Jenks' Portland gazette (Portland, Me.), 1804-05-12 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
No. 4 of Vol. VII.
PORTLAND, (MAINE) SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1804.
Price Number, 31 3/4.
This Gazette, is published every Saturday, by E. A. JENKS, at the Printing Office, No. 7, Fife-Street, PORTLAND; where subscriptions, advertisements, communications, &c. are received with attention. The price, to country subscribers, who receive their papers at the office, or in packages by the mail, is ONE DOLLAR & FIFTY CENTS a year. Subscribers who live in town, and those whose papers are sealed and forwarded separately, will be charged two DOLLARS a year. Advertisers will derive peculiar advantages, as their favors will be published (without extra price) both in this paper, and in Wadsworth's Commercial Gazette.
Bowdoin College.
THE TRUSTEES of Bowdoin College are hereby notified, that their next stated meeting will be held at Brunswick, in Massachusetts Hall, on Wednesday the sixteenth day of May next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon. CHARLES COFFIN, Secretary. Brunswick, April 23, 1804.
Bowdoin College.
THE Overseers of BOWDOIN COLLEGE, are hereby notified that their semi annual meeting is to be held at Massachusetts Hall in Brunswick, on Wednesday the 30th day of May next at 10 o'clock, A. M. MARK LANODON HILL, Secretary. Cambridge, April 30th 1804
NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors of William Hale of Belfast, and Mrs. Merrill of North Berwick, in the District of Maine, merchants, and copartners in trade, against whom a commission of bankruptcy has been duly awarded and issued, that the commissioners named and authorised in and by said commission, and the assignees of the estate and effects of said Hale and Merrill , intend to meet at the commissioners' office, No. 8 Mussey's row, Portland, on the 12th day of June next, at 10 o'clock, in the forenoon, in order to make a dividend of the estate and effects of said bankrupts; when and where those creditors who have not already proved their debts, are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the benefits of said dividend. STEPHEN LONGFELLOW, Juv. Assignee. Portland, April 27, 1804.
THE subscribers hereby give public notice to all concerned, that they have been duly appointed Administrators on the Estate of ISAAC DEERING, late of Scarborough, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, and has undertaken that trust by giving bond as the law directs:—All persons, therefore, having demands against the estate of said deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement; and all indebted to make immediate payment to Jeremiah Deering, John Deering.
THE subscribers hereby give public notice to all concerned, that they have been duly appointed and have taken upon themselves the trust of Administrators, on the Estate of JOSEPH MITCHELL, late of Freeport, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs:—They therefore request all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to Samuel Mitchell, Juv.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed and has taken upon him the trust of an Administrator on the estate of LENDAL SMITH, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, Mariner, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs:—He therefore requests all persons indebted to said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to SAMUEL HOMER.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed, and has taken upon her the trust of an Administratrix on the Estate of JAMES BANGS, late of Gorham, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs:—She therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to Elizabeth Bangs, Administratrix. Dated March 14, 1804. [April 4]
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that she has been duly appointed, and has taken upon herself the trust of an Administratrix on the Estate of BARTON ROSS, late of Brunswick, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs:—She therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same to RACHEL ROSS. Dated March 14, 1804.
WE the subscribers, Commissioners appointed by the Hon. William Gorham, Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the Estate of Robert McDonald, late of Portland, in the county aforesaid, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent—do hereby give notice, that two months further time are allowed to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend that service at the dwelling house of Yates Chadwick , innholder in Portland, on the first Monday of May and June next, from 3 to 5 o'clock P. M. Richard Hunewell, } Commissioners. Arthur McLellan, }
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers have been appointed by the Hon. John Nelson Esq. Judge of Probate within and for the county of Hancock, Guardians of LAUCHLAN M'DONALD, of Berwick, in said county, yeoman; and that they have taken upon themselves that trust by giving bond as the law requires:—All persons therefore who have any demands against the said Lauchlan M'Donald , or who are indebted, are requested to call on them for settlement; and all persons are hereby cautioned against trading with said Lauchlan M'Donald , or paying him any debt due, as a contract or receipt of his will be valid. JONATHAN BUCK, } Guardians to JAMES GANN, } Lauchlan JOTHAM MOULTON, } M'Donald. Berwick April 4, 1804.
Office of the Maine Fire & Marine Insurance Company, May 5, 1804. THE STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified to meet at their Office in Fife-Street, on Monday the twenty eighth day of May current, at seven o'clock, A. M. for the purpose of electing a Director to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Thatcher Goddard, Esq. By order of the President and Directors. John P. Thornton, Secretary.
Assessors' Notice. THE inhabitants of the town of Portland, are hereby notified to bring into the Office of Assessors of said town, at their room over the Office of Samuel Freeman, Esq. Middlesex, on or before the twentieth day of May instant, true and perfect lists of their Polls and of their Estate both real and personal (not exempted from taxation) which they were possessed of on the first day of May instant. Peter Warren, } Assessors. James Neal, } Daniel Cobb, }
Wheaton's Jaundice Bitters. THE successful effect , of which have been fully experienced, in correcting and carrying off jaundice, and bilious matter from the stomach; and at the same time strengthening the stomach, increasing the appetite, and removing the linking, faint, distended feeling, and that damp dull heaviness; restoring also, strength to the weak and trembling limbs; removing the yellowish of countenance common to jaundice and weakly people; and also the haziness of head, and weakness of sight. They are very useful for sea sickness to take effect when at sea, particularly in warm climates, as a preservative against disorders to which to such climates (which are generally pestilential and bilious) by removing obstructions, carrying off bile and giving a free circulation to the blood.—Price 3/ per bottle.
ALSO, WHEATON'S ITCH OINTMENT. A safe and efficacious remedy for the ITCH—Price 2/ per box. The above, direct from the Patentees, are for sale by JONH COE, (found by no other person in Portland) at No. 4, Fife Street. Who keeps constantly for sale, DRUGS and MEDICINES of a genuine quality on reasonable terms, for Cash or Credit. Portland, May 3, 1804.
Lee's Genuine Windham Bileous Pills. PREPARED by SAMUEL LEE, Juv. of Windham, in the State of Connecticut; for which discovery he obtained a patent signed by the President of the United States, April 30, 1796, agreeable to an act of Congress. The numerous pulling impositions upon the public, any statement of remarkable cures never made, yet certified by seized names, or by persons unacquainted with the nature of disease, and the effect of particular medicine, render it difficult to do justice to the public, in offering sufficient motives to make trial of the virtues of this invaluable medicine. The Patentees here leave to refer to the numerous purchasers in Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Albany, and most of the towns of any note in the United States, as well as in the State of Connecticut at large, to support of the great efficacy of these Pills as a mild, safe, and powerful remedy in Biliousness, Biliousness, Scurvy, Bile Stones, Worms, Headache, Female Complaints, Scurvy, Trousers on the Skin, &c.—Dose, from one to three or four, to be taken at night, when going to bed. When the yellow fever prevailed in the principal cities of the United States, the demand for these pills was so great, and their benefits so amply ascertained, that it was with difficulty the vendors could obtain the necessary supply. In all obstructions, they operate as a mild and speedy purge, and will be found very convenient for families, as they may be safely given to children, and will speedily relieve them from obstructions in the first passages, which are generally the cause of disturbed sleep, with pains and a feverish habit; scurvy & travellers, will find them deterring a place among their stores, as they may take them without any interruption to business, or danger of taking cold, as is common to other purgatives, for the patentee pledges himself to the public that mercury makes no part of the composition of his pills. N. B. The above pills have lately been found very efficacious in the Fever and Ague.
CAUTION. A certain Samuel H. P. Lee, a young man, residing in New London, has formed a pill of a different composition, calling them "Lee's New London Bileous Pills," which from the similarity of names, may be passed off upon the public as the pills of the present patentee. It is therefore necessary to inform the public, that Samuel H. P. Lee, of New London, is no relation or connection of mine (as has been represented) and if they incautiously purchase his pills for mine, I am not accountable for their effects. To guard as much as possible from this mistake in future, I shall distinguish my pills as "LEE'S WINDHAM BILEOUS PILLS." Each paper containing my directions will in future be signed with my own hand writing, and stamped as in the margin. Each Box contains thirty pills.
The above Pills are for Sale at the Bookstore of THOMAS CLARK, Fife Street. Portland, March 21.
WANTED, A WOMAN to do House-work in a small family—To one who can be well recommended, generous wages will be given. Apply to the Printer. May 5.
Wanted, IN a private family, two steady capable Women, one to take the care of children, the other to cook, &c. those of middle age would be preferred.—Enquire of the printer. Portland, May 2.
A Young Gentleman, WHO writes a good hand, and is well skilled in Arithmetic, is wanted as an Assistant in the PORTLAND ACADEMY, at a salary of 450 Dollars a year.—Apply to SAMUEL FREEMAN, Secretary. April 28.
TO LET one half of a Dwelling House, pleasantly situated—very convenient for a small family. For further particulars, inquire of the Printer. Portland, April 25.
DIED on board ship President, at St. Lucia, BENJAMIN TAYLOR, of Kennebec. His friends may have his effects by applying to J. RICHARDSON, Richardson's Whar.
THE person who borrowed a volume of Mrs. Warren's Poems about six months ago, is requested to return it to the owner. W. GRAHAM. May 18, 1804.
SONG,
BY ROBERT BURNS. [The following is one of those simple ballads of the ploughman of Ayrshire, which have been set to such exquisite music by the genius of Pleyel. The reader, who recollects the attachment of a Scotchman, and the misfortune of some of the hereditary princes of Europe, will easily identify him, whom the poet makes the Pretender say had a right to the hills and valleys of Scotland.] (Port Folio)
Irish air, "Captain O'Kein" THE small bird rejoices on the green leaves returning, The murmuring streamlet winds clear thro' the vale; The primroses blow in the dew of the morning, And wild scattered cowslips bedeck the green dale.
But what can give pleasure or what can seem fair When the lingering moments are number'd with care? Nor bird's sweetly singing, nor flowers gaily springing, Can soothe the sad bosom of joyless despair.
ARTICLES OMITTED LAST WEEK.
It is roundly asserted in the French papers, as usual, that the English are at the bottom of the conspiracy against the life of the First Consul. Let us examine this subject. Every account from England represent the people of Great Britain as anxious that Bonaparte should prosecute his plan of invasion. We believe the greatest politicians among us, are of opinion, that an attempt to subjugate that country would be a decisive stroke upon the power and greatness of France. With a nation completely armed, completely united, fired with the spirit of patriotism, and enjoying the prospect of a glorious victory, would the British government desire, by the destruction of the main spring of French madness, to prevent an opportunity of effectually reducing the power of her proud rival? It is true, England would make serious sacrifices; but into whatever hands the government of France may fall, her power must be alarming to Great Britain. A reencounter with two hundred thousand men at sea, must be more desirable to her, than to see a Louis.
During the late session of Congress the following resolutions were offered for adoption in the Senate by Mr. Adams, a senator from this State, and son of president Adams:
"Resolved that the people of the United States have never in any manner delegated to this Senate the power of giving their legislative concurrence to any act for imposing taxes upon the inhabitants of Louisiana without their consent.—2d. Thus by continuing in any act of legislation for imposing taxes upon the inhabitants of Louisiana without their consent, this Senate would assume a power unwarranted by the constitution and dangerous to the liberties of the United States."
These resolutions were supported by all the Federal Senators; but opposed by the Democrats, who boast of their peculiar attachment to the cause of liberty and the rights of man; and finally negatived, as there is a majority of Democrats in Congress. Think of this, ye who really love liberty—who are attached to the interests of genuine freedom and republicanism! Think of this and say who deserve your confidence and esteem? Surely not those, who, with all their pretences of republicanism, are in favor of making laws and taxing a part of the country without the consent of the people. This it was Great Britain did in '75 with regard to our country; but the real patriots (who are now the federalists ) boldly opposed the arbitrary measure.—East. Repository.
Lotteries having become so general, the following account of them may not be uninteresting. Father Menestrier published in 1700 an archaeological treatise on lotteries; the first of which he finds noticed were those of the Roman Saturnalia. The master of the house distributed, by a sort of chance tickets among his guests, each of which entitled the bearer to some toy, or sweet-meat, or ornament. This lottery was called pictacia , the prize upphorata : names which indicate that the custom came from Greece. Nero, during the games he celebrated for the eternity of the empire, gave away lottery tickets, some of which produced at the drawing almost a fortune to the possessors. Heliogabalus divided his lotteries half into blanks and half into prizes; but even his blanks contained an order to the bearer for some trifle or other. One adventurer gained a goth of crockery, another a myrrhine vase; one six fies, and another six flaves. Gregorio Leti attributes to the republic of Genoa, the first use of lotteries as a resource of finance. The Genuese lottery consists of fifty numbers, of which only five are drawn. Every adventurer puts in any figure at his pleasure, on, one, two, three, four,
or five numbers. If he puts in on one success-ful number, he gains twice his stake; if on two successful numbers, four times his stake; if on three eight times his stake; if on four sixteen; if five thirty two times his stake. This sort of lottery is very tempting to all classes of the people, especially to the poorer, and is in general use all over the continent.
Professor Seffe, the celebrated Botanist, who had been absent 3 years, at the head of a party of naturalists, has returned to Spain. He had been over all the Spanish possessions of North America and the islands on the coast. It is said he has enriched botany with 2500 species of unknown plants, and has also discovered 80 fishes not yet described.
A Newyork paper mentions that Mr. James Munroe, our minister at the court of London, is about returning on account of an insufficiency of salary—the same salary that was quite sufficient for his predecessor Mr. King—and that he is to be translated to the governorship of New Orleans, which offers more inviting prospects.
Mr. Burr has lost his election in the state of Newyork, and Judge Lewis, his competitor, is elected governor. Had the federalists generally joined the friends of Burr, it is supposed he would have been chosen; but as the choice of either candidate must be a triumph over federalism, many could not feel justified in taking part with either.
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 26.
The government of the island of Hayti, (St. Domingo) has directed the publication of the following arrests in the papers of the United States:—
Extract from the secret deliberations of the government of the island of Hayti.
LIBERTY! INDEPENDENCE! OR DEATH! The governor-general, considering that there still remains in the island of Hayti, individuals who have contributed either by their guilty writings or by their language, to the drowning, suffocating, assassinating, hanging and shooting of more than sixty thousand of our brethren. Considering that every man who has dishonored human nature by prostituting himself with enthusiasm to the vile offices of informers and of executioners, ought to be classed with assassins, and delivered up without remorse to the sword of justice; decrees as follows:
Art. 1. Every commandant of a division shall cause to be arrested within their respective commands those persons who are or shall be known to have taken an active part in the different massacres and assassinations ordered by Le Clerc and Rochambeau. Art. 2. Before proceeding to the arrest of any individual (as it often happens that many are innocent who nevertheless may be strongly suspected) we order each commandant to make all necessary inquiries for procuring proof; and above all not to confound with true and faithful reports those denunciations too frequently suggested by hatred or envy.
Art. 3. The names and surnames of persons executed shall be inscribed in a list and sent to the general in chief, who will make them public. This measure is entered into in order to inform the nations of the world, that although we grant an asylum and protection to those who act candidly and friendly towards us, nothing shall ever turn our vengeance from those murderers, who have bathed themselves with pleasure in the blood of the innocent children of Hayti.
Art. 4. Every chief who, in contempt of the orders and unalterable will of the government, shall sacrifice to his ambition, to his hatred, or any other passion, any individual whose guilt shall not have been previously well ascertained, and proved, shall undergo the same punishment which he shall have thus inflicted; and the property of every such unjust officer shall be confiscated, one half to the government & the other half to the relations of the innocent victim, if any there may be in the island, at the time of his death.
Done at Head Quarters, Gonaives, February 29. (Signed) True Copy—B. AIME, Secretary. DESSALINES.

THE Letter of Judge Chase to the Editors of the Baltimore Federal Gazette, his Memorial to the House of Representatives, and the Articles of Impeachment against him, throw a new, and a Bill throwing light on the iniquitous business of Impeachment, which is now growing up like an Inquisition over the United States, and taken together with the business of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, forms a mass of impudence, public and private, political and moral, disgraceful to this country, disgraceful to human nature, disgraceful to those who perpetrate and to those who endure it.
We venture to affirm that from the first effort of the human mind to spring from barbarism and emerge from savage life; from the first rude attempt of associated thinking beings to compound a system of jurisprudence, and mould and shape laws and legislation into a science from its elements, there has been, as they lay in natural justice and human faculties and necessities, up to the day on which we write, nothing is to be found in the annals of any nation, European, Asiatic, or African, Christian or Pagan, so surpassing for cold blooded deliberate malice and iniquity, the persecution of law, right, and justice, by the persons of the judges, now taking place in America. The number of Impeachments which have all at the same time been instituted, prove that it is done by a concerted system—the fulfilment of the charges shows that persecution and political intolerance, and not justice, is the object of them. The persons accused being all Federalists, shows that it is the diabolical engine of a wicked faction. The violation of every rule of law, reason, and justice in the mode of proceeding, shows that there is a determination to accomplish the ruin of the men, not to bring about the purposes of justice. The falseness of the transactions on which the impeachments are founded, shows that those inquisitors, those sacrificers to the Moloch of faction, could not find a single stick with which to offer up their victims without travelling back into regions which ought to be closed up and forgotten. And, above all the irrelevant matter basely introduced into the prosecution, contrary to all rules of law and justice, raked from the pollution and abject feculence of the vilest breach of social confidence, and wrong by forced inference from heedless and unguarded conversations at the festive board, shows that the utter ruin of fame as well as the removal from place of their objects of their hatred, is intended by those persecutors. Well may the Spaniard, well may the Portuguese, look down with contempt and derision upon any American who shall hereafter have the audacity to talk of their inquisitions, while his own country is filled with the plausible appellation of impeachments. Here is the place where every true, every honest—every true and honest did we say?—every American not destitute of brain and conscience will make a stand. Here we will plant our standard—When not only the forties is openly attacked, but the citadel undermined, the fatal combustibles placed under it, and the train actually laid, then is the time to fall back and destroy the assassins. The heart of the State (justice and its laws are the heart of every state) is tainted, and will soon be rotted to the core. Then we may all call ourselves what we will—free men, great men, good men, and so forth, and we may talk of liberty, as the Spaniard of 1808 talks of the infantry of Spain, now inglorious and feeble, because in 1808 it was the best in Europe. But we shall in reality be no better than a set of slaves and parasites, who to a false, bloated enthusiasm, to an idolatrous madness, to a slavish submission to one man, to a phantom, to a name, to a sound—and that no goodly one, in the phrensy of political fanaticism have sacrificed all for which our brave fathers have fought—nay more, our fathers fought only for independence: that will be gone. But for their virtue, their justice, their moral sentiment, they did not, they had not occasion to fight, for those were not attacked. But those will inevitably sink in one common ruin, with our liberty and independence, if this abominable system of injustice, persecution, and worse than inquisitorial cruelty is permitted to stalk through the country, unresisted, unchecked, or unpunished. So long as the heart beats, or a drop of blood flows warm in our veins; so long as men have eyes to see or ears to hear; or the general conscience shall not be locked up in adamant against truth, honesty or compunction, so long will we ring a peal in the ears of the union, till we see this profligate system abandoned, or else striding triumphantly over the land, and trampling upon us and all our fellow citizens in common with the present object of its persecuting fury.
EXTRACT.
The want of employment is one of the frequent causes of vice; but he who loves a book will never want employment. The pursuits of learning are boundless, and they present to the mind a delightful variety which cannot be exhausted. No life is long enough to see all the beautiful pictures which the arts and sciences, or which history, poetry, and eloquence are able to display. The man of letters possesses the power of calling up a succession of scenes to his view infinitely numerous and diversified. He is therefore secured from that unhappy fate which urges many to vice and dissipation, merely to fill a painful vacancy. Even
tho' his pursuits should be trifling, and his discoveries unimportant, yet they are harmless to others, and useful to himself, as preservatives of his innocence. Let him not be ridiculed, or condemned, even though he should spend his time in collecting and describing moths, moles, shells, birds, weeds or coins; for he who loves these things seldom sets his affections on pelf, or any of those objects which corrupt and divide human society. He who finds pleasure in a museum or a library, will not often be seen in the tavern, in the brothel, or at the gaming table. He is pleased if he possesses a non descript fossil, and envies not the wretched enjoyments of the intemperate, nor the ill gotten wealth of the oppressor or extortioner.
Latest Foreign News.
LETTER FROM MOREAU TO BONAPARTE.
Les Nouvelles a la Main, Ventes An. XII No. 100 Paris March 9, 1804.
The letter which we now publish, has been circulated all over Paris for this week, and many thousand copies have been sent into the departments; we reprint it, however, that foreigners may read what it contains, so much interest in France. It is addressed to Monsieur Bonaparte, the First Consul, by Citizen Moreau, the Victor of Hohenlinden, now a close prisoner in the Temple.
TO MONSIEUR BONAPARTE, THE FIRST CONSUL. "From the Dungeon of the Temple, Ventes 10th, Year XII. March 1, 1804."
"SINCE your ambition requires more victims, strike, but do not calumniate those you butcher. Wade in the blood of innocents, but spare honour in taking a way life."
"If you expect from me the supplicant's petition, read no farther. In this dungeon, where tyranny has plunged me, I am more elevated than you upon your usurped throne. So say all men of my contemporaries, and future ages will confirm their sentence. No, Sir, on the borders of eternity I call you to an account for your treason against my country and against myself. Do you remember our mutual agreement on the 8th November, 1799? Talleyrand, Sieyes, & LeFevre were present—I promised to die by your side in the attempt of removing the Directorial tyrants. You swore to establish a Government, depending upon the life of one individual, not tyrannical, but firm, stable and liberal; bestowing freedom on Frenchmen, and worthy to obtain, by gratitude from foreign nations, that confidence and esteem, which your predecessors and yourself have been commanded by the dread of your bayonets. When I shortly afterwards went to head armies—disorganised and defeated—your last words were:—I know your love of your country; be victorious, and France shall force admiration, even from her rivals and foes, by the liberty she enjoys at home, and by the generosity of her external negotiations!" How have you fulfilled these great promises? how have you respected these oaths? In my degraded country, I see nothing but cringing slaves and proud tyrants; base placemen, and are alike feared and detested. In Europe, from Sylla, the triumvir; to Napoleon, for a month only, Sylla, the private citizen, and you shall be convinced, that the compliments of selfish and inflamed princes, prove no more the standard of merit in a governor, than the flattery of vile courtiers, or the praise of corrupted counsellors.
"But as it will probably be the last time that you will hear from me, consider what I now tell you not as the envious declamation of an imprisoned rival general, but as the sincere effusion of the mind of a dying patriot, who forgives his death and your ingratitude. You pretend that my countrymen are happy, and satisfied with your government. Let it be so, though slaves can have no opinion, or at least dare not express one. But you are mortal as well as myself. If you love Frenchmen, let not their happiness depend upon your life. You have too much sense not to know that, with you, the Consulate for life will expire in the Bonaparte family; and other pretenders of other upstart families combat for, annihilate, or occupy a consular throne, of only some few years standing. As to your right of appointing a successor in your will, remember that Louis XIV. the royal descendant of fifty kings, was, after a reign of upwards of three-score years, not five minutes secure before his will was overruled; a will approved by the Princes of the Blood, registered in his Parliament, and applauded by all his courtiers; and that the Duke of Maine was shut up as a prisoner when he expected to rule as a Regent.
"To prevent our children and grand children from suffering the wretchedness of their forefathers, by turns tormented by anarchy, or crushed by tyranny; and from witnessing those scenes of horror, terror, and scandal, we have seen; recall the legal heir to the throne of France, and limit severally his authority: make him a King but not a Despot. Such was the plan of Pichegru, of myself and of Georges; and with this plan your preservation was necessarily connected, because we wanted your fortune, your talents and your rank, as well as our own services, to watch the reign of a foreigner, who though miscreants may have made him prudent, sufferings, liberal, and gratitude just; may, by relatives less patriotic than himself, be tempted to extend his power.
"I defy your Grand Judge and his horde of spies to prove any thing contrary to this assertion. My wife, my mother in law, and my brother, know nothing of this loyal undertaking. I should regard the day of my death with greater satisfaction than those of my triumphs, could I but hope that it served to make my country flourishing, my fellow citizens free and prosperous, and worthy of liberty and prosperity. "MOREAU."
Particulars relative to the Arrest of Gen. Pichegru.
PARIS, MARCH 20.—The broker Le Blanc, was the person who betrayed Pichegru, who occupied in his house a small room in the fifth floor, for which he paid
150,000 livers in the month. Le Blanc went to General Murat the Governor of Paris, and offered to inform him of Pichegru's place of concealment and to deliver him up for 100,000 livers (4000. sterling.) This sum was promised him. The manner of arresting him was then settled. Le Blanc introduced the gens d'armes into his house at night, when Pichegru was asleep, and gave a key to his room.—As they were informed that Pichegru had with him two pistols and a dagger, they opened the door with as little noise as possible, and rushed on his bed. Though surprised and alarmed, Pichegru conducted himself with the greatest vigour, and in a manner that even his enemies were forced to esteem his courage and pity his misfortunes. He jumped out of his bed, naked and without arms, knocked down four gens d'armes, and they were unable to hold him, although six in number. He almost choked two, in pushing them against the chimney; a third he struck so strongly upon the breast, that he yet spits blood; and the fourth he pinched in the arm with such strength, the gens d'armes, cried out, "If you do not let me loose, I will shoot you through the head." With the last part of the speech, he got loose, and Pichegru exclaimed, "Fire, rascal, and you shall receive a sword of honour." At last he was obliged from fatigue, to capitulate—and surrender himself, upon condition of not being tied or chained. He was, however, wounded in the head, and on the shoulders, and had lost a great deal of blood. In dressing himself he declared, that if he had not been deprived of his arms, he should not have fallen into their hands. He was afterwards carried before the Counsellor of State and Police Director Real, and underwent a long examination. Bonaparte had ordered the gens d'armes to take him alive, and they were six picked men. Upon Real asking who he was? Pichegru answered, I am known enough. "Where do you come from?" "From England." "In what manner?" "In a ship, not a balloon." "Where did you land?" "At Dieppe." "Who brought you here?" "Nobody; I came here by myself." "Were you not accompanied by your accomplices?" "I am no criminal, and therefore have no accomplices." "Do you know Moreau?" "Yes." "Have you seen him?" "As soon as he has been brought to us, I could have you seen Georges?" "Yes, the Royalist; but not the supposed assassin Georges." "But Georges has more than once plotted the death of the Consul?" "So says Bonaparte; Georges says the contrary. I believe the latter more humane and honest than the former, and his words are therefore more to be depended upon." "With what view did you come to Paris?" "To call Moreau to account for his conduct in 1797." After these and some other questions, he was sent to the Temple, where Moreau is shut up in one of the dungeons."
BY THE MAIL.
CHARLESTON, APRIL 20.
A Naval Officer (Lieutenant Gadsden, a native of this State) arrived here on Tuesday evening from Washington, with orders to open a Rendezvous for the purpose of raising seamen to man a Squadron, which it is the intention of government to send up the Mediterranean to punish the piratical barbarians of Tripoli for the insult offered to our flag, and to avenge the sufferings of our injured and afflicted fellow citizens.
Arrived at Charleston on the 11th inst. ship Ann Walker, 84 days from Africa, with 257 New Negroes; to William M. Leod.
New York, April 26.
Extract of a letter from WILLIAM LEE, esq. U. States' Consul at Bordeaux, Feb. 16, 1804.
"It is impossible to give you an idea of the distresses of the merchants of this city. Credit is totally destroyed, and misery is depicted in the countenance of every commercial man. What will be the end of this, God only knows. I would advise all those who adventure this way to land in diligent supercargoes, whose integrity can be depended upon—and if merchants of the United States were wise they would accept of no advance by means of facilities on London or Amsterdam. Remittances to these places cannot be made from this at the present crisis without great risk and uncertainty. I am settling all my affairs, and with drawing my name from commerce entirely, in order to live peaceably and happily, and to enable me to give a more effectual protection to those of my fellow citizens who may need my assistance in my official capacity. A consul ought not to have his name in commerce. Since the failure of Perrot and Binaud I have been solicited to join some of the first houses here. But I find there is no pleasure or safety in commerce in this country. I have therefore resisted their opportunities. The proceedings of the Merchants in Boston on the return from London, of their fellow-citizen,
Mr. Gore, given in our paper of Tuesday last, was considered to be highly creditable to the individuals in whom they originated. Since the era of our Revolution there has not occurred an instance, where any of our Countrymen have had a more powerful claim on some expression of public acknowledgment, than now offers for the eminent services of the three Commercial Commissioners, Messrs. Gore, Pinckney and Trumbull. These gentlemen, far removed from their friends and native country, have been engaged, during a period of eight years, in a most laborious, vexatious, and, we will add, unrequited employ. To their unwearied and patient pursuit of their object, amidst a constant succession of obstacles, the American merchants are indebted for a restitution, by the British Government, of nearly one million and a half sterling; and many individuals there are who can testify that their claims for British spoliation have been admitted and paid, even far beyond their expectations. The British Commissioners, who came to this country, it will be recollected very soon became tired of their Commission, and returned to England in disgust, without having accomplished any part of their object.
Gazette.
PORTLAND, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1804.
Owing to the summer establishment of the mails, we have altered our day of publication to Monday, instead of Saturday.—Our other Gazette will be published on Thursday.
Co-Readers and Correspondents.—Many original articles are deferred till our next. "A Real Mechanic" is reluctantly omitted this day.
From Liverpool.—By the ship Nabby, Capt. Crandall, arrived on Saturday, in 34 days from Liverpool, we have received papers to the 31st March. A few of their contents will be found under our foreign head. They are almost silent on the subject of invasion—Indeed it appears that Bonaparte has his hands full at home.
Rumor of News.—An arrival at Halifax, in 19 days from Guernsey, reports that Bonaparte is deposed, and Louis XVIII returned to France. We shall soon learn whether this report is true or false.
REPRESENTATIVES CHOSEN.
Portland, Messrs. Joseph Ticomb, Wm. Symmes, Daniel Tucker, and Matthew Cobb. Falmouth, Archibald Lewis, esq. North Berwick, Ammi R. Mitchell, esq. Scarborough, Col. Larabee. New Glasgow, Joseph E. Foxcroft, esq. The Federal list has prevailed in Boston and New Bedford.
The town of Portland has this year very properly chosen four Representatives to the General Court. The Jacobins, in their usual cant, ask why so many are chosen? We answer, in self defence—and to oppose that overbearing spirit of Jacobinism which is usually active, and which has led almost every town or village under democratic influence, to send as many as the law allows them. Even the little village of Pepperellborough has chosen two, besides having a Senator from the Fall question the measure?
The Jacobins in this quarter complain loudly of "electioneering tricks"—but they, modest souls can see nothing amiss in one of their own party, even if he puts ten votes in the poll instead of one. For further particulars inquire of those who were present at the choice of a Representative in Falmouth.
Jacobin abuse.—During a short absence from town, our secret caucus gentry the Jacobins, have taken great pains to injure us in the opinion of the public, and have been guilty of the most wanton and barefaced FALSEHOOD to effect their malicious and unmanly purpose. It has been insinuated that we attempted to deceive the good citizens of this town, by circulating a handbill. We repel the charge, and challenge proof. The information on which the handbill was grounded, was untrue, we can prove that it came from one of the democrats. There is then reason to believe the federalists might be misinformed; and we will acknowledge it an extreme oversight in them to have depended on such information. But in justice to ourselves we declare that the handbill was not printed in the Gazette Office; not that we see any other impropriety in the measure, than that of grounding it on the word of a jacobin!
Great pains have been taken to draw us into a personal controversy with the democratic hirelings in this quarter; and they have been driven to the miserable necessity of resorting to weapons of a sort, that were blunted in an ineffectual opposition to us years since. Yet nothing is too mean for the tools of a faction, from which we can expect nothing true, candid, or manly. But their efforts will prove fruitless.
"Bark at the moon, ye deadly dogs of night, She neither heeds your noise, nor shines less bright."
FOR THE PORTLAND GAZETTE.
MR JENKS, We have such constant experience of jacobin effrontery; that the public are not surprised at misrepresentation, however gross; falsehoods, however base. The ridiculous lies circulated previous to the election of Governor, concerning the venerable Strong, excited less astonishment than derision, because they had some public object in view. 'Tis true, the vile calumniators knew detection to be certain; but for this they cared not. If the country people, who live at a distance from inter-

tion, should remain undecayed after the election, their object was gained, and a false democratic calumniator would have felt contrition for his baseness, or blushed at the exposure of his falsehoods. It is well known that they stick at no wickedness to effect their purpose; and their creed is, "that the end will sanctify the means." But when, after the election is over, we hear misrepresentations, which can serve no other purpose, but to add contempt to merited derision, we may indeed be surprised.
The demos in this town, are very clamorous about the handbill circulated to all its inhabitants and made as public as possible, on Monday last, previous to the election. It is confidently asserted, that no secret caucus was held by the Demo's—that it is a fallacy—a federal trick, &c. &c.
That our demo's hold their caucuses in secret, and carry on their machinations slyly in a corner, we know from past experience; of course proof must be difficult. If the demos, in imitation of the Federalists, gave notice to every family in town, and admitted every individual without exception to join in these public deliberations, the fact would need no proof. But, on the contrary, our democratic patriots conduct their plans slyly, and in a corner; appoint door keepers to exclude the friends of order; and as under cover of the profoundest secrecy. It is therefore difficult to prove that such a caucus was held; but if the assertion of one of the party, who has been very active to promote the object of their former caucus, can be admitted for proof, this declaration, which I believe is now generally known, will bare them in the face. This man asserted that the caucus was held on the evening of Saturday, and related some circumstances respecting it.
That there was a caucus is either true or not true. If it is not true, then our very confident demos, with a good round lie in their mouths, accuse the federalists of misrepresentation, because they circulated a story after a democratic. No man is more ready than myself to confess, that the federalists should have acted with more caution; they should be very careful to know the source of their information; they should recollect that democracy and lying are nearly synonymous.
"Once found a liar always suspected," says a demo, but it comes from him with rather an ill grace. If it is not true, that such a caucus was held; the falsehood coming from the jacobins themselves, why adopt the false trick of lying thicker and faster, in order to lay the blame on the friends of truth? Like the pick-pocket, pressed by his pursuers, and bellowing with all his strength stop thief.
But, when we recollect the secret caucus held previous to the election of Governor and Senators, it seems much more probable that the democratic republicans spoke the truth; and, in an unguarded moment, let the cat out of the bag. Surely we had good reason to believe, that the same sly, secret, underhand proceedings were planned last Saturday night, and the same means employed, which had been attempted at the former election, but happily prevented by the very honorable exertions of the friends of order, were again attempted, for some secret purpose, which the father of lies prompted them to shroud in concealment.
To say nothing of its baseness, the folly of gross misrepresentation, when no object can be gained by it, and when detection must instantly follow the crime, is so glaring as to excite astonishment that democratic cunning should be lulled so fast asleep. But the Devil will sometimes leave his friends in the lurch.
IT is amusing to observe the shifts and tricks of the jacobins in electioneering. If a federalist, who is a candidate for any office, be a lawyer, they attempt to prejudice the people against him. At the same time, they can vote for and recommend a lawyer, be he only a democrat. Last year, we were told Governor Strong was a lawyer; and that was enough to condemn him. This year, a lawyer has been proposed to us for Governor; and it has been pretended that he was the best of men. We hope he is as good as Governor Strong. It is indeed no jest objection to him, that he is a lawyer. For men of this profession are generally as capable and worthy as any class of Citizens. In the County of York too, where so much was said last year against a senatorial candidate, because he was a lawyer, they have now chosen one for their senator. Thus we see the inconsistency of jacobins. What they severely censure in others, they do themselves. And at one time they adopt measures, which at another time they highly condemn. But any thing to serve their purpose. One man is a lawyer, and another is the friend of Governor Strong; and a third is, some other terrible creature; But the true reason is, that they stand in the way of some ambitious man, who is himself desirous of the office they happen to sustain.
[Eastern Repository.] Quarries. At Scarborough, by the Rev. Thomas Lancaster, capt. Samuel Hains, to Mrs. E. Isa Morris. At Poland, by John K. Smith, Esq. Mr. Benjamin Hall Bell, to Miss Hannah Stanton.
Died. At North Yarmouth, capt. Joseph Stockbridge, aged 49—a gentleman of great industry, pleasing manners, amiable disposition, and regular morals—he was an excellent citizen, and much lamented, not only by his friends at the westward, but the inhabitants of the town, in which for several years past, he last resided.
At Boston, after a lingering illness, Hans Gram, Esq. formerly of Copenhagen, (Denmark.) This gentleman was allied to some of the first families in that country;—had sustained several honorary offices under the Danish Monarch; and was qualified, by education and experience, to discharge the most important political functions, with energy and precision;—in social and domestic life, he united depth of thought and observation, with brilliancy of wit, and ardency of affection.
Port of Portland. Friday, May 11.—Arrived Schooner Dolphin, capt. A. Storr, 10 days from Turks Island.—Left there capt. Gould, in a brig from Kennebec, just arrived. Saturday, May 12.—Arrived ship Nabby, capt. Crandal, 30 days from Liverpool.—Left there, ships Alexander, McIntosh, and Fortune, Malcolm, of Portland; Commerce, of Philadelphia; Fair American, Cotton Planter, Josiah Collins, Oliver Ellsworth, and Mercury, of New York; Mississippi, of Savannah.—Sailed in company with the America, of Baltimore; Ontario, of New York; and Sally of Boston, for Charleston.
Umbrella Loft.
LOST , within the last fortnight, a green silk Umbrella. Whoever has found the same, and will leave it with the Printer, shall be generously rewarded. N. B. The owner thinks he left it in some office or store. May 12.
Letter Loft.
ON the 16th February last, I enclosed several Bank Bills in a letter directed to James Bailey, who was then on a visit to North Yarmouth, with a request written on the outside of said letter for the Postmaster to return it to Columbia, if Mr. Bailey had left that place. Mr. Bailey returned without calling for the letter, and wrote immediately to his friend in North Yarmouth to call on the Postmaster for the letter, which he did, and the Postmaster informed him that he had returned the letter agreeably to the directions, but it has not been received in the Post Office in Columbia; and as there has not been any failure of the mail's coming regularly since that time, I am at a loss to determine whether the said letter has been embezzled in the Post Office at North Yarmouth, or whether it has miscarried by a wrong direction—one or the other appears probable to be the case. I received one letter from North Yarmouth, which was directed on the outside wrapper to Chubb's—I knew of no such office eastward of mine, and opened the wrapper, found the letter properly directed to Columbia. It may possibly be the case, that the Postmaster at North Yarmouth has put a wrapper on my letter, and wrote on it Chubb's, Cump. or some such clumsy name; and the Postmaster not having a right to open any packages not directed to their own office, it may now be vibrating through the country—no person knowing the place of its destination.
Any person who will give information of said Letter, shall be handsomely rewarded; or if they will give information of the embezzlement of said letter, shall receive One Hundred Dollars Reward, by JOSEPH PATTEN, Postmaster, Columbia. May 4. 1804
Strayed,
FROM the subscriber on Saturday last, a brindle COW, the outsoles of her horns branded with a hot iron. Whoever will return said Cow, or give information of her, so that she may be had again, shall be handsomely rewarded. JOSEPH OWEN. Portland, May 12.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that the Copartnership under the firm of CORRY & TUCKER, is this day dissolved; and all persons having unsettled accounts with said firm, are requested to exhibit the same for adjustment to the subscriber. JOSIAH TUCKER. Portland, May 12, 1804.
United States District Court of Maine, May the 10th, 1804. NOTICE is hereby given to the Creditors of RICHARD FOSTER of Winthrop, in said District, Trader, against whom a commission of Bankruptcy has duly issued, and proceeded upon, that they may be heard if they think fit, before the Judge of said District Court, on Thursday the 31st day of May instant, at the Court House in Portland, against making and allowing a certificate of discharge to said bankrupt; before which time exceptions to such allowance may be exhibited. DAVID SEWALL, Judge of the District Court of Maine District. May 12.
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all concerned, that he has been duly appointed, and has taken upon himself the trust of an Administrator on the Estate of DANIEL HAMLEN, late of Gorham, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman, deceased, by giving bond as the law directs; he therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased's estate, to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands thereon, so exhibit the same to STEPHEN LARY. Dated May 9th 1804.
By the Overseers of the Poor and Workhouse. THE following is the preamble and 6th and 7th sections of the act entitled An Act for erecting Work Houses for the reception and employment, of the Idle and Indigent.
PREAMBLE.
WHEREAS erecting houses for the employment of idle persons, who neglect and refuse to exercise any lawful calling or business to support themselves and families, and for the poor and indigent that want means to employ themselves, may be useful to the public, and especially to such towns as shall be concerned in such an undertaking:
Sect. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any two or more of the overseers in any town that, either by themselves, or in conjunction, with other towns, shall hereafter erect a work house, be and they hereby are authorised, empowered and directed, to commit to such house, by writing, under the hands of the said overseers, to be employed and governed according to the rules and orders of the house, any person or persons residing in such town, that are in this act declared liable to be sent thither.
Sect. 7. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the persons who shall be liable to be sent unto, employed and governed in any work house erected, or to be erected by one or more towns, in pursuance of this act, are, all poor and indigent persons that are maintained by, or receive alms from the town; also all persons able of body to work, and not having estate or means otherwise to maintain themselves, who refuse or neglect so to do, or live a desolate, vagrant life, and exercise no ordinary calling, or lawful business, sufficient to gain an honest livelihood, and all such as, having some reasonable estate, but not sufficient to qualify them to vote in town affairs, do neglect the due care and improvement thereof, and such as spend their time and property in public houses, to the neglect of their proper business, or by otherwise mispending what they earn, to the impoverishment of themselves and their families, are likely to become chargeable to the town and to the Commonwealth.
THE Overseers now first publish the foregoing passages of the law for the information of all concerned. It will be observed that these regulations could not be enforced until a work house had been erected, although the law was enacted several years ago. But now that the town has a work house conformable to the provision of the Legislature, the Overseers conceive it to be their duty to inform all persons who are the subjects of the foregoing law, that it will be proper for them to take notice of it, and so govern themselves as not to pursue any line of conduct which may expose them to be committed to the said house.
By order of the Overseers. STEPHEN M'LELLAN Chairman. Portland, May 3, 1804.
Portland Academy.
THE Trustees of the Portland Academy, having determined to engage an Assistant to the Preceptor, give notice that a few more students will be admitted, as soon as a suitable person is procured. Those who incline to send their children, will please to apply to the subscriber, who will communicate to them the Regulation of the Academy. The terms, are Twelve Dollars a year, to be paid quarterly. None are to be admitted but such as "shall be ten years of age, have practiced writing joining hand, are able to read English, currently, and are of good moral character."—Admission will be according to the order of subscriptions. Samuel Freeman, Secretary. May 12, 1804.
Dancing School.
MR. SMITH, respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Portland and its vicinity, that he has commenced his Dancing School, for young Masters and Misses, at the Hall near Mr. Chadwick's Tavern; where he will attend on Wednesdays and Saturdays, from three to six o'clock, P. M. He solicits the patronage of those who wish to have their children instructed in that polite and fashionable accomplishment.—For terms apply at Capt. John M'Lean's. May 12.
To the Hon. the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, holden at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland, on the third Tuesday of February, A. D. 1804.
HUMBLY shews William Pote, of Freeport, in said county, yeoman, Administrator on the estate of Greenfield Pote, late of said Freeport, mariner, deceased, that the said Greenfield in his life time made and executed a bond under his hand and seal, dated August 15th, 1793, to Simon Chapman, of Falmouth, in said county, yeoman, whereby he bound himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, in the sum of two hundred and sixty pounds, to make and execute a deed to said Simon, of seventy-five acres of land, in Standish, in said county, part of lot No. eighty-three, of the first division, of hundred acre lots there, when the said Simon should pay said Greenfield the sum of one hundred and thirty-two pounds, three shillings and seven pence, with interest. Said William Pote, in said capacity therefore prays your honors that he may be licensed and empowered to make and execute a deed of said land, according to the tenor of said bond and agreeably to the law in such cases made and provided. WILLIAM POTE, Administrator. By G. E. VAUGHAN, his Attorney.
At a Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cumberland, begun and holden at Portland, in said county, on the third Tuesday of February, A. D. 1804.
ON the petition of William Pote, whereof the foregoing is a copy—the Court order that the petitioner give notice to all parties concerned, or their guardians, to show cause next term why such license should not be granted, by publishing the same in Yeast's Gazette , three weeks successively, the last publication to be at least twenty days before the said term; which is to be holden at Portland, within and for the county aforesaid, on the third Tuesday of June next. Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk.
To the Honorable the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, for the county of Cumberland, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, begun and holden at New Gloucester, in and for said county, on the third Tuesday in October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two.
THE petition of sundry inhabitants of Buckfield, Hartford and Jay, humbly shews—that it is highly expedient, and in our opinion will conduce much to public utility to have a county road or highway laid out from Mr. William Lowell's, in Buckfield, by Mr. Nathaniel Chase's, then on by Mr. David Gannons, in said Buckfield, till it strikes the road near Mr. Edmund Irish, in Hartford; then on by Mr. Malachi Bartlett's, to the east of Whitney Pond, and thence in the best way that it can to Laverimore's ferry, near Roxenaco point, so called in Jay.
That the inhabitants of the towns on the north of Jay will be better accommodated, as the distance will be shortened and can be made much easier to transport heavy articles to the shores for a market. And having viewed the ground in part, and have a favorable report of the whole, we are of opinion that the expence will in no degree equal the advantages that will be found to result from a good passable road in the directions mentioned. Our prayer is that your honors, if in your wisdom you shall see fitting, will order a committee to lay out a highway in the aforementioned direction; and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray. Signed for A true Copy, DANIEL HUTCHINSON, and 17 others. Aug. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk.
At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the county of Cumberland, begun and holden at Portland, in said county, on the third Tuesday of February, A. D. 1804.
ON the petition of Daniel Hutchinson and others, which was presented at October term, A. D. 1802, and continued from term to term to this term, whereof the foregoing is a copy.—The Court order that the petitioners cause an attested copy thereof, and this order to be inserted in one of the Portland newspapers, and published three weeks successively; the last publication to be ten days at least before the third Tuesday of June next; that all persons interested may have notice of said petition, and have opportunity to appear at the Court of General Sessions of the Peace; which is then to be holden at Portland, within and for the said county of Cumberland, and make their objections; if any they have, to the granting of the same. Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk.
To the Honorable the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, holden at Portland, in and for the county of Cumberland, on the third Tuesday of February, Anno Domini, 1804.
THE petition of Nicholas Blaisdell, of Portland, in said county, trader, humbly shews, that your petitioner is interlaced in, and stands seized in fee as tenant in common, with some other person or persons to your petitioner unknown, of five sixth parts of one quarter of an acre of land more or less situated in said Portland, and bounded as follows, viz. easterly by land owned by William M'Lean, & southerly by Middle Street, westerly by land of Thomas Popkins and northerly by Temple Street. And that your petitioner is desirous of holding his said proportion of the above described land in severality. Wherefore your petitioner prays that the same may be divided and set off to him to hold in severality, agreeably to the laws in that case made and provided; and as in duty bound will ever pray. SALMON CHASE. Attorney to the Petitioner.
At a Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cumberland, begun and holden at Portland, in said county, on the third Tuesday of February, A. D. 1804.
ON the petition of Nicholas Blaisdell, whereof the foregoing is a copy—Ordered, that the petitioner cause the several persons interlaced in the estate therein mentioned, and living within the state, or the Attorneys of such as are absent, and have Attorneys residing within the state, to be duly notified of said petition, by serving them personally with a copy thereof, or leaving a copy at their dwelling house or last place of abode, or by inserting the substance of the same three weeks successively, in one or more of the public newspapers, that they may have opportunity to make their exceptions to this Court on the third Tuesday of June next, to their granting the same. Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk.
Book Auction—Portland.
On Monday, 21st inst. at 9 in Morning, At the Auction Office of W. FENNER, Forestreet, Portland.
A Large and valuable assortment of NEW BOOKS, in various and useful branches of Literature—Divinity, History, Dictionaries, Miscellaneous Works, Novels, Mathematics, Geography, &c. &c.
N. B. The friends of Literature in Port and its vicinity, and those who purchase for Libraries, or to sell again, are respectfully invited to attend, as they will find in the above a number of works really valuable, but rarely found at public sale, and in particular on the five and unlimited terms now proposed.—Catalogues at time of sale. May 12.
Fruit Trees.
DAVID GRIFFITH, has just received for sale, at his Store, Middle Street, a large variety of Fruit Trees in excellent order. May 12.
Tickets Rising!
THE Managers of PISCATAQUA BRIDGE LOTTERY, have instructed the vendors of Tickets to raise the price 50 Cents after the 20th of June. Thus, therefore, who wish to obtain them before that time, can be supplied at this Office. The drawing will commence on the 19th July. May 12.
STEPHEN FOSTER,
Head Long Wharf, Fore Street, HAS just received for sale, several Boxes
Fresh LEMONS.
Also—Several hundred prs. Mca's SHOES—wholesale and retail.
Likewise—An assortment of English & West-India Goods, Groceries, &c. &c. as usual. The above articles will be sold very cheap for cash or approved credit. Portland, May 12.
300 bbls. Mels No 1. and No. 2 Beef, 40 do. hams middlings and No. 1. and No. 2. Pork, 20 chests Hysonkin and Southwing Teas, 50 boxes Mould Candles, Bales Georgia Cotton, Brandy per pipe or barrel, Hollands Gin per do. do. Rhds. W. 1 Rum. Malaga Wine per qr. cask, Boxes 7 by Gals, Kegs Fir Tobacco Loaf Sugar, Cobs Baltimore Flour, India Cottons, &c.
For sale at Richardson's wharf, By JOSHUA RICHARDSON.
Lord & Thomas,
Respectfully inform the public that they have received and now ready for sale, at their Store, No. 5, Jones Row, a large assortment of Fashionable Goods, suitable for the season.
Likewise, West-India Goods, Groceries, &c. Also, a few Hds good Trinidad MOLASSES, on the most reasonable terms for cash or approved credit. Portland, May 5.
Rum for Sale,
By DAVID SMITH, No 1, Union Wharf, TWENTY Hds. High proof Jamaica Rum, of an excellent quality—Also, a fresh assortment of Ship-Chandlery and Groceries, as cheap as any in Portland—for cash or credit.
WANTED to Hire, a number of MEN, for making an addition to Union Wharf—or should wish to contract by the job, if more agreeable. Inquire as above. May 9.
English and American Paper-Hangings.
JAMES C. BULLARD,
No. 3, Mussey's Row, OFFERS for sale a large assortment of English and American Paper-Hangings, of the neatest figures, with elegant Borders—as low as can be purchased in Boston—wholesale and retail. Also, just received, by the Gaiety and Minerva, from London, a genuine assortment of Gentlemen's most Fashionable HATS.
Children's Hats and Jockey's, of various colors; and a general assortment of TRIMMINGS. Likewise, an assortment of Ladies' Muffs and Children's Kid and Morocco Shoes, as usual. Portland, May 5.
Samuel Wyman,
MOROCCO SHOE-MAKER, Respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has taken a shop next door to Mr. Foss, B. your's Store Main Street; where he intends carrying on the business of making Morocco, Kid and Calf-skin slippers, which he will warrant to be of the best kind—Every favor which he may receive will be gratefully acknowledged. A small assortment of good SLIPPERS kept constantly for sale. May 5.
Notice.
THOSE persons who are indebted to PHILIP MILLS, by account or note, are desired to call and settle the same; or else will be sued immediately. May 8.
A Young Woman, with a good breast of milk, wishes to take a Child to suckle. Inquire at this office. May 9.
WHEREAS we the subscribers, on the sixteenth day of March, 1804, gave three Notes of Hand to one ISAAC CHICK, otherwise called Bayonet Chick the first note dated Limerick, March 16, 1804, promising for value received to pay said Chick twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents, to be paid in fifty days; second note of the same date, for the sum of twenty-seven dollars payable in four months; third note of the same date, for the sum of fifty-five dollars, payable in ten months; that we have no consideration therefor; this is to caution all persons against purchasing said Notes, as we are determined not to pay them. Moses Philpot, William Hodgdon, Limerick, May 5, 1804.
Fifteen Dollars Reward.
STOLEN from the subscriber on the night of the 9th inst a light bay MARE, seven years old, with a star in her forehead, and a scar on her thigh. Whoever will take up and return said mare and foal shall receive the above reward—or 8 dollar, for the mare. N. B. The person suspected of the theft, is an Irishman, rather short and stout built. Kennebec, April 10, 1804. ABNER FISK.

PRINTING.
The subscribers respectfully inform the public that they carry on the PRINTING BUSINESS in its different branches, at their Office, No. 7, Fifth Street (under the Office of the Portland Gazette) under the firm of JENKS & SHIRLEY.
They hope, by a steady application and attention to the business of their profession, to merit the patronage of a liberal public, and to execute the work committed to them, with accuracy and dispatch.
They keep constantly for sale, a general assortment of BLANKS, printed on good paper and a fair type—Orders for which will be punctually attended to; and any forms not on hand, done at the shortest notice.
WILLIAM JENKS, JUN. ARTHUR SHIRLEY.
Portland, April 20, 1804.
Fresh Flour and Corn.
NOW landing from the Schooner Harmony from Alexandria, at No. 13 Union Wharf, and for sale by JOHN TABER & SON.
200 barrels Superfine FLOUR, 1200 bushels of CORN.
Portland, April 24, 1804.
For Sale,
ABOUT 200 Quintals Best Shipping FISH—enquire of Capt. THOMAS BURNHAM.
Woodbury Storer,
HAS for Sale, 100 Hhds. 4th proof Jamaica RUM, No. 3, Union Wharf. April 20.
George W. Duncan,
No. 1 Central Row, Fore-street,
HAS received by the last arrivals from Liverpool, and has for sale,
100 boxes 7 by 9 Crown Window Glass, 100 do. 8 by 6 do. do.
3000 wt. thin Sheet Lead, 3000 do. dry White do.
1500 do. bar do. 3000 wt. Spruce Yellow;
20 casks Sheathing Nails; 20 do. Drawing do.
20 do. 2ed. Flats & Sharps; 20 do. 1ed. do. do.
8d. 6d. & 4d. do. 4d. 5d. & 6d. Brads;
2d. 3d. & 4d. Clout Nails, Likewise,
Best KIDDEMINSTER CARPETING, Russia BED TICKING, and
ENGLISH GOODS, as usual. April 14.
Stone Lime,
Of the best quality, for sale by JONATHAN BRYANT. Also, 150 feet pick'd Rocks, in good order for underpinning.
HARD-WARE GOODS,
(By the ship Joseph from Liverpool) William Goddard
HAS received and is now opening for sale, by wholesale and retail at his store Middle-Street a very extensive assortment of HARD WARE GOODS.
A large quantity of NAILS of all kinds, 10 by 8 and 9 by 7 crown Window Glass. Patent Shot, &c. &c. Portland, April 11, 1804.
Newhall & Watson,
Have for sale, At Store No. 7. Long Wharf.
Few Pipes high proof BRANDY, Also,
6 Pipes Holland GIN—entitled to drawback. Portland, April 14, 1804.
Blake & Stimpson,
HAVE for Sale, at their store in Middle Street, a general assortment of WEST-INDIA GOODS & GROCERIES, and a collection of GARDEN SEEDS.
Also,
Bbls. superfine, fine, and Middlings Flour, Elliot's Snuff, in kegs and bladders,
A few bushels of Flaxseed. April 20.
Barbour & Barneville,
HAVE just received a general assortment of FRESH SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, which they are selling on the lowest terms. Also, WEST INDIA GOODS, wholesale and retail. Portland, April 18.
Fruit Trees.
4000 FRUIT TREES, of various kinds, inoculated with the choicest kinds of Fruit. 1000 Lombardy Poplars, 300 Button-wood Trees. A S O, Six English SHEEP, warranted full blooded, may be had of the subscriber, in Newburyport. JOSIAH SMITH.
Fresh Garden Seeds.
DAVID GRIFFITH, at his store, Middle-Street, next door to the Portland Bank, has just received a general assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, which will be disposed of on the lowest terms.
Also, Poplar and Balm of Gilead Trees, of an excellent growth; which may be viewed at any time, and set out and warranted, very reasonably.
Well-India Goods & Groceries, of the best quality, as usual—Constant attendance, and every attention paid to purchasers. March 28.
A. AUSTIN & CO.
FORE-STREET, Have for Sale. A Quantity of high fourth proof Jamaica RUM A few pipes of excellent flavored GIN—a new assortment of MATRASSES, of different kinds.
An assortment of MAHOGANY FURNITURE, suitable for a room. April 27.
ENGRAVING IN GENERAL.
THE public are respectfully informed, that the above business will be carried on very extensively by
JAMES AKIN, Newburyport.
who having completed his professional studies in London under an eminent master, and since that time resided and followed his profession in Philadelphia. (From which place the subscriber has invited him) flatters himself to be able to afford much satisfaction to those who may favor him with their commands.
SPECIMENS may be seen in his possession which will testify his abilities and more particularly in BANK WORK, having executed the business for several Banks in the southern States; therefore solicits the attention of the Banks in New England, as their appearance at present to exist a want for the security of their bills.
Newburyport, April 27.
Woodbury Storer,
HAS just received and for sale at No. 3 UNION WHARF. 200 barrels fresh Superfine and Scratch'd FLOUR, 550 bushels yellow CORN, 100 barrels M. & S. and Prime PORK. May 2.
UPHOLSTERY STORE.
Aaron Austin & Co.
HAVE for sale, at their store, Fore-street, head of Ingraham's Wharf, a constant supply of
Live Geese, Sea Fowl, Rabbits, and Lisbon } FEATHERS.
Also—Cotton and English BEDTICKING, of different kinds.
Bedsteads and MATRASSES ready-made
Beds made and filled at the shortest notice.
Spanish and French INDIGO.
The above assortment of Feathers is warranted of the first quality, and will be sold as cheap as can be purchased in Boston. (17) Portland, August 22.
Removal.
ROBERT CROSS, has removed his GLASS and CROCKERY WARE STORE, to next door below the Maine Fire & Marine Insurance Office—and has received by late arrivals from Liverpool, 75 Crates Crockery Ware, assorted. 40 Hhds. do. do. do. 12 Crates Irish Glass Ware, 10 Hhds. do. do. Country Traders may be supplied at short notice, by Crates or Package. Portland, April 18.
THE subscriber takes this method to inform the public that he has disposed of her stock in trade to Mr. William Stevens, and that the business in future will be done by him on his account at the Store formerly occupied by Mr. William Moody in Fish-street. All persons indebted to her are requested to make payment and those who may have demands against her will please to call and receive their due. ELIZABETH STEVENS. Portland, May 1, 1804.
William Stevens
RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he has just received and is now opening for sale (at the Store formerly occupied by Mr. William Moody in Fish-street) a large assortment of FASHIONABLE GOODS, Among which are,
White and colored Cambricks—Calicoes—Chambray Muslins—Book and Jacquet do—Straw, willow and cane bonnets of the newest fashion—Lace Vils—Black and White Laces—Fans—large assortment of Ribbons—large and small Umbrellas—Gown Trimmings—Dimities—Walscoating—Sewing Silks—Black Cravats—Parfiset—Black and other colored Lustrings—Black Persian Silk Hose—cotton do—cotton Gloves and Mitts—Silk gloves Pic nic silk do—marking Canvas—Sarfacts—cotton Thread—Buffs—5-4 and 6-4 Silk Shawls—Camels' hair do—Black Silk Velvet—blue, black and buff Nankeens—cotton Cashmere—Diapers—Linen—India cottons—Oilcloths—Looking glasses—Brushes—brown Hollands—Calamancoes—Rudelis—Shalloons and Durants, &c. &c. —Likewise—
Hysop, Hyssopkin, Souchong and Bohea TEAS, Coffee, Leaf and Brown Sugars, Flour, Spices, Indigo, Copperas, Alum, &c. A complete assortment of Ladies', Misses' and Children's Kid and Morocco SHOES, of a superior quality. May 1.
THOMAS CROSS.
HAS for sale at his store in Fore-street, a general assortment of WEST-INDIA GOODS, HARD and SHIP-CHANDLERY WARE, by wholesale and retail—viz
MOLASSES, Sugars, Hylon Tea, Young hylon do., Hylon Skin do., Shouchong do., Bohea do., Brandy, Gin, Rum, Chocolate, Southern Cotton, 8 by 6 Window Glass, 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, 7 wrought 1ed. & 3ed } Nails, Mil Files, Hand-saw do., Crescent do., Rat-tail do., Augers, H & H L Hinges, Brass locks, Cork Screws, Hammers of all sizes, Knives and Forks, Table & Tea Spoons, Pen-knives, Cutlers, Ink-stands, Razors in Cases, Shoe-knives, Thumb-latches, Marking Irons, Snuffers, Sheep shears.
Also, a number of other articles too numerous to mention, which will be sold as low as can be purchased in town, for cash or approved credit. April 18.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident proprietors and owners of Lands in the town of Rumford, in the county of Cumberland—that the Lots hereinafter mentioned, are taxed in the bills committed to me the subscriber. Collector of said town for the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, to collect in the respective sums following, viz.
   No. Lot. Description of Range. No. Acres. Value. State Tax. Town Tax. School Tax.    17 East side 80 100 4 6 5 3  4 Ellis River. 20 100 4 6 5 3  5 N. Great River. 20 100 4 6 5 3  55 Second Division. 100 100 4 6 5 3  16 South River. 100 100 4 6 5 3  4 E. Ellis River. 100 50 2 3 3 3  5 N. River. 100 50 2 3 3 3  Highway Tax.  19 long to above road 100 50 15  5 do. 100 50 15  39 South. 100 50 15  12 do. 100 50 15  31 do. 100 50 15  4 do. 100 50 15  43 West. 100 50 15  5 North of River. 20 100 30  27 West. 20 100 30  23 do. 20 100 30  9 do. 20 100 30  6 North. 20 100 30  18 East Alice River. 20 100 30  82 Second Division. 100 100 30  85 do. 100 100 30  16 South. 100 100 30  
If no person appears to discharge said taxes and all necessary charges, on or before Thursday, the fourteenth day of June next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, so much of said Lots of Land as shall be sufficient to discharge the same, will then be sold at Public Vendue, at the dwelling-house of Francis Keyes, in said Rumford, to the highest bidder, according to law.
JOHN PUFFER, Collector.
Rumford, April 14, A D 1804.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of Poland, in the county of Cumberland, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts that the following Lots are taxed to the State, County Town and Road, in the bills committed to me the subscriber, to collect, for the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three.
   No. lot. No. acres. Value of lot. State tax. Town tax. Road tax.    Lots in the First Division.  9 100 300 dols. 18 cts. 36 cts. 93 cts.  14 18 54 5 9 24  15 22 66 6 12 32  22 100 67 7 13 38  38 30 39 2 6 12  89 100 200 18 36 92  Lots in the Second Division.  7 90 180 19 33 88  14 100 150 13 27 69  25 100 150 13 26 69  37 50 100 9 18 46  49 100 200 13 26 92  54 100 300 27 54 1 dol. 15  55 100 300 27 54 1 15  76 30 20 8 4 8  91 100 67 5 12 38  
And if no person appears to pay said taxes and all necessary intervening charges, on or before Monday the twenty eighth of May next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon—so much of said Lots of Land as shall be sufficient to discharge the same, will then be sold at Public Auction to the highest bidder according to law at the dwelling-house of Daniel Jackson in said town.
JOSEPH FERNALD, Collector.
Poland, April 12th, 1804.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Copartnership in trade which has subsisted between the subscribers, under the firm of DANIEL PALMER & CO. in this day dissolved by mutual consent all persons indebted to said firm are requested to make immediate payment to Daniel Palmer, and all who have demands against said firm to call on him for settlement.
DANIEL PALMER SAMUEL LUMMUS.
Portland, April 25, 1804.
TAKE NOTICE. THE firm of SWIFT and WATERMAN, by mutual consent in this day dissolved.—All persons indebted to said firm are desired to call for settlement on WILLIAM WATERMAN, Boston April 30th, 1804.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the copartnership under the firm of Clement Phinney & Stephen Butterfield, was dissolved on the 12th of April instant. All persons having any demands against them are requested to present the same; and those indebted, to make immediate payment to CLEMENT PHINNEY, or STEPHEN BUTTERFIELD. Gorham, April 12th, 1804.
Inspection of all kinds of Pickled Fish.
THE subscriber having been duly appointed Deputy Inspector of all kinds of Pickled Fish for the town of Portland, gives this public notice, that he is now ready to attend to the duties of his office. He may be found at his Cooper's Shop on Central Wharf, fourth side of the Long-Wharf.
ANTHONY FURN, L.D.
N. B. All persons are cautioned against the violation of the Law, as no breach of the same will be overlooked. Portland, March 31, 1804.
REMOVAL.
SAMUEL RICHARDS, Cabinet-Maker...Respectfully informs the public, that he has removed from his former stand, adjoining Fish-street, and taken a more convenient one in Court Street—where his Customers and the Public are invited to call. Cabinet Furniture finished in the newest fashion, and warranted. April 2.
BAPTIST'S HYMNS.
THIS day published and now selling at THOMAS CLARK'S Book-Store, nearly opposite the Insurance Office, Fifth-street, Portland, DIVINE HYMNS, or SPIRITUAL SONGS, for the use of Religious assemblies and private Christians, being a collection by JOSHUA SMITH & SAMUEL SLEEFER.—To which are now added Thirty two HYMNS.—Societies and wholesale purchasers will be supplied cheap. May 2. (epgm)
BROKERAGE.
THE Subscriber informs the public that he has opened a set of Books at his Auction-room Fore-street, head of Ingraham's wharf for the purpose of transacting the business of a BROKER—where those gentlemen who have Vessels for sale or charter, Houses or Lands for sale or let, are invited to call and leave their terms.—He flatters himself that, by a strict attention to the business, he shall render it of public utility, and merit the patronage of those who have business to be transacted, which will be done for a reasonable commission, by the public's most hum. b. servant, WM. FENNELLY, Portland, April 14.
TO BE SOLD, By order of Court, on THURSDAY, the SEVENTH day of June next, at 11 o'clock, P. M. a Public Auction, on the premises, if not previously disposed of at private sale.
THE Real Estate of Noah Noyes, late of Portland, in the county of Cumberland. Cordwainer, deceased; consisting of the Northerly half of a DWELLING HOUSE, with LAND in Portland, joining on King-street, twenty three feet four inches, and in the rear twenty feet; running from said street North Easterly, adjoining Mr. Moses Lunt's Land, nine rods and fifteen links. April 4.
A GOOD CHANCE for PURCHASERS. TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC VENDUE, On Thursday, the 14th of June next, at 10 o'clock, At the Columbian Tavern, Portland.
THE following LOTS of LAND—viz.—About 27 acres, lying on the westerly side of the road leading to Streetswater, to the southerly line of Mrs. McMillan's pasture, carrying the width of 30 rods to the channel in Fore River. Said land is laid out in 109 house lots; a plan of which may be seen. Also, About 50 acres of LAND, in Falmouth, situated on the road leading from Streetswater to Saccapossit, well calculated for a valuable farm, situated within four miles and an half of Portland. Also, 200 acres of valuable LAND in Windham, on which is a convenient house and barn, a young orchard of 250 trees. Said farm yields about 20 tons. English hay is well supplied with pasture; 60 acres of which is a valuable growth of wood and timber; and is within 10 miles of Portland. Said farm will be sold together, or in part, as may suit purchasers. Also, 300 acres of LAND in Raymond, viz.—No. 3, in range 8—No. 15 in range 10. No. 6 & 9 in range 11, No. 10 and 11 in range 12, No. 15 & 18 in range 13. Said lots are mostly covered with white oak timber. The conditions of sale, which cannot fail to please, with a more particular description, may be known by applying to SAMUEL BUTTS. Portland, April 20. (cts)
For Sale,
A Pleasant and well accommodated situation for a Trader in Gorham, three miles from the corner, on the post road that leads to Standish, with a Dwelling-House and Barn thereon.—Said situation consists of two acres of LAND, under good improvement. For further particulars inquire of ELISHA SANBORN, on the premises. May 5.
For Sale,
THAT valuable FARM in Parsonsfield, formerly owned by the late David Tilton, Esq. containing by estimation two hundred and fifty acres; about ninety of which are under improvement, well watered, with about two hundred young Apple Trees, on the same, accommodated with mowing, plowing, pasturing and woodland, a convenient Dwelling House, Barn and out-houses—thirty-six miles from Portland, and on the new road leading from Coos to that place—it will be sold altogether, or in three parts, as will best suit the purchaser. Perhaps in pleasantness of situation it is not surpassed by any Farm in the county of York—For terms apply to Mr. WILLIAM BLAGO, or NICHOLAS EMERY, of Parsonsfield; or JONATHAN HALE, of Coventry, u. s. May 5.
To be Sold Cheap,
A VALUABLE FARM in Paris with Buildings, and a young ORCHARD thereon, containing one hundred and fifty acres, about eighty of which are under good improvement, consisting of mowing, plowing, pasturing.—Stock and Farming tools may be purchased reasonably with said farm.—For particulars inquire of ALFRED GATES, on the premises. Paris, April 20.
For Sale,
A New STORE, two stories high, and 30 by 30 feet on the ground, not quite finished, with one acre of LAND, or a less quantity if the purchaser chooses. Said Store has a good stack of chimneys, and so calculated that part of it may be a convenient Dwelling-house. It is pleasantly situated in the town of St. George, at a place called Herring Gut—is an