Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1801-12-21 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
Appointed to publish the LAWS of the United States, for the District of Maine.
NUMBER 191.]
MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1801.
[VOLUME IV.]
NOTICE.
The Stockholders in the Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Company are hereby notified that their annual meeting for the choice of nine Directors for the ensuing year, will be held at their Office in Falmouth, on Tuesday the 5th day of January next, at 11 o'clock A. M. By order of the President and Directors. JOSEPH SWIFT, SECRETARY. Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Office, Dec. 14, 1801.
Union Library.
THE members of the Portland Union Library, are hereby notified, that their annual meeting will be held at Mechanics' Hall, Water-street, the 1st Friday in January, at 8 o'clock, P. M.—where a special and punctual attendance is requested. NATHAN PRATT, Librarian. Portland, 11th Dec. 1801.
BANKRUPTCY.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy has been awarded and issued against WILLIAM FENNELLY of Portland, in the District of Maine, Trader and Auctioneer, and the said William Fennelly, has been declared a Bankrupt, he is required to surrender himself, or the major part of them, on the sixteenth and on the thirtieth of December inst. and on the 20th of January next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon of each of said days, at the Commissioner's Office, Fifth-street, Portland, and make a full disclosure and discovery of all his estate and effects. When and where his Creditors are hereby notified to come, prepared to prove their debts, and at the second meeting, to choose an assignee or assignees; and at the last meeting, said Bankrupt is required to finish his examination.—And at said last meeting, any of the Creditors of said Bankrupt may be heard, if they shall think fit, before the Commissioners against the making or allowing of a certificate to the Judge of said district, to entitle said Bankrupt to a certificate of discharge.—All persons interested in said Bankrupt, are to make discovery, and those who have any of his effects, are to deliver the same to such persons only as the Commissioners shall appoint. EDWARD OXNARD, EBENEZER MAYO, JOSEPH TITCOMB, Commissioners. Portland, Dec. 10.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed assignee of the estate and effects of DAVID DUNNING, JUN. of Brunswick, in the District of Maine, a Bankrupt: all persons holding property of the said Dunning, are requested to surrender the same; and those indebted to him, to make immediate payment to BENJAMIN HASEY, Assignee. Topsham, Dec. 7, 1801.
PURSUANT to an order made by the Hon. DAVID SEWALL, Esq. Judge of the District Court, for the District of Maine, for enlarging the time for DAVID DUNNING, JUN. of Brunswick, in the district aforesaid, Trader, a Bankrupt, to surrender himself, and make a full disclosure of his Estate and Effects, for fifty days, to be computed from the fourth day of December instant.—The undersigned Commissioners hereby give notice, that we intend to meet on Monday the fourth day of January next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the Commissioner's Office, Fifth-street, Portland, in said District; where the said Bankrupt is required to surrender himself between the hours of ten in the morning and three in the afternoon of the said day, and make a full disclosure and discovery of his estate and effects, and finish his examination; and the creditors who have not already proved their debts, may then and there come and prove the same, and assent to, or dissent from, the allowance of his certificate. EDWARD OXNARD, EBENEZER MAYO, JOSEPH TITCOMB. Portland 5th Dec. 1801.
For Sale,
BY THE SUBSCRIBER. A FARM, situate plantation of Wales , county of Lincoln, containing 300 acres of Land, 100 of which is under improvement, and there is cut on said farm, 30 or 40 tons of hay in a year. It is well watered, wooded, &c. There is a House and two Barns on the farm—the house nearly finished. Also, 200 acres of LAND in Topsham , in said county. Likewise, the possession of 120 acres of LAND, with a House on the same, partly under improvement, lying in Thompsonborough , in the above county.—The whole or a part of which I will sell on reasonable terms for cash or approved credit. HEZEKIAH WYMAN. Topsham, Dec. 14.
Valuable Lands.
FOR SALE, from five hundred to seventeen thousand acres of LAND, situated upon that rich tract on the famous Piscataquis River , between Kennebec and Penobscot.—This Land is lotted, and proves to be of a superior quality—and is very commodious for an immediate settlement: having excellent Mill Sites about twenty acres of Trees felled, and a road from Howland to Banger . The Title is derived from the Government, and will be perfect, and to an entire satisfaction of the purchasers. It will be sold at a reduced price for cash or good security. Also—About thirty good fishing LOTS (hundred acres each) in the town of Jay ; in which town there are upwards of a hundred Families.—For further particulars inquire of the Printer, or of JOSEPH E. FOXCRAFT. Newcastle, Nov. 6. (B.—low)
A blue ratteen Wrapper, WAS left in a house between Fifth street and Union-Hall, some time since. As the owner cannot recollect the house, any person having it in their possession, and will leave it at the Gazette Office, shall be rewarded for their trouble. Dec. 7.
60 Dollars,
IN Bank Bill, wrapped in a piece of paper, was LOST in or near Forest-street.—If any person has found the same and will return it to the subscriber, shall receive TEN DOLLARS Reward. JOHN MANN. Portland, Dec. 7.
From the New-York Commercial Advertiser.
NUMBER X.
To the President of the United States.
SIR, FROM the preceding observations, it is obvious how extremely impertinent and sophistical is the reasoning you employ to justify the principle of distributing offices among parties. You do not indeed employ assertions, but your interrogatories and hypothetical language, carry with them all the effect of direct affirmation. "If the will of the nation manifested by their various elections, calls for an administration of government according with the opinions of those elected; if, for the fulfilment of that will, displacements are necessary."—Admit the whole of these suppositions, the intention of the nation extends no further than to the legislature and the heads of departments, who are invested with discretionary powers; for as to all other officers whose functions are precisely marked, their conduct must accord only with the laws and constitution. Hence displacements, in such of fices cannot be necessary—they may be convenient for private benefit or party views—but the public good, the only ground of national will, forbids such changes. It is wholly immaterial to the public, whether A, B or C, fills an office—all that the national will requires is, a faithful and diligent performance of the duties. All that a President has to do, upon entering his office, is to inquire whether the public functionaries fulfil the intention of the law, not whether they are of this or that sect in politics or religion.
Hence we observe that your suggestion, that the national will calls for displacements, is utterly groundless. Did the national will demand a removal of a Miller, a Harrison, a Sands, a Chester, for the sake of the public good? Were public duties ever performed with more fidelity, ability and diligence, than those entrusted to their care? Are the men to be found on earth, who are more distinguished for probity, industry, and pure morals; for private virtue, and public respectability? And do not most of the characters you have displaced, hold the first place in the public estimation? Even had you placed in the same offices, men of equally respectable and unexceptionable character, the public would not have been better served than before, and of course the objects of government did not call for the changes. The principle avowed in your answer, even under the most favorable and different practice, is a mockery of common sense, and an affront to the nation over which you preside. But, when to this consideration is added the practice of filling the offices with men less respectable, less able, less esteemed in private life and less vested in public business, which has been the case in more than half the instances of new appointments; where can the honest patriot find words to express his indignation at this prostitution of the powers of government? Did the national will, Sir, call upon you to displace two Collectors in Connecticut, men of unquestionable character & fits for the office, men of good morals, integrity, fidelity, & in their place substitute an old, infirm man, just lo-king into his grave, and an unprincipled debauchee, who sacrificed the happiness of an amiable wife to his brutal desires; who holds in contempt the obligations of marriage and parental affection, and who is known to be in embarrassed circumstances? Did the national will require you to recall from a foreign court, a man of acknowledged talents and worth, and substitute a profligate who has long since lost the character of a gentleman among his fellow citizens, a man without honor or virtue, a low debauchee, who, by filing his house with tawny biffs, and other vile means, sunk an excellent wife prematurely into her grave? I could fill a sheet with such interrogatories, faithfully drawn from facts and the register of your appointments; but I turn, disguised, from a scene, where every figure that presents itself is hideous deformity.
Are you then the man of the people? Are you then the learned philosopher, the pure patriot and republican, who was to bring back our government from its anti-republican tendencies, and administer it upon true constitutional principles? A republican, professing to have a single eye to the public good, and equal rights, but acknowledging himself the chief of a party, announcing at his entrance into office, that party considerations should influence him in the distribution of offices, declaring that party principles are qualifications for places of emolument, that such principles create a right in private citizens or parties to a due participation of offices; and proceeding to practise on such principles, displacing men of the best character, to make way for profligate adherents, bankrupts and blasphemers! Is this the age of reason, Sir? Is this the luminous era of triumphant republicanism, which has called forth the hosts of your supporters at every tipling shop in the country? And are the people still so blind as to be the dupes of hypocritical professions? Will they not discover the cloven foot? Will they not see that the public interest is a secondary consideration, and that all the zeal about republican principles and equal rights has been the smoke, under cover of
which, bold, intriguing, hungry office-seekers have taken possession of the best offices in the gift of government?
"Have they not rack'd their whole inventions, To find their basis on poils and puffs; Yet have on hand, as well deserving, Ten thousand bairds, left for starving?" M T INDAL.
"Dispute and pray, and fight and groan, For public good, and mean their own." I SAID .
You have told us, Sir, (Notes on Virginia, Quere. 13th) that "Mankind soon learn to make interest of all of every right and power which they possess or may assume." Again, "the public money and public liberty will soon be discovered to be sources of wealth and dominion to those who hold them; distinguished too by this tempting circumstance, that they are the instrument as well as the object of acquisition." You then cite the saying of Cæsar, "with money we will get men, and with men we will get money." And note your own words in the following passage: "Our Assembly [of Virginia] should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voice of the people, and make them pay the price."
When you committed these excell at remarks to paper, you doubtless might have said in sincerity, "What! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" But whatever was then, or may be now, the purity of your intentions, your principles lead directly to the effects here stated, and in every period of four years they will propel us forward an age in corruption.
Egypt.
POLITICAL REFLECTIONS.
Relative to Egypt, by J. Batson, Esq. his Britannic Majesty's Consul General in Egypt, and attached to the Commander in Chief, during the late glorious campaign.
The situation of Egypt relative to other parts of the globe.
EGYPT communicates with the Coasts of Syria, Caramania, Natolia, and the coasts of the Black Sea; with the Coasts of Greece, of Italy, and France; with the Coasts of Spain, the Northern Coast of Africa, and all the Islands of the Mediterranean, with the Coasts of Arabia Felix, of the Gulphs of Persia and Bengal, the Eastern Coasts of Africa, Madagascar, and the Cape of Good Hope, in forty days; with the Coasts of Sumatra, Java, Japan, and China; the Philippines, the Coast of Brazil, and great part of America; with all the interior parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe, in ninety days: it approaches England to her possessions in the East Indies, by a communication of six days; and in one hundred days may send her to the farthest corners of the earth.
These things are not merely possible, but from natural causes, providentially and periodically revolving, often practicable and certain.
Commerce of Egypt.
Having enumerated with what wonderful celerity Egypt by reason of its favoured position can communicate with every other country of the Globe, I may reasonably take this advantage likewise to the account of its commerce, for what advantages do not derive to commerce from brevity and expedition? But Egypt has other advantages as important as these; she has the same facility of intercourse internally, and can convey her produce and importations to every town and village in the country, with equal promptitude and ease. The Nile provides for this; but Egypt has a more essential obligation to the Nile.
Population and Commercial Resources.
Were it needful, I would enter into a detail of the various productions of Egypt; but sufficient for the present purpose may be to aver from observation of my own, that having supplied her natural wants, she can find annually a thousand ships, abroad with her superfluous productions.
She is the magazine of all the trade of Yemen; the mart of all the coffee and rich gums of that proud Territory; she is the magazine of all the interior parts of Africa, producing gold dust, ivory, senna, drugs; she is the resort of all the traders of the World; it seems a common centre of universal commerce; the coin of all the world is current here.
Importance of the situation of Egypt to England, simply in subservience to the political and commercial correspondence with India.
A communication with India by the Red Sea may be established, which, in its consequences, will have this operation: it will create a call for the manufactures of Bengal principally, which will contribute to the prosperity of that country. It will, in exchange supply them with a large return of specie, the sinew of our importance in India. It will deduct from that of the French, by taking away the foundation of their trade. It will afford a channel of expeditious correspondence, which is the soul of government, between England and the East Indies; and in the event of a sudden war, may enable us to conquer our rivals, and add their possessions to our own. That event did happen, and the establishment I formed with these
views, was the vehicle of our salvation in India; was the vehicle of our preservation in the West Indies; was the instrument of gaining that equivalent we had to offer in our negotiation for peace; was a circumstance which had a considerable share in saving our national honour. These should be earnestly of its future importance; but more may be said. Very little, indeed, need now be added, to prove the communication by Egypt to be a necessary link in the chain of our connection with India. It will appear with more effect, in a view of the importance of this situation to France. I foresee, that the topic is replete with matter of arduous speculation.
Importance of Egypt to France.
Before the fate of America was decided, I took it into my head to argue thus—1780; but the argument was not without extraneous provocation.
Should France be sensible of the advantage of adding Egypt to her dominions, and were tempted to try the conquest of it; supposing her triumphant in the present contest upon the sea; what power on earth could prevent her designs? But the question being yet doubtful as to its issue, this might be said, "Were France to make the best use of her present power, her plan would be to leave America to her fate; to preserve her present naval consideration entire; and to secure the neutrality of England to this more plausible design. It will bear investigation." For America, independent, may grow to be a more dangerous enemy to France than England is; first, from the proximity of her power to the French Islands; and next, from the irreconcilable principles of American policy with the known maxims of the French government. Because, France will secure, without fighting, what all her efforts have never obtained—to say, "as strong a fleet as England, and a colony more than adequate to all her islands, and all her projects from American connections." Because the commercial interests of England and France, drawing thence to opposite points, may remove the ancient bone of contention. Because every consideration confpires in such a system to aggrandize the power, increase the wealth, and ensure the tranquillity of France. The navigation is short and safe. The colony subject neither to hurricanes, sickness nor earthquakes. No rival in the way of her commercial operations. No enemy to intercept her succours, in case of alarm. No need of transporting subsistence to her forces when there. Were all this to be obtained, would not France take it for a doubtful cause? Would not England accede to it, to purchase her defection from America? The idea of recovering America from an actual uncertain state of the war, would have weight with England; but in contemplation of her East India possessions, and the prospect of danger to these from the growing power of America, in any future contentions, ought to dispose her for such an accommodation. France would have nothing to fear from the resentment of America, because it must be the interest of England to deprive her of her strength. The accession of Egypt to France might be disarmed of its danger to England, by an arrangement which should secure the navigation of the Red Sea exclusively to England; and nature has concurred in every other disqualification. The independency of America or even an unrestricted trade, which has already been offered to them, are fraught with mischief to the interests of England; the rather than grant them would vow perpetual war with France. But this opportunity is gone: at the time I now write, America is independent. Let us revert to our text.
The importance of this situation to France is, I think, transcendently shown in the reflections we have just read. England must now look with a jealous eye to the machinations of France,
Conquest of Egypt by France.
There is a long preliminary to be settled before this can be attempted with any certainty of effect. The temptation is, however, paramount to all.
When I said, that the independency of America, or even an unrestricted trade allowed to them, was pregnant with mischief to England, I confess that I suspected from the least of them almost unavoidable perdition to our settlements in the East Indies. The effect of the former I considered to be nearer; but I looked for the same consequences, more remote in the prospect even from the latter: I would rather have vowed perpetual war to France.
Some reasons will be expected from me, I suppose, for this inveterate predilection. If the latter may be vindicated by argument, the first, of course, will speak for itself; I shall only speak of the latter. Then, I say, an unrestricted trade will admit the ships of America into all the ports in the East Indies; and this intercourse with our settlements will produce the effect. What is the state of the English possessions in the East Indies? A country almost equal in extent to all Europe, and richer in its natural resources. An army of one hundred and twenty thousand men, well disciplined. A revenue badly administered, capable of defraying such an army; of defraying the civil government; and still of remitting millions sterling annually to England. At a di-

rance speaking all coercion. France and America nearer to them than England, and ever anxious to favor their defection.
With such truth to revolve in minds already complaining of the arbitrary exercise of authority, the Americans arrive among them free, exalting, broke loose from all restraints. Need any thing be added?
But I do not insist upon this, as a sole and indispensable incentive: it has as a portentous look, no doubt, and may come in as a cause, or be concomitant to the effect: I construct it upon the degeneracy & degradation of the Turks; upon the weakness of the Egyptians; upon the common policy of Empires and of States; and upon its general compatibility with the views and interests of every European Maritime State encompassing the Mediterranean Sea.
These considerations united (and who shall say they have no existence in fact?) the opposition of England, and of all who may be disposed to join her, will fail in their best efforts to prevent it.
Must I support my propositions by argument? Then I appeal to the state of the Turkish Empire; an empire dismembered by revolt; despoiled of revenue; having no resources; their military spirit debased; their fleet degraded; their power a phantom; their government declining under its constitutional defects. And it is still for me to prove that the nature of all power is to assert itself; to encroach where it can! Then appeal to the fate of Poland; appeal to America; appeal to the Crimea; appeal to Holland; appeal to the history of the World. I believe there is an essential principal in the doctrine of power: it is another atmosphere; it can know no void; it rushes in upon every recess; it is dominion's tide; its causes float up in the passions and distempers of men.
In this view, were the powers of Austria and Russia to press in upon the yielding provinces of the Turk; France, unable to oppose them, would embrace the alternative and join in the spoil: Egypt would be the natural lot of France; and Russia and Austria, elated and fared with the division of the rest, applying to the advantages contained in the completion of these events, conspire, concert, and mutually abet the general and separate interests of the whole.
I have before described the defenceless state of Egypt, as to its proper resources; and now, the protection they derived from their nominal dependence on the Porte, is lost in the extinction of that power itself. Who, then, is to resist the powers which may assail her?
If Venice is to recover a portion of her lost commerce and cities; if Spain, and Genoa, and Malta, assured by the prospect of gain to themselves, from the consequences of success in these schemes, should join their confederate force to the Fleets of France; would England finally oppose them? Or who is to oppose them with any effect?
France, in possession of Egypt, would possess the master key to all the trading Nations of the Earth. Enlightened, as the times are, in the general arts of navigation and commerce, she might make it the emporium of the world; she might make it the awe of the Eastern world, by the facility she would command of transporting her forces thither, by surprise, in any number, and at any time; and England would hold her possessions in India, at the mercy of France.
ENDORSE.
WASHINGTON, DEC. 7.
[Excerpt of a letter.]
A QUORUM of both branches of the National Legislature has been formed. The Hon. Abraham Baldwin, of Georgia, has been chosen President pro tem. of the Senate; the Vice President not having arrived. The Hon. Nathaniel Macon, has been elected Speaker of the House; he had 53 votes, the Hon. J. A. Bayard 26, and the Hon. S. Smith, of Maryland 2; Mr. John Beckley has been chosen Clerk; he had 57 votes, Mr. Olwald 29. The Hon. Messrs. Henderdon and Jackson of the Senate, and the Hon. Messrs. Smith (of M.) Griswold and Davis, of the House, were appointed to wait on the President, which service they performed, and reported, that he "will make a communication, by message, tomorrow." It is said, it is intended the session shall be short; three elaborate Reports are to come from the Heads of the Departments.
President's Message.
From Washington, Dec. 8.
This day, at 12 o'clock, the following Message was delivered to each House, by Mr. Lewis, Secretary to the President.
MESSAGE of the PRESIDENT of the United States to both Houses of CONGRESS.
SIR,
December 3, 1801.
THE circumstances under which we find ourselves at this place rendering inconvenient the mode heretofore practiced, of making by personal address the first communications between the Legislative and Executive branches, I have adopted that by Message, as used on all subsequent occasions through the session. In doing this, I have had principal regard to the convenience of the legislature, to the economy of their time, to their relief from the embarrassment of immediate answers, on subjects not yet fully before them, and to the benefits thence resulting to the public affairs. Trusting that a procedure, founded in these motives, will meet their approbation, I beg leave, through you, Sir, to communicate the inclosed message with
the documents accompanying it, to the honorable the House of Representatives, and pray you to accept, for yourself and them, the homage of my high respect and consideration.
TH: JEFFERSON.
The Honorable the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives,
IT is a circumstance of sincere gratification to me, that on meeting the great council of the nation, I am able to announce to them on grounds of reasonable certainty, that the wars and troubles, which have for so many years afflicted our sister nations, have at length come to an end; & that the communications of peace & commerce are once more opening among them. Whilst we devoutly return thanks to the beneficent being who has been pleased to breathe into them the spirit of conciliation and give us, we are bound with peculiar gratitude to be thankful to him that our own has been preserved through so perilous a season, and ourselves permitted quietly to cultivate the earth, and to practise and improve those arts which tend to increase our comforts. The assurances indeed of friendly disposition received from all the powers with whom we have principal relations, had inspired a confidence that our peace with them would not have been disturbed. But a cessation of the irregularities which had afflicted the commerce of neutral nations, and of the irritations and injuries produced by them, cannot but add to this confidence; and strengthens, at the same time, the hope, that wrongs committed on unoffending friends, under a pressure of circumstances, will now be reviewed with candor; and will be considered as founding just claims of retribution for the past, and new assurance for the future. Among our Indian neighbors also a spirit of peace and friendship generally prevails; and I am happy to inform you that the continued efforts to introduce among them the implements and the practice of husbandry, and of the household arts, have not been without success: That they are become more and more sensible of the superiority of this dependence for clothing and subsistence, over the precarious resources of hunting and fishing: And already we are able to announce that, instead of that constant diminution of numbers produced by their wars and their wants, some of them begin to experience an increase of population.
To this state of general peace with which we have been blessed, one only exception exists. Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary states, had come forward with demands ungrounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war, on our failure to comply before a given day. The style of the demand admitted but one answer. I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean, with assurances to that power of our sincere desire to remain in peace; but with orders to protect our commerce against the threatened attack. The measure was reasonable and salutary. The Bey had already declared war in form. His cruisers were out. Two had arrived at Gibraltar. Our commerce in the Mediterranean was blockaded; and that of the Atlantic in peril. The arrival of our squadron dispelled the danger. One of the Tripolitan cruisers having fallen in with and engaged the small schooner Enterprise, commanded by Lt. Sterret, which had gone out as a tender to our larger vessels, was captured, after a heavy slaughter of her men, without the loss of a single one on our part. The bravery exhibited by our citizens on that element will, I trust, be a testimony to the world, that it is not a want of that virtue, which makes us seek their peace; but a conscientious desire to direct the energies of our nation to the multiplication of the human race; and not in its destruction. Unauthorised by the constitution, without the sanction of Congress, to go beyond the line of defence, the vessel being disabled from committing further hostilities, was liberated with its crew.
The legislature will doubtless consider whether, by authorising measures of offence also, they will place our force on an equal footing with that of its adversaries. I communicate all material information on this subject, that in the exercise of the important function confided by the Constitution to the legislature exclusively, their judgement may form itself on a knowledge and consideration of every circumstance of weight.
I wish I could say that our situation with all the other Barbary States was entirely satisfactory. Discovering that some delays had taken place in the performance of certain articles stipulated by us, I thought it my duty by immediate measures for fulfilling them, to vindicate to ourselves the right of considering the effect of departure from stipulation on their side. From the papers which will be laid before you, it will be enabled to judge, whether our treaties have been regarded by them as fixing at all the measure of their demands, or as guarding against the exercise of force our vessels within their power; and to consider how far it will be safe and expedient to leave our affairs with them in their present posture.
I lay before you the result of the census lately taken of our inhabitants, to a conformity with which we are to reduce the ensuing rates of representation and taxation. You will perceive that the increase of numbers, during the last ten years, proceeding in geometrical ratio, promises a duplication in little more than twenty two years. We contemplate this rapid growth, and the prospect it holds up to us, not with a view to the injuries it may enable us to do to others in some future day, but to the settlement of the extensive country still remaining
vacant within our limits, to the multiplication of men, susceptible of happiness, educated in the love of order, habituated to self-government, and valuing its blessings above all price.
Other circumstances combined with the increase of numbers, have produced an augmentation of revenue arising from consumption, in a ratio far beyond that of population alone; and though the changes in foreign relations, now taking place so desirably for the whole world, may for a season affect this branch of revenue, yet weighing all probabilities of expense, as well as of income, there is reasonable ground of confidence that we may now safely dispense with all the internal taxes, comprehending excises, stamps, auctions, licenses, carriages and refined sugars; to which the postage on newspapers may be added to facilitate the progress of information; and that the remaining sources of revenue will be sufficient to provide for the support of government, to pay the interest of the public debts, and to discharge the principals in shorter periods than the laws, or the general expectation had contemplated. War, indeed, and untoward events, may change this prospect of things, and call for expenses which the imposts could not meet. But sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not perhaps, happen, but from the temptations offered by that treasure.
These views, however, of reducing our burdens, are formed on the expectation, that a sensible, and at the same time, salutary reduction may take place in our habitual expenditures. For this purpose, those of the civil government, the army and navy, will need revival. When we consider, that this government is charged with the external and mutual relations only of these states; that the states themselves have principal care of our persons, our property, and our reputation; constituting the great field of human concerns, we may well doubt whether our organization is not too complicated, too expensive; whether offices and officers have not been multiplied unnecessarily, and sometimes injudiciously to the service they were meant to promote. I will cause to be laid before you an essay towards a statement, of those who, under public employment of various kinds, draw money from the treasury, or from our citizens. Time has not permitted a perfect enumeration, the ramifications of office being too multiplied and remote to be completely traced in a first trial. Among those who are dependent on executive discretion, I have begun the reduction of what was deemed unnecessary. The expenses of diplomatic agency have been considerably diminished. The inspectors of internal revenue, who were found to obstruct the accountability of the institution, have been discontinued. Several agencies, created by executive authority, on salaries fixed by that authority, have been suppressed, and would suggest the expediency of regulating that power by law, so as to subject its exercises to legislative inspection and sanction. Other reformations of the same kind will be pursued with that caution which is requisite, in removing useful things, not to injure what is retained. But the great mass of public offices is established by law, and therefore by law alone can be abolished. Should the legislature think it expedient to put this roll in review, & to try all its parts by the test of public utility, they may be assured of every aid and light which executive information can yield. Considering the general tendency to multiply offices and dependencies, and to increase expense to the ultimate term of burthen which the citizen can bear, it behoves us to avail ourselves of every occasion which presents itself for taking off the surcharge; that it never may be seen here that, after leaving to labor the smallest portion of its earnings on which it can subsist, government shall itself consume the residue of what it was instituted to guard.
In our care too of the public contributions entrusted to our direction, it would be prudent to multiply barriers against their dissipation, by appropriating specific sums to every specific purpose susceptible of definition, by disallowing all appropriations of money varying from the appropriation in object or transcending it in amount; by reducing the undefined field of contingencies, and thereby circumscribing discretionary powers over money; and by bringing back to a single department all accountabilities for money, where the examination may be prompt, efficacious and uniform.
An account of the receipts and expenditures of the last year, as prepared by the secretary of the Treasury, will as usual, be laid before you. The success, which has attended the late sales of the public lands, shews that with attention, they may be made an important source of receipt. Among the payments these made in discharge of the principal and interest of the national debt, will shew that the public faith has been exactly maintained. To these will be added an estimate of appropriations necessary for the ensuing year. This last will of course be affected by such modifications of the system of expense as you shall think proper to adopt.
A statement has been formed by the Secretary at War on mature consideration of all the posts and stations where garrisons will be expedient, and of the number of men requisite for each garrison. The whole amount is considerably short of the present military establishment. For the surplus no particular use can be pointed out. For defence against invasion, their number is as nothing; nor is it considered needful or safe that a standing army should be kept up, in time of peace, for that purpose. Uncertain as we must ever be of the particular point in our circumference where an enemy may choose
to invade us, the only force which can be ready at every point, and competent to oppose them, is the body of neighboring citizens, as formed into a militia. On these, collected from the parts most convenient, in numbers proportioned to the invading force, it is the best to rely not only to meet the first attack, but if it threatens to be permanent, to maintain the defence until regulars may be engaged to relieve them. These considerations render it important that we should, at every session, continue to amend the defects, which from time to time shew themselves, in the laws for regulating the militia, until they are sufficiently perfect; nor should we now or at any time, separate, until we can say we have done every thing for the militia, which we could do, were an enemy at our door.
The provision of military stores on hand will be laid before you, that you may judge of the additions still requisite.
With respect to the extent to which our naval preparations should be carried, some difference of opinion may be expected to appear: But just attention to the circumstances of every part of the union will doubtless reconcile all. A small force will probably continue to be wanted for actual service in the Mediterranean. Whatever annual sum beyond that you may think proper to appropriate to naval preparations, would, perhaps, be better employed in providing those articles which may be kept without waste or consumption, and be in readiness when any exigence calls them into use. Progress has been made, as will appear by papers now communicated, in providing materials for the seventy-four gun ships as directed by law.
How far the authority given by the legislature for procuring and establishing fires for naval purposes, has been perfectly understood and pursued in the execution, admits of some doubt. A statement of the expenses already incurred on that subject shall be laid before you. I have in certain cases suspended or slackened these expenditures that the legislature might determine whether so many yards are necessary as have been contemplated. The works at this place are among those permitted to go on: And 5 of the seven frigates directed to be laid up here, have been brought and laid up here, where, besides the safety of their position, they are under the eye of the executive administration, as well as of its agents, and where yourselves, also will be guided by your own view in the legislative provision respecting them, which may from time to time be necessary. They are preserved in such condition, as well as vessels as whatever belongs to them, as to be at all times ready for sea on a short warning. Two others are yet to be laid up, to soon as they shall have received the repairs requisite to put them also into sound condition. As a superintending officer will be necessary at each yard, his duties and emoluments, hitherto fixed by the Executive, will be a more proper subject for legislation. A communication will also be made of our progress in the execution of the law respecting the vessels directed to be sold.
The fortifications of our harbours, more or less advanced, present considerations of great difficulty. While some of them are on a scale sufficiently proportioned to the advantages of their position, to the efficacy of the protection, and the importance of the points within it, others are so extensive, will cost so much in their first erection, so much in their maintenance, and require such a force to garrison them as to make it questionable what is best now to be done. A statement of those commenced or conjectured, of the expenses already incurred, and estimates of their future cost, as far as can be foreseen, shall be laid before you, that you may be enabled to judge whether any alteration is necessary in the laws respecting this subject.
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity are then most thriving, when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrasments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed. If in the course of your observations or inquiries, they should appear to need any aid, within the limits of our constitutional powers, your sense of their importance is a sufficient assurance they will occupy your attention. We can not, indeed, but all feel an anxious solicitude for the difficulties under which our carrying trade will soon be placed. How far it can be relieved, otherwise than by time, is a subject of important consideration.
The Judiciary system of the United States, and especially that portion of it recently erected, will, of course, present itself to the contemplation of Congress; and that they may be able to judge of the proportion which the institution bears to the business it has to perform, I have caused to be procured from the several states, and now lay before Congress, an exact statement of all the causes decided since the first establishment of the courts, and of those which were depending when additional courts and judges were brought in to their aid.
And while on the judiciary organization, it will be worthy your consideration whether the protection of the inestimable institution of juries has been extended to all the cases involving the security of our persons and property. Their impartial selection also being essential to their value, we ought farther to consider whether that is sufficiently secured in those states, where they are named by a marshal depending on executive will, or designated by the court, or by officers dependent on them.
I cannot omit recommending a revision of laws on the subject of naturalization. Considering the ordinary chances of human life, a denial of citizenship under a residence of fourteen years, is a denial to a great proportion of those who seek it; and controls a policy pursued from their first settlement, by many of these states.

and will be of consequence to their prosperity. And shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress, that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe? The Constitution, indeed, has wisely provided, that for a violation to certain offices of important trust, a residence shall be required, sufficient to develop character and ability. But might not the general character and capabilities of a citizen be falsely communicated to every one manifesting a bona fide purpose of embarking his life and fortunes permanently with us? with restrictions, perhaps to guard against the fraudulent usurpation of our flag; an abuse which brings so much embarrassment and loss on the genuine citizen, and so much danger to the nation of being involved in war, that no endeavor should be spared to detect and suppress it.  These fellow citizens, are the matters respecting the state of the nation, which I have thought of importance to be submitted to your consideration at this time. Some others of less moment, or not yet ready for communication, will be the subject of separate messages. I am happy in this opportunity of committing the arduous affairs of our government to the collected wisdom of the unadulterated will of the people on my part to inform, as far as in my power, the legislative judgment; nor to carry that judgement into faithful execution. The prudence and temperance of your discussions will promote, within your own walls, that conciliation which so much beholds national conclusion; and by its example, will encourage among our constituents that progress of opinion which is tending to unite them in object and in will. That all should be satisfied with any one order of things is not to be expected; but I indulge the pleasing persuasion, that the great body of our citizens will cordially concur, in honest & disinterested efforts, which have for their object to preserve the general & state governments in their constitutional form and equilibrium; to maintain peace abroad, and order and obedience to the laws at home; to establish principles and practice of administration favourable to the security of liberty and property, and to reduce expenses to what is necessary for the useful purposes of government.  TH: JEFFERSON.
St. John the Evangelist.  THE Festival of St. John the Evangelist, will be celebrated by the Portland Lodge of Ancient Masons, at their new Hall, on the Evening of the 28th inst. when the Hall will be dedicated. The Members are required to attend; and sojourning Brethren are invited.—Tickets will be furnished by the Secretary—The Brethren are requested to attend at 5 o'clock precisely.—By order of the Right Worshipful Master, JOSEPH COFFIN BOYD, SECRETARY. Portland, Dec. 18, 1801.
John Coe,  INFORMS his customers and the public in general, that he has received an additional supply of fresh DRUGS & MEDICINES, which are for sale at No 4, Fifth-street, on reasonable terms for cash or approved credit.  ALSO, WINES, SPICES, &c. &c. A constant supply of Wheaton's Jaundice Bitters . Dec. 21.
Book and Stationary Store, NO. 8, JONES' ROW, FISH-STREET,  Jenkins & Clark,  INFORM the public, that having made arrangements to be provided with a constant and general assortment of BOOKS, STATIONARY, and other articles connected with their branches of business; and also for carrying on the BLANK BOOK manufactory, they will be happy to receive the commands of all those who may please to favor them with their custom, either in the wholesale or retail line.—Constant attendance will be given from early in the morning until 9 o'clock in the evening; and the most punctilious attention paid to the smallest favors.  They have just received by the latest arrivals, a fresh supply of new and valuable  BOOKS.
Among which are—Bacon's Abridgement, 7 vol. Dunford and East's Reports, 8 vol.; Stranges's do. 2 vols.; Cowper's do. 2 vols.; Elphinstone's do. 2 vols.; Burn's Law Dictionary; Impsey's Modern Pleader; Crown Circuit Companion; Attorney's new Pocket Book; Pugh's Insurance, with an Appendix; Bibliotheca Legum Anglie; Laws of the United States, 4 vols.; Laws of Massachusetts, 3 vols.  Josephus' Works, 4to. with plates; and in 12 mo.; Burket's Exposition of the New Testament; Stackhouse's History of the Bible; Hunter's Sacred Biography; Adams' View of Religions.  Shakespeare's Works, with explanatory Notes, and an Index to the remarkable passages, embellished with a striking likeness of the author, 8 vo. Also, common editions of the same; Hume's History of England; Goldsmith's do.; Millot's General History; Bowditch's Life of Johnson; Jefferson's Notes; Spectator; Thompson's Works; Suidas on Nature; History of France, &c. &c. with a great variety of other publications in the various branches of literature.  ALSO,
Stationary, & Fancy Articles  American and English Folio Bibles, with Notes and Plates. 50 Quarto do. of different prices. 20 doz. common American and Scotch do. Also Cane's preaching do. with notes; and a few pocket do. 100 Testaments, of different prices. 150 Watts' Psalms and Hymns, new edition. 100 Belknap's Psalms and Hymns, of a new and neat edition. 6 doz. Perry's Dictionary; and a few of most other kinds now extant. American Preceptors—Webster's 3d Part—Columbian Orator—Spelling Books—Child's Companion—Young Ladies' Accident— and other kinds of School Books, by the gross, dozen or single. 150 reams Writing Paper, of different prices. 100 Quills, of various qualities. 100 Powder, and Playing Cards, per quantity. 12 gross different priced Children's Books. Few gross assorted Lead Pencils. 12 dozen Morocco Pocket Books—some very elegant. 20 dozen Pocket and Desk Knives—a few new patent do. Different sized Slates. A variety of Razors—Razor Strops—Shaving and Powder Boxes—Scissors—Combs—Spectacles—Tooth Brushes—Snuff—Segar Cases, and Wafer Seals. Desk and Pocket Inkstands—a few dozen common do.—Back Gammon Tables—Cribbage Boards. Paint Boxes—Pallets—Camel's hair Pencils—India Ink and Rubner. Marking Instruments—Watch Keys, Seals, and Chains—Lockets and Necklaces—Silver and plated Pencils—Cases—Portable Drums. A few sets newest fashioned Coat Buttons—and a few pair elegant Silk Suspenders. Best double distilled Lavender Water—Roll and Pot Pomatum, of a superior quality. Superfine Red and Black Sealing Wax—Best glazed red and colored Wafers, &c. &c.
Seamen's Articles.  Quadrants of different qualities—Maps & Charts—Scales and Dividers—Log Books—Journals—Naval Gazetteer—Practical Navigator—Moore's Assistant—Coast Pilot—Seamen's Blank Books, &c. &c.  Account Books,  Of every description, manufactured at said store; and a general assortment kept constantly on hand.  Blanks and Stamps,  Of almost every description, kept for sale as above.  ALSO,  Almanacks for 1802,  By wholesale and retail.—Among which are, the genuine Farmer's, by R. B. Thomas—Isaiah Thomas's—Low's, and Jenks'.  LIKEWISE, THE MASSACHUSETTS' REGISTER, AND UNITED STATES' CALENDAR, Portland, Dec. 21.
Wanted,  A SCHOOL-MASTER, to keep school at a place called Saccarappa, in Falmouth, for four or five months. Any person who can produce good recommendations, and is willing to keep a school in that place by suitable encouragement, will please to apply to ENOCH FREEMAN, NATHANIEL HATCH, or WILLIAM LAMB. Saccarappa, Dec. 5, 1801.
Take Notice!
M C LELLAN & BROWN, importers of ENGLISH, SCOTCH, & HARD-WARE GOODS, direct from the Manufactories, invite their friends and others in the country, to call at their Wholesale and Retail Store, No 3 & 4, Jones' Row, Fifth-street Portland—where they may see for themselves the very easy terms on which they may be supplied with all kinds of Goods.  One of the company visited Europe in person, and selected the Goods on the spot, which is well known to be a material point; they propose from time to time to pursue every proper measure to accommodate their customers on as generous terms as at any store in Boston.  The following articles are a part of their present stock.  BROADCLOTHS, COATINGS, CASSIMERES, SWANSDOWNS, FLANNELS, AND BAIZES, } an extensive assortment.  WILDBORES, CAMBLETS, BOMBAZETS, DURANTS, SHALLOONS, TAMINYS, CALAMANCOS, MOREENS, AND FLORENTINES, } do.  HOSIERY, worsted, silk, and cotton—Men's Women's and Youth's.  CALICOES, an extensive variety.  DIMITYS, well assorted.  COTTON CAMBRICS, figured and plain.  SHAWLS AND HANDKERCHIEFS, silk, cotton, and linen.  IRISH LINENS AND CHECKS.  RIBBONS, satin, farset, and china—handsomely assorted.  VELVETS, GALOONS, AND FERRETS.  TAPES, diaper and imperial; BOBBINS.  HATS, general assorted.  THREADS, white and colored.  TWIST AND SEWING SILK, black, and assorted colored.
HARDWARE.  BUTTONS, a great variety, of the newest fashion.  Shovels and Tongs, Pryne Pans, Belt Iron Shovels, Warming Pans, Hammers, Drawing Knives, Saws—well assorted.  Plane Irons, Chisels and Gouges.  A small assortment of JOINER'S TOOLS—very low priced.  A few small sized Crates WHITE WARE, packed particularly for the country market. Portland, Dec. 21, 1801.
A New Boarding-House.  M R . BOND, has taken the large new House, Court-street, opposite the Court-house, and the same has appropriated to a BOARDING-HOUSE; where constant or transient Boarders may apply.—All due attention shall be paid to their accommodation upon easy terms as possible. Portland, Dec. 21. N. B.—A small STABLE, will be reserved for such as may have Horses.
FOR SALE,  At D. GREEN'S Store, No. 14, Long Wharf,  A Quantity Me. of May SALT; and a few Chaldrons SEA COAL, very good for Stoves. Dec. 21.
At a Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cumberland, begun and held at Newcastleton, in said county, on the third Tuesday of October, A. D. 1801.  ON the petition of JOHN HOBBY, of Portland, in said county, Esquire, which was presented at this Court at the last term, and continued to this term—showing that he is interested in and stands seized in fee as tenant in common with certain persons to him unknown, of five eighth parts of two several parcels of Land situated in said Portland; being that part or proportion of the late Rev. Thomas Smith's estate, which was divided and set off to the heirs of Lucy Saunders, deceased, as the said Lucy's proportion of said estate, as by the division thereof on record in the Registry of Probate for said county may more fully appear—that he is desirous to hold and enjoy his share of said two parcels of land in severality, and therefore praying that partition thereof might be made, and his share set off and divided from the rest, agreeably to a Law of the Commonwealth in such cases made and provided.  Ordered—That the petitioner cause the several persons interested in said estate, and living within the State, of the attorneys of such as are absent, and have attorneys residing within the State, to be duly notified of said petition by serving them personally with a copy thereof, or leaving a copy at their dwelling house, or last place of abode, or by inserting the substance of the same three weeks successively in one or more of the public Newspapers, that they may have opportunity to make their exception to this Court on the third Tuesday of February next to their granting the same. Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, CLERK.
TAKE NOTICE.  WE the subscribers, appointed by the Hon. Edward Cuts, Esq. Judge of the Probate, of Wilts, &c. for the county of York, Commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the Creditors to the estate of JOSEPH WALKER, late of the plantation of Brownfield, in said county Yeoman, deceased—do hereby notify the Creditors to said estate, that six months from the 27th of October last, is allowed for them to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend to the abovementioned business, at the house of Lt. James Osgood, in Fryeburg, on the last Mondays of December, January and February next, and on the second Mondays of March and April next, from one to five o'clock P. M. on each day.  JUDAH DANA, JAMES OSGOOD, } Commissioners. PHILIP PAGE, }  Dec. 21.
WE the subscribers, having been appointed by the Hon. Jonathan Bowman, Esq. Judge of Probate within and for the county of Lincoln, to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of ZENAS STETSON, jun. late of Pownalborough, in the county of Lincoln, Mariner, deceased, represented insolvent—do hereby give notice, that six months from the fourteenth day of December instant, are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend that service at the dwelling house of Capt. EZEEKIEL WHITNEY, in Wiscasset, on Tuesday the twenty-second day of December instant, and the first Tuesdays in the five following months, from three to five o'clock, P. M. each day.  JOSEPH CHRISTOPHERS } Commissioners. JOHN MERRILL, jun. }  Wiscasset, Dec. 14, 1801.
Wholesale and Retail Ware-House, OPPOSITE THE COLUMBIAN TAVERN
Wakefield & Dobbs,  HAVE just received by the late arrivals from London and Liverpool, a large assortment of FALL and WINTER GOODS—consisting of London and Yorkshire fine and superfine mixed and plain colored Broadcloths; middling Broad and Fustet Cloths; superfine, fine and low priced Kerseymeres; Shags from 5/6 to 12/6 per yard; plain and twill'd Coatings; Orleans Stripes; Etamines; white and black Blankets; Blankets; 7-8 & 4-4 Irish Linens, from 7/6 to 2/6; Chintz and purple Calicoes; Furnitures; Durants and Calamancos; black and blue Shalloons; black Ruffles; white and coloured Mullinets; Men's black worsted Gaiters; silk, cotton, and worsted Hose Tape; striped and hair cord Dimities; tambord, jacquet, cambric, and book Mullins; black cambric do. Men's beaver, worsted, and silk Gloves; Ladies' extra white and colored kid and silk do.; Ladies' English colored kid and morocco Shoes; Moggafons; Muffs and Pippets; fancy Feathers and Flowers; Gown Trimmings; Ladies', Gentlemen's and Youth's Hats; Straw Bonnets and Trimmings; Thread, Lace, and Edgings; black broad and narrow Lace; Lace Cloaks; black Lace Veils; Men's plain and striped black Satins; black and blue Velvet; Brown-Holland; Swansdowns from 5/6 to 15/6 per pattern; embroidered Silk; Ladies' black Satin; silk and cotton Suspenders; fine Thicket and Velvet; Carpets and Carpeting; Bandannas; fashionable fancy silk Handkerchiefs; purple and chintz Shawls; cotton Checks; black and white Italian Crapes; white and colored Thread; China, farset and latin plaid and colored Ribbons; plated, gilt and metal coat and vest Buttons; twill do.; linen and cotton Pocket-Handkerchiefs; bordered lawn do.; camel's hair Shawls; Tapes and Bobbins; shoe and quality Bindings; Umbrellas; gold and gilt Brooches; white and colored Beads.  Tea Trays, and Waiters, Bread Baskets, Scissors Razors, Pocket and Pen-Knives, Knives and Forks, Dessert-do. Chapel Needles, Thimbles, Pins, Teapots, Coffee Mills, Slates, Candlesticks, Combs, Cut and Wrought Nails.  Cognac Brandy, Holland Gin, St. Croix Rum, Madeira Wine, Box and Cask Raisins, Almonds, Figs, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, Allspice, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Lump and Brown Sugars, Bohea and Hyson Teas. Portland, Dec. 21.
Advertisement.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.  THE subscriber has agreed with all the Settlers, seated on his back Lands, and sold Lands in the same quarter to numerous and respectable Emigrants from the States southward, on principles promising them great prosperity, and the establishment of harmony and good order throughout that fertile region. He conceives therefore, that this is the proper moment to announce in the most public and solemn manner, that in future, no usurpation of his Lands will be tolerated.  As the Land is, and will be surveyed into Lots, no hope of impunity will arise from any supposed secrecy in the offence. Every regular Settler has bound himself to discontinue and discover such lawless persons—it would be deemed madness among farmers to suffer a wolf to enter and remain among their sheep; much more so would it be for regular Settlers after having legally engaged to pay a valuable consideration for their Lands to suffer an audacious usurper to enter and remain amongst them, scattering the seeds of discord, misery and insurrection with both hands.  Any person therefore, who shall in defiance of this notice, and in defiance of the laws usurp Lands of the subscriber, will be prosecuted for the damages that may ensue; suffer the utter loss of his labor and fixtures, and be required Land at any price whatever.  But the young industrious and orderly Yeomanry and Artisans throughout New-England, are invited to view the Lands of the subscriber, lying west of Pownalborough, and extending to within 4 miles of Kennebec River, and contiguous to a line, on which it is contemplated to open and establish a Turnpike Road from river to river.  These rich Lands are considered by impartial judges—soil, situation and climate combined—as affording as many at least, if not more advantages, to young Agriculturists, than any other within the United States.  These Lands are to be sold for actual and immediate settlement, either for money or upon credit.  A perfect title and deeds of warranty will be given on payment.  TIMBER and CORD-WOOD Stealers, throughout the Patent, strip and waste men, who instead of honestly cultivating the soil, attempt meanly and infamously to gain property by this species of theft, will incur and receive all the punishment, and pay all the damages, which the law shall inflict; and also all those who shall aid and abet them in their unlawful conduct.  HENRY KNOX. Mt. Pleasant, Thomaston, St. George's River, Nov. 17, 1801.
TAKE NOTICE  THE Copartnership of Daniel & Samuel Hanson, is this day by mutual consent dissolved:—All persons indebted to, or who have any demands upon the said firm, are requested to call upon Samuel Hanson, for immediate settlement. DANIEL HANSON. Durham, Dec. 18, 1801. SAMUEL HANSON.
Sales at Auction.
TO BE SOLD ON THE PREMISES,  On MONDAY the 4th day of January next, at 2 o'clock, P. M. at Public Auction,  THE REAL ESTATE of GARDNER GOULD, of Pleasant Mountain Gore, deceased, bankrupt; being the premises on which he now lives, consisting of about 110 acres of excellent Land under good improvement, together with a good House and Barn, and a number of out Buildings—Conditions to be known at the time of sale.  ENOCH PERLEY, } Affixes to JOSEPH THOMAS, } said Estate.
WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION,  On MONDAY the 18th day of January next, at the house of Major Paine, in Bath, at 3 o'clock, P. M. for the benefit of the creditors of Zephaniah Harlow, jun. and Freeman Harlow,  A VALUABLE ROPE-WALK, conveniently situated in Bath, with the Land under and adjoining the same.—Said Rope-Walk is seven hundred and eight feet in length, and has attached to it an excellent and spacious new Brick Tar-House, and the usual fixtures necessary for carrying on the rope-making business.  A credit of three and six months will be given for payment on good security.  At the same time will be sold sundry articles of Rope-Walk Furniture.  ANDREW GREENWOOD, ASSIGNEE, Portland Dec. 7, 1801.
Portland,  MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1801.  The President's Message to both Houses of Congress, is given entire this day. Its length must apologize for the omission of several advertisements, and numerous other articles previously prepared for the Gazette.  FIRST EASTERN DISTRICT.  By the votes returned from a great proportion of the towns in this District, for a federal Representative, it appears certain that Judge Cox, a federal candidate, has succeeded in the election by a considerable majority.
ALARMING FIRES IN BOSTON.  BOSTON, DEC. 16.  FIRE. —On Saturday night about 9 o'clock, a fire broke out in a building on Gouldsbury's Wharf, occupied by Messrs. Towers and Howe, coopers; Mr. Dillaway, joiner, and Mr. Holbrook, carpenter. We understand it commenced in Mr. Dillaway's apartment. The building, the shop of Mr. Holbrook, blacksmith on the south side of the wharf, and a quantity of wood belonging to Mr. Bicknell, on an adjoining wharf, were consumed. The usual spirited exertion were made by the citizens, and prevented the fire from spreading, although there were several stores in imminent danger, and the side being out, it was very difficult to obtain water.
DEC. 17.  CONFLAGRATION. —The inhabitants of this town were again alarmed by the cry of Fire, between 2 and 3 o'clock on Wednesday Morning last, and with consternation perceived the flames arose from almost the same spot, as the fire of 12th inst. It began on the wharves contiguous to Fore-street; and after consuming a number of stores, shops, and other buildings, spread to the neighbouring houses in Fore-street, and threatened destruction to the whole north part of the town; but by the unceasing exertions of the citizens, it was happily and providentially arrested in its progress, after it had swept away about 15 dwellings houses and many buildings of other description; besides two valuable sloops which lay at the wharves, and on account of the shoalness of the water could not be removed. One of them, the Charming Mary, was owned by one Mr. Ulmer of Thomastown the other, the sloop Franklin, capt. Sampson, of Banffshire, bound for New-York, with all her cargo on board, entirely consumed.  It is pretty generally believed, that this unhappy event was the result of pemeditated villainy, as the fire, at an early stage of its progress, was seen bursting from several buildings, not contiguous to each other, at the same moment.
Mr. Jenks,  One of your readers observing in your Gazette of a late date, some observations on the doings of an Ecclesiastical Council, lately held at Fryeburg, has waited with some impatience, hoping the author would correct his erroneous errors;—but finding he neglects so doing, he leaves to ask whether the writer of the observations is willing that the several articles of complaint (seven in number, six of which were acknowledged, by the Pastor to be true) exhibited by the Church in Fryeburg, against their Rev'd Pastor, should be made as public, as his observations are.  December 11. FAIR PLAY.
Married,  In this town, Mr. Mark Harris, to Miss Ruth Wheeler. Mr. Benjamin Knight jun. to Miss Mary Hatch jun. At Deering, Mr. David T. Waters, late publisher of the paper in Calais, to Miss Mary Fifer.
FOR SALE.  At No. 5, Long-Wharf, RUSSIA and RAVENS DUK; RUSSIA IRON; TOW CLOTH; A few bbls. SHAD and SALMON, in prime order, by COTTON BROOKS. Portland, Dec. 7.

POETRY.  SONG From Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads.  "S TRANGE fits of passion I have known; And I will dare to tell (But in the lover's ear alone) What once to me befel.  When she I lov'd was strong and gay, And like a Rose in June, I to her cottage bent my way, Beneath the evening moon.  Upon the moon I fix'd my eye, All over the wide lea; My horse trudg'd on and we drew nigh Those paths so dear to me.  And now we reach'd the orchard plot, And, as we climb'd the hill, Towards the roof of Lucy's cot, The moon descend still.  In one of those sweet dreams I slept, Kind Nature's gentlest boon! And all the while my eyes I kept On the descending moon.  My horse mov'd on; hoof after hoof He rais'd, and never stopp'd: When down behind the cottage roof At once the Planet dropp'd.  What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a lover's head! "Oh mercy!" to myself I cried, "If Lucy should be dead!"
DIRECT TAX. STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, THIRD COLLECTION DISTRICT, SECOND DIVISION.
NOTICE is hereby given, by virtue of an act entitled, "An act to lay and collect a Direct Tax within the United States"—the following taxes assessed on the respective Houses and Lands to which they relate became due and payable on the seventh day of April 1800; of which the said reputed owners, possessors or occupants of said Houses and Lands have been notified by the Collector in manner directed aforesaid, yet said taxes remain unpaid in said district, namely, Windsbam, Gray, New Gloucester, and Pejepscot Claim , situated in the county of Cumberland.
Name of Owner, Superintendent or Occupant, at the time of taking the Valuation.
   Name of Owner, Superintendent or Occupant, at the time of taking the Valuation. Value of said dwelling house. Tax on said dwelling house. Value of said parcel of land. Tax on said parcel of land.   D Cts. D Cts. D Cts. D Cts.     Joseph Allen, 334 35 0 95   Thomas Ayer, 892 50 2 53   Benjamin Arnold, 420 75 1 10   Samuel Buckton 132   James Ayers 198   Benjamin Bodg 391 95 1 11   Moses Bradbury's Heirs 155 10 4 44   Alden Bridgman 397 50 1 13   Daniel Brann 348 15 9 8   Hugh Crague 156 31 666 60 1 8   Elizabeth Campbell 285 45 8 81   Gerham Clark 631 80 7 79   William Clague 158 40 45   Amos Cummins 163 20 46   Bowery Curtis 156 44   John Cushman 63 12 56 10 16   Mary Cotton 280 50 8 8   Ephraim Crockett 354 1   John Cobb 287 10 8 1   William Crabtree 165 47   Samuel Dolly 151 80 43   Joseph Doughty 247 50 70   Joseph Dolly 99 28   Benj. C. Dergin & John Allen 108 22 29 70 8   Abel Davis' Heirs 282 60 80   Solomon Dyer 534 60 1 51   Charles Elder 295 35 84   Silas Elder 377 85 1 7   Joseph Elder 1115 40 3 16   Isaac Elder 313 50 89   William Elkins 476 70 1 35   William Elkins, jun. 283 80 80   Jeremiah Field 313 50 89   Moses Field 412 50 1 17   Benjamin Fickett 354 60 1   Andrew Frost 594 1 68   James Fogg 247 50 70   Thomas Frank 282 15 80   Isaac Foster 175 80 9   Isaac Foster, jun. 99 28   Timothy Fogg, jr. 548 10 1 51   Nathaniel Ford 564 1 68   Samuel Foster 66 19   Robert Forbes 151 50 43   John Fogg 385 10 1 9   Enoch Grafton 108 22 188 10 33   Moses Greenleaf 272 75 77   Charles Gerrish & William Gerrish 660 1 87   Ebenezer Gott's Heirs 396 1 12   Tobias Gould 204 60 58   Samuel Hanson 412 50 1 17   William Hooper 132 26 447 15 1 26   Israel Hodgdon 696 30 1 97   John Hufey 532 80 1 57   Wm. Hall of Falmouth 165 47   John Henderson 33 9   David Hunt, jun. 323 55 92   Moses Hunt 419 10 1 19   Richard Hayden 642 1 82   Clement Hayden 148 50 42   Richard Hayden, jr. 297 84   David Hayden 330 93   Jonathan Hayden 402 30 1 14   Robert Hunsford 352 10 1   Daniel Haskell 473 55 1 34   Wm. Hagger's Heirs 852 50 23   Deborah Haskell 156 31 305 25 86   Gideon Haskell 174 90 50   Gideon Haskell 330 93   John Ingerfol 365 70 1 4   Daniel Ips 660 1 87   Lemuel Jones 121 24 1277 10 3 61   Nathaniel Jordan 112 20 32   Francis Jackson 209 55 60  
   Elisha Jordan 231 10 63 38 3d ditto 165 47   Ephraim Johnson 215 10 61 38 3d ditto 165 47   John B. Jordan 792 2 24 No. 6 1st Division 99 28   George Knight 74 25 21 18 1 ditto 99 28   Josiah Knight 198 56 10 2 ditto 99 28   Daniel Libby 300 50 1707 75 4 83 99 28   Jonathan Libby 264 75 75 107 2 ditto 99 28   Ebenezer Lake 1078 30 3 125 2 ditto 99 28   John Lake 297 84 54 3 ditto 169 95   Solomon Laraby 491 40 1 39 55 3 ditto 169 95   Maybury William, 3d. 341 55 97 57 3 ditto 169 95   Maybury John 372 1 5 58 3 ditto 169 95   John Mugford 421 50 1 19 59 3 ditto 169 95   Stephen Manchester 148 35 42 63 3 ditto 169 95   Isediah Morrell 305 25 86 3 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   William Morrell 49 50 14 4 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Thomas Millan 288 75 82 5 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Josiah Maybury 145 20 41 8 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   John Mernor, occu. 277 90 82 9 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Isaac Cobb, owner 33 9 10 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Stephen Morrell 335 95 1 9 11 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Thomas Morrell 303 93 12 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   David Mains 206 25 58 14 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Ephraim Marston 412 50 1 17 16 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   James Merrill 247 50 70 22 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Daniel Merrill, & others 495 1 40 24 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   James Merrill, jun. 247 50 70 26 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Nathaniel Merrill 59 40 17 27 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Giles Merrill 212 55 60 28 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Eleazar McCune 181 50 51 29 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Henry McCune 440 93 31 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   John M. Maxfield, 841 50 2 38 32 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Robert Maxfield 330 93 34 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Abraham McCune 495 1 40 36 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Robert Mitchell 330 93 45 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Isaac M'Kenney 326 70 92 46 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   William M'Kenney, jr. 156 75 44 52 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Jonathan M'Kenney 165 47 53 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Temperance M'Kenney 363 1 5 63 4 ditto 88 27 1/2   Daniel Moody 330 93 Owners unknown in the town of New Gloucester.   Robert Moody 330 93 No. 52 5th Division 46 20 13   Isaac Nason 353 10 1 56 6 ditto 99 28   William Haskell, jr. 49 50 14 13 6 ditto 99 28   Daniel Haskell 33 9 18 6 ditto 49 50   Samuel Nevins 198 56 18 6 ditto 99 28   Engh Nevins' Heirs 69 30 20 And that so much of the above described property as will pay the respective taxes assessed thereon, with costs and charges, will be sold at Public Vendue, at the dwelling house of DANIEL HANEY, inholder in Gray, on the last Tuesday in January 1802, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless said taxes and charges be paid previous to that time.   James Nevins 204 60 58 Thomas Chute, Collector.   William Nevins 284 10 80 Windsbam, Nov 7 1801. (86-8)   Timothy Pike 233 80 80 DIRECT TAX.   Samuel Parsons 74 25 21 SECOND DISTRICT, SECOND DIVISION, IN THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS.   Edward Pummer 336 60 95 PURSUANT to an act of Congress, passed the 14th day of July, 1798, entitled "An act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States"—will be sold at public sale, at the dwelling house of SETH MITCHELL, jun., inholder in North Yarmouth, on Wednesday the 13th of January next, at 10 o'clock A.M. so much of the under described estate, consisting of dwelling houses and lands, as will satisfy the taxes due thereon, together with the legal costs and charges; unless said taxes and charges be paid previous to that time.   William Parsons 219 95 74 SITUATED IN FREEPORT.   Stephen Penney 400 20 1 Name of Owner, Superintendent or Occupant, at the time of taking the Valuation.   Joseph Pendly 429 1 12 Value of said dwelling house.   Edward Peacock 330 93 Tax on said dwelling house.   Jerusalem Rogers 276 60 78 Value of said parcel of land.   John Rogers 416 10 1 Tax on said parcel of land.   Land Rand 556 5 1 D C D C D C D C   James Russell 807 2 28 John Anderson,   Nathaniel Russell 297 84 James Anderson, 157 50 0 32   Alexander Bass 193 56 Joseph Anderson, jr., 0 0 0 0   Job Ramsdell 119 54 Isaac Allen, jun. 0 0 0 0   Luke Ryerston 300 60 528 Edward Brewer 0 0 0 0   Kimball Ramsdell 42 75 12 Edward Brewer, jr., 0 0 0 0   Jonathan Stevens 1085 40 3 Benjamin Curtis, occupant, 0 0 0 0   Chase Stevens 1031 25 2 Heirs, owners, 0 0 0 0   Stephen Swift 135 30 38 William Bartol, 0 0 0 0   Richard Shaine 273 60 77 James Biber, 0 0 0 0   Samuel