Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1802-01-25 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
Appointed to publish the LAWS of the United States, for the District of Maine.
NUMBER 196.3
MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1802.
[VOLUME IV.]
Portland,
MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1802.
Mr. GALLATIN'S REPORT , is given entire in this day's Gazette. As an official document, founded upon our established system of finance, created and matured under the Federal Administration, it will be read with pleasure by most of the American public.—It is probable, however, that some encomiasts of Mr. Gallatin, as a good Democrat, may be somewhat disappointed that after all the mighty bustle respecting his extraordinary financial powers, he has come forward with nothing more than what was demonstrated by our Secretaries years past. But those who have been so forward in depreciating the merits of our own countrymen and tried Patriots to build up foreign adventurers and domestic intriguers, are reminded that such men only flatter to obtain place and power.
A few more numbers of the excellent address to the President of the United States, yet remain to be published, which shall be given as soon as we get through the present crowd of official matters.
For the advantage of country traders and others, it is intended next week to commence a general Price Current of articles in Boston and this town, which shall be kept as accurate as our information will admit of.
Messrs. Cushing and Appleton of Salem, have issued proposals for printing an Authentic and interesting Narrative, which has never been published in this country, called "The True History of the Conquest of Mexico; by Capt. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one of the Conquerors—written in 1568. Translated from the original Spanish, by Maurice Keating, Esq."—[Subscription papers are lodged at Jenks and Clark's Book Store, Portland.]
Direct from Europe.
Capt. Enoch Preble, in the brig Apollo, who arrived here on Tuesday last from Liverpool, politely furnished us with London and Liver-pool papers to the 26th November.—Extracts follow:
LONDON, NOV. 21.
This morning we received Paris Journals of the 16th.
It is at length determined that the deputation of the Germanic body, to whom the final arrangement of the indemnities has been confided, shall meet at Ratisbon.
Letters from Vienna state, that Austria has not yet appointed a Plenipotentiary to assist at the Congress of Amiens.
An envoy from the Emperor Alexander is on his way to Rome with full powers to treat with the Pope, respecting the restoration of the Order of Malta. The provisional sovereignty of the Order is said to have been granted by the Emperor to his Holiness.
Private letters from Paris state, that their late lately instituted at Rouen, a Chamber of Commerce, composed of the most intelligent Merchants and manufacturers there, for the purpose of assisting government with their advice in the commercial regulations which are to be adjusted between the two countries. All important documents are to be submitted to it, and it is to correspond directly with the consulate.
Bonaparte seems determined to equal in his household establishment the splendour of the ancient Monarchy. The office of Commander in Chief of the Counsular Guard is abolished, and four generals are to take command of it each day in succession. A Governor of the Palace is also appointed, and the prefects are to receive twenty five thousand francs per annum,
PARIS, NOV. 16.
By a Consular decree of the 14th, General Lannes is appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary in Portugal.
An decree of the 12th, appoints citizen Sotin Deputy Commissary of Commercial Relations at Savannah, in the United States.
Citizen Beauchamp, Commissary of Commercial Relations at Bagdad, is appointed Commissary General of Commercial Relations at Lisbon.
The restoration of the peace of the seas has induced six of the principal merchants of Venice
to form an Insurance Company with a capital of 300,000 ducats. Their firm is Lubencovich and Company.
VIENNA, OCT. 31.
Yesterday arrived here a Courier from Paris, with dispatches from count Cobenzel, which are reported to be of very great importance. It is not yet known whether our Court will send a Minister to Amiens.
VIENNA, NOV. 4.
We learn from Temeswar, that the Governor General has given public notice, that Pashwan Ogloow coins false ducats at Widdin, bearing the head of Joseph II. and also crowns and 12 kreutzer pieces.
WESEL, NOV. 10.
In consequence of a convention concluded at the Hague, on the 29th of August last, between Gen. Anggreau and the Minister of War, Spoons, and ratified September 4, by the First Consul, and the 12th of the same month by the Batavian government, the corps of auxiliary troops, who remain in the Batavian Republic, are to consist of five demi-brigades of infantry, forming not more than 2000 men each, and five companies of artillery, each 95 men. These troops, who are to remain as auxiliaries till the conclusion of a definitive peace with England, cannot be replaced by others without the consent of the two governments.
MILAN, NOV. 6.
General Murat having given orders that the National Guards throughout the whole of the Republic should be disbanded, some companies at Bologna opposed this dissolution.—The French commander has denounced to the government the reprehensible conduct of the principals, and has applauded the firmness of the Civil Power on the occasion. The staff of the National Guard of Bologna has been broken by a Decree; it is to be replaced by another; and the Criminal Tribunal has been ordered to prosecute the leaders, many of whom have been already arrested.
PETERSBURGH, OCT. 20.
Our good Emperor has visited the environs of Moscow; it is every where performs acts of beneficence, every where does he receive the most worthy reward of his virtues, in the public testimonies of the affection and gratitude which animates his subjects. The festival will terminate on the 26th, which is expected to be the most splendid of all, being the birth day of the Empress Dowager.
The unfortunate city of Wilna had been for some time subjected to every sort of disgrace. The burden of a considerable debt weighed down its inhabitants, who were obliged to suffer many privations in order to pay it off gradually. The citizens, however, having represented their situation to the Emperor, in consideration of their distress he presented them with 130,000 roubles of silver.
Letters from Cracow state that an ordinance has been published there, the object of which is to extinguish in the lower classes of the people that propensity to gambling, which frequently depriving them even of the necessaries of life, entails distress on their families, and hurries them into excesses which a good education and more cultivated manners do not always prevent, even in the higher classes. Ignorance, however, certainly renders the heart more accessible to vicious habits. His Majesty has, therefore, prohibited artizans and domestics of both sexes from playing for money in private houses, inns, or taverns. The offenders are to be punished, according to the circumstances of the case, by imprisonment, or the knout. Heads of families and innkeepers, who neglect the execution of this ordinance, are liable, for each offence, to a penalty of 25 florins.
LONDON, NOV. 19.
Should Lord St. Vincent's indisposition be such, as to incapacitate him long from performing his public duties, it is said that Admiral Cornwallis will succeed him, and be introduced into the House of Lords.
The statement in some of the papers of yesterday, of Lord Glenverbie being appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, is incorrect, as that settlement is to be neutralized, and of course evacuated by the British.
The following is an extract of a letter from a serjeant of the 61st regiment, attached to the expedition under Sir Home Popham, dated Rosetta, Sept. 4, from which we learn that Egypt was the ultimate destination of that expedition: "We left the Cape on the 30th March, and on the 28th of May arrived at Mocha, from whence we failed up the Red Sea, and arrived at Costry, in Upper Egypt, on the 7th of July, where we joined the Indian army. We left Costry on the 21st of July, and marched 7 days across the desert, and well it may be called a desert, for in the course of that time I saw not a mark of vegetation, except two or three Cashow trees. We met with wells at three different places on our march; on other days the water was carried in leather bags on the backs of camels. On the 28th we arrived at Kenne on the banks of the Nile, and on the 3d of
August embarked on that river in boats for Cairo, where we arrived on the 10th. On the 28th we again embarked from Cairo, for Rosetta, and on our arrival there, on the 31st, received accounts of the surrender of Alexandria, to our great mortification, as we were within two short days march of it. We expect to remain some time in Egypt, and on quitting it will no doubt be sent to Bengal, as the regiment is put upon that establishment."
A grand Work is preparing in France, under the patronage of the First Consul, comprehending a History of the Expedition to Egypt under Gen. Bonaparte. The work is to be enriched with a great number of plates, representing the Antiquities of the country, the remains of memorable edifices, as well as the present appearance and costume, derived from the Collection of the National Institute. The whole is to be on the most magnificent scale, and is expected to be a work of considerable literary and philosophical excellence.
On Sunday se'nnight Cmacaceroes, Madame Bonaparte, and Joseph Bonaparte, were at the Theatre, at Paris. The house was crowded before the curtain drew up. Bonaparte was expected, but owing to sudden business he did not attend, it was one of the most splendid nights the Theatre ever witnessed. The female part of the audience were profusely decorated with jewels. The dresses were principally white, the bosom entirely exposed. Venetian gold chains, forming a vast number of festoons, encircling the breast, were the principal ornaments; they were confined by the necklace, and a large topaz or brilliant on the shoulder: head dress, ostrich feathers, and tiaras of diamonds.
The Moniteur continues to be filled with Addresses from all parts of France to the Chief Consul on the conclusion of Peace. They are almost all in a style of the highest compliment, somewhat approaching to flattery.
Legislature of Massachusetts.
BOSTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1802.
Agreeably to assignment, his excellency the Governor, preceded by the Sheriff of Suffolk, and accompanied by the Hon. Council, entered the Representatives' Chamber precisely at 12 o'clock; where the Hon. Senate had previously convened; when he delivered the following
SPEECH:
Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
WE have the satisfaction to reflect, that the public peace and order have been preserved, during the last year; and we contemplate with pleasing anticipation, the growing strength and respectability of the State. We possess a healthy and extensive territory, which is rapidly increasing in population, and is accommodated with circumstances favorable to Agriculture and Commerce: Our ships visit every part of the world, and bring home the product of every country; we are blest with a government of our own choosing, which secures the most perfect freedom of which men in society are capable, and affords equal protection to the person and property of every individual; and we shall be as happy as the nature and condition of men will permit us to be, if we make a wise improvement of the favors we have received from Heaven.
But the prosperity of the people is inseparably connected with purity of manners and their practice of the moral virtues; when these become extinct their happiness will be at an end. The increase of wealth in Republics has often endangered the virtue of the people; so long as it is employed for useful purposes, it contributes to the strength and security of the State; but those who have observed its effects in other nations, will perceive the importance of guarding against the abuse of it; lest a departure from the simplicity of ancient manners, should be followed by criminal luxury and dissipation, and the loss of moral and religious principles.
If wealth introduces a vain profusion in the various modes of expense; if it excites an eagerness for dissolute pleasures and frivolous amusements, it will corrupt the manners and vitiate the taste of the people, and lead them into criminal excesses of every kind; the rich will be considered as patterns for imitation by those of moderate fortunes, and these will be followed by others of still less ability; and thus many will ruin themselves by a profusion for which no one will feel himself obliged, or will support their extravagance by unworthy practices; and make good by fraud and rapaciousness what is lavished in vanity; in either case, if the evil is extensive, the ruin of the State becomes inevitable.
We ought then to be solicitous, to preserve the habits of industry and temperance, in which we have hitherto prospered, and to inspire our fellow citizens with a love for the frugality of primitive manners: While these habits continue, the people will make advances in agriculture, and the valuable arts, and will think their chief happiness is involved in the public welfare; our religious and literary institutions will be supported and cherished; and improvements will be made in acqueducts, bridges and
highways; and other useful accommodations. In the flourishing periods of the ancient Republics, and even when sumptuary laws restrained the vanity and controlled the appetites of the citizens, they adopted a style of magnificence in their public edifices; and if a spirit of union prevails among our fellow citizens, and their views are directed towards objects beneficial to the Commonwealth; the government, by using a prudent economy in the administration of the revenue, will be able to adopt a like style in the public buildings, and whatever is conducive to the honor of the State, and the general convenience of the people.
With the increase of inhabitants we are to expect that crimes will multiply in proportion, and it is therefore of increasing importance, to render that branch of our law, which relates to crimes and punishments, as perfect as may be. The frequent escapes from the goals in the several counties, show the necessity of making some further provision, for keeping those offenders safely, who are sentenced to a long imprisonment; for if any hope can be entertained of an escape, the sentence will make but a feeble impression on the mind, and be of little use in preventing future offences. A great proportion of crimes are the effects of idleness, and it seems peculiarly proper therefore to punish them by confinement to hard labor; that offenders, while they are prevented from a repetition of their crimes, may be compelled to acquire new habits, and contribute something to the good of society; to this end our laws have in many cases prescribed that mode of punishment; and yet, from the time that Castle Island was ceded to the United States, no place of confinement to labor, has been provided by the Commonwealth.
By a resolve passed about two years since, a committee was appointed to select and procure a piece of land in Charlestown, and to erect a State prison thereon, provided the expense should not exceed thirty thousand dollars; the first part of this commission has been performed; but the latter, owing probably to the limitation of the expense, remains wholly unexecuted. Soon after the cession of Castle Island, ordnance and military stores, the property of this Commonwealth, were delivered to the Agents of the United States, at an appraised value of more than forty thousand dollars; if payment of this sum is obtained, it appears probable from the accounts exhibited by the Treasurer, which will be laid before you, that a State Prison may be erected, without any addition to the usual taxes.
The genius of our laws is mild, and the crimes for which the punishment of death is inflicted, are few; but perhaps even this small number might be lessened by changing the punishment of death to solitary imprisonment, if convicts could be restrained, without any hazard of escape, and be wholly secluded from that society, whose peace their criminal conduct would endanger.
Agreeably to the Resolve of the 19th June last, two persons have been appointed to survey and lay out the land referred to in that resolve; or so much of it as shall appear to be necessary; but their service is likely to be inconsiderable, for in the applications by the soldiers and their legal representatives for the benefits offered in the resolve, the pecuniary allowance has in almost every instance been preferred to a grant of land.
Many of you Gentlemen, from a long acquaintance with the public concerns of the State, will readily distinguish the proper objects of legislative attention: and I shall cheerfully concur with you, in any measures that may tend to encourage Agriculture, and the liberal and mechanical Arts—to promote the most equal and speedy distribution of justice—to render our militia a still more respectable force—to provide for the equal apportionment of taxes—and to preserve and establish the public credit of the State. But you will permit me to observe, that frequent and unnecessary alterations of the laws are inconvenient, as they lead to the supposition of inconstancy in the government, and render it more difficult for the citizens to understand the rules by which they are to be governed. The best laws are not exempt from inconveniences, but when those of long standing are repealed, the regulations which are substituted in their place, are often attended with still greater defects.
The valuation, in which some progress has been made, is an interesting subject, and requires much discernment in ascertaining facts, and much candor in deciding upon them. But I trust, that by condescending to the opinions of each other, and giving due weight to every suggestion, you will be able to proceed with facility and pleasure, in completing this important business. And I flatter myself, that no difference of sentiment will impair the harmony of the session; and that we shall have the pleasure at the close of it to reflect, that by our united and faithful exertions in the public service, we have supported the reputation of the government, and promoted the happiness of the people.
CALEB STRONG.
The Speech was committed in the Senate, to the Hon. Messrs. Bowdoin, Treadwell, and Tudor; in the House, to Messrs. Morton, Knox, Bigelow, Austin and Jarvis.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, JAN. 15.
Messrs. Knox, Kinsey and Prince, with such as the Hon. Senate may join, were appointed a Committee to consider whether further measures are necessary to adopt relative to the erection of a State Prison.
SATURDAY, JAN. 16.
Messrs. Knox, Jarvis, Morton, Payson, Sturgis, Kimball and Kitteridge were appointed a committee to consider whether further measures are necessary to adopt relative to the erection of a State Prison.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 1.
The Hon. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, was qualified before the two Houses, as a Counsellor. The Committee, raised to report an answer to the Governor's Speech, at the opening of the session, having performed the duty assigned them, the same was accepted, and the committee that reported it, ordered to wait on his Excellency therewith. The following is the
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE:
May it please your Excellency,
WE reflect with the highest satisfaction, that public peace, and social order, continue to be preserved through the state; and we contemplate with pleasure, the rapid increase of our population, the flourishing state of our Agriculture, and the consequent extension of our Commerce. These blessings we consider as the fruits of the happy systems of government, state and national, which through the peculiar favor of divine providence we are permitted to enjoy. Governments founded on the representative principle, where the Officers who administer them, are the objects of the choice and confidence of the majority of the People, where the Electors, and those elected to office have one common interest, and where equal protection is afforded to the person and property of every individual:—Under such governments, and laws thus made, every interruption of social order, would be a disturbance of the general happiness, and every breach of public peace, a violation of civil liberty. We concur with your Excellency in the belief, that the preservation of these governments, and the continuance of our happiness under them, most essentially depend on the practice of all the moral and social virtues. To promote this object, it becomes the duty of the Legislature, by the tendency of their laws, to confirm and extend the habits of industry, temperance, and frugality among the people, to advance the interests of agriculture, and the valuable mechanic arts, to encourage individual enterprise in works of public utility, to support and cherish our religious and literary institutions, to protect the sacred rights of conscience, and finally to preserve the union of our confederated Republics, as the means of our present hope, and the ark of our ultimate security, as a nation.
We can but flatter ourselves, that while the precepts of our laws, shall continue to promote virtue and discourage vice, to enlighten, inform, and employ the public mind, the increase of wealth in the state, will not, as in the ancient Republics, corrupt the manners, and destroy the freedom and happiness of the People; but will, under wise and frugal administrations of our state and federal governments, be directed to useful purposes, and contribute to the strength, harmony, and security of the whole.—But if the melancholy period must arrive, when the majority of a People, thus blessed with the privilege of self-government, and thus secured in the enjoyment of it by internal strength, and the genius of laws, which are an appeal to their reason, and not to their fears, a guard to their virtues, and a check only to their vices, shall neglect to practice what their laws inculcate, they will indeed be lost to all sense of their own happiness, and must inevitably fall, with their liberties, a prey to despotism.
With the increase of inhabitants, we must naturally expect, that crimes will proportionably multiply, unless from an improvement in legislation, and the amelioration of the penal code, it should be found practicable to create new impressions on the minds of the miserable class of the people, who are principally the objects of public punishments, or at least oblige them to expiate their offences by solitary labour, and thus restrain them from endangering society by a repetition of their crimes: To render that part of our public laws which relates to crimes and punishments as perfect as may be, will therefore claim the serious attention of this branch of the Legislature.
In the erection of public buildings, it has always been the disposition of the House of Representatives, to finish them in a style, alike conducive to the honor of the state, and accommodating to the general convenience and ability of the people. The erection of a state prison for the confinement of convicts to hard labour, has long been an object of attention in this House; and we feel obliged to your Excellency for your particular statement of the progress of that establishment, and the suggestion of probable funds to complete it, without any immediate addition to the usual taxes.
The other subjects recommended in your Excellency's communication, will be duly attended to on the part of the House of Representatives.
Although the valuation is a subject highly interesting to the citizens of every part of the Commonwealth, yet we trust that the spirit of mutual candor and condescension, will so far prevail in deciding upon it, that it will be completed with facility, and to general satisfaction. And that at the close of the session, we shall be able to reflect, that by faithful exertions in the public service, we have supported the reputation of the government, and promoted the happiness of the people.
We cannot omit on the present occasion, to offer to your Excellency and the public, our sincere congratulations, upon the return of peace in Europe, as an event in the highest degree interesting to humanity, and favourable to the ultimate establishment of those great principles, moral, political, and religious, on which the happiness of the American People so essentially depends.
IN SENATE, Jan'y. 19th. 1802.
Ordered, That James Burleigh, John Truesdell and William Tudor, Esq. be a committee to wait on his Excellency The Governor, and present him with the following answer to his speech, made to the two Houses the present session of the General Court.
DAVID COBB, President.
May it please your Excellency,
IT is with the most pleasurable sensations that we reciprocate the gratulations of your Excellency on the augmented strength and prosperity of this Commonwealth. The duration of the peaceful, free and flourishing Government we enjoy, depends, we are sensible, upon our steady adherence to its original principles, and a wise improvement of the advantages with which we are intrusted by the benign Providence of the Supreme Ruler of nations.
That the prosperity of a people essentially depends on purity of manners, and the practice of the moral virtues; and that a departure from these, followed with luxury and dissipation, will produce evils, destructive of the general welfare, are truths, which the history of every age, will evince and confirm.
While our fellow citizens shall continue to reverence and support the religious, literary and moral institutions of their ancestors, they will naturally be led to direct their views to every object beneficial to the State; and with an ardent and active patriotism, will cheerfully acquiesce in those measures which tend to multiply the conveniences of the people, maintain the credit, and enhance the character and importance of our common country.
The observations of your Excellency on our system of criminal justice, and the necessity of a state prison, will engage our particular notice. Whether the fund created by the sale of the military stores at Castle Island may net, with peculiar propriety be applied to this purpose, shall employ our deliberate consideration. Policy points to the reform, and humanity to a suitable provision to the employment of those desperate men whose outrages on the peace and safety of society have justly deprived them of their rights.
While we express, Sir, our perfect confidence in your assurances of a prompt concurrence in every legislative act that can promote the public welfare, we cannot but subscribe to the justness of the sentiments, too frequent alterations of the laws are attended with weighty inconveniences; they excite an idea of inconstancy and uncertainty in the acts of Government, and of course a disrespect to its injunctions.
The very interesting subject of the valuation will necessarily engross much of our time. And we trust that such a spirit of concession and candour will prevail in the discussion of this complicated business as to facilitate its completion; and that at the conclusion of the session we shall separate with a consciousness of having made the public good, and the best interests of our constituents, the great objects of our attention.
WEDNESDAY JAN 20.
A petition of the Justices of the County of York, for a removal of the Courts in the County, was read and committed.
JAN. 21.
A remonstrance of Jonas Clark and others against the removal of the Courts in York, was committed.
By the Chair.
CHARLESTON JAN. 4.
Dispatches respecting the American trade to Cuba, have been received here for the Secretary of State. The American Consul at St. Jago has been released from confinement.
NEWYORK, JAN. 16.
It is said, on good authority, that 80,000 dollars worth of Segars are annually consumed in this city.
DON THOMAS STOUGHTON,
His Catholic Majesty's Consul for the state of New York, and Consul General pro tem, near the United States of America,
Gives Notice, to Merchants, Captains of Vessels and others, trading to the island of Cuba, that additional regulations have been received by his Catholic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary, from the Independent General of that Island, which will be rigorously enforced during the commercial intercourse between the ports of the United States and that of said Island.
Wherefore, upon application of all those concerned, to this Consulate, or any other of his Catholic Majesty's Consuls, throughout the union they will be particularly informed of said regulations, as also documents necessary to accompany each vessel and cargo, so as to ensure them an entry at the port of Havannah and that of St. Jago de Cuba, which, and no others, are open for the present, in said Island.
New-York, 11th Jan. 1802.
BOSTON, JAN. 11.
LATE FROM THE HAVANA.
Capt. Clance, arrived on Tuesday in 4 days from the Havannah, informs that a Proclamation was published at that place on the 25th Dec. prohibiting the entry of all vessels from America; but that the merchants had petitioned for an exemption to the rule, during the space of 30 days, which it was supposed would be granted. A number of vessels were then waiting for the success of this petition.
The Sufferers, by French Spoilation, are calling meetings in all the maritime towns, at the Southward, for the purpose of agreeing upon some measures to obtain relief.
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
On Monday evening, about seven o'clock, the dwelling house of Messrs. Stephen and Ebenezer Goff, housewrights, on Fort-Hill, was discovered enveloped in fire; which in a few minutes communicated to a house improved by Mr. S. Spear; and both, with several out-buildings, were reduced to ashes in a very short time. It has not yet been ascertained where the fire first took; but it is supposed in the workshop of Messrs. Goff, which adjoined the house. Unhappily neither of them were at home, when the fire took place; and such was the extreme rapidity of the flames, that scarcely an article was saved from their wrath; and what adds inexpressible poignancy to the general sorrow, a promising child of Mr. S. Goff's of four years of age, being asleep in an upper chamber, perished in the flames. Its remains were found yesterday morning amongst the ruins.
And last evening, about half past seven o'clock, another fire broke out in a shop on Howard's Wharf, which entirely consumed that, and other shops, together with a quantity of naval stores, and tools. The shops were improved by Mr. John D. Howard, caulkers; Mr. Jacob Libbey, shipwright; Mr. Thomas Hickborn, boat-builder; Mr. John Chessman, blacksmith; and Mr. Hall, ship-junker. The buildings were owned by the heirs of the late Mr. Thomas Hickborn.
The lumber-yard belonging to Mr. Baleb, and several stores adjacent, were at times on fire; but the prompt supply of water to the engines, from the mill-creeks, confined the conflagration to the buildings in which it originated.
On both the above occasions we were happy in observing the ready and general compliance of the citizens with the advice and suggestions given by the fireward in their late address to the public.
Just as this paper was going to press, (at o'clock last night) a third fire broke out, in the large warehouse belonging to Messrs. Whitney & Page, shipwrights, in Oliver's Dock; which entirely consumed the same. Some small buildings were pulled down to prevent the spreading of the flames.
There cannot, in our opinion, exist a doubt of this being an incendiary attempt of some villain or villains—and that another attempt will be made at about the same time, in the lower quarter of the town.
A person, suspected of setting fire to the building in Oliver's Dock, was taken up on Tuesday night, and is now in the county gaol.
The annual revenues of Portugal amount to £2,200,000, sterling, nearly one half of which arises from Portugal itself, the other being from
Table with 2 columns: Location, Amount. Includes: The Brazils (£360,000), Trade in Diamonds (£170,000), From the islands, and E. and W. India possessions (£700,000).
There are about one million of inhabitants in the Brazils. Besides the revenue which the government draws from abroad, great sums are received by private individuals. The English government, with all its territories in India, does not derive nearly so much advantage in respect of revenue from them.
The Portuguese army, when complete, which it seldom is, amounts to 32,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry. Its naval force consists of 18 ships of different sizes, from 80 to 40 guns; the complement of seamen is 12,000.
Portland,
MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1802.
The latest foreign articles of intelligence, are by the Apollo, capt. Preble. But nothing of a very important nature is found among them. Such matters as appear worthy of note, are given under our foreign head.
The situation of the Turkish empire is such, that ere long it will probably furnish us with new tales of war.
The regular Congressional list is omitted this day, for want of room. The late proceedings have not much to interest, if we except what is contained in the following article—
Yesterday the motion of Mr. Beckenbridge for the repeal of the Judiciary Law, was taken into consideration in the Senate. Mr. B. delivered a very long speech, in favor of his motion, and was followed on the same side by Messrs. Cooke and Wright. Messrs. Mason and Morris spoke against the repeal. No vote was taken; and the Senate adjourned to Monday the 11th inst.
The apportionment bill, fixing the ratio of Representatives at 35,000, passed the House of Representatives on the 11th inst. After the next election, therefore, the House will consist of 141 members.
Many leading characters among the Democratic Republicans, do not hesitate now to acknowledge that all the animadversion on Mr. Jefferson, which preceded the late election of President and Vice-President of the U. States, was nothing but a controversy between the two parties. The late election was nothing but a struggle for power, and for the "loaves and fishes."—All the inflammatory publications in the democratic papers, relative to the "sedition and alien acts," the essences of the army and navy, the dissipation of Mr. Pickering, Wolcott, &c. it is now admitted, were only to destroy the confidence of the people in one set of men, in order to elevate another to offices of honor or of profit. Should the same weapons be used against the present administration, which they used against the late administration; should the same false and wilful misrepresentation of public measures, and of private character, be indulged—what an outcry would be raised—what complaints of the "slanders of slander"—would be heard from a certain quarter? The party now dominant in the United States, have obtained their power by means, which for the honor of America, and of human nature, it is to be hoped may never be imitated. It is devoted to be hoped that the public morals and the national character may never again receive such a shock as they experienced at the last election—yet it is not to be feared from the success of this first attempt (in this country) to gain power, by vilifying and degrading the characters of those whom the unbiased will of the people had placed in offices of trust, that future adventurers, more desperate in their views and their fortunes, in order to obtain the Supreme direction of our national affairs, will put the peace and safety of our government at hazard? After the examples that have been set, the holders of office under the new administration should take as their motto, those words from an excellent, old-fashioned book: "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall."
A writer in a Washington paper mentions the following fact—That forty-eight of the late Electors of President &c.—and fifty-four of the present members of Congress, are natives of Virginia!
On the 6th inst. we learn, that the President of the United States presented to the Senate a list of appointments made by him since his taking the chair.
His Excellency the Governor has nominated the Hon. Thomas Dawes, jun Esq. as Judge of Probate for the County of Suffolk; and Judge of the Municipal Court for the town of Boston.
Jenks' Portland Marine List.
PORT OF PORTLAND.
TUESDAY, Jan. 19.
Arrived Schooner Morning Star, capt. Edes, 15 days from the Havannah.—Left there ship President, capt. Crabtree; and at St. Jago de Cuba, ship Sultry, capt. Fitzgerald, of this port.—Capt. Edes informs, that the port of Havannah had been opened to American vessels, which was limited to the space of 30 days.
Same day—Arrived brig Fox, capt. Moses Brown, 31 days from Martinique.—Jan 9th, lat. 39. lon. 69 spoke Schooner Speedwell, capt. Smith, 3 days from Cape Ann, bound to the Havannah.
Same day—Arrived brig Apollo, E. Preble, master, from Liverpool.
THURSDAY, Jan. 21.
Arrived Schooner Greyhound, capt. Miller, 20 days from Point Petre, Caudaloupe.—Left there Schooner Farmer, Brazier, of this port, to sail in 15 days.—Touching at Montserrat—left there, brig Neptune, Daniel Merrill master, of New-York, to sail in 3 days for home.—Spoke in lat. 41. long. 70. a brig from France, for New Bedford 70 days out.
Capt. Cross, who arrived at this port on the 17th inst. 42 days from Barbary, failed in company with Messrs. Mars, capt. Hastings, of Boston—whom he parted with Dec. 15th, lat. 35. lon. 63.—all well. Left at Barbary, Dec. 5, for Honore, capt. Jones, of Wells, to sail in 15 days for Trinidad. Arrived at Barbary, 3d Nov. Schooner Cornelius, capt. Smith, 45 days from Boston, all well—the Supt. General could not sell his cargo, and failed for Donamarra. Dec. 25, off St. Thomas, spoke ship Zeus, capt. Harding, from Dominica, 3 days out, bound to Boston; same day, for Lorient, capt. Hunt, of Plymouth, from St. Thomas, bound to Turkey Island; Jan. 7, lat. 37. lon. 73. spoke brig Sarah, Francis Knox, from Philadelphia, 2 days out, bound to Gibraltar, all well; Jan. 9th, lat. 40. lon. 74. spoke, the Heart, capt. Swartz 7 days from Boston, bound to Norfolk.
The Farewell of Pepperland was in Amsterdam, Nov 11, for Batavia. The President, Tincklam, was at Jamaica, Dec. 20, to sail in 12 days for Charleston; also the Mary, Bradley, of Kinsale—The Portsmouth, also the Mary, and Havanna, for Portland, was spoke off Cape Hatteras. The ship Active, Atkins, of Penobscot, was arrived at Boston, in 16 days from Antigua. The ship Beey, Prince, of Portland, which failed about the 1st of Nov. sprung a leak, and had arrived at Cork, with the loss of her sail.
The American brig Friends, capt. Hill, from No. field, arrived at Falmouth (Eng.) on the 18th Nov.
At Peterham, the Rev. Fetus Foster.
At Falmouth, by the Rev. C. Bradley, Mr. Benjamin Stevens, to Miss Charlotte Webb.—Mr. Robert Leighton, to Miss Tabitha Fowler. At Boston, Mr. Nathaniel Davis, Merchant, to Miss Lucy Cobb. At Hingham, Mr. Martin Lincoln, to Miss Lydia Cushing.
Died In this town, on Saturday last, Mrs. Abigail S. CARLISLE, wife of Mr. George Carlisle;—a tender wife, an affectionate mother, and a sincere friend—Her remains will be interred tomorrow at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, where her friends are requested to attend. At Boston, Miss Hannah Tilton, aged 16.—Cape. Billingsworth Watts, aged 40.—Mrs. Hannah Sullivan, aged 27. At Needham, William Fuller, Esq. aged 59. At Wakefield, Mrs. Mary Piper, Bt. 37, consort of the Rev. Asa Piper, and oldest daughter of the Hon. Edward Cuts of Kittery. At Burlington, N. J. Hon. James Kinsey, Esquire, L. L. D. Chief Justice of the State, Bt. 70. At Philadelphia, Benjamin Brown, Esq. formerly of Wells.
Suicide.—We hear from Turner, that on the 11th inst. Mr. Caleb Blake, of that place, who possessed a property of about 500 dollars, hung himself, from the fear of being exposed to want!
FOR SALE, At N. Richardson's Wharf, Bales India COTTONS, consisting of Bour-bon, Gurrah, Allat, and Patna Batts. Pipes 4th proof Barcelona BRANDY, Bags white India SUGAR, Quarter Casks old Lisbon WINES, Boxes dpt CANDLES, Casks fresh RAISINS, 2000 WT. PEPPER, entitled to debenture. RAVENS DUCK, and RUSSIA SHEETING, 1 Trunk GOODS, consisting of LONGCLOTHS, MUSLINS CAMBRICKS, BANDANNA HANDKERCHIEFS, &c. By JOSHUA RICHARDSON. Portland, Jan. 25, 1802.
Morocco Skins. FOR sale, by WILLIAM CODMAN, at his store, Middle street, a quantity of Morocco Skins, of different colors—being a consignment, will be sold low. ALSO European and W. I. Goods, as usual—cheap for Cash. Portland, Jan. 11.
Cornelius Wing, No. 3, FISH-STREET, Opposite JONES' ROW, HAS lately opened an handsome assortment of DRY GOODS—consisting of low priced, middling, and superfine blue Broadcloths; various colored middling and superfine Broadcloths and Kerseymere; common and superfine Swansdowns; an assortment of Rose Blankets; a good assortment of Silk Handkerchiefs; Cotton do. Pocket do.; various sized cotton shawls; black camels hair do.; Mullins, Mullinettes, Dimity, and black Mullins; a large assortment of various figured Chinizes; Checks; Brown Holland; red, green and yellow Baizes and Flannels; Coatings; Rattens; Lambkins, various qualities of Hosiery; plain and striped Calamancces, of various colors; Ruffles; Bombazines; Serges; India Cottons; Ravens Duck; bellows; Umbrellas; Men's and Boy's Hats; Shovels and Tongs; Iron Candlesticks; Japan do. and Lamps.—An assortment of Buttons, Twill, Silk, and Thread.—A few pieces of Lustrings, and Modes—All which he offers at Wholesale or Retail, at reasonable prices, for cash or approved credit. Portland, 12th Mo. 28. 1801.
Benjamin Evans, TIN PLATE WORKER. INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has taken a shop in Fifth street, next door to Mr. William Thompson's, where he makes and keep constantly for sale, a general assortment of TIN WARE, wholesale and retail, at the lowest prices.—Also, Japanned and Pewter Ware. Patent Lamps, Scalebeams, Knives and Forks, Jack Knives, Pen Knives, Chest Locks and Hinges, Trunk Locks and Handles, Brass Nails, Brass Cocks, Composition do. Blocktin tea and table Spoons, Steel-yards, Rat Traps, Mill Files, Shoe Hammers, Shoe Knives, Nippers, Pincers, Awls, Hairs, Blades and Tanks, Gimblets, Compasses, Inkstands, Pocket knives, Razors with Cases, Sharving Glasses, S stuff and Tobacco Boxes, Curry Combs, Wool Cards, Pad Locks, Hair Combs, Slates, Sleigh Bells, with a variety of other articles. N. B. Cash given for old COPPER, BRASS, PEWTER and LEAD. Portland, Jan. 11.
A Small Roll of GOODS, WAS put on board the Schooner Dolphin while at Boston, to be sent to Portland. As there is no mark on it, and no person having applied for it, the owner is requested to call on the subscriber, pay charges, and take it away. Portland, Jan. 11. JACOB ADAMS.
THE Creditors to the Estate of RICHARD WINSLow, a Bankrupt, are requested to meet at the commissioners office, in Fifth street, on Monday the first day of February next, at eleven o'clock, A. M. then and there to determine what measures to pursue, relative to certain demands in favor of said estate, against the French Revenue, or otherwise thereof. NATHAN WINSLow, Assignee. Portland, Dec. 21.

It is possible, THAT the number which shall draw the highest prize in the 8th class of Amesbury Can Lottery , is among the undrawn Tickets which will be kept a few days longer for sale at JENKS & CLARK'S Book-Store . The wheels are very rich, and the drawing goes on regular. Jan. 25.
A few of the MASSACHUSETTS REGISTER , for sale as above.—Also, ALMANACKS , of different kinds.
Henry Wheeler, HAS for sale, at his shop near the Hay-market, a good assortment of WEST INDIA GOODS & GROCERIES , cheap as at any shop in Portland. Those who are indebted to said WHEELER , or to the estate of JAMES LARRABEE , deceased, are requested to make payment. Portland, Jan. 18, 1802.
MEDICAL. THE Members of the county of YORK MEDICAL ASSOCIATION , are hereby notified, that their Semiannual Meeting will be held at Kennebec , on Wednesday the 30 th of February next, at Dr. SAMUEL EMERSON , at 10 o'clock, A. M.—A Discourse will be delivered in public by a member.—A punctual attendance is requested. By order of the President,  RICHARD HAZELTINE , Secretary. Jan. 8, 1802.
Take Notice. THE subscriber having been duly appointed Assignee to the Estate and effects of SIMEON MAYO , a Bankrupt—hereby calls on all persons indebted to or who hold any of the said Bankrupt's property to pay and deliver the same over to the subscriber without delay.  LEMUEL BRYANT. Portland, Jan. 18, 1802.
THE subscriber hereby gives notice, that he has been duly appointed Administrator to the estate of LEVI MITCHELL , late of Northyarmouth, Mariner, deceased.—All persons having demands on said estate, are requested to exhibit the same for settlement; and those who are indebted thereto to make immediate payment.  JOHAM MITCHELL. Northyarmouth, Jan. 18.
Two young Horses, CAME into the inclosure of the subscriber, in the month of November last. One of a deep red color, and the other light red. The owner or owners may have them again, by paying charges.  Ephraim Lunt. Falmouth, Jan. 18, 1802.
Strayed FROM the subscriber, a red MARE, with a white stripe in her forehead—about 14 hands high—four years old. If any person has taken up said Mare, or will give information so that the owner may get her again, shall be rewarded for their trouble.  JONATHAN PAINE, JUN. Portland, Jan. 18.
At a Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cumberland , begun and held at New Gloucester , in and for said county, on the third Tuesday of October, A. D. 1801.
ON the petition of BENJAMIN TUCKER , and THEOPHILUS THOMPSON , of Falmouth— ELIAZER LAKE and LEVI KNIGHT , of Freeport, in said county, setting forth, That they are interested in and are seized as tenants in common with others to them unknown, of two hundred and eight acres of Land in the four hundred and fifty acre squadron, numbered six, formerly in Northyarmouth Gore, so called, but now lying within the bounds of the township of Freeport—the said Benjamin owning eighty-four acres, said Theophilus owning one hundred acres, said Eliezer owning fifty acres, and the said Levi owning forty six acres; the particular meets and bounds of said squadron of Land, are recorded in the new and old proprietors book of records in Northyarmouth; and that they are desirous of holding and enjoying their respective shares in severality; and that partition thereof might be made, and their said shares set off and divided from the remainder of said squadron of Land agreeably to the law in that case made and provided— ORDERED, That the petitioners cause the several persons interested in said estate, and living within the State, or the Attorney of such as are absent and have Attorneys within the State, to be duly notified of said petition by serving them personally with a copy thereof, or leaving a copy at their dwelling house, or last place of abode, or by inserting the substance of the same three weeks successively, in one or more of the public newspapers, that they may have opportunity to make their exception to this Court on the third Tuesday of February next, to their granting the same. Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN CLERK.
LIST OF LETTERS, Remaining in the Post Office at Wiscasset , JAN. 1, 1802.  ANDERSON Robert, Wiscasset.  Asseffors , do.  Blackinton James, do.  Boardman John Dr., do.  Barter Nicholas, do.  Campbell Joseph, do.  Carney James, do.  Dearborn Simeon, do.  Dunn John, do.  Donnel Moses, do.  Dearing John, do.  Darrah Charles, do.  Eaton John, do.  Emerson Benjamin, do.  Gould Horace, do.  Hovey S. Mary 2, do.  Hathorn William, do.  Irwin John, do.  Johnson William, do.  King Moses, do.  Knight Nathaniel, do.  Little Joshua, do.  Marlin Ezekiel, do.  Nye Eunice, do.  Pinn Samuel, do.  Peters Andrew, do.  Pickens Mrs., do.  Morris Betsy, do.  Spencer Rachel, do.  Shaw John, do.  Tucker John, do.  Young Jeremiah, do.  Tyler Joseph, do. 
THE Creditors to the Estate and Effects of  JOSEPH CONEY , a Bankrupt, are requested to meet at the Commissioner's Office, in Fifth-street, on Saturday the 30 th day of January instant, at ten o'clock A. M. to see if they will consent to the payment of an half of the charter of Schooner President, on her late voyage to France, and to direct thereon, as they may think proper.  JOSIAH TUCKER , Assignee. Portland, Jan. 23.
THE Estate of EBENEZER GOVE , late of Edgecombe , in the county of Lincoln, Mariner, deceased, being represented insolvent, and the subscribers appointed Commissioners to receive and examine all claims of the several Creditors to said Estate—hereby give notice, that they shall attend for that purpose at the late Dwelling-house of the aforesaid Ebenezer Gove, in said Edgecombe, on the first Tuesday of the six following months, from two to six o'clock in the afternoon.  MOSES DAVIS,  WILLIAM PATTERSON, Commissioners. Edgecombe, Jan. 19, 1802.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers have been duly appointed Executors of the last will and testament of JOHN STINSON , late of Georgetown , in the county of Lincoln, Esquire, deceased; and have 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.  DAVID GILMAN,  EBENEZER DELANO,  WILLIAM STINSON, Executors. Georgetown, Jan. 20, 1802.
Take Notice. THE partnership of DEARBORN & BECKETT , was dissolved on the 18 th inst. by mutual consent. All persons having accounts open with said firm, are requested to make an immediate settlement.  SIMON DEARBORN,  WILLIAM BECKETT. Portland, Jan. 25, 1802.
Partnership Dissolved. THE Copartnership of WASHBURN & COOK , was dissolved on the first day of this month by mutual consent.  RUFUS WASHBURN,  SILVANUS COOK. Portland, Jan. 17, 1802.
Notice. THE Copartnership of GOULD & BICKFORD is this day dissolved, by mutual consent:—All persons indebted to or having any demands on said firm, are requested to call on ELISHA GOULD for immediate settlement.  ELISHA GOULD,  NATHANIEL BICKFORD. Portland, Jan. 6, 1802.
Take Notice. THE Copartnership of BLANCHARD & SWEETSER , is this day by mutual consent dissolved:—All persons indebted to, or who have any demands upon said firm, are requested to call on JEREMIAH BLANCHARD , for settlement.  JEREMIAH BLANCHARD,  BENJAMIN SWEETSER , 3d. Northyarmouth, Jan. 1, 1802.
Notice. THE partnership of MOODY & ILSLEY , Painters, &c. is this day by mutual consent dissolved:—All persons having demands on said firm, are requested to call and settle the same; and those who are indebted, to make immediate payment, to either of the subscribers.  NATHANIEL MOODY,  HOSEA ILSLEY. Portland, January 1, 1802. (93—6w)
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors of Land lying in the town of Poland , in the county of Cumberland , that the following lots and half lots are taxed in the State, County and Town Tax, for the year 1802, in the bills committed to me to collect—as follows, viz:
   No. Lots. No. Acres. Value of County Tax. State Tax. Town Tax.   D. C. C.     FIRST DIVISION. 20 100 0 50 12   31 100 1 50 34   43 100 1 50 34   77 50 0 50 6   SECOND DIVISION. 122 50 0 50 6   100 50 0 50 6   120 50 0 50 6   101 50 0 50 6   38 50 0 75 8   3 100 0 50 12   97 75 0 50 12   89 100 1 50 17   111 100 1 50 11   65 100 2 50 23   25 100 1 50 22   27 100 1 50 22   128 100 1 50 22   107 80 1 50 28   15 100 1 50 34   62 60 1 50 28   125 100 0 50 12   70 100 0 50 12   144 50 1 50 22  
Disclaimed Land, so called, taxed to Josiah Little and others, in said town of Poland.
   No. Lots. No. Acres. Value of County Tax. State Tax. Town Tax.   D. C. M. C.     Jacob Pool 14 19 1/2 66 5 7   Benjamin Ward 34 15 66 4 4   & John Shaw 34 15 66 4 4   Bela Noyes 47 55 66 2 15   40 55 66 2 15   Nathl. Wood 42 43 66 2 12   31 43 66 2 12   Ziba Eaton 13 100 66 4 28   71 25 66 4 28   63 25 66 4 28   David Marshall 3 13 66 5 7   30 17 66 5 7   Zenas Smith 5 13 66 4 5   Richmond Loring 5 18 66 5 7   21 17 66 5 7  
If no person shall appear to discharge said taxes and all necessary intervening charges, on or before Wednesday the seventh day of April, 1802, at ten o'clock, A. M. for each of the said Lots of Land as will be sufficient to discharge the same, will then be sold at Public Auction, to the highest bidder, according to law, at the house of WENTWORTH RICKER , inholder in said Poland.  JOHN T. MERRILL , Collector. Poland Nov. 12, 1801. Jan. 11.
Lebanon. WHEREAS the proprietors and owners of the late common and undivided lands in the town of Lebanon , in the county of York , have been affected and taxed in sundry lists, and formerly committed for collection to Benjamin Ghalhouen , Esq. and Dr. Moses Carr , deceased, and William Rogers , Esq. resigned—And the balance due on said Taxes are now committed to Andrew Rogers , Esq. to collect by a vote of said proprietors—and the following sums now appear to be due and unpaid, to wit:
   Proprietors Names. Bal. of Tax, paid in 1797 1767 1770 1772 1773 1775 1777 Bal. now due.     Edward Arnold, Esq. 60 60 60 40 5   Capt. Richard Lord, 60 60 60 40 3 10   Deac. Benj. Libby, 50 40 60 60 60 40 12 3   James Parker, 4   Ralph Farnham, 60 50 40 60 60 40 13 8 4   Barstow Allen, 2   Joseph Sayward, 50 40 60 60 60 40 13 10   Ebenezer Blissell, 33 6 50 40 60 60 8 16 9   Terah Sprague, 40 50 40 60 60 40 7 11 8   Capt. John Bowers, 50 40 60 60 60 40 5 10   Nathan Blissell, 50 40 60 60 60 40 13 18   Samuel Kimball, 34 50 40 60 60 40 7 7 8   Nathan Ghalhouen, 50 40 60 60 60 40 7 3 4   William Garside, 2 10   Moses Allen, 50 40 60 60 60 40 3   Elisha Hill, 40 50 40 60 60 40 5 5   Daniel Smith, 50 40 60 60 60 40 11   Joseph Peasey, 5 10   John Foss, 50 40 60 60 60 40 5 8 4   Stephen Harriman, 50 40 60 60 60 40 2 11 8   William Gowan, 29 50 40 60 60 40 1   Richard Heart, 42 6 50 40 60 60 1   Thomas Kidder, 2   John Stevens, 50 40 60 60 60 40 5 6 4   Griffins Bradbury, 6 6 8   Elisha Plaisted, 2 16   John Holford, 50 40 60 60 60 40 8 9 8   John Lovell, 3 9   Sir William Pepperrell, 5   Abraham Lord, 2   Isaac Goddard, 2   Zebadiah Chandler, 50 40 60 60 60 40 3    And the said Proprietors voted and settled a Tax of thirty five dollars for the year 1799 on each Proprietor's right in said town, and committed the same to the said Andrew Rogers, Esq. to collect. And the whole of said last mentioned Tax now appears to be due and unpaid. And whereas all the above mentioned Taxes have been posted and published by the said Andrew Rogers, Esq. as the Law directs, yet no person has appeared to discharge the same. Therefore, public notice is hereby given, That unless the above mentioned Taxes and intervening charges thereon are paid on or before Monday the 15 th day of March next, so much of the demand as respects said Taxes and intervening charges thereon, will be sold at Public Vendue to the highest bidder on the said 15 th day of March, next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of Capt. Abraham Pray, inholder, in said Lebanon. The Vendue will commence and be adjourned from day to day and from time to time as occasion may require.
Committee appointed by said Proprietors to make sale of Lands for non payment of Taxes.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, EIGHTH COLLECTOR DISTRICT, SECOND DIVISION.  NOTICE is hereby given, by virtue of an act of Congress, passed on the 14 th day of July, 1798, entitled "An Act to lay and collect the Direct Tax, within the United States"—The following taxes assessed on the respective Houses and Lands, to which they relate, became due and payable on the 7 th day of April, 1800, of which the said reputed owners, possessors, or occupants of said Houses and Lands, have been notified by the Collector in manner directed aforesaid; yet said taxes remain unpaid in said District, viz: Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland.
   Occupant. Owner. Value of House. Tax on House. Value of Land. Tax on Land.     Silas Howell, Howel Silas   Michael Lunt, Lunt Mich. 400 20 523 80 1 48   William Prade, Pride Wm. 1380 3 90   William Patrick, Patrick W. 300 60 839 30 2 37   Waldo Heirs, Waldo Samuel, Heirs 3137 20 8 88   James Webb, do. 138   do. do. 1035   do. do. 621   do. do. 517   do. do. 4600   Zachariah Small do. 6911 50 19 56   Peter Chick do. do. 398 1 13   138 38   10584 70  
And that so much of the above described property as will pay the respective taxes assessed thereon, with costs and charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of SAMUEL STAPLES , inholder, in Gorham , on Thursday the first day of April, 1802, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.  THOMAS M C LELLAN , Collector. Gorham, Jan. 25, 1802.
Mr. Gallatin's Report.
LETTER from the SECRETARY of the TREASURY, accompanying a Report, and sundry other statements prepared in pursuance of the act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act to establish the Treasury Department."
Treasury Department, December 18, 1801.
SIR, I HAVE the honor to inclose a Report, prepared in obedience to the directions of the act, supplementary to the act intitled "An act to establish the Treasury Department,"—I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Sir, your most obedient servant.  ALBERT GALLATIN.
To the honorable the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
REPORT
In obedience to the directions of the act supplementary to the act intitled "An act to establish the Treasury Department," the Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits the

that alteration. Amongst such, the following have been suggested: Fruits and spices, pickled and dried fish, oil, &c. several species of drugs, watches, gunpowder and segars.
Legislative provisions seem necessary in order better to define the restrictions, under which the intercourse with the adjacent British and Spanish possessions shall be carried on, in conformity with treaties; under which the articles of the growth or manufacture of the U. States may be imported free of duty, by the way of New Orleans, from the western parts of the Union, to the ports of the Atlantic States, and from these to the interior districts of collection on the Western waters; and under which drawbacks shall be allowed on the exportation of foreign articles.
Permanent Internal Duties.
The annual statement prepared by the commissioner of the revenue, and which will be completed in a few days, precludes the necessity of exhibiting here all the details pertaining to this branch of revenue.
The statement [M] is an abstract of its amount for the year 1800, during which the duties on spirits & stills, refined sugars, licences to retailers, sales at auction, and pleasure carriages, produced a net sum of 576,888 dollars and 80 cents. The duties on stamps, which, as under the existing laws they will cease after the 4th day of March 1803, are not included amongst the permanent revenues, amounted for the same year to 209,853 dollars and 32 cents; both together constitute an item of dollars 788,742 12-1000000.
The receipts in the Treasury from all the internal revenues, have amounted for the year ending on the 30th September, 1801, to 917,919 dollars and 16 cents; deducting from this sum 65,000 dollars, being the estimated amount of drawbacks, paid during that year, out of the proceeds of the external revenues, on the exportation of domestic distilled spirits and refined sugar, leaves a net sum of about 854,000 dollars, and an increase of near 70,000 dollars beyond the revenue of 1800.
The accounts of the last nine months being yet but partially rendered, it is not practicable to ascertain to what class of duties the increase belongs, nor particularly to discriminate between the increase of the revenue arising from stamps, and that of the permanent internal revenues. Yet it is believed that these, exclusively of the stamp duties, may safely be estimated, for the average of the years 1802—1803, at an annual sum not less than 650,000 dollars.
In order, however, to secure that amount, a revision of the system, so far as it relates to country stills is essentially necessary. Whilst the owners of small distilleries, in some parts of the union, complain of the operation of a tax, raised on the capacity of their stills; that same regulation has enabled all those whose capitals are larger, and local situation more advantageous, especially in the middle states, to reduce the actual duty on the quantity of spirits, distilled from grain, to about three cents per gallon. But improvements have lately been introduced, which, by accelerating the process of distillation, will, according to the estimate of the commissioner of the revenue, reduce the duty on stills to about three-fifths of a cent per gallon of distilled spirits. The effect of which on the revenue has already been felt in one of the most productive districts of the United States; and, unless it shall be counteracted, either by restricting laws, or by an increase of the duty on the capacity of the stills, or by a change of the subject of taxation, a considerable defalcation must be expected.
Whatever mode may be adopted, it is respectfully submitted, whether the revenue may not be benefited, and just grounds of complaint removed by a repeal, or modification, of the clause which compels a yearly entry of stills in the month of June, under a penalty of 250 dollars; by a permission to persons who take short licences to continue distilling beyond the time limited in their licences, on paying a proportionate duty; and, by reducing into one act, all the laws in relation to duties on stills and domestic distilled spirits.
It will appear by the same statement, [M.] that whilst the expenses of collection on merchandise and tonnage, which are defrayed out of the revenue, do not exceed 4 per cent; those on the permanent internal duties amount to almost 10 per cent. This, however, is an inconvenience, which, on account of the great number of individuals on whom the duties are raised, and of their dispersed situation throughout the whole extent of the United States, must, more or less, attach to the system of internal taxation, so long as the wants of government shall not require any considerable extension, and the total amount of revenue shall remain inconsiderable.
Sales of Public Lands.
The only data on which to calculate the annual revenue, which may probably be derived from the ensuing eight years, from those sales, are the quantity of land at the disposal of government, compared with the probable annual demands; and the actual sales, which have taken place since the several land offices have been opened.
The precise quantity cannot be ascertained, all the surveys not being yet completed, and the western boundary line of the Virginia reservation, from the head spring of the Little Miami, northward, being neither surveyed, nor even the principle on which its course must depend, determined by the terms of cession, accepted by Congress.
The estimate [N] may, however, be considered so far correct as to render it certain, that the quantity of public lands north west of the Ohio, within the Indian boundary line, and not yet disposed of, amounts to very near nine millions of acres. A general map of those lands, including the Virginia reservation, and the grants to the Ohio company and to John C. Symmes, which has been compiled from the survey of the Indian boundary line, and from the draughts returned to the Treasury Department, will be transmitted to Congress, and will more clearly explain their relative situation than could be done by any written description.
The statement [O] shows the actual sales which have taken place in the several land offices, to the 31st day of October last. By this it appears that 398,646 acres have been sold, for 834,887 dollars; of which sum 248,461 dollars have been paid, and 586,416 remain due; being payable under the law in instalments, bearing interest from the date of sales, and which will become due in the years 1802—1805, in the proportions exhibited in the statement.
The quantity of land sold either at the public sales of the three land offices, of Marietta, Chillicothe, and Cincinnati, or at private sale at Steubenville, when the land office was first opened, cannot afford any just data, on which to predicate an estimate of the probable annual sales, as these may be supposed to have been greater when the lands were first offered for sale than at subsequent periods.
Rejecting therefore the result of the whole of the public sales, and that of the first two months private sales at Steubenville; it appears that there have been sold at private sale 122,673 acres at Steubenville during a period of 14 months, ending the 31st day of October last; 64,205 acres at Chillicothe during a period of 5 months, ending on the same day; 42,656 acres at Cincinnati during a period of 6 months, ending on the same day; and 1,744 acres at Marietta during a period of 16 months, ending on the same day; which gives in the whole a result of 345,000 acres, annual sales in all the land offices. The reservations in the grants to the Ohio Company, and to J. C. Symmes, and in the townships formerly sold at New-York; the surplus of the tract appropriated for military bounties, after the same shall have been satisfied; and a tract of near one million of acres, lying north of Symmes's pa-
rent, and contained between the Great Miami and the Virginia reservation, are not embraced in this general result. The reservations and the military tract are not yet disposable by any existing law; and the tract lying between the Great Miami and the Virginia lands, has been only partially offered for sale, under the act of Congress giving a right of preemption to certain purchasers under J. C. Symmes. The result of the operation of this act has not yet been ascertained; it is, however, known that under it a number of tracts have been sold, and some payment already made. The remainder of the tract will afterwards, according to law, be surveyed and offered for sale on the same terms as other lands.
Taking in consideration the probable sales in those several tracts, the total amount of annual sales might fairly be estimated at 400,000 acres, if the periods during which the land offices have been opened had been sufficiently long to form a safe basis for calculation. To estimate them at 250,000 acres a year, for the ensuing eight years, is equally justifiable by the actual sales, by the known usual demand, and by the quality and superior safety of title of the public lands.
The nominal price of those lands is two dollars per acre; but on account of the provisions which relate to interest and discount, they may be obtained, within a small fraction at the rate of one dollar and 84 cents, if the whole purchase money is paid at the time of sale, and may bring in the Treasury two dollars and twenty seven cents per acre if the purchaser shall avail himself of the terms of credit given by law.
If the proceeds of the whole sales shall be estimated only at the rate of 1 dollar and 84 cents per acre, it will allow 24 per cent for losses, on account of non payments on the three last instalments; and after the year 1805 give, on an annual sale of 250,000 acres, an annual income of 400,000 dollars; but, as on account of the credit given by law, the whole of this sum will not, till after the year 1805, be annually receivable in payment of lands sold after the 1st January next; whilst on the other hand, the sums due for lands, sold before the end of this year, will become payable during the four next ensuing years, it will be found, that making the same deduction of 24 per cent for losses on the sums already due, the whole sum receivable for lands already sold or to be sold, during the eight years 1802—1809, will, for those eight years, on an average, amount annually to 430,000 dollars.
Some legislative provisions seem necessary to ascertain the western boundary of the Virginia lands, to define in what manner the seven first ranges of townships shall be subdivided into sections, without interfering with the claims of former purchasers; and perhaps in relation to the lands claimed by purchasers under J. C. Symmes. But the most important object, in order to secure and improve this valuable branch of revenue, is to provide against the progress of intrusion on the public lands; and especially to devise some efficient and prompt mode of giving quiet possession to every person purchasing under the law.
Postage, Dividends on Bank Shares, Incidental.
The annual proceeds of the duties on postage may not be estimated at less than 50,000 dollars. The dividends on bank shares, at the rate of 8 per cent dividend, amount to 70,040 dollars; but as the shares themselves may eventually be wanted, as a resource to meet certain contingent demands against the United States, those dividends, although constituting a part of the revenue, unless it shall be found necessary to sell the stock, and the incidental or temporary revenues shall be omitted in this estimate of the permanent revenues.
These, therefore, are estimated in the whole at 10,600,000 dollars, viz.
 Duties on merchandise and tonnage, - 9,500,000  Internal duties, stamps excepted, - 650,000  Proceeds of the sales of public lands, - 400,000  Duties on postage, - 50,000 
The other temporary resources of the United States, are:-
1st. The proceeds of stamp duties for the 14 months from the 1st January, 1802, to the 4th of March, 1803 which under the existing law limit their continuance, 260,000 dollars.
2d. The balance due on the direct tax—The amount paid in the treasury to the first instant, so far as the same can be ascertained, was 1,245,000 dollars, leaving an outstanding sum of 755,000 dollars; but as this last sum is chargeable with all the expenses of the collection, estimated, at the rate of 7 per cent, at 40,000 dollars, the real balance is only about 615,000 dollars; and as delays and perhaps an eventual loss may be expected on the last part of the collection, it would not be safe to estimate the amount, which will probably be paid in the Treasury, at more than 450,000 dollars.
3d. The proceeds of sales of public vessels—Fifteen vessels have been sold under the act of last session of Congress for 275,767 dollars and 73 cents; of which sum, 86,412 dollars and 83 cents had been paid on the 30th of September last, leaving an outstanding balance of 189,354 dollars and 90 cents.
4th. The excess of specie in the Treasury beyond the sum which it is prudent to keep there, may be estimated at about one million of dollars.
5th. The shares of the bank of the United States, owned by the United States, are at 33 1-3 per cent advance, worth 1,184,000 dollars.
Those several items, exclusively of several balances due by individuals, and a part of which will eventually be received in the Treasury, constitute a sum exceeding three millions of dollars, and may, for the present, be considered as resources sufficient to meet the demands against the United States, which may be eventually payable on account of the sixth article of the treaty with Great Britain, and of the article of the Convention with France.
The permanent expenditures of the United States relate, either to the current expenses of government, domestic or foreign, civil and military, or to the payment of the interest and principal of the public debt.
The estimates of appropriations for the ensuing year, amounting to 3,448,147 dollars and 18 cents, include all the expenses of government, other than those in relation to the public debt, with the exception of those incident to the intercourse with the Barbary powers, estimated after the ensuing year, by the Secretary of State, at 70,000 dollars; of those which may be incurred for the purchase of arms, estimated by the Secretary of War, at 55,000 dollars; and of a part of the Indian annuities, amounting to 11,000 dollars. These items having been omitted in the estimates of the ensuing year, because the balances of unexpended appropriations have been considered as sufficient for those objects by the secretaries of state and war, respective y. On the other hand, a sum of about seventy thousand dollars in relation to the census and quarantine laws, which is included in those estimates, is a temporary expense.
The particular sums which, under existing laws, seem necessary to defray each particular authorised expense, being detailed in the annual estimates, will not be repeated here; and it appears sufficient to recapitulate the gross amount of the general heads of Expenditure, viz.
 For all domestic expenses of a civil nature, including the civil department, and all the miscellaneous items of the light houses and mint establishments, of the surveying department, of pensions, claims, and contingencies, 780,000  For all the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, including those of the diplomatic department, those incident to the prosecution of claims and to the 
protection of seamen in foreign countries, and those in relation to the Barbary powers, 1,420,000
For the military establishment, including all the expenses in relation to the army, to arsenals and magazines, to the fabrication and purchase of arms and military stores, to fortifications, and to the Indian department, 1,100,000
For the navy department, including all the expenses in relation to the ships kept in commission, or laid up in ordinary to the building of new ships, and to dock yards, 3,500,000
Making altogether three millions and five hundred thousand dollars, which sum, deducted from the estimated revenue of ten millions and six hundred thousand dollars, leaves a sum of seven millions and one hundred thousand dollars, annually applicable to the payment of interest and redemption of the principal of the public debt.
It must be further observed, that the sums assigned to each head of expenditure, being deducted from the estimates of appropriations necessary for the ensuing year; and these having been calculated before the re-establishment of peace in Europe was known, they are predicated, for every item which relates to supplies on the then existing prices. A considerable reduction will take place in every item, which depends on the price of provisions, freight, transportation and even wages. Although the saving thence arising, cannot yet be correctly ascertained, it may not be estimated at less than 2,000,000 dollars annually. It is therefore believed that after defraying every expence necessary to support every civil, military, or naval establishment, to the extent now authorised by law; the annual surplus, applicable to the debt, may be confidently estimated at seven millions and three hundred thousand dollars.
The statement [P] exhibits the amount of the unredemed principal of the public debt as it will be on the 1st of January next, and of the annual interest and charges, payable thereon, including the annual reimbursement on the six per cent and deferred stocks. By the printed statements of receipts and expenditures for the year 1800 transmitted to Congress the first week of the present session; it appears that the unredemed principal of the public debt (exclusively of the sums paid to the credit of the commissioners of the sinking fund, which are only a nominal debt due by the United States to themselves; and after deducting the reimbursement of the principal of the six per cent stock, operated by the annual payment of 8 per cent, on the nominal amount of that stock) amounted, on the 1st of January, 1801, to 80,161,207 dollars and 60 cents.
By the statement [P] it appears that the unredemed principal will, on the 1st of January 1802, amount to 77,881,870 dollars and 29 cents; the difference of 2,279,337 dollars and 31 cents being the amount of principal paid during the year 1801.
During the same year 1801, more than 800,000 dollars which have been remitted to Holland, in part of the interest and instalments of the Dutch debt, falling due next year; which sum is not included in the amount of principal, thus stated to have been paid during the present year. The sums which, on the 1st January, 1801, had been remitted to Holland, in part of the interest and instalments due in the course of this year, and which were not deducted from the amount of public debt on the 1st of January, 1801, did not exceed five hundred thousand dollars. The amount of debt actually paid, or for the payment of which provision shall have been made during the present year, will not therefore be less than two millions five hundred thousand dollars. And it is believed, though it cannot at present be precisely ascertained, that the balance of specie in the Treasury, which, on the 1st of January 1801, was 2,557,395 dollars and 38 cents, will not be diminished on the 1st of January, 1802.
The Treasury account's being settled to the 30th day of September last, the amount of public debt paid during the half year, commencing on the 1st of April, and ending on the 30th September 1801, as well as the comparative view of the Treasury at the commencement, and end of that period, may be precisely fixed.
The payments in part of the principal of the debt, made during those six months, exclusively of certain parts of the unredemed debt, which have been reimbursed, have been,
1st. To the commissioners of the sinking fund, and to be by them applied, on the 1st of January next, to the reimbursement of the six per cent stock. Dollars 127,048 83
2d. To the bank of the United States, on account of the principal of sundry temporary loans, formerly obtained from that institution. 500,000
3d. For remittances to Holland, on account of the Dutch debt, 82,665 dollars and 79 cents; from which deducting 245,950 dollars and 50 cents; being the interest and commissions for one half of the year 1801, on that debt; leaves paid on account of the principal, 536,685 29
4th. Evidences of public debt paid for lands, 21,282 66
Amounting altogether to one million one hundred and eighty seven thousand and sixteen dollars and seventy eight cents. 1,187,016 78
The balance of specie in the Treasury amounted, on the 1st of April, 1801, to 4,794,044 dollars and 83 cents, and on the 1st of October, 1801, to 2,946,038 dollars and 73 cents, making a difference in favor of the Treasury of 1,848,006 dollars and 88 cents; which last sum, added to the above stated payments on account of the principal of the debt, makes an actual difference in favor of the United States of 2,339,010 dollars and 66 cents, during those six months.
The principal of the public debt unredemed on the 1st of January, 1802, is, in the statement [P] arranged under four heads, viz.
1st. Six per cent and deferred stocks. The nominal amount of this debt is 41,879,525 dollars 23 cents; and the eight per cent annuity, applicable to its interest and reimbursement of principal amounts to 3,357,362 dollars and one cent. As by the effect of this annuity 5,027,740 dollars and 57 cents of the principal shall have been reimbursed on the 1st of January, 1802, the unredemed principal of that debt will on that day be only, dollars 36,851,784 66
The interest, at the rate of six per cent, on which sum is 2,211,107 8
The part of the 8 per cent annuity at 8 cent applicable to the redemption of the principal is, therefore, 1,119,254 dollars and 3 cents, and increasing each year, at compound interest, shall, without any further provision, have discharged the whole of the six per cent debt in the year 1824.
2d. Three per cent stock amounts to 19,078,705 61
And the interest on the same to 572,391 16
No provision has been made for its redemption, occasional payments for lands excepted.
3. All the other domestic debts created under the present government of the union, in order either to discharge other debts, or to meet certain extraordinary expence.
es. These include the five and a half, four and a half, navy six, 1796 six, and eight per cent. stocks, and the temporary loans obtained from the bank, and amount together to dollars 12,035,400
The interest on all these constitute an item of 828,350 50
4th. The foreign debt due in Holland, and at Antwerp, amounts, including premiums and gratifications, to Dollars 9,915,000
The interest on which, commissions and charges included, is, for the year 1802, 476,931
This last debt being payable in instalments, at certain fixed dates, and it being necessary to purchase remittances in America, near six months before the payments are made in Holland; the statement [R] has been added, to show the payments, both on account of principal and interest, which become annually due in Holland, until the final redemption of the debt in 1809; and the sums which it will be necessary every year to provide in America, in order to meet those payments. The greater part of this debt becomes due in the course of the five next ensuing years; and the annual payments, on account of principal and interest for that period, exceed, on an average, two millions of dollars. The inconvenience and difficulty of procuring remittances to that amount, and the real injury arising from such heavy disbursements abroad, render an extension of the terms of payment, by partial redemptions, a desirable object; and measures have been taken to ascertain its practicability—All that seems wanting is, that the gross amount of payments which are to take place during the eight next years, should be more equally apportioned amongst those years; and any greater surplus of revenue which might be freed by that operation, would be applicable to the redemption of those species of the domestic debt which it may be thought most eligible to reimburse.
Whether this operation shall be effected or not, no difficulty is apprehended from want of resources, to discharge every instalment as it shall become due; the sum payable in 1803, in which year the largest payments must be made in Holland, amounting, including both those, and all other actually due, on the account of the interest and reimbursement of the domestic debt, to only 7,100,000 dollars, or to 200,000 dollars less than the annuity of 7,300,000 dollars, which has been estimated as the in part of revenue applicable to that object.
If that surplus does exist, and if it will be sufficient to meet all the engagements of the U. States, as they become due, the only remaining objects of inquiry seem to be; what impression will, during the next eight years to which these estimates refer, be made on the public debt, by the annual application of that surplus? In what time would the same annuity discharge the whole of the public debt?
The statement [S] exhibits the effect produced at the end of the year 1809, on the debt, by the annual application of that sum (7,300,000 dollars) to the payment of both principal and interest, and shows that at the end of those eight years it shall have paid the whole of the Dutch debt; of the temporary loans due to the bank; of the navy six per cent, and of the five and a half per cent stocks; 5,525,300 dollars and 38 cents of the eight per cent stock; 1,503,387 dollars and 26 cents of the principal of the 4 1-2 per cent stock; and 11,399,263 dollars and 6 cents of the principal of the 6 per cent and deferred stocks, amounting altogether to 32,289,150 dollars and 70 cents.
The public debt would, therefore, on the 1st January 1810, be reduced to 45,592,739 dollars and 59 cents, viz 904,809 dollars and 62 cents of the eight per cent stock; 25,612 dollars and 74 cents of the 4 1-2 per cent stock (both of which would be discharged during the four first months of the year 1810;) 80,000 dollars of the 1796 six per cent stock; 25,452,521 dollars and 60 cents of the six per cent and deferred stocks, and the 19,079,705 dollars and 63 cents, three per cent stock.
It is true that this statement is predicated on the supposition that the whole of the remittances to Holland may be purchased at par, which is not probable; but on the other hand it is calculated on the principal of a yearly, instead of a quarter-yearly payable annuity; or as if all the payments made in one year, on account of the principal of the debt, took place only at the end of the year, instead of being made, as will be the case in the course of the year, and stopping the interest from the end of the quarter in which they may be made. The supposed extra cost of bills on Holland is at least partly covered by that difference and cannot materially affect the general result.
It may in the same manner be shown that the same annual sum of 7,300,000 dollars, applied to the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt, would on the supposition that the whole of the six per cent and deferred stocks may be redeemed at par, and that the whole of the three per cent stock should be reimbursed at its nominal value, discharge the whole of the public debt in seven years and a half after the year 1809, or within the year 1817.
The only part of the preceding estimates which is liable to any material error, is what relates to the probable annual revenue derived from the impost and from the sales of land.—Should these prove to have been correct, it will result, that the present revenues of the Union are sufficient to defray all the expenses, civil and military, of government, to the extent authorized by existing laws; to meet all the engagements of the United States, and to discharge, within eight years, 32 millions of dollars of the principal, and, within fifteen years and a half, the whole of the public debt: that any increase of expense will, probably, either render an increase of taxes necessary, or retard the ultimate payment of the debt: and that any reduction in the present rate of expenditure, may permit a reduction of the present taxes, or be the means of accelerating the redemption of the public debt. All which is most respectfully submitted.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.
Treasury-Department, 18th Dec. 1801.
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