Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser (Portland, Me.), 1809-01-30 00:00:00

PORTLAND GAZETTE, And Maine Advertiser.
PORTLAND, PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR SHIRLEY... FISH-STREET.
No. 42, of Vol. XI.
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1809.
[Whole No. 562.]
Tenth Congress... 2d Session.
Mr. Lloyd's Speech, IN THE SENATE, DEC. 19, On the bill making further provisions for enforcing the Embargo.
Mr. LLOYD stated, That he had no objection to the recommittal of the bill, as proposed by the gentleman from Vermont... he had wished for the postponement of it in the second reading, but the Senate had chosen to order otherwise... he had however then said, that he should not feel precluded from offering his reasons against some of the details, as well as against the general principles of the bill in the third reading and as he had no reason to suppose that he should be one of the two additional members proposed to be placed on the committee, and as on a former day, those who were opposed to the bill were called on to give their reasons before it should be committed; he would now do it, in order, that if his observations were of any weight, they might receive from the committee to whom the subject was again to be referred, such consideration as they would merit.
Mr. L. observed, that he had not risen to oppose the bill because the object of it was to enforce a law to the policy of which he was adverse but he was opposed to the bill, because in itself, it appeared to him to contain provisions, which would be extremely injurious and vexatious to the citizens, and principles which in his view of them, were arbitrary in their nature, and in their virtual effect unconstitutional... In thus characterising the bill, he meant no reflection on the committee who reported it - they had undoubtedly taken a different view of the subject from what he had, and if he (Mr. L.) was mistaken in the estimation he had formed of it - he would rejoice more than any member of the committee.
By the third section of the bill said Mr. L. it is enacted, that it shall not be lawful to put on board any ship, vessel or boat, any specie, goods, wares or merchandise, unless the owner, or owners, consignee or factor, of such ship, vessel or boat, shall with the master have given bond, with one or more sureties to the U. States, in a sum six times the value of the vessel and cargo, that the vessel shall not leave the port without a clearance, &c... and by the 5th section, it is enacted, that general permission shall be given to vessels that have been uniformly employed in the navigation of bays and rivers, still to navigate the same, provided the owners and master with sureties, shall first give bond to the amount of 300 dollars, for every ton of such vessel so employed... which on a vessel of 100 tons burthen, would amount to thirty thousand dollars.
Requisitions of bonds to this amount, Mr. L. said, were in his opinion excessive... He would instance the effect of them on the state of Massachusetts... not that he conceived they were legislating for a particular state, but he adduced the circumstances of that state in illustration of the principles of the bill because they were most familiar to him... other states were in different degrees undoubtedly similarly circumstanced... The Hudson alone found employment for near 2000 coasting vessels.
A very large coasting trade, said Mr. L. was carried on between the principal seaports in old Massachusetts and the District of Maine... this trade for the most part, is prosecuted in lumber, lime, and fire-wood, towards the autumn and the close of the year, principally in the latter. The inhabitants of the old seaports, are not in the habit of burning coal for fuel, they make use almost entirely of fire wood, for a great part of their supplies of which, they rely on the District of Maine, and this trade is alike important to the inhabitants of that District, who depend in some measure on the sale of their wood and lumber for their support. They almost exclusively own the vessels engaged in this trade - these vessels are from 80 to 100 or 120 tons burthen - some of them are worth 3 or 400 dollars - it will be a fair average to estimate them at 200 dollars each
the cargoes may be worth from 300 to 500 dollars - thus then one of these vessels and a cargo would be worth about 2500 dollars; and bonds for six times this amount, or 15,000 dollars, will be required for every trip they make - for only about three or four weeks employment for their vessels.
The coasters are generally of a respectable but not wealthy class of persons - they inhabit a new country, thinly settled - for the land they occupy, many of them are partially indebted, as well as for the equipment of their vessels - under present circumstances, in many cases, the whole vicinity, for an extent of several miles, could not muster 15,000 dollars in money, to pay the penalty provided the law was violated; the consequence must be, either that the regulation must be a falacy on account of insufficient bondsmen being given, and be a mere business of vexation, or the trade would in many instances be abandoned from the inability of the owners of vessels to procure such bondsmen as would be acceptable to the collector - if the latter were the case, and the principal part of the trade were cut off, the inhabitants of that part of Massachusetts, who have hitherto received their firewood from Maine, might be greatly inconvenienced for the supplies of an indispensable necessary of life in a climate so inclement, as the one they inhabit, while the inhabitants of Maine would be equally distressed, from being interdicted from the pursuit of their ordinary occupations - from being deprived of a market for almost the only cash article they now possess - from procuring clothes to cover them, or of obtaining food for their subsistence, for in many parts of that district, they do not raise corn enough for their consumption.
And said Mr. L. what authority have Congress to prohibit such a trade as this, for an indefinite period? - It was not given by the constitution, nor in his opinion was it by any means certain that Congress possessed it: perhaps gentlemen were not aware on how frail a tenure it might be considered that they held even the right to regulate this trade - it might be found to rest on no more solid a basis than that of sufferance - he knew that there was a sweeping clause in the constitution, on which gentlemen placed great reliance, that Congress should possess the power to make all laws that might be necessary for carrying the constitution into effect - but he also knew that in all political contracts, whatever was not specifically given, was retained. He also knew that amendments to the constitution, whenever they clashed with the original stipulations in the constitution were of superior force - and by the 11th and 12th amendments, it was expressly declared, that the "enumeration in the constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." That the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
Now, said Mr. L. what is the authority given by the constitution to the general government with regard to commerce - it is comprised in two lines - "Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States and with the Indian Tribes." Now, apply this to the coasting trade between two ports in the same state, take for example the ports of Boston and Portland, and if this trade be not a trade with foreign nations - a trade among the several States, or a trade with the Indian Tribes, then sir, whence arises your power ever to regulate it, except from sufferance? It may be said that it is natural to suppose the framers of the constitution meant to give to the general government, the same power to regulate a trade between two ports in the same state, as between two ports in
different states - but if their intention were ascertained, it would not become law - it may be a casus omisus, but that does not alter the fact.
It is true, this trade has been regulated by the general government - so long as the regulations were not oppressive, it made no difference to the state, or to the public, whether the regulations came from the general, or from the state government, and probably would never be objected to. But screw up these regulations so tightly, as to deprive the citizens of their accustomed avocations, take from them the means of subsistence, and your authority to do this will be questioned - and should this bill be passed into a law and a coaster engaged in a trade between Boston and Portland, was to violate the provisions of it, be indicted for so doing, and convicted thereof, and was to demur to the constitutionality of the law, it is very doubtful, said Mr. L. if there could be found a judge on the judicial bench of the United States, that would inflict on him its penalties.
In the sixth section of the bill it is stated, that if any ship, vessel or boat, not having a general permission, and given a general bond as prescribed by the act, shall take on board any specie, goods, wares or merchandise, contrary to the provisions of the act, such ship, vessel or boat, together with the goods, wares and merchandise, shall be wholly forfeited, and the owner or owners shall moreover forfeit and pay a sum equal to the value of the ship, vessel or boat, and of the cargo put aboard the same." Can gentlemen, said Mr. L. be aware of the operation of this clause - suppose he had chartered a vessel a fortnight since to a merchant at Baltimore, and this merchant after the passing of the present act, and contrary to the provisions of it, attempted to evade the embargo, sent the vessel to sea with a cargo of ten, twenty or thirty thousand dollars, and was detected, was he, the owner of the vessel, Mr. L. asked, not only to lose his vessel, but also again to lose the value of ten, twenty or thirty thousand dollars in addition, as the case may be, for the misconduct of another man, of which misconduct he had neither the knowledge nor suspicion, nor the power to control or prevent it? The provisions of the second section are still more exceptional with regard to sleighs, waggons & carriages. Suppose a man of respectable appearance should have his carriage destroyed or broke to pieces by accident in Boston, and should hire of a hackney coachman, a carriage, without hiring of the same person a driver and horses, to proceed to New-York - suppose that after getting to New-York, instead of returning the carriage to Boston, the person who has hired it, proceeds with it towards Canada, puts into the carriage fifteen or twenty thousand dollars in gold, and is afterwards detected - is the hackney coachman not only to lose his carriage, and three times the amount carried in it... to lose his house, his entire property - to be stripped naked, not for a crime committed by him, but for lawfully pursuing a business which he had prosecuted not only without censure, but with commendations on his industry perhaps for twenty years before. This cannot be, as the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Thruston) has said, with reference to some of the provisions of this bill. It is too monstrous a principle of legislation ever to be carried into effect, in any free country on the face of the earth.
But sir, said Mr. L. bad as this is - the next section is still worse - by that section it is enacted "That the person or persons whose names do, or may appear, as owner or owners of any ship or vessel, either in the certificate of registry, enrollment, or license of any such ship or vessel, or on the last custom-house document issued before the passing of this act, shall be reputed as the true owner or owners of such ship or vessel, and be
liable to the payment of all penalties which may be incurred by the owners of such ship or vessel, by reason of any violation of any of the provisions of this act, or of the act laying an embargo." It is well known, said Mr. L. to all mercantile men, that the custom-house officers will not let the owners of ships keep their own registers - so soon as a vessel enters, the register is taken from the capt. by the collector, nor can the owner get it again or obtain a new one until the vessel is again loaded and ready for sea. Suppose, said Mr. L. he had sold a vessel last January for 10,000 dollars, to a man whom he knew nothing about, who had paid him the purchase money - in consequence of the embargo, this purchaser of the vessel had not been able to send her to sea until this time, but perhaps a fortnight after the passing of this bill, he puts a valuable cargo on board the vessel, attempts to evade the law, and is discovered - am I, said Mr. L. to be punished to the amount of the value of the vessel and her cargo? Am I to be reduced from affluence to beggary, for the conduct of a man with whom I have no more concern than with an inhabitant of Kamchatka, and of whose doings I had no more knowledge, merely because I sold him a piece of property, and conveyed it to him in conformity with a special law of the U. States, twelve months before the existence of the law, under which I am punished for this offence? This is not only an ex-post facto law - it is punishing the innocent with the guilty - it is going one step beyond the moral regulation mentioned by the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Bradley) - it is not only punishing the man that owned the bullock, but it is punishing the person who sold the cow, that brought the bullock, that committed the injury. This, said Mr. L. may be sport to us, but it will be death to the victims who come under the operation of the bill, should it ever become a law.
Mr. L. observed, that there were other minor objections to the bill, with the enumeration of which as the bill would be committed, he should not then trouble the Senate - but with regard to the authority given to the president, and under him to the collectors, to arrest and detain the property of citizens on suspicion - with regard to the exemption granted to the collectors from actions at law, or civil process in consequence of their conduct under instructions received from the president of the United States - and with regard to the authority given to the president, to delegate the power to whomsoever he might please, to call into actual service, the militia of the United States, without reference to the state authorities - he considered them as principles totally hostile, & repugnant to the feelings, and all the political institutions of the American people.
Mr. L. said, he knew that the constitution of the United States was the paramount law of the land, but he also knew, that constitution possessed only the powers that were given to it, and that as well as the several state constitutions, it was predicated upon the same broad principles of civil and rational liberty - principles which cannot be infringed in a free country; for in whatever country these principles are violated, that country ceases to be a free one. Among these principles are the following: -
"All men have certain, natural, essential and unalienable rights - and among them, the right of enjoying and defending their rights and liberties - of acquiring and possessing and defending property."
"Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it, in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property according to standing laws."
"Every man is right to find a certain remedy by having recourse to the laws for all wrongs done his person, property, and character - he ought
to obtain right and justice freely, and without being obliged to purchase it - promptly and without delay."
"Every citizen has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions."
"Laws made to punish for actions done before the existence of such laws, and which have not been declared crimes by preceding laws, are unjust, oppressive, and inconsistent with the fundamental principles of a free government."
"The military shall be kept in entire subserviency to the civil power."
"In free governments, the legislative, the judicial, and executive branches ought forever to be kept distinct, in order that they may be governments of laws and not of men."
Now, sir, (said Mr. L.) it appears to me by this bill, that every one of these principles is violated.
Instead of the citizens' being subject to standing laws perspicuously formed, and which promulgate offences, before punishment is inflicted for the commission of them, by this bill they may be made to suffer not for crimes, but for lawful and commendable actions performed in the usual course of their ordinary business many months before such a law as this was even thought of. Instead of their being placed under the dominion of a government of laws and not of men - they may by this bill, be subjected to the arbitrary will, whim, caprice, malevolence, misconstruction, or misinformation of an individual, and Mr. L. said, it made no difference in his opinion, whether this individual were the president of the United States, or a collector - they were both human beings, and as such liable to error - the principle being radically wrong in itself, the person acting under it, could not sanction it.
Instead of the citizens obtaining justice promptly and without delay - instead of their being able to find speedy redress for all wrongs done to their persons, their character & their property, in consequence of the attacks of the soldiery - of an unfounded imputation to violate the laws of their country, or of an undue arrestation and detention of their property - a shield was interposed between them and the immediate wrong-doer - they could not come into legal contact with him - the laws had lost their office with regard to collectors, and if it were possible to conceive, that a president of the United States, from misconstruction, from inattention, mistake, mental derangement, or corrupt views, could give unauthorised instructions to the collectors, and the citizens were to suffer severely under them - Mr. L. said it appeared to him, that the only course they could pursue to obtain redress, was to institute a suit against the incumbent or the individual who might be in the office of President, and with this suit to travel on from the district court to the circuit court, from the circuit court to the supreme court, from Passamaquoddy to Washington - and after dancing attendance several months at this city, if they were successful in the issue of the suit, and were also so fortunate as to have a very liberal jury, they might stand some chance to get a verdict in their favor, with or without one half the value of the loss of their time, and the expenses of the prosecution.
Instead, (said Mr. L.) of the military being kept in strict subordination to the civil authority - instead of the three great branches of government being kept for ever distinct, it appeared to him that the military was exalted above the civil power - that the three distinguishing features of a free government, the legislative, the judicial and the executive, in stead of their being kept for ever separate, they were by this bill amalgamated and absorbed by an individual, who on the highest circumstances in

ture - on trifles light as air, gets his suspicion excited, on these suspicions he forms an opinion, on which opinion he passes judgment, and this judgment he is authorized to carry into effect, against perhaps an unoffending citizen, with the aid of the whole military force of the United States within his district, if it be necessary for him to employ it.
This state of things (said Mr. L.) cannot be, he meant not to wound the feelings of any gentleman, but he must speak freely on the subject - principles of this sort appeared to him more nearly allied to the bowstring discipline of a Turkish despotism, than to the pure and wholesome laws of a free and elective republic. The entire conviction which gentlemen might feel in their own minds, that the person to whom these powers were given would not abuse them, ought to form no excuse for enacting such laws; they were not legislated for themselves alone, but also for posterity. If there were no other objections to the bill under consideration, it contained precedents of the most dangerous tendency which might in future, if not at present, be perverted to the worst of purposes. - For these reasons, (Mr. L. said) he was opposed to the bill, and he both hoped, and trusted, it never could, nor would, pass into a law of the United States.
By the Sails.
PROVIDENCE, (R.I.) JAN. 21. We are confidently assured, that Col. JEREMIAH OLNEY has, in a most dignified manner, truly characteristic of the HERO & PATRIOT, resigned the lucrative office of Collector of the Customs of this Port, in which station he has served upwards of eighteen years, with a fidelity and accuracy which reflect lustre on his moral and official character. The motive is obvious - a mind independent and patriotic like his could never debase itself in being, instrumental in executing laws diametrically repugnant to the best interest of his country, and subversive of that LIBERTY and INDEPENDENCE which under the immediate command of the immortal WASHINGTON, he bravely fought to secure. - An approving conscience and the approbation of his Fellow Citizens will amply solace him in his true "dignified retirement."
JOSIAH REED, Esq. Inspector and Surveyor of the Revenue at Thomas-town (Maine) has followed the patriotic example of Messrs. Lincoln, Olney, and Wells, by resigning his office
Drilled Legislators.
The means that were used to make the conscientious and hesitating members of the House vote for the New-Embargo Law, would, if fully developed, excite the indignation of every intelligent American. It is within our knowledge that members voted for that law, who were in sentiment hostile to it, and others who were opposed to the whole system!
Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder? [Freeman's Journal.]
The Administration Meeting.
A meeting of such persons as approve of the measures pursued by the present administration, was held yesterday at the state-house. Capt. Wm. Jones in the chair, and Mr. Robert McMullin, secretary. - They passed a number of resolutions approbatory of the embargo. It is computed there were about fifteen hundred persons present, of whom about one third attended as spectators. The population of Philadelphia is estimated at 120,000 souls. - Id.
From Washington, January 20.
The debate upon the bill fixing the next session of Congress on the fourth Monday of May next, continued till a late hour. It was ardent and impassioned. - Mr. Quincy's arguments were answered by illiberality, unmanly, and bill-gating abuse, from the speakers of the majority, particularly John C. Jackson. Mr. Gardener replied in a becoming and manly style; but was repeatedly called to order by Mr. Fisk, and once or twice pronounced out of order by the Speaker.
The reign of PASSION and MADNESS, it is greatly to be apprehended, is about to supersede that of ORDER & REASON! - Id.
What is the reason we have had no duels this season of Congress?
It will be remembered that a select marksman compelled Mr. GARDENER to take the field. It was found that a ball might pass within an inch of the spinal marrow and not take life. The murderous project excited general indignation, and Mr. Gardener still lives to lament terror and the vengeance of an injured, and oppressed people, in the ears of an overheating & headstrong majority. This pistol legislation has been as ineffectual as the Embargo, and seems therefore very prudently to be abandoned. [Repertory.]
BOSTON, JAN. 27. A number of Wood Vessels, which have discharged their loads, on several Wharves at the North End, are now detained for want of such bonds as the New embargo Law requires for granting a clearance to go home. These bonds must be signed by one or more of the owners of the vessels, and also if they reside 2 or 500 miles off. In this predicament the poor fellows are detained at a considerable expence, and no little vexation; and the owners, though innocent of their remissness in the fulfilment of known laws, are put to an expense, that must render their trips an expense, rather than a profit to them.
The last National Intelligencer , in the most unqualified terms, pronounces that "THE EMBARGO LAWS WILL BE ENFORCED." If this is the language of Administration - the PEOPLE of America have nothing more to do than to make up their minds whether they WILL or WILL NOT submit to an arbitrary and unconstitutional law.
Extract of a letter dated Providence Jun. 23, 1809.
"We are under Martial law. Our Governor has this day ordered out four military companies to protect the embargo. - The companies met, and resolved that they would dismiss, and retire to their houses. Information having been lodged with the Collector that an attempt would be made to get off a small sloop, that had lately been seized by the custom house officers, was the reason for calling in military aid. The sensations excited among the inhabitants by this act are not to be described. The streets were soon thronged; and had a single shot been fired, the whole military force would have been massacred, & many houses demolished. At 9 o'clock, P. M. a party of men, from 200 to 300, took possession of the sloop - cut a passage of about a mile through the ice - bent her sails - and hung her rudder, and she is now under way with a brisk breeze."
Austria and France.
The probability of war between these two powers is strengthened by the circumstance, that Austria has opened her port of Trieste to neutrals, which was closed by Bonaparte's order. This is stated in a letter from Cadiz, of Nov. 7, published in the Baltimore Federal Republican; the information received at Cadiz, by express from Gibraltar. The effect was the immediate rise of colonial produce.
BATTLES IN SPAIN.
Extract of a letter from Liverpool, of Nov. 21, 1808, received by a gentleman at Alexandria, on the 19th inst. by the ship Lowden, arrived at New-York.
"Some days ago, Dispatches arrived from Spain, advising that the French army under the command of Gen. Ney, 25,000 men strong, attacked the Spanish army under the command of Gen. Blake, 17,000 strong. The action lasted nine hours, during which the Spaniards retained their ground, but finding themselves so inferior in numbers, they retreated during the night to Bilboa, and two days afterwards fell back 20 miles, where they were joined by the troops from the Baltic, under the command of Gen. Romana. On the 5th of this month, they attacked the French, and the battle lasted 4 days. The French were completely defeated, Gen. Ney killed - besides 9000 killed, wounded and prisoners. Blake is wounded. It is said the numbers of the two armies were nearly equal, but the objects for which they contend are very different."
This intelligence is several days later than any other account from either Spain or England, and bears every mark of probability.
Mammoth Ram!
This Ram was fat behind, sir, This Ram was fat before; This Ram was ten miles round sir, I am sure he was no more. Old song.
The wool mountain, said lately to have been discovered in Louisiana, has since been found to be a ram of such enormous size, as to have been mistaken by travellers at a distance for a mountain of wool, of considerable magnitude. The latest accounts say he was moving towards the salt mountain.
The wits of our non-intercourse orators, and manufacturing politicians, have for a long time been wool gathering, (an article much wanted to support their darling hobbies) without success; when lo! chance, it is said, has furnished them with an abundant stock.
Not to be presumptive, we would merely suggest to his majesty King Tom, the propriety of dispatching a party of his red brethren to Louisiana, to drive this ram to the city. And further, as some of his majesty's subjects doubt the existence of a salt mountain in Louisiana, that to satisfy those incredulous and ungracious non palatines, who
infest his dominions, he should have said ram loaded with salt, dug from the mountain by the hands of those intrusted with this all important mission. - Fred. Herald.
Portland,
Monday, January 30, 1809.
Constitutional Meetings.
With pleasure we lay before our readers this day, the Resolutions of a number of respectable towns, which, for the patriotism and detestation of tyranny they express, are scarcely excelled by any thing of the kind yet published. Such sentiments must gladden the heart of every true friend to American Liberty. It is sincerely hoped, that every town in the District of Maine, which is not riveted to slavery by the chains of jacobinism, will imitate their brethren, by assembling their citizens, and deliberating on the means of Public Safety. An awful crisis approaches! a dark cloud is overshadowing our once happy country; what will be the final consequence, God only knows.
PREVIOUS to the assumption of power by our present rulers - when the nation was converging to a state of prosperity unparalleled in history - the jacobins who now control the destinies of our country, were unceasingly employed in tarnishing the fair fame of those patriots who had achieved and preserved to us our Independence. - It was necessary, in order to excite a spirit of disaffection among the people, to call into their aid the combined powers of deception and intrigue; and a horde of foreign renegades were enlisted into their service to assist in the pious work. The event has proved, with what success their undertaking has been crowned. In prosecuting their "useful labors," Washington was branded with the unmerited and odious epithet of "Traitor!" and Adams, by that of a "hoary headed incendiary!" By the aid of the foulest calumny, the confidence of the people was alienated from those patriots and statesmen - and the present ruling party established upon their ruins.
Their professions of exclusive love, and ardent desire to promote the interests of the people, (should the helm of state be confided to their care) cannot but be fresh in the recollection of all. But the united voice of thousands proclaiming "you lay heavy burthens on the inheritance of the Lord; burthens too heavy to be borne; you oppress the poor and needy, and iniquity is made to run down our streets like a stream," furnishes a comment on their professions and practises, which the whole horde of French, Spanish, and Executive pensioners - from one extremity of the union to the other - can never counteract. - While our rulers are going on in their mad career, a ray of cheering hope is afforded by the flame of patriotism so generally spreading through the country, that their progress will finally receive a check, & our liberties wrested from their destructive hands. Having discovered the danger that awaits them, the people reiterate, with the poet;
"Here we take our stand. Here on the brink, the very verge of Liberty; Although contention rise upon the clouds, Man earth with heav'n and roll the ruin on- wards, Here will we fix and breast us to the shock."
At a late meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Portland, duly warned, a vote was passed, ordering their Resolutions to be printed in each of the newspapers published in this town. The editor of the Argus , instead of complying with the wishes of the town, as expressed in the Vote, had the impudence to insert a paragraph, under the title of Portland Resolutions , filled with the most insolent abuse, and representing the town, while acting in its corporate capacity, as a desperate faction. Such base conduct is unparalleled, even in the annals of Jacobinism, and will undoubtedly meet with universal detestation.
The sentiments there expressed, merit no other answer, than this - no one, unless a rascal, would have been guilty of writing them; and no one, unless a scoundrel, would have thus published them.
The Legislature of this Commonwealth, was convened in Boston, on Wednesday last; and on Thursday, his honor Lt. Gov. LINCOLN, delivered a speech - fraught with the most unqualified "aspersion" against "multitudinous assemblies" "excited from erroneous conceptions," &c. - Its "unprecedented" length, obliges us to defer its publication until our next.
To counteract all the falsehoods and misrepresentations employed by the jacobins to prop up their destructive cause, would be a Herculean task, which we should despair of accomplishing. We notice, among other deceptions, an attempt to destroy the importance which has so justly been attached to Mr. Sloan's Speech, published in our last, by insinuating, that it never was delivered in Congress, and that Mr. S. was not the author of it, and so forth! - In answer to these ridiculous insinuations, we shall merely observe, that the unanswerable arguments there adduced, are sufficient to establish the merits of the Speech, provided it had not been delivered; but it HAS. They must therefore conjure up some new objection.
Spirited Resolutions.
Public meetings, for the purpose of taking into consideration the calamitous situation of the country, have been held in all the principal seaport towns in this Commonwealth. The meeting in Boston was attended with that spirit and union, which have so long characterized the "head quarters of good principles." From the patriotic resolutions which they have adopted, we select the following:
Resolved , That we will not voluntarily aid to assist in the execution of the act passed on the ninth day of this month, for enforcing the several Embargo Laws; and that all those who shall so assist in enforcing upon others the arbitrary and unconstitutional provisions of this act, ought to be considered as enemies to the Constitution of the United States and of this state, and hostile to the liberties of this people.
Resolved , That the raising a large standing army in a time of profound peace, with the name and title of "Volunteers," for the purpose of enforcing arbitrary and unconstitutional laws, and the attempt to place the military above the civil authority - though it cannot overawe or dismay this great and powerful People - yet must be considered as dangerous to liberty, and ought to call forth the most pointed disapprobation of all its friends.
Resolved , That the example given by that veteran soldier, Gen. Lincoln, and other unyielding patriots, in resigning offices intended to be prostituted to subserve the purposes of oppressing the citizens and enforcing arbitrary edicts ought to be imitated by all public officers, and that the inhabitants of this town consider it as an highly honorable sacrifice of individual emolument to public welfare.
Voted , That these Resolutions be adopted by the town, and printed in the public papers.
Attest . WM. COOPER, Town Clerk.
Newburyport Resolutions.
At a very full and respectable meeting of the citizens of Newburyport and the Towns adjacent, held at the Court House in Newburyport on Friday, the 20th day of Jan. 1809, by adjournment from the Hall over the Newburyport Bank, on the preceding day:
The following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to:
Resolved - That we consider the acts displaying an Embargo, and the several acts supplementary thereto, and more especially the last act, as unconstitutional, unjust and oppressive, and that we recommend that all legal steps be taken to prevent the execution of the same.
Resolved - That we will not aid or assist in the execution of the several Embargo laws, especially the last, and that we consider all those who do, as violators of the Constitution of the United States, and of this Commonwealth; and that they be considered as unworthy of the confidence and esteem of their fellow citizens.
Voted - That the subject of making compensation by subscription, to those who should by a non compliance with the last Embargo law, suffer a loss, be committed, and that the committee report at the adjournment of this meeting.
Resolved - That we do not consider it the duty of any soldier to aid and assist in carrying into execution the last Embargo law.
Agreeable to adjournment, the town again assembled on the 24th inst. when the following resolutions were adopted in addition to the preceding:
Resolved , That we do not consider it the duty of any Soldier to aid and assist in carrying into execution the laws of the United States laying an Embargo.
Resolved , As the sense of this meeting; that we consider the provision in the third section of the late act enforcing the Embargo, requiring ships or vessels laden in whole or in part to discharge such cargo, in ten days after notice for that purpose, or give bonds in a sum six times their value, under penalty of forfeiture of vessel and cargo; and also, the provisions in the 2d section of said act requiring bonds in six times the amount of vessel and cargo, and the provision in the fourth section of said act requiring bonds of vessels employed in the coasting trade in an amount equal to three hundred dollars for each ton of said vessel, as peculiarly cruel, oppressive and humiliating; and that we will not in any of the cases above stated subscribe or execute bonds either as principals or sureties, and that we will consider the conduct of those who shall subscribe such bonds as unfriendly to the liberties of their country.
Resolved , That we will consider as enemies to their country, all those who shall charter, or let to hire their vessels, or offer their personal services on board any vessels which may be employed under the 13th section of the aforesaid act for enforcing the embargo.
The above Resolutions were adopted unanimously.
WM. BARTLET, Moderator. JOHN FITZ, Clerk.
"Spirit of '75."
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Newburyport, who are not required by law to do military duty, held at the Town-house, Jan. 20, 1809, at 2 o'clock, P. M.
Voted , Col. John Greenleaf, Moderator.
Voted , That Messrs. Thomas Carter, John Greenleaf, Michael Hodge, jr., Daniel Burnham, and John Fitz, be a committee to make such arrangements as may appear necessary, to organize those persons who are not subject to military duty, under the laws of the commonwealth, and who are disposed to hold themselves in readiness to support the constitution of their country, and defend their rights and privileges; and that they report at the adjournment of this meeting.
Voted , To adjourn this meeting to Tuesday evening next, 24th inst. then to meet at the Hall of the Bank, at 6 o'clock, P. M.
Then met, according to adjournment. Voted , to accept the following Report of the Committee.
Considering it a great, and essential object, that in times of peculiar danger, every free citizen should be prepared to defend his personal rights and liberties, and to maintain the constitution of his country. - We whose names are hereunto subscribed, being exempted from military duty by the laws of the Commonwealth, do adopt the following regulations, and pledge ourselves punctually and minutely to obey them.
1st. Every subscriber shall, within ten days, if possible, from the time of subscribing, be provided with a good musket, bayonet, belt and scabbard, cartridge box, and twenty four rounds, of ball cartridges, suited to his musket, and shall keep the same in some safe and convenient place in his dwelling house.
2d. A committee shall be appointed to visit the houses of the subscribers and inspect their arms and accoutrements, at least once in three months - and the first inspection shall be within a month from this meeting.
Voted , A committee of ten to solicit subscribers to the articles of agreement: - When Col. Greenleaf, Maj. Perkins, Jos. Brown, N. Knap, jr., Nath. Wyer, Capt. Robbateau, John Fitz, Moses Somerby, D. Somerby, and E. Gunnison, were respectively chosen.
The above agreement is signed by between 2 and 3 Hundred of the nine respectable inhabitants in town; many of whom took an active part in achieving that Independence, which they are RESOLVED to maintain.
Georgetown Resolutions.
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Georgetown, in the county of Lincoln, on the 23d day of January, 1809.
Resolved - That the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to themselves and their posterity, established the present Constitution.
Among the provisions of that instrument, Congress was to have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, but we cannot find therein, either express or implied, authorising them to destroy or abandon it.
Our state constitution recognizes the principle, "that all men are born free and

qual, and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights , among which are reckoned, the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties, and of acquiring, possessing and protecting property; and whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to take measures for their safety, prosperity and happiness; for the very idea of all legitimate government implies a social compact, by which the whole people covenants to protect each citizen in the enjoyment of these natural rights, as well as each citizen the whole people: Now is it not a right for all the individuals of the community in their own ships to navigate the seas, the common highway of all mankind? more especially when we are at peace with all the world? and has our government afforded this protection? has it not rather required the citizens to surrender these natural rights altogether?
Considerations like these under our present unexampled embarrassments and privations, naturally lead us to inquire into the causes which have produced them; and upon a retrospective view of the different measures of the federal government since it was established, more particularly as it regards our foreign relations, we cannot but notice with pain the striking contrast; under the administration of the great Washington and his successors, agriculture, commerce and the fisheries flourished; we were respected abroad and prosperous at home; all the power and intrigues of foreign courts to the contrary notwithstanding; but can this be said with truth to be the case now? do we not witness a system of policy, calculated, as appears by the result, to exact our enemies (if we have any) & humble, depress and impoverish ourselves? We have experienced for more than a year, the operation of the obnoxious embargo laws, by which, instead of enforcing other nations to respect our rights, (which was not however the ostensible reason assigned for imposing those laws, but we believe the real one) we have, in the view of all the world, abandoned them, and taught the enemies of our rising prosperity a lesson, which they have been long desirous of knowing, that instead of their being dependent upon us, they can be very independent.
When the present administration came into power, we were promised better times than we had then before experienced—that our burdens would be lightened—that we should avoid an approximation to the forms of monarchical and aristocratical government—that in fine, the political millennial state was to commence; but experience has taught the sad reverse. In avoiding Scylla, we are about being swallowed up by Charybdis. Our nation fallen from an exalted rank to a situation the most humbling. We find the means of our individual subsistence every day declining, and the objects of charity multiplying. Having memorialized the president of the United States: we asked bread and were given a stone—on the meeting of congress, we asked fish and they give us a serpent!
Resolved, That we deplore the measures which have been and are about to be adopted the present session, notwithstanding the eloquent remonstrances and the unanswerable arguments of our Senators and many of our Representatives—whose characters and abilities would do honor to any nation in any age. Being threatened not only with the continuance of the causes of our present calamities, but an increase of them, by a tyrannical military despotism, with other encroachments on our liberties and peace—by having the treasures of the nation squandered away in paying a host of custom-house officers and their tools; in raising armies in time of peace, and making warlike preparations, apparently with no other view, than to enforce the embargo laws, and to turn our guns against our own citizens, and having no means of replenishing the national treasury, but by resorting ultimately to direct taxes.
We cannot therefore but avail ourselves of our constitutional right, in an orderly and peaceable manner to assemble and consult upon the common good, to petition for redress of the wrongs done us and the grievances we suffer.
Resolved, That since the supreme executive of the nation, as well as congress, turn a deaf ear to our supplications and remonstrances, we will lay our complaints and sufferings before the government of that state, which first resisted European tyranny, at the commencement of the revolution that ended in our independence, and still knows how to value, and to defend our equal rights from British or Gallic usurpation.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to make out, sign and forward, in the name of this town, a respectful address to the Legislature of Massachusetts, at their next session, setting forth the distresses we experience under the embargo and other laws of the general government, and the fears we entertain, that liberty and happiness are about to be exiled from this once happy land; giving our unqualified approbation of the measures adopted by them in June last, and praying them to take such further steps, as in their opinion will be best calculated to restore to us our former rights of trading the ocean, and of preserving the union and prosperity of the United States.
Resolved, That as we inherit the soil on which our ancestors landed in 1607, being freemen of the oldest town in the country; and when called upon in common with our brethren to resist the encroachments of Great Britain in 1775, we were united in opposing them, so now, we would cheerfully consecrate every cent of property we possess, & the last drop of blood in our veins, to the service, and in the defence of our beloved country, would our government use such obvious means of resistance, as our population and resources would furnish; & which the experience of ages would warrant and approve; but if this terrapin policy is to be persisted in, we had better, like the oyster in the sand, recede altogether from the view of human transaction.
Resolved, That it is our undivided determination, to conduct towards our government, as good and dutiful citizens, and pay implicit obedience to every act and regulation constitutionally imposed; but if the citizens are interdicted from ploughing and sowing, what crop can the government reap? Therefore we do with one heart and voice, implore the great King of nations to dispose the hearts of our rulers to adopt
such measures, as will avert the calamities we fear, and preserve our union and the blessings of a free government, for countless ages to come.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed, on the part of this town, to correspond on the committee of other towns, on the means necessary to be adopted, by which to extricate ourselves from our present sufferings, and to give due notice, by calling on the selectmen to assemble the town together, when any of our rights are infringed, or when, in their opinion, any sufficient reason exists, for the town to act in their corporate capacity.
A true copy. Attest, JOHN PATTEE, T. Clerk. N. B. The foregoing was adopted in full town meeting, with but one dissentient.
Brunswick Resolutions.
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of Brunswick, on the 23d day of January A. D. 1809, the following Resolves were passed. Resolved, That the Inhabitants of this town do consider the act of Congress laying a permanent Embargo, as directly repugnant to the spirit of the Constitution of the United States, & the several supplementary acts, but especially the act passed on the sixth day of January last, as alarming violations of the express provisions of that Constitution; that they tend directly to the annihilation of the revenue, while they greatly increase the expenses of the United States; to produce and daily aggravate distress among the great body of the people, and, if long continued, to excite domestic convulsions.
That the last act of Congress, designed to enforce the Embargo, when its utter inutility, either as a measure of precaution, or as a measure of coercion upon those belligerents, whose decrees and orders affect our commerce, is acknowledged by all, forces upon us the apprehension, that the Embargo originated in the will of that Emperor, who has declared, that he will compel the United States to take part in the war, either as friends or allies.
That we believe it is the intention of the administration to unite with France in the war against Great Britain; a war, which we deprecate, as neither just, necessary or wise; since we are persuaded, that all matters of dispute between the United States and that Government, might, by sincere & honourable negotiation, be amicably settled, and a friendly commercial intercourse re-established on principles mutually advantageous.
That the organization of a large military force in a time of peace for purposes concealed from the people, excites in our minds the most alarming apprehensions; while the unlimited powers vested in the President, and in the officers of his appointment for enforcing the Embargo Laws, present to our astonished view the monstrous image of a military despotism, erected by the rulers of a free republic, and the property, the liberty and even the lives of citizens placed under the control of numerous petty tyrants, in defiance of the express provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and in contempt of the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.
That, deeply affected by the evils incident to the embargo, but infinitely more distressed by these violations of our dearest rights, we will by every constitutional and peaceable measure seek the redress of our wrongs; declaring at the same time our determination, to refrain from all violent opposition to the laws, under which we suffer, and to discountenance such opposition in others.
That we despair of obtaining relief from our distresses and our fears by any further application to the President or to Congress; and that we will therefore present a respectful petition to the Legislature of this Commonwealth, praying that they would speedily pursue such measures, as they in their wisdom may judge most conducive to the redress of individual wrongs, and best adapted to the portentous crisis of our public affairs.
Resolved, That we are ready to make any sacrifice of property & life for the preservation of the honor, the peace, and the liberties of our country.
Resolved, That whereas several Merchants in this town have loaded their Vessels by permission of the President of the United States; we do highly approve of their determination to refuse compliance with the late law requiring them to unlad their vessels, or give heavy and unreasonable bond.
Voted, That the foregoing Resolutions, signed by the Moderator, and attested by the Town Clerk, be forwarded for insertion in the next PORTLAND GAZETTE.
A true Copy from the Minutes. Attest, JOTHAM STONE, Town Clerk.
North-Yarmouth Resolutions.
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of North Yarmouth, assembled at the Baptist Meeting-House, on Saturday the 21st of January 1809, the following Resolutions were adopted—205 to 12.
Resolved, That while in ordinary times we are content with expressing our opinion of public men and measures, through the medium of our elective franchise, we not only claim it as a right, but deem it a sacred duty at a crisis so interesting, openly and publicly to avow our sentiments & feelings in relation to the present alarming situation of our country.
That as the People are the only legitimate source of power, they have a right not only sanctioned by precedent, but expressly recognized by our Constitution of Government, to reform, alter, and even totally to change the Government, whenever the end for which it is instituted is not fully and effectually answered.
That whenever the administrators of government professing to protect the People in the enjoyment of their lives, liberties and property, wantonly violate those rights, on the preservation of which, the security of those blessings principally depend, they become unworthy of confidence, and forfeit the character of the Representatives of a free People.
That we regard the right to navigate the Ocean as a right derived from the God of nature, transmitted to us by our forefathers, and which we will never consent to abandon.
That having suffered under the pressure of the laws interdicting foreign commerce, until that pressure has become almost intolerable, it is with the deepest astonishment we learn that the National Legislature have recently passed additional laws to enforce this oppressive measure—laws despotic in their character—subversive of every principle of justice—requiring the aid of a Military force to carry them into execution, and if carried into complete effect, will in our opinion, be productive of the most disastrous and fatal consequences.
That the laying additional restrictions on the coasting trade—a trade on the protection of which so many of our Citizens depend for subsistence, which will in effect amount to a total prohibition, is calculated to excite in our bosoms the mingled emotions of regret and indignation.
That we shall ever be ready at a moment's warning to fly to the defence of our country, & at every hazard to repel the invaders from our shores; but are not so lost to every feeling of humanity and patriotism as to be prepared to point our Bayonets at the breasts of our fellow-citizens.
That having looked in vain to our National Government for some relief from the pressure of our sufferings, our eyes are now anxiously turned to the Legislature of this Commonwealth, in hopes that they, at their approaching session, will devise and adopt such measures as will have a tendency to arrest the progress of that baneful system which has already hurried us to the verge of ruin.
Resolved Therefore, That our Senators in the Legislature be requested, and our Representatives instructed, to use their utmost exertions to procure the adoption of such just and effectual measures for that purpose, as the peculiarity of our situation requires, and the exigencies of the terms may render necessary.
Attest, NATHL. JENKS, Town Clerk pro tem.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
MR. SHIRLEY, We attended the meeting at Wiscasset, on Monday, the 23d instant. It was conducted with much decorum and propriety. A set of resolutions, and a memorial to the General Court, were reported and accepted by the town, without one dissentient. The patriots were opposed in their wise, just & honourable measures, by no one; not even the heretofore bold minions of the administration dared, against the energetic voice of the people, to utter a syllable. The resolutions are spirited, yet prudent—such as the times require. The memorial is strong, open and candid in expression; pure and patriotic in sentiment; it is inferior to none.
We were highly gratified with the pure sentiment, and rich eloquence of Mr. BRADFORD, who followed Mr. BAILEY, in explaining to the inhabitants the objects of the meeting, and in portraying, in short hand, the inattention of our rulers to the distresses of the people. Mr. Bradford advanced one sentiment, which we wish might conscientiously govern every man in public life. He said, "the PEOPLE are attached, more to our excellent constitution, and its republican principles, than they are to the leaders of a party. They need only to be convinced of the departure of their rulers from the sacred provisions of that palladium of their rights, to 'avenge their wrongs' in any way the crisis may require." Both these gentlemen were short in their remarks, for there was not an opposing voice. The people acted for themselves, and demagogues trembled.
In these times, that seem soon to offer another field for 'trying men's souls,' it gives us a 'clue at future hopes,' to see our learned, able, and honest men, give the concerns of the nation a 'close watch.'
AN OLD CORRESPONDENT.
MR. SHIRLEY, As it is a fact, and complaints are daily made, that, owing to some cause which we hope soon to unfold, various sums of money, 'enclosed per mail,' have never arrived at the places of direction; we request you to publish this information in your paper, for the good of the community, in order to caution them against trusting to so unsafe a conveyance, and thereby save their property from secret plunder.
Yours, &c. L & M
GRAY CAUCUS.
We understand a county caucus was held in Gray on Thursday last, composed of the principal executive petitioners in the county. What provision was made for empowering them to hold their offices for life, remains to be developed.—We have no ocular proof of the spirit by which they were actuated, but have the best authority for pronouncing it ARDENT. If this is not correct, the Argumentum ad hominem is liberty to rectify it.
From the Freeman's Friend.
"Cat in a Strange Garret!" Chance has thrown the following circular letter into our hands. As otherwise the public might never be gratified with the perusal of this most sublime effusion of patriotic zeal, we cannot perhaps do a higher service than by presenting it to our readers. We hope the magnanimous authors may not go unrewarded for their useful labors.
Portland, January 20, 1809.
"GENTLEMEN, The traitorous attempts of a degenerate faction , to excite a spirit of jealousy & discontent, to rouse a temper of intemperance & opposition to government, and to kindle a flame of civil discord; their diabolical conspiracies to funder the gold chain of union that comprehends the interest and glory of millions the fare of generations, and the liberties of man, which support the definitions of America, and the hope of the world, call imperiously for the prompt and energetic exertions of the friends of their country, the supporters of the laws, & the advocates of its government, to counteract their endeavors to poison the public mind , and pervert the common sentiments of a virtuous, but unsuspecting people. In the critical and perilous situation of the country, it is the duty of patriotic citizens to express their zeal and ardour in its cause, on their determined resolution to contend to the utmost for its safety, its honor and independence.
In compliance with the solicitation of republican citizens , and in conformity with our conviction of its expediency we do ourselves the honor to request you to attend a meeting of the republicans from the several towns in the county, at Stoddard's Inn in Gray, on Thursday the 26th inst. at 11 A.M. and with as many democratic friends as can conveniently accompany you, to deliberate on measures most proper to be pursued.
I. L. J. W. D. W. L. R. I.
What mortal, under this mask of glowing patriotism , would think of finding the penurious and plasm of the administration —who have been placed in office to the exclusion of men better than themselves—who are noted for nothing but their obsequious subserviency to the arbitrary mandates of the despotism which lords it over the delinies of our devoted country—who are fattening on the distresses of their Fellow citizens—whose self interest induces them to exert their feeble energies fill a little while to cajole the people into approbation of the oppressive and tyrannic measures of the administration upon whose bounty they subsist? Yet such is the fact . Among the signatures to this patriotic circular , we recognize Jacob Dickey , Esq. Collector of the Customs—the executor of mandates subversive of the liberties of his country—which as horrid the rankest of the manufactory of any citizen, while the offender is exempted from responsibility under pretext of secret instructions from the projector of the oppressions under which our fellow citizens groan. Would he manifest his patriotism, let him resign an office he cannot hold without dishonor—the duties of which he cannot execute without affixing the stamp of infamy on a character, we believe, hitherto unsoiled. Then will the gratitude of his suffering country follow him into retirement which such a conduct would render indeed significant . James Wingate , Esq. whom adversity circumstances have made Post Master in Portland—further say not— Daniel W. Lincoln , Esq. &c. &c. &c.—and Robert Duley , contractor with government for the building of Gun boats , by which he is understood to have made a pretty good spec .
To the Republican Committee of Portland. I. L. J. W. D. W. L. R. I.
These compose the patriot band of useful guardians of the people's rights —who have the effrontery to stigmatize the proceedings of the people, in the exercise of Constitutional rights as a " traitorous attempt ," a " diabolical conspiracy ," of a " desperate faction ," to overturn the liberties of their country! Pray Messrs Conservatives of the Public Safety , which favors most of " faction ," the open, constitutional acts of freemen , or secret caucus orders of the minions of despotic power ? We presume our fellow-citizens will duly appreciate such extraordinary interference with their rights, nor forget them at the day of reckoning!
Married.
In this town, Mr. Edward B. Souther to Miss Deborah Smith.
In Scarbroough, Mr. Richard Carter, to Miss Sally Holmes.
Died.
At Andover, 10th inst. Capt. Benjamin Ames, Bt. 83: he was an officer in the American revolution, and commanded a company in the memorable battle of Bunker's hill.
At his seat in Gilmantown, N. H. Gen. Joseph Badger, Councillor for the County of Stafford.
At Norridgewock, on Monday evening, 16th inst. Col. John Moon, aged 77, being an old revolutionary officer, who commanded the American troops on the left in the battle of Bunker-Hill. His funeral was attended with the most numerous concourse of people ever known in these parts, being 150 sleighs present.
A well adapted discourse was preached by the Rev. John Cayford.
At Bolton Thompson J. Skinner, Esq. late Treasurer of the Commonwealth.
In Hartford, (Me.) Mrs. Silvina Parsons, aged 38.
In this town, Miss Lorania Ferren, aged 20.
William, son of Jeremiah Milliken, aged 3 m.
FOR SALE,
By JACOB KNIGHTS, on Portland Pier, 20 Hhds. SUGAR.
Portland, Jan. 20.
One more chance for 10,000 Dollars!
A VERY few Tickets and Quarters in Dixieville Road Lottery, which has just commenced drawing, for sale by
ISAAC ADAMS, No. 7, Fifth Street.
Those who wish to purchase will do well to apply immediately, as very few Tickets remain unsold.
Jan. 20.
REAL ESTATE.
FOR sale at Auction, a small Lot of Land pleasantly situated in Green Street, for a store; lying at the west end of Mr. George Wheelwright's house, being about fourteen feet front and three rods deep. Sale to commence on Monday the twenty seventh day of February next, at eleven o'clock A. M. on the premises. Terms made known at the time and place of sale.
DANIEL GREEN. Portland, Jan. 28, 1809.
Henry Wheeler,
CARRIES on the CURRING BUSINESS, at Gorham Corner, and is constantly ready to obey the reasonable commands of those who will favor him with their custom.
Gorham, Jan. 16.
TO BE LET,
HALF of a convenient DWELLING HOUSE, situated in Free Street, on reasonable terms.—Enquire of
WILLIAM GODDARD. Portland, Nov. 7. (tl)
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice
to all concerned, that she has been duly appointed, and has taken upon herself the trust of an administratrix on the estate of
EPHRAIM CHICK,
late of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs: she therefore requests all persons who are indebted to the said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to
PHEBE CHICK. Dec. 14, 1803. (16)
Messrs Tippets,
A. Cheever & Co.
HAVE REMOVED from their former stand to the store nearly on the site (formerly occupied by N. P. Pease) No. 1 Union Place, where is for sale, a large and elegant assortment manufactured under their own inspection and warranted free from damage. They consist of every kind fashionable and useful, and will be sold cheaper than can be purchased elsewhere in the District of Maine, at retail—at wholesale, as low as can be purchased in Boston.
HATS, they have of their own manufacturing, of every kind, which will be sold and warranted to give the purchaser satisfaction.
Household Furniture.
New Beds and Bedsteads, with a variety of Parlour and Kitchen Furniture.
Cash given for Hattling & Shipping Furs. Portland Jan. 30. (tf)
NOTICE!
THE subscriber being about to close business in this place, requests all those with whom he has unsettled accounts to call and have them adjusted; and all those indebted to make immediate payment.
NATHANIEL CRAM. Portland, Jan. 30. (8w)
N. B. The subscriber offers the remaining part of his stock, consisting of W. I. Glass & Groceries, at reduced prices for cash only.
BACK-COVE BRIDGE.
THE Proprietors of Back Cove Bridge are hereby notified that their semi-annual meeting will be held at the house of Abraham Beeman, innholder in Portland on Monday the sixth day of February next, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes:—viz.
To choose a Moderator.
To make choice of one or more persons in addition to the present Standing Committee.
To receive accounts and allow the same if they be found right.
To pass any vote respecting the toll, that they may judge expedient.
Per order of the Standing Committee.
STEPHEN WATTS, Clerk of the Prop. Portland, Jan. 30, 1809.
To Let,
TWO Chambers situated in Court Street—a convenient tenement for a small family. Apply to
JOHN PHILLIPS. Portland, Jan. 30. (tf)
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Taken by Execution and to be sold at Public Vendue , on
WEDNESDAY the 8th day of February next, at two of the clock in the afternoon, on the premises.
ALL the right in Equity of Redemption in and upon the following described Mortgaged Real Estate, situated in Raymond, in said county, being forty acres more or less, and is part of the lot numbered twenty one, in the tenth range of lots in said town, and bounded as follows:—viz. Beginning at a stump standing by the westerly bank of Parker's pond fifteen rods and one half, on a course fourth eleven degrees west from the tenth range line; thence south sixty five degrees west fifty rods to a stake; thence north sixty five degrees west twenty rods to a stake; thence north thirty four degrees east to the aforesaid range line; thence north for y five degrees west to lot number twenty two in said range; thence by said lot No. twenty two to the ninth range line; thence south east to Ezekiel Cooks land; thence by said Cook's land to the bounds first mentioned—with a privilege of building a Tress Hammer works on a mill privilege, with all the buildings standing on the above described premises, and privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging—said estate being mortgaged in September 1803, for six hundred dollars.
EZRA GIBBS, D. Sheriff. Raymond, January 9, 1809. (16)
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed Executrix
of the estate of
ROBERT STINSON,
late of Woolwich, in the county of Lincoln, gentleman, deceased, and has undertaken that trust by giving bond as the law directs. All persons, therefore, having demands against the estate of said deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement, and all indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment.
THANKFUL STINSON, Executrix. Jan. 5, 1809. (30)
THE subscribers hereby give public notice
to all concerned, that they have been duly appointed and have taken upon themselves the trust of Executrices of the last will and testament of
THOMAS MOTLEY,
late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, gentleman, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs.—They therefore request all persons who are indebted to the said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to
EMMA MOTLEY, EDWARD MOTLEY. January 25, 1809. (30)
TICKETS at $ 5 50, and Quarters 1 50,
in the 2d Class of Dixieville Road Lottery, for sale by
ISAAC ADAMS, No. 7, FISH STREET.
The above Lottery will commence drawing next week, and among others, are the following capital Prizes, viz.
  1 prize of 10,000   2 prizes 1000   5 do. 500   62 do. 100   60 do. 50   100 do. 20   ** Prize Tickets taken in payment—Orders for Tickets per mail (postage paid) faithfully attended to. Jan. 16.
WHEREAS Nancy my wife has to one and prefers living with her supposed friends. This is for forbidding all persons trusting her on any account, as I am determined not to pay any debts whatever on her account; but if she fees fit to remain and live with me I will treat her as a kind and affectionate wife; if she will not return to me I will treat her as a stranger and affectionate wife. Portland, Jan. 30.

Poetry.
A WISH.
From the Desk of Ori Ander.
Give me to share the sparkling glass Brim full of rosy wine, With some sweet maid, some blooming lass, Some nymph of charms divine.
I'd wander through the attic bowers With my sweet turtle dove; I'd call for her the richest flowers, And whisper tales of love.
And when her heart is beating high, I'd fold her in my arms, On her soft bosom would I sigh, And drink delicious charms.
Then, O ye philosophic fowls! Go dig for Grecian ore, Your hearts were cast in stoic moulds; I envy not your lore.
Did heaven deny to mortals bliss? Ye prudes in virtue, say, Is there no rapture in a kiss? Then damn the poet's lay.
COMMUNICATION.
EPISTLE OF PAUL,
"An unprincipled Adventurer," TO THE Most worthless part of the community."
To hear you groan and swear and sigh, My sinful soul responds; I wish you stood as fair as I, Excepting these D—D BONDS!
Late Donations.
Constitutional Checks.
AT no period since the adoption of the Constitution of Massachusetts and the United States have the FREE MEN thereof been more imperiously called upon to examine and vindicate their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS , than at the present alarming moment. For this purpose they will ascertain those rights by a careful perusal of the Constitutions, which were designed as the bulwark of their Liberties; but will also ascertain the principles in which they originated; and the foundation on which they were established. To assist in this we recommend the perusal of the " Volume of Debates in the Convention of Massachusetts ," which adopted the National Constitution, a new edition of which has lately been printed. On the great question of Constitutional Rights and Checks we extract the following sentiments from a speech of the present Chief Justice of Massachusetts , which will be read with double interest.— Continued.
THE EXTRACT.
"Of the checks the people have against usurpation, and the abuse of power, under the proposed constitution, I shall mention two or three. "The oath the several legislative, executive and judicial officers of the several states take to support the Federal Constitution, is as effectual a security against the usurpation of the general government, as it is against the encroachment of the state governments. For an increase of the powers by usurpation is as clearly a violation of the federal constitution, as a diminution of these powers by private encroachment; and that the oath obliges the officers of the several states, as vigorously to oppose the one as the other. But there is another check, founded on the nature of the union, superior to all the parchment checks that can be invented. If there should be an usurpation, it will not be upon the farmer and merchant, employed and attentive only to their several occupations, it will be upon thirteen legislatures, completely organized, possessed of the confidence of the people, and having the means as well as inclination, successfully to oppose it. Under these circumstances, none but madmen would attempt an usurpation. But the people themselves have it in their power effectually to resist usurpation, without being driven to an appeal to arms. An act of usurpation is not obligatory, it is not law, and any man may be justified in his resistance. Let him be considered as a criminal by the general government, yet only his own fellow-citizens can convict him—they are his jury, and if they pronounce him innocent, not all the powers of Congress can hurt him; and innocent they certainly will pronounce him, if the supposed law he resisted was an act of usurpation."
Debates in Convention, Jan. 23, 1788.
The Vermont Journal of the 9th instant, announces officially , the election of Mr. Hubbard, and Mr. Chamberlain, as representatives from the state of Vermont, to the next Congress of the United States . These gentlemen were the federal candidates, and were opposed in their election, by the rival claimants of Messrs. Leland and Fisk, disciples of the Jefferson & Embargo school .— Boston paper.
Joseph Crofts, Jun.
INFORMS his Friends and Customers that he has just received a general assortment of English and West-India Goods ; and that he has taken store No. 5, Union Row , next door to Maj. WILLIAM GODDARD'S —where any articles in the above line may be had at reduced prices for cash or country produce. Portland, Jan. 23.
READ YOUR CONSTITUTIONS.
For sale at the Bookstore of ISAAC ADAMS, A BOOK which costs only 25 Cents, containing the Constitution of the state of Massachusetts and that of the United States ; the Declaration of Independence, and Washington's Farewell Address—and which ought to be in the hands of every Citizen of this Commonwealth.—If the People and Rulers of this country would understand and Practice the principles contained in this small book, it would direct them in that path which would give them relief from most if not all the evils and embarrassments which they labor under at the present day. The above book was recommended by the General Court of this Commonwealth, to be read in all our Schools. Jan. 16
NOTICE!
SPECIAL MEETING.
THE Stockholders in the Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Company , are hereby notified to meet at their Office, in Reps-Street , on MONDAY , the 6th day of February next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, to fill the vacancy in the Board of Directors, occasioned by the resignation of Capt. ARTHUR M'LELLAN .—By order of the Board of Directors. ELISHA MORSE, Secretary. M. F. & M. Ins. Office, Portland, Jan. 16, 1809.
Factory Yarn & Thread Store.
JOSEPH POPE, informs his friends and the public that he is appointed Agent for Almy & Brown , of Providence, who will keep him constantly supplied from their long known & well established Factory, with a general assortment of Cotton Warp and Billing. White and colored Stocking, 2 & 3 thread, ditto ditto Thread in hanks and balls, Wirk Yarn, Cotton Shirting and Sheeting, do. Check and Stripe, Bed Tick, &c. Which will be sold wholesale and retail at the Factory prices. Shopkeepers in town and country may be supplied on the same terms as at the Manufactories, by applying at No. 7, Mussey's Row . (6m) Dec. 19.
Partnership Formed.
THE subscribers inform their friends and the public that they have formed a Partnership in business at Bath , in the county of Lincoln , where they have heretofore resided as attorneys at law; and that one or the other of them will always be at their office, and attend promptly to whatever business may be forwarded or entrusted to them. NATHAN L. COFFIN, EBEN CLAP. Bath, Jan. 2. (16)
Fifty Dollars Reward.
ABSCONDED from Salem, Mass. on Thursday the 4th of August last, DAVID PERRY , with a horse and chaise, the property of the subscriber; said Perry is about 28 years of age—about 5 feet 10 inches high, light complexion, pale sickly countenance, and light sandy hair;—had on when he went away, a blue broadcloth Coat, white Marleilles Waistcoat, white Dimity Pantaloon, white Stockings, and Morocco shoes. The mare taken is of a middling size, black color, with a white spot in her forehead, in shape of a heart. The Chaise has a canvas top, and tea colored body, ornamented with an indian chief on the back, and lion's head on the box; the linings brown forest cloth, something worn, the wings are covered with canvas and painted with red and blue stripe, mouldings a little broken; carriage painted green, striped with red, and a plated harness. Whoever will apprehend said Runaway , with the horse and chaise, or give information so that the subscriber may obtain them, shall receive Fifty Dollars reward —or for the horse and chaise only, Thirty Five dollars , and Fifteen for the runaway. EBENEZER RAND. Salem, (Mass.) August 13, 1808. (J. 16)
LOST.
BETWEEN Capt. Jamson's Tavern in Freeport and this town. A BUNDLE OF NOTES OF HAND with some other papers—the Notes are all payable to JOHN P. BARRITT . As the payment of the notes is stopped, they can be of no use to any one but the owner.—Whoever has found and will leave them at this Office shall be well rewarded for their trouble. Portland, Jan. 16.
A good chance for those who wish to remove into the Country. To be sold very low, about 18000 acres of good Land, in Avon , on Sandy River , 14 miles above Farmington Academy . There is a Saw and Grist Mill, and upwards of 40 families in the town.—Real Estate in Portland , would be taken in part for payment. Also—For sale, if applied for immediately, a Farm in Turner , which is south of and adjoining Capt. Pompelie's , containing about 125 acres—50 or 60 under improvement—130 apple-trees—house 50 feet by 30, one story—an excellent barn, 72 by 35—with other out buildings. The above will be sold very low. For more particular information—for price and terms of payment, apply to NATHAN KINSMAN, Esq. of Portland , or the subscriber at Brunswick . JACOB ABBOT, jun. Jan. 9, 1808. (4 w.)
HARD-WARE GOODS.
William Goddard, HAS received by ships Globe and Hannah from Liverpool , an addition to his flock of Hard-Ware Goods , Which are offered for sale on the most favorable terms, by wholesale or retail. Portland, N. v. 7. (16)
FOR SALE, ON board the sloop Margaret , lying at Union-Wharf , about 100 Hhds. LIVERPOOL SALT. Inquire at No. 11. Portland, Jan. 23.
On Tuesday last, TWENTY-FOURTH inst. at 3 o'clock, P. M. the Wheels of Dixieville Lottery , began to move, (by permission of old Massachusetts —Embargo No. 6, notwithstanding) and in the course of 30 days will distribute among Fortune's Favorites , 52,511 dollars in such sums as she may choose, from 7 to 10,000 dolls. TICKETS and QUARTERS may be had now & during the drawing, at S. PATTEN'S Lottery-Office, No. 10, Jones's-Row—Fifth street Portland, Jan. 23.
Eliphalet Smith,
HAS REMOVED to Titscomb's building, Middle Street —where he has for sale a general assortment of FACTORY COTTON YARN, CLOTH & BEDTICKING .—Other goods as usual. (9w.) Jan. 2.
A FARM FOR SALE,
IN the town of Falmouth , in the county of Cumberland , consisting of one hundred and five acres of Land, of which thirty is Interval, and lying on Pensumpscot River , and five miles from the town of Portland , and on the post road that leads from Portland to Augusta , and into many of the back towns. Said farm is conveniently situated for a Public House, with a large two story House and Barn, without out-houses. The soil of said farm is inferior to none. Also—In said town, a Wood Lot, containing 60 acres.—Inquire of OLIVER WINSLOW. Og. 17. (t.f.)
Crowell Hatch,
INFORMS the public that he has given up his stand in Portland , and taken one in FREYBURG —where he intends carrying on THE TAILORING BUSINESS , in its various branches; and where he will be happy to serve the citizens of Freyburg and its vicinity in the line of his profession.
TAKE NOTICE!
THE subscriber informs those indebted to him, that he has placed their notes and accounts in the hands of NATHAN KINSMAN, Esq. for collection; and that an immediate attention to them will prevent a suit. CROWELL HATCH. Freyburg, January 16, 1809.
The Subscriber,
Offers for sale, At his store in Middle-Street , A large and general assortment of West-India Goods and Groceries , Warranted of the first quality.—He is under the necessity of informing the public that no credit can be given for the above Goods after this date. DAVID DANA. Portland, Jan. 23.
REMOVAL.
ROBERT CROSS, has removed his CROCKERY & GLASS-WARE STORE to Titscomb's Buildings—Middle-Street , where he has a complete assortment of
China Glazed, } WARE. Blue Printed, } Do. Painted, } Enamelled and } Cream colored } 120 plates assorted Ware, 10 Hhds. do. do. 10 do. Glass-Ware, assorted. 10 boxes Dutch do. 30 do. Pipes. JAPANED WARE. Waiters, Canisters, Servers, Candlesticks, Bread Baskets, Knife Trays, Cadies, Snuffers do.
REMOVAL.
CHARLES ROGERS begs leave to inform his friends and customers that he has removed to his store under his dwelling-house, at the head of Thomson's-Wharf , where he has for sale SEAMEN'S CLOTHING , &c. and where the
TAILORING BUSINESS
Is carried on at the lowest cash prices. N.B.—All persons indebted to said Rogers, either by note or book account, are hereby requested to call and settle the same immediately, if they wish to save expense. Portland, Jan. 23. (6w)
WE the subscribers, Commissioners, appointed by the Hon. Samuel Freeman , Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland , to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of
DAVID FOGG,
late of Scarborough , in the county of Cumberland , shipwright, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice that six months being allowed from the twenty-second day of July last, to said creditors to bring in their claims, and that we will attend that service at the dwelling-house of Charles Morris, in said Scarborough , on the last Wednesday of this and the following month, from two until five o'clock, P. M. on each of said days. CHARLES MORRIS, } Commissioners. PELATIAH LIBBY, } Jan. 16.
Ten Dollars Reward.
STOLEN from the subscriber, on Saturday night last, a large black crooked backed HORSE, with a far in his forehead, square tail, rather lame in his right hind foot, and has a ring of mane on the right side of his neck—is about 8 years old, trots and paces.—Whoever will detect the thief and secure him in any jail, and return the Horse to the subscriber, shall be entitled to the above reward. THOMAS HASKELL. Portland, Jan. 16.
Bridgton Land Tax. NOTICE is hereby given, that the following Lots of Land, lying in the town of Bridgton , in the county of Cumberland , are taxed in the tax bill committed to the subscriber to collect as Constable of said town , for the years 1807 and 1808, as follows, viz. Minister's Tax for the year 1807.
FIRST DIVISION. Names. No. Lots. Range. No. Acres. Value. Owners unknown, 8 1 100 60 9 1 100 60 4 2 100 60 7 2 100 60 1 4 100 50 3 4 100 150 8 17 100 60 9 17 100 60 1 27 100 60 A Foster, 3 1 100 100 J. Conant, 8 3 100 75
SECOND DIVISION.
Minister's Tax for the year 1808. FIRST DIVISION. S. McDonald, 2 4 100 150 Owners unknown, 8 1 100 60 9 1 100 60 4 2 100 60 7 2 100 60 1 4 100 50 8 17 100 75 9 17 100 60 1 27 100 60 A. Piagree, } 5 17 100 166 J. Conant, } 5 18 100 166 B. Dearborn, } 8 3 100 75 3 19 100 90
Town and County Tax for 1807.
FIRST DIVISION. Owners unknown, 8 1 100 60 9 1 100 60 4 2 100 60 7 2 100 60 1 4 100 50 8 17 100 66 9 17 100 66 1 27 100 60 J. Conant's heirs, 8 3 100 75 A. Piagree, 5 17 100 166 Do. 5 18 100 166
SECOND DIVISION.
Minister's Tax for the year 1808. FIRST DIVISION. Owners unknown, 8 1 100 60 9 1 100 60 4 2 100 60 7 2 100 60 1 4 100 50 8 17 100 66 9 17 100 66 1 27 100 60 J. Conant's heirs, 8 3 100 75 S. McDonald, 2 4 100 150
SECOND DIVISION.
Minister's Tax for the year 1808. FIRST DIVISION. Owners unknown, 2 3 100 150 8 14 20 50 8 1 100 60 9 1 100 60 4 2 100 60 5 2 100 60 1 4 100 50 1 27 100 60 J. Conant's heirs, 4 28 100 66 Poulin, 3 8 100 100 S. McDonald, 2 4 100 150
SECOND DIVISION.
Minister's Tax for the year 1808. FIRST DIVISION. Owners unknown, 2 3 100 150 8 14 20 50 8 1 100 60 9 1 100 60 4 2 100 60 5 2 100 60 1 4 100 50 1 27 100 60 J. Conant's heirs, 4 28 100 66 Poulin, 3 8 100 100