Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1799-05-20 00:00:00

JENKS'S PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS, BY ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 56.]
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1799.
[VOLUME II.]
Philadelphia Bar Iron.
Rogers & Hatch,
HAVE for sale at their shop at the head of Mr. Ingraham's Wharf, A few tons of Flat and Bar Iron, Plough share Moals, & Spike Rods. Also, A few casks of Rice—and 4 Ca-booes.
May 20, 1799
JUST OPENED FOR SALE,
By Nathan Bond,
At his Store in Middle-Street near the head of Fifth-Street, PORTLAND,
By Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms for Cash—
  Brandy,  Coffee,    Rum,  Chocolate,    Porter,  Shells,    Molasses,  Groat Biscuit,    Sherry,  Flour, Starch,    Malaga,  Raisins, Rice,    Port & Madeira  Ground Rice,    Loaf and brown  Figs, Spices,    SUGARS,  Hair Powder,    Hyson,  Indigo, Capers,    Souchong and  Sweet Oil,    Bohea TEA,  Candles,     Cheese,   Mess and Clear Middling PORK. Also for sale, A few bundles Nankcen.
May 21, 1799.
JUST RECEIVED FOR SALE,
By William Hudson,
At his STORE in FORE-STREET,
30 tierces of Fresh RICE.
May 4.
DANCING SCHOOL.
William B. Peters,
INFORMS the ladies and gentlemen of Portland, that the first quarter of his evening dancing school will expire on the 8th of June next, when he proposes commencing a second quarter. Those who favour him with their patronage, and do not subscribe by that time, will expect to pay the same as if they had commenced with the quarter. He also proposes to open a day school for young misses and masters, should sufficient encouragement be offered.
His terms are 5 dollars a quarter each, on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the afternoon, from three to six o'clock. His evening school will be twice a week, from 7 to 10 o'clock.
N B Music will be provided the whole quarter, by the teacher.
Portland, May 13th. 1799.
100 Dollars Reward.
LAST Night escaped from the Goal in Portland, in the County of Cumberland, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HENRY W. HUNT,
aged twenty-four years—five feet two inches high—grey eyes—pale complexion—firm made.
Whoever apprehends said HUNT, and secures him in any of the Goals within the United States of America, or so that he may be returned to the Goal in Portland aforesaid, shall receive the above Reward.
WILLIAM CALDWELL,
Prison Keeper.
Portland, 24th May, 1799.
Printers of newspapers in the several States, are requested to insert the above in their respective papers.
TO BE LET,
A Store, opposite the
Play-Market.—Inquire of
WILLIAM HUDSON.
May 13.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident proprietors of land in the town of Union, in the county of Lincoln, hereafter named, that their respective lands are taxed in bills committed to me to collect for the years 1796 and 1797, as follows, to wit:
   For the year 1796.   State Tax. Town Tax. County Tax.     The Heir of John Hilton, } D. C. D. C. D. C.   } 0 7 0 50 0 30        For the year 1797.   State Tax. Town Tax. Minister's Tax.     The Heirs of John Hilton, } D. C. D. C. D. C.   William Jones, } 0 7 0 25 0 10   } 11 39 16  
Unless said taxes and intervening charges are paid to me before the last Monday of June next, so much of said lands as will discharge the same will then be sold at Public Vendue, according to law, at the dwelling house of the subscriber, in said Union, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.
Richard Coming, Collector.
Cash or Books will be given for Old Rags and Canvass, at this Office.
Portland,
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1799.
Communication.
WHO would have thought ten years ago that ever a foreign nation would have the power to establish so bitter a fashion here as France has done? The fact is almost a certain prelude of the future misery of this people. Even at the distance of three thousand miles we cannot mind our own business, but with Athenian idleness and curiosity mingle in foreign affairs with more interest and feeling than we have for our own welfare. Children who are domestic, love their parents, and love their duty, and all goes on well—but as soon as they go abroad too much, and are children by their parents, home becomes irksome, duty painful, and father and mother hated. If we cannot cure ourselves of the accursed friendship which in an evil hour we have contracted with France, and keep at home, and love home too, France will bring us to a woful end as ever the witch Millwood did George Barnwell, and all repentance of our folly will be too late. Serene as the sky appears, it is certain that affairs are tending with the aid of the Devil's nation, France, to such a scene of blood & misery as this country never saw; and this very American people, who found their own praises and love to be flattered with their own divine perfections, may yet rank no higher than European nations in discretion, foresight, and providence. As yet they appear to be made of the same materials, abuse their government as easily, maintain an opposition as proudly, and sport with their salvation as freely; as any people, nation or language that has embraced destruction, and "sail to the storm thou art my mother and my father" before them. The rascally vanity and mischief-making restlessness which is forever carping at people in power, is here too called patriotism; and every imprudent shallow brained puppy who commits treason in bravado, and brews his bitters to show his courage, receives a foolish applause. Our government is weak, and scarcely of a confidence to bear its own weight! but the seeker of popularity has no conscience, no bowels; he lashes it without mercy, inflicts its vicious patience, and defies its dying energies. And the people who would be ashamed to be called cowardly or to abuse a woman, stand by and enjoy the scene; only helping the poor government up when it is entirely down upon the ground, that they may see it beat and maul and overlet in the mire again—shame, shame upon us!
No manly spirit was ever known to attack the defenceless, or rob churches. Our government is a mere sentiment—simply a mode of doing business by the people's clerks—it has no privileged orders, no hereditary rights, no exclusive families, no private revenues, no foreign alliances, no mercenary support, no liguards, no pomp, nor permanent duration. It has no palaces, no castles, no chariots and horses, no slaves, nor circumstance of pride. Yet this it is which has become the subject of persecution, and while, like the son of man, it has not where to lay its head, it is hunted up and down as if it were a wild beast, and kept bleeding with its wounds. What childish wantonness! What unconsiderate vanity!—If it were Ireland governed by a Lord-lieutenant from England, there would be some hold for the Floods and Grattans of the day, and their eloquence might have a soul in it. If it were even England, Fox the gambler, or Sheridan the debauchee, might shine upon reform; and in both cases the power of the crown would be an honorable and glorious antagonist. But here—here, I say—where the whole delegation of government is only a set of selectmen, and the only possible rule of their conduct is fidelity and diligence—here, where our president is only the best man we have, the plainest, and almost the poorest—here, where our judges are not men of blood, but only of deep and pious reflection and benevolence—where man is so free that his growth is spontaneous and wild—in such a country, to let dogs upon the government, and stand by and laugh to see it torn to pieces—Before God, it is mean—meaner than to cheat a fair, or strike a woman! But let us change the figure, to show more strikingly the ridiculous that falls upon this people, and will make them stink in the nostrils of the world, if they do not labour to throw it off. If a man have a weak constitution, there is so much the more occasion that he should take care of himself, and regulate his living—and he should nurse his constitution, if peradventure by such means it may acquire some firmness and get able to endure things. This is the case which has been alluded to. But now to allegorize a little on foreign influence—If this weak, puny, and debilitated man, instead of gentle exercise, natural food, and composure of mind—should foolishly fret himself about every thing that comes to pass, and take into his stomach large quantities of the most absurd, unnatural, and poisonous food, and stuffy maintain that it was right to do so, though his physician should protest against it, and the patient himself be feist with consultations—What then? Why he would do just for all the world, as we are doing in taking into our bowels the accursed, tenfold accursed and damnable doctrines, advices, and greetings of France. We can but just stand and go alone, and we must be playing the whore with her. And if things go wrong, there is no enquiry, no reflection, no shame nor self-abasement; but all we do is, to wreak the vengeance of our valetudinarian qualms directly back upon our own constitution, and poison ourselves to death—Pretty behaviour indeed!
There is a glorious privilege in being free, and that is, the sovereign, unalienable, and sacred right of destroying ourselves. Who shall hinder that?—We certainly shall resent such officiousness. Nor shall it ever be doubted that the people are wise, self-sufficient, and informed—or rather above the want of information. They shall continue to be told this lie—for, what! have they not a right to hear lies, ay, and believe them too, as well as the truth. There are too fides to a question—and the people have an indefeasible right to choose the right or the wrong—and when they have chosen the wrong one, it is the right. "The people can do no wrong." Certainly, for are they not electors, and must they not be complimented, and courted, and wheedled, and coaxed, and palavered?—France too cries "War to palaces, peace to cottages," and this people who have not a palace nor cottage in the whole country, God bless 'em, begin to talk about aristocrats, and democrats—Very sensible and pertinent! France bawls out "liberty and equality!"—The flaring American people cry "liberty and equality!" and then looking round for something to do, they can see nothing to level but the government, and all hands set upon that. It flukes! huzza! there it comes! it is the frantic or wanton exultation—it falls; and buries them all in its ruins forever.
[To be continued]
Buonaparte's Letters.
[IN CONTINUATION.]
[No. VI.]
Terczi, July 25.
COLBERT to his friend COLLASSE.
I HASTEN, my dear friend, to give thee some account of myself, and to say a few words to thee on the hardships and dangers we have experienced.
The uncertainty in which I still remain respecting the fate of my baggage, gives me from time to time the greatest uneasiness. I am almost in a state of nakedness, having nothing to cover me but my shirt, and the clothes I had on when I left Alexandria. I beg thee, therefore, to send me my trunks by Danae ; if he will have the goodness to take charge of them, if not, by one of the officers commissioned to bring up the baggage of the demi-brigade. Do, prithe, con-rive to let me know what is become of Danae , of my money, and my jewels; I cannot bear one syllable about them.
So much for my private affairs; I must now tell thee that it is hardly possible to form an idea of what we have gone through; sufferings upon sufferings, privations, mortifications, fatigues, we have exhausted them all! three-fourths of the time we have been dying with hunger! Such is the correct, but rapid sketch of my life, since we parted.
At present, indeed, our means are more ample, but our condition is not therefore more happy. Remote from all our friends, I shall not enter into the details of our military successes, thou wilt hear enough of them from other quarters.
Adieu, my dear friend; think of my request; consider that I am almost naked, and that thou wilt render me the most essential service.
Thine, COLBERT.
P. S. Remember me to Tellier. To the Commissary at War, Collasse, Superintendent of the town, St. of Alexandria.
[No. VII.]
TRANSLATION.
Grand Cairo, July 26th.
To General BOURNONVILLE, No. 61, Rue de Fourbourg-Honore, at Paris.
We have been at Cairo four days, my dear General; our march was of the most distressing kind, under a burning sky, over sands, and arid deserts, without water, and without bread! Alexandria was taken by storm, and Cairo fell into our hands after a brisk but short engagement.
I am as well as it is possible to be, in a climate so different from our own as this, and which by no means agrees with me. We shall probably recruit ourselves a little here: we shall then be enabled to ascertain what effects fatigue, and the influence of the climate will have on our constitutions, and thus to decide if we can live here for any length of time.
I have not written to you—my dear general so much at large as I could have wished; but we desire to have our letters reach their place of destination, we must make them short: mine is perhaps, already too long—May I venture to request you to let my family know that you have heard from me.
Believe, my dear general, in my entire attachment; no distance, however great, can weaken it. D.
[No. VIII.]
TRANSLATION.
Head Quarters, Cairo, July 27.
BUONAPARTE, Member of the National Institute, commander in chief to Admiral BRUEYS.
After a number of very fatiguing marches, and some fighting, we are at length arrived at Cairo. I am extremely well satisfied with the conduct of the chief of division, Perree, and I have therefore promoted him to the rank of rear admiral.
I hear from Alexandria that a channel, such as we could with, has been discovered; and by this time, I flatter myself, you are already in the port with all your fleet.
There is no occasion for you to be under any uneasiness with respect to the subsistence of your men. This country is rich in wheat, pulse, rice, and cattle, almost beyond imagination.
I persuade myself, that to morrow or the day after at farthest, I shall hear from you, which I have not yet done since my departure from Alexandria.
The instant you inform me what you have done, and in what situation you are, you shall receive further orders from me respecting what we have yet to do.
Some of the staff officers have undoubtedly given you an account of our late victory.
I take it for granted, that you have a frigate cruising off Damietta. As I am sending troops to take possession of that town, I must request you to order the captain of the frigate to keep as near the land as possible, and to open a communication of our forces; who will be in possession of the place by the time this reaches you.
Send off the courier whom I have dispatched to you immediately; put him on shore wherever you think it best. In this, you will of course be guided by what you hear of the enemy's fleet, and by the winds which prevail at this season.
I could wish that you would send him in a frigate, which should have positive orders to stay no longer than eight and forty hours in any port where he might land him (whether at Malta or Ancona)—in this case, you might charge the captain to bring us back all the journals, and all the information which our agents may have collected.
I have dispatched by the Nile, a prodigious quantity
* Donzelot's rank is not mentioned. He is the person to whom Savary's letter is addressed (see No. XII) and appears to be in some office of consequence.
† This is a confidential letter, and seems to show that Buonaparte was a little in the secret of the expedition, hence the hint about the period that a Frenchman might live in Egypt. &c.—The remark on the danger of writing long letters we are not quite certain we understand. It is probable (but this is a mere guess) that it was feared they might excite the suspicions of the commander in chief or of the directory. We have proofs before us, however, that all which were designed to be put in the Post Office in France are single lines, while most of those which were trusted to private conveyance (by far the most numerous) are double, treble, and sometimes more.
‡ This is the only letter which appears with a single signature. The au bar had undoubtedly his reasons for it.
§ We shall not remark on the general train of oddness that runs through this letter; but merely call the reader's attention for a moment to the passage we have marked: "I hear," he says, "from Alexandria," &c. It looks as if the General's anxiety to obtain the fleet had induced him to depart from the line of his conduct, and to tamper, unknown to the admiral, with some of the officers at Alexandria. Brueys (see his letter to the minister of marine, No. IV.) had already employed two persons to see what qualified (as he writes) to examine the ground, and their report had not yet been made; so that there is something extremely suspicious in the premature information thus obtained by Buonaparte.
of provisions to Alexandria, to pay for the freight of transports the c.*
Say a thousand kind things to Ganteaume and Caba-biauca. I salute. BUONAPARTE †
[No. IX]
TRANSLATION.
Head Quarters, Cairo, July 27.
BUONAPARTE, Member of the National Institute, Commander in Chief to the general of Division, KLEBER.
Citizen General,
There is here a very excellent mint. We shall again have occasion for all the ingots which we left with the merchants of Alexandria in exchange for the specie of the country; I request you, therefore, to call together all the merchants with whom the said ingots were exchanged, and to redeem them. I will give them in lieu of the bullion, wheat, and rice, of which we have immense quantities.
Our poverty in specie is equal to our riches in commodities; this circumstance absolutely compels me to take as many ingots as possible from the merchants, and to give them co-n. &c. in exchange §
I have heard nothing from you since I left Alexandria. You have doubtless had many idle rumours and alarms. I have sent you several letters by the people of the country, which I fear have been intercepted by the Arabs, as has most probably been the case with those which you have sent me. I am now all impatience to hear from you! as you have undoubtedly by this time received intelligence from France.
We have undergone more hardships than many among us had courage to suppose; at present, we are recovering ourselves a little at Cairo, which is not deficient in supplies. All our troops have joined.
The officers of the staff will have acquainted you with the military transaction which proceeded our entry into this place. It was rather by brilliant. Two thousand of the best mounted Mameloucs were driven into the Nile.
The army is in the greatest want of baggage. I have dispatched the adjutant general Almeyras with a battalion of the 89th, and an immense quantity of provisions for the fleet, to Rosetta. He is commissioned on his return to take on board his flotilla all the baggage, &c. of the army, and to escort it to Cairo.
Order the staff officers of the different corps, charged with the care of the magazines, to send them all to Rosetta.
Send us our Arabic and French printing presses. See that they embark all the wine, brandy, tennis, shoes, &c. Send round all these articles by sea to Rosetta; and as the Nile is now upon its increase, they will find no difficulty in passing up that river to Cairo.
I am anxious to hear of your health. I hope it will be speedily re-established, and that you will be soon in a condition to come and join us.
I have written to Louis to set out for Rosetta immediately with all my baggage.
Since I wrote this, I have found in a garden belonging to one of the Mameloucs, a letter from Louis—this convinces me that one of your couriers has been intercepted by these people.
Health.
BUONAPARTE.
* See the next letter.
† This is the letter of which Buonaparte speaks in his dispatch of the 19th of August. If the reader has gone thro' it attentively, which we hope he has, we will beg leave to ask him two questions—first, whether he finds any merit on of returning to Cairo in it, whether the general says there was a? and secondly, whether the whole tenor of it does not militate against his (Buonaparte's) having the smallest idea of such a thing? When he has answered these two questions as we think he must, we will not trouble him for his opinion of the general's veracity.
‡ These ingots were formed from the gold and silver previously stolen by this rapacious freebooter from the church of St. John, where the Maltese kept their public treasury. See the letter of the Bailly of Teiguia, and the manifestoes of the different commanders.
§ To force one kind of plunder on the merchants, by way of payment, and then to take it from them in exchange for some other which can be more conveniently spared, is a proceeding so perfectly consonant to the French ideas of justice, and has been so frequently employed by them, wherever they have had power to put it in practice, as their good friends and allies can testify, that it scarce deserves notice.
But we would fain ask the general how the country can be so poor in specie, when it appears, from his letter to the Directory, written only three days before the present, that every Mamelouc had three or four hundred pounds in his pocket. "The Mameloucs" says he, (see all the papers of the 31st of October) "showed great bravery. They defended their fortunes, for there was not one of them on whom our soldiers did not find three, four and five hundred louis."
Now it appears from the same account, that the number of Mameloucs engaged was 6000. It is but fair to suppose that those who escaped were as rich as those who fell: 6000, therefore, multiplied by 400 the average of their fortunes, gives a total of 2,400,000 louis—no despicable sum for a country so poor in specie; and probably not a great deal less than what might be found in the pockets, or even in the possession, of the same number of people in any army in France—a country, as we all know, so rich in specie!
Further; the soldiers must have found on the 2000 Mameloucs, who, as the General says in his letter to the Directory, were killed, 80,000 louis, by the fairest calculation; now we think that some method might have been found to persuade them to resign their plunder for a time (specially as they seem to enjoy few opportunities of wasting it) and thus to have spared Buonaparte the mortification, and Kleber the infamy, of compelling the merchants of Alexandria to take what they do not want, in exchange for what they cannot spare!
Shall we not be serious? We do not believe that the Mameloucs had a single louis about them: rich arms and clothing they certainly had; and if the French should ever return home (as, if it please God, they never will) they may probably turn them to some account: at present, all these fine things are mere incumbrances to them.
We do not know the reason of it, but we constantly observe that none of the army attempt to enjoin Kleber. He is almost the only one to whom things are represented as they really are—& Buonaparte, whose letter to the Cockneys of Paris, representing Egypt as almost paved with gold, was scarce dry; fits down to tell this sagacious and penetrating general, that there is none to be found in it; and that he has no resource but the plundered ingots of Malta!
|| We have already observed that not one of those articles can reach Cairo. The port of Alexandria is hermetically sealed, and however urgent the wants of the army may be, they must learn to bear them.
¶ His brother. He alludes to Buonaparte's letter, see No. XIV.

Foreign Articles.
SALONICA (Turkey) FEB. 2.
THE Pasha is frantically employed in the means of driving the French out of Egypt; in consequence of which the Grand Seignor has issued a firman, by which he orders, that all the transport ships which can be procured should be assembled at Smyrna, for the embarkation of our troops.
A Greek vessel, containing the Frenchmen in disguise, and amongst them the Secretary of Buonaparte, was captured by a Turkish ship, and the prisoners sent to Constantinople.
PARIS MARCH 11.
Letters from Straitsburg, dated the 3d inst. mention, "That the French army had marched into Suabia by the county of Wirttemberg, and was to proceed until it met the Austrian army, commanded by the Archduke Charles, which it is said has advanced as far as Ulm, and even beyond that place.
FRANKFORT, MARCH 9.
The following is the estimate of the Austrian forces circulated here:—100,000 infantry, and 14 regiments of cavalry, to be employed in Italy; on the Lech 100,000 infantry, and 23 regiments of cavalry; in the Tyrol 36 battalions; and on the frontiers of the hereditary States, 24 battalions of infantry.
LONDON, MARCH 20.
The King has been pleased to declare all the ports in the United Provinces (Holland) to be in a state of blockade; and that all vessels which may attempt to enter any of them, will be dealt with according to the law of nations.
The Dutch have nine sail of the line, ready for launching; but they are utterly destitute of naval equipments. It is expected, as the French Directory has the absolute control of all the Batavian forces, that a Dutch squadron will be sent to form part of the expedition from Brest.
EARTHQUAKE.—The following letter to the Editor of a Scotch paper gives an account of an earthquake which happened at Comrie, in Perthshire, at which place repeated shocks have been felt in the course of a few years:
Comrie, March 2, 1799.
"On Sabbath, the 24th of February, we had a very smart shock of an earthquake in this place and neighbourhood. It happened about twelve minutes before two o'clock in the afternoon, and was accompanied and followed with a very loud subterraneous noise. This shock, and one we had on the 17th of January, were incomparably more violent and alarming than we ever felt before.
REMARKABLE CASE
The following remarkable instance of the failure of volition, is extracted from Dr. Crichton's Essay on Mental Derangement.
"A young Lady, an attendant on the Princess of—, after having been confined to her bed for a great length of time, with a violent nervous disorder, was at last, to all appearance, deprived of life. Her lips were quite pale, her face resembled the countenance of a dead person, and her body grew cold. She was removed from the room in which she died, was laid in a coffin, and the day for her funeral was fixed on.
Domestic News.
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 10.
Trial of Fries.
Last Evening the trial of John Fries closed, after the unremitted attention of the court and Jury, for nine days. The Jury were William Jolly, Samuel Mitchell, Richard Leedham, Anthony Cuthbert, Alexander Fullerton, John Singer, William Ramsay, Samuel Richards, Gerhardus Wynkoop, Philip Walker, Joseph Thornton, and John Rhodes.
Mr. Sitgreaves, assistant to Mr. Rawle, opened the cause for the prosecution, explaining the nature of the 3d sect. of the 3d article of the constitution, which defines treason.
Mr. Rawle, a torney for the district of Pennsylvania, after a short introduction read a great number of quotations from law books of eminence in support of the prosecution, after which Mr. Dallas in a speech of seven hours and an half produced his quotations in behalf of the prisoner, and commenced on the evidence. He was followed by Mr. William Ewing, another counsel for the prisoner, who principally went on the same ground.
Mr. Sitgreaves answered to the observations of the two latter gentlemen in an address of up-wards of six hours.
Mr. Lewis spoke near six hours.
Mr. Rawle closed the pleadings in an address of about four hours, in which he examined the case both as to law and testimony.
Judge Peters, in charge to the jury, examined some of the references alluded to by the bar, and was followed by an examination both on the evidence and law on this important cause, by Judge Iredell, the presiding judge.
The Court adjourned till 10 o'clock, and the Jury retired.
At 10 o'clock the Court met, the names of the Jury being called over, the prisoner was desired to hold up his hand, when the Jury, by the foreman, Mr. Wynkoop, delivered in their verdict "GUILTY."
Regeneration.
From Virginia—May 1.
Federalism is the watch-word in almost every part of this state. Thinking people have been roused by the disorganizing proceedings of our Legislature. They know their dependence on the Union—and are rallying at the standard of Federalism, to support the General Government.
General Washington, on the day of election, mounted his old Iron Grey Charger, and rode ten miles to the County Court House, to vote for his brave old brother soldier, Col. Powel, who is happily elected.
BOSTON, MAY 14.
FIRE.
Considerable time had elapsed since this town had been visited by the mortal foe of its wooden edifices, till Saturday morning last, when a fire commenced near Rowe's-lane and Newbury-street. It is generally supposed to have begun in Mr. Meikel's barn. Several barns with hay were in the immediate neighbourhood—to which the flames instantly extended—and from thence to the combustible buildings in the vicinity.
MAY 16.
Those who know the political opinions of men, count on having Seventy three Federal men, in the next Congress. The minority will then be 31.
The General Society of the Cincinnati, at their triennial meeting, held in the city of Philadelphia, on the 8th day of May, 1799, have elected the following gentlemen officers of the Society for the ensuing three years:
Gen. George Washington, President General; Major Gen. Alexander Hamilton, Vice-President General; Major William Jackson, Secretary General; Dr. N. Dorsey, Assistant Secretary General; Brig. Gen. William Macpherson, Treasurer General.
Capt. Silas Swain of the Ship Molly, of Philadelphia, on his passage to Liverpool, had a smart engagement with a French privateer brig of 16 guns, which he beat off.
CONNECTICUT.
The annual Election of the officers of this enlightened State, was holden the last week at Hartford.—Gov. Trumbull was reelected by a vast majority.—In short, says the Courant, "scarce a vote could be found for any man, whose character wears the stamp of Jacobinism." Governor Trumbull, in a very federal speech, addressed the Legislature. Speaking of the French, he says, and says truly, that "tho' varied, yet their designs of hostility against, or subjugation of, these United States, are far from being dismissed."
Portland,
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1799.
Wednesday last, arrived brig Jane, Capt. Joshua Robinson, 57 days from Liverpool. Capt. R. has furnished London papers to the 14th, and Liverpool to the 16th March;—but they contain nothing more than has been received by previous arrivals at the wellward—March 21st, Capt. Dennison, in the brig Peter of Newburyport, put into Cork, for convoy.
Capt. EBENEZER MAYO, is appointed Inspector of the Revenue for the county of Cumberland, vice DANIEL EBB, Esq. deceased.
SENATORS FOR MAINE.
YORK—2.
No. Votes 1258. Necessary to a choice 639. Hon. Simon Frye, Esq. 707. And is chosen.
CANDIDATES:
Hon. Nathaniel Wells, Esq. 603. Richard F. Cuts. 296.
CUMBERLAND—2.
No. Votes 1277. Necessary to a choice 639. Hon. Stephen Longfellow, Esq. 1174. Daniel Davis, Esq. 1137. And are chosen.
LINCOLN, HANCOCK, WASHINGTON and KENNEBEC—2.
No. Votes 3195. Necessary to a choice 1598. No choice.—CANDIDATES: Hon. Alexander Campbell, Esq. 1477. Nathaniel Dummer, Esq. 1402. Henry Dearborn, Esq. 1267. Nathaniel Welton, Esq. 488.
REPRESENTATIVES.
While a few Jacobin towns in the District have succeeded in electing persons devoted to French politics, and who seek to debase their own country—it affords pleasure to notice that a large majority of staunch federal characters will represent the District of Maine in the General Court, the ensuing year.—It is, nevertheless, disgraceful, that DEARBORN, the active esp-wap of the French faction, aided by a few Jacobin miscreants, should influence a single town to dishonour our Legislature with traitors and blockheads.
The inhabitants of this town are entitled to send three representatives; but at the town meeting on Monday last they voted to choose one only, when Woodbury Storer, Esq. a federal character, was nearly unanimously chosen.
The town of Falmouth has chosen Archelaus Lewis, Esq. a genuine federalist. New-Gloucester has evinced its federalism in unanimously electing Major Nathaniel C. Allen.
The choice of the following gentlemen also reflects honor on the several towns.
For Bath, Joshua Shaw—Pownallborough, Col. Payson—Harperswell, Joseph Cory—Brunswick, John Dunning, Esq.—Topsham, William King, Esq.—Georgetown, Mark L. Hill, Esq.
The circulation of the vile Chronicle, which is handed about at a cheap rate, in some parts of this District, is a proof of the continued industry of the demo's to mislead those who may not have the means of information. More than fifty of these prostituted papers are sent into the little town of Winthrop.—Let the approaching fate of Fries be a warning to those who suffer themselves to be the dupes of a factious!
A quarry of Plaister of Paris has been discovered in York county, Pennsylvania, which proves upon trial to be equal to that imported.
SOLEMN TRUTHS.
"If the government of the United States had been cherished and supported by its citizens in proportion to its merit, if patriotic, old fashioned patriotism, not the love of other nations, but of our own, had been as distinguishing a trait in the American character as it has been in the British, or even in the French, we should have been at this moment one of the most powerful, independent, and prosperous nations in the world. United, all the world could not make, and therefore would not attempt, a conquest of us—Divided, we should fall an easy prey to a contemptible and insignificant foe."
Great News!
[The following article is taken from the Salem Gazette of Friday last:]
We hear that a vessel arrived at Boston yesterday, in 45 days from Liverpool, bringing intelligence,
That the French General Jourdan, after passing the Rhine had met his old acquaintance the Archduke Charles, and that a most bloody battle ensued, in which the French army was cut all to pieces.
Jourdan's destination was Suabia, the theatre of the cruelties related in the Cannibal's Progress; and if the inhabitants of that country have any portion of human nature in their composition, the above account is very likely to be true! The Boston papers will undoubtedly detail the news by this arrival.
DIED—At Deer Isle, Mrs. Martha Staple, aged 45, consort of Mr. Joshua Staple of that place, and daughter of Capt. John Raynes of Old York. At Boston, Mr. Thomas Adams, aged 41—late Editor of the Chronicle.
At Berwick, Miss Fanny Hovey, in the 21st year of her age, the eldest daughter of Dr. Ivory Hovey, Esq. In this town, on Wednesday last, Caroline Hovey, aged 6 years, daughter of John Hovey, Esq.
Marine Articles.
The frigate Constitution, Capt. Nicholson, has arrived at Boston. It is reported that she has captured a French privateer of 8 guns.
The Merrimack, Capt. Brown, of 24 guns, has also arrived at Nantasket Roads.
The United States, Commodore Barry, has arrived at Reedy Island. All well.
The Montezuma, Capt. Murray, has sent into Lucea, the French frigate Les Amis, laden with Mahogany.
One of the Federal Gallies has failed from the Allegany for the Mississippi.
Capt. Galloway, arrived at N. York from St. Kitts, informs that Capt. Truxton has captured another French privateer of six guns, from St. Bartholomew for Guadaloupe. An old offender.
It is ascertained that the ship Ocean, Capt. Kemp, has not been captured by the French. It was probably some other American vessel.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
DESERTED, on the 14th inst, from the Garrison in Portland, JAMES WARREN, FROST, and JAMES HOSMER, both regularly enlisted soldiers in the service of the United States.
Said Frost is about 24 years of age, almost six feet high—blue eyes, light hair, and of a very ruddy complexion; had on when he went away, a round white coat—either an old blue coat, or a brown frock and probably blue pantaloon, or overalls.—Said Hosmer is about 29 years of age—five feet and eight inches high—his eyes, hair, and complexion, light; had on when he went away, a black round hat—a mixed light colored coat, and white cotton pantaloon, or overalls. Whoever will apprehend said Defectors, and give information, or forward them to the subscriber, or deliver them to any officer in the service of the United States, shall be entitled to the above reward, or to Ten Dollars for each, and to all reasonable charges.
AMOS STODDARD, Capt.
2d. Regt. Artil. & Eng.
Portland, 17th May, 1799.
TAKE NOTICE.
Any person having in their possession a MASSACHUSETTS BANK BILL of one hundred dollars, dated the first of March, 1799, and written on the back of said bill, Cusine, will very much oblige the subscriber by informing him through what channel they received it. DANIEL JOHNSTON. Cusine, May 7th, 1799.
To be sold, by order of Court, on Wednesday the nineteenth day of June next, at ten o'clock, P. M. at the house of Mr. THADDEUS BROAD, Innholder in Falmouth,
THE Real Estate of THOMAS SLEMMONS, late of said Falmouth, yeoman, deceased, consisting of His homestead FARM, containing about 210 acres—Half a Grist-Mill—A Pew in Strong water meeting-house—and a piece of Marsh in Scarborough, containing about four acres—Or so much thereof, as will be sufficient to pay the said deceased debts, with incidental charges.
WILLIAM SLEMMONS, Administrator. Falmouth, May 9, 1799.
Victory,
WILL stand at Capt. PETER WARREN'S Stable in Portland, this season; and will be let to Mares at Two Dollars a leap, Four Dollars for the season, and foals will be insured as may be agreed on. VICTORY is five years old, and was foaled by the Old Nimrod; his dam was a complete full blooded English mare, owned by Dr. Perkins of Norwich, Connecticut.—Gentlemen who wish to improve the breed of horses in the county of Cumberland, are invited to bring forward their mares. Constant attendance will be given, and any kind of produce will be received in pay for the service of the horse.
Also, for sale at the above stable, the famous horse SNOW BALL.—Said horse will be sold or let for this season, on reasonable terms, if applied for immediately. May 1, 1799.
Grey Figure.
THAT noted horse, known by the name of GREY FIGURE, will stand for coming season, at the stable of EDWARD TOBBETSON, in Standish, at the moderate price of two dollars for a leap, four for the season, and seven to warrant a foal.—Said horse is sixteen hands high, well proportioned, and of good carriage. He has been kept in Portland towns of Dover and Campton (N. H.) and proves remarkably sure. His colts are very large and handsome. Any Gentleman, wishing to mend his breed of horses, may depend on satisfaction from said HORSE. May 15th, 1799.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the subscribers are appointed Administrators on the Estate of David Dennison, late of Freeport, Yeoman, deceased, and have given Bonds as the law directs:—All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment: And all those who have demands, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement. Jane Dennison, Timothy Dennison. Freeport, 16th April, 1799.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine.
An ACT, limiting the time within which Petitions for Wages which have been drawn by former Orders, shall be sustained.
BE it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by authority of the same, That no petition for Wages which have heretofore been drawn by Forged Orders, shall hereafter be sustained, unless such Petition shall be preferred within TWO YEARS from the passing of this act; any other on failure thereof, the Petitioner, Applicant and Claimant, shall be forever excluded and barred from any claim or demand against this Commonwealth for or on account of any Wages so drawn, or alleged to be drawn, by virtue of any such Forged Order. And the Secretary shall hereby direct to cause this Act to be published in several News-papers printed in this Commonwealth three months successively.
In the House of Representatives, Jan. 29, 1799. This Bill having had three several readings passed to be enacted.
EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker.
In Senate, Jan. 28, 1799. This Bill having had two several readings passed to be enacted.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President.
January 29, 1799.—Approved.
INCREASE SUMNER.
True Copy—Attest,
JOHN AVERY, Sdg.
To be published three months successively, in the several News-papers printed in this Commonwealth.
JOHN AVERY, Sdg.