Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1801-01-19 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 143.]
MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1801.
[VOLUME III.]
General Miscellany.
Description of Hamburg.
THIS city, which particular circumstances have of late brought forward on the political canvas, is one of the most considerable in the Northern part of Europe. There is not an instance of one, whose commerce and population have increased so much within the space of ten years. According to the official report it has 130,000 inhabitants. For a long time the population of Copenhagen has been compared to that of Hamburg; but we now have certain knowledge, that the first of these towns has not more than 83,000 inhabitants.
Hamburg has become the depot of European commerce since the decline of Amsterdam; it is well known that a great number of merchants have resorted thither from different parts of Europe, taking their property along with them. To judge of the extent of its commercial concerns, we have nothing to do but to acquaint ourselves with the quantity of imports in the course of the last year. In the article of coffee alone, there were not less than forty-six millions of pounds, almost the whole of which came from English and American ports, viz. from Liverpool 10,073,000; from London 4,568,000; from New York 4,182,000; from Philadelphia 5,773,000; from Baltimore 8,465,000; and what is remarkable, from the island of St. Thomas 4,162,004 pounds; the importation of sugar amounted to 98,000,000 of pounds, which also came chiefly from the English and Americans. The number of vessels which entered the port of Hamburg was 2,148; of which three only came from Cadiz; 117 from Amsterdam; 198 from London; 80 from Newcastle; 51 from Bordeaux; 71 from Riga; 2 from China; and 149 from the United States of America.
Hamburg dispatched 17 vessels in the whale fishery, and it turned out remarkably well. To make the matter clearer by comparison, we shall add, that in the course of the same year only 1901 vessels arrived in the port of Amsterdam; of which 273 came from Bremen, 2 from Cadiz, 15 from Bordeaux, 42 from London, 711 from Hamburg, &c.
So extensive a trade must necessarily have brought about a remarkable change in the manners, customs, and taste of the people of Hamburg. The mode of living, for example, is very different from what it was ten years ago. You find in almost every part of the town French restaurateurs , the greater part of them gentlemen under the old regimen, men of principle who have preferred this manner of earning a subsistence to others less honest. At those houses you are served exactly in the French manner, and by French servants; and some of them are distinguished at the same time by a cleanliness truly English.
The entertainments at Hamburg, are sumptuous, and the tables are spread with the choicest viands. On the other hand, in private their family dinners are prepared with a frugality becoming men who are skilled in calculation. What renders a residence at Hamburg most agreeable is, that every one may live there as he pleases. The Englishman, for instance, will find plenty of private houses, where they live in the stile of his country and speak the language; the same with the Frenchman, and most other nations. In this city there are not only inns, according to the English fashion, but even chop-houses (a sort of English ale-house, says the foreign writer of this article.)
Robberies are very rare; and this is certainly owing to the general competency and good morals of the place. Very seldom does one hear of a murder. There are but few quarrels in the streets, and it is not common to meet persons in a state of intoxication.
There is, perhaps, no town where it is so much the custom to make excursions on Sunday in the country. Every family, in the least degree opulent, has a country house. They commonly leave the city on a Saturday afternoon and return on Monday morning; and they either take a party of friends with them, or receive their visits at their villas on Sunday. The inferior classes on this day fill the taverns and public houses, which are very numerous; at some they dance, at others they play at skittles, and at all these, a pipe is a favorite recreation.
It is surprising since Hamburg is so greatly increased that they have not yet resorted to the accommodation of hackney coaches; there is not even a carriage, in the nature of an English stage coach, to carry persons backward and forward at certain hours between Hamburg, Altona, Wandbeck, &c. though such an establishment would certainly answer well to those who might have sufficient enterprise to set it on foot.
At Hamburg we see perpetually new buildings, though building is not in general the rage of the Hamburgers. They build because they find it necessary. The price of houses has increased, within a few years, 50 nay 100 per cent. At present they are no longer on the list, the political horizon having become two cloudy, and discontent having increased with
the interest of money, to an unprecedented degree.
The gates of the city are shut very early; a circumstance much complained of by strangers and people of fortune. It is, however, wrong to censure this prudent regulation of the Senate. It is compensated by considerable advantage, and there are few great cities in which the inconvenience and restraints are not much greater.
The exchange is a airy building and far too small. In looking at it, one is reminded of the answer of the Chancellor Bacon to queen Elizabeth, who expressed to him her wonder at the smallness of his house, was told that the house was not too little for him, but her majesty had made him too great for the house.—Thus has the trade of Hamburg become too extensive for its exchange.
All must agree, that the country on the borders of the Elbe affords a most enchanting view. The houses situated on its banks are built, some in a very superb, others in a very neat style. They are furnished in such a manner as one might expect from rich merchants, men too, familiarized with English manners, whose commerce, conveniences of life and luxuries, are superior to those of all other nations. The public gardens, which surround the city, are in general kept in good order, particularly that of Harvethaied on the Alster, about a league from Hamburg. It not only affords a picturesque scenery, beautiful walks, and shady seats, but it has the further attractions, that you may go to it by water. It is accordingly much frequented in the summer season.
It is rare, perhaps singular to find three large towns so close to each other as Hamburg, Altona, and Wandbeck; they are not merely contiguous but actually touch each other. Altona is a spacious town, carries on a considerable commerce, has a Theatre &c. Many distinguished characters, particularly literati, have chosen that city for their abode; and several persons reside there who have acted a very conspicuous part in the French revolution.
CHARACTER OF THE INHABITANTS OF ALEXANDRIA AND GRAND CAIRO.
“THE city of Alexandria has no vestige of its antiquity but its name. If it contains any wonderful things, they are buried and unknown to the people, who indeed have hardly an idea beyond the mere sense that they exist. Figure to yourself a being incapable of all feeling, taking events just as they occur, in whom nothing can excite admiration, who has no other employment but that of sitting before his own door on a bench or before the door of some great man, and who thus spends time without the smallest regard for his family or his children! Figure to yourself, also, a number of mothers covered with black tattered cloaks, offering for sale their children to every passenger; men half naked, whose bodies resemble bronze in appearance, wallowing in the puddles and kennels in the streets, and eating what they find there; houses of about twenty feet in height, with flat roofs, the insides of which resemble a stable, presenting nothing to view but the four naked walls. Such are the houses, and such the miserable inhabitants of Alexandria. Around this collection of horror and misery, are the foundations of this city, one of the most celebrated for its antiquity, and the most precious monuments of the arts.—Grand Cairo is a Capital of a kingdom which hath no bounds, at least to the learned of that country describe it; it contains about 400,000 souls; its shape is that of an oblong trench, filled with houses piled one upon the other, without order, distribution or method. The people resemble those of Alexandria, like them they are most grossly ignorant; and his talents are considered with astonishment who is able to read and write. This city is, nevertheless, the emporium of a very considerable commerce; it is here that the Caravans which come from Mecca and from the Indies end their journey.”
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
IN France there have been disputes, without end, as to the commencement of the 18th century: Lalande, the astronomer, has been applied to on the occasion, by a number of persons. He endeavors, in the following manner, to put an end to the question, which he says was equally agitated at the end of the last century. “Many persons,” says he, “imagine that, because after having counted seventeen they count eighteen, that the century must be changed; but this is an illusion: for, when a hundred pounds are to be counted, we must pass from ninety-nine and we arrive at a hundred; we have changed the ten before we have finished the hundred.” “Whatever kind of calculation,” he adds, is to be made, we commence by one, and finish by one hundred: nobody has ever thought of beginning at 0 and finishing by 99: thus he concludes the year 1800 to belong incontestably to the eighteenth, or old century. In the year 1700, several pamphlets were published on a similar contest: the astronomer observes that he has four of them in his library, they are, most probably, not all that were written upon it.
A late writer on the advantages of the opening Century, supposes, that mankind will embrace the means of bodily health and strength, as more conducive to happiness, than the false opinions which have obtained in the past Century. That temperance and chastity will rise high in esteem; that mothers will not refuse to nurse their children; that dress will not interfere with natural ease; and a proper diet, the love of labor, and a submission to all the changes of the weather, will be inseparable from a good education. That domestic happiness will be promoted by a more liberal society of parents and children; and that instruction in religion and manners, will be found consistent with amusement, and pleasure. We cannot refuse to consider these as happy parts of a natural and religious education, but will these simple means of happiness ever gain the attention they deserve?
THE following extraordinary circumstance is related in the Paris papers to have occurred at Bourges:—Four highway robbers, named Hyvert, Lepretre, Guyot, and Amiet, who had been condemned to death by the Criminal Tribunal of Ain, were to have been executed on the 16th of October. On the morning of the 15th, the Jailor came to the dungeon where they were confined for the purpose of taking away another prisoner who was there.—The instant he made his appearance, Hyvert, Lepretre, and Guyot, rushed towards the door of the dungeon, armed with cutlasses, and disengaged from their chains, although their irons had been examined three times the night before. The Jailor saved himself by running away, and shutting his doors. The three criminals after having filed off the irons of Amiet, their accomplice, entered the court yard naked up to the middle. From that moment to the time of execution, the whole of their conduct was a scene of horror and blood. After repeated bravadoes and impressions they stabbed themselves. Lepretre, after having felt the place where his heart beat, gave himself a mortal wound, and instantly fell. Guyot survived the stabs which he gave himself, and died in the dungeon by a shot from a carbine. Amiet and Hyvert were taken alive, and conducted to the place of punishment. The latter had given himself six or seven stabs with a knife, had sawed his arteries, and had his shoulder broken by a musket shot. He plunged the whole of the knife into his stomach, and moving it about in every direction, he cried out—“You see I cannot lie, I have pinned my soul in my body.” This abandoned wretch was but 20 years old.
ACCOUNT OF A VISIT PAID BY BETTINELLI, THE ITALIAN POET, TO VOLTAIRE.
I FOUND the conversation of Voltaire, said Bettinelli, like his writings. The soul of epigram dwelled on his lips and sparkled in his eyes. They were two flambeaux; in which, as in his discourse, I saw as it were, wit and malice beaming. He had a stile peculiar to himself; and every sentence had either a pleasant or philosophical turn.
When I arrived at Les Delices , he was in his garden. I approached & told him my name. “What!” exclaimed he, “an Italian! a Jesuit! a Bettinelli! the honor is too great for my cottage. I am a mere peasant, as you see, showing me his garden tool; which was a hoe at one end and a pruning knife at the other.—With these I trim and hoe my garden, plant my plant; and my produce is much greater, than that of all the seed I have scattered thro’ books, for the good of humanity.”
His singular and grotesque figure made a very unexpected impression on me. Under a black velvet cap, descending as low as his eyes, he wore a large wig, that covered three fourths of his face, which rendered his nose and chin more pointed and projected. His body was wrapped in a pelisse from head to foot. His looks and smiles were abundantly expressive.
I testified the pleasure I felt at finding him in such good health; and thus able to brave the rigors of the season.
“Oh, you Italians, replied he, imagine we ought to bury ourselves in holes, like the rats, that inhabit the summit of these mountains covered with ice and snow; but your Alps are to us no more than a beautiful perspective view. On the banks of my lake Lemán here, defended as I am from the northern winds, I envy not your lake of Como and Garda. In this solitary abode, I live like Catullus in his little isle of Sirmio. He produced charming elegies, and I good georgics.”
Voltaire could never mention Italy, on which he bestowed the most lavish praise, without satirical remarks on Italian slavery, the inquisition, &c.
The conversation frequently turned on the King of Prussia. Information was brought him that, after a battle lost, he had beaten the duke Deux ponts, had raised the siege of Nice and Leipzig, and had driven the Austrians into Bohemia. “Is it possible, exclaimed Voltaire, that man astonishes me continually. I am sorry I have quarrelled with him.” He admired in him the rapidity of Cæsar; but his
admiration always finished with some epigram on Cæsar. He had a monkey that he called Luc, and he diverted himself with frequently giving this name to the King of Prussia. I expressed some surprise at this; and he answered “Do you see how this monkey bites every body and then laughs?”
In 1760, at his own request, I sent him my remarks on some mistakes that had escaped him in his Universal History, relative to Italy and Italian literature. He returned me thanks in a letter; but, as usual, launching his thunder against the inquisition, Italian slavery, English freedom, and the hypocrisy of the ministers of Geneva. His letter concluded with this passage:
“Have you heard of the poems of the King of Prussia? He, you will find is no hypocrite. He speaks of the Christians as Julian once spoke. It should seem that the Italian and Greek churches, headed by Solikow and Duan, will immediately excommunicate him with cannon balls; but he will fight like a devil in his defence. You and I know he will be damned; but we are not quite so sure that he will be beaten.”
I was frequently led to reflect on the fruitfulness of his mind contrasted with the meagerness of his body. It is true he often repeats what he had said before; but this is occasioned by the extreme facility with which he writes. What author ever produced so many original things; many of them profoundly meditated, and all of them happily expressed?
I have sometimes thought, that his flow and interrupted manner of speaking was to gain time, till he could recollect something which pleased him to say; for this manner was become habitual; so that, hearing him speak, we might imagine he was reading one of his own works.
When conversing he frequently mingled Italian phrases, and quotations from Tasso, and Ariosto; but he never could forget his French accent. I one day testified my astonishment at the ill treatment he had bestowed in his Essay on Epic Poetry, on Ariosto, whose mind appeared so congenial with that of Voltaire. This produced a discussion, in which it was not difficult to prove, that the Author of Orlando Furioso was a great poet; that he did not deserve to be treated as a mere jocular fantastic writer, and that his faults were the faults of his age, and not of his genius. Voltaire promised to read Ariosto again; and in a new edition of his Essay he has spoken with more propriety and justice.
He read some of my poems, and said many flattering things, particularly of the eulogiums I had written on the king of Prussia, Galileo, and Newton. He continued to declaim against superstition, the inquisition the court of Rome, the monkish orders, &c. and repeated what Cardinal Passionei said to a traveller. “It is miraculous that the Church has lost nothing this year.”
“I one day went to dine with him at his new seat at Ferney. After dinner he said, “I have eaten too much; I shall not live to enjoy my new purchase. But we must enjoy life. I am inclined to gormandize, and so was Horace; trabii sua quem voluptas . The child must be rocked till he falls asleep.”
You perceive he belonged to the epicurean tribe; though in some respects he was a Diogenes. His wish was sometimes to be Socrates, at others, Aristippus. One day he would say he was dying; the next that he was indebted to Tronchin for life and health, though in the same breath he would ridicule physic and physician.
Foreign Intelligence.
By an arrival at Philadelphia from Bourdeaux.
PARIS, NOV. 9.
IT was currently believed last night, that the French have entered Rome; it is reported to be the division of Gen. Pinn, composed of 2000 French troops, besides Cisalpine, Piedmontese and Italian refugees, which were charged with that expedition.
NOV. 12.
A Prague Gazette mentions that a Congress is to take place at Cracovie, between Austria, Russia and Prussia.
An Ambassador from Russia, is expected to arrive at Strasburg, and is to proceed to Lunéville or to Paris.
NOV. 14.
General Berthier arrived here last night.
CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 1.
Fortune yet favours the arms of Pashwan Oglou. After having defeated the United Pashas in several battles, his army which is so greatly augmented as to cause the utmost inquietude for the fate of the Empire, is rapidly marching towards Belgrade. The Pasha of that city is making every possible disposition and strong reinforcements have now been sent him for its defence; but it is much feared, an opposition will prove fruitless.
OCT. 11.
A great number of troops within his 8 or 10 days have been embarked, which are com-

puted at 15000 men, and which are to go to Jaffa, convoyed by three frigates.
The last letters from the camp of the Grand Vizier, mentions that they are waiting the arrival of an English army, which is to make a descent on the coast of Egypt, whilst the army of the Grand Vizier, will attempt to pass the desert to attack Belbeys and El-Arish, altho' the Ottoman army has received considerable reinforcements; it is not believed they will be able to accomplish the crossing of the Desert, the French having erected on the frontiers, such fortifications as will prevent their march. We have besides certain news that Gen. Menou has succeeded in forming a certain number of battalions, composed of Greeks, Jews and Natives. It is also said that the Bays of upper Egypt have furnished some detachments of Mamelukes; which has not a little contributed to console the inhabitants of the Delta in favour of the French.
LEGHORN, 28th October.
The French have not removed any of the officers or agents of the Grand Duke. They have even permitted him to retain on foot, his troops of the line and two volunteer corps which were raised previous to the entrance of the French troops. The only troops, that have been disbanded, are those which were put on duty by the Austrian commandant.
Vessels have no difficulty nor hindrance in getting out of port. But the English squadron, which blockades it, will let none enter, and capture all Ligurian vessels bound for Genoa.
BOLOGNA, NOV. 1.
The French advance towards Pironne. The King of Naples is arming his frontiers. Tuscany, since the entrance of the French, has enjoyed the most perfect tranquility.
Many of the Florentine nobles had fled to Arezzo, which has been neither burnt nor destroyed as reported. The humanity of the conquerors would not suffer them to injure the place although it well deserved their vengeance.
MILAN, NOV. 2.
The Tuscans, who had fled into the city, are hastening to return to their country. Tuscany is the subject of general conversation at present. Much is said respecting an expedition against Naples, which there is every reason to believe will be undertaken. The greatest secrecy exists with respect to the operations of the Army and the correspondence of the Generals.
BORDEAUX, NOV. 18.
The Parisian Journals have been some days endeavouring to find out, where Lucien Bonaparte is gone. One sends him to Germany, another to Italy, a third gives him important business to Russia, and a fourth to England, and now they know not where he is gone. These journals are not the only persons whom this journey has caused to make false conjectures, for the matter is yet a profound secret.
The interruption of all communication with Spain, on account of the epidemic, which has ravaged several parts of that country, prevents the Americans supplying us as they have hitherto done with colonial produce. This interruption has consequently considerably raised the prices of those articles, but it will soon cease, as we have certain accounts of the epidemic being considerably on the decline.
AUGSBURGH, OCT. 23.
We have no certain accounts respecting the prolongation of the armistice, but we know there is a difference of opinion as to the proper term for its duration. We are also well convinced the different bodies of troops, which are in motion at present, cannot reach their destined posts in time for the immediate recommencement of hostilities. This makes us hope much for the success of the negotiations.
BOLOGNE, NOV. 10.
According to the accounts of persons lately arrived in this city from Naples, it appears, that fresh troubles have broken out in that capital. It is continually a theatre of murder and pillage. There is no excess to which the Lazzaroni do not give themselves up, confident of impunity, as they pretend to serve the cause of the king, of whom they profess themselves the warmest friends. This monarch will not long be able to remain at Naples. He has but few troops there. Almost all the troops of the line are at Rome, or in the Abruzzi's, and several corps have been sent into the meridional provinces of the kingdom to suppress the insurrections which have taken place there.
A BALANCE LOCK.
Says a London paper of the 12th of September, for transferring boats on canals from one level to another, was tried on the Dorset and Somerset Canals, at Wells, on the 6th instant, and found completely to answer. By this invention, the difficulties which have so long existed of transferring boats on canals without loss of water, are now fully removed, and at a less expense than by any other scheme hitherto suggested, and it is very probable, that the necessity of tunnels will be therefore superseded. The experiment was made on a fall of 21 feet, and laden boats transferred up and down in much less time than is employed in passing in common; but this invention is capable of being affixed to a fall of 40 feet, on a much greater depth.
Further Foreign News.
VERY LATE AND IMPORTANT.
Received by an arrival at Newyork, 35 days from Falmouth, England.
Re-commencement of Hostilities in Europe.
FRANKFORT, NOV. 10.
WHILE we were flattering ourselves with hopes of peace, appearances here have suddenly become very warlike.
Yesterday General Angereau received a courier from Paris, with orders to give notice immediately of the termination of the armistice; which he accordingly did on the same day; adjutant general Richer was yesterday afternoon sent with the following note to the commander of the Austrian troops, and to baron Albion, commander of the Mentz troops at Alschaffenburg.
"General—According to the orders I have received from my government, I hereby notify to you the termination of the armistice.—Hostilities will therefore recommence in fourteen days from this day, that is, on the 22d day of November. ANGEREAU."
STRASBURG NOV. 17.
The armistice has been denounced to all the armies. General Defelles, who has the provisional command during the absence of Moreau, has notified to the archduke John, the commander in chief of the Austrian army, that the armistice is at an end, and that hostilities will recommence November 28.—Orders have been publicly given to the army at Mayence, that the armistice is to conclude on the 20th Nov. Adjutant general Angereau arrived at Alschaffenburg on the eve of a grand festival. According to the last intelligence from Switzerland, the government and constituted authorities at Zurich were informed that the armistice had been denounced on the 9th Nov. Hostilities will recommence in that quarter on the 24th or 25th of Nov.—The head quarters of general Macdonald are at Coire. The greater part of the army of the Grisons has already set out on its march to the frontiers. A considerable force is assembling in the country of the Grisons.
LONDON, NOV. 29.
Yesterday were received Paris papers to the 25th inst. From the account of hostile preparations in the last French papers, it might be expected that the present would bring an account that hostilities had commenced, at least in Italy. They do not, however, but they seem to say that war is inevitable. Bonaparte's horses, and a detachment of his guards, left Paris on the 20th for the Rhine, where it is said he will assume the command of the army—Moreau is to repair to Italy.
According to the notices by the French generals, the armistice was not to be broken in the Tyrol until the 24th, and in Bavaria until the 28th.
The conferences at Luneville still continue; but from the orders of the several French generals to resume hostilities, it is evident that no great progress had been made in the work of peace of the 19th Nov. the date of the last bulletin from thence.
On the 22d of Nov. Bonaparte assembled the Legislative body of France. This meeting was opened by an official exposition of the general state of France. It contains a description of the ruinous state of affairs when Bonaparte assumed the reins of power, and contrasts it with its present improved circumstances.
Yesterday, after our paper was at press, we received the Paris Journals to the 24th inst. inclusive. The most important article they contain is, "The state of the Republic," presented by the Chief Consul to the Legislative Body on their meeting. This official document will be read with the greatest interest, as it contains much information respecting continental affairs. It holds out the hope of the possibility of the conferences going on at Luneville notwithstanding the armistice having been declared at an end—a measure stated to have been merely of a precautionary nature. But it seems
equally plain, that if they go on it will be for the purpose of separate negotiations; and when we compare what the First Consul states respecting Russia, with the conduct of Paul in laying an embargo on the British ships in his ports; it seems probable that Britain is deemed to carry on the war, not merely against her present foes, but against all the northern powers also.
Rupture between Russia and England.
LONDON, NOV. 28.
We are sorry to state that the intelligence we communicated yesterday of 70 British vessels having been detained by the emperor Paul at Riga, is confirmed by many letters received by the mail. It is reported that 160 ships have been stopped at St. Petersburg, and as the embargo would certainly extend to Archangel, it is believed that no fewer than 300 in all have been detained.
Bonaparte exults in the failure of the negotiation betwixt Kleber and the Ottoman Cabinet. He also urges the power of the north to shake off what he is pleased to term the "tyranny which oppresses their commerce and their seas," mentions Russia, in particular, who "knows that France is a necessary counterpoise in the maritime balance of the world."
This paper adds, "Nothing is wanting to revive all the moderate pretensions of the French rulers—but peace;" "and if we do not yet enjoy it (say they) we have to accuse that power (England of course) which is unaffected by the disasters of the continent."
Government has taken up the aggressions of our late magnanimous ally with becoming spirit. A cabinet council was yesterday held on this important business, at which were present his grace the duke of Portland, the earls of Chatham and Spencer, the lord Chancellor, lord Grenville, the attorney general, and sir Stephen Cotterel, clerk of the council. The deliberations continued for three hours, and the result was a determination to make reprisals, by laying an embargo on all the Russian ships in British ports.
Orders were sent off last night to the different out-ports, to carry the resolution of the council into effect.
DECEMBER 2.
Yesterday arrived the Hamburg mail, due on Wednesday last. It confirms the important intelligence which we mentioned in our last, that the Emperor of Russia had laid an Embargo on all the British shipping in the ports of his dominions. It is also stated, on the authority of private letters from Hamburg, that in addition to this act of violent aggression, he has thrown the captains of these vessels into prison.
Some of the ships which were at Narva and Riga, made their escape and have reached Elsinour. The number detained is estimated at 300. Their cargoes are of considerable value. The report of the sequestration of British property throughout Russia, is also current; and it is also reported, that an order has been signed by Paul, that passports should be delivered to every Russian ship that sails containing a notification that if the ship should be attempted to be visited by the English, the same shall be regarded as a declaration of war.
Tho' no embargo on Russian ships in English ports has been ordered, there being none to stop that we can hear of, measures of a nature equally hostile were resolved on in the council held at Buckingham house on Friday. The Russian merchants, seeing the oppression and injustice of being called on to pay to persons in Russia, for cargoes which they have so little chance of obtaining, applied to government for an order of council, for prohibiting the payment of bills from Russia, or otherwise remitting money thither. This order was made by the King in council, after consulting the attorney and solicitor generals on the subject. In the mean time, the merchants held another meeting, and resolved that they should pay the bills they had accepted, but that they should accept no more.
It is said that ministers have sent off an order to Lord Keith in the Mediterranean, to detain all Russian vessels that may at present be found in that quarter.
The Prussian Armies in motion.
LONDON, DEC. 3.
The Hamburg mail confirms the report of the capture of Cruxhaven, by the King of Prussia. On the 21st ult. 1800 Prussian troops entered that town, and the arrival of five battalions more was hourly expected. All our shipping in that part immediately failed for the Roads to avoid being seized. His Prussian majesty attempts to justify this act, as a measure of necessity and precaution, in consequence of a Prussian vessel being carried into that neu-
tral port by an English ship of war. It is easy to see that Russia and Prussia were determined to act in concert, and that they are determined to try the question of our right to visit neutral ships, especially if they can enlist any other power under their banner, either by threats or persuasion, and we shall not be surprised to find that the influence may extend somewhat farther, we shall then be able to distinguish our foes from our pretended friends. Mr. Sheridan in the course of his speech last night, touched on this question in these words: "Without giving any opinion upon that dispute, without saying whether any guarantee could be given with respect to ships under convoy of neutral powers, I have no hesitation in stating, that if the privilege we contended for be that under which our naval greatness has grown, which is at once the boast, the glory, and the security of England; which has been recognized in all treaties, and which is part of the maritime law of Europe; if, I repeat, it be that privilege, I have no hesitation in saying, that it is the charter of our existence, the banner under which we should all rally; it is the flag, which imitating the example of our gallant seamen, we should nail to the mast of the nation, and go down with the vessel rather than strike it."
Accounts from Egypt.
LONDON, DEC. 2.
It has been long predicted, that the Emperor of Russia would extend his views to Turkey.—At this moment he is demanding an indemnity from the Porte for the expenses of his fleet in the maritime campaign; a prelude, no doubt, to a rupture with that feeble cabinet. Preparations for the war continue with increased exertions.
Every account from Egypt agrees in the determination of the French to retain that country. Menou had been joined by several Bays and their partizans, particularly in the south; and had embodied and disciplined all the Greeks able to bear arms, not excepting the crews of the Turkish transports and other vessels which had fallen into his hands. General Kleber had begun lines about Alexandria, previous to the convention of El-Arish. These Menou was perfecting, and adding to them several redoubts and batteries.
The last Hamburg Mail brought letters from Constantinople to the 10th of October inclusive, at which time the Russian fleet continued at anchor off Boyook Derch, in expectation of orders, in consequence of the surrender of Malta to the English, countermarching those which would otherwise require them to proceed to the Black Sea.—The state of the capital of Turkey was very uneasy, and much apprehension was entertained from the unaccountable stay in the Bosphorus, of the Russian fleet.
VENICE, OCT. 28.
The French have required from the city of Florence a contribution of two millions of livres, from Leghorn two millions, from Pisa one million, and in proportion from the other towns in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
National Legislature.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
City of Washington—TUESDAY, DEC. 30.
A report was received from the Secretary of War on the petition of several Canadian refugees. Read and referred to the committee appointed on the same subject.
The speaker read a letter from the sergeant at arms, stating that in consequence of his execution of the orders of the speaker in removing James Lane from the gallery for disorderly behavior and confusing him in the clerk's office till the house rose, he had been arrested by a warrant from a magistrate exercising his authority under the state of Maryland, and had been kept in custody from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. and had been then liberated in consequence of the failure of the prosecutor to appear.
On the question to appoint a committee of privileges the house divided, ayes 33, noes 29. A committee of five was then appointed, to whom the foregoing letter was referred.
Mr. Claiborne presented a petition, signed by a number of the merchants, and other citizens of the town of Nashville in Tennessee, praying the removal of the port of entry from Palmyra in that state, to Fort Massac, on the Ohio river. Referred to the committee of commerce.
The committee to whom was referred a resolution on the expediency of repealing an act for the valuation of dwelling houses, &c. made report that it would not be expedient at this time to repeal the said law.
Ordered to lie on the table. A bill for continuing the duty on licences for selling wine and foreign distilled spirits, and on goods sold at auction and on carriages was read twice, and referred to a committee of the whole house tomorrow.
The committee of revival and unfinished business, reported the titles of a number of acts soon to expire by their own limitations.
Mr. Taniaferro presented an address and remonstrance from the Legislature of Georgia in relation to the western lands of that state, which was ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed for the use of the members.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31.
The house went into a committee of th

whole, Mr. Morris in the chair, on the bill for continuing an act for imposing duties on licences for selling wines and on foreign distilled spirits, on goods sold at auction and on carriages. Mr. Randolph moved an amendment limiting the duration of the act to two years. Lost by the chairman's vote—Ayes 39. Noes 39. Mr. Bird moved an amendment, taking from the state courts all cognizance of suits for recovery of duties, under the idea that all such delegation of judicial power was unconstitutional.
After making a number of remarks to this effect, the committee rose, reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. The house then went into a committee of the whole on the bill in relation to the Territory of Columbia . Mr. Randolph moved to strike out the first section.
On which motion a debate of considerable interest ensued, in which the obligation to assume, as well as the expediency of assuming the jurisdiction over the territory by the federal government, were discussed with much energy. The speakers in favor of the assumption were Messrs. H. Lee, Bird, Craik, Dennis, Harper, and C. Goodrich:—Those against it were Mr. Randolph, and Mr. Nicholas. On the motion of Mr. Harper, the committee rose and reported progress. A motion was then made to recommit the bill to the select committee who introduced it with the addition of two members, and carried.
THURSDAY, JAN. 1. The bill directing the erection of a Mausoleum for Washington passed.
FRIDAY, JAN. 2. A representation from Gov. Sargent, rebutting the charges against him, was read and committed—as well as certain papers on the subject, communicated by the President. The new long judiciary bill was read the first time. A report from a committee for the continuance of this act—was referred to a committee of the whole, to be formed on tuesday, the 6th instant.
Portland,
MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1801.
The Legislature of Massachusetts will meet at Boston on Thursday next.
The Senate have confirmed the nomination by the President of the Hon. Samuel Dexter, as Secretary of the Treasury, in the room of Oliver Wolcott, resigned.
His Excellency Arthur St. Clair, has been nominated Governor of the N. W. Territory.
Gen. Ira Allen, came passenger in a cartel, which lately arrived at Philadelphia from France.
REVIEW OF FOREIGN NEWS.
From the Newyork Daily Advertiser. Bonaparte has announced his determination to recommence hostilities; his troops have already broken into Tuscany, while he himself is preparing to take the head of the army of the Rhine.
Meantime the immense armies of the Emperor are put in motion and commanded by the gallant and beloved Archduke, clothed with supreme and unlimited powers, have at once assumed a commanding attitude. Every thing gives promise of a desperate and bloody campaign.
The Prussian Monarch begins to unmask himself, and having under a frivolous pretence seized on Cuxhaven, threatens to dart his talons on Hamburgh itself. This it seems is his real and settled purpose, and will make a full counterpoise to the Emperor's Venetian requisitions. It will give a pretty rounding to the zig zag boundaries of his Empire, and a very desirable compactness to his scattered territories—besides it will at once give him that maritime consequence which he has long been wishing to attain.
Russia has also struck a bold stroke—Seduced by the subtle arts of French intrigue the Emperor has laid another, and general Embargo on the English vessels in his ports, and thus avowing his intentions of resisting the "right of search" which England claims, has made a rupture between the two countries inevitable. With a promptitude and energy evincive of the most inflexible resolution, the English ministry have ordered instant reprisals, and NAILING their flag to the mainmast of every vessel, have sworn never to yield the point in question, till their adversaries are humbled, or they sink in the ocean.
AMERICAN BRAVERY.
FROM CASTINE, JAN. 9. Extract of a letter from Captain Withney , of the ship Hiram , to a gentleman of this town, dated Fort Royal, Martinique , November 18. "I arrived here the 13th inst. after being twice taken and retaken; and one hundred and two days at sea. I left Liverpool the 2d of August, and on the 13th September, being in longitude 55, and latitude 29, I was taken by a French sloop of war, and all my people taken out, except Harry (second mate, a brother of capt. W. aged 17 years) one man, and a boy of twelve years of age, an apprentice of mine; and manned with ten Frenchmen, and ordered for Cayenne. I being determined on an attempt to retake my ship, on first discovering her to be French, loaded my pistols and hid them in a crate of ware, which had I not done, I should have lost them, for no less than three different times were my trunks searched for them, as were the cabin and all parts of the ship, which they could come to; they found my ammunition, but my pistols were secure; and such was their extreme caution, that they would not allow any man to be off deck; but eat, drank and slept on deck."
Finding that I could not obtain any advantage of them, by getting them below, I determined to attack them openly by day light. Therefore at about four o'clock, on the fourth day after being taken, I secured my pistols in my waistband, having previously told Harry and my man, my determination, and directing them to have a couple of handspikes where they could clasp their hands upon them in an instant, and when they saw me begin, to come to my assistance. The Prize Master was now asleep on the weather hencoop, his mate at the wheel, and the crew on different parts of the main deck. Under these circumstances I made the attempt by first knocking down the mate at the wheel; the Master started up so quick, that I could get but a very slight stroke at him; upon which he drew his dirk upon me. But I closed in with him, fallen him out of the quarter rail, and threw him overboard. But he caught by the main chains and so escaped going into the water. By this time I had the remaining eight upon me, two of whom I knocked backwards off the quarter deck, and Harry and my man, coming aft at this time with handspikes, played their part so well among them, that I soon got relieved. I then drew a pistol and shot a black fellow in the head, who was coming at me with a broad-axe, the ball only cut him to the bone; and then glanced, but it had an excellent effect, by letting the rest know that I had pistols, of which they had no idea. By this time the mate whom I first knocked down, had recovered, and run down to his trunk, and got a pistol, which he fired directly at my man's face, but the ball missed him. The Prize Master, whom I have over the quarter, got in again and stabbed Harry in the side, but not so bad as to oblige him to give up till we had conquered. In this situation we had it pell mell for about a quarter of an hour, when we got them a running, and followed them on, knocking down the hindmost, two or three times round the deck, when a part of them escaped below, and the rest begged for mercy, which we granted on their delivering up their weapons, which consisted of a discharged pistol, a midshipman's dirk, a broad axe, a hand saw, &c. We then marched them aft into the cabin, and brought them up, one at a time, after strictly searching them, and confined them down forward."
Ten days after this daring action, Capt. W. was a gain captured by a privateer from Guadalupe, who plundered his ship of 8 or 10,000 sterling, put on board a crew of 15 French, and ordered her for Guadalupe. After being in their hands 45 days, he was retaken by an English frigate and sent into Martinique.
DIED—On his passage home from St. Kitts, Mr. Benjamin J. Campbell, of this town, aged 18 years.
List of Letters
Remaining in the Post-Office, Kennebec, JANUARY 14, 1801.
BRAGDON John; Busham Seth, Arundel ; Cutton Edward; Cubberton James; Fernald Joseph; Frost Nathaniel; Gooch Jediah; Harding James; Littlefield Hubbard Moses; Little Nathaniel C. 2; Mitchell Mary; Moody Maria; Peavey Charles, Arundel ; Roberts John; Towns Robert.
New Glass & Crockery Ware Store.
Aaron Adams,
MOST respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has taken the easterly apartment of Doctor COFFIN'S N-W Brick Store, almost opposite the Columbian Tavern; where he has received by the latest arrivals from Liverpool and Dublin, a general assortment of GLASS and CROCKERY WARE—which is now open and ready for sale on the lowest terms for cash or approved credit. The favors of his friends are solicited—the smallest of which will be received with pleasure. N. B. Crates packed on the shortest notice.
THE subscribers take this method to inform the public, that they have purchased the Store lately occupied by NATHANIEL MARTIN in North Yarmouth, and have entered into copartnership in trade, under the firm of
Mitchell's & Buxton,
where they have for sale, a general assortment of ENGLISH & WESTINDIA GOODS, Also, a handsome assortment of DRUGS & MEDICINES, which they will sell on reasonable terms for Cash, Lumber, and Country produce. Gentlemen of the Faculty in this vicinity are desired to call at said Store. AMMI R. MITCHELL, N. LORING MITCHELL, JEREMIAH BUXTON. North Yarmouth, Dec. 24, 1800.
Hatch & Dearborn,
INFORM their friends and customers that they have removed from Fifth-street, and taken a shop in Middle-street, lately occupied by Mr. JOHN CLINTON—Where the TAILORS' BUSINESS will be carried on in all its branches, with neatness and dispatch. Every favor in the above line of business, will be thankfully received.
FOR SALE AT SAID SHOP. Best superfine black Broadcloths; blue do. mixed do.; superfine white Cashmere, black do. blue do. Drab Ratteen, blue do. Coatings; a general assortment of Waistcoat Patterns; best steel and gilt Buttons, Silk Velvets for Caps; Elastic Slings; a general assortment of Trimmings. Portland, Jan. 5, 1801.
Take Notice.
ALL those who are indebted to the subscriber, are requested to make immediate payment—Otherwise their Notes and Accounts will be put in suit without further notice. DANIEL HOW
Portland, Jan. 19, 1801.
THE Subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, That having been duly appointed administrator on the estate of
Jeremiah Morris,
late of Freeport, in the County of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, has taken upon him that trust, and given bond as the law directs: He therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate to make immediate payment: and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same, to LYDIA MORRIS.
THE Subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, That having been duly appointed administrator on the estate of
Simeon Bayley,
late of Falmouth, in the County of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, has taken upon him that trust, and given bond as the law directs: He therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate to make immediate payment: and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to DAVID BAYLEY.
To the Honorable the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, for the County of Washington: begun and holden at Machias; within and for said county, on the third Tuesday of August, A. D. 1800.
THE Subscribers humbly show—That part of the County road leading from Machias to Schoodiac through Plantations No. 18, 14 and 13 owned by non-resident proprietors, is very bad, and ought for the safety and convenience of travellers to be repaired.
We therefore pray that your Honors, would order the same to be amended and repaired by the Owners of said Plantations, agreeable to a Law of the Commonwealth, intituled "An act in addition to the several acts, now in force respecting highways" or otherwise give relief, and we as in duty bound, will ever pray.
John Cooper, Ralph H. Bowles, Jacob Longfellow, Marshal Thaxter, Samuel Ellis, Daniel P. Upton, Ebenezer Hinglee, John Kelly, Jacob Penniman.
A true Copy—Attest, RALPH H. BOWLES, Clerk,
WASHINGTON, ss—Court of General Sessions of the Peace at Machias, August term, A. D. 1800.
UPON the petition aforesaid, Ordered, that the petitioners notify all persons interested therein, to appear at the next Court of General Sessions of the Peace to be holden at Machias, within and for the County of Washington, on the third Tuesday in August next by publishing an attested Copy of said petition with this Order thereon, three weeks successively in the Messachusetts Mercury , printed in Boston by Young & Minns, and in the Gazette printed in Portland by Eleazer Alley Jenks: the last publication to be three weeks at least, before the sitting of said Court; that they may then and there appear, and shew cause if any they have, why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest, RALPH H. BOWLES, Clerk.
Wharf Timber Wanted.
ABOUT Six hundred tons of Wharf Timber is wanted, to be received in Portland by the last of May and June next. Any person or persons inclined to contract for the same, may apply to DAVID SMITH, No. 1, Union-Wharf. Jan. 12, 1801.
An excellent Farm,
CONTAINING about 300 acres of Land, 100 of which are under improvement, the other two hundred acres are well wooded, with a convenient dwelling House and two Barns, and is well watered—Said Farm lies in the town of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, within one mile of Saccarappa in said Falmouth, seven miles from Portland, and on the road that leads from Portland to Bridgton and Bethel.—It will be sold on reasonable terms—Inquire of the subscriber on the premises. JAMES GRANT. Falmouth, Jan. 8, 1801.
A good Farm,
IN the town of Bridgton, about 30 miles from Portland. It is very convenient for a tenant, and will be let for any term of time on reasonable conditions—For further particulars inquire of ROBERT ANDREWS, near the premises, or of THOMAS MEAD in Portland. Jan. 12.
THE subscribers, appointed Commissioners by the Hon. WILLIAM GORHAM, Esq. Judge of Probate, of Wills, &c. for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of
Jotham Patridge,
late of Falmouth, in said county, Yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give notice, that six months are allowed to said Creditors to bring in and prove their Claims; and that we shall attend that service at the house of Jotham Patridge at a place called Saccarappa, in Falmouth aforesaid, on Tuesday the 23d. day of this, and the second Tuesdays of the five following months, from one to five of the clock in the afternoon. ENOCH FREEMAN, ELIAS MERRILL, { Commissioners. Falmouth, Dec. 9, 1800.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, on the fifth inst. a red horse COLT, six or seven months old, with a white face, four white feet, and a natural trotter. The owner is desired to prove property, pay charges and take him away. PETER LIBBEE.
FOR SALE,
A few barrels TAR,
Of an excellent quality. Inquire at Store No. 7, Fifth-Street, or of BRYANT & FOX. Jan. 12.
List of Letters
Remaining in the Post-Office Portland, JANUARY 9, 1801. (Those names with no town annexed are of Portland.)
A—Alden John Capt. 2; Alden Jonathan -; Alden James; Adams Lyman; Arnold William; Adams Benjamin; Alden Isaiah, Falmouth . B—Brown Mrs. Salom; Brown Moses Capt.; Brown William; Brown Ordway 2; Butts Samuel, Falmouth ; Blanchard Seth Capt.; Blanchard Nathaniel Capt.; Blake Daniel; Blair Robert; Bailey John; Burdick William; Barker Jeremiah C.; Bayley Sally Miss; Blaisdell Jerry; Brooks Leonard; Bradford Miss Hitty; Bigelow Samuel 2; Brackett John; Beards James; Beard John; Baker Miss Dorcas, Falmouth . C—Crofts Joseph; Carter Theophilus; Chamberlain Nathaniel; Cary Benjamin; Collins John; Crane Reuben; Crofts Nathaniel; Chase, Thomas, & Co.; Caley Mary Mrs.; Chase Thomas 2; Cobb Ebenezer; Coey Joseph 2; Cobb Capt.; Clifton John 2; Carlisle George; Chadwell William; Capen William; Cobham Mrs. Sally. D—Donaldson William Capt.; Dyer Ezekiel; Danforth Ebenezer; Deane Jonathan 2; Delano John Capt.; Delano Judah Capt.; Dole Daniel, Falmouth ; Dyer John, Cape-Elizabeth ; Dwelly Barzillai, Paris ; Dow Joliah; Delano Thomas. E—Elderton Joshua B. 3; Eskildson George 2; Ely Dudley 2; Beards James; Erving Shirley Doctor. F—Fickett Asa, Stroudwater ; Frost Charles, Falmouth 3; Fegundus Miss Rachel; Freeman Dummer; Folsom Thomas; Farnum Jonathan, Falmouth . G—Gregg William; Griffin Nathaniel 2; Gammon William, Cape-Elizabeth ; Gilbert Daniel, Falmouth ; Green Miss Nancy; Glazier Beamley; Googans Samuel; Greely Daniel; Goldsmith John; Gould & Webster. H—Haley Joseph; Hoyt Miss Betsey; Hunt Daniel; Hannaford Zaccheus; Harris Mark 4; Holey Enoch; Hall Jacob; Hufsey William 3; Hite Miss Polly; Hubbard Amos 2; Harrod Joseph; Harden William; Holmes John; Huges Daniel; Hutchinson James; Heath Asa; Ham Miss Martha; Ham Joseph Capt.; Hall Mrs. Mary; Horton Joseph. J—Jones Caleb; Jewett Henry; Jordan Mrs. Mary; Jumper Ezekiel, Cape-Elizabeth . K—Kent & Stevens; Knight Joshua. L—Leavis Thomas; Lobbell Ebenezer, Falmouth ; Leavitt Benjamin 2; Leavis & Barr; Lunt James; Langley John; Lunt Moody; Lovell Mr.; Larrabee James; Lund Jonathan; Lee Downing Capt. Cape-Elizabeth . M—M'Intire Neil; March Relatiah 4, Otisfield ; Moses Daniel; Mitchell John; Mann Daniel; Mudgett John; M'Clintock Wm. H. 2; Macdolia Eben.; Mudge Ezra; M'Daniel James. N—Noyce John. P—Pichard John; Plummer Joseph; Parris Alexander; Pitman Mrs. Mary; Paine Jonathan; Plumley Alexander; Pope Ziba; Pratt Nathan; Plummer William; Prince Benjamin Capt.; Plummer Asa; Pence George 3, Otisfield . Q—Quincy Mrs. Sally; Quinby John; Quinby Frederick, Falmouth . R—Rea Mrs. Sarah; Robinson Capt.; Rideout Mrs. Mary, Cape-Elizabeth ; Robinson Edward; Rundlett Edward; Ross Benjamin D.; Roberts George. S—Small Henry Capt. 3; Strout Anthony, Cape-Elizabeth ; Simonton Ebenezer Capt. Cape-Elizabeth ; Small Ebenezer Capt.; Senter Samuel Major; Spafford Deborah Mrs.; Stover Capt. Robert; Shephard John jun.; Smith Jacob; Sleeper Jacob Capt.; Slonar Mrs.; Sydleman Capt. John. T—Trott Benjamin 2; Tripp Abner, Falmouth ; Taylor Elnaham; Trufey Michael 2; Tappan Miss Mary; Trupell Benjamin H.; Taylor Samuel; Turner Eliza. V—Vaughan James 2. W—Waldron Abraham; Wait Joshua Capt.; Weeks Frank, Falmouth ; Whitney Mrs. Elizabeth; Wing Joseph 2; Waterhouse Robert, Stroudwater ; Woodman William 2; Worcesster William 2; Watts John F.; Wilson Edward Capt.; Winlow Nathan, Falmouth ; Ward Joseph; Washburne Rufus; Winlow Henry; Webber Ambrose; Westcoat Josiah, Cape-Elizabeth ; Wife & Grant; Winlow Mr.; Wyer Mrs. Lydia 2; White Elizabeth Mrs.
LETTERS
Remaining in the Post-Office, Wiscasset, JANUARY 1, 1801.
BURR Joseph - Wiscasset Brier Sally, - Boothbay Bunton Robert - do. Crooker Abner - Edgecomb Child Thomas - Wiscasset Chase Hannah - do. Decker Joseph - do. Fairservice Robert - do. Eaton Moses - do. Follansbe Thomas - do. Follansbe Thomas, jun. - do. Follansbe James - do. Goddard Anne - do. Gerrington Mr. - do. Houd James - do. Hulton Andrew - do. Hill Langdon Mark - do. Jenkins Isaac - do. Jewett James - do. Jones Benjamin - do. King Ezra - do. Lewis William 2 - Boothbay Miller Hans - do. M'Culloch - do. Marshall Mary - Wiscasset Mason William - Eden Neal John - Edgecomb Owen Moses - Wiscasset Pinto Samuel - do. Payton David Col. 4 - do. Pagan Daniel - do. Perkins Joseph - Edgecomb Radcliffe Samuel - Boothbay Stevens Joseph - Wiscasset Silverster John - do. Salter Ebenezer - do. Sargent Joseph jun. - do. Slowman William - do. Stetson Nathaniel - do. Tuell Benjamin - do. Thompson Samuel, - Boothbay Wheeler Abijah - do. Wilson James - Wiscasset Weathern David - do. Walker Solomon - Wiscasset

Selections.
The following elegant lines were written by a gentleman, some years ago, at Bristol on the death of his wife. Their beauty and excellence require no elucidation—True taste must admire them, and feeling will weigh them in a balance where they shall not be found wanting.
WHO e'er like me with boding anguish brings His heart's whole treasure to fair Bristol's springs; Who e'er like me, to sooth disease and pain, Shall pour their salutary streams in vain; Condemn'd like me, to ear the faint reply; To make the flitting cheek, the sinking eye; From the chill brow to wipe the damps of death, And watch with dumb despair each short'ning breath; If chance directs him to this artist's line Let the sad mourner know, his pages were mine! Ordain'd to lose the partner of my breath, Whose beauty warm'd me, and whose virtue blest— Fram'd by each tie that binds the soul to prove Her duty, friendship, constancy and love!
THE BEST COSMETIC
Tho' Venus' handmaids thee adorning, Your lovely form, delight to say; Tho' softer than the bloom of morning, On your cheek the blushes play.
Yet pardon, pardon, lovely maid, The rash presumption of your Poet, Take one Cosmetic to your aid, And tell the world they all may know it.
'Tis neither wash, nor patch, nor paint That will our heedless hearts beguile, It is—and would become a Saint, The SWEET COSMETIC OF A SMILE.
FROM LONDON PAPERS.
A Gentleman lately boasting in London of the quickness of his sight, said, by way of confirming his remark, "that he saw, at that moment a mouse on the top of the monument." "I cannot say I see it," replied a sneering and incredulous friend, "but I plainly hear it run."
A Gentleman in Marshland, on meeting the sexton's wife of the parish of —, asked her if trade was good? "Nay I assure you, Sir (said she) I think this war will ruin us all; for my husband has not buried a living soul this six weeks."
A certain bruising parson, of the name of Day, being examined at the Old Bailey, on some point, the council, according to the laudable custom of the court, attempted to brow-beat him; "I think you are the bruising parson," said he, "I am," answered the Rev. Divine; "and if you doubt it, and will come out of court, I will give it you under my hand."
NEW GOODS.
Just received, and now ready for sale by Moody & Thurston, At their Store in Fifth-street, formerly occupied by Mr. Joshua Blake, an additional supply to their former assortment of
Staple & Fancy Goods:
CONSISTING OF Superfine black, navy blue, olive, scarlet, and fashionable mixed Broadcloths; Middle and low-priced do; Cassimeres; Coatings; Rattens; Forest, Elastic and Orleans Striped Cloths; Baizes and Flannels of all prices and colours; Blankets; Velvets; Molekins, larnette and fashionable Swansdown Vest Patterns; Marcellies Quilting; Hosiery; Gloves; all kinds of Stuff Goods; Calicoes; Copperplates; Camel's hair, muslin and silk Shawls; Satins; Lustrings; Modes; Saranets and Ribbons; India Cottons; a great variety of Muslins; Cambrics; Bandanna and Cotton Handkerchiefs; Umbrellas; Hats; Shoes of various kinds, &c. &c. &c.
ALSO, Loaf and Brown Sugar; Coffee; Cotton; Hyson, Souehong and Bohea Teas; Salt; a general assortment of Hollow and Hard Ware; WEST-INDIA GOODS, NAILS and GLASS. All which they are determined to sell cheap for cash or country Produce. Portland, Dec. 29.
War Department,
November 13th, 1800.
THOSE gentlemen who have applied for military appointments in the service of the United States, are informed, that their applications with all the recommendatory letters accompanying, were consumed by fire in the War Office, on Saturday evening last. Those who continue to desire to be considered as candidates, will see the propriety of renewing their application.
SAMUEL DEXTER, Secretary of War.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
YORK, ss.—At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace, begun and held at Biddeford, within and for the county of York, on the last Tuesday of October, being the 28th day of said month, Anno Domini, 1800.
WHEREAS application has been made to this Court by sundry inhabitants of this county, for a "new Highway to be laid out from Portland Road, to the Road leading from Parsonsfield to Fryeburg through Porterfield."—And also for another "new Highway to be laid out from New Hampshire line, through part of Porterfield, and part of Cutler's grant, to Portland road in Brownfield."
Therefore ordered, That the substance of said applications, with this order thereon, be inserted three weeks successively, in the Massachusetts Mercury , printed at Boston by Young & Minns , and also, in the Portland Gazette , printed by Eleazer A. Jenks ; the last publication thereof to be thirty days at least, prior to the next term of this Court, to be held at York, within and for said county of York, on the third Tuesday of April next; to the end the Proprietors of said Lands may then and there appear, and shew cause, if any they have, why the said new Highways should not be laid out as aforesaid.
Attest—DANIEL SEWALL, Clerk.
To the Honorable Senate and the Honorable the Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court assembled.
HUMBLY shews the Subscribers, Original Proprietors of Township Number Two, east of Union-River, and settlers, inhabitants of said Township, now incorporated by the name of Sullivan, desirous of holding our lands, by a tenure more secure than the one we now have, pray your Honors to take our situation into consideration, and secure to us our rights as to your wisdom may seem just and equitable; we beg leave to state to your Honors the following facts:
1st. That the greater number of us came here as Proprietors under the grant of 1764, or under Proprietors of that grant, some of us twenty-six years ago.
2d. That during the contest between the United States and Great Britain, we suffered in proportion to any of our fellow-citizens, losing all the navigation belonging to the Town, and though little it was all, consisting of three Coasting Vessels, and two Fishing Schooners, which loss to this day is not made up, that the enemy landed and burnt two of our Houses and all the Furniture and Provisions therein.
3d. That there is taken up and settled upon all the front lots to the number of about one hundred and ninety.
4th. That the Township is a very poor tract of land, that what remains will scarcely be worth settling not any lot of an hundred acres that will make a settlement, being swamps, ledges of rocks, or barren heaths.
5th. That part of the Township falls within the grant of Mon. De'Grignon, six miles in length, and in some places more than a mile in width, all which is front land and near one sixth of the Township.
6th. That we are now building a Meeting House, which is in some forwardness.
Therefore your Petitioners pray that the Township may be confirmed to them and the other settlers and inhabitants of said Town of Sullivan, in equal Proportions or in such way as you in your wisdom may think best, and as in duty bound will ever pray.
James Leland, Joseph Bidford, John Preble, William Foss, Nathaniel Preble, jun. Summers Woolster, Samuel Ingalls, Robert Mercer, William Abet, John Uriah, jun. Amos Ames, John Springer, John Abbe, Patrick Gogins, Benjamin Johnson, John Simpson, Edward Pettengill, Richard Downing, his Abner Blaisdell, Morris Bigford, Jabez Simpson, mark Samuel Beane, Joshua Bigford, Ephraim Dyer, Ebenezer Beane, William Ingalls, Richard Clarke, Thomas Ash, James Beane, John Johnson, James Simpson, Thomas Foss, George Crabtree, Nathaniel Johnson, Samuel Simpson, Oliver Woolster, Samuel Ball, Oliver Woolster, sen. Moses Allet, Charles Coats, Reuben Allet, John Preble, Stephen West Merchant, David Woolster, Benjamin Bennet, Daniel Harris, John Bane, jun. Amos Bragdon, Patrick Man, William Crabtree, John Buckley, John Gordon, William Woolster, Morgan Jones.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In the House of Representatives—Nov. 13, 1800.
ON the Petition, of Jabez Simpson, and others, original Proprietors, of Township Number Two, east of Union River, and settlers inhabitants of said Township, now incorporated by the name of Sullivan, praying that the same may be confirmed to them and the other settlers and inhabitants of said Town, in equal proportions.
ORDERED, that the Petitioners cause an attested copy of their petition and this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in Jenks' Gazette , printed at Portland, and in the Casine Journal , printed at Casine, the last publication to be at least thirty days before the third Wednesday of the next Session of the General Court, that all persons interested may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer of the said petition should not be granted.
Sent up for concurrence.
EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker.
In Senate, Nov. 14, 1800.
Read and concurred.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President.
A true Copy—Attest,
EDWARD P. HAYMAN, Clerk of Senate.
Ferth Goods,
Received by the latest arrivals from Liverpool, ARE now offered for sale at the Store lately kept by Mr. William Gushman, in Fifth street, consisting of a variety of BROADCLOTHS, KERSEYS, HALF THICKS, and PLAINS.
N. B. Said Goods will be sold at the lowest price for Cash or approved Credit. Portland, Dec. 22.
Treasury Department,
Washington September 1st, 1800.
Public Notice is hereby Given,
In pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 23d day of April, one thousand eight hundred, entitled, "An act to establish a General Stamp Office,"
THAT a General Stamp Office is now established at the seat of government, in the city of Washington, from whence there will issue, from and after the date hereof, (upon the application of the Supervisors of the Revenue, under whose management the collection of the stamp duties is placed) any quantities of paper, parchment and vellum, marked or stamped, and duly counter-stamped, with the following rates of duty which are demandable by law:
For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, upon which shall be written or printed any or either of the instruments or writings following, viz:
Dolls. C.M.
ANY certificate of naturalization 5 A licence to practice, or certificate of the admission, enrolment or registry of any counsellor, Solicitor Advocate attorney, or proctor, in any court of the United States 10
Provided, that a certificate in any one of the courts of the United States, for any one of the said officers, shall so far as relates to the payment of the duty aforesaid, be a sufficient admission in all the courts of the United States, for each and every of the said offices.
Any grant or letters patent, under the seal or authority of the United States (except for lands granted for military services) 4
Any exemplification or certified copy of any such grant or letters patent (except for lands granted for military services) 2
Any charter party, bottomry or respondentia bond 1
Any receipt of discharge for or on account of any legacy left by any will, or other testamentary instrument, or for any share or part of a personal estate, divided by force of any statute of distributions other than to the wife, children or grand children of the person deceased, the amount whereof shall be above the value of fifty dollars, and shall not exceed the value of one hundred dollars 25 When the amount thereof shall exceed the value of one hundred dollars, and shall not exceed five hundred dollars 50
And for every further sum of five hundred dollars, the additional sum of 1
Any policy of insurance or instrument in nature thereof, when the sum for which insurance is made shall not exceed five hundred dollars 25
When the sum insured shall exceed five hundred dollars 1
Any exemplification of what nature soever, that shall pass the seal of any court, other than such as it may be the duty of the clerk of such court to furnish for the use of the United States, or some particular state 50
Any bond, bill single or penal, inland bill of exchange, promissory note or other note (other than any recognizance, bill, bond or other obligation or contract, made to or with the United States, or any state, or for their use respectively; and any bonds required in any case by the laws of the United States, or of any state, upon legal process or in any judicial proceeding, or for the faithful performance of any trust or duty) If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars 10 If above one hundred and not exceeding five hundred dollars 25 If above five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars 50 And if above one thousand dollars 75
Provided, that if any bonds or notes shall be payable at or within sixty days, such bonds or notes shall be subject to only two fifth parts of the duty aforesaid, viz:
If above twenty and not exceeding one hundred dollars 4
If above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars 10
If above five hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars 20
If above one thousand dollars 30
Any foreign bill of exchange, draft or order for the payment of money in any foreign country 20
The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of exchange, without respect to the number contained in each set.
Any note or bill of lading or writing or receipt in nature thereof, for goods or merchandise to be exported;
If from one district to another district of the United States, not being in the same state 4
If from the United States to any foreign port or place 10
The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of lading without respect to the number contained to each set.
Any notes issued by the banks now established or that may be hereafter established within the United States, other than the notes of such of the said banks as shall agree to an annual composition of one per centum on the annual dividends made by such banks, to their stockholders respectively, according to the following scale:
On all notes not exceeding fifty dollars, for each dollar 6
On all notes above fifty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars 50
On all notes above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars 1
On all notes above five hundred dollars 2
Any proctor or other notarial act 25
Any letter of attorney, except for an invalid pension, or to obtain or sell warrants for land granted by the United States as bounty for military services performed in the late war 25
Any inventory or catalogue of any furniture, goods or effects, made in any case required by law (except in cases of goods and chattels distrained for rent or taxes, and goods taken in virtue of any legal process by any officer 50
Any certificates of a share in any insurance company of a share in the bank of the United States, or of any state or other bank;
If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars 10
If above one hundred dollars 25
If under twenty dollars, at the rate of ten cents for one hundred dollars. II
That the power of the supervisors of the Revenue to mark or stamp any vellum, parchment or paper chargeable with duty, will cease and determine from and after six months from the date hereof, to wit, on the last day of February 1801.
That, if any persons shall, after the last day of February 1801, have in their custody or possession, any vellum, parchment or paper, marked or stamped by the supervisors of the revenue, upon which any matter or thing, charged with duty, shall not have been written or printed, they may at any time within the space of sixty days after the said last day of February 1801, bring or send such vellum, parchment and papers, unmarked or stamped, to some office of inspection, and in lieu thereof, receive a like quantity or value of vellum, parchment and paper, duly stamped in pursuance of the act herein before recited. And in case any person shall neglect or refuse, within the time aforesaid, to bring or cause to be brought unto some officer of inspection, any such vellum, parchment or paper, it is hereby declared, that the same will thereafter be of no other effect or use, than if it had never been marked or stamped, and that all matters and things, which may after that time be written or printed upon any vellum, parchment or paper, authorised to be exchanged in manner aforesaid, will be of no other effect, than if they had been written or printed on paper, parchment or vellum, not marked or stamped.
IV.
And for the convenience of those persons who may be inclined to have their own vellum parchment and paper stamped or marked, it is hereby declared that when any person shall deposit any vellum, parchment or paper at the office of a supervisor, accompanied with a list, specifying the number and denomination of the stamps or marks, which are desired to be thereto affixed, the same will be transmitted to the General Stamp Office, and there properly marked or stamped, and forthwith sent back to the same supervisor, who will thereupon collect the duties and deliver the paper, parchment or vellum, to the order of the person from whom the same was received.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Treasury, at Washington, the day and year above-mentioned.
OLIVER WOLCOTT,
Secretary of the Treasury,
Nov. 3.
WHEREAS the copartnership under the firm of WEEKS & TUCKER, was dissolved by mutual agreement on the first day of the present month—All persons having claims upon that company, may apply for settlement and pay, to either of the subscribers; and those who are indebted to them, are again called upon to make payment without delay, or their notes and accounts will be lodged in the hands of Attorney for collection.
Lemuel Weeks, Daniel Tucker.
Portland, January 7, 1801.
JUST RECEIVED FOR SALE,
By Zaccheus Hannaford,
At his Store, Main-Street,
A well chosen assortment of English, West India, and other GOODS—among which are,
Superfine and low-priced Broadcloths, Waistcoating, Calicoes, Baizes, Flannels, India Cottons, &c.
West India and New England Rum, Brandy, Gin, Molasses, Chocolate Cotton, Coffee, Raisins, Rice, Flour, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Hyson, Souehong and Bohea Teas, Candles, Pigtail and Leaf Tobacco, ad. 6d. 1od & 2ed Nails, Nail Rods, Russia and Swedes Iron, some of which suitable for sleigh shoes, English and blister Steel. Salt, Cotton & Wool Cards, Knives and Forks, a few dozen Stone Jugs from one to three gallons, Sieves, Hearth Brushes, Bed Cords, Sleigh Bells, Redwood, Logwood, Fustick, Copperas, Alum, Fire Dogs large and small, Hand-Saws, &c. &c. &c.
LIKewise,
A good assortment of Hollow Ware.
Constant attendance, and every favor acknowledged with gratitude. Portland, Dec. 29.
FOR SALE,
An excellent Farm,
CONTAINING about 117 acres, of Land; 80 of which are under improvement—with a convenient House, Store, &c. thereon; together with a good Grist-Mill.—It lies in the town of Bowdoin, county of Lincoln, within a few miles of Bowdoin College, and near the place where the Court sits in Topsham.—It will be sold on reasonable terms for cash, or approved credit, inquire of the subscriber at Topsham. HEZEKIAH WYMAN. Topsham, Dec. 1800.
Also, 200 acres of Land in Topsham. Inquire as above.
Taken up adrift,
ON Sunday last, a Long-Boat. The owner, by proving property, and paying charges, may have it again, by applying to
NATHANIEL JORDAN, jun.
Cape-Elizabeth, Dec. 1800.
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