Nova Scotia has lately exerted himself in a manner the most laudable to promote the culture of hemp in that province, that the British Navy may, if possible, be supplied with this commodity, even though the Nations on the Baltic should refuse it.
A new Religious Order under the appellation of Baccanaris has made its appearance at Rome. Its professors wear the garb of the Jesuits. They derive their name from Baccanari, who attempted to establish that order in Poland and Germany.
A private letter from Constaninople, of the 20th of July, states, that the sovereignty of the seven United Islands has been recognized by the Swedish Court, influenced, as is supposed, by the previous determination of the Courts of London, Vienna, and Berlin. A similar step is immediately expected on the part of the Court of Denmark, and the most positive assurances are given by the Commanders of the several French garrisons which occupy the ports of Naples, that the greatest care will be taken to avoid every sort of annoyance to the new Republic. Under these favorable assurances the inhabitants are busily employed in organizing their Constitution, and already the efforts of a sedition party in the islands of Cephalonia and Zant have been successfully resisted and destroyed.
From the same letter it appears that the Dragoman of the Porte has been recalled from the government of Moldavia, and has been succeeded in his post by the son of Prince Callimachi. By this change the whole advantage of the Government will be enjoyed by his successor, he not having remained in his Province for a period sufficiently long to enable him to reap the fruit of his services.
The Emperor of Russia has banished Count Sherebrow, who was employed to notify his accession to the King of Prussia, on account of his being implicated in the conspiracy of the Swabows.
PETERSBURGH, JULY 21.
On the 19th of July, there was seen in this city and its neighbourhood, and to the distance of thirty miles on the road to Narva, about the hour of ten in the evening, a luminous globe, of the bulk of the full moon, passing across the horizon from N. E. to S. W. Several persons saw it at the very edge of the visible horizon. It appeared after sun set, and in the first quarter of the moon, so cannot be confounded with that planet. On the same day much rain fell, and the temperature of the air was very cold.
By the Mail.
WASHINGTON, SEPT. 28.
FRENCH CONVENTION RATIFIED.
Letters have been received at the department of state from Major Mountfort, who acted as Secretary to Mr. Murray, dated Paris, 31 and 6th August, announcing that the ratifications of the Convention between France and the United States were exchanged on the 31st July, and that the gentlemen charged to carry the French ratification to America, had left Paris on the 5th of August for Dieppe, where he was to embark for Philadelphia.
Extract of a letter from David Humphreys, Esq. dated at Madrid, July 27, 1801.
Since the date of my last dispatch to you, I have received a letter from Commodore Dale, dated Gibraltar Bay, the 2d inst. giving an account of the arrival of the Squadron under his command, of his having found here the High Admiral of Tripoli, with one ship and one brig, and of his own design to sail for Algiers the next day, leaving one of his frigates to watch the motions of those vessels of Tripoli. Nothing could have been more opportune for the protection of our commerce than the arrival of this force, to prevent them from proceeding into the Western Ocean, where, in a few days cruise between Cadiz and Lisbon, they might in all human probability have produced the most disastrous consequences by capturing the property of our merchants to an amazing amount and making slaves of a great number of our citizens.
Fortunate indeed, will it be for us if our Mediterranean Trade, should escape the threatened peril, with only the damage it must suffer from having been interrupted for a short period; as I flatter myself, that whatever might have been the idea at the time of the sailing of Commodore Dale's Squadron from America, that trade will never again be left in the same defenceless and exposed situation. Knowing, as I do, that the great and increasing value of it, in all points of estimation, is fully appreciated by government, I shall only remark, that the Dutch in common with most of the belligerent powers having lost their carrying trade, the Danes and Swedes having had their activity greatly paralyzed by the stroke lately given by England to their navigation, and the Austro-Turkish and Prussians having no vessels in the Mediterranean on account of their being at war with the Barbary states, no occasion could be more favorable than the present for the encouragement of the American spirit of industry and enterprise in that quarter.
BOSTON, OCT. 7.
The two Tripolitan cruizers at Gibraltar were hauled up, and dismantled, and the crews sent to Morocco. The only interruption which American vessels now meet with in the Straights is from the Spanish gun boats; seven of whom have lately taken, after a severe engagement, the Molly of Philadelphia, a very valuable ship.
The depredations on American property by the Spaniards, excite general anxiety—Copper vessels lately carried into Algiers, interest to the amount of 50,000 dollars, and upwards, had been done in this town.
From Albany, September 25.
On Monday night last, between the hours of 12 and 1, as Mr. Lyman Parker was passing through Ferry Street, in the lower part of the city, a musket, loaded with small shot, was discharged from a window of the house of Mr. Timothy Parks. Mr. Parker received the shot in his side. He ran some distance, but did not recover. On examining the house of Mr. Parks, a gun was found loaded with the same kind of shot as had been recently discharged. Mr. Parks is committed to jail, upon suspicion of being the perpetrator.
SALLEM, OCT. 6.
On Saturday last arrived the ship Marius , Captain John Pierce, from the Mediterranean, through which point attention is enabled to give the public some satisfactory account respecting the expedition of Captain Ganthwaite's Squadron, and a confirmation of the capture of Grand Cairo by the Turkish and British forces.
The number of troops which this Squadron carried out, and which in the French papers has generally been stated at 8000, and sometimes at 10,000, was actually no more than 4000, which number better accords with the capacity of the ships on board which they were embarked. A few days before Capt. Pierce failed from Marseilles, which was on the 22d of July, Ganthwaite's return to Toulon was announced, having been frustrated in the object of his expedition. He attempted to land his troops about 40 leagues to the westward of Alexandria, and actually disembarked a part of his brigade, when they were immediately attacked and mostly cut off by the Arabs; a few were able to regain the ships. Finding it of no length impracticable to effect a landing, and the troops becoming very sickly, he found himself under the necessity of returning to Toulon, where he landed 1200 sick or disabled, and thus closed the expedition. Thus cut off from all means of supplying or reinforcing their army in Egypt, that country was, considered, by every intelligent man in Marseilles, as completely lost to France; and the vessels in that port which had been loaded several months in Egypt, and were waiting for intelligence of Ganthwaite's success, in order to their sailing, were taking out their cañons, from a despair of ever being able to send them safely to the place of their destination.
COMMUNICATION—FROM THE CENSUS.
I HAVE just read in the Ceninel the census of the United States; and the pleasant I received in contemplating the increased population of our country was aided by the reflection, that the New England states are apportioned to be governed by the southern. What immediately gave me the disagreeable reflection mentioned, was a comparison of the census of Virginia with that of Massachusetts. Virginia I find, contains but 533,154 freemen, but is to be entitled to send to the next Congress twenty-two Representatives; whereas Massachusetts, which contains 574,564 freemen, will have the right only to send seventeen. Thus, with above 40,000 more citizens, we shall have five less Representatives! The same remark I find will hold good respecting several other states. How long must this degrading condition be submitted to? It is asked, is there no remedy? I answer, there is—and in the 5th article of the Constitution. The large signature of Massachusetts, it is hoped, will think of these things.
Middlesex, Sept. 30. A REAL FARMER.
Portland,
Monday, October 12, 1801.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
Capt. Tucker, who arrived here on Tuesday last, 39 days from Liverpool, brought London dates to August 26, several days later than before received. All articles of any moment which they contained, are given under the foreign head, in this day's Gazette. The official intelligence from Egypt, may be considered as the most important. Several other matters will be found to interest the reader.
The French Consul, on the 2d inst. issued a decree to assure the further execution of the law of the 1st of November, 1797, prohibiting the introduction of British merchandise into the French Republic. The decree provides, that the Government will send to every Prefect, a sufficient number, two sets of stamps, the one to mark the stuff, at present in the magazines, the other to be placed on those manufactured. After the 23d of September, the pieces seized without a mark, or with a forged mark, shall be confiscated, conformably to the law of the 1st of November 1797; and delivered up to the Government, in order that the sale should be made to a foreigner, and the money arising therefrom to be distributed to those who suffered it according to the terms of the same law, viz.—The half of the price, according to the computed value, shall be ultimately paid by the Government.

BANKRUPTCY. WHEREAS a commission of Bankruptcy has been awarded and issued against GARDNER GOULD, in a piece called Pleasant Mountain Gore, in the District of Maine, merchant, agreeable to a law establishing a uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States; and he being declared, by us the undersigned Commissioners, a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to us the Commissioners, on the 7th day of October next, on the 21st of said October, and on the 4th of November, at ten of the clock in the forenoon of each of said days at the office of Jonas Clark, Esq. in Wells, in the said District; and to make a full disclosure of all his estate and effects. —And notice is hereby given to the Creditors of said Bankrupt, to come prepared to prove their debts; and at the second meeting, to choose an assignee or assignees; and at the last meeting, said Bankrupt is to finish his examination; —And at the last of said meetings, the Creditors may be heard against the making or allowing of a certificate to the Judge of said District to entitle the said Bankrupt to a certificate of discharge. —All persons indebted to said Bankrupt, are to make payment; and those who have any of his goods or effects, are to deliver the same to such person or persons only as the Commissioners shall appoint. JONAS CLARK, } Commis- JACOB FISHER, } sioners. GEO. W. WALLINGFORD. } Wells, September 24, 1801.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy founded upon the Act of Congress of the United States, passed the fourth day of April, 1800, entitled "An act to establish an uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States," has been awarded against SIMEON MAYO of Portland, in the District of Maine, Merchant, and the said Simeon Mayo, has been declared a Bankrupt, he is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in the said commission named, or to the major part of them, on the 5th day of October next, on the 13th of the same month, and on the 6th November following, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days, at the Commissioner's office, Fish-street, Portland, and make a full disclosure and discovery of his Estate and Effects; when and where his creditors are notified to come prepared to prove their debts; and at the second meeting to choose an assignee or assignees, and at the last meeting said Bankrupt is required to finish his examination; and at said last meeting any of the Creditors of said Bankrupt may be heard, if they think fit, before said Commissioners, against the making or allowing of a certificate to the Judge of said District, to entitle said Bankrupt to a certificate of discharge. —All persons indebted to said Bankrupt, are to make payment; and those who have any of his effects, are to deliver the same to such persons only as the Commissioners shall appoint. EDWARD OXNARD, } Commis- RICHARD HUNEWELL, } sioners. JOSEPH TITCOMB. } Portland, Sept. 26, 1801.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy founded upon the Act of Congress of the United States, passed the fourth day of April, 1800, entitled "An act to establish an uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States," has been awarded and issued against MOSES ATKINSON CROSS, of Freeport in the District of Maine, Merchant, and the said Moses A. Cross, has been declared a Bankrupt, he is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners, in the said commission named, or to the major part of them on the 6th day of October next, and on the 14th of the same Month, and on the 7th day of November following, at 10 o'clock, in the forenoon, of each of said days, at the Commissioners Office in Fish-street, Portland, and make a full disclosure and discovery of his estate and effects, when and where his creditors are hereby notified to come prepared to prove their debts; and at the second meeting to choose an assignee or assignees; and at the last meeting said Bankrupt is required to finish his examination; and at said last meeting, any of the creditors of said Bankrupt may be heard, if they shall think fit, before said Commissioners, against the making or allowing of a certificate to the Judge of said District, to entitle said Bankrupt to a certificate of discharge. —All persons indebted to said Bankrupt, are to make payment, and those who have any of his effects, are to deliver the same to such persons only as the Commissioners shall appoint. EDWARD OXNARD, } Commis- EBENEZER MAYO, } sioners. JOSEPH TITCOMB. } Sept. 18.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Commissioners and Assignee of JOHN O. WATTS, a Bankrupt, will meet at the Commissioners' office in Fish-street, in Fish-street, on Monday the 26th day of October next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. to make a dividend of said JOHN O. WATTS's estate and effects; when and where his Creditors who have not proved their claims, are hereby notified to come prepared to prove the same. EDWARD OXNARD, } Commis- JAMES LOVEY. } sioners. THOMAS LOVEY. } Sept. 18.
THE subscribers having been duly appointed Assignees of the estate and effects of JOSEPH CONY, of Portland, a Bankrupt, request all persons indebted to said estate, or possessed of any of the Bankrupt's property, to pay and deliver said debts and property without delay, to JOSEPH BRUCE, JOSIAH TUCKER. Portland, Sept. 10, 1801.
Just received for Sale, at the Book Store of  Jenks & Clark, (Price 37 1/2 Cents)  REPORT of the TRIAL of  JASON FAIRBANKS, On an Indictment for the MURDER of  ELIZABETH FALES.
NEW POST.  Jonathan Haskell, Respectfully informs the public, that having undertaken to ride post, and convey the Mail once a week, from Portland, through Hallowell to Wiscasset, (the same route as formerly performed by Messrs. Blossom and Blake) any persons who may wish to have their Newspapers forwarded in a direct and punctual manner, will please to manifest the same by subscribing the subscription papers left at the post-offices and other public places. The price of conveying the Newspapers will be fifty cents a year for each subscriber. Those persons who may have any business for him to transact on the route, may depend on his utmost exertions to give satisfaction. New Gloucester, Sept. 18, 1801.
DIRECT TAX. FATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, ELEVENTH COLLECTION DISTRICT—SECOND DIVISION. NOTICE is hereby given, by virtue of an act of Congress passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, entitled "An act to lay and collect a Direct Tax within the United States" —and the following taxes assessed on the respective Houses and Lands to which they relate, became due and payable on the 15th day of April, 1800; of which the said reputed owners, possessors, or occupant of said Houses and Lands, have been notified by the Collector, in manner directed by the act aforesaid, yet said taxes remain unpaid in said district, namely, Biddeford, Pepperellborough, and Buxton, situated in the county of York.
   Names of owners, superintendents or occupants at the time of taking the Valuation. Value of each House. Value of Tax on each House. Value of each parcel of inhere-ent Lands. Value of Tax on each parcel of inhere-ent Lands. Total Value of each parcel of inhere-ent Lands. Total Value of Tax on each parcel of inhere-ent Lands.   D. D. C. D. D. C. D. D. C.     Stephen Adams 275 0 55 617 50 1 74   Joseph Banks 200 40 175 50 50   Ephraim Bryant, jun. 150 30 201 50 57   Moses & Ed. Bradbury 513 50 89   Widow Sarah Bradbury 408 1 15   Moses Banks 409 1 16 50   David & Jon. Bachelder 268 76   Westbrook Berry, owner 413 40 1 17   Samuel Berry, possessor   Benjamin Berry 260 73   Daniel Bryant 95 50 27   David Bryant 600 70 1 70   Joshua Berry 326 50 1 49   Jonathan Bangs 186 50 53   Willard Bangs 149 50 42   Benj. Bradbury, jun. 195 55   John Codman, owner 650 1 95   John Chadwick, poss.   John Chadwick, 1 24th saw mill 58 50 16   David Currier 120 44 71 50 20   Noah & Ephraim Curtis 175 35 465 40 1 32   Robert & Elias Carl 150 30 386 30 1 06   Samuel Chase 850 2 55 2040 73 7 47   Abner Chase, owner   John Tongue, poss. 600 1 80 221 63   Samuel Cane 105 21 78 22   Capt. Benj. Cole, owner 54 70 15   Benj. Gutteridge, poss.   James Clark 213 20 60   William Carl 195 55   Widow Sarah Carl, own. 163 80 46   Jer. Mullican, possessor   Benj. Carl—heirs of 150 80 43   Jonathan Clay 585 1 65   Nathaniel Cole 104 29   John Coolbrooth 317 90   Samuel Dennett, jr. 500 1 50 5861 21 16 59   House at the Landing 250 50   Ebenezer Dennett 175 35 1053 2 98   Clement Dennett 225 45 312 88   William Davis 115 23 565 50 1 60   Ebenezer Dearborn 271 40 77   Jacob Dearborn, jun. 429 1 21   Jeremiah Emery 59 40 17   Benjamin Fols 500 60 510 90 1 45   Edmund Flood 300 60 572 1 62   Heirs unknown 663 1 88   James Fogg 325 92   James Fols, 3d 330 50 93   Nelson Fogg 456 1 29   Henry Flood 342 97   Pike Gordon 400 80   William Gilpatrick 225 45 694 20 1 96   Joseph Googins 200 40 217 10 61   Joseph Googins, jun. 150 30 265 20 75   David Googins 200 40 448 50 1 27   Samuel Guild 325 65 1093 30 3 9   Jedediah Gutteridge 250 50 260 74   Graffam Increase, own. 161 20 46   Luther Brown, poss.   Joshua Hall 400 80 1287 3 64   Joseph Haley 200 40 501 80 1 44   Petiah Harmon 175 35 435 50 1 23   Susannah Hall 390 80 1 11   Widow Eliz. & Elisha Hall 398 12 1 13   Samuel Hains, jun. 208 59   Daniel Hains 97 50 28   John Hazelton 330 50 95   Joseph Hanton 333 50 94   Joshua Harman 97 50 28   Stephen Jones 298 30 85   Thomas Jenkins 195 56   William Joss 379 1 7   Richard Joss 325 92   Joseph Kindrick 220 44 110 50 31   Matthew Kiffick 450 90 195 55   Noah Kindrick 300 60   Joshua Kimball, 3d 105 21 201 50 57   Edmund Knight 91 26   Joshua Kimball, jun. 275 55 390 1 10   John Kimball 550 1 65 955 50 2 70   Abel Knight 612 1 73   Richard Kimball 181 52   Joseph Libby 450 90 1414 40 4 04   Richard Lamb 105 21 598 1 69   Abijah Lewis 125 25 510 50 1 49   Thomas Lee 90 25   Alexander Lewis 100 28   Thomas Ladd 249 50 71   David Libby, jun. 208 59   Levi Merrill 300 60 171 60 48   Robert McDonald 345 69 187 20 53   Joshua Mullican 343 97   Phineas Mullican 116 33   William Staples, poss. 200 40 734 50 2 8   Porter Aaron, owner   Richard Berry, poss. 130 37   Aaron Porter, owner   Phineas Mullican, 3d 136 50 39   Widow Hannah Fols   Jeremiah Mullican 956 2 71   Amos M. Corson 220 62   James Murch 335 95   John Merrill 377 1 7   John Newcome 175 35 546 1 55   Robert E. Nason 527 50 1 49   Elisha Newcome 45 50 13   Stephen Perkins 225 45   John Pritham 200 40 347 10 98   Nathaniel Perkins, jr. 205 58   Andrew Patterson 130 37   Aaron Patterson 103 10 1 6   Stephen Pendexter 167 47   Joseph Rankins 300 60 981 50 2 78   Nathaniel Richards 195 55   Samuel Rounds 117 33   George Robinson 45 50 13   John Rolfe 357 50 1 7   Ebenezer Stacey 150 30 244 40 69   David Sawyer 125 25 509 60 1 44   Roger Smith 105 21 321 70 92   John Sawyer 125 25 283 60 82   Abner Sawyer 900 2 70 2536 30 7 18   Ephraim & Saml. Sands 200 40 682 50 1 93   Solomon Smith 175 35 409 50 1 16   Ephraim Sands, jun. 310 62 949 2 69   Peter Steele 105 21 364 1 3   John Stacy 50 14   Wheelwright Stevens 104 29   Nicholas Smith 1550 50 4 39  
   Job Seavy 423 80 1 20   Elijah Selles 156 44   Widow Sarah Swett 191 20 54   Andrew Stackpole 1359 50 3 85   Samuel Sands, jun. 32 50 9   James Sawyer, and 517 33   William Merrill   Thomas Townsend 600 1 80 273   John Tongue, owner 79   Wheelwright Stevens 200 40 192 40   [possessor] 54   Jonathan Tarbox 200 40 851 50   Daniel Thombs 250 50 266 50   Stephen Tibbetts 148 20   Samuel Tibbetts 524 1 48   James Tyler 473 20   Benjamin Tarbox 117 33   Samuel Thompson 257 73   Moses Woodman 250 50 617 50   Jeremiah Woodman 175 35 409 50   Snell Wingate 423 85 1735 50   Alexander Watson 75 21   John Woodson 575 50   Jeff. Whitney 78 22   Benjamin Woodman 169 48   Enoch Whitney 218 50   Theophilus Waterhouse 409 50   Nathaniel Woodman 52 15    NONRESIDENT PROPRIETORS OF LAND.     Solomon Buxham 156 44   James Bux 52 15   Matthew Cobb 130 37   David Coffin 156 44   Richard Dresher 203 59   James Edgcomb 205 40   Joshua Fabian 585 1 66   John Gordon 673 60   George Harmon 327 50   Heirs of Daniel Hale 156