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No. 52, of Vol. X.]
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1808.
[Whole No. 520.]
Miscellaneous.
FROM THE ALBANY CRISIS.
To the President of the U. S.
TIMES of trouble try men's souls. —The fates have played with you a capricious part. They have twice placed you in the most responsible situations, in periods of great peril. Unwilling that you should glide down the tide of life, in philosophical composure, under false and glittering colours, they have twice sent storms to cross your way. The world has witnessed, how much like a timid theorist, and how little like a man of spirit and bravery, you have met these events. You have been brought to the touch-stone; and your negative virtues, on the trial, have proved little better than positive vices. Cowardice, fir, is no crime; but an assumption of courage in him who has it not, is hypocrisy; and hypocrisy is a sin. He who obtains undeservedly the confidence of the people, and then betrays that confidence, may be deemed a cunning politician, but he has no claims to the character of a great man. He who aspires to the highest post in the government without a single qualification to fit him for that post, is little better than a traitor to his country. He clothes the nation in a paper armor, and then denies the weapons of the enemy.
Posterity will do you ample justice.—Your cotemporaries can only take notes of your conduct; and the faithful pen of history must finish the work. You live in an age of freedom—an age in which truth will be protected against all the efforts of power to suppress it. Such an age I deem unfortunate for you. There is an inherent brightness in gold, that will never tarnish. It is in base metal only that we must look for corrosion. Truth, like vitriolic acid, will search out and expose alloys. It will wholly destroy mere lead. It will make brass itself change colour. Truth, in the feeblest hand, is irresistible. Dare you, fir, encompassed as you are with power, and surrounded by devoted minions, encounter its touch?
Do you ask, who presumes thus to interrogate the Chief Magistrate of the United States? I answer, an obscure and unknown citizen; one who, in the estimation of the world, is placed beneath your envy; but who is nevertheless above your scorn and contempt. I am a freeman; and after the fourth of March next, you can boast the fame and no more. In the few papers which I propose to address to you, I shall not unnecessarily wound your feelings, nor shall I do injustice to my own.
JUNIUS.
MR. HAY AGAINST MR. MADISON.
[BIBLE] GEORGE HAY, Esq. Mr. Jefferson's District Attorney for the State of Virginia, and four other good Democrats, have published an Address to the Citizens of that State, in the "Richmond Enquirer," in which they demonstrate the necessity of rejecting Mr. MADISON, as candidate for President. The following is a faithful extract from the Address:—
"FELLOW CITIZENS, "From a view of the critical situation of the United States, at this moment, the causes which have produced it; and the distress and calamity to which we shall be exposed by a contest, NOW ALMOST INEVITA-
BLE, with the only power in Europe which has not bowed or been made to bow its neck to the yoke of a CONQUEROR, whose Ambition is without bounds, and whose successes are without example."
PRECIOUS CONFESSIONS! Thus it appears that even the Jeffersonians of Virginia are at last brought to see that our WHOLE DANGER arises from the settled disposition and determination of our Government to involve us in a WAR with England.
From Washington, March 26. "The papers communicated to Congress by the President, are not yet disposed of; nor in fact, have they as yet been all read. From what has appeared, and the opinions of those who have an opportunity of judging the character of the whole budget, from the samples exhibited, we must conclude they are but the detailed account of transactions, the merits of which are already known to the public, excepting the MATERIAL Communications from France, which will not be printed. The President expects to silence some of the public complaints by this communication; but the eyes of the people are too widely opened, to be deceived any longer; they will now look for themselves; and, looking, will see that this budget of official information affords no new lights to guide them in the dark paths of our national distresses."
We are happy to learn, that Mr. Gardenier has resumed his seat in Congress. He took his place on the 26th, for the first time since the duel.
From N. Orleans, March 4. It is with deep regret we record the death of John Ward Gurley, Esq. late Attorney General of this Territory, who fell in a duel with Philip L. Jones, Esq. yesterday afternoon. He was shot dead the first fire, and Mr. Jones received a flesh wound in his leg.—His death is sincerely regretted by his numerous and respectable acquaintance and friends.
ROCHEFORT SQUADRON.
An arrival at Philad. from Algeciras, reports, that the Rochefort Squadron has passed into the Mediterranean, on the 26th Jan. unobserved by the British fleet at Gibraltar, and arrived safely at Toulon.
An arrival at New York, in 34 days from Bordeaux, also states, that this fleet being joined by the Toulon Squadron, amounted in the whole, to 17 sail of the line, had put to sea from Toulon—Destination not surmised.
ENGLISH W. I. FLEET.
Ad. Cochrane has received a reinforcement of 6 sail of the line; and is now off Martinique, with a squadron of 16 sail of the line.
French Demoralizing Decree
FIRST FRUIT. We learn, that the ship Grace, Linzee, hence for Leghorn, was captured in sight of that French port, by a French cruiser, and carried into Porto Feraio. She had neither been to a British place, nor had been visited by a British cruiser. But two of her crew—with a view to obtain the great reward promised in a recent decree to seamen who would give information against their vessels—have told that, she had been boarded from an English ship; and the vessel is thus subjected to condemnation, and the captain and and mate to fine and imprisonment. Probably this is, besides, another instance of the disadvantage of having foreign sailors on board our vessels—the fidelity of native seamen might be relied on.— Boston Pallad.
We have a report from Algeciras, of the arrival of the Rochefort Squadron at Toulon. There is no reason to doubt the correctness of this rumour. We have also a report from Bordeaux, that the Rochefort fleet had put to sea again, with the Tou-
lon fleet. The British Admiral, Collingwood and Strachan, are in the Mediterranean, with squadrons.— ibid.
Paris papers to Feb. 20. have been received at N. York. The news of our embargo had reached France; and it was the general opinion we could not remain in a neutral situation much longer.
Political Regeneration in New-York.
NEW-YORK, MARCH 20. At a meeting of Federal Republicans, held last evening at Mechanics Hall, pursuant to public notice—Cornelius Ray, Esq. was appointed Chairman, and David S. Jones, Secretary.
C. D. Colden, Esq. opened the business in an appropriate speech; he stated that the meeting was called to consider on suitable measures to be adopted on the approaching election; and concluded by moving that in consequence of the perilous and distressing state of the country, meetings be invited to be called in every county and town of the state, and that ward meetings be held in this city, to appoint three persons in each ward as a committee to nominate suitable persons for members of Congress, and members of the Senate and Assembly of this state.
David B. Ogden, Esq. seconded the resolutions of Mr. Colden, and in an animated speech depicted the ruinous measures of the general government, and gave a lively picture of the distress and ruin already occasioned by the Embargo.
The meeting was a very large and respectable one.
A resolution has been unanimously passed by the Legislature of New-York, requesting their national Senators and representatives to represent in the most earnest manner the exposed situation of the port of New-York, and the urgent necessity of making and applying such an appropriation of money as may be fully adequate to its protection—and, further, to represent the destitute situation of the seamen, and the danger of their emigrating.
Governor Hull. —The Territory of Michigan is now suffering the evil common to other portions of the Union, where power falls into the hands of democratic rulers. Instead of honourable and faithful discharge of duty, these rulers become involved in mutual animosities of the blackest characters. Not long since, by Governor Hull's influence, Stanley Griswold, the apostle of Jacobinism employed to corrupt New Hampshire, and afterwards rewarded with a number of offices in Detroit, was publicly impeached of treasonous practices in promoting mutiny among the militia. A counterpart is now exhibiting there, and it is stated a messenger has gone to Washington, with a petition to the President, signed by 500 respectable names, for the removal of William Hull, Esq. Governor of Michigan Territory. Some of the charges against him, are for imposing severe, unnecessary military duty on the citizens, and for refusal, dragging them from their homes at the point of the bayonet, and inflicting the cat-o'-nine-tails.— Repository.
Tenth Congress.....1st Session.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1808. On Tuesday the President laid before Congress an Important Message . The papers which accompanied the message have been three days in reading, and a considerable portion of them remains unread.—It is supposed the reading will continue until Saturday evening. Part of the papers are confidential , and are read with closed doors.—Part are ordered to be printed.
THE MESSAGE Communicates the instructions given to Messrs. Munroe and Pinckney, on the affair of the Chesapeake; the British Communications, in consequence; the correspondence between Messrs. Rose and Madison, &c. &c. With respect to French affairs, the President says, he sends all the communications, official or verbal, from the French Government, respecting the general relations between the two countries, which have been received
from any official sources.— [These papers have not yet reached us.] —The message also expresses a wish, that the whole of Mr. Armstrong's letter to Mr. Champagny may be now published.
Document No. I. —Is a letter from Mr. Madison to Mr. Munroe, dated July 6, 1807, on the subject of the attack on the Chesapeake, and of the demand for reparation. The letter occupies more than two columns, and the subject of it has been frequently before the public.
No. II. —Is the following Notes between Mr. Canning and Mr. Munroe:—
Saturday, July 25, 1807.
Mr. Canning presents his compliments to Mr. Munroe, and with sentiments of the deepest regret, hastens to inform him that intelligence has just been received of a transaction which has taken place off the coast of America, between a ship of war of his majesty, and a frigate belonging to the United States; the result of which has been the loss of some lives on board the American frigate.
The particulars of this transaction, and the grounds of the justification of the British officer, and the admiral, under whose orders he acted, Mr. Canning is not enabled at present to communicate to Mr. Munroe.
If Mr. Munroe should have received any accounts of it, Mr. Canning trusts he will lose no time in communicating them to Mr. Canning.
But whatever the real merits and character of the transaction may turn out to be, Mr. Canning could not forbear expressing without delay the sincere concern and sorrow which he feels at this unfortunate result; and assuring the American Minister, both for himself and on the behalf of his majesty's government, that if the British officer should prove to have been culpable, the most prompt and effectual reparation shall be afforded to the government of the United States.
JAMES MONROE, Esq. &c. &c. &c.
To Mr. CANNING
Mr. Monroe presents his compliments to Mr. Canning and is much obliged to him for the information communicated in his note of Saturday. Mr. Monroe has heard with extreme regret the account it contains of a rencontre between a British ship of war and an American frigate off the coast of the U States. He has no knowledge of the subject except what Mr. Canning's note has furnished, but will not fail to communicate the earliest intelligence which he may receive of an event so deeply to be lamented. Mr. Monroe derives in the mean time much satisfaction from the friendly assurance of Mr. Canning, that this unfortunate occurrence was not authorized by his majesty's government, and that suitable reparation will be made for the injury if on inquiry the British officer should be found the aggressor.
Portland Place, Monday, July 27, 1807.
To the Rt. Hon. GEORGE CANNING, &c. &c. Then follows a Note from Mr. Munroe, dated July 29, 1807, on the subject of the Chesapeake affair, demanding in a very spirited style, the disavowal of the attack and suitable reparation for it. Mr. Canning's reply is equally terse and spirited.—He, however, says "But the earnest desire of his majesty to evince in the most satisfactory manner, the principles of justice and moderation by which he is uniformly actuated, has not permitted him to hesitate in commanding me to assure you, that his majesty neither does, nor has at any time, maintained the pretension of a right to search ships of war, in the national service of any state, for deserters." Then follow two notes between Messrs. Munroe and Canning, one dated July 29, 1807, the other Aug. 3d, 1807—The next is a letter from Mr. Munroe to Mr. Madison, dated Aug. 4, explaining his former Notes with Mr. Canning, and giving an account of an interview with Mr. C. This letter is long.
The following Notes passed on the subject of the president's proclamation
From Mr. CANNING to Mr. MONROE. FOREIGN OFFICE, AUG. 8, 1807. Sir—Having received from his majesty's minister, an unofficial printed paper, purporting to be a copy of a proclamation of the President of the United States, I have to request that you will be pleased to acquaint me, whether you have received any communication from your government which enables you to pronounce a copy of such paper to be authentic.
In the event of your being empowered to admit its authenticity, I have further to request of you, that you will inform me whether you are also authorized to announce it to be the intention of the government of the United States to carry into effect the measures stated in the proclamation of the President, without requiring, or waiting for, an explanation on the part of the British government with respect to the late unfortunate transaction, upon which the determination to resort to these measures is professed to be founded.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) GEORGE CANNING. P. S.—I have the honor to enclose an American newspaper, containing a copy of the paper in question.
MR. MONROE to Mr. CANNING. Portland Place, Aug. 9, 1807. Sir—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday, and should not hesitate to communicate the information which you have desired, if I possessed it; but as I have not heard from my government on the subject of the unfortunate occurrence alluded to, it is not in my power to state to you any thing on the part of my government respecting it. I have no doubt that I shall be instructed in a few days, to make a communication to his majesty's government on that highly interesting event, in which I shall be enabled to furnish a full and just view of all the circumstances attending it. As soon as I receive instructions I shall hasten to apprise you of it.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) JAMES MONROE. Then follows a letter from Mr. Monroe to Mr. Madison; and a Note from Mr. Monroe to Mr. Canning; in which the imprisonment of seamen, from Merchant vessels, is discussed. These are all the documents we have received.
MODERN SENSIBILITY.
FRENCH. One of our Captains, whose ship was lately burnt, by order of the great friend of the United States and champion for "the freedom of the seas," on discovering his vessel in flames, soon after he was taken on board the French frigate, asked why he had not acquainted him with his intention, that he might have taken some of his own things, which would be useful to him, out of the cabin. The Frenchman shrugged up his shoulders and with pretensions of the greatest sincerity observed—"I tot I would save your feelings!"
The municipality of a corporation town in the neighborhood of Weymouth, immediately previous to the departure of the Royal family from that favorite watering place, published the following proclamation:— "Whereas his Majesty the King and Queen is enacted to honor this ancient corporation with their presence in the course of their tour; in order to prevent them from meeting no impediment in his journey, the worshipful the Mare and Bailiffs have thought proper that the following regulations shall be prohibited, as follows: Nobody must not leave no dust, nor nothing in that shape, before their doors or shops; and all wheel-barrows, cabbage-stalks, marble stones, and other vegetables, must be swept out of the streets. Any one who shall fail giving offence in any of these articles shall be dealt with according to law without bail or mainprize. God save his Majesty the King and Queen, and his Worship the Mare."— Land. Pap.

Interesting Documents.
In the first page of this day's GAZETTE will be found a summary view of the Documents which accompanied the President's message to Congress (24th March, 1808) up to No. 12.—The following is a continuation of them:—
Correspondence between Mr. MADISON and Mr. ROSE, on the subject of the Chesapeake, &c. &c.
From Mr. ROSE to Mr. MADISON.
WASHINGTON, JAN. 26, 1808.
SIR
HAVING had the honor to state to you, that I am expressly precluded by my instructions from entering upon any negotiation for the adjustment of the differences arising from the encounter of his Majesty's ship Leopard, and the frigate of the United States, the Chesapeake as long as the proclamation of the President of the United States, of the 2d July, 1807, shall be in force, I beg leave to offer you such farther explanation of the nature of that condition as appears to me calculated to place the motives under which it has been enjoined to me thus to bring it forward in their true light.
In whatever spirit that instrument was issued, it is sufficiently obvious, that it has been productive of considerable prejudice to his Majesty's interests, as confided to his military and other servants in the United States; to the honor of his flag, and to the privileges of his ministers accredited to the American government. From the operation of this proclamation have unavoidably resulted effects of retaliation and self-assumed redress which might be held to affect materially the question of the reparation due to the United States, especially inasmuch as its execution has been persevered in after the knowledge of his Majesty's early, unequivocal, and unqualified disavowal of the unauthorized act of admiral Berkeley, his officer of the pretension exhibited by that officer to search the national ships of a friendly power for deserters, and the assurances of prompt and effectual reparation; all communicated without loss of time, to the minister of the United States in London, so as not to leave a doubt as to his Majesty's just and amicable intentions. But his Majesty, making every allowance for the irritation which was excited, and the误会 rehenfions which existed, has authorized me to proceed in the negotiation upon the sole discontinuance of measures of so inimical a tendency.
You are aware, Sir, that any delay which may have arisen in the adjustment of the present difference, is not imputable to an intention of procrastination on the part of his Majesty's government; on the contrary its anxiety to terminate as expeditiously as possible the discussion of a matter so interesting to both nations has been evinced by the communication made by Mr. Secretary Canning, to Mr. Monroe, before that minister of the United States was even informed of the encounter; and now by the promptitude with which it has dispatched a special mission to this country for that express purpose.
I can have no difficulty in stating anew to you with respect to the provisions of my instructions, calculated as they are to insure an honorable adjustment of the important point in question, and to remove the impressions which the late cause of difference may have excited in the minds of this nation, that I am authorized to express my conviction, that they are such as will enable me to terminate the negotiation amicably and satisfactorily.
Having learnt from you, Sir, that it is solely as a measure of precaution, that the provisions of the proclamation are now enforced, I must persuade myself that a due consideration of his Majesty's conduct in this transaction, will remove as well any misapprehensions which may have been entertained respecting his Majesty's dispositions towards the U. S. as the grounds upon which that enforcement rests, and the more so, as it has long been a matter of notoriety, that the orders issued to the officers of his Majesty's navy, in his proclamation of the 16th Oct. 1807, afford ample security that no attempt, can again be made to assert a pretension, which his Majesty from the first disavowed.
I may add, that if his Majesty has not commanded me to enter into the discussion of those other causes of complaint, stated to arise from the conduct of his naval commanders in these seas, prior to the encounter of the Leopard and the Chesapeake, it was because it has been deemed improper to mingle them, whatever may be their merits with the present matter, so much more interesting & important in its nature; an opinion, originally and distinctly expressed by Mr. Monroe, and assented to by Mr. Sec'y Canning. But if, upon this more recent and more weighty matter of discussion upon which the proclamation mainly and materially rests, his Majesty's amicable intentions are unequivocally evinced, it is sufficiently clear, that no hostile disposition can be supposed to exist on his part; nor can any views be attributed to his government, such as, requiring to be counteracted by measures of precaution, could be deduced from transactions which preceded that encounter.
In offering these elucidations, I should observe, that the view in which I have brought forward the preliminary, which I have specified, is neither as to demand concession, or redress, as for a wrong committed: into such, the claim to a discontinuance of hostile provisions cannot be construed; but it is simply to require a cessation of enactments injurious in their effect, and which if persisted in, especially after these explanations, must evince a spirit of hostility, under which his Majesty could not authorize the prosecution of the present negotiation, either consistently with his own honor, or with any well founded expectation of the renewal or duration of that good understanding between the two countries which it is equally the interest of both to foster, and to ameliorate.
I have the honor to be, With the highest consideration, Sir, Your obedient and most humble servant (Signed) G. H. ROSE.
From Mr. MADISON to Mr. ROSE. Department of State March 5, 1808.
SIR—I have had the honor to receive and lay before the President your letter of the 26th January, in which you state that you are "expressly precluded by your instructions from entering upon any negotiations for the adjustment of the differences arising from the encounter of his Britannic Majesty's ship the Leopard and the frigate of the United States the Chesapeake, as long as the proclamation of the president of the 2d of July, 1807, shall be in force."
This demand, Sir, might justly suggest the simple answer, that before the proclamation of the president could become a subject of consideration, satisfaction should be made for the acknowledged aggression which preceded it. This is evidently agreeable to the order of time, to the order of reason, and it may be added, to the order of usage as maintained by Great-Britain whenever in analogous cases, she has been the complaining party.
But as you have subjoined to the preliminary demand certain explanations, with a view doubtless to obviate such an answer, it will best accord with the candor of the president, to meet them with such a review of the whole subject as will present the solid grounds on which he regards such a demand as inadmissible.
I begin with the occurrence from which the proclamation of July 2d resulted. These are in general terms referred to by the instrument itself. A more particular notice of the most important of them, will here be in place.
Passing over, then, the habitual, but minor irregularities of his Britannic Majesty's ships of war, in making the hospitalities of our ports subservient to the annoyance of our trade, both outward and inward, a practice not only contrary to the principles of public law, but expressly contrary to British ordinances enforced during maritime wars to which she bore a neutral relation, I am constrained, unwelcome as the task is, to call your attention to the following more prominent instances.
In the summer of the year 1804, the British frigate the Cambrian, with other cruisers in company, entered the harbor of New-York. The commander, captain Bradley, in violation of the port laws relating both to health and revenue, caused a merchant vessel just arrived, and confessedly within the limits and under the authority of the United States, to be boarded by persons under his command, who after resisting the officers of the port in the legal exercise of their functions, actually impressed and carried off a number of seamen and passengers into the service of the ships of war.—On an appeal to his voluntary respect for the laws, he first failed to
give up the offender to justice, and finally repelled the officer charged with the regular process for the purpose.
This procedure was not only a flagrant insult to the sovereignty of the nation, but an infraction of its neutrality also, which did not permit a belligerent ship thus to augment its force within the neutral territory.
To finish the scene, this commander went so far as to declare, in an official letter to the minister plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, and by him communicated to this government, that he considered his ship, whilst lying in the harbor of New-York, as having dominion around her, within the distance of her buoys.
All these circumstances were duly made known to the British government in just expectation of honorable reparation. None has ever been offered. Capt. Bradley was advanced from his frigate to the command of a ship of the line.
At a subsequent period several British frigates under the command of capt. Whitby of the Leader, pursuing the practice of vexing the inward and outward trade of our ports, and hovering for that purpose about the entrance of that of New-York, closed a series of irregularities, with an attempt to arrest a coasting vessel, on board of which an American citizen was killed by a cannon ball which entered the vessel whilst within less than a mile from the shore.
The blood of a citizen thus murdered, in a trade from one to another port of his own country, and within the sanctuary, of its territorial jurisdiction, could not fail to arouse the sensibility of the public, and to make a solemn appeal to the justice of the British government. The case was presented moreover to that government by this, in the accent which it required; and with due confidence that the offender would receive the exemplary punishment which he deserved. That there might be no failure of legal proof of a fact sufficiently notorious of itself, unexceptionable witnesses to establish it were sent to Great-Britain at the expense of the United States.
Capt. Whitby was notwithstanding honourably acquitted; no animadversion took place on any other officer belonging to the squadron; nor has any apology or explanation been made since the trial was over, as a conciliatory offering to the disappointment of this country at such a result.
(To be continued.)
By the Mails.
NEWYORK, APRIL 1.
A letter has been received from Albany, announcing, that a Bill, for the suspension of all payments during the Embargo, is now before the Assembly of this State.—For the honor of the state and the welfare of the community, it is to be hoped so rash a measure will not be adopted.—Let the Legislature petition Congress, in language which cannot fail to be heard, to repeal the Embargo, and relieve us from our present distressing situation.—But, let them not add ten fold misery to the accumulated evils under which the people are already doomed to struggle.
A gentleman, who arrived this morning, from the Northern part of this State, informs, that the people in that quarter, and in the Northern part of Vermont, have determined not to submit to the last supplement to the Embargo. He states that they take their produce to market, in companies of from twenty to thirty, and have resolved not to yield to any officers who may attempt to check their progress. It is extremely to be regretted that any such combinations should be formed. The law, while it exists, should not in any shape be resisted, notwithstanding it may be excessively and unwarrantably oppressive. The people ought, however, to seek and obtain a remedy; but, let them resort to no measures for redress, but such as are constitutional and legal.
A terrible massacre of the Indian tribes on the Missouri, took place in January last. The Sacs and Foxes were the victims; the Ottos, Mahas and Sienx, the perpetrators of the murders.—"Men, women and children were nearly all destroyed," says the Washington Exposition. A few of the chiefs, however, have escaped, and taken refuge at St. Louis.—Whig.
BOSTON, APRIL 7.
FROM LEGHORN.
Letters just received from Leghorn, via Bordeaux, to the 5th Feb. give an account of the seizure of the Eliza, of this port, by a French privateer, after she had come to anchor, although she had not touched at an English port, or been spoken by a British cruiser.—Capt. Lincee, of the ship Grace, was under close arrest, not allowed any communication with his ship or crew—nor could he obtain the privilege of having the American portion of his crew examined."
This is French Justice! The consignees of these vessels, were, however, in hopes of buying them off.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Monday, March 28. The house of representatives were again employed to day in reading the documents which accompanied the president's message of Tuesday last. Nothing now remains unread, except what relates to France, the reading of which will occupy but a few minutes. The principal paper read to day, was Mr. Monroe's unofficial letter to Mr. Madison, in which he goes at length into a vindication of his conduct in relation to the rejected treaty.
This letter is very long and is agreed to be written with superior ability; with more than Mr. Monroe's political opponents supposed him to possess.—Mr. Randolph read this letter, declining any assistance; and as might be expected read it with singular propriety and force.
The rejected treaty was read on Friday with closed doors. All these documents, those which are confidential excepted, will be published as soon as possible, and the public will then be enabled to judge how far the conduct of the administration has been correct, and whether the treaty ought to have been ratified on our part or not. The statement of Monroe will certainly excite much attention among the commercial states, and be particularly gratifying to them.
Tuesday, March 29. We were told that another message from the president, transmitting additional documents, recently received, was to be delivered this day. It has not been received, and the reason assigned is, that the president is severely afflicted with a head ache, said to be annual. The dispatches received on Saturday from France are represented to be unfavourable; and those from England, as very conciliatory. The French papers read this morning are of very little consequence, and communicated no new intelligence of importance, unless a clause in Champagne's letter to Armstrong be otherwise considered, in which he intimates that neutral powers ought to make common cause with France against the usurpation of England on maritime rights. Whether this was intended as a simple opinion in relation to a fact, or a request, or a command, it is difficult to determine. These papers are in no degree calculated to remove the charges of French influence. WE HAVE RECEIVED NO LETTERS OF ANY IMPORTANCE FROM ARMSTRONG TO OUR GOVERNMENT. Has he written none? This is scarcely credible. These papers will be published tomorrow, and every man can afterwards judge for himself, how much importance ought to be attached to them, either for what they do contain, or for what they do not contain."
INTERESTING.
Communication from Washington to the Editor of the United States Gazette.
THURSDAY, MARCH 31.
"The particulars of the President's confidential message delivered yesterday have not transpired; but it is well ascertained that they involve the liberties and independence of the United States. Bonaparte has, it is said, insisted that we should take sides and declare for either England or France; or he has required an interdiction of trade between us and England; or made some other insulting and humiliating demand."
"It is rumoured that certain democratic members of Congress are resolved on giving publicity to the Message, let the consequences be to them personally what they may."
Most of the southern papers democratic as well as federal, mention that government have just received dispatches of a very conciliatory nature from our Ambassador in England. [Perhaps, from confidence in the success of Mr. Rose's mission, the British Ministry have proceeded in the treaty negotiation with Mr. Pinckney.]
A letter from Washington says, "From certain informal communications, our government, it is said, are not without hopes, that the affair of the Chesapeake may yet eventuate beneficially and honourably to us."
The British frigate Statur, with Mr. Rose on board, sailed from Hampton Roads on the 27th ult. and anchored the same evening in Lynnhaven Bay.
William Hull is reappointed governor of Michigan, Stanley Griswold, late secretary of that territory, has been turned out and disgraced; and his place given to Reuben Atwater, a brother in law of Stephen Roe Bradley.
Extract of a letter from a respectable source, to a gentleman in Boston, dated Washington, March 13.
"A Bill is now under discussion of the most dangerous tendency—no less than to subject the civil to the military powers!—in fact, a deadly blow is aimed at the liberties of the people; and if passed, will be the ground work of a military despotism—in the establishment of which WILKINSON will, no doubt, be a most worthy and necessary instrument."
"I do verily believe that if the people of the United States could at this time have a fair view, and full understanding of the designs of a certain party here, they would rise in mass and set all to rights."
"JOHN RANDOLPH yesterday made one of the greatest speeches I have ever heard, on any occasion, in opposition to the bill.—You would be astonished to see the profound attention and silence that prevails when he is speaking—every eye is fixed on him—every ear is open—the most of his enemies pay involuntary respect to his talents and his virtues."—Note. The democratic press.
administration—which is saying a great deal.—The army and navy of John Adams—the 8 per cent loan, stamp act, direct tax, carriage, loaf sugar, and whisky tax, (those odious measures of the reign of terror!!) altogether, never wrung from the pocket of any farmer in this state so much of his hard earnings, as he now loses on a single load of wheat in consequence of the Embargo—literally speaking, he sustains a total loss, for after hawking his wheat about in vain for a market, he must store it or take it home—there are no purchasers.—Alb. Gaz.
Portland,
Monday, April 11, 1808.
Choice of State Officers.
ON Monday last, the choice of State Officers for the ensuing year, took place. On closing the poll in this town, the result was highly honorable to the American Ticket, which received an addition of 128 votes more than was given last year, whilst the Embargo and War Ticket fell short of the number Mr. Sullivan received last year 34; making a net gain of 157 in favor of Peace and Commerce.
Notwithstanding the leaders of the democratic party were indefatigable in their exertions to insure the success of the Sullivan Ticket in this county, we have reason to believe that Messrs. Lewis and Mitchell are elected Senators for Cumberland and Oxford. From the returns we have seen, it is probable that Mr. Sullivan is re-elected, though his majority will not be so large as it was the last year. The state of votes in Boston, are very different from what they were the last election. The Boston papers account for it, by many of the citizens omitting to attend meeting, presuming the election of Mr. Gore was sure; but many assign it to clashing interests in some town affairs and bridges. Whichever of these it may be, the conduct is disgraceful to the capital of Massachusetts, which has heretofore been so justly stiled the Head-Quarters of good principles. The citizens of Gorham, North-yarmouth, and many other towns in this county, turned out with that spirit and unanimity evincive of their just sense of the alarming situation of the country, and that a change of men and measures must take place before we can expect better times.
VOTES FOR GOVERNOR.
IN MASSACHUSETTS PROPER.
   1808. 1807.   Gore. Sul'n. Strong. Sul'n.     SUFFOLK.   Boston 2610 2118 3149 2086   MIDDLESEX.   Charlestown 222 459 269 482   Medford 144 38 151 33   Waverstown 68 123 67 110   Cambridge 186 118 299 281   West Cambridge 38 147   Malden 50 153 59 185   Waltham 43 9 55 92   Brighton 67 24 61 20   Stow 27 71 27 66   Lexington 25 145 24 151   Concord 104 124 128 122   Lutleton 34 67 46 58   Billerica 107 63 104 59   Burlington 37 32 88 22   Shirley 13 85 12 82   Acton 24 103 22 119   Tyngsborough 64 25 65 35   Groton 120 113 122 107   Pepperell 45 141 41 142   Townshend 44 94 51 100   Albany 53 75 56 81   Westford 38 110 49 126   NORFOLK.   Dorchester 143 248 140 243   Brookline 49 63 51 60   Roxbury 127 347 144 342   Quincy 87 59 91 63   Weymouth 95 156 113 113   Canton 20 133 31 118   Randolph 19 137 23 109   Mouthon 16 133 27 124   Meadland 76 53 80 50   Waipole 71 108 79 112   PLYMOUTH.   Plymouth 342 180 300 144   Scituate 159 192 136 191   Duxborough 151 111 166 117   Marshfield 102 89 85 96   Pembroke 99 156 101 149   Kingston 138 62 123 157   Hanover 34 116 30 112   Hingham 140 232 125 199   ESSEX.   Salem 879 894 721 724   Danvers 296 182 282 177   Lynn 273 418 270 418   Ipswich 337 190 296 180   Newburyport 638 352 592 357   Newbury 414 200 353 171   Lynnfield 45 18 45 20   Gloucester 414 364 278 317   Rowley 183 53 176 10   Salisbury 133 142 114 122   Wenham 53 24 48 27   Mauchester 119 5 84 9   Andover 255 229 232 261   Haverhill 196 168 194 122   Marblehead 53 72 50 46   Topsheld 125 36 112 45   Amesbury 97 107 102 95   Beverly 504 150 400 188   Bradford 158 56 136 28   Bosford 127 26 142 25   Methuen 104 93 103 88   Middleton 54 54 40 60   Hampton 122 31 112 56   UNCENTRE.   Worcester 132 215 134 221   Lancaster 161 91 167 84   Boston 111 29 111 22   Lunenburg 76 91 89 89   Sturbridge 178 29 199 34   BRISTOL.   Berkeley 96 47 69 40   Furness 264 229 237 232   New Bedford 334 266 336 223   Dartmouth 133 80 133 92   BARNSTABLE.   Barnstable 30 320 57 341  
13,122 12,614 13,093 12,517

   IN MAINE. 1808. 1807.   CUMBERLAND. Core. Sulph. Strong. Sul.     PORTLAND, 615 394 492 428   Northyarmouth, 411 65 342 63   Gorham, 237 58 150 128   Windham, 149 39 76 48   Otisfield, 72 8 54 28   Freeport, 165 136 166 155   Hampswell, 69 30 58 22   Pownall, 50 18 Newtown.   Bridgton, 66 62 53 58   Baldwin, 23 11 18 20   Brunswick, 153 137 137 112   Falmouth, 126 357 106 311   Cape Elizabeth, 67 85 64 75   Scarborough, 37 203 35 181   Gray, 34 118 23 126   Pejepscot, 57 50 32 43   Minot, 102 116 50 47   Raymond, 33 49 4 70   New Gloucester, 79 130 77 125   Poland, 31 75 23 82   Durham, 93 82 73 98   2769 2213 2033 2225  
   OXFORD.     Paris, 67 114 57 119   Hibron, 83 49 81 51   Waterford, 96 21 83 21   Turner, 21 126   267 310 221 191  
   YORK.     WELLS, 341 110 225 161   Berwick, 101 210 96 192   Buxton, 76 136 76 135   Biddeford, 27 88 18 91   Saco, 13 203 33 194   Limerick, 34 54 29 53   Alfred, 68 44 34 57   Lyman, 87 25 57 37   Phillipsburg, 17 101 16 91   Limington, 52 97 44 103   821 1074 628 1114  
   LINCOLN.     WISCASSET, 111 112 100 102   Waldoborough, 185 74 181 73   Lewiston, 70 44 62 51   Litchfield, 22 138 30 130   Topsham, 110 63 105 51   Bath, 171 151 180 125   Georgetown, 127 97 89 112   Woolwich, 67 45 101 22   Camden, 63 95 75 103   Warren, 108 59 122 56   Union, 57 89 62 102   Bowdoin, 57 85 65 58   Bowdoinham, 47 62 55 50   Lisbon, 58 78 66 26   New Milford, 17 75 18 80   Edgcomb, 52 63 29 75   Newcastle, 53 81 50 80   Boothbay, 40 70 84 54   Jefferson, 7 75   Bristol, 74 131 96 137   Camden, 63 96 75 103   1564 1800 1645 1589  
   KENNEBEC.     AUGUSTA, 140 134 124 124   Hallowell, 178 129 115 106   Farifax, 29 101 15 60   Monmouth, 29 137 27 105   Green, 8 137 27 117   Belgrade, 38 92 22 98   Vassalborough, 138 84 92 109   Winthrop, 125 51 112 67   Readfield, 67 82 56 67   Gardiner, 29 74 18 63   Sydney, 74 107 53 102   Mount Vernon, 29 105 24 105   Fayette, 29 72 32 56   Pittston, 41 72 47 69   West-Pond, 0 64   Rowe, 4 40 12 40   Clinton, 16 125 6 89   Winslow, 18 77 13 81   983 1084 795 1474  
   HINCOCK.     Bucksport, 102 24 55 58   Penobscot, 63 103 37 88   656 7208 5414 6739  
NORTHYARMOUTH. APRIL 6, 1808. AT a numerous and respectable meeting of Citizens of Northyarmouth, convened at the Baptist meeting-house, on Monday last, Mr. NATHANIEL JENKS, was chosen Moderator, and ELISHA P. CUTLER, Secretary. After a few observations on the critical situation of our public affairs, the following resolutions were read and accepted—two voices only dissenting:—
 1. Resolved—That at a crisis so alarming, it becomes every true friend of his country, whatever may have been his political opinions, to use the most strenuous exertions to avert the dangers which are rapidly gathering around us; and to restore to our country the blessings of a just, liberal and enlightened policy, which, in other times, elevated the United States to so conspicuous a rank among nations.  2. Resolved—That, in our opinion, the Embargo is an impolitic measure, already productive of much individual as well as national calamity, and threatens, in conjunction with other measures, the total destruction of our commerce, the life-blood of the maritime States.  3. Resolved—That we highly disapprove of every measure of the administration, tending to involve the United States in an unnecessary and ruinous war with Great-Britain, and thereby to expose us to the treacherous friendship and fatal influence of the Emperor of France—the subverter of Republics—the destroyer of nations.  4. Resolved—That we regard all attempts to weaken or destroy the independence of the Judiciary, the palladium of our rights, as calculated to loosen the bonds of legitimate government; and, ultimately, to introduce the worst of governments—the despotism of a party. 
5. Resolved—That, as we consider the political salvation of our country to depend on a change of measures, and as a change in the State administration would have a powerful effect on our national councils, we will use our utmost exertions, by the exercise of our constitutional rights, to effect so important an object: confidently trusting that the dangers which threaten our country, will thereby be averted—and, by the blessing of Providence, our peace will be continued, and prosperity and happiness will soon revisit our shores.  6. Resolved—That we sincerely deprecate all illegal or unconstitutional means, to effect the objects above stated.  NATH'L. JENKS, Moderator. ELISHA P. CUTLER, Sec'y.
TOWN OFFICERS. At the annual meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Portland, on Monday, March 22, 1808, the following persons were chosen town officers for the ensuing year, viz.
 Town Clerk—Samuel Homer.  Selectmen—Samuel Freeman, Geo. Bradbury, Joseph Titcomb, Robert Boyd, and Stephen Tukey.  Overseers of the Poor—Daniel How, Mark Harris, Oliver Bray, Jonathan Deane, Enoch Preble, Cotton B. Brooks, John Dean.  Treasurer—Matthew Cobb.  Assessors of Taxes, &c.—Peter Warren, Abraham Watson, James Neal.  Constables—Wm. P. Davis, Jonathan Lund, Samuel Hovey, Aaron Chamberland.  Collector of Taxes—Smith Cobb.  Surveyors of Highway—Jonathan Deane, William Widgey, Asa Clapp, Smith Cobb.  Surveyors of Boards, &c.—D r Cobb, Smith Cobb, Enoch Morse, William Moulton, jun. William Capen, William Waterhouse, Mark Walton, Edward Cobb, Rufus Washburn, James Barnes, Enoch Lowell, Samuel Moody, Samuel Baker, Joshua Fernald, Harrison Brazier, Benjamin Rudcliff, Parker Isley, Henry Gayre, Enoch Isley, jun. John Kimball, Joseph Baldwin, James Huse, Jeremiah Kimball, Ansel Lewis, Othniel Merrill.  N. B. The Surveyors of Boards, &c. are Surveyors of Clapboards & Shingles.  Cutters of Staves & Hoops—Thomas Merrill, senior, John Knight, John H. Hall, Joseph B. Hooper, Martin Thaxter, John White, John W. Minot, Joseph Kimball, John Andrews, William Waterhouse.  Fence Viewers—Thos Wood, Wm. Ross, Daniel Mountford.  Tithingmen—Woodbury Storer, Robert Boyd, Oliver Bray, Daniel How, John Mussey, William Jenks, John Coe, Samuel Homer, Mark Harris, John Bagley.  Finewards—Asa Clapp, Hugh M c Lean, Daniel Tucker, Woodbury Storer, Robert Boyd, James Neal, James D. Hopkins, Matthew Cobb, Thomas Webster, Isaac Isley, Rufus Washburn, Martin Nichols, Sylvanus Cook, Robert Isley, Prentiss Mellan, Cotton B. Brooks, David Green, Elijah Eldery, Samuel F. Hussey, Stephen Tukey.  Assay Masters—Moses Lunt, Geo. Lewis, Josiah Lewis.  Cutters of Dry Fish—Thomas Burnham, Joseph B. Hooper, Thomas Merrill, senr. Jacob Knight.  Overseers of the Workhouse—Overseers of the Poor, are overseers of the Workhouse.  Hog Reeves—Benjamin Leavitt, Isaac Winship, Let Hall, Joseph Gould, James C. Bullard, James Flood, Joseph Larrabee, Joseph Wilson.  Pound Keeper—James Flood.  Field Drivers—James Flood, William Waterhouse, Lot Hall.  School Committee—O. Bray, Woodbury Storer, John Frothingham, Prentiss Mellan, Ezekiel Whitman, Cotton B. Brooks, Abner Bagley, Enoch Preble, Robert Douglass.  Inspectors of Lime imported—Richard Gooding, Thomas Berry, William Tukey.  Inspectors of Lime Manufactured in Portland—John Lovit, Walter Ross.  Health Committee—Samuel F. Hussey, David Green, John Mussey, Joseph Cross, jun. William Widgey, John Dean, William Chadwick, David Smith, John Bagley, John Coe.  Inspector of Police—Jonathan Deane.  Committee of Accounts—Dan'l Tucker, Ebenezer Mayo, George Warren. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Captain Hopkins' Letter, addressed to Capt. Elder, is received, and will be attended to.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT! From Washington, March 2, 1808. This day the injunction of secrecy in Congress was taken off so far as respects a letter from M. CHAMPAGNY to Mr. ARMSTRONG, dated January 15, 1808. Owing to the late hour it was received, we were not able to publish it entire this week. After some remarks on the maritime condition of England, it concludes with the following paragraph:—
"War exists then, in fact, between England and the United States. His Majesty (NAPOLEON) considers it as declared from the day on which England published her decrees. In that persuasion, His Majesty, ready to consider the United States associated with all the powers who have to defend themselves against England, has not taken any definitive measures towards the American vessels which may have been brought into our ports. He has ordered that they shall remain sequestered until a decision may be had thereon, according to the dispositions which shall have been expressed by the government of the United States. (Signed) CHAMPAGNY."
We have been requested to give place to the following—and though Mr. Widgey is our opponent in politics, he is not less entitled, on that account, to be heard in his defence, and in his own language:
THE public attention is called to a paragraph in the Repository of April the 5th, as follows:—  "It is stated that Lieut. Kemptborne, would not suffer the body of Capt. Nichols, who was lost in the Kimball between the crews commanded by Nichols and Kemptborne, to be interred on shore, but let it be thrown overboard, in Macao roads."  "While we concur not sincerely in censuring this species of inhumanity, we would recommend to those who are attempting to make a political argument of this narrative, and save how or other ingenuously to connect it with our domestic concerns, to ask Council for WIDGEY, merely for information, how a parent can sometimes dispose of a son, who may have fallen a victim to the climate, in the port of Havana."
This is an information, that Councillor Widgey has been guilty of inhumanity and unfeelingly throwing his son overboard in the harbour of Havana, who had fallen a victim to the climate: meaning that he died on board, and was thrown over in the harbour, rather than be at the trouble, or expense of a burial on shore. Would not humanity shudder at the sight of such an unfeeling wretch, could one be found? Let the tender mother and anxious father, the conduct of whose child fulfilled every part of their most sanguine expectation, decide—and then say how much worse is the monster, who would, without the least shadow of truth, thus wickedly and falsely defame and harrow up every tender sensation of the bereaved parent—I was never in the harbour of Havana, in my life. It is true I lost a son in the West-Indies—who was taken sick the next day after leaving the Island of Grenada for the United States; finding his disorder immovable by medical aid, on board, put into the Island of St. Martin; applied to the best physician there, who soon informed me, that I must resign him. I found it too true,—He was decently buried in the churchyard in that island. Let the candid public be the Editor's judge.  WILLIAM WIDGEY.
DIED, At the Bay of Fundy, on the 15th Feb. last, Mr. GEORGE K. WARREN, aged 22, son of Capt. Peter Warren, of this town. An industrious and enterprising young man. At Freyburg, on the 28th ult. of a consumption, Mr. William Johnson, aged 20—Few live longer, in so short a time, than this young man. Though a child of poverty yet was he rich in a lively, expansive mind. Early attached to letters, he distinguished himself as a favorite of the Muses in Freyburg Academy. The promptitude and taste, he displayed in his theatrical performances at public exhibitions, have been repeatedly eulogized. His social enjoyments were many and happily regulated. Friends and connections lament the early exit of this virtuous youth, who resigned with composure his spirit to GOD, who gave it, in the joyful hope of a glorious resurrection beyond the grave.
Charles & John Fox. No. 4 & 5, South Side Long Wharf, OFFER for sale, on liberal terms
 6 tons round Iron  1 do Plough-Share Moulds  10 do Nail Plates,  50 Bbls clear, heavy mels and No. 1, Pork  50 do first quality Ship Bread  50 bags floor Liverpool Salt  20 tons Liverpool Coal  200 quintals Cod Fish  ALSO—A complete assortment of Ship Chandlery and Cordage, as usual. (6 w) April II.
NOTICE. THE subscriber returns his grateful acknowledgements to the citizens of Portland for past favours; and being about to leave town, gives notice to those whose Notes and Accounts have been floating over three months, that they must be settled immediately, otherwise they will be left in the hands of an Attorney for collection. SETH BIRD. April II.
Last time of asking ALL persons indebted to the subscribers on account, (if they wish to save trouble & expense) are once more requested to call and settle the same immediately: either by cash or note. CROSS & MARTIN. Portland, April II.
GRASS SEED. HERDS-GRASS and Clover-Seed, for sale at JOHN PRICHARD'S store, South-end. Portland, April II.
Fruit-Trees, Scions and Fresh GARDEN SEEDS. A General assortment for sale at the usual place, next door to the Portland Bank, Middle-street, by D. GRIFFITH. April II.
BOOKS & STATIONARY. Isaac Adams, AT his Book Store, No. 7, Fifth-Street, directly opposite the Maine Bank, has for sale on the most liberal terms, among many other articles, the following in the Book & Stationary line—viz.
 ON LAW, Hawkins's Pleas of the Crown—Gilberts, Macnelly's & Peake's law of evidence—Leach's Crown Law—Strange's, Wilson's, Douglas's, Blackstone's, Williams' and Tyng's Reports—Buller's Nisi Prius—Graydon's digest of the Laws of the United States—Powell on Contracts—Chitty on bills of exchange and notes—Fark on Insurance—Precedents of declarations—Justices Assistant—Town Officer—Clerks Magazine—Probate Directory—at re's Law of Nations—Laws of Massachusetts new edition, with volumes to complete former editions.  PHYSIC. Chefelden's Anatomy—Cullen's Practice—ditto Materia Medica—New Edinburgh Dispensatory—Quincy's Medical Lexicon—Lavoiier's Chemistry—Denman's Midwifery—Buchanan's Domestic Medicine—Thompson's Family Physician—Parkinson's Medical Annotations—Haller's Physiology—Underwood on the diseases of Children.  ON HISTORY. Rollins Ancient History—Gordons ditto of the American revolution—Minots history of Massachusetts—Belknap's History of New Hampshire—Voltaire's history of Charles XII—Robertsons ditto of Charles V—ditto of South America—Stevens' ditto of the French Revolution, and the wars which have arisen out of it. 
 DIVINITY. Stackhouse's history of the Bible—Orton's Exposition—Hervey's works—Burgh's Dignity—Hervey's Meditations—Doddrige's Rise and Progress of Religion in the soul—Giborne's survey of the christian system—Coles discourses on the sovereignty of God—Butler's Analogy—Adams' View of the different religious denominations—ditto Truth and Religion, illustrated in lives of men eminent for piety—Sermons and Lectures of the late Professor Tappan—Paley's Moral Philosophy—Edwards on the Will—Memoirs of Pious women—Baxter's Call—Power of Religion—Glimpse of Glory—Practice of Piety—Jennys Lectures—Grove on the Lords Supper—Brown's concordance—Catechism—Posthumous works—Blair's Sermons—Saurens ditto—Clarks' ditto—Neeley on religious opinions—Stearns discourses—Orton's ditto—The life of Evangelical obedience—Pilgrims Progress—Holy War—Bible and Jews—Life of Christ—Life of Whitfield. 
 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS. Biographical Dictionary, containing the lives of many eminent Statesmen, Philosophers and Warriors; Life of Fox; Sir William Jones; Barron Trevel; Johnson's Lives of the Poets; Goldsmiths works; Sterne's works; Mirror of Literature; Peregrine Pickle; Coquette; Smith's Wealth of Nations; Lockes Essays; Donquixote; Malons Monitor; Pison on Masonry; Columbian Songster; Warbler; Sailors Medley; Aikins Letters; Letter Writer; Aikins' art of Life; Cookes Voyages; Warvilles Travels; Life of Kotzebue; Milton's Pope's, Youngs and Burns poetical works; Elements of Morality; Gospel its own Witness; Politic Education; Pleasures of love; Miseries of Life 21 vol. Montgomery's poems, new edition; Benjamins Architecture; Spectator; Cowpers Task and Life; Boyles Voyages; Man of Fortune; Letters from Switzerland; Cavalry Tactics; Stubens Exercise; Artillery Exercise; Harris Encyclopedia; Moral Monitor; West's Letters; Sailor Boy; Tattler; Life of Washington by Ramsay; True Republican; Romance of real life; Spirit of Despotism; Oriental Moralist; Pleasures of Memory; Buffon on Insects—Memoirs of Halliburton; Life of Mahomet; Mills on Cattle; Mirth and Song; Benaparte and the French People, Together with a variety of other Books on various subjects. 
 SCHOOL BOOKS. Enfields Natural Philosophy; Alnsworths, Youngs, Boyers, Johnsons, Baileys and Perrys Dictionaries; Greek Lexicons; Horace; Virgil; Sallust; Eutropius; Erasmus; Alops Fables; Bigelows Latin Primer; Clarkes Introduction to Adams and Smiths Latin Grammar; Greek Testament and Grammar; Xenophons Anabasis; Astronomy; Morss Geography; Aikins ditto; Murrays Sequel Grammar; Walchs, Pikes, Littles, Adams, Temples and Roots Arithmetics; Orator; Preceptor; Art of Reading; Art of Reading; Dwight's Geography; Alexanders, Stanfords & Binghams Grammars; Websters, Maines, and Perrys Spelling Books, &c. &c. 
SEAMENS ARTICLES. Blunts Practical Navigator and Coast Pilot; Ship-Masters Assistant; Charts of the European and American Coasts, and of the West-Indies; Quadrants; Journals; Scales and Dividers; Log Paper; Cargo Books; Nautical Almanacs for 1808.
FAMILY BIBLES. Collins' elegant family Bible; Common Quarto Bibles; Careys Bible; a variety of Pocket and School Bibles; Testaments; Prayer Books; Beknaps and Watts Hymn Books.
ACCOUNT BOOKS. Ledgers; Journals; Day and Record Books; Note and Receipt Books.

Poetry.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
EVENING RETROSPECT.
COME, midnight shadows, hover o'er my bed; Engage my mind with thoughts of pleasures past, And oh, before the glooms of night are fled Recall, those scenes I thought would ever last
What fond sensations fill my youthful mind, When retrospection paints my infant joys, For then to Love and Peace alone resign'd, I scap'd the snare that real bliss destroys.
In those dear shades of innocence secure, I felt the charms that loveliness inspir'd, Affections glow, blest friendship ever pure, And every tweet to virtue e'er allied.
'Twas there my heart own'd love's triumph power, And I reveal'd my inmost secret flame; Within the precincts of that pleasant bower, Where meek contentment holds her quiet reign.
And thou dear *****, kind ever lov'd, Thy voice of tenderness could sooth my grief; My deep dejection wou'd thy bosom move, And from thee I could ever find relief.
But now alas! fled are those happy scenes; Congenial souls, to me no more return, Like gliding phantoms, or illusive dreams, They're past and left me wretched and forlorn.
But Hope, dear maid, points me to future bliss, And bids me cease, to murmur, or repine. Whispers "Despair not happiness & peace, And every earthly blessing soon are thine." March 19th. SELIM.
Select Paragraphs.
From the Connecticut Courant.
A CASE
Under the supplemental Embargo Law, humbly submitted to his honor the President of the United States.
This sag end of the Embargo goes to prohibit the farmers of Vermont and New Hampshire from driving their swine into Canada for sale. Now suppose a man should drive a herd of hogs close up to the line of the United States, but not over, and a Canadian should suddenly make his appearance just within the boundary of that British colony, with a basket of corn in his hand, and should cry Pig—Pig—Pig—and the whole drove should run over the line into Canada, and voluntarily place themselves under the government of the tyrant of the ocean. Would it, or would it not, be a breach of the embargo law? and if so, who should be punished the farmer who drove his hogs so near to despotism, the swine, which, regardless of the blessings of a free country, thus ran over the line; or he Canadian who tempted them to this anti-american act? ETHAN ALLEN.
Avarice was a peculiar characteristic of the Carthaginians: for the gratification of which regard was not had to means, however disreputable, or derogating from the principles of honor or honesty. The following anecdote is related in Roman history: "A mountebank had promised the people of Carthage to discover to them their most secret thoughts, in case they would come on a day appointed, to hear him. Being all met, he told them they were desirous to buy cheap and sell dear. Every man's conscience pleaded guilty to the charge; and the mountebank was dismissed with laughter and applause."
A queer test of Christianity!—"We hear that a bill is to be brought into the House of Assembly, for impoverishing returning citizens to compel any candidate, suspected of Judaism, previous to the opening of the poll, on the ballots, in presence of the voters to eat a pound of fat pork, as a test of his Christianity." [Quebec Mercury.]
A widow Ruth, lately advertised a water for sale to cure weakknees and inflammation of the eyes. A tailor afflicted with a complaint of this kind, contracted by being so long out of his element, by the embargo, went into her shop, and asked for a pint of this specific. And, pray, Madam, said the honest tailor, with great simplicity do you make this water yourself? The good widow, with equal simplicity, assured him she did; that it was in great demand; that she regularly made a half gallon a day, and if she could make as much more she knew where there was a vent for the whole of it. "Honi soit qui mal y pense"
Corn, Flour, &c.
JUST received, and for sale by ROBERT STOVER, No. 9, Ingraham's Wharf, 250 bbls. superfine and scratch'd Flour Half bbls. do. do. Bols. mels Pork A quantity manufactured Tobacco do. Flax, first quality 1200 bushels best yellow Corn A quantity of Rye Also—A general assortment of West-India Goods and Groceries—Cheap for cash. Apr 24.
To Let
A TWO story DWELLING-HOUSE, with four rooms on each floor, and every convenience suitable for one or two Families, situated in Federal-Street, nearly opposite Mr. S. Tuke's. Also, One quarter part of a two story DWELLING-HOUSE, situated on Fiddle Lane, and a good Bake House and Oven, with a stable adjoining the same.—Enquire of THOMAS D. OSGOOD. April 4.
Portland Bathing-House.
THE public are respectfully informed that PORTLAND BATHING-HOUSE is now open. Constant attendance given from sunrise to sunset, every day in the week except Sunday, on that day from 5 till 9 o'clock, in the morning. April 4.
Baltimore Flour.
200 Bbls. FLOUR, For sale at No. 3, Long-Wharf. April 4.
John P. Thurston
GIVES this Notice to all persons indebted to the late firm of J. P. Thurston & Co. either by Note or Account, that unless payment is made to him on or before the first day of June next, all such demands will be left indiscriminately with an Attorney for collection. April 4th, 1808.
Fruit Trees.
3000 Apple Trees, 200 St. Michael Pear, 100 Horse Chestnut, 100 Barton Wood, Also—Grape Vine Slips, of the sweet water and purple kinds, may be had at Mount Rural, in Newburyport, of JOSIAH SMITH. April 4.
COME AND SEE!
AN excellent FARM for sale, situated in Raymond, in the county of Cumberland, on the county road leading from Portland to Oldfield, Waterville, &c. containing 100 acres of as good Land as any in the Province of Maine, with two good new houses and a barn thereon, and upwards of three hundred apple and other good fruit trees thereon, and under good improvement—is a good stand for 2 mechanics or a farmer.—Also one other good FARM, with good buildings and a young orchard—will produce upwards of twenty tons of English Hay annually, and capable of large improvements at a very small expense. Also—One other new Farm, which will produce about 6 or 7 tons of English hay, with about 10 acres more that is fell; intended for corn or grain the present year—with a very fine privilege for a saw and Grill mill thereon, with the Frame, Irons and Running gear for a Saw-mill, complete, near the foot. The last mentioned lot contains 100 acres of excellent soil. Also—Several Lots of unimproved Land, with a quantity of Pine timber thereon. All the abovenamed Farm and Lots except the first, are situated on or very near Crooked river (so called) in said Raymond, and on a county road—The above lands will be sold on very reasonable terms, and payment may be made very easy, as a great part of it may be paid in West India Goods, near stock, country produce or even in Bank bills, if genuine.—For further particulars inquire of LEWIS GAY, or I. MARCH GAY, on the two first mentioned premises. Raymond, April 4.
LOST,
ON Monday last, between Portland and Falmouth, a Red Morocco POCKET BOOK, containing 45 Dollar bills of the Maine Bank, one 5 Dollar Bill on N. York Bank, said to be counterfeit; sundry small Bills not recollected; a Due Bill was written on a Leaf of the Pocket-Book for 7 dollars, signed by L. vi Swoetser. Whoever has found said Pocket-Book, and will leave it with Mr. LEONARD CROSS, and Portland, shall be handsomely rewarded. SILVANUS BLANCHARD. March 31.
FOR SALE.
A DWELLING-HOUSE situate in the Village in Norway, next door to the Meeting-house facing two streets; said House is built in the form of an L, the two fronts making about eighty feet; said House is almost new, nearly finished, and was built for a Tavern, (for which it is now occupied) it has a Hall the whole of one front, conveniently and pleasantly situated, having a view of the whole Village; any person wishing to retire from the sea coast to avoid the tumult of Embargoes and various, will do well to avail himself of this retreat; which is situated among an agreeable and convivial number of Villagers as are to be found in the District of Maine. Terms made easy—enquire of Mr. JOSHUA SMITH near the premises, or capt. JAMES BAXTER of Falmouth, or at Minor of March 28. JOHN THOMSON.
FOR SALE.
A SMALL FARM in the township of Windham, near Maberry's Mills, so called, containing 56 acres, mostly under improvement; with a Brick House thereon almost finished; two Barns, and other Out-houses; a young Orchard of upwards of two hundred Trees that has born some for two years past; also, part of a Mill Privilege thereon. The said Farm can be recommended to be as good as any one of its size in the county, and is pleasantly situated either for a Mechanic or Trader, and will be sold on reasonable terms—some years will be given for the greater part of the payment, by giving good security and paying them yearly.—For further particulars enquire of ELIAH POPE, Windham, March 28. On the Premises.
TO FARMERS.
AT the request of Mr. John Peck of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the subscriber offers for sale all the Lands and Property of which the said Peck is the owner in Hebrew, Mount, Poland & Turner, in the county of Cumberland, and District of Maine, conveyed to said Peck by John Bridgham and others, and granted to them by the General Court of said Commonwealth. Terms of payment will be made easy, and further particulars communicated, on application to the subscriber, at his Office, No. 3 of Mullet's Row. NICHOLAS EMERY. Portland, March 21, 1808.
NOTICE.
ANY person legally authorized to receive the clothes & balance of wages belonging to John Freeman, a seaman who died March 12 1808, on board the ship Henry, Joseph Weeks, master, on her passage from Liverpool to Portland, may have the same on application to JOSEPH WEEKS.
ASPARAGUS.
GENTLEMEN may be supplied with any quantity of fine healthy ASPARAGUS ROOTS, two years old, planted if required: This is the proper season to remove it; please to apply to THOS HUNTER, Watch-maker, No. 72. Fore-street, who has received from London, a quantity of excellent Liquid-Black g. Also—Stout Plainished Tea-Kettles and a variety of other Tin Ware; Japaned Waiters, &c. &c. China and Crockery Ware; Umbrellas and Parasols; early Charlton Peas, and other Garden Seeds. He has likewise on hand, a variety of good eight day and spring table Clocks and Watches; which, if not immediately purchased, will be given to any lady or gentleman making early application for the same. March 28.
LANDS FOR SALE.
To the industrious and Enterprising Farmers who may wish to provide for growing families. THE subscriber having spent the last season in the county of Hancock, and District of Maine, as the Agent and Attorney of Israel Thordike, David Sears, and William Prescott, Esquires, owners of several large and valuable tracts of land lying within said county; and having occasion while performing the duties of his agency to travel the country in different directions, can now more certainly and definitely describe the soil, timber, and natural advantages of the several tracts, which he now again offers for sale to actual settlers only—viz. 16,000 Acres of Land lying in a body in the centre of the town of Prospect, and lying from 1 to 6 miles from the navigable waters of the bay and river of Penobscot; the soil is generally good, and the growth Beech, Sugar Maple, Yellow Birch, and Ash; and where the growth is Spruce, in contiguity to the water renders it very valuable for knees and spars. Through this tract of land a road is cut four rods wide, and two rods in the centre, taken up by the roots, which will be cleared out and made passable the ensuing season. 65,000 acres lying in the Plantations of Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, and Knox, in this tract there is less waste land, than will be found in any tract of land of the same size and shape, in either of the counties of Worcester, Hampshire, or Berkshire; the soil is good, covered principally with hard wood, such as Beech, Maple, Yellow Birch, Basswood and Ash; and in different parts of the tract, there is a sufficient quantity of White Cedar to furnish fencing materials for many years; the whole of this tract is situated from six to fifteen miles from the fine navigable waters of Penobscot Bay. Roads cutting at the expense of the proprietors, in various directions, thro' the tract; and upon the tract already one hundred and twenty active industrious Farmers. Also—25,000 acres lying upon the head waters of St. George's River, about ten miles S. W. of Belfast;—the soil and growth of the hard wood land the same as in the last described tract; there is also upon this tract, large quantities of excellent pine timber, and upon the Western Branch of St. George's River the Proprietors are erecting a Saw Mill, which will be in operation by the first of July; and they will also erect a Grill Mill there as soon as the interest of the settlers shall require it. In either of these tracts, bodies of land may be found of an excellent quality, well calculated to accommodate ten or twelve families who may wish to remove from the same neighborhood to settle thereon; and the first and last described tract, will accommodate any number of families who may wish to better themselves by removing thither, and still continuing their former intercourse and neighborhood at their removal. The town of Belfast, lying upon Belfast Bay, so called, and the town of Frankton, lying upon Penobscot river, will be the immediate marts and places of deposit for the surplus produce of the Settlers, residing on these Lands—these towns though new, are flourishing, and the commercial part of their respective inhabitants are enterprising and industrious. Trade, navigation and vessel building, are successfully carried on in both those places; and the timber for building their vessels is procured through the agency of the inhabitants now on this land, and from this very advantageous situation, the subscriber has been selling the past season, at from four to eight dollars per acre—Having regard to the particular situation and quality of the Lands, and the benefits accruing to the owners and the country, in the acquisition of good industrious settlers, he will continue to sell on the same terms which he has heretofore sold at; and should any number of industrious farmers, in any part of the country, think of removing, and should select an agent (in whose judgment they have confidence) to view the lands, the subscriber will be found at Belfast, in said county of Hancock, and will give such agent every satisfaction in his power respecting the Lands—Likewise for sale, 9000 acres of Land in the towns of Camden, Lincolnville, and Northport. A liberal credit will be given for the whole or a part of the purchase money, as may best suit the purchaser. PHINEHAS ASHMUN. March 10, 1808. (6 w)
TO GARDENERS.
THOS: HUNTER, Watch-maker, No. 72, Fore Street, has received from England a quantity of Early Charlton Peas; his Pea is ripe full three weeks before any other—Also, Spanish Dwarf Peas, which do not grow more than eight inches when in full bearing—Blue Prussian Peas; this is the most prolific of all others—Scarlet Runners, and a variety of English Flower and other Seeds; a list of which may be seen as above. He also offers for sale a quantity of English Shoe Sole Leather—Patent Liquid and Cake Backing—London made Tin Tea Kettles, of a superior quality and strength. Hatters Bow Strings—A few Books on Gardening and Agriculture—and some of the Works of the celebrated Dr. Gill, a Baptist Minister of London. Portland, March 14.
Factory Cotton.
Henry Smith & Co. No. 4. Mullet's Row, HAVE for sale a large assortment of factory, Warp and Filling, and two threaded whitened Cotton. July 13.
Lee's Pills.
MR. PRINTER—THE following letters I recently received in answer to my request of thewritters, their opinion of Patent New-London Bileous Pills, as a public medicine. 'Tis unnecessary to add that those gentlemen are distinguished characters.—The offices they sustain are sufficient proofs of their respectability, and I trust is the highest evidence I can give the public of the efficacy of my Pills. SAMUEL H. P. LEE. New-London, Sept. 29, 1807.
Copy of a letter from John R. Watrous, Esquire, M. D. President of the Connecticut Medical Convention, to the Proprietor. Colchester, Sept. 25, 1807.
Doctor SAMUEL H. P. LEE, Dear Sir—I have just received your letter of the 18th inst. requesting my opinion of your Bileous Pills. From what knowledge I have of them, I know of no deleterious effects, which they have ever produced, but believe them to be a good composition for the use they are designed. I certainly have no objections to their being in general use, and in the circle of my practice, frequently recommend them; and believe the people in general give them the preference to any other Pill in circulation. I am Sir, with much respect your obedient Servant, JOHN R. WATROUS.
Copy of a letter from Doctor Wm. B. Hall, a practitioner of medicine, in the city of Middletown, Connecticut—Teacher and Lecturer on the Theory and Practice of Physics: Treasurer of the Connecticut Medical Society, and Fellow of the same; to the Patente, dated Middletown Sept. 14, 1807, in answer to a letter requesting his opinion of the "Patent New-London Bileous Pills"—as a public medicine. Middletown, Sept. 14th, 1807.
Doctor SAMUEL H. P. LEE, New-London. Sir—I duly received your favor of the 9th inst. requesting my opinion of your Patent Pills as a public medicine, and the experience I have had from using them in my practice—I have to inform you Sir, that I have administered your Pills, more or less in my practice the six or seven years past, and have found them equal, and in many instances, superior, to any preparation I have ever known, in all cases where the stomach and bowels required evacuation by the intervention of a cathartic. I view them peculiarly beneficial in southern climates, where almost all complaints are more or less of a bilious tendency—and in any region where cathartics are adopted as a curative indication, they are in my opinion, the most convenient and efficacious pill of any in use, being safe and easy in their operation. To travellers by sea and land I think they must be eminently useful, having printed directions for using them, which must be a convenience in case where medical aid cannot be obtained. To the public generally, they have another benefit annexed to them, which is of some importance, especially to the poorer class; that is, they are a cheap medicine, and by being prepared by yourself only, they have the best reason to expect that they are well prepared, and with some experience may be able to administer them in their families, with considerable success, and thereby save expense. Finally Sir, knowing as I do the component parts of the pill, I can with confidence recommend them as a useful and safe public medicine—I am Sir your most obedient servant, WILLIAM B. HALL.
The above Pills sold by Erving & Poor. March 28. (c o p 6 w.)
Patent Trusses.
JUST received and for sale by John S. Dupee. AT his store in Fore-street, head of Ingraham's-Wharf, an assortment of Stone's Improved Trusses for Ruptures. This invention is considered by Physicians of the first eminence, as a great Improvement on the kind heretofore made, and has secured to him a Patent from the President of the United States. They consist of a double Spring, yielding more readily to the motion of the body—being at the same time more comfortable to the wearer, and attended with better effect. (cop8m) Feb. 1.
To Mr. Woodbury Storer, jun. Clerk of the Maine Turnpike Association.
YOU are hereby requested by the subscribers, five of the Members of said Association, to notify and warn a meeting of the Stockholders of that corporation to be held at the Chamber over the Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Office, on Tuesday the 12th day of April next, at 2 o'clock, P. M. to act on the following articles, viz. 1st. To choose a Chairman, in case the President shall be absent. 2d. To consider and determine whether it is expedient to make any part of the Maine Turnpike Road the present year, and what part. 3d. To receive any proposals which may be made to said Association for completing said road or any part thereof. 4th. To consider and determine on any subjects which concern said Corporation. R. HUNEWELL, NATHAN DYER, LEVI CUTTER, THOMAS DELANO. NATHANIEL DYER, Portland, March 26, 1808.
Pursuant to the foregoing application to me directed, I hereby notify and warn the Stockholders of the said Maine Turnpike Association, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes therein mentioned. WOODBURY STORER, jun. Clerk. March 28.
WE the subscribers, having been appointed by the Hon. Samuel Freeman, Esq. to receive and examine the claims of creditors to the estate of JAMES MERRILL,
late of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, Esquire, 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 will attend that service at the house of Adams Merrill, of said Falmouth, on the last Thursday of April inst and of the five following months. JOSHUA MERRILL, JONATHAN MOODY. April 4.
FOR CHARTER.
THE Schooner HUMPHREY, with fishing gear, boats, &c. for a Labrador, or any other voyage. Now landing from said Schooner, and for sale, 30 casks Rice, first quality. 10 bds. Tobacco, and a few bbls. Tar—Apply to the Master on board, or JAMES CHADBOURN & CO. March 28.
TO LET.
THE HOUSE lately occupied by Capt Thomas Robinson, in High-street, with convenient out houses and large garden.—For terms apply to RALPH CROSS, No. 4, Union Wharf. March 28.
TAKE NOTICE!
FOR sale in Turner, a Dwelling House, out houses and Store, conveniently situated for a Trader, being the property of Samuel Spear of Boston.—For further particulars enquire of the subscriber in Portland. Oct 12 EZEKIEL WHITMAN.
NOTICE!
FOR sale in N. Gloucester, at the lower corner, the Dwelling house, Office and store belonging to the estate of Ann Mitchell Esq. deceased being an excellent stand for a trader as the Country affords—The whole will be sold at private sale on a liberal credit of several years if required, the interest being paid annually.—For further particulars enquire may be made of the subscriber in Portland. Oct. 12. E. WHITMAN.
Hard-ware Goods.
William Goddard,
HAS received by ships Joseph and Henry from Liverpool a very extensive addition to his stock of Sadlery, Cutlery & Hard-ware Goods—which he offers for sale by wholesale and retail, on the most reasonable terms. LIKEWISE, 530 boxes best Crown Glass, all sizes from 9 by 7 to 18 by 12 130 casks wrought Nails, all sizes 3 tons sheet Lead 70 doz. best English Shovels and Spades 25 doz. Frying pans 100 doz. best Sewing Twine 3 casks flat Irons Large quantity Cart, Waggon, and Chaise Wheel Boxes Sets of Cart Iron, Weights 7, 14 and 28w do do Blocktin Tea Pots Clock Faces Few boxes double tin Plates Blacksmith's Anvils and Vices. Also, An assortment of LOOKING GLASSES, with gilt and Mahogany Frames LIKEWISE, A very great variety of Joiner's Planes.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Copartnership under the firm of Samuel Winslow & Daughter, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All persons indebted to said firm are requested to make payment; and those who have demands or unsettled accounts are desired to call at the store lately occupied by said firm and have them adjusted. SAMUEL WINSLOW, SARAH HUSSEY. Falmouth, 2d. Mo. 23d, 1808.
TO LET
A Convenient two story DWELLING-HOUSE, situated on Back Street—for terms apply to THOMAS SANDFORD. March 28.
FOUND.
A Silk Velvet WAIST-COAT PATTERN. The owner may have it again, by proving property and paying for this Advertisement, on application to DANIEL COBB. March 28.
On Thursday last,
AT 4 o'clock the Wheels of Amoskeag Lottery, be. au to move and in the course of 45 days will throw out the following rich prizes, viz 9 of 1000 dolls 1 of 2000 and the capital prize of 10,000 dolls. besides several of 500, 100, 50 and 30 dollars. Tickets, Halves, Quarters and Eighths may be had of SETH CLARK, Esq. N. B A list of prizes in the 3d class Harvard College, may be seen, and prizes received for Tickets in the above Lottery, or the 4th class Harvard College Lottery as will best suit the adventurer. March 28.
To Let—and immediate possession given. A VERY convenient DWELLING HOUSE, pleasantly situated on School-street. The Furniture in the house which is decent, is for sale on a liberal credit—Enquire of EBENEZER MAYO. March 28.
BENJAMIN WILLIS,
HAVING been driven from his late stand in Haymarket Row, (by the late fire) has taken the Store lately occupied by Mr. John Dean, opposite Messrs How & Evans Store, where he has now for sale, a large assortment of English, India & West India Goods; which were laid in at reduced prices, and shall be sold at a very small profit—and made satisfactory to purchasers. Feb. 1.
NATHAN MORSE'S WILL.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that the last Will and Testament of NATHAN MORSE, late of Gray, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, has been presented for Probate to the subscriber, Judge of the Court of Probate for said county, and that the same will be taken into consideration by me at a Probate Court to be held at the Office of John Frothingham, Esq. in Portland, on Wednesday the 27th day of April instant, at 10 o'clock, in the forenoon, when and where all persons concerned may make their objections thereto if any they have. April 2, 1808. SAMUEL FREEMAN.
THE subscriber hereby give public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon himself the trust of Administrator on the estate of WILLIAM LUNT, late of Falmouth in the county of Cumberland, Mariner, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs. He therefore requests all persons who are indebted to the said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to DANIEL LUNT. March 24 1808.