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PORTLAND (MAINE) PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY ISAAC ADAMS, No. 7, FISH-STREET.
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No. 41, of Vol. X.]
MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1808.
[Whole No. 509.]
The following extracts from the ADDRESS presented by the Carriers of the New-York Gazette, at the commencement of the present year, exhibit a lively and correct picture of our political affairs—and show the folly and fatal consequences of committing the national ship to weak and unskillful mariners.
GAZETTE MARINE-LIST.
For the New-Year 1808, with the Carriers Remarks.
ARRIVED this morning, full of freight, The New-Year eighteen hundred eight. Spoke, out-ward bound, towards oblivion, The old year eighteen hundred seven. On board the old year go events Of interest and consequence. Shipt by th' experience of mankind, And, to posterity consign'd. The foreign cargo in her hold Is demaged much, as we are told; The bales mark'd thus—Denmark, Prussia, Holland, Germany and Russia, And Portugal, are said to go Consign'd to Bonapart' and co. But Britain has, we understand, Tow'd Denmark in, as contraband— Goods shipt for enemies' supplies, And therefore captors' lawful prize. The former owners of the bale Mark'd Potugal, 'tis said will fail, Unless by transfer they can still Continue business in Brazil.
Ship left—The BRITAIN, waiting orders To sweep the ocean's farthest borders Of enemies, and convey those Who dare resist the world's worst foes.
In latitude of darkest fates Descrid the ship UNITED STATES:— The weather dark and blowing gales, Her rigging shatter'd, and her sails. Her upper works much damaged too; But timbers sound, and men all true; And though the helmsman in a flaw May sometimes let the vessel yaw, She'll ne'er be left to go to wreck For want of good men on the deck. 'Tis said she has her anchor tript, Her men all muster'd and equipp'd, Her boats drawn up along her side, And waiting only wind and tide To steer for France. This voyage we think Will make her owners' credit sink; For should the Britain cross her wake She'll fore and aft her commerce rake: The wealth and honour of the nation She'll tow in for adjudication.
The BURA conspiracy—on shore By Wilkinson, the commander, Has had its trial—been acquitted, But ship can never be refitted; We therefore here may safely say She'll never more get under weigh. The commander, we are inform'd, Is somewhat damaged in the storm; His "soldier's honour," rather crank, Has open'd seam or started plank; And did not Presidential pump Work hard to save a sinking lump, His fame and character would be Soon founder'd in "tempestuous sea." Spoke, outward bound to Dissolution, The Ship AMERICAN CONSTITUTION; It blowing Democratic blasts She's scudding under jury masts But let's the master's orders hear,— "Throw compass o'er the ship to clear." "And if the chart don't please my view, "Why cancel it and make a new; "Or let's have none, who cares about them." "I ]—— can steer without them." Spoke Ship Neutrality, ran down, By Bonapart's indignity frown; 'Twas thought if she surviv'd this shock, She'd founder next on British rock; At all events, by observation, She's near the coast annihilation; In such a case, a rotten ship To Davy Jones must take a trip.
Spoke, ship Tom ]——, bound in As gales "tempestuous" now begin To agitate the public "sea," And stir the waves of liberty: Our captain, wise, t'avoid the strife, Will close the voyage of public life, Acknowledge he so weak has grown, (This men of sense have long since known, And better it had been, no doubt, Had he much sooner found it out.) That he can hold the helm no more, When clawing off a dark lee shore— When storms are threatening—seas run high, And "specks of war" o'ercast the sky. But ere he quits the quarter deck, He must play one more coward trick, At his old age he drops a hint on, But all the time means old George Clinton. Postscript—In haste we stop the press, Just to announce in this address, That by the mandate of the wise The AMERICA embargo'd lies, Hem'd in by jacobite rocks, In one of Jefferson's dry docks: We hope it may not be her fate, To be land-locked in such a state For many months:—For should she lie Wrapp'd up in this way, high and dry, A year or so, her planks may start, Her timbers crack, her rigging part, Her men desert from off the deck, And leave the ship a useless wreck.
By the Sails.
Extract of a letter from a Member of Congress, dated Jan. 2.
"THAT which has excited the greatest degree of attention in the House for some time past, has been an affair between John Randolph and General Wilkinson. The General has challenged Randolph to a duel, which he chose to decline; and Wilkinson
has posted him for a prevaricating scoundrel and patron. R. has brought forward an accusation against W. before the House of Representatives, charging him with being a pensioner of the Spanish government, and an accomplice of Col. Burr; and produced some very probable evidence to support the charge, and moved a resolution, that the President be requested to institute an inquiry into his conduct. Some supposed that this accusation grew out of the challenge; but I believe those who possess the most correct information say, that the challenge grew out of the mediated accusation; but in which ever way it commenced, I consider it as a pretty high-handed attack, not upon Randolph alone, but upon the privileges of the House. If the President is determined to support military men, who will consider themselves authorized to overawe the Legislature by sending challenges to its members when in session, it is one pretty rapid step to a military government. When this subject was first proposed, there appeared to be but one voice upon it, and that was in favor of the inquiry; but when Randolph made his statement he observed that there was a member in that House (alluding to Clark of Orleans) who was in possession of facts upon the subject. Upon this Clark rose in his place, and stated, that while serving the U. States in the capacity of Consul at the port of Orleans, he came to the knowledge of certain facts relating to the conduct of General Wilkinson, which he deemed it his duty to communicate to the government, and that he had attempted at different times to give the information, but found no disposition to listen to it, and that now the knowledge which he possessed must remain in his own breast until he was compelled by competent authority to divulge it. This operated like an electric shock upon the House. Difficulties were immediately suggested on the propriety of passing the resolution, for fear, as I supposed, a certain Great Personage might be implicated; and it was at length carried by a considerable majority to postpone the subject until Monday next; and I had it whispered in my ear to day, that it had been determined in caucus, by a large majority, to reject Randolph's resolutions, and that the Hon. Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Hon. Member from Essex South District, waited on Gen. Wilkinson last evening, and spent the evening with him.—So we go on at Washington.
"You will probably hear, before this reaches you, that Mr. Rose, the British Envoy Extraordinary, is not taken by the French ship Patriot, but has arrived at Norfolk, and is on his way to this city (as the writer supposed). I pray his mission may be successful; but I have my doubts that there is not a wish to negotiate on amicable terms. I fear he comes too late. Never was a nation, I believe, more completely kept in the dark about the views of their own government, than the U. States, but Providence has a design in it: if it is for our correction, no doubt it is merited, and we ought to bear the indignation of the Lord."
Communicated from Washington to the Editor of the U. States Gazette.
TUESDAY, JAN. 5
Whether the embargo originated in a conviction of its propriety and utility, or in a mandate from the Emperor of France, is a question which, at this time, ought, above all others, to engage the serious attention of the American people. The subject, however, is involved in obscurity. The transaction is surrounded with circumstances dark and mysterious. If the measure really proceeded from an honest desire to promote the interest of the nation, why is all information so studiously concealed from the people? Nay, why is it concealed from the representatives of the people? This very circumstance gives just reason for apprehension and alarm. A wise and honest administration would not afford such a reasonable cause for suspicion.
There is a number of circumstances connected with the embargo law deserving the consideration of every American. I will endeavor to present a fair and succinct statement of some important facts in the case. If taken singly they establish no decisive conviction; yet in connexion they may lead to some interesting and satisfactory conclusions.
The message of the president recommending an embargo, was transmitted to congress two days after the receipt of dispatches from France. We cannot help believing that these dispatches had great influence. We indeed know that they had influence, for a part of them was transmitted to congress for the purpose of enlightening and guiding their deliberations. We are not, however, permitted to know their contents. The president requested the return of the letters of Armstrong and Champagny, as it would not, he said, be proper to make them public. We observe that such was the president's anxiety to keep them secret, that he would not trust the judgment of the house of representatives. A fine compliment surely. But they were stupid enough not to perceive the stigma thus cast upon them by the president.
Dr. Bullus, who brought these dispatches from France, brought dispatches also from England; but they were only duplicates of what had been received several weeks before.
From the language of the supporters of the administration, in private conversation, in debate on the floor of congress and in the government prints, we are led to conclude that the only object of the embargo is to bring England to terms. We have little or nothing of French aggression and insult. Their sensibilities are never roused at the outrages of a Frenchman or a Spaniard.
The embargo then is aimed at England; and yet is occasioned by dispatches from France. Perhaps Mr. Armstrong has been consulting the magnanimous emperor on the subject of our quarrel with England, or perhaps Bonaparte has very kindly offered his advice without being asked. Why did Mr. Jefferson ask a return of the letters of Armstrong and Champagny? Why was it improper that they should be made public? If they related merely to the construction of the imperial decree, there would be no impropriety in publishing them. The letter of Regnier, the grand judge was published, and for aught that appears, without any objection: indeed, none could have been made.
If the embargo is a wise and prudent measure, why was it not adopted a month ago? The ostensible object is to secure our resources, by detaining our property and seamen in our own country. Within a month, hundreds of vessels and millions of property have left our ports for foreign countries. Nothing new has occurred within that time to render a measure of this kind advisable, except the receipt of dispatches from France. Yet no man can tell what influence this fact has had, unless Bonaparte has recommended the measure.
The letters of Mr. Armstrong, to our own government were not, it seems, communicated to congress. Why not? Mr. Jefferson was afraid to trust the letters of Armstrong and Champagny. It is, said he, improper to make them public. But the letters of Armstrong to our own government, he dare not trust even to the inspection of congress even in conclave. Why not? If Mr. Armstrong does his duty, and I presume he does in this respect at least, he regularly transmits to the secretary of state an account not only of all his official correspondence, but of his private and public political conversations with Bonaparte, Talleyrand, and other persons of influence about the court. Mr. Armstrong's communications must disclose the nature of our relations at this time with the French government, and their views and designs toward us. Had they been transmitted to congress, they would have determined at once the question so much agitated in secret session, whether the embargo was or was not recommended in compliance with a demand from the emperor of France.
We find that a motion was made in conclave by Mr. Gardnier, a gentleman who has proved himself an able, intrepid, and eloquent champion of the honor and welfare of his country, to request the president to communicate to the house copies of the letters which he received from Mr. Armstrong by the late arrival from France, relative to the imperial decree. This was refused without debate. If they could have borne the light without impeaching the conduct of Armstrong, or of our own administration, no imaginable reason can be assigned for withholding them from congress.
There are some other circumstances not unworthy of notice.
A letter bearing date the 19th December, and purporting to come from a member of congress, was published in the N. Y. Evening Post, in which the charge of French influence is directly and explicitly avowed. Whether this opinion was founded on something contained in the letters of Armstrong and Champagny, does not appear; but the opinion was founded on the knowledge of some circumstances which could not be imparted. What are we to think of this? a member of congress pledging himself that the house was acting under the secret influence of a foreign power!
I find also, a letter in the United States' Gazette, purporting to come from a member of congress, which states that the opposition to the embar-
go, if not wholly, yet in a great measure, was founded in a suspicion that the measure had its origin in Paris. From a variety of considerations it is clear that this ground was assumed in debate against the bill, by the ablest men in the house. If this charge of French influence was unfounded, it was extremely easy to have disproved it, and to have banished even all suspicion, by producing the letters of Armstrong. It was not done, and we are left to make our own inferences.
The more this subject is considered the more reason have we to conclude that this measure has been adopted through some improper influence. Has it not been adopted in pursuance of a mandate from France? Let every man ponder on the circumstances of the case and judge for himself. It is a subject, which, above all others, ought to occupy the attention of the public. Suppose this to be the fact; and then examine all the known circumstances in any way connected with the transaction. See whether they cannot all be easily and satisfactorily explained and reconciled. Consider whether they can be explained in any other way; whether any other clue will unravel the dark and complicated labyrinth. It must be conceded by all, that the circumstances which support the presumption are strong; in any other case they would produce implicit belief. The time, the manner, and the effect of the embargo, and the very vindication of the measure by its advocates, go to corroborate the impression of improper influence. This was suspected and declared in conclave, and by whom? Not by the political or personal enemies of the administration, but by its friends and supporters. My life upon it, said Mr. Masters, this measure is from the mandate of Napoleon. We find that a considerable number of members of congress was impressed with a similar idea. Now if these apprehensions were unfounded, which is sincerely hoped to be the case, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have shown it. It was a duty which the government owed to congress and to their country, to remove these doubts. It was not done: it was not even attempted to be done. We are, therefore, left to infer, we have a right to infer, we must infer, that something is rotten at bottom. A government that refuses to remove the reasonable doubts of even its enemies must be in the wrong. All must see and own that we have a right to charge the government with succumbing to the influence of France. If it is not so, let them produce the letters of Armstrong, and exonerate themselves from the charge. We shall wait with solicitude to see whether they will do it. We hope they can and will; but I confess, I very much doubt it.
BALTIMORE, JAN. 3, 1808.
DEMOCRATIC DECENCY.
A paper called "The Whig"—a mere supplement to the Philadelphia "Aurora," has denounced the petition from Governor SULLIVAN, of Massachusetts, to Congress, on the subject of the Georgia Lands, as a "traitorous attempt" to aid "bribery and corruption;" and to assist "Yazoo robbers and scoundrels." It attacks, on this score, what it calls "the Madisonian and Galatinian junto;" and respecting the Chief Magistrate who communicated the memorial, it says, "This has been done by SULLIVAN of Massachusetts; as lame in morals as deformed in person; who (Lord be merciful to us) is a lawyer"—Such is democratic decency!
From the New-York Herald, Jan. 8.
USURPATION OF POWER.
What is our astonishment to find it stated in the New-York Gazette, of this morning, that the Collector of this port, by express orders from Mr. Gallatin, refuses to permit licenced coasting vessels to leave our port without giving bond in double the amount of vessels and cargo, &c. under the Supplementary Embargo Act, which has not yet become a law? We understand too, from other sources, that Mr. Collector conducts with a pretty high hand towards all our Merchants, who apply for clearances from port to port, within the United States, refusing to grant them, under pretence that he suspects fraud is intended. It is said that some have abandoned their vessels to him, and that suits have been instituted against him for such illegal and oppressive conduct. But what are Merchants, what is Commerce to Mr. Jefferson? What
he thinks of Merchants may be known from the insolence with which they have ever been treated by the organ of his will, the Aurora, and the following extract from his Notes on Virginia.
"Corruption of morals" "is the mark set on those, who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it, on the casual and caprice of customers." Page 274.
As to cities, hear him again in the same work:
"The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." Page 275.
Commerce, he has told us, officially, flourishes best when left to itself, (we wish he would act constantly for once then and let it alone)
From Mr. Jefferson then, or his officers, neither merchants nor the great body of people who live in cities, (mobs, as he call them) have any thing to expect.
New Remedies for obstinate Diseases.
Are your Sailors occasionally impressed and do about one in 600 suffer inconvenience from the misconduct of foreign officers?
Remedy.—Why, starve the whole 50 thousand Sailors—it will be a radical cure.
Does France threaten to blockade Great Britain, and declare that she will capture all your ships bound there, and will she in fact, take about 2 or 3 in one hundred?
Remedy.—Why, embargo all your commerce, both to England, France, and all the world.
Are you afraid that the foreign nations will cut off your resources?
Remedy.—Why, keep at home your fish & flour until it rots—and your hogs and oxen until they eat off their heads.
Do your merchants overtrade, and expose their creditors to losses from failure?
Remedy.—Why lay an embargo, oblige them to stop payment, and then settle their accounts with the Sheriffs. This is an excellent remedy both for debtor and creditor.
Does France pass a most unjust blocking decree in violation of the law of Nations?
Remedy.—Why lay an embargo in order to punish not her but Great Britain.—If this will not answer go to War with England in order to punish France.
Are you in danger of French usurpation and domination and is the Navy of England the only check to it?
Remedy.—Why try to destroy this Navy, which protects you from French invasion, and fight to desperation these involuntary defenders.
Do you wish to encourage your own Sailors! And do they now suffer inconveniences?
Remedy.—Why encourage as many foreign sailors as possible—and throw all your own out of employ.
Is it a real evil, that New-England in its fisheries, its commerce, and agriculture is acquiring wealth too rapidly and attaining too great weight in your Union?
Remedy.—Continue your Embargo system which will effectually destroy New-England, and reduce her to infinite distress.—Centinel.
The Embargo is indeed a "grievous measure," as his Excellency says; but his apology for our Rulers ought to make us satisfied—"They did not do it with wrong intentions," he declares, and they "really did not know how to act." What could they do then better than starve the sailors, break your merchants and impoverish the Farmers? All these effects are avowed in the National Intelligencer as the consequences of this measure.—Ibid.
NEW DICTIONARY.
Testament—The last will of a dying man and the first thought of his heir.
Tomb—The End where terminates all human grandeur. It is the level which equalizes every thing.
Torture—A sure secret to cause an innocent man, who has delicate muscles, to tell every thing you please, and to save from punishment a robust culprit.
Life—A frail skin of thread which always deceives in its length, he no winds it up.
Sight—The sharpest of all the five senses and that which leaves behind the longest remembrance.
Custom—A Despot whose power extends only over weak hearts.
Usury—An agreement between want and avarice.
Drunkardness—Transient death, the sight of which equally shocks reason and sense.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6.
The Bill to continue the Augmented Salary Bill, was taken up. Mr. Randolph moved to postpone the bill indefinitely. He expressed his surprise, that a measure of the kind should be brought forward in these distressing times. If the officers of government whose salaries were to be increased by this Bill, had been consulted on the subject, they would have felt the extreme delicacy of asking for more money at a time when the citizens of the United States were in great distress. Should the burden of a war, in case it took place, oppress the people of this country, and placemen make no sacrifice? Was it a proper time to increase salaries, when the planter, the merchant, and the mechanic were at a loss to procure a shilling? Salaries ought to be proportioned, not only to talents and trust, but also to the style of living: and he had no hesitation in saying that when a salary was given to an officer of government to enable him to live in a certain style, if he did not live in that style, he had no business to receive the salary. Suppose for instance, the President of the United States were to take lodgings on capitol hill or in Georgetown, or, instead of receiving foreign ministers, &c. were to board at a ten dollar ordinary, would the house, in case his salary was under their control consent to give him 15000 dollars to put in his pocket, while his whole expenses did not exceed 1000? They would not. He thought the salary the members of that house were great - he believed that salary was now become an object in obtaining a seat. He thought the house ought to begin at the fountain head; and while the poor planter could not obtain one dollar a hogshead for his tobacco, they ought to show the example of suffering and economy.
Mr. Campbell opposed the postponement. He thought the officers of government would not eat or drink the less for the Embargo; and that they ought to receive sufficient to enable them to live decently.
Mr. Sloan said he could not avoid expressing great indignation at what had fallen from Mr. R. on the ruin and beggary which had been insinuated as the effect of the embargo act. If the British Minister had the right of sending a member to the house he could use no worse language. He hoped to hear no more of it; and that the British supporters were few.
Mr. Lyon said, Mr. S. was repeating the stale story of British Influence. He believed that no member was more under that influence, than that gentleman; nor any one less capable of regulating his conduct by his judgment. He hoped the gentleman would not trouble the house with any more such language.
Mr. Sloan replied; and Lyon rejoined. Messrs. Alston, Masters, Fisk & Holland spoke against postponing the bill; and Messrs. Livermore, Bibb, Quincy, and Gardner, in favor of it. The motion was lost, and the bill passed to a third reading.
TUESDAY, JAN. 7, 1808.
A MOTION for a legal standard for Weights and Measures was committed.
Mr. Dana's motion for an extension of credit for duties during the continuation of the Embargo, occasioned considerable debate. The resolution was opposed by Mr. Van Horn.
Mr. Quincy said - Your laws pledge the faith of the nation that the merchant shall be allowed to re-export his goods and receive the debenture. These goods are not intended for consumption in this country; many of them are not fitted for our market. If the merchant is forbid to export these goods, and yet is compelled to pay the duties, the pledged faith of the government is broken. No exclusive advantages are asked for merchants. They will bear their part of the general suffering and distress. Their regular business is interrupted; their shops are rendered of little or no value and their property is depreciated in equal degree with the rest of the community.
The Fortifications, and Gun Boats bills passed.
A Resolution passed, requesting Messrs. Randolph, Clark, and other Members, to lay on the table all information respecting Gen. Wilkinson, as corruptly receiving money from Spain. In the debate on this resolution, Mr. Randolph expressed his belief, that the 5640 dollars already mentioned, was only a single subsidy; and that there were gentlemen from Kentucky who are able to give much information on this subject. He animadverted freely on Wilkinson's character, whom he had been compelled, he said, by evidence on oath, to pronounce guilty of misprision of treason.
Mr. Rowan (from Kentucky) declared, that it was well known, that Spain had attempted to detach Kentucky from the Union; had expended 100,000 dols. in the project; and had a Consul at Frankfort. He had, he said, long been impressed with the guilt of Wilkinson. - He wished a full inquiry to be made; at which he believed there were other characters, in high situations, who would tremble. He stated, that for one power to pension the commander of the army of another power was good cause of war.
The resolution was opposed on the ground that it would be prejudging the case; that Wilkinson was not now on trial, that considerations of delicacy towards the Executive, ought to have its influence; and that the House had no powers to enter into the investigation. The Resolution was carried, in committee, Yeas 90. Nays 19; when the committee rose, and the House adjourned.
FRIDAY, JAN. 8.
Mr. Randolph's resolution respecting Wilkinson, was again taken up; and, after much debate, on the suggestion of Mr. Clark, that he should not be called to give the information he had until Monday, was ordered to lie on the table. In the debate, Mr. Rowan produced the deposition of Judge Innes, of Kentucky, in support of the charge. He also insisted, that the House had authority to make the inquiry; and observed that President Jefferson had set the example of making such inquiries, by implicating in his message the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court with improper and corrupt administration of the law. He also stated, that a committee of the Kentucky Legislature had reported that Judge Sebastian had been in the habit of receiving 2000 dollars from Spain; and that this report had been transmitted to Government, &c. - And that unless vigorous measures were pursued, we might, ere long, hear unpleasant news from Louisiana.
The Supplementary Embargo bill came from the Senate with amendments, which after some opposition from Mr. Quincy, were concurred in.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9.
The house went into committee on the bill to remit the duties on the Monument, purchased by the Navy Officers in memory of the Americans who fell before Tripoli. - A motion to add a section, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to set it up, and preserve it, at the public expense, occasioned a long debate; when the committee rose and had leave to sit again.
MONDAY, JAN. 11.
Agreeably to the resolution of the House, Mr. Clark gave information respecting the charge against Wilkinson, of which the following is a summary: -
"In 1789, Connolly, from Detroit, sent a mission to Wilkinson - Wilkinson informed, in a letter to a person in New Orleans, that he meant to adhere to the Spaniards. The plan was a severance of the Western country into a separate government, in alliance with Spain. The trade of the Mississippi was to be free. Mr. Clark, saw, in this letter, (in Wilkinson's hand writing) a list of the names in the Western country, whom it would be proper for Spain to pension. Mr. Clark says he had no knowledge of Wilkinson's receiving a Spanish pension, previous to 1793 or 1794. There were four thousand dollars put on board of a vessel consigned to Clark, belonging to Wilkinson, and sent to Philadelphia. In 1794, one Owen and one Collins, friends to Wilkinson, were entrusted with 6000 dollars for Wilkinson and others. Owen in going up the Ohio, was murdered. The transaction awakened the suspicion of Gen. Wayne, who endeavored to intercept Wilkinson's letters to the Spanish government, but without success.
"It was disclosed to him by Collins, and Wilkinson himself, that 11,000 dollars were slipped to Charleston - that Wilkinson complained to him (Clark) that he had derived very little advantage from the money. - Powers told Clark he carried letters from the Spanish government to Wilkinson; and that he, (Powers) delivered money which came from the Spanish Government, to one Noland, by Wilkinson's directions. Clark says that in 1796, by Wilkinson's request, he visited him at Loftus' Height, and passed three days and nights in his tent. Wilkinson then stated to Clark, there was a balance of 10,000 dollars due him from the Spanish government. Clark then asked him if it was on account of his pension - he answered it was. Wilkinson then proposed to Clark, that he should endeavour to negotiate with Gayoso - that the latter should, in payment of the 10,000 dollars, assign to him his plantation at Natchez, and take his pay at New Orleans. - Wilkinson wished Mr. Clark to do something respecting what he understood he had said about his being a pensioner. - Mr. Clark told him he had often spoken of it, but never to his (Wilkinson's) government. Wilkinson then told him, after considerable conversation upon political and other subjects, that the union of these States were bound together by nothing better than a rope of sand. Clark at this time was a subject of Spain, and did not consider himself at liberty to communicate these matters to the American government."
DEBATE
On the Resolution for requesting the President to cause an enquiry to be made into the conduct of General Wilkinson.
THURSDAY, JAN. 5.
Mr. Sloan said, he rose with an intention, and for the purpose of making some observations on what had fallen from the gentleman from New-York (Mr. Cardenier) whom he did not now see in his place, but if he was within the walls he should be glad to know. He had intended in the first place to have acknowledged and expressed in his plain way, his gratitude to the gentleman for his endeavors to enlighten the House, and this he should have endeavored to do in a very few words. This member had expressed his extreme surprise that the motion which he had offered on a former day had not been more adverted to by members of the House, he should have recollected that every member of the House was not endowed with the same sagacity and penetrating genius which he so abundantly possesses. But permit me to say that Mr. S. that I was not less surprised than that gentleman could be, that the first move made this morning was not (under existing circumstances) to withdraw the resolution. It was a fact known and believed by every member on the floor, that the proper authority had undertaken to investigate the object of the resolution. Under a consideration and from a full conviction that this House was not the proper tribunal to try this case his surprise and disappointment had surpassed that expressed by the member from New-York, that the subject had not been taken up yesterday morning. Mr. S. said he was then prepared to have made a pretty lengthy speech, the notes for which he now held in his hand; but the House had been taken up the whole day in discussing what course they should give to a certain (Yazoo) memorial. In the course of that debate he had been much instructed by the member from Vermont (Mr. Elliot) being warned of the taking the bull by the horns, and also something about a club and Hercules; although these expressions were somewhat obscure, they had raised some sensation in his mind, and induced him to think he had better be cautious how he made speeches on that floor; he had therefore concluded not to make this long speech he had digested and prepared.
But before he sat down, he would say, that being privy to certain circumstances, although he had no right to speak of them, he had certainly a right to think; and he would state what thoughts this resolution produced in his mind. Knowing, as no doubt every member of the House did, of what had lately turned up between certain great men, it brought to his mind a circumstance which might be thought simple, but he hoped he might be permitted to introduce a simile: - when he went to school in his youthful days he had seen little urchins turn up between the boys, and he had known those who were likely to get the worst of the bargain, cry out, "I'll tell daddy or mammy, I'll tell my master." This struck Mr. S. very forcibly as applicable to the present case.
In Senate, Monday, Jan. 11.
Mr. J. Q. Adams, introduced the following motion, viz: -
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire at what period the present EMBARGO can, consistently, with the public interest be removed; and whether in what manner, and to what extent upon its removal the merchant vessels of the U. States shall be permitted in defence of their lawful commerce to be armed against and to resist foreign aggressions.
By the Sails.
RICHMOND, JAN. 8.
Extract of a letter - This embargo has spoiled our business, and to mend the matter, the honorable legislature of this state have a bill before them this day, and I have no doubt but it will pass, the purport of which is to suspend all courts of justice until the embargo is taken off, so that you may judge what chance we have to collect what is due.
NORFOLK, JAN. 5.
Yesterday the Court Martial on Commodore Barron, Captain Gordon, Captain Hall, and the Gunner of the Chesapeake, commenced on board of that frigate. - As we are informed, the ablest and most intelligent officers in the United States service, has been summoned to act as members of the Court for the purpose of doing impartial justice to the accused, and of vindicating the honor of the Country. No proceedings have as yet transpired, but from such a body, the most upright sentence may be expected.
Distressing, indeed, and in the extreme, must the state of that country be whose industrious citizens, heretofore supporting their families in comfort by their labor, are now compelled (to accommodate the views of a Foreign Nation) to beg their bread - All this may be sport to the man, who, from the savings of his office alone, moderately rated at one hundred Thousand Dollars, may be enabled himself to riot in luxury, and to add a herring to the hominy, with which he formerly fed his Negroes; but it is death to tens of thousands, whose mistaken votes gave him the power to take that very Herring from "the mouth of labor," and his starving children. - Pol. Register.
FROM THE ALBANY CRISIS.
The honest, industrious German, with his load of Wheat.
I Hans Peder Cowder, went top on Albany mit more as dirty pushels wheat in mine slagh, and could not get more as sax scallens a pushel and not dat - I spragh by one very greatead goot mans whats de meaning up embarrassment, she dells me it is to make de peoples poor. Tinks I up mine zeal dat is drue, far I toes feel very poor, and more as dat, tampt mad up Chefferson. Grate many mans up Albany says they could
not get money do bay upon de panks, I believes they feels tampt bad too - so I spans in and trives all night and more too, and carries mine wheat upon mine house down into de parr - mine wife she curse, she scolt up de law embarrassment - I feels very mauger - I dells de poys and old Jack not to trash any more, better leave it for de rats.
Extract of a letter from Lancaster to the Editor of the United States Gazette, dated Saturday Jan. 9, 1808.
On Monday last the house of representatives resolved itself into a committee of the whole upon the resolution proposing an alteration of the constitution of the United States so that the Judges should hold their offices for a term of years, that they should be removable by the President on an address of two branches of the Federal Legislature, and that on an arraignment for high crimes and misdemeanors a majority of the senate should be competent to a conviction. The debate was resumed every day since and did not finish until a very late hour this afternoon.
The speakers against the resolution were Messrs. Sergeant, Biddle, Miner, Ingham, Hare and C. Smith. Those in favor of it Leib, Boileau, Lacock, Thompson and Ogle. In the committee of the whole the question was taken upon each proposition of the resolution separately and the votes being equally divided, it was lost. On the question of agreeing to the report of the committee the votes were again equally divided and the report was not agreed to. The resolution then recurring, attempts were made by calling for an adjournment three times upon which the yeas and nays were taken, by offering a substitute and proposing amendments, to evade the question or to give it a shape that would be acceptable to a majority. All these attempts, however, were in vain and the question was finally taken in the house upon every part of the resolution and lost. Yeas 43, nays 43, every member of the house being present. It is a subject of real congratulation to the friends of the constitution, that this dangerous and disorganizing attempt to sap the foundations of our government has been defeated, and it is hoped that it will have a good effect in checking similar projects which are now on foot in other states.
POLITICAL TURPITUDE.
A letter from Washington, said to be communicated by a gentleman of the first responsibility in that city, states the following extraordinary circumstance: -
"It may be relied on as a fact, that application has been made on the part of the Administration, to a member of one of the principal Delegates in the house of Representatives of the United States, to know what portion of them would vote for a Declaration of War, against Great Britain, if such a measure should be proposed. It is also certain that official enquiry has been made, whether Federalists, in some of the states, would accept military Commissions - and on the whole, it appears evident that we are to be plunged into a War, for objects which no man can explain."
From Washington, Jan. 12.
Extract from Mr. Randolph's speech, on his introducing Mr. Clark's affidavit relative to general Wilkinson: -
"The proof, Mr. Speaker, which has this day been produced against your General in Chief, together with what I hold in my hand, will convince you sir, and the world that he is a base traitor; believe me, Mr. Speaker, that this poison, this infectious, corrupted disease, is not confined to your General alone - it has, to the disgrace of the American character, I am sorry to say, extended to the army under your General's command! The very stores which descended the Ohio for the Burr conspiracy were taken sir, from the American arsenal."
Extract of a letter from Washington, dated Jan. 10.
Caucuses without number, are now held in this city, preliminary to a nomination for the next presidential election. It is this day stated in respectable circles, that the arrangement has been so far matured, as on the democratic side to agree to support Mr. Madison as President, and General Dearborn as Vice President: on the opposition side, Mr. Monroe and John Q. Adams are to be the candidates. Both parties feel the necessity of cultivating the interests of the Northern States. It is upon this principle that each of them will recommend a gentleman from that quarter to fill the Vice President's chair. It is said that at a late caucus, there were but three states, [Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, and New-York] who supported the pretensions of Mr. Clinton to the chief magistracy.
"The present week will disclose matters of considerable interest to this nation. In the first place, the denouement of Mr. Rose's mission is expected; next a determination in the case of Wilkinson; and thirdly, a decision on the case of senator Smith, from Ohio. - The presidential court of enquiry is to commence business tomorrow. - As this body will possess no power to call for persons or papers, nothing decisive can be expected to result from it.
Portland,
Monday, January 25, 1808.
Foreign Intelligence.
AN arrival at Newyork, furnishes London accounts to Nov. 17, three days latest. The most important information is the orders of Council.
The first order declares the ports of France and places which have prohibited English commerce in a state of blockade; and declaring all vessels laden with French produce subject to capture, excepting those that sailed before the promulgation of this order.
The second order allows neutrals to import into England the produce of France or her colonies or other hostile countries.
The third order declares that England will in future adopt the same rules, France has, respecting the transfer of vessels.
LONDON, NOV. 17.
All apprehensions of a rupture between Britain and Russia, has ceased.
The Danes have captured several English vessels in the Baltic.
A secret expedition of 12 sail of the line, under Keates, with troops, is preparing.
A French flag of truce is said to have arrived in the Downs.
The French have prohibited the Cartels between Morlaix and Plymouth.
FROM CADIZ.
Information is received at Newyork from Cadiz to Nov. 20. It states, that Spain appears determined on a war against Portugal. A Spanish army was assembling on the borders of the latter. The Prince had been pardoned, and was to command the Gallo-Spanish Army. A French army of 40,000 was within 12 miles of Madrid, going against Gibraltar - which was said to be besieged by 9000 Spanish troops under Castano.
GOOD INFORMATION.
On the 14th inst. the Hon. GEORGE ROSE Esq. special Minister from the Court of St. James arrived at Washington. He was received with marks of respect. It is said government have so far come to their senses that they are willing to treat of the Chesapeake affair separately. We hope the evil of a war will be avoided.
What is Congress about? - This is a question frequently asked, and it is a mortifying reflection under the present disastrous situation of our country that no one can be found able to give a satisfactory answer. It will be recollected that the present session commenced at an earlier period than is appointed by law. It was stated that national business of the highest importance would immediately occupy their attention. The people had a right to expect (if they place the least reliance on the declarations of the democratic papers or the professions of their "Servants") that something worthy the collected wisdom and talents of Mr. Jefferson and his party in Congress, would have been effected before this; when our public embarrassments and difficulties are daily accumulating, have not the people reason to expect that the Executive of the U. S. would have given an open, candid and impartial statement of the causes and motives which led to the adoption of a measure that has caused a total stagnation of business and will if persisted in produce incalculable evil.
Congress have been in session three months, at an expense of 100,000 dollars; and the most that their deliberations amount to, is the passing an act appropriating one million of dollars for building gun-boats, and something like fortifying our seaports; and an act laying an embargo. This is the result of that "collected wisdom" which the people have been told again and again they would experience by taking the administration from the disciples of Washington and placing it in the hands of Mr. Jefferson and his partizans.
Blessed effects of the Embargo to the District of Maine. - Boards sold in this town, last winter, for 14 dollars per thousand - Five dollars and fifty cents is the most they will sell for now - So we go.
QUERE - How many more quintals of cod fish can be obtained for a thousand of boards, this winter, than could be, the last?
We notice in the N. Y. Herald of the 13th inst. the following article: -
"Portland [Mass.] A letter just received from the eastward, informs that the creditors of nearly a dozen merchants, in the town of Portland, province of Maine, lately commenced suits against them, and sent the Sheriff to attach their goods, (under a state law) but that the populace rose in anger, & drove the officers out of town with force and menace. The Supreme Court which was to have begun its session the same day, thought it prudent to adjourn till May next."
Truth and regard for the reputation of Portland, demand a contradiction of a statement false and unjust in every respect; and it is difficult to conceive what could have induced any one to have written the letter alluded to.
Mr. Coleman, in justice to the citizens of this town, will contradict the same. No opposition has ever been made to any Sheriff in the discharge of his official duty. As to adjournment of the Court - The term commenced the 3d Tuesday in October, and after setting two weeks adjourned to the 2d Tuesday in December, and continued in session that week and part of the next - when the same was adjourned as usual.
One hundred sailers have taken their passage on board an English brig for Halifax, from Newyork.

Strange Times. —It is with infinite regret we... instead of devoting it to national concerns...
A letter from Philadelphia says, the President has given the French Minister leave to dispatch a vessel to France, from Philadelphia.
The Corporation of New York have made provision for the distressed seamen in that city.
A letter from Nantucket, dated Jan. 14, 1808, says, "The Embargo has not arrived here officially: and we are fitting the tenth vessel; nine have already failed, chiefly for the West-Indies."
The Supplement to the Embargo Act has been signed by the President, and is in force.
Gen. Moreau was at Webling, on the Ohio, the 2nd Dec. descending the river for N. Orleans; and arrived at Louisville (Ken.) on the 14th.
The last accounts from Washington state, that the wise ones at the head of government are principally engaged in calculating and intriguing previous to their coming to the choice of Mr. Jefferson's successor; which will probably be effected before next March. What a wonderful agency "we the people" have in electing our Chief Magistrate, in these republican times.
The reader will find in a preceding column, Mr. Sloane's speech, one of the democratic representatives from New Jersey, [a staunch Jeffersonian] against a legislative enquiry into the conduct of Wilkinson. Such are the men that the triumph of democracy places in the most important offices of government and advocate the necessity of embargos, non-intercourse acts, &c.
At a meeting of Stockholders of the Maine Fire & Marine Insurance Company, the following gentlemen were unanimously elected Directors for the ensuing year:—
Woodbury Storer, Asa Clap, Matthew Cobb, Arthur M'Lean, Jacob Noyes, William Widgey, Robert Boyd, John Dicks, James Deering.
At a special meeting of the Directors for the purpose of choosing a President, the Hon. Woodbury Storer, Esq. was unanimously re-elected, for the present year.
The President and Directors have appointed Mr. ELISHA MORSE, Secretary.
Mr. Adams—Being a witness at the late distressing fire, I could not but reflect on the absolute uncertainty of tenure by which the lands in the county of Cumberland are held, so long as the public records are suffered to remain exposed to this destructive enemy. It certainly is a case wherein all who hold any real estate in this county are deeply interested—and as such, calls loudly on their attention. Alas! any one, if those records were destroyed, whether a scene of confusion and lawsuits would not ensue? their answer would be in the affirmative. Why, then, do they not have those books and papers, so immensely valuable, deposited in a fireproof building? It is sincerely hoped the repeated alarms of fire in our town will awaken the people to a sense of the danger, that they may avoid the apprehended evil.
AN INHABITANT.
To the Public.
IT having been conceived, that a wrong construction might be made of my Card in the last Gazette, when taken in connection with the account of the fire, I deem it an act of justice to those concerned, to state it was far from my intention to insinuate that the fire originated in the apartment occupied by Mr. Thomas B. Wait, as I am fully convinced that was not the case; and on further investigation, made since my paper of Saturday morning, it appears to my satisfaction that the edition of Blackstone's Commentaries, printed by Mr. Wait, and the paper consumed, were the property of Mr. Wait and Mr. Hale, and that the loss sustained is theirs; and that a large proportion of the printing apparatus, the sole property of Mr. Wait, was destroyed. Jan. 25, 1808. W. WEEKS.
We understand Messrs. WAIT & HALE state their loss by the late fire to be from 12 to 15,000 dollars.
A CARD.
ZACHARIAH MARSTIN, tenders his grateful thanks to the citizens of Portland, for their uncommon exertions in saving the stores No. 1 and 2, in Haymarket-Row, from the late fire; and particularly to those who went upon the roof of the building at the risk of their lives.
Want of room compels us to omit the publication of the proceedings of the town meeting on Friday last held for the purpose of adopting measures to relieve the distress of the poor: They will appear in our next.
MARRIED. In this town, Capt. Benjamin Shaw, 3d. to Miss Eunice Cobb.
DIED.
At Sandersville, G. Nathaniel Cooke, Esq. Attorney at Law. At Exeter, Col. Benjamin Boardman, aged 70. At Woburn, Ebenezer Lawrence, aged 25, student of Williamstown College. In this town, Mr. Nicholas Byrne, aged 27—a native of Ireland.—A child of Mr. William Ross, aged 11 months. At Saccarappa (Falmouth) Mr. Ebenezer Parker of Cape-Elizabeth, a deputy Sheriff, in consequence of blows received upon his head from one Joseph Drew. Parker, the preceding day to that on which the assault was committed, arrested a Mr. Quimby and left him with a keeper from whom he escaped to Drew's shop, who is a blacksmith. Parker on going to the shop to take him again was forbid entering; a man in company however pushed the door open, at whom Drew threw a sledge and then took up a piece of a sleigh arm and with the first blow felled P. to the ground! and repeated the blows several times, his skull was fractured in a shocking manner, he languished several days, Drew has been committed to jail in this town, to take his trial for murder at the Supreme Judicial Court in May.
COMMUNICATED.
ON the 11th instant, at New-Castle, departed this life, the Rev. ALEXANDER M'LEAN, in the sixty fourth year of his age, at the house of the widow Jane Nickels, where he had been for some time very hospitably entertained by the family. "He that giveth a cup of water to one of Christ's disciples, because he belongs to Christ, shall in no wise lose his reward."
The Rev. Alexander M'Lean was born in the Island of Sky, (Scotland) educated at the University of Aberdeen, and introduced into the ministry in his native country. He came to America in 1770, and was settled in the town of Bristol in 1773 as a gospel minister. Having given up his charge in that place, he spent seven or eight years as Missionary in the destitute parts of this District, under the direction of the Society for propagating the Gospel. And such was his diligence, zeal and fidelity as a Missionary, that he was employed by that highly respectable society, until his bodily infirmities forbade him to serve them any longer. He languished for more than a year and a half under a complication of disorders; but the dropsy finally became the predominant complaint, and ended the struggle.
He was a man of strong mental powers, and of extensive information; of a robust constitution, which was literally worn out; of a hasty spirit, but generous and sympathetic; reserved and to strangers rather forbidding in his manners, but very sincere and faithful to his friends.
He had his imperfections; but many of the christian graces appeared with lustre in his life, especially under the heaviest afflictions. Indeed, as a good man it may be said, that "his praise is in all our Churches."
In sentiment he was a thorough Calvinist; and, from his first experimental acquaintance with religion, considered the doctrines of grace as the grand charter of his salvation.
In preaching he used great plainness of speech, reproved with authority, dwelt much on the leading doctrines of the gospel, insisted on the necessity of a thorough change of heart, of repentance, of faith, and of evangelical obedience to the will of God.
As a Missionary he was abundant in labours, took great delight in his work, and "endured hardness as a good soldier." He preached the gospel to very many, sowed the good seed, over a very extensive field; and we ardently hope, that those who have heard him, will remember how he has spoken unto them, and hold fast the truth; and that the good seed which he has sown will spring up and bear much fruit.
"The places that knew him will know him no more. He has kept the faith, has finished his course, and entered, (as we trust,) into the joy of his Lord." Them that sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe. May many of those, to whom our highly respected friend has spoken in the name of the Lord, be of that happy number, and be his crown of rejoicing in that day.
* It was expected, that the remains of Mr. M'Lean would have been deposited in New-Castle; but a respectable number of the inhabitants of Bristol came forward, and requested the body, that they might convey it to Bristol, and as a mark of their affection for their former Pastor, bury him among them. Such a request was not to be denied.
Gazette Ship News.
PORT OF PORTLAND—1807.
Friday, January 22. Arrived brig Margaret, capt. McIntosh, 29 days from Robert (Martinique)—Cargo, Molasses, to Arthur M'Lean.
Saturday, January 23. Arrived brig Rainbow, capt. Tucker, 29 days from Martinique—Cargo Sugar and Molasses to D. & J. Tucker.
VESSELS LEFT. At Kingston, Dec. 12, ship Damariscotta, Dockendorff, from Bristol, Maine; Ocean, Malcolm, from Portland; At Pt. Pte, Dec. 15th, brig Henry, Cutler, of Portland, one man dead, mate and 2 hands sick — At Antigua, Dec. 24, capt. Pendleton, of brig Eliza, of Baku, part of her cargo condemned at Nevis; number American vessels lately released — At Robert, Dec. 16, Margaret, McIntosh, Portland; 2 days; sch. —, Chandler, do. 15. — At Georgetown, S. C. Jan. 4, brig —, Hall, for Portland; next day; sch's American Lady, Caroline, Venus, and sloop Sally, Price, all belonging to the eastward.
SHIPPING MEMORANDA.
Loss of the barque Regulator — The Regulator, capt. Thomas Mead, sailed from Boston, for Portland, the 14th inst. and the following day, about 9 o'clock, P. M. was off Portland Light; but owing to the wind's being to the northward, was compelled to beat off the harbor till the next forenoon — when a violent snow storm came on from the N. E. and obliged capt. M. to put her away for Winter-Harbor; but the weather being thick, he was unable to make Wood Island — and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the vessel was driven on shore on the rocks, about two miles to the eastward of Bald-Head. After the wreck, capt. Mead, by a sudden lurch of the vessel, was washed overboard: and all attempts to save him were ineffectual. One of the men, (a Swede) was drowned in endeavoring to give assistance to the Captain — Vessel (except part of the rigging) and cargo, valued at 11,000 dollars, lost.
The sch. —, Capt. Bowdoin, from Penobscot, for Boston, laden with wood, was driven on to Salisbury beach at Newburyport bar, in the storm of Thursday 14th inst. The capt was knocked overboard by the main boom, & lost. The sch. has since been got off.
BACK-COVE BRIDGE.
THE Proprietors of Back-Cove Bridge are hereby notified that their semi-annual meeting will be held at the house of Mr. Abraham Beaman, in Portland, on Monday the fifth day of February next, at two o'clock, P. M. for the following purposes, viz. To choose a Moderator. To receive such accounts as may be laid before them, and act thereon as they may think proper. By order of the Standing Committee. STEPHEN WAITE, Proprietor's Clerk. Portland, Jan. 25.
WILLIAM LORD.
INFORMS his friends and the public in general, that he has just received a general assortment of W. I. Goods, Groceries & Hard-Ware , which are now ready for sale at his store in Fore-street , on the most reasonable terms for cash. [6w] Jan. 11.
Drugs and Medicines.
WILLIAM LORD.
INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has purchased the Stock in Trade of JOHN COE, and that the business will be carried on at No 4, Fifth-street —where DRUGS & MEDICINES of a genuine quality will be kept constantly for sale on reasonable terms.
N. B.—The business of the Medicine Store will be conducted by J. COE, who will pay every attention to customers, and all favors gratefully acknowledged. Jan. 25.
JOHN COE,
REQUESTS all persons, having Accounts open with him, to call at No. 4, Fifth-street , and have them adjusted. Jan. 25.
NOTICE!
ALL persons indebted to STEPHEN CUMMINGS, for services in the line of his profession, as a Physician, are informed that unless payment is made to the subscriber on or before the last day of February, their accounts will be left with an Attorney and put in suit without further notice. Jan. 25 JOHN COE.
EZEKIEL DAY,
HAS FOR SALE, 150 hhds. Liverpool SALT A few hhds. St. Martin's do. 300 quintals COD-FISH, Fuitable for country use; Which will be sold cheap for Cash. Jan. 25.
Gentel Boarding—in Boston,
By Mrs. ELIZABETH SMITH, at No 12, Court-street , where every exertion will be made to accommodate and give satisfaction—Each person may have a separate Chamber and Bed, if required Jan. 25.
REMOVAL.
WILLIAM FREEMAN has REMOVED to the Office, near the house of G. Bradbury, Esq. in Middle-street . Jan. 25.
THOSE who have papers, which were left in the hands of the late W. Symmes, Esq. may receive them by calling on the subscriber; and those, who are indebted to the estate of said Symmes will please to make immediate payment to WM. FREEMAN, Adm'r. Jan. 25.
THE copartnership between the subscribers,
under the firm of BISHOP & WEBSTER, was dissolved on the 8th January, inst. by mutual consent. All persons who have demands against them, and those who are indebted, are requested to call on ENOS BISHOP, and have them adjusted without delay. ENOS BISHOP, THOS. WEBSTER. Freeport, Jan. 25.
LOST!
ON the 20th instant, A RED MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK, containing one twenty dollar Bill of the United States Bank, and small bills to the amount of from thirty-five to forty dollars, with sundry papers of no use to any person but the owner.—Whoever will return the same to this Office, shall receive Ten Dollars Reward and no questions asked.—SAMUEL COLBY. Jan. 25.
NEW HATS.
JOHN LORD, at his shop in Fore-street , next door to Messrs. Cross & Martin's, has just received a handsome assortment of English, French and American Hats , among them are—real superior Beaver—do of second quality—a few real patent silk do. —Men's plaided do—Youth's do, of various kinds and colors—men and boy's camel's hair do. Likewise, a good assortment of Hatter's TRIMMINGS—All of which he will sell as cheap as can be purchased in this town for cash or approved credit. Also—1 cal's of MUFFS & TIPPLETS, consisting of Pole cat, Elk, Bear, mock Sable, and Gennett. Cash and the highest price given for all kinds of SHIPPING and HATTING FURS. Apply as above. (6w) Dec. 28.
Flour, Pork, &c.
Charles & John Fox,
No. 4 & 5, south side Long-Wharf, HAVE just received, 200 bbls. superfine Flour, 100 do scratch'd do, 13 half do do, 20 bbls Clear PORK, 18 do Navy Mels do, 20 do do, 30 do Philadelphia Loaf Sugar, 15 tons Nail Plates, assorted, Chels Hyslop and Hyslop-skin Teas, 10 boxes No. 3, Chocolate, 15 do Dips Candles Together with a general assortment of Ship-Chandlery & grocery Goods. All which they offer cheap for cash or credit. [6w] Jan. 11.
TO LET.
THE Office, lately occupied by James C. Jewett, Esq.—Also, the one lately occupied as the Attorney's Office—Inquire of J. C. JEWETT, Esq. Jan. 25.
BENJAMIN WILLIS.
HAVING been driven from his late stand in Haymarket Row, (by the late fire) has taken the Store lately occupied by Mr. John Dean, opposite Messrs. How & Evans' Store, where he has now for sale, a large assortment of English, India & West India Goods which were laid in at reduced prices, and shall be sold at a very small profit—and made satisfactory to purchasers.
NOTICE!
In consequence of the severe loss which he has sustained by the fire he is under the necessity of again calling on those indebted to him, where the time of payment has elapsed, to make immediate payment, otherwise they must not be surprised if they should be called on at the approaching Court, (15th Feb.) as the above calamity, he trusts, will be a sufficient excuse for so doing.
N. B.—There are a number of Goods in fisting that where removed, should any person have knowledge of them they will oblige the subscriber by giving information, that they may be recovered.
Those gentlemen who were active in relieving and preserving his goods, have the grateful thanks of BENJ. WILLIS
Who has found a Tippet?
LOST, on Sunday morning the 17th instant, in passing from Temple down Federal-street, by St. Paul's Church, into Fore-street, A SABLE-SKIN TIPPLET. Whoever has found, and will leave it at this Office, shall be very generously rewarded. Jan. 25.
Cheap Store.
JOHN DIX,
No 2, Fifth-street , HAS just returned from Boston, and is now opening for sale, a large and elegant assortment of Silk, Cotton & Woolen Goods , which he continues to sell at his usual reduced prices, notwithstanding the general rise of English Goods in this country.
AMONG WHICH ARE THE FOLLOWING,
Florance, India and Italian Silks and Lute-strings, of every description. An elegant assortment of Ginghams, some of which are but 3/5 one yard wide. 3 cases Calicoes, of the newest fashionable style. A large assortment of Fancy Mullins. Ladies Peliece loths and Peliece Flannels, consisting of bottle-green, London-brown, ash and light fawn colors. Peliece Tabby Velvets, consisting of bottle-green, black, blue and purple colors. Black, bottle-green and purple colored Silk-Velvets for Pelieces. Children's Peliece Flannels, from 3/3 to 3/9 per yard. Black Bombazet—Wildbores—Durants—Shal-loons—Ruffsels and Duroys. Cheap Serges and Cassimeres for children's ware. Worsted Hosiery in general, at a cheap rate. A large assortment of cotton and Linen Cambricks. Cambricks and common Dimities. 1 case of fashionable French Ribbons, some of which are very rich. Long and short Kid Gloves. Silk do. and Armlets. 1 trunk Kid Shoes, real London manufacture and of the newest patterns. Silk Stockings, a large assortment. English Shirting Cottons, some very fine. 1 bale India Calicoes. A large assortment of India Cottons, from 6/3 to 2/3 per yard. 1 bale Rose Blankets, assorted from 6-6 to 11-4. 2 bales 5-8 Ruffia Diaper. American manufactured do. Ruffia Sheeting and Ravens Duck. Bandanna Handkerchiefs, with almost every other description of Handkerchiefs. 1 case Muffs and Tippets—Straw Bonnets. 15 pieces Carpeting, real Kidderminster and warranted best colors. 1 bale of Broadcloths and Cassimeres. Patent Cords and Plains. Velvets and Trafalgar Cords. Waistcoating, Coating and Fearnought Baizes, Flannels and Doquettes. With many other Goods not mentioned in this advertisement. The whole of the above Goods are offered at such reduced prices, that the small profits arising from the sales, make it necessary for him to sell them for cash only. Jan. 25.
REMOVAL.
JOEL HALL,
HAVING purchased the whole stock in trade of John P. Thurston & Co. has removed from No. 17, Long-Wharf, to Central Row, (the store formerly occupied by said John P. Thurston & Co.) where he offers for sale the following articles:— 200 crates C. C. Eastern Ware Entitled to Debenture. 100 cases English Nails. 60 crates Junk Bottles. 12 gross Mustard Bottles. Boxes 12 by 18, 11 by 15, 10 by 15, 10 by 14, 10 by 12, 9 by 13, 9 by 12, 9 by 11, 7 by 9, and 6 by 8 Crown Window Glass. 20 bottles superfine, fine and common Copal Varnish. 40 cases fine English Mustard. 11 do Copperas—4 do Allum. 5 do Red Lead. 4 sheets mill'd Lead, 2 lb. and 3 1/2 per lb. square feet. 10 wt. patent Shot. 1 hhd. common Lamp-Black. 1 keg Lythage. 200 wt. Iron Wire, assorted. 7 doz. long & short handled Frying-Pans. 40 quires Sand Paper. 7 nests Small Weights. 84 small painted Scale-Beams, assorted. 30 boxes Pipes. 100 Stone-Jugs and Butter-pots. Bils. Meis No 1 and 2 Pork. 50 hhds. Windward Island Rum. 8 do Mulcavado Sugars. 200 do Liverpool Salt. 1500 quintals Co-Fish. Jan. 4.
TO LET.
THE Office, lately occupied by James C. Jewett, Esq.—Also, the one lately occupied as the Attorney's Office—Inquire of J. C. JEWETT, Esq. Jan. 25.
Sales by Thomas Leavis,
AT HIS OFFICE, On TUESDAY next, 11 o'clock, 10 bales first quality Georgia COTTON 3000 cwt. LUMP SUGAR 18 pair HALF BOOTS 1 hhd. Mulcavado SUGAR 4 large gilt-framed Looking-Glasses 2 gross small do 16 do Coat Buttons 2 pr. Crops Andirons, Shovel and Tongs AT PRIVATE SALE, 1000 quintals COD-FISH 6 tons PEARL-ASH 2 do Connecticut CHEESE 20 bbls. PORK 300 boxes BROWN SOAP 300 barrels CIDER Jan. 25.
LOST!
AT the late fire in Haymarket-Row, a FIRE BUCKET, marked E. Preble, No. 2.—Whoever will give information of the same, so that it may be obtained, shall receive the thanks of the owner. E. PREBLE. Jan. 25.
REMOVAL
And more New and Cheap Goods.
N. P. Poor,
INFORMS the Purchasers of ENGLISH GOODS, that he has removed from Muffey's Row, to the store lately occupied by Munroe & Tuttle, corner of Middle and Union Streets; where may be found a good assortment of GOODS, cheap as can be purchased—viz— Baizes and Flannels, by the piece or yard. Perleffe Flannels and Cloths. Broadcloths and Cassimeres. Plains, Duffsels, Blankets, 6-4 to 10-4. Common and Superfine Coatings. Worsted Hosiery—Quantity. Cotton and silk do. Pic nic and other silk Gloves. Kid Habit Gloves. York tan and beaver do. White, pink and yellow Sarfnets. 1 carton real Thread Laces. Cotton, white and black silk Veils to Laces. Cap Patterns—Lace Mullins. White and colored Sarnet Cambrics. Cotton Cambrics—Calicoes and Furnitures. Chambrays, Ginghams, silk Vestings. Chambray Shawls. A large assortment of fancy Cotton and India Cottons and Checks, Bombazetts, &c. &c. With a variety of FANCY ORNAMENTS, viz— Gold and silver Bands and Chains. Bague Bands; Beaded Crescent. Beaded Star Trimming—Spangles. Silk Cords and Tassels. Plumes and Ostrich Feathers. Silk Habit Buttons. Morocco and Velvet Purse, &c. &c. All of which will be sold on the very lowest terms for cash. Dec 14.
Henry Smith & Co.
No. 4, Muffey's Row, Have just received, An elegant and extensive assortment of GOODS, consisting of Hamilton dice Ginghams. Dark check'd do—Striped do. Plaid do, a great variety. Dice Chambrays. Hamilton colored corded Cambrics. 3-4, 4-4 and 6-4 white and col. Cambrics. Elegant Grecian Robes—Fancy Dresses. Fancy Bordering—calicoes—Linen Cambrics. Cotton & linen cambric pocket Hdkfs. A great variety of cotton do. Bandanna do—Fancy do—Barcelona do. Black, slate, dove, smoke, purple, plum and brown Florence Silks. Silk Florentine, of the first quality. Sarfnets—Moles—cord'd & black Crapes. White, rose-white, slate, black, mix'd and dove colored Ladies English and French Silk Hose. Black, white and slate Cotton do. Dimities—Furniture Calicoes. Shire Mullins—Spider-net do—Fancy do. Black do—Silk Velvets. Paris net Gauze—Linen Shirting Cottons—Long Cloths. India Cottons and Calicoes. Brown and white Platillas. 6-4 and 8-4 Huckabuck. Silk, cotton and leather Suspenders. 28 and 30 inch silk and cotton Umbrellas. Ladies elegant bottle-green, corbeau and brown Royal Peliece Cloths. Bottle-green, purple and black peliece Tabby by Velvets. Black, olive, purple and black Velveteens. Silvered Cord—Peliece Flannels. A variety of most fashionable Vesting. Olive, green and drab Plains, of a good quality, suitable for gentlemen's Surtouts. White mill'd Flannels. Superfine fashionable dark mix'd Broadcloths and Cassimeres. Patent Cords—Coatings—Sattenetts. Bale Kidderminster Carpeting, elegant patterns. 10-4 and 11-4 Rose Blankets—Duffsels. Black, yellow, crimson and white Flannels. All of which will be sold at a very reduced price. Dec. 12.
REMOVAL.
JOHN BAKER,
late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Baker, deceased, give notice that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims, and that we shall attend that service at the house of Enoch Ilsey, in Portland, on the last Tuesday of this and the five following months, from 2 to 5 o'clock, P. M. Enoch Ilsey, GEORGE WARREN. Jan. 25.
REMOVAL.
GEORGE BURGOON,
late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Mer. deceased, give notice that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims, and that we shall attend that service at the house of Enoch Ilsey, in Portland, on the last Tuesday of this and the five following months, from 2 to 5 o'clock, P. M. Enoch Ilsey, GEORGE WARREN. Jan. 25.
REMOVAL.
GEORGE WARREN,
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 GEORGE BURGOON, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Mer. deceased, give notice that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims, and that we shall attend that service at the house of Enoch Ilsey, in Portland, on the last Tuesday of this and the five following months, from 2 to 5 o'clock, P. M. Enoch Ilsey, GEORGE WARREN. Jan. 25.

Interesting and Important Sentences Selected from the word of God.
THE MESSIAH.
1. The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of peace. Isaiah 9-2, 6.
2. GOD hath spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds—the brightness of his glory, the express image of his person, upholding all things by the word of his power.—Unto the Son he saith, Thy Throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.—And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.— Hebrews , C. 1. Compared with Psalm 45, 6—102, 25—110, 1, 4.
3. A great High Priest, who is passed into the heavens—Ch. 4—14. A Priest for ever, Ch. 5—6, 7. Who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. C. 8—1. Having (by his own blood) obtained eternal redemption for us—Chap. 9—12.
4. He is the Mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. C. 9—15.
To those who would more particularly enquire into the doctrines of Christ ; and the doctrines of his atonement , and the redemption he has wrought out for us , it is recommended that they read the first chapters of this highly interesting and important part of the new testament (the book of Hebrews) —and
5. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering—Let us consider one another, to provoke unto love, and to good works—Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more as ye see the day approaching. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries—C. 10—from the 23d to 27th vs.
If further evidence on the subject of this number should be wanted, hear what the inspired Apostle Paul says of Christ —
6. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. And the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made—(Chap. 1—v. 1, 2, 3.) And compare it with St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians , and also to the Colossians —Chapter 1 of each.
Wanted Immediately,
AS an Apprentice at this Office, a steady, faithful and capable LAD, about fourteen years of age. One that possesses and will practise these qualities, shall be well clothed, boarded and receive kind treatment. Those of a different character need not apply. Gazette-Office, Jan. 11.
Rowe & Keus,
RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and the public in general that they have recommenced business at their former stand No. 6, Messrs Rowe's —where they have for sale a general assortment of
Fall and Winter Goods,
much cheaper than usual. They expect very shortly a large additional supply, which will render their assortment very complete. (optf) DA. 19.
Factory Cotton.
Henry Smith & Co.
No. 4. Messrs Rowe, HAVE for sale a large assortment of factory, Wharp and Filling, and two threaded whiteweed Cotton. July 13.
London Hats and Shoes.
Joshua Shaw,
INFORMS his friends and customers that he has received his Fall and Winter supply, consisting of cases of men's superfine Beaver Hats of an improved make; 1 case of ladies' Beaver Hats and Bonnets; 1 trunk plaided & patent Kid Shoes; and a large assortment of ladies', misses', and children's Morocco Shoes. Also—A large assortment of gentlemen's Boots and Shoes, manufactured under his own inspection, of the newest fashions, and warranted to be of the first quality. Portland, Oct. 26.
Boarders Wanted.
MR. LABOTTIERRE will take on very reasonable terms, twelve Gentlemen to board—they will be accommodated with a private Hall to dine in, and separate rooms, well furnished, to lodge.—Mr. L. pledges himself to give entire satisfaction to those who may feel disposed to honor him with their company.—For terms, (which will be very moderate) please to call at his house. Jan 4.
NOTICE!
FOR sale in N. Gloucester, at the lower corner, the Dwelling House, Office and Store belonging to the estate of Asa Mitchell, Esq. deceased ; being an excellent stand for a trader as the Country affords. The whole will be sold at private sale on a liberal credit of several years if required, the interest being paid annually.—For further particulars enquire may be made of the subscriber in Portland. Oct. 12. E. WHITMAN.
Samuel Butts,
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the Public in general, that he has opened a BOOK STORE, in Fifth-street, two doors below the Maine Bank —where he offers for sale, an extensive assortment of BOOKS, in the various branches of science and literature, which he will dispose of, on as advantageous terms as can be obtained at any Book store in Boston or elsewhere—of which the following is a part:
LAW.
Laws of Massachusetts, 4 vols.—do. of the
United States, 7 vols.—Massachusetts Special Laws, 3 vols.—Freeman's (Mass.) Justice—Complete do.—Powell on Mortgages—Tucker's Blackstone—Craydon's Digest of U. S. Law—Massachusetts Term Reports—Peake's Law of Evidence—Cooke's first Institute—Wyche's Practice—Wintworth's Pleadings—Story's do.—Precedents of Declarations—Barns' Law Dictionary—Sullivan's Lectures, 2 vols. Study of the Law—Town Officer and Clerk's Magazine—Probate Dictionary—Jones' Law of Bailments—Marine Insurance—Powell on Divorces, &c.
PHYSIC.
Chelden's Anatomy—Brown's Elements of Medicine—Pinkerton's Medical Admonitions Bell's Surgery—Underwood on Children—Willich's Lectures—Denman's Midwifery—Townsend's Guide to Health—Default's Surgery—Caldwell's Medical Memories—Saunders on the Liver—Hunter on the Blood—Rush's Lectures—Go Bilsay's Medical Electricity, &c.
DIVINITY.
Life of Christ; Sermons of Blair, Jay, Pelee, Logan, Lathrop, Tappan, Whitfield, Porteus, Pike, Smallley, Maddison, and Strong; Lectures of Tappan, Blair, and Porteus; Works of Hervey and Doddridge; Whitby's Discourses; Rowe's Exercises; Winchester's Discourses; Huntington's Calvinism; Memoir of Pious Women; Seraphic Shepherd; Adams' History of Religion; Pilgrim's Progress; Bunyan's Works; Flavel's Navigation Spiritualized; Cole's Discourses; Edwards on the Will; Hervey's Meditations; Fulfilling of the Scriptures; Paley's National Theology; Orton's Exposition; Empire of Christ; Gospel's own Witness; Cruden's Concordance; Andrews Univerisallm, &c. &c.
HISTORY.
Of American Revolution; of New England, Robinson's America; Rollin's Ancient History; Voltair's Charles 5th and 12th; Belknap's New-Hampshire; Hune's England; Mayor's Universal History; Milnor's General History; Ancient Europe; History of Madrid; Clouder's Ireland; Bonaparte and French People; French War; Gibbon's Roman Empire Williams' Vermont; Winterbotham's America; do. China; Rollin's Arts and Sciences; Goldsmith's Rome, &c.
BIOGRAPHY.
Life of Washington, of Franklin, of Bonaparte, of Moreau, of Sir Wm. Jones, of Nelson, of Edwards, of Darwin; Johnson's Lives of the Poets; Biographical Dictionary; Roscoe's Lorenzo de Medici, &c. &c.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Works of Sterne; Shakespeare and Goldsmith; Spectator; Tatler; Wealth of Nations; Hamilton on Education; Juvenile Letters; Acobies Travels; Lock's Essays; Harris' Maconie Constitution; Humphrey's Works; Bacon's Essays; Birds of Scotland; Austin's Letters; Elements of Christianity; the Game Tale of Truth; Philip Quarl; Smalley's Vols and Nelson's Letters; Homer's Iliad; Lacy's Cabinet; Vendomeur; Burlemague; Holmes' Annals; Honale Palencia; Plutarch's Lives; Pleasures of Hope; Ira and Naboth; Letter Writer; Novice of St. Dominico; Carr's Tours in Holland; Stranger in France; Stranger in Ireland; Moore's Works; Juvenile Poems; do. Moore's; De Iretia's Romance; Mifler's of Human Life; Foller's Essays; Watts' Logic; Cowper's Task; Caudid Reasoner; Gihbys Poems; Conquest of Peru; Beauties of St. Pierre; Modern Songster; Songster's Museum; Adventures; Aikin's Letters; Akinides' Pleasures of Imagination; Thompson's Seasons; Beauties of Blair; Beauties of the Spectator, &c. M'Kenzie's Voyages; French Revolution; Columbian Eloquence; Cook's Voyages; Dream Book; Demon's Travels; Wilson's Egypt; Complete Justice; Paine's Works; M'Witlie's do.; Select Plays; Scott's Beauties; Rural Economy; Echo; Bidde's Observations; Butler's Hudibras; Clarkson on Slavery; Edwards on Baptism; Rule of Life; Study of the Bible; Popular Tales; History of the World; Jefferson's Notes; Vicar of Wakefield; Ovid; Triumph of Temper; Chacone's Letters; Strove on Animation; Presley's Biographical System; the Idler; Coldwell's Memories; Clarke's Nepos; Anacharsis Travels; Treatises on Fruit Trees; Volney's Ruins; do. View of America; Ferguson's Astronomy; Alcoran of Mahomet; Temple of Nature; Baron Trench.
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Shelden's, Bover's, Johnson's, Walker's and Perry's Dictionary; Greek Lexicon; Lendew's Testaments; Latin Cases; Latin and Greek Grammars; French do.; Lyne's Latin Primer; Morley's Geography; Murray's, Alexander's, Bingham's and Stamford's Grammars; Walch's, Pike's, Adams's, Dilworth's, Goodale's, Temple's, and Root's Arithmetics; Scott's Lessons; Orators; Preceptors; Art of Reading; Webster's third part; Parish Geography; Webster's, Porry's, Pike's and Maine Spelling-Books; a great variety of Books for children, &c. &c.
SEAMEN'S ARTICLES.
Blunt's Practical Navigator & Coast Pilot Ship Master's Assistant; Charts of the European, American, and West-India Coasts; Journals; Scales and Dividers; Log Paper; Cargo Books; Nautical Almanacks for 1808.
FAMILY BIBLES.
Brown's and Collin's Family Bibles; Common Quarto Bibles; Carey's Bible; School and Pocket Bibles; Testaments; Prayer Books; Watts's, Belknap's, Tates and Brady's Bellow's, Richards', Smith & Sleeper's Hymn Books; do. Hartford's Collection.
ACCOUNT BOOKS.
Ledgers—Journals—Day Books—Record do.—Note do.—Receipt do.
STATIONARY.
Demy, Foolscap, and Pot Paper—thick and thin Folio Post, Wove, Not pressed, gilt and plain Letter Paper—drawing and music Paper—Blotting do.—Quills from 16 to 1 dol. and 12 cts. a bunch—red and black Ink Powder—pocket, brads, lead, pewter and desk Inkflands—Ink Glasses for Writing Decks—durable Ink for marking on linen—gentlemen's and ladies' morocco Wallets—Camels Hair Pencils—Memorandum Books—Pencils—Slates—Penknives—Office Seals—Sand and Sand-Boxes—Wafers and Sealing Wax—Court Plaister; Paint Boxes—Cases of Mathematical Instruments—Playing Cards, &c. &c. Maps of the United States—Massachusetts do.—a general assortment of Commercial, Justices, and other Blank—Instructional for playing on Musical Instruments—Singing Books of various kinds—Hovey's Columbian Repository—Registers and Almanacks for 1808.
Cash given for Junk, and clean Linen and Cotton Rags. Gw. Jan. 4.
NEW GOODS,
As Cheap as the Cheapest!
WILLIAM SMITH, informs his friends and the public in general, that he has opened and offers for sale at the White-Store, bottom of Fifth-street, a general assortment of GOODS for Town and Country use, which he is determined to sell as low as can be purchased—among which are the following, viz. Broadcloths; Plains; Velvets; Coatings; Baizes and Flannels, different colors; Vestings; Calicoes; India Cottons; cotton Checks; Derants; Calmancoes; Handkerchiefs; brown Linens; Threads; Tapes; Neckties, &c.
London Pewter; belt steel Shoelaces; Belows; Coffee Mills, Flat Irons; Floor Brushes; Iron Spoons, large and small; Penknives; Jack-knives; Knives and Forks; Razors; Razor Cakes and Boxes; Slates; Pencils; Dutch Quills; Writing and Letter Paper; Testaments and Spelling-Books; a complete and very extensive of IRON WARE; Gin, 7 by 9; 4d, 6d, and 10d cut Nails; 20d wrought do.—Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong, Congo and Bohea Teas, warranted to be of the first quality; No. 1, 2, & 3, Chocolate, Coffee, Chocolate Shells, French and Spanish Brandy, Holland and American Gin, W. I. and N. E. Rum, Cherry Rum, Mustard, Pepper, Ginger, and Allspice, Cinnamon, Sweet Oil, Indigo different kinds, Allum and Copperas, Log Wood, Red Wood, and Fustic, Salt Peter, Poland Starch, Bees Wax, Tobacco, Snuff, Cigars, Liverpool Salt, Cod Fish, Brimstones, Pipes, fine Table Salt, Southern Cotton, Havana white Sugar, loaf, lump and brown do. Molasses, &c.
Families who purchase Teas may depend on the quality being equal to any ever imported. Jan. 11.
NOTICE!
THE copartnership lately existing between the subscribers under the firm of DAY & ILSLEY, was, on the 4th inst. by mutual consent, dissolved. All persons having demands upon the late firm are requested to call on EZEKIEL DAY for adjustment and payment; and all persons indebted to the late firm are requested to make payment to said DAY, who is fully authorized to settle all the copartnership concerns. EZEKIEL DAY, PARKER ILSLEY, JUN. Portland, Jan. 11. 1808.
EZEKIEL DAY,
INFORMS his friends and the public that he occupies the store lately kept by Day & Ilesley, where he has for sale a general assortment of West-India Goods and Groceries, as usual. January 11.
WANTED,
THREE or four VESSELS from 100 to 150 tons—to take Freight from this to New York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore. For terms, apply to JOSEPH V. BACON, at the Chamber over store No. 11, Ingraham's Wharf. Jan. 11.
NEW LIME.
THE subscriber has just burnt a new Kiln of excellent LIME, which may be had by application at his Store near the Baptist Meeting-house, or at the Kiln. Country produce will be taken in payment. Jan. 11. JONATHAN BRYANT.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
BROKE from the prison in Lancaster, N. H. on the night of the 23d ult. Nathan Barlow, Daniel Hartshat, William Nutt (or Nash) and Charles Ford; the two former under sentence for passing Counterfeit Bank bills: the two latter imprisoned on a charge for the same crime. Barlow is about fifty years old, six feet high, slender built, dark complexion—had on when he escaped, brown pantaloons, blue Spencer and dark colored fearnought great-coat. Hartshat is about fifty-five years of age, five feet seven inches high, light complexion—had on, brown pantaloons and an old brown shag great coat. Nutt, who is supposed to have lately broken jail in Augusta, is supposed to be about fifty years old, five feet eight inches high, light complexion, and bald on the top of his head—had on blue coat and snuff colored velvet pantaloons. He said he belonged to Ballston, in the Province of Maine. Ford is supposed to be about 25 or 26 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, slender made, sandy complexion—had on a blue coat and snuff colored velvet pantaloons. He said he belonged to Sumner, in the Province of Maine.—Whoever will apprehend the above named persons and return them to the jail in said Lancaster, or secure them in any jail in the United States and give information thereof to the subscriber, to that they may be retaken, shall be entitled to a reward of Two Hundred Dollars for the whole, or Fifty Dollars each, for any one or more of them. LEVI WILLARD, Sheriff. Lancaster, Jan. 11, 1808.
N. B.—The Printer in New Hampshire and the District of Maine, will render a service to the public by inserting the above in their papers.
20,000 Dollars—
An object worthy of notice—IN DUE TIME. FOR sale by SETH CLARK, Fifth-street. Tickets, Halves, Quarters and Eighths, in the third class Harvard College Lottery, to begin drawing 14th January next. Tickets rise 50 cents on the 1st of January. Also, a subscription for 20 Tickets, (Nos. 17121, to 17150, inclusive, 16411 to 18420, inclusive) Tickets, &c. as above, may be had of SETH CLARK. Dec. 28. (6w)
FOR SALE,
AN excellent Stand at Gambo, in the town of Wintham, about 12 miles from Portland, consisting of large FARM, SAW and GRIST MILLS, with many valuable privileges. Also—Seven hundred acres of good improvable LAND in East & W. Portland. Also—Two hundred acres of LAND, in the town of Raynham, and several good FARMS, in various places not far from said Portland. Any or all of said Real Estate may be had on generous terms and long credit by applying to SAMUEL BUTTS, at his, Book-Store, Fore-Street, PORTLAND. (6w) Jan 11
Edward Howe,
INFORMS the public, that he has just opened an extensive assortment of English, French and American PAPER HANGINGS, with elegant Borders and Pannel Papers of the very latest and best patterns, which are selling very low; fashionable Fringes, Laces, and Tassels for curtains: Chintz Furniture; Bed ticking: Down, Live Geese and Ruffia Feathers: Sofas with and without Hair Cloth: Easy and Lolling Chairs: double and single Hair Matrasses: Mats do.
Also—An elegant assortment of gilt and mahogany framed LOOKING-GLASSES, as has ever been offered for sale in this town.
E. HOWE also stuffs Sofas, Easy and Lolling Chairs, Matrasses of all kinds, Cushions for Pews, &c. Beds made and filled, warranted of the first quality. High post and field Bed Curtains made in the most fashionable style.
CASH given for Oxen and Horses' Coarse HAIR. Dec. 7.
E. GREELY & CO.
HAVE FOR SALE, 400 bbls. superfine Flour, 200 do. fine do. January 18.
Tappan & Sewall,
HAVE removed to the store in Middle-street, lately occupied by Messrs. Cram & Atherton, where will be found a general assortment of ENGLISH & INDIA GOODS, for sale by piece or package.
Also—26 crates of CROCKERY WARE, put up for the West-India market, and entitled to debenture. Jan. 18.
REMOVAL.
Charlotte Green,
ACQUAINTS her friends and the public that she has removed from Middle street, to the store lately occupied by Messrs. Lord and Thomas, No. 5, Jones' Row, Fifth-street—where the offers for sale (cheaper than can be purchased in Portland,) an extensive and elegant assortment of
Millinery & Fancy Goods.
BONNETS of every size and description, the most fashionable. She renders unfeigned thanks to the public for past favors, and hopes by her constant endeavors to please, to merit a continuance. Portland, Jan. 18.
Gordon & Gay,
BEG leave to inform their Friends and Customers that they have sold their remaining Stock of Goods to Mr. WILLIAM LEWIS—and all persons having accounts to settle with them are requested to call on JAMES GAY, at Mr. Lewis's Store, to adjust the same. Portland, Jan. 9, 1808. (18)
William Lewis,
HAS to advise his friends that he has purchased the Stock in Trade of GORDON & GAY, consisting of a good assortment of ENGLISH GOODS, which together with his own previous importation, will, he trusts, enable him to execute those orders he may be favored with to the satisfaction and advantage of his friends. He has also taken the Store lately occupied by Gordon & Gay. Portland, Jan. 9, 1808. (18)
Wharf Timber.
WANTED to purchase 6 or 7 hundred tons of Wharf TIMBER to be delivered at Portland by the middle of April next, for which CASH will be paid. Apply to Jan. 18. RICHARD CODMAN.
POCKET BOOK LOST.
LOST at the fire yesterday morning, a red MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK, containing 31 dollars in Bank-bills, 2 Notes, and a number of other papers, of no value to any one but the owner. Whoever has found said Pocket-Book, and will return it to the subscriber, shall receive Five Dollars Reward—Apply to Jan. 18. JOHN REMICK.
NOTICE.
THE copartnership under the firm of JOHN P. THURSTON, & Co. was dissolved by mutual consent on the 25th of December last. All persons indebted or having demands by note or account are requested to call at the store formerly occupied by them and adjust the same with John P. Thurston, who is duly authorized to settle all accounts of the firm. DANIEL TUCKER, JOHN P. THURSTON, Jan. 18, 1808.
THE connection in business between the subscribers, under the firm of Thomas & William Hovey, was dissolved by mutual consent the first day of January last—Every person having accounts with, or are indebted to said firm are requested to call on William Hovey, and have them adjusted without delay. THOMAS HOVEY, WILLIAM HOVEY, Warren, Jan. 18.
TO LET.
ONE large Tenement in a HOUSE in Forest-street, suitable for a Boarding House, with a Store adjoining, which will be let together or separate—For further particulars enquire of THOMAS BECK. Jan 18
REMOVAL.
J. D. HOPKINS respectfully informs the public that he has removed his office to the room formerly occupied by Salmon Chase, Esq. and lately by Thomas Hopkins, jun., being the next door to the office of the Register of Deeds—where he will be ready to receive the commands of those who may wish to employ him in the line of his profession. Portland, Dec. 21. 3m.
TAKE NOTICE!
FOR sale in Turner, a Dwelling House, out houses and Store, conveniently situated for a Trader, being the property of Samuel Spear of Boston—For further particulars enquire of the subscriber in Portland. Oct 12. EZEKIEL WHITMAN.
Valuable School Book.
JUST published and for sale by ISAAC ADAMS, A valuable Book for the use of Schools—CONTAINING THE CONSTITUTIONS of the STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, and that of THE UNITED STATES: The Declaration of Independence, and President
Washington's Farewell Address.
This book was printed a short time since by order of the General Court of Massachusetts, and by them recommended to the inhabitants of the several towns, to be read as a SCHOOL BOOK in all the common schools—Few copies of this useful book ever reached this part of the state; but where it has been adopted, it is highly approved of.
By the request of a number of gentlemen interested in the education of the rising generation, a new edition has just been printed. Bookellers can be supplied in lots by the hundred. Jan. 11.
CRAM & ATHERTON.
HAVE removed their Compting-Room to No. 2, Long-Wharf. Jan. 11.
To the Hon. Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace to be held at Portland, in the county of Cumberland, on the third Tuesday of March next.
MEMORIAL and Petition of the subscribers humbly show, that whereas, a County Road leading from Randall's Mills in Freeport to North-yarmouth line, has been lately laid out and accepted by the session in March last, which Road is found upon a more careful examination to be of less necessity or convenience than was expected, the difference in shorting the distance being very small, and is by no means sufficient to balance the expense it will be to the town of Freeport; and although some of the undersigned were inconsiderately persuaded to sign a petition for laying out said Road, we are now fully convinced of the inexpediency of the measure, and therefore pray that so much of said road as lies between the most westerly corner of Libbeus Tuttle's land in Freeport, to North-yarmouth line, may be discontinued, and the old road established, with such alterations (if any should be thought necessary) and amendments as we find from a careful view of the same may be made, and the public equally as well accommodated and the expense saved—which upon a moderate calculation will exceed one thousand dollars.—Signed by JOHN CUSHING, and 64 others. Freeport, 5th Jan. 1807.
At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the county of Cumberland, begun and held at Portland, in said county on the first Tuesday of September A. D. 1807.
ON the Petition of John Cushing and others, whereof the foregoing is a copy, which was entered at last March Term, and continued from that term to this term, the Court order, That the Petitioners cause the said petition and this order thereon to be published in the Portland Gazette , at least thirty days before the fourth Tuesday of March next, that any person or persons may have opportunity to appear before the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, then to be held at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland, and show cause if any they have why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk. Jan. 18.
CUMBERLAND, ss. Taken by Execution and to be sold at Public Vendue on Wednesday the seventeenth day of February next, at one o'clock, P. M. on the Premises, THE right in Equity of redemption in and to the following mortgaged real Estate, situate in New Gloucester in said County, viz, a certain lot of land containing about forty rods, lying on the road leading from the Dwelling-House of John Steele to the House of John Tufts, thirteen rods and five feet, and extending back three rods, being the land mortgaged by James Webber to David Steele, by deed bearing date the sixth day of June Anno Domini 1804. SETH MITCHELL, Dept. Sheriff. Jan 24, 1808.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of Administrator on the estate of THOMAS HOPKINS, jun.
late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Gentleman, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs—He 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 THOMAS HOPKINS. Jan. 14.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of Administrator on the estate of ISAAC OLDHAM,
late of Sumner, in the county of Oxford, yeoman, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust by giving bond as the law directs: and all persons having demands upon the estate of the said Isaac Oldham, are requested to exhibit the same, and all persons indebted to the said estate, are called upon to make payment to BENJAMIN HEALD, Administrator. Jan. 18.
THE subscriber hereby give public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of Administrator de bonis non on the estate of CARY M'LELLAN,
late of Gorham, in the county of Cumberland, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs:—he 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 ALEXANDER M'LELLAN. Jan. 19, 1808. (18)