Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1800-04-14 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY EZEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 103]
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1800.
[VOLUME II.]
Portland,
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1800.
PORTLAND ANNUAL MEETING.
MONDAY last the free inhabitants of this town assembled together for the purpose of regulating its affairs, and for the choice of Officers, &c. for the ensuing year. Hon. Samuel Freeman , Esq. moderator.—The following is a list of the Town Officers:
Town Clerk —Stephen Patten. Selectmen —Samuel Freeman, Robert Boyd, Woodbury Storer, Daniel Tucker, and John Thrasher. Overseers of the Poor —Stephen McLellan, Jacob Noyes, and Lemuel Bryant. Town Treasurer —Enoch Illey. Assessors —Peter Warren, Daniel Cobb, and James Neal. Collector of Taxes —George Warren. Constables —George Burns, & Charles Hosiac. Surveyors of High Ways —The Selectmen. Surveyors of Boards —William Cobb, Moses Noyes, William Waterhouse, Ansel Lewis, Daniel Mussey, Jeremiah Kimball, Daniel Cobb, Stephen Waite, Samuel Moody, Josiah Haskell, William Moulton, jun. and Enoch Morse. Surveyors of Shingles and Clapboards —The Surveyors of Boards. Cullers of Hoops and Staves —Thomas Minot, Anthony Fernald, Anthony Knight, Jacob Knight, Nathaniel Bracket, William Waterhouse, Daniel Searman, George Motley, Thomas Merrill, Abraham Tyler, John Ramsay, Jacob Ham, Daniel Mountfort, and Timothy Barlow. Fence Viewers —Joseph Gould, James Jordan, and Thomas Simonton. Tithingmen —James Neal, James Jordan, John Thrasher, Elezer A. Jenks, Benjamin Titcomb, and Samuel F. Hussey. Fire Wards —Thomas Motley, Ebenezer Mayo, Hugh McLellan, Daniel Tucker, Nathaniel F. Follick, Matthew Cobb, Woodbury Storer, and Robert Boyd. Clerks of the Market —Salmon Chase, Daniel Davis, John Frothingham, William Symmes, and George E. Vaughan. Sealers of Leather —Peter Warren, John Phillips, Henry Wheeler, and Asa Plummer. Affay Master —Moses Lunt, Zachariah Nowell, and Joseph Lunt. Overseers of the Work-House —Overseers of the Poor. Hog Reeves —James Flood, Daniel Green, Joseph Challice, Joseph Wilson, Ezekiel Sawyer, Robert Mitchell, Noah Beeman, and John Knight. Pound Keeper —Joseph Wilson. Field Drivers —James Flood, Joseph Challice, Daniel Green, James Jordan. Inspectors of Lime —John Leavitt, of imported, and William Barlow, of manufactured. Health Committee —Inspector of Police, Thomas Motley, William Symmes, Ebenezer Mayo, and Salmon Chase. School Committee —John Frothingham, John Thrasher, William Symmes, Salmon Chase, Isaac Parker, Isaac Illey, Jacob Noyes, David Hale, and Stephen Patten. Committee of Accounts —Edward Oxnard, Lemuel Weeks, and Ebenezer Mayo.
ELEGANT TRIBUTES TO WASHINGTON.
Extract from an Oration delivered at Richmond, in Virginia, on the death of Washington.
“YET there are deeds to speak and praise which defy the utterance of the tongue. Take then, the excellency of the American constitution, and the peace, prosperity, and freedom of the American people, while other nations are groaning in bondage, or weltering in blood, as a short, but impressive comment on his integrity and talents as a Statesman. Let the plains of Trenton, of Princeton, and of Monmouth, testify his skill and prowess as a soldier. And let Yorktown proclaim the final triumph of the American Chief.
“Should I ransack the pages of history in quest of an illustrious character with whom to compare him, there were none to be found. Like morning stars before the rising sun, they have all receded from his approach, and decline forever all competition. He was of original worth, and never shone by borrowed lustre. But if, in future times, a deliverer of his country shall arise in any quarter of the earth, who shall excel in piety, in valor, and in patriotism, and whose worth shall transcend all praise, the world will pronounce his eulogium, by saying, he is like Washington ”
[The Death of General Washington is noticed in the following handsome terms, in a late London paper]
“WE are sorry to announce the death of that illustrious man, Gen. George Washington who departed this life the 14th December, after an indisposition of 23 hours. The decease of this truly great man will be lamented by admirers of genius, integrity, and genuine patriotism; for, however his exertions prevailed in depriving Great Britain of one of her most
important possessions, the whole tenor of his conduct sufficiently proves, that he acted from the most thorough conviction, and from the purest principles. His memory and character must therefore be held in the highest veneration by every lover of public virtue and private worth. Unlike the upstart tyrants of the present day in France, he fought and bled, not to degrade and enslave, but to render free and happy his native land; and having done every thing his country could expect, or true patriotism could accomplish, like another honest Cincinnatus, he resigned his richly merited power into the same hands from which he received it, and virtuously retired into the tranquil bosom of honourable retirement. Peace to his illustrious manes!”
COALS.
THE use of this combustible, in rendering the air more salubrious, was so little known to our ancestors, that in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, coals were not burned in private families, from a supposition that the use of them was unhealthy. It appears on the records of Parliament in that reign, that a bill was introduced by a member of the House of Commons, which stated “that several brewers, dyers, blacksmiths and other artisans in London, used coals for their fires, instead of wood, whereby the air was filled with unwholesome vapours, to the great prejudice of the health of the inhabitants, particularly those who had lately come from the country.” It proposed, therefore, that the use of this kind of fuel should be prohibited, at least during the session of Parliament.
[London Paper.]
INSTANCE OF UNCOMMON BRAVERY!
(From the Portsmouth Oracle, of the 5th inst.)
A few days after the brig Betties had left St. Croix, on her passage home she was taken by a French privateer, which took the captain, mate, and all the hands out of her except a black man, named Moses (who is well known on the Pier, in this town) the privateer then put on board a prize master and five hands, and ordered her for Guadalupe. Soon after the privateer had left the Betties , the Frenchmen being distributed about in different parts of the vessel, Moses endeavoured to retake the brig, and engaged first with those on deck, whom he almost instantaneously killed and threw them overboard; he next had recourse to the cabin, where he killed the three others, either in the cabin, or as they were coming out of it, and threw them also overboard; he then took the command of the vessel, and put her head to the northward to bring her home. Two days after, a Philadelphia brig fell in with the Betties , and seeing her situation, put on board her mate and three hands; but she was unfortunately re-captured soon after by another French privateer, and carried into Porto Rico, where the brave, the heroic Moses was put in irons and remained in that pitiable situation, when the letter which states the above particulars left there; it is feared that Moses will either swing for his bravery or be sold for a slave.
RECENT DISCOVERIES IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
Early in the present year (1799) the Hunter in her passage from New Zealand to Calcutta, fell in with two strange Islands, and a very extensive range of shoals, which not appearing in any chart extant, are presumed to be discoveries, and are thus communicated by Captain Fearn:
“A small Island, of a conic figure and considerable height, lat. 22 24, South, long. 171 50, East, lying nearly East, distant about 12 leagues from Matthew's Rock , which was seen at the same time. It is named Hunter Island .
“A beautiful little Island, perhaps four miles long, latitude, by double altitude 00 20, South, long. 167 15, East. This solitary spot was found extremely populous; although the nearest known land is placed by the charts above six equatorial degrees distant. The want of a meridional observation may have caused some error in latitude; but it is hoped, not a great one. I named it Pleasant Island .
“On the morning of the 16th November, 1798 the Hunter made Brown's Range , bearing in the N. W. and being unable to pass to the eastward of them, and bore away to leeward. On approaching the south point of the Southernmost ( Parry's ) Island, it was perceived that a long narrow reef, or shoal, projected from that point under water, till it joined a low Sand island which shewed itself about six miles W. 1/2 N. from Parry's Isles.—This Sand key was acceded by other keys and shoals forming an uninterrupted chain of about 35 miles long, by the south side of which the Hunter ranged within a mile, and frequently half that distance, without any sign of soundings. After running this track from an early, till a late hour of the day, with the velocity of seven and eight miles an hour, in a direction Westerly to N. W. the course became clear; but the extent of this remarkable danger is yet unknown, as when it deviated from our track, we could trace it, taking a northerly direction till lost from our mast head in the horizon.
“By a lunar observation taken in sight of Parry's Isle I agree to a mile, with Capt. Butler of the Walpole , in making its longitude 162. 52 East of Greenwich. Its latitude being 11. 21, North.
“On this chain which occupies so large a space, W.; W. N. W.; N. W.; (and perhaps more North) from Parry's Isles, there stand two Sand Islands or Keys having trees or shrups on some parts of them. These I have presumed to call East and West Danger Islands —expressive of their native and relative position. They form an appendage to Brown's range, which bounds them on the East.— Lon. pap.
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS,
The disorganizing Jacobins, who lately act with increased violence, still continue their cabals about the Liberty of the Press . It is in good season then to lay before the public, the following proceedings of Bonaparte, relative to the press in France. If a Bonaparte administered this government, such papers as the Aurora , &c. would not be permitted—nor would their printers be suffered to eat the bread of our land.
Decree of Jan. 17.
The Consuls of the Republic taking into their consideration that several of the Journals printed in the department of the Seine are instruments in the hands of the enemies of the Republic, and that the government is specially charged by the French people in taking measures for their safety, decree what follows:
Art. 1. The Minister of General Police shall not suffer, while the present war continues, any journals to be printed, published, or circulated, but those which are hereafter named: Le Moniteur Universel; Le Journal des Débats et des Decrets; Le Journal le Paris; Le Bien Informe; Le Citoyen Francais; La Gazette le France; Le Journal du Soir, by Sallier; Le Journal des Défenseurs de la Patrie; and the Journals exclusively engaged in noticing objects of science, literature, commerce, and advertisements.
2. The minister of general police, shall immediately present a report with respect to the Journals which are printed in the other departments of the Republic.
3. The minister of general police shall take care that no more journals be printed either in the department of the Seine, or the other departments of the Republic.
4. The proprietors and editors of the journals hereby authorized to be printed, shall attend the minister of Police, for the purpose of proving themselves French citizens, of giving in their place of residence, their signature, and promising fidelity to the constitution.
5. Every journal inserting articles contrary to the respect due to the social compact, to the sovereignty of the people and the glory of the armies, or which may publish inuendoes against the governments and nations in a state of alliance with the Republic, even should such articles be extracted from foreign journals, shall be suppressed.
6. The minister of general police is charged with the execution of the present decree, which shall be inserted in the bulletin of the laws.”
DUANE—THE INFAMOUS.
“Philadelphia, March 28.
“The editor of the Aurora , after the most infamous abuse of the Senate, has absconded or secreted himself. You will have heard of the uproar, he, Dallas and Cooper ( all oligons ) have made about the infringement of the liberty of the press; and you will smile when I tell you these same animals have been the most vociferous in justifying the conduct of the French Directors and consuls, in placing seals on scores of Printing offices in Paris, and sending Jans trial, hundreds of the poor printers, editors, journeymen and devils to the castle Island of Oleron.—In a division of the Senate, when the members were equally divided on a resolution for apprehending Duane , Mr. Jefferson gave his casting vote in favor of the resolution, against the libeller.—The Senate are firm; and although they must despise the scandalous libels against them, which have issued from the Aurora , they are bound in duty to bring the author to condign punishment. If vagrants from Europe are permitted with impunity to scatter their scurrilous falsehoods abroad, there is an end to government.—It is not the duty of legislators to descend to a newspaper contradiction of the calumnies—but to bring the authors to chastisement, in a legal manner.”
POLAND.
THE Prussian Government at Warsaw have given orders to the keeper of the Royal Palace to remove all the effects which belonged to the ci-devant King of Poland in fourteen days time. Warsaw, which was so flourishing in 1790, is now like a desolate city; grass is growing in all the streets, and it is now a very rare thing to see a coach in that city, where formerly 300 of the most elegant carriages were continually driving about and filling the courts of the palace of the king; the windows of the hotels are filled with Prussian uniforms. In general that city that is neglected, that it should seem as if every one was endeavouring to make people forget it was once the capital of a great kingdom. The population is also greatly diminished.— Lon. pap.
EGYPT.
Dispatches from Egypt for Bonaparte, have lately been intercepted, and laid before the British government. The following information relative to their contents, is from a London paper of Jan. 22.
“It appears that Bonaparte, before his departure, was to have given Kleber a meeting at Rosetta; but instead of appearing in person he sent a brevet, nominating Kleber to the command of the Army of the East, together with instructions what he was to do. Kleber sent a copy of these instructions to the Executive Directory, which copy is at present in the possession of our Ministers.
They commence by informing Kleber that he has received the English newspapers, and the Frankfort Journal up to the 10th of June; and that he had there learnt that Italy was lost; than Turin, Tortona, and Mantua were blockaded; but that if fortune favored him, he should reach France by October, time enough to remedy the existing evils, and bring back the affairs of France from their deplorable state, to the flourishing condition in which he had left them. He assures Kleber, that this consideration alone had determined him to quit the army without further deliberation; and he recommends to Kleber to make every possible exertion to preserve Egypt, since that country, from the tottering state of the Turkish Empire, would pass, sooner or later into European hands! and he insists strongly on the advantages which would accrue to France from retaining possession of it, as a point of support for great future revolutions. He proceeds to inform Kleber, that he carried with him an exact account of the state of the army, and its immediate necessities; and that the arrival of the Brest Fleet at Toulon, and of the Spanish Fleet at Carthagena, left him no doubt of the possibility of transmitting succours to them.—He promises him that he will certainly not forget the company of Comedians, which he had not ceased to demand, for the purpose of changing the manners of the country. If circumstances of alarming pressure should occur, Bonaparte advises Kleber to follow up the negotiations which he had commenced with Turkey; and to propose to the Porte, that it should retain the sovereignty of Egypt more completely than it had ever done, while, by admitting the French, instead of the Mamelukes, to remain as Colonial Administrators, it should receive the Miri (or annual revenue) regularly, and without fraud, and nominally only, as under the ancient Government. The French who remained in Egypt would receive and remit the customs; and demanded, in return for this, that the Porte should permit to France a free commerce in the Black Sea. If, however, by the month of May next, Kleber shall have lost fifteen hundred men of his army, by the plague or war, he is authorized to make the best treaty possible for the total evacuation of Egypt.—He orders him to send to Europe in the month of November, by a flag of truce, General Desair , and the Committee of Arts, who are going to visit Upper Egypt; and if any of the learned men are necessary, he authorizes him to place them in requisition.
Bonaparte also orders Kleber to unite under any pretence whatever, at Cairo six hundred Mamelukes and Cheiks, and to carry them off as hostages, and embark them for France where they shall remain two years, and where the wonders they will behold will give them the most exalted idea of the French Nation, and they will contribute to develop, on their return, the gems of the civilization of Egypt.
RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
THE two Imperial Cabinets, we can now inform the public upon unquestionable authority, have finally arranged every point in dispute. There remains no danger of the resuscitation of those jealousies which had so unfortunate an influence over the latter part of the last brilliant campaign. The armies of both Sovereigns, with renewed activity and vigour, are making the most strenuous exertions to take the field before the French are able to rally or to recruit. The French must open the new campaign under all the terror, and all the sense of inequality with which they concluded the last. No armistice will take place. The allied forces are expected to commence their operations by the 20th of next month.—The raising of the Swiss regiments is carried on with great activity and success.— London. pap. Jan. 28.
ITALY.
THE Princes and States of Italy are now convinced, by the losses they have repeatedly experienced during the last and present century, that their political existence is very precarious, unless their frontiers are secured. During that epoch they have severely suffered by wars with France. Now they have been happily delivered by the Austrians, they have made a convention, tending to their preservation. An Italian league, or confederation, is to be established between the Princes and States of that country, for their mutual safety.
The maintenance of Piedmont requires a very powerful defence, since it was by way of that country that the French have always made their inroads into Italy. The King of Sardinia on whom depended the defence of that frontier, was either too weak, or else the cabinet

of Turin, by wavering in its attachment to the different parties, always suffered the French to penetrate into Italy.
The Italian league now proposes to put a power into possession of Piedmont, which has the means and the inclinations to defend the entrance of Italy; and Austria alone will be capable of that task. The King of Sardinia, therefore, called upon to give up Piedmont to Austria for a part of Lombardy and the Papal Legations of Bologna and Ferrara. So that that power may prevent the invasion of Italy by so strong and daring an enemy as France. By occupying the fortresses on the frontiers with the necessary garrisons. Salutary as this resolution of the Italian league may be, yet it is considered by other powers as a plan of aggrandizement, and as such it meets with their opposition.
[Hamburg paper.]
LONDON, FEB. 3.
From Lord W. Bentick to Lord Grenville.
H Q. Burgos St. Almazco, Dec. 4, 1739.
IT is with the greatest satisfaction that I announce to your Lordship the surrender of Coni. The batteries opened on it the 2d in the morning, and early on the 3d the commandant desired to capitulate. The garrison, consisting of 2844 men, exclusive of 800 wounded, whom the French had not time to remove before the investment of the place, marched out this morning prisoners of war. The loss of the Austrians does not exceed fifty men killed and wounded. The very short defence that has been made of this very strong, and most important fortress, is to be attributed to the want both of provisions and ammunition. This event may be considered the more fortunate, from the information having been received that Gen. Championet has been assembling the whole French army in la Riviere de Gènes, near Ormea, which was to have been assisted in its march by a reinforcement of 15000 men that is marching from Savoy, and is probably a detachment from the army of Switzerland.
So much snow has fallen, that the roads in the mountains are no longer practicable; and it will not be possible for the corps coming from Savoy, to form a junction with Championet. The severity of the weather has obliged the enemy to abandon the Cole Seade, where they left four pieces of cannon which they could not drag through the snow. I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) W. BENTICK.
NEW-YORK, APRIL 5.
By the Schooner Eliza, Capt. Fairchild, arrived yesterday from the Havannah, we are informed, that the ship Nancy, capt. Joy, of Boston, had just arrived at that port. The Nancy, on the 25th of February, in lat. 22 lon. 58, fell in with a French privateer of 14 guns, and full of men. The Nancy mounts 10 fixes, and had 27 men, an engagement was immediately commenced, which continued off and on, for 24 hours, during which time the privateer made three most desperate attempts to board the ship, and was actually fowl of her for three hours at one time; and though every exertion was made to board her, yet, such was the active bravery of the American Tars, that they kept off the enemy with pikes, cutlasses, &c. great numbers of whom fell lifeless from the shrouds and bowsprit on the deck and in the ocean. While one part of the Nancy's crew were thus defending themselves, the other was employed in planting shot into the privateer, and, from her shattered condition, there is little doubt of her having gone down, as she was not to be seen in the morning. As their separation was in the night, and as the privateer's sails and rigging, as well as those of the ship, were almost all cut away, it renders the improbability of her escape more strong. The privateer must have lost many. The Nancy had one man killed and four wounded.
SALEM, APRIL 10.
Extracts of a letter from an American in Bourdeaux, dated Dec. 26, 1799.
"The odious and iniquitous law of the 29th Ventose is repealed, since the late revolution at Paris, so that all the spring ships from London, &c. will go to America unmolested. They have also made a favourable alteration in the legislation of prizes: and the privateers from hence have strict orders not to touch an American. There have however been several American vessels lately brought in by privateers that have been at sea some time."
WASHINGTON.
[Although very much has already been published respecting this illustrious character, it would be unparadisable to omit an Eulogy so justly and elegantly penned, as the following.]
From a London paper, of January 14 1800.
The melancholy account of his death was brought by a vessel from Baltimore, which has arrived off Dover.
General Washington was, we believe, in his 68th year. The height of his person was about five feet eleven; his chest full; and his limbs, though rather slender, well shaped and muscular. His head was small, in which respect he resembled the make of a great number of his countrymen. His eyes were of a light grey colour; and, in proportion to the length of his face, his nose was long. Mr. Stewart, the eminent portrait painter, used to say there were features in his face totally different from what he had ever observed in that of any other human being; the sockets for the eyes, for instance, were larger than what he ever met with before, and the upper part of the nose broader. All his features, he observed, were indicative of the strongest passions; yet, like Socrates, his judgment and great self-command have always made him appear a man of a different cast in the eyes of the world. He always spoke with great diffidence, and sometimes hesitated for a word; but it was
always to find one particularly well adapted to his meaning. His language was manly and expressive. At levee, his discourse with strangers turned principally upon the subject of America; and if they had been through any remarkable places, his conversation was free and particularly interesting, for he was intimately acquainted with every part of the country. He was much more open and free in his behaviour at levee than in private, and in the company of ladies still more so than when solely with men.
Few persons ever found themselves for the first time in the presence of General Washington, without being impressed with a certain degree of veneration and awe; nor did those emotions subside on a closer acquaintance; on the contrary, his person and deportment were such as rather tended to augment them. The hard service he had seen, the important and laborious offices he had filled, gave a kind of austerity to his countenance, and a reserve to his manners; yet he was the kindest husband, the most humane master, the steadiest friend.
The whole range of History does not present to our view a character upon which we can dwell with such entire and unmixed admiration. The long life of General Washington is not stained by a single blot. He was indeed a man of such rare endowments, and such fortunate temperament, that every action he performed was equally exempted from the charge of vice or weakness. Whatever he said or did, or wrote, was stamped with a striking and peculiar propriety. His qualities were so happily blended, and so nicely harmonised, that the result was a great and perfect whole. The powers of his mind, and the dispositions of his heart, were admirably suited to each other. It was the union of the most consummate prudence with the most perfect moderation. His views, though large and liberal, were never extravagant: his virtues, though comprehensive and beneficent, were discriminating, judicious and practical.
Yet his character, though regular and uniform, possessed none of the littlenesses which may sometimes belong to these descriptions of men. It formed a majestic pile, the effect of which was not impaired, but improved by order and symmetry. There was nothing in it to dazzle by wildness, and surprise by eccentricity. It was of a higher species of moral beauty. It contained every thing great and elevated, but it had no false and tinsel ornament. It was not the model cried up by fashion and circumstance: its excellence was adapted to the true and just moral taste, incapable of change from the varying accidents of manners, of opinions and times. General Washington is not the idol of a day, but the hero of ages!
Placed in circumstances of the most trying difficulty at the commencement of the American contest, he accepted that situation which was pre-eminent in danger and responsibility. His perseverance overcame every obstacle; his moderation conciliated every opposition; his genius supplied every resource; his enlarged view could plan, revise, and improve every branch of civil and military operation. He had the superior courage which can act or forbear to act, as true policy dictates, careless of the reproaches of ignorance, either in power or out of power. He knew how to conquer by waiting, in spite of obloquy, for the moment of victory; and he merited true praise by despising undeserved censure. In the most arduous moments of the contest, his prudent firmness proved the salvation of the cause which he supported.
His conduct was, on all occasions, guided by the most pure disinterestedness. Far superior to low and grovelling motives, he seemed even to be uninfluenced by that ambition, which has justly been called the instinct of great souls. He acted ever as if his country's welfare, and that alone, was the moving spring. His excellent mind needed not even the stimulus of ambition, or the prospect of fame. Glory was but a secondary consideration. He performed great actions, he persevered in a course of laborious utility, with an equanimity that neither sought distinction, nor was flattered by it. His reward was in the consciousness of his own rectitude, and in the success of his patriotic efforts.
As his elevation to the chief power was the unbiased choice of his countrymen, his exercise of it was agreeable to the purity of its origin. As he had neither solicited nor usurped dominion, he had neither to contend with the opposition of rivals, nor the revenge of enemies. As his authority was undisputed, so it required no jealous precautions, no rigorous severity. His government was mild and gentle; it was beneficent and liberal; it was wise and just. His prudent administration consolidated and enlarged the dominion of an infant Republic. In voluntarily resigning the magistracy which he had filled with such distinguished honor, he enjoyed the unequalled satisfaction of leaving to the State he had contributed to establish, the fruits of his wisdom and the example of virtues.
It is some consolation, amidst the violence of ambition, and the criminal thirst of power, of which so many instances occur around us, to find a character whom it is honorable to admire, and virtuous to imitate. A Conqueror, for the freedom of his country! A Legislator, for its security! A Magistrate, for its happiness! His glories were never sullied by those excesses into which the highest qualities are apt to degenerate. With the greatest virtues he was exempt from the corresponding vices. He was a man in whom the elements were so mixed, that "Nature might have stood up to all the world" and owned him as her work. His fame, bounded by no country, will be confined to no age. The character of General Washington, which his contemporaries regret and admire, will be transmitted to posterity; and the memory of his virtues, while patriotism and virtue are held sacred among men, will remain undiminished.
Portland,
Monday, April 14, 1800.
VOTES FOR GOVERNOR.
The election of Governor took place on Monday last. The Candidates were Hon. CALEB STRONG of Northampton, and Hon. ELBRIDGE GERRY of Cambridge. The following is a statement of the votes so far as they have yet come to hand. Many returns are official; and the rest it is believed are pretty accurate.
   Strong Gerry     PORTLAND, 145 114 Chelmsford, 26 120   Falmouth, 2 94 Littleton, 11 88   Cape Elizabeth, 40 4 Harvard, 58 118   Windham, 62 7 Stow, 4 64   Gorham, 46 41 Worcester, 34 138   Buxton, 28 106 Leicester, 17 29   Standish, 45 53 Plymouth, 95 65   Northyarm. 184 17 Hanover, 13 38   Gray, 1 49 Pembroke, 8 80   New Gloucester, 65 26 Simsbury, 66 42   Poland, 92 14 Medway, 18 82   Turner, 45 1 Lexington, 16 112   Bridgton, 32 28 Bedford, 49 17   Raymondton, 19 0 Watertown, 16 105   Scarborough, 22 117 Waltham, 21 57   Biddeford, 9 26 Stoneham, 0 33   Pepperell, 4 116 Sudbury, 4 104   Wells, 159 14 Duxborough, 41 64   York, 44 41 Buxborough, 4 48   Greene, 0 34 Wilmington, 14 85   Monmouth, 1 79 Marlboro' 15 141   Winthrop, 64 34 Attleborough, 132 25   Augusta, 46 82 Douglas, 73 0   Lewiston, 36 15 Uxbridge, 80 4   Phillipsburg, 24 42 Sutton, 90 84   Freeport, 91 49 Wenham, 37 10   Brunswick, 95 0 Shrewsbury, 65 68   Harperswell, 11 12 Lancaster, 97 50   Bath, 113 4 Ward, 2 54   Wiscasset, 118 3 Spencer, 4 84   Newcastle, 49 18 Brookfield, 164 22   Holden, 44 7   BOSTON, 1531 1555 Peterham, 74 32   Hingham, 76 60 Barre, 52 34   Chelsea, 39 0 Newburyport, 236 106   Hull, 0 9 Newbury, 149 98   Roxbury, 67 236 Salisbury, 43 28   Dorchester, 84 146 Amesbury, 62 7   Dedham, 42 156 East Sudbury, 15 58   Braintree, 28 86 Cohasset, 27 13   Milton, 40 86 Northborough, 27 13   Brooklyn, 26 55 Berkley, 53 27   Needham, 9 79 Rehoboth, 170 151   Stoughton, 16 84 Newbedford, 180 27   Quincy, 55 11 Leominster, 31 81   Randolph, 21 149 Hadley, 96 2   Canton, 12 108 Northampton, 268 2   Wrentham, 44 96 Easthampton, 77 0   Weymouth, 36 46 Southampton, 115 1   Abington, 21 92 Westhampton, 84 2   Bridgewater, 126 194 Hatfield, 70 0   Salem, 441 246 Williamburg, 91 8   Lynn, 113 68 Worthington, 89 11   Beverly, 121 10 Chesterfield, 122 4   Danvers, 125 45 Goshen, 49 0   Ipswich, 130 64 Belchertown, 109 0   Marblehead, 23 193 Ashfield, 119 7   Reading, 91 90 Conway, 163 23   Roxley, 91 51 Amherst, 134 0   Boxford, 94 14 Deerfield, 115 0   Topsham, 70 11 Whately, 85 0   Gloucester, 200 5 Greenfield, 89 7   Manchester, 45 0 Springfield, 114 15   Middleton, 16 31 West Springfield, 59 115   Haverhill, 200 40 Palmer, 96 1   Bradford, 105 20 Chester, 68 0   Andover, 131 134 Belham, 53 2   Charlestown, 88 244 Grenville, 70 6   Medford, 62 16 Gill, 27 0   Cambridge, 121 187 Greenwich, 111 7   Woburn, 6 67 Southwick, 50 4   Malden, 23 71 Wilsford, 71 11   Billerica, 99 26 Blanford, 25 20   Newton, 89 33 Wern, 29 37   Weston, 115 21 Princeton, 61 7   Lincoln, 5 62 Wesminster, 42 48   Concord, 61 74 Shurton, 43 34   Burlington, 31 36 Newtraintree, 69 3   Sharon, 0 125 Oakha, 34 19   Framingham, 46 80 Bolton, 49 17   Holliston, 15 46 Sterling, 46 37   Hopkinton, 46 100 Berlin, 40 4   Tewksbury, 14 64   Dracut, 6 120  
Total—STRONG 12,306.—GERRY 10,332.
Lt. GOVERNOR.
His Honor MOSES GILL, will have nearly all the votes of the State for Lieut. Governor.
SENATORS.
For Cumberland, Hon. STEPHEN LANGLEY and Hon. DANIEL DAVIS, will be nearly unanimously chosen. By accounts from other parts of the State, it appears also that the Senate will be composed of federal characters.
From the Centinel of Saturday last
A letter from a gentleman at Northampton, dated the 9th, to the EDITOR, says;—"I enclose you the list of 28 towns, in this county.—They may be depended on as being accurate, for the information has been generally received from the town clerks.—There are yet 37 towns in the county, we have had no intelligence from: but from the knowledge I have of the people in them I can safely calculate that Mr. Gerry will not have an hundred votes therein."
The Consuls of the French Republic decree as follows:
The general embargo in the ports of the Republic upon neutral ships is taken off without restriction,
News later than the Mail, was brought to town yesterday, by Capt. Blanchard, in packet Harriot, from Boston; who has furnished Boston papers of Saturday last.—The most important article is the safety of the
ENVOYS TO FRANCE.
Commodore Barry, in the frigate United States, has arrived in the Delaware; and himself proceeded to the seat of Government with information of having landed them at Corrunna, about the 20th Jan. from whence they proceeded by land to Paris.
He has brought dispatches from Messrs. Ellsworth and Davie, our Envoys to the French Republic, dated the 10th of February, at Burgos, in Spain. They had received the day before a letter from M. Talleyrand, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, covering their passports; expressing impatience for their arrival at Paris, and informing them, that the form of their letters of credence (which were addressed to the Executive Directory) would be no obstacle to the opening of negotiations.
The envoys arrived at Lisbon the 27th of November, and after some detention in the Tagus by contrary winds, failed from thence for L'Orient on the 21st Dec. but encountering for three weeks, violent and adverse winds in their attempts to gain that place, they were at last constrained to make the first safe port in Spain; and they arrived on the 11th of January at Corrunna, whence they dispatched a courier to Paris, for their passports; and at Burgos received an answer, as above mentioned.
The distance between Corrunna, and Paris, is nearly a thousand miles; and in the winter season the roads are bad. It is not probable therefore, they reached Paris before the 1st of March.
From KINGSTON, (Jamaica) FEB. 22.
THE following message, announcing the permission given to export our staple commodities in American vessels, was received by the house of assembly from his honor Lieut. Governor, on Friday the 14th inst.
"MR. SPEAKER,
"I am commanded by his honor the Lieut. Governor, to inform the house, that he has taken into consideration their message of the 30th of January, respecting the exports of produce in vessels belonging to the United States; and being satisfied of the necessity of the measure, he has given directions to the principal officers of the customs, to permit such exportations under certain restrictions."
Havannah.—This port is to remain open to the American trade, during the war.
The Legislative Union of Ireland with Great Britain, will be added to the important events of this year.
We are unhappy to inform the public, that His Honor MOSES GILL, the Commander in Chief, of this Commonwealth, lies dangerously ill, of the dropsy. The best medical aid which our country affords, has been prescribed to him; but we are sorry to say, in all human probability, we shall soon have to add the name of GILL, to the numerous illustrious characters, who have lately been called from the scenes of active life on earth, to the regions of immortality. [Centinel.]
DIED.—In this town, Mrs. HANNAH THRASHER, aged 32, consort of Mr. John Thrasher.—In her, society have lost a most amiable member, her relatives an invaluable friend, her disconsolate husband an affectionate wife, and her children a tender parent
Marine Articles.
Port of Portland.
Tuesday, April 8.
Arrived brig Juno, captain Joshua Freeman, 85 days from St. Croix.—March 25, in lat. 21, lon. 65, 20, spoke U.S. ship Merrimack, capt. Brown, all well.—Left at St. Croix, brig —, capt. Cordwell, of Newyork—A gentleman at St. Croix, who left Guadalupe a few days before, informed capt. F. that the French frigate which had the engagement with capt. Truxton, was condemned as unfit for sea; he also informed that there were 130 privateers belonging to Guadalupe and Port Rico, and that a great number of American vessels were brought in daily.
Same day.—Arrived schr. Thomas of Portland, Capt. James Coombs from St. Bartholomews. Left there on the 20th March, schr. Jane, Mayhew, from Newburyport, who had 32 days passage out, and expected to sail for home in about 3 weeks. All well. April 3d in lat. 33, 10 long. 68, 0 spoke sloop Two Sisters from N. Carolina, bound to Barbadoes, J. Baker Master.
Sailed from St. Bartholomews in company with the Brig Union, Thomas Roach of Portland; parted with him in lat. 21, 30, on 26th March, bound to Havanna.
Arrived Sloop Freeport, of Freeport, Capt. Dennison, 9 days from Baltimore. The Constellation had arrived in Hampton road under jury masts.
Saturday, April 12.
Arrived schr. Betsey, capt. George Mead, 37 days from Port Antonio.—Sailed in company with an English fleet homeward bound, and three Americans, the schr. Mark & Mary, Rook, of Georgetown, schr. Betsey, Hutchins, of Providence.—Let there, schr. Betsey, capt. David Smith, of this port; and at Martha Brey, ship John, capt. Hatch, of this port.—Parted with the fleet in lat. 24, long. 74, March 27; in lat. 30, 43, long. 73, 10, spoke brig Hope, of Georgetown, out 4 days, and had lost 30 head of stock off deck the day before, in a heavy gale of wind. March 29th spoke sloop Franklin, from New-Province, of and bound for New-Bedford, of 7 days, all well. March 30 spoke schr. Alexandria, of Newburyport, from Havanna, all well. March 30, spoke a schooner belonging to Portsmouth from St. Thomas, bound to Norfolk, in distress, having no provisions on board; it blowing very hard could not supply him nor find out his name.

To ANDREW PEPPERRELL FROST, Clerk of the Proprietors of the common and undivided Land in Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland. WE the subscribers, more than five of the said Proprietors, hereby request you to warn a meeting of said Proprietors, to be held at your dwelling house at Stroudwater, in said Falmouth, on the 28th day of April current, at ten o'clock in the forenoon; being the last Monday in said month, to act on the following articles, viz.
1st. To choose a Moderator.
2d. To receive the report of the Proprietors' Committee on accounts, and their report respecting the common and undivided Lands which are said to be sold at Vendue by their former Committee for laying out Land.
3d. To see what measures the Proprietors will take concerning any lands so sold by their said former Committee for laying out Lands, and to choose such Committee or Agents to prosecute for the same, as said Proprietors then see proper.
4th. To receive accounts, and to allow the same if they see fit.
5th. To approve of sundry laying out, by their Committee for laying out Land, if they see fit.
JAMES MERRILL, JOSEPH TITCOMB, HUTCHINSON NOYES, JOHN WAITE, CRISPUS GRAVES, JAMES FOSDICK, BENJAMIN BAILEY, JOHN M'LELLAN.
PURSUANT to the request to me directed, I hereby warn the Proprietors of the common and undivided Lands in Falmouth aforesaid, to meet at my dwelling house in Falmouth, at Stroudwater, on Monday 28th day of April current, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, there to act on the above articles as they see fit.
Attest. ANDREW P. FROST, Proprietors' Clerk. Falmouth, 8th April, 1800.
To those in pursuit of Fortune!
TICKETS, in the Seventh Class of DARTMOUTH COLLEGE LOTTERY—and Second Class of AMOSKEAG CANAL LOTTERY, to be drawn (without postponement) agreeably to the following Schemes, may be had at JENKS' OFFICE, next to the Portland Bank. Those who wish to become adventurers will do well to apply without delay, as it is expected the sale of tickets from other states will soon be prohibited in this Commonwealth. April 14th.
SCHEME of the SEVENTH CLASS of Dartmouth College Lottery. Consisting of six thousand Tickets, at Four Dollars each, divided into the following prizes:
Table with 3 columns: Prize, Amount, and Number of Prizes. Includes prizes of 3000, 2000, 1000, 600, 400, 200, 100, 50, 30, 20, 10, 6 dollars.
1705 Prizes, amounting to 24000. 6000 Tickets, at 4 Dollars are 24000. The prize of 2000 Dollars, will be placed to the last drawn blank.
This Class will commence drawing at Concord, on Thursday the fifth day of June next, and will continue (positively without postponement) until completed. A list of Prizes will be immediately published, and the prizes paid on demand:
JONATHAN FREEMAN, MICHAEL M'CLARY, WILLIAM A KENT, Managers.
SCHEME OF Amoskeag Canal Lottery.
SECOND CLASS. To consist of 5000 Tickets, at 3 dollars; three prizes to two blanks—Prizes as follows:
Table with 3 columns: Prize, Amount, and Number of Prizes. Includes prizes of 2000, 1000, 500, 300, 200, 100, 50, 30, 20, 10, 6 dollars.
2000 Prizes, 13009. 3000 Blanks, 1991. The prizes will be paid by the Managers or vendors of the Tickets, without any deduction.
The design of the works on Amoskeag Falls, in conjunction with the Middlesex and Patuxet Canals, to open a water communication from the interior parts of New Hampshire to Boston and Newbury Port, for the conveyance of country produce and lumber of every kind, but particularly for the very important article of fire-wood. From the great advantages which will accrue to the public from the completion of these works, the managers flatter themselves that their Tickets will meet a prompt and extensive sale; they are therefore determined to commence drawing of the class above exhibited, on the Twenty Seventh day of May next.
As this class will be succeeded by several others, the Managers are determined to observe the utmost punctuality in the performance of their engagements, and to complete the business they have undertaken with all the dispatch that its importance will admit.
EPHRAIM ROBINSON, SAMUEL TENNEY, NATHANIEL PARKER, Managers.
N. B. The fifty shares in the Canal, in each of the above classes, will be severally conveyed by the proprietor, free of all charges in completing said Canal—or he will oblige himself to pay to those, who shall draw them, 500 dollars each in two years, with interest.
WASHINGTON'S Political Legacies,
Are just received, and ready for subscribers, at JENKS' Book-Store.
A few copies of the above for sale. Also for sale as above.
Belknap's Psalms & Hymns, for Religious Societies.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the SENATE and HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES, in General Court assembled.
THE Memorial and Petition of the subscriber, HUMBLELY SHEWETH—
That your memorialist was entrusted with a petition from the greater part of the Inhabitants of the plantation of New Suncook, in the county of York, praying to be incorporated into a town. Your memorialist in packing up said papers left said petition at his house in Fryeburgh, and by reason of the great distance from this place to Fryeburgh, has not been able to obtain said petition. He therefore prays the Honorable Legislature, in behalf of said inhabitants of New Suncook, that the said plantation of New Suncook may be incorporated into a town, and invested with such privileges as towns in this Commonwealth do by law enjoy—And as in duty bound, will ever pray.
WILLIAM FESSENDEN.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In Senate, February 24th, 1800.
ON the petition of WILLIAM FESSENDEN, in behalf of the inhabitants of the Plantation of New Suncook, in the county of York, praying that said plantation may be incorporated into a town:
Ordered, That the petitioner cause an attested copy of this petition, and this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in JENKS' GAZETTE, printed at Portland, the last publication to be thirty days at least before the second Wednesday of the first session of the next General Court, that all persons interested in said petition may then appear, and shew cause if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted.
Sent down for concurrence, SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President.
In the House of Representatives, Feb. 26 1800.
Read and concurred, EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker.
True copy. Attest— EDWARD M'LANE, Clerk of Senate.
War Department,
MARCH 12, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, That separate proposals will be received at the Office of the Secretary of the Department of War, until the expiration of the 25th of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of October, 1800, to the 30th day of September, 1801, both days inclusive, at the places and within the two districts herein after first mentioned; and also that separate proposals will be received at the said Office until the expiration of the 25th day of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required as aforesaid, from the 1st day of Jan. in the year 1801, to the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive, at the place and within the several States herein after mentioned, viz.
First—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Oswego; at Niagara; at Pittsburgh; at Presqu'isle; at Michimackinac; at Fort Franklin; at Le Boeuf; at Cincinnati; at Picque town, and Loramies stores; at Fort Wayne; at Fort Defiance; at any place below Fort Defiance, on the Miami river to Lake Erie; at Fort Knox, and Ouatapon on the river Wabash; at Massac; at any place or places on the east side of the river Mississippi, above the mouth of the river Ohio, and upon the Illinois river.
Second—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at any place or places, on the east side of the Mississippi river, below the mouth of the river Ohio to the southern boundary of the State of Kentucky and within the said State; at Knoxville; at all other posts and places within the State of Tennessee; at South West Point; at Tellico Blockhouse; at St. Stevens, or other fort or post on the river Mobile or Tombigby, & any place or places within the Cherokee boundaries; below the southern boundary of the State of Tennessee and within the boundary of the United States.
Third—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Point Petre; at Coleraine; at Savannah and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the State of Georgia; at all forts or stations on the Oconee and Altamaha, and at all other places in the Creek Nation, within the limits of the United States, where troops are or may be stationed.
Fourth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Johnson, at Fort Pinckney, at Charleston, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the State of South-Carolina.
Fifth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at the Fort at Wilmington, Cape Fear; at Beaufort Island, Ocracoke; at Charlotte; at Fayetteville; at Salisbury, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the State of North-Carolina.
Sixth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Norfolk, at Portsmouth, Kempville, at Charlottesville, at Winchester, at Strasburg, at Richmond, at Alexandria, at Leesburg, Fredericksburg, at Carter'sville, at Harper's Ferry, or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, in the State of Virginia.
Seventh—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort M'Henry, at Baltimore, at Annapolis, at Frederick town, at Leonard town, at Hagerstown, at Bladensburg, at George town & Easttown, at the head of Elk, and at any other place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the State of Maryland.
Eighth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Mifflin, at Philadelphia, at Lancaster, at Wilkesbarre, at Reading, Bristol, at Yorktown, at Carlisle, at Lewistown (Mifflin county) at Bedford, at Greensburg, at Washington (in Washington county) at Wilmington, at Christiana, at Dover, or at any other place or place, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the State of Pennsylvania.
and Delaware, except the posts within the State of Pennsylvania, enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Ninth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Hackett's Creek, at Elizabethtown, at New Brunswick, at Burlington, at Woodbury, at Trenton, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the State of New Jersey.
Tenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at New York, at West Point, at Flushing, at Harlem, at West-Chester, at Poughkeepsie, at Kinderhook, at Stillwater, at Newburg, at Albany, at Conesjoharie, at Cherry Valley, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the State of New York, except the posts within the said State enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Eleventh—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Hartford, at Hebron, at New London, at Brooklyn, at Windham, at Litchfield, at Guilford, at New Haven, at Fairfield, at Danbury, at Middletown, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the State of Connecticut.
Twelfth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Fort Wolcott, at Brinton's Point, at Newport, at Providence, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the State of Rhode-Island.
Thirteenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Portland in the District of Maine, Gloucester, Cape Ann, Salem, Marblehead, Boston, at Springfield, at Uxbridge, and, at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the State of Massachusetts.
Fourteenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Portsmouth, at Exeter, at Windham, at Bennington, at Rutland, or at any fort, place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the States of New Hampshire and Vermont.
The ration to be supplied, is to consist of the following articles, viz. Eighteen ounces of bread or flour, or one and a half pound of sifted or bolted Indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh beef, or one pound of salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted pork, and when fresh meat is issued, salt, at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations; soap at the rate of four pounds, and candles at the rate of a pound and a half for every hundred rations.
It is expected the proposals will also extend to the supply of rum, whiskey, or other ardent spirits at the rate of half a pint per ration, and vinegar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations. The proposals will specify the price of the several component parts of the ration, as well as those of substitutes or alternatives for parts thereof.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Oswego, for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commanders of fortified places or posts, to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper. It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and at all losses, sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the price of the article captured or destroyed, on the depositions of two or more persons of creditable characters and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles, for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring, that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts shall be issued, until the supplies which have or may be furnished under contracts now in force have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the Sea-board or Indian Frontiers not exceeding three months.
JAMES M'HENRY, Secretary of War.
TAKE NOTICE.
WHEREAS the Selectmen of the town of Gray, hath on the day of the date hereof, bound to the subscriber, as the law directs, in that case made and provided, John Colley, a married person upwards of twenty one years of age, who has lived an Ale and vagrant life; This is therefore to forbid all persons whomsoever from harboring, trading or trusting him, as they would avoid the penalty of the law.
JAMES COLLEY. Gay, April 7, 1800.
TO BE SOLD, OR LET,
A FARM, in Dresden, containing about 160 acres, on the east side of Kennebec River, adjoining land lately belonging to Dr. Tupper. On said place is a House and Barn—and about sixteen tons of English Hay are commonly cut. Said Land is excellent for tillage—is well wooded and watered. For further particulars apply to the subscriber.
THOMAS PATTEN. Topsham, March 28,
New Rice,
For Sale at Store No. 16, Union-Wharf, BY JOSEPH McLELLAN & SON. April 7, 1800.
Corn.
Just received, and for sale By How & Evans,
A Large quantity of CORN & MEAL, at their store in Middle Street in corner Union-Street. Also, a quantity of Herds Grass Seed. March 22.
FOR SALE,
A HOUSE, situated in Middle-Street, with a good Lot of Land—Also, one Share in Long Wharf, a ready built. Apply to the Printer. April 6.
For Sale,
AT the west end of the town, a DWELLING HOUSE and LOT.—For terms apply to the Printer. March 22.
Bowdoin College.
THE Overseers of Bowdoin College are hereby notified, that their semi-annual meeting will be held at the dwelling house of Mr. JOHN DUNNING, in Brunswick, on the second Tuesday in May next, being the 12th day of said month.
Gentlemen will recollect that by a standing rule of the Board of Overseers, any member thereof who shall neglect to attend three semi-annual meetings successively without giving substantial reasons therefor, shall be considered as having voluntarily vacated their seat.
MARK LANGDON HILL, Secretary. Georgetown, 7th April, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE
THE several Constables and Collectors in the county of York, to whom a County Tax has been committed to collect for the year 1799, that a punctual payment and settlement of the same is expected to be made at the Treasurer's Office in York, of the whole Tax, on or before the fourteenth day of April, 1800; otherwise extents will issue immediately against those who are deficient in any part of said Tax that hath been committed to them to collect.
William Frost, Treasurer of said County. York, March 26, 1800.
Fresh Garden Seeds.
JUST received for sale, at WILLIAM HUDSON'S Grocery Store, Fore-street, an assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, of the latest importation. April 12.
ATTENTION!
THE Members of the Portland Federal Volunteer Company, are requested to give a general and punctual attendance at the Court-House, on the evening of Tuesday next, at 7 o'clock, without arms—to transact necessary business. Per order of Capt. JOS. C. BOTD, Wm. BURDICK, Ord. Serjt. April 14, 1800.
FEATHERS,
OF various qualities, just received and for Sale (on low terms for cash) By JAMES POOL, at his Shop in Fish Street, Portland. March 24.
Ten Dollars Reward.
DESERTED, JOHN SMITH, a private belonging to the 2d Regiment Artillerists and Engineers, aged thirty-three years, five feet eight inches high, light eyes, brown hair, and light complexion—wore away, blue pantalons edged with red, white vest, an old brown coat, and round hat—(a Drunkard by trade).—Any person apprehending him and delivering him at this Post, or to any Officer in the army of the United States, shall receive the above reward, and all necessary charges.
N. Leonard, Lieut. 2d Reg. Art. & Eng.—Commanding. Fort Sumner, March 26, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE Subscribers, appointed Commissioners by the Hon. JONATHAN BOWMAN, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, to receive and examine the claims to the Estate of EBENEZER EMERSON,
late of Topsham, in said county, physician, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice, that six months are allowed the creditors of said estate to bring in their claims; and that they will attend on the business of their appointment at the house of GIDEON WALKER of said Topsham, on the last Monday of March, and the first Tuesday of the five following months, from 2 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
Jonathan R. Parker, William Wilson, Commissioners. Topsham, March 17th, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the
subscriber has been duly appointed Administrator on the Estate of
Capt. WILLIAM STANWOOD, late of Brunswick, in the county of Cumberland, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust by giving Bonds as the Law directs: He therefore desires all persons who have any demands on said Estate, to bring them in for settlement, and those who are indebted to make payment. Elisha Williams. Brunswick, March 24, 1800.
THE Commissioners appointed by
the Judge of Probate for the county of Kennebec, to receive and examine the claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of
BENJAMIN NOYES, late of New-Portland, so called, in said county, gentleman, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice, that five months are allowed by the said Judge of Probate, for the Creditors to bring in their claims, and prove their demands; and that the said Commissioners will attend for that service at the house of Mrs. PHEBE NOYES, in New-Portland aforesaid, on the last Monday of April, and the last Monday of the four following months, from one to five of the clock in the afternoon of said days.
Lemuel Williams, Simeon Cragin, Commissioners.
THE Subscribers, appointed Com-
missioners, by the Honorable JONATHAN BOWMAN, Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, to receive and examine the claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of
SUSANNAH REED, widow, late of Topsham, deceased; and six months being allowed for that purpose, hereby give notice, that they will attend the business of their appointment at the dwelling house of Capt. ALEXANDER ROGERS, in Topsham, on the last Friday of this and the five following months, from one to five o'clock, P. M.
William Randall, Arthur Hunter. Topsham, March 15, 1800.

MUSES.
IMPEACHMENT.
A SOLOLOQUY.
IMPEACH or not impeach, that is the question;—
Whether 'tis better Government should yield
To English claim the pirate Thomas Nash...
SALES BY AUCTION.
March 12—The sale of the following is postponed until Wednesday the 25th May next...
TO BE SOLD.
BY ORDER OF COURT.
ONE third part of a piece of Flatts Land, in Portland, in the county of Cumberland...
Also, another piece of Flatts Land, situate nearly opposite the house of Mr. Thomas Beck...
Also, a large lot of Land situate in King-street in the same Portland, with a dwelling House...
Also, the remainder of said lot last mentioned, and the buildings and appurtenances subject only to the life estate...
The above being all the real estate whereof the said Thomas died seized and possessed...
Dated at Portland, the third day of February, Anno Domini 1800.
Eleonora Cumming, Administratrix on said Estate.
A Farm to be Sold.
IN Freeport, lying between the Meeting-House and the Corner, so called, containing about twenty-seven acres of land...
Abia Chamberlin.
Freeport, March 19, 1800.
John F. Dyar,
HAS for Sale at his TOBACCO MANUFACTORY, sign of the African Prince, north side of the Market-House, Boston...
TOBACCO & SNUFF.
Pigtail, Fine Twist, Segars, Smoaking and Keg TOBACCO, &c.
Rappee and Scotch SNUFF, of a superior quality.
N. B. All orders punctually attended to, either in town or Country.
Boston, March 13, 1800.
John Hall & Co.
HAVE JUST RECEIVED, A general assortment of
DYE STUFFS, viz.
CAMWOOD, Madder, Log wood, OJ Vitriol, Roman do. Alum, Copperas, Aqua-Fortis, Arnatto, Crem. Tart. Cochineil, Nutgalls, Woad, Nicorag, ground, Tamerick, Archill, Roach Alum, Sugar of Lead.
With a general assortment of
Drugs & Medicines.
White Lead ground, Spanish Brown, Patent Yellow, Stone Yellow, Venetian Red, Spirits Turpentine per cask, &c. &c. Which are selling cheap for Cash or approved Credit (3 mo—91)
Boston, Jan. 14.
Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
ALL institutions deserve patronage from the public in proportion to their usefulness. The Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company is considered by many as coming under this denomination...
The rates of premium are from 35 to 75 cents on one hundred dollars, governed by the judgment of the Trustees...
Although the Policies are issued for seven years, it operates for any less time; as provision is made, that when the property insured shall be alienated by death, sale, or by any other means...
The fees arising from the policies, transfers, endorsements, forfeits and interest accruing thereon, will, in the whole time (in all probability) pay the expense of Office...
The calculations are made upon the whole number of buildings, consumed by fire in Boston for the term of forty years past, taken from the records of the Historical Society...
It is now thirteen months since the risks commenced, without any loss whatever. There is now 940,000 dollars insured in the Office...
By order of the President and Directors, Andrew Cunningham, Sec'y.
Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Office, No. 15, State-Street, Boston. March 7. (3W—99)
NIMROD.
WILL stand this season, the elegant horse called Nimrod, upwards of fifteen hands high. Said horse will stand this season at the stable of the subscriber in New Gloucester...
Terms, 1 dollar and 50 cents a leap, 3 dollars the season, and 3 dollars to warrant a foal.
Israel Smith.
New Gloucester, March 29th, 1800.
TO BE SOLD.
On advantageous terms and sufficient credit.
ANY One of the Townships granted by the Legislature to Bowdoin College, situated in the seventh range of Townships north of the Waldo Patent...
About 18,000 acres in the College Township, so called, being No. 3, in the first range above the Waldo Patent. There are fifteen families settled on this township...
William Martin, Elijah Kellogg, Isaac Parker, Committee of Trustees.
Portland, March 17, 1800.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
To the Honorable the Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court assembled.
THE Petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of the plantation of Brownfield, in the county of York, in the Commonwealth, humbly represents—That your Petitioners are greatly inconvenienced by reason of their present unincorporated situation...
Joseph Howard, William Webster, Amos Door, John B. Miller, Samuel Mansfield, Jonathan Gibson, Francis Kimball, John How, Zadock Wright, Zechariah Gibson, Dudley Bean, David Millen, Daniel Tyler, Timothy Gibson, Joshua Ames, Timothy Gibson, jun., James Howard, jun., William Lane, Joshua Snow, James Bean, John Lane, Asa Osgood, James Howard, Samuel Mansfield, jun., Wilson Howard, Thomas W. Wood.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In SENATE, January 15, 1800. On the Petition of JOSEPH HOWARD and others, inhabitants of Brownfield, in the county of York, praying that said plantation may be incorporated into a town:
ORDERED, That the Petitioners cause an attested copy of their Petition, with this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the Portland Gazette...
Sent down for concurrence, SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. In the House of Representatives, Jan. 15, 1800. Read and concurred. EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. True copy—Attest, EDWARD M'LANE, Clerk of Senate.
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled.
THE subscribers, living in that part of Brownfield which is situated on the east side of Saco River, in a grant of land called Pleasant Mountain Gore...
Elias Berry, Dean Osgood, his mark, Wright & Allen, Samuel Scotchings, Thomas Jellison, Joseph Walker, Benajah Walker, Supply Walker, Cummings Colby, Daniel Long, Jedediah Long, John Stickney, Benjamin Lord, Henry Berry, Joseph Walker, jun., Daniel Lowell, Moses Lowell, Henry Walker, Isaac Berry, Stephen Burbank, John Burbank, Daniel Gilman, Francis M'Kucick, Tristram Jordan, John Samson, Ezra Stites, Gilbert Warren, Cyrus Ingalls, George Lord, Jonathan Gilman, Ichabod Warren, Gardner Goodl, Daniel Hill, Thomas Veasey, Edmund Higgans, Samuel Harrington, Israel Burbank, Asa Osgood, Elisha Hammond, John Gilman, John Warren, Ichabod Warren, jun., James Bennet, John Bennet.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In SENATE, January 15, 1800. ON the petition of ELIAS BERRY and other inhabitants of a grant of land called Pleasant Mountain Gore...
Ordered, at the petitioners cause an attested copy of this petition, and this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in JENKS' GAZETTE...
Sent down for concurrence, SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. In the House of Representatives, Jan. 15, 1800. Read and concurred. EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. True copy. Attest— EDWARD M'LANE, Clerk of Senate.
A HOUSE AND LOT.
N. E. side of King-street to be sold—Inquire of the Printer. March 10.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
To the Honorable the SENATE and HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES, in General Court assembled.
THE Petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of that part of Brownfield lying between the southerly line of Fryeburgh, and that line called the line of the State of New-Hampshire...
Joseph Walker, Timothy Walker, Benajah Walker, John Bennet, Henry Y. B. Osgood, James Bennet, Supply Walker, jun., John Stickney, Joshua B. Osgood, James Bean, Asa Colby, Josiah Spring, Supply Walker, Asa Buck.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In Senate, Jan. 15, 1800.
ON the petition of JOSEPH WALKER and others, inhabitants of that part of the plantation of Brownfield lying between the southerly line of Fryeburgh, and that line called the line of the state of New-Hampshire...
ORDERED, That the Petitioners cause an attested copy of their petition, with this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the Portland Gazette...
Sent down for concurrence, SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. In the House of Representatives, Jan. 15, 1800. Read and concurred. EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. True copy—Attest, EDWARD M'LANE, Clerk of Senate.
THE nonresident proprietors of unimproved Lands in the town of Gray, are hereby notified that the same are taxed in the bills committed to me the subscriber, collector of the town of Gray aforesaid, for the year 1799, to collect in the respective sums following, viz.
Table with 5 columns: No. Lots, No. Acres, State tax, County tax, Town tax. It lists tax amounts for various lots in Gray, Maine.
If no person shall appear to discharge said taxes, and all necessary intervening charges, on or before Tuesday the 20th day of May next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, so much of said land as shall be sufficient to discharge the same, will then be sold at public auction...
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident Proprietors and Owners of Lands in the town of Shapleigh, in the county of York, that their lands are taxed in a tax bill, committed to me the subscriber, Collector of said town for the year 1798, to collect, viz.
Table with 5 columns: No. Lots, No. Acres, State tax, County tax, Town tax. It lists tax amounts for various lots in Shapleigh, Maine.
If no person shall appear to discharge said taxes and all necessary charges, on or before the Eighth day of April next, so much of said Lands will be sufficient to discharge the same will then be sold at Public Vendue, to the highest bidder...
Joseph Door, 3d. Collector. Shapleigh, Jan. 20th, 1800.
Take Notice.
THE copartnership under the firm of PURINGTON & HANSON, being the day dissolved by mutual agreement, all persons having on said firm, or are indebted thereto, are requested to settle their accounts and notes with DANIEL & SAMUEL HANSON...
Melnoch Purington, Samuel Hanson. Durham March 12, 1800.
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