The gazette (Portland, Me.), 1798-12-17 00:00:00

The Gazette.
[NUMBER 34.]
By ELEZER ALLEY JENK Portland, Maine.
[VOLUME I.]
Portland.
Monday, December 17, 1798.
Communication.
SINCE the publication of the inestimable letter of Joel Barlow, to Mr. Baldwin of Georgia, the pen falls from my hand, and I am almost ready to consider it as a needless task to point my finger across the Atlantic ocean after the arrival to the public eye of so complete a revelation of more than I had dared to think of being able to prove. Surely, my countrymen, you cannot read that dreadful letter, and yet be callous to the horrible designs of France, long matured, fully ripe, & just ready, when Barlow wrote, to burst upon the U. States!—This letter is dated March 1, 1798, while the Envoys were yet at Paris, and about the time when their celebrated dispatches arrived in America. How fortunate was their arrival! How well-timed was the suspension of intercourse with the most profligate of nations! How indispensable a naval force!—Joel Barlow's letter, and Buonaparte's proclamation to the Egyptians are perfect developments of the French revolution. Will any American yet uphold it? Are mankind mad?
Heavens! What must be the degree of guilt, and who can devise the punishment of those among ourselves who have abused the darling foible of their country in favour of the designs of the most impious government that ever existed! Surely "some hidden thunder, red with uncommon wrath" must be "in the stores of heaven" for those who cannot plead mistake and amiable weakness for a coalition with this most detestable conspiracy against the peace, the honor, and the liberty of the world!—Americans! depend upon it, the catastrophe is nigh at hand! We are in the last act of this most abominable tragedy! Soon will the stage be covered with the blood or the more mild but still more foul disgrace of those who have led you astray with an impudence & unfeeling cruelty that has no parallel! Soon will your indignation fall upon the devoted heads of those execrable patriots, as they have dared to make you believe them, those "false and hollow" republican chiefs, who had sold you to France, and to a terrible, monstrous, and world-destroying philosophy!—Yes, my countrymen, I know you to be honest, and that you are the last people on earth who will consent to be ruined. When you come to see clearly for what purpose it was that the French fanaticism was introduced among you—When you perceive most undeniably that it was to lead you by the heart-strings, and make you assume a barbarous chain before you knew it—When you see that the vile opposition party (no otherwise vile than by the infamous treason of subjecting you to a foreign power) were to depose the government, and reign here under the direction of France—When you understand who was at the head of this horrid conspiracy, and perceive what post he occupies now in the government—let horror take possession of your souls, but be calm, steady, and attentive.
I pass over the treatment of our Envoys at Paris as a thing of small comparative prominence at this time, though I had intended to be particular about it before the fate of the French fleet in Egypt was decided. But not so the mission of Dr. Logan to France—Mr. Logan and his friends have heretofore been always very fond of notice, and even have taken the holy name of "the people" to themselves, and they shall not now be allowed to creep into a corner.—Strange things have been done, my countrymen, as time will soon unfold. You recollect that when
the dispatches of our Envoys arrived from Paris the last spring and were laid before Congress by the President, his instructions to the Envoys were also made public in the same manner, just, mild, equitable, and dignified as they were, and that all good men were satisfied. You recollect that immediately afterwards addresses expressing this satisfaction, and a noble determination to support the government, poured in from all bodies, classes, and even different ages and occupations of men. Would you be surprised to understand very soon that, at this crisis a certain very distinguished personage, with other democratic & patriotic leaders, assembled at one Dr. Logan's house, a little out of Philadelphia, and in testimony of their contempt of government took the day of the federal fast for their first meeting, to consult on measures to destroy the effect which the dispatches & instructions had produced in the public mind; and that being so assembled they sent this same Dr. Logan as their ambassador to France, when yours had been twice contemptuously rejected? Would you be surprised to know that this Dr. Logan was cordially received by Talleyrand and dined with Merlin then President of the French Directory, that Talleyrand who demands tribute of you, and that Merlin, who when minister of justice, made the ridiculous roll of equipage necessary, which has cost you fifty millions; and that he told them THEY WERE GOING TOO FAST, for the American people had begun to open their eyes?—Would you be surprised to know that in consequence of this Dr. Logan's advice, or rather that of the infamous junto which sent him, this miserable Directory lowered their tone, pretended to put a stop to their shocking treatment of your commerce, and ascribed this milder usage to the agreeableness of such an American Envoy as Dr. Logan?—Finally would it astonish you that this man thus sent and thus received, should return with French dispatches to your government, and have the impudence to go between the French Directory and our President?—If such things will give you a clue to the scandalous trick that has been played upon you—think on such things!
Blessed be God! the fleet which sailed from Toulon and the expedition of Buonaparte in Egypt, are destroyed. The banditti headed by the only French General of note who has escaped the guillotine or banishment, and arrogantly stiled the left wing of the army of England, with apostasy in front and foul defeat in the rear, have perished in the Egyptian sands. Invading a peaceful inoffensive country without a declaration of war, they have probably been treated with a barbarity of which they had set so many examples.—The British navy has the honour to have saved the world. What will become of the miserable government and people of France, reduced from splendor and magnificence to poverty and wretchedness, from poverty and wretchedness to piracy and theft, and from these to the brink of distraction and perdition, God only knows. That there is no mercy left for them on earth is too probable, for they have shown no mercy. But let it be a dreadful lesson to every nation on earth to see with their own eyes what history has told them in vain, that there is no security but in government, no safety but in moderation, no certain issue of revolution. And when the American youth are taught hereafter the principles whereby they are to counsel their fellow-citizens and conduct themselves, let the benign philosopher when he comes to this passage of human folly, point to it in expressive
silence as unworthy to be named, and impossible to be described—and while the young and tender heart is wrung by the debasement which it feels in contemplating the errors of man, may a principle of humanity and virtue germinate in the moment, and make the next generation more happy than their fathers were! [To be continued.]
P. S. Any Boston printer will oblige the writer by inserting the letter to Mazzei and sending it to the office of The Gazette.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
SUCH THINGS ARE.
NUMBER I.
O fortunati nimium, sua si bona norint Americani!
NEVER was there a period in the history of nations, when public spirit and public virtue, were more necessary than at the present. Contrary to past experience, and to every rational calculation, our mild and happy Government has been assaulted by the arts and intrigues of France, and menaced by a horde of internal enemies; and had it not been for the peculiar firmness of our national Executive, our rights of sovereignty would have fallen a miserable sacrifice, and the guilt wholly imputed to some of the leaders in our public councils, and to many exalted citizens in the community.
To investigate the causes of this national defection—to unfold and explain the remedies requisite to heal the present disorders—to drag lurking Jacobins from their dens, and to expose them to public scorn, is one great design of this publication. Justified by truth—by the extremity of the times, and by fair deduction, personal satire, railing, and ridicule, will be freely indulged—for to names we shall pay no respect: The Senator, Magistrate, and Citizen, if corrupted in their principles, shall be humbled; and the whole tribe of Jacobins, and their fatalities in the revolutionary work, held up in terrorem populi .
But the authors of this paper have something of much greater consequence to effect. Rightly to estimate the views of our Government, truth must be diffused; and in this diffusion, the principles and operation of the public statutes, and the policy of the Supreme Executive, must be elucidated and explained. These statutes and this policy are represented by Jacobins as tyrannical, and as the result of a fixed design to impoverish and enslave the people. Mankind have been extremely jealous of the reigning powers in all ages;—and this is the favorite topic of complaint and opposition in all nations. In other countries complaint and opposition seem necessary to restrain the enormous influence of hereditary governments—which successively encroach on the liberties of the citizen, and accumulate some items of authority. But in the American Government, where the choice of rulers annually or biennially devolves on the people, no such necessity exists. Our rulers are bound by principles established and marked out by their constituents, beyond which they cannot pass, without exposing themselves to censure and to the loss of office. No other country can boast of a check similar to this—sufficient of itself, in ordinary cases, to induce the most corrupt of statesmen to exhibit at least the appearance of honest integrity. Hence this conclusion then will follow, that in hereditary States many political dangers arise from the crown, and none from the people;—and that in representative governments the case is totally different;—here many political dangers may be apprehended from the people, and none from their national councils.
Perhaps this is a political axiom not easily digested: We know it to be contrary to the belief of those enlightened patriots, who make it a business to heap their calumnies on men in office, and indiscriminately to oppose every measure adopted by them. This very circumstance furnishes at least presumptive proof of the legitimacy of the principle—and in the course of these papers it shall be more fully evinced and exemplified.
The reader must not expect in these essays, a long dull process of disquisition—nor much congruity in the several parts: Our object on this point is, "to catch the manners living as they rise"—neither too prolix to fatigue the patience, nor so concise as to be unintelligible: We shall vary our method and style according as circumstances and incidents may happen to dictate; and we assure the public that, in the illustration of chastisement or in the bestowment of commendation, we will never barter truth for flattery.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
MR. JENKINS,
I FULLY agree with the author of Public Spirit , in your Gazette of the 3d inst. that the political motives of the great body of the people are right, and that the errors of their conduct are imputable to the influence of a few designing men, who have other purposes to answer.
It is an old observation, and I think by the author of Junius' Letters , that the community are more capable of feeling than of reasoning. This readily accounts for the wrong bias which most events of importance are calculated to make. We may discover this in the history of our own times. When Genet began to enlist our own citizens to fight the Spaniards, with whom our nation was at peace, and to claim the right of holding Courts within our country for the adjudication of prizes, taken from our allies and friends, the people seemed to give a momentary sanction to his views. When the British Treaty was first published, the whole country seemed to be against it—because French liberty and French fraternity were apparently injured by it. The passing of the alien, sedition, and tax bills, has had a similar effect. No sooner has reflection performed its office, and the design and operation of measures been discovered, than approbation has succeeded to intemperate clamor. When it was seen, that Genet assumed the rights of our own government, he was hated and despised—and his disgrace diffused universal pleasure. When it was seen, that the British Treaty placed the interest of the two contracting parties on equal grounds, and that the opposition to it by France arose from sinister and dishonorable views, the public tone was wholly changed. We now see that the alien, sedition and tax bills are necessary—the first to get rid of disorganizing foreigners—the second to bridle the tongues of impious libellers of honest fame—and the third to prepare us for the events of war; for, to be prepared for war, is the only way to preserve peace.
It is unfortunate for us, that many of our citizens, in whose opinions we generally most confide, are guided by sentiments of treacherous defection. This, however, is easily accounted for. The tyrants of France divulge their plans only to a few—and the most influential are the objects of their bait. These men of influence set themselves up as the advocates of liberty and the rights of man, and therefore become the idols of the people. They loudly execrate our own government as a horde of tyrants, and are disposed to come again under the yoke of England, and therefore the sworn enemies of French liberty. No wonder that these favorite topics, vociferated from the mouths of pretended patriots, should cause a temporary delirium in the public mind—but that they should endanger the sovereignty of America, and wound its independence and fame, excites the wonder and distress of every citizen, who has abilities and leisure to understand the true interests of our nation.
Therefore, fellow citizens! When an exalted character, who has made it a practice to be in the company of French ministers and French agents, speaks of our own government in terms of reproach, and of the French councils in terms of approbation, mark him for a traitor—put no confidence in his professions of love to our country, for these are words of course, and in the mouths of such men have a meaning totally different from their common import. Regard their fatalities too as the enemies of your happiness—and put confidence in none but such as are the friends of our own governmental measures.
REGULUS.
FROM THE COMMERCIAL GAZETTE
In every line of the following letter, truth, virtue, patriotism and intelligence, are conspicuous. What is published in a newspaper is too often treated with inattention; short paragraphs are sought for amusement, and the effusions of wisdom, if they exceed a column, are thrown by and neglected. The Editor, conscious that nothing which he can say can add to the weight and efficacy of the sentiments which he has now the pleasure to hand to the public, will confine himself to this ample request, that no American will put this Gazette out of his hands, without giving the ensuing at least two careful perusals. The Editor pledges himself for its authenticity, and hopes that its circulation will be as extensive as its importance requires.
Important Original Letter.
Paris, Sept. 4. 1798.
THE accounts from home (America) continue to discover a spirit truly worthy of the American name; a spirit which I earnestly hope may support itself in all its vigour thro' the severe trial which it must undergo, & which if thus supported, will beyond all doubt carry us triumphantly through all the dangers and difficulties which weak and wicked men have brought upon us.
You cannot well imagine how much the attitude which our government and people have taken, has raised them in the opinion of the European world; out of France, and the circle of

Facts, fanaticism, the clear and unequivocal voice of Europe declares that in this contest we are right, and France is wrong. Our forbearance and long suffering under accumulated injuries and insults were well known, and had in some degree countenanced an idea that was gaining ground, that we too should sink unresisting and submissive to that yoke of tyranny and oppression which bears so heavily upon the greatest part of Europe. That we too should receive Constitutions ready made from Paris, under the name of the Rights of Man—should have the members of our Directory prescribed to us, and appointed, dismissed, replaced and again turned off as the paroxysms of Rewbell's infirmities should increase or abate—should have French Generals to dictate our laws, & French agents to dispose of our public treasures, and amidst the most burdensome contributions, and insupportable depredations, sing pecuniary gratitude to the great nation and her glorious warriors. The French newspapers made no secret of announcing that a revolution would soon overthrow the American Government, and place the affairs of the U. S. in the hands of patriots devoted to France; and as it was freely intimated that the influence of France would be liberally employed to promote this desirable effect, the arguments were doubtless preparing which have been publicly avowed to justify the robbery of the public treasures of Switzerland, for application in America. But the tone is now totally changed, & the signal of the change, was the first shew of firmness and a determination to resist on the part of our government.—
Dupont the ex-consul arrived at Paris. The newspapers, not having yet received their cue, announced that Dupont had said the American people were as decided in favor of France, as the American government was against her, and that this government would fall at the first instant of hostility from France against it. Dupont soon contradicted this paragraph, and gave it as his opinion, that a rupture would only strengthen the English party, and English influence in America, and that the true patriots, French and American, wished rather for conciliatory measures on the part of France. From that moment the French government have affected a friendly disposition towards the U. S.; as long as Mr. Gerry continued in France, every letter of Talleyrand's to him, sunk more and more of its pretensions, and since his departure every opportunity has been seized to spread the opinion, that the differences between France and the U. S. would soon be amicably settled.—At the same time it is true, the strongest proofs have appeared that the system is not changed, but only the course of measures; that the deadliest enmity still rages, but only involved in a deeper mask of dissimulation and perfidy.—These proofs however are not immediately discerned by the world. The public here, only perceive the immense alteration of Talleyrand's notes, from brutal insolence and rapacious extortion, to courtly compliance, and even humble solicitations; they generally believe that France will now yield every point of the controversy, and court a reconciliation as strongly as she before rejected it.
I have said that all this is dissimulation and perfidy, not only because these characters appear evident even in Talleyrand's last letters to Mr. Gerry, but because they are yet more unequivocal in the reception and treatment of Doctor Logan, a man who publicly gives himself out as an Envoy from the party in America, opposed to its government. Logan arrived at Hamburg, and applied for a passport to the French Consul; the passport was at first refused, but afterwards, upon his exhibiting his letters from certain American characters, was granted. He went through Holland, announcing himself every where as bearing a public mission from the United States, but avoided seeing both the American Consul at Hamburg, and Am minister at the Hague. After arriving at Paris, he had several interviews with Talleyrand, and with Merlin, then President of the Directory. He dined with Merlin, and all these circumstances were formally published in the newspapers, which added, that at his request the Directory had raised the embargo upon almost all the American vessels in the ports of France. But at the same time Talleyrand in an underhand manner, intimated to an American public character, not far from France, and known to be warmly attached to his own government, that he (Talleyrand) was sorry for Logan's mission, and had given no encouragement to it—That he wished him to return to America, and was disposed to negotiate only with the American government.
"The embargo is certainly raised upon all the American vessels, for the arrest of the Directory raising it is published in the Redacteur; but even this measure still proceeds from the old system of dividing the people from the government, and the arrest itself, while it professes friendship for the people of the United States, is grossly insulting to the government."
"But this raising of the embargo, and all Mr. Gerry's anodynes with which he will probably reach home, are nothing satisfactory to us. The demand of tribute is abandoned; that for an explanation or recantation of the President's speeches is given up: those insolent preliminaries to negotiation are renounced, and Talleyrand tells Mr. Gerry, that any person uniting his advantages will be well received from the United States; which is reserving the presence to dignify and reject again any person who may not exactly suit the Directory. The decree for restraining their privateers in the West Indies within the limits of the laws, is in fact tantamount to nothing; if it means anything, it must be a confession that heretofore they had countenanced those privateers in de-
predations contrary to the laws; which I have no doubt is true; but which is among the smallest of our numerous injuries. The laws themselves, and the decrees of the Directory, which have the force of laws, are the greatest of these injuries: and that of the 18th of January, or 29th Nivose last, is altogether incompatible with a state of peace between France and America."
A very recent attempt has been made in the council of 500 to obtain a repeal of this law. It was on the 31st of last month, or 14th Fructidor; a member of the council at great length stated its injustice, its impolicy, and its pernicious tendency, even to France itself. He complained that it was contrary to the most indisputable laws of nations; that it far exceeded any thing that England had ever done, and that its consequences could only enrich a few privateersmen, by the plunder of innocent neutrals, while it drew down upon France the universal detestation of all nations. He added, that it was upon the point of producing a rupture with America, and that Denmark had declared she would protect her commerce against it by military naval force. Nothing of all this was denied; but one or two members answered, that the repeal of the law would discourage privateering; that the English purchased neutral papers by the bale;—and upon such arguments as these the council passed to the order of the day, and left the law in full force.
"The situation of the Directory in Europe is at this period such as makes dissimulation and delay, with regard to their differences with the United States, highly politic. They are threatened with a new combination against them of Austria, Russia, Turkey and Naples, which, together with the war they have now upon their hands, will furnish them as much employment as they wish."
Latest Foreign News.
Buonaparte's Address to his Army.
Buonaparte, Member of the National Institute, and General in Chief, at the head quarters on board the L'Orient, the 22d of June, 6th year.
"SOLDIERS, you are to undertake a conquest, the result of which, for the civilization and commerce of the world is incalculable. You are going to strike the most decisive blow against England, and may, ere long, be able to complete her destruction."
"We are to make some fatiguing marches; we must fight several battles; we are sure to succeed, for fortune smiles on us. The Bays who favor exclusively the English commerce, who have treated our merchants in a manner the most ignominious, and tyrannize over the unfortunate inhabitants of the Nile, will a few days after our arrival, exist no more."
"The people with whom we are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their creed is this: "There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his Prophet."—Do not contradict them; treat them as we did the Jews and the Italians; show respect for their Mullahs & Imams, as you have done for Rabbis and Bishops, manifest the same toleration in regard to the ceremonies prescribed by the Alcoran, and to the Mosques, as you did for the Convents and Synagogues, for the religion of Moses and Jesus Christ."
"The Roman legions protected all religions; you will there find manners and customs widely different from those of Europe: you must use yourselves to them."
"The people whose country you are going to enter, treat their women in a different manner than we do; but in every country whatever, he who violates a woman is a monster."
"Plunder enriches only a few men; it disgraces us; it destroys our resources; it converts into enemies people whom it is our interest to have for our friends."
"The first town which we are going to enter was built by Alexander! at every step we meet with objects recalling to our minds great events worthy to excite the emulation of the French."
(Signed) BUONAPARTE.
Particulars of Buonaparte's Landing at Alexandria.
The fleet arrived at Alexandria, on the first of July, and learnt there, that three days before, the English fleet had been off that port. In the evening of the 1st of July, the troops were disembarked. Buonaparte himself went on shore in a galley.
On the 2d, preparations were made for an attack, and in the evening, without the whole artillery being landed, Alexandria was attacked. The French had no other resources than the scaling ladder and the bayonet. The defence was vigorous; about 2 or 300 men were either killed or wounded.
The divisions which formed the attack were commanded by the Generals of Division, Kleber and Menou. The former was wounded in the head by a musket ball, and the latter, on mounting to the assault, by a stone, which fell on his leg.
At last Alexandria was carried. The Sheriff was confirmed in his functions, and a treaty was concluded with the Chiefs of the Arabs, which might perhaps, have secured the tranquillity of the army, but apprehensions were entertained for the advanced posts, who were informed too late of the convention concluded at Bedouins, and fired on them; and thus the effect of the foresight of the General in Chief was lost; It is certain that the Arabs intercepted the fresh water and provisions, and on
the 21st of July, killed three seamen belonging to the Toulon.
On the same day, about 30 or 35 Arabs appeared in the vicinity of Alexandria; they were surrounded by a detachment of horse, and killed, except one who made his escape.
After the capture of Alexandria, troops were detached to occupy the neighbouring posts, especially Rosetta, which opened its gates and sent a deputation, carrying the tri-colored flag.
Buonaparte having possessed himself of all the circumjacent places, sent his army up to Cairo, by the Nile, and went himself by land to take the command of the columns.
Cairo was attacked; Citizen Bon, General of Division, and citizen Vial, General of Brigade, carried, at the head of the columns, a post, the reduction of which determined the town to open its gates and Buonaparte entered.
French account of the capture of Grand Cairo.
After Buonaparte had taken possession of Alexandria and the adjacent towns, he embarked his army on the Nile for Cairo, he himself went by land to meet them and take the command. Cairo was attacked. General Bun and the brigadier General Vial, at the head of the columns, took a position which enquired them the city. On the 23d July Buonaparte entered Cairo.
Admiral Brueys, who as it is already known, lost his life in the battle with Nelson, made the capture of Cairo known on board his fleet by the following Proclamation:
"Long live the Republic! My comrades, our gallant brothers in arms have taken possession of Grand Cairo, the principal city of Egypt. The Bays placed all their hopes in the defence of this city. Ten thousand Mamelukes attacked them with great violence, but were repulsed immediately. One thousand of them were cut to pieces and a great number of them drowned in the Nile. The remainder took to flight in the greatest confusion: and almost the whole of them were wounded. We took all their baggage, 300 loaded camels, and 300 horses richly caparisoned. The Generals Bun and Vial, followed by their brave troops, took the fort of Cairo by assault. The city of Grand Cairo which contains 400,000 inhabitants, sent a deputation to the French army. Gen. Buonaparte entered Cairo with the acclamations of all the citizens. The capture of this city ensures us all Egypt, and gives another palm to our victorious trophies. Long live the French people, and the French Republic."
(Signed) BRUEYS.
LONDON, OCT. 15.
These appear to be the leading circumstances mentioned in the Paris papers concerning Buonaparte's landing in Egypt, and his entry into Grand Cairo. A studious caution is observed respecting the difficulties he met with on his march, which we here understand, from authentic sources, to have been very great, indeed; it is stated in some private letters, that such was the distress of the French army for liquors and medicines, such the hopeless appearance of further success, and such the general discontent among the officers as well as the troops, that it was thought Generals Buonaparte and Berthier would endeavour to make for Alexandria, and return to France. Admiral Nelson, has, however, taken care to frustrate any such intention, supposing it to exist, by having blocked up the port of Alexandria with two sail of the line, not deeming it expedient to attack the transports in the inner bay, until he could procure some bomb-vessels from Constantinople, to enable him to destroy them. He has himself quitted the Bay of Shoals, after having amply re-vindicated his fleet, and arrived off the island of Rhodes on the 27th August.
The Directory already anticipate the probable consequences of their late naval defeat. In a message addressed by them to the Council of Five Hundred, on the 23d ult. they require, under pretence of the delays at Rastadt, and the necessity of preparation in the event of the recommencement of hostilities, a Levy of Two Hundred Thousand Men to be immediately mustered, in addition to the vast military force of the Republic; and such is the urgency of the measure, that, instead of attending to the customary forms of raising troops the Council decreed, that every Frenchman who, on the 22d of September, had attained the age of twenty, was in a state of requisition, and liable to be immediately called into service.
Miscellaneous Matters.
LONDON, OCT. 15.
The reason of Admiral Nelson's missing the French fleet originally was the false intelligence given to him by a neutral vessel, or perhaps, one sent on purpose to deceive him. He was told that the French fleet had left Malta three days earlier than the truth; and therefore supposing him to be far advanced, he made a direct cut to Alexandria, whilst Buonaparte went round by Candia.
Admiral, now Baron Nelson of the Nile, is the son of the Rev. Mr. Nelson, Rector of Burnham Thorpe, near Holkham, in Norfolk, and is said to be related to the W'pole family. He entered early into the service, was a Lieutenant in 1777, and a post captain in 1779.
All the first Lieutenants who served in the
action of the Nile are promoted to the rank of commanders in the navy.
Lord Bridport has dispatched four sail of the line after the Brest fleet at sea. Several squadrons are on the same business. Some persons suppose this fleet is bound to Newfoundland. We must soon hear of it.
The Princess Royal of France is about to be married to the duke Agouleme, eldest son of Count d'Artois, brother of the late and present king of France. The Emperor of Germany is to furnish her with a revenue of one million tournois; and the Emperor of Russia is to be as the expence of the nuptial festival.
A letter from Hamburg of the 25th Sept. contains the following passage: "I learn this moment that Gen. Kosciosko has been arrested here, at the request of a foreign court."
PARIS, OCT. 8.
The minister plenipotentiary of Portugal has set out on his return to Madrid. He was not in possession of sufficient powers, but if he receives those of a more extensive nature from his court, and more conformable to the wishes of the French Government, it is probable enough that the negotiation will be carried on through the channel of the Spanish cabinet.
Further Foreign News,
Received at Philadelphia, by an arrival from Bourdeaux.
PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 3.
UPON a general view of the French papers, we find nothing materially important. They are principally filled with various accounts of Nelson's victory, and speculations on that subject. The affairs of the United States, appear to have excited a lively interest; in consequence of which, we now find in the first column of most of the papers before us, accounts of our late energetic measures. One of the papers contains the following curious paragraphs:
"The Americans are yet Republicans, they have had some cause of complaint, and like Republicans they are determined to obtain redress—all their measures are warlike, and Washington approves, and is again ready to enter the field."
"Passengers who have lately arrived from Philadelphia, represent the American nation, as unanimous in their detestation of the conduct of our privateers. A Frenchman dare now wear the national cockade in the streets of Philadelphia, for fear of the indignation of the populace, &c."
The Negotiations at Rastadt,
Assume a more pacific aspect. The French papers appear to entertain an idea that peace will be concluded in a short time with the Germanic body. General Joubert had received a courier from the French ministers at Rastadt, which gave rise to the most flattering hopes of a speedy peace. In consequence of this, the order given to his troops to hold themselves ready to march was countermanded. The requisitions on the borders of the Rhine, have ceased. The envoy of Prussia, who still acts as mediator, gave a grand dinner at Rastadt, on the 20th Sept. at which the French ministers were present. On rising from table he assured one of his friends, that peace would soon be concluded. The greatest part of the deputies are well satisfied with the last note of the French ministers, and it is not doubted but the French Republic will even consent to the cession of the territory of Kehl and Cassel (which it has reserved) after the demolition of the fortifications. The different notes which have passed on this subject, we shall present our readers as soon as we have translated them.
Notwithstanding these favorable appearances, there are some circumstances which render a speedy peace somewhat doubtful. The French ministers have made arrangements for remaining at Rastadt during the winter.
The Emperor persists in making interpretations of the treaty of Campo Formio which cause much difficulty, lays claims to certain parts of Italy, and (says the Gazette de France) demands the extinction of the Roman Republic, under the idea that its proximity may prove contagious to Tuscany, the kingdom of Naples, and the Austrian Provinces in Italy.
However, it appears to be the general idea of the French and German Journalists, that a peace will shortly be concluded with the Germanic body; but, that a fresh rupture may be expected with the Emperor in conjunction with England, Russia and Turkey, between whom a treaty of alliance is concluded.
The Roman Republic
Was still in a distracted state. The insurgents were again collecting and threatened to give the French troops a little more business. The French commissaries were doing every thing in their power to remedy the evils with which they were threatened, and at the same time making enormous contributions from the oppressed inhabitants.
The Troubles of Switzerland,
Were becoming very serious on the 15th September, and it was expected that the war which had commenced between the small Cantons, would produce fatal results. The Cantons which refused to take the civic oath and accept the new constitution persist in their refusal.

Independence of Hispaniola.
BOSTON, DEC. 12.
Letters at the Southward From Cape Francois, announcing the driving of Heudouville from thence by Touissant, add, that the black general has issued a Proclamation directing the inhabitants to conform themselves to the Constitution and laws of the French Republic, and has sent dispatches to France with an account of his proceedings. 2500 whites embarked with Heudouville.
Notwithstanding what is contained in letters received at the Southward, we believe Touissant will declare Hispaniola Independent of France. Frequent intelligence has been brought by respectable Captains who had conversed with Touissant and his friends, that he meant to take the Government into his own hands, and declare the Island Independent—a part of this is verified—and the other is from this the more to be expected. Another circumstance assists greatly in making us tenacious of our opinion—Gen. Maitland, before the evacuation of Porte au Prince, the Mole, &c. had many secret conferences with Touissant; and British West India Papers assert, that the evacuation was by no means necessary from want of ability to maintain the possessions to the English. Suspicions of Gen. Maitland's fidelity were publicly expressed. Yet the general embarked for England, after the evacuation. Is it not then probable that the plan of neutralizing Hispaniola, was submitted to and approved by him; and that the evacuation by the British was a consequence? If divulged to the world it might have been prevented.
Touissant may have sent dispatches to France to inform the Directory of the event; to tell them of his ability to maintain his pretensions; and to assure them they might trade there, if agreeable to them, as other foreigners should do.
From Newyork, Dec. 4.
A French mercantile gentleman, now in this city, has received a letter from his brother in Cape Francois, which confirms the news of Heudeville's departure for France, and of Touissant's declaring that place independent,
In a Portsmouth paper of the 8th inst. mention is made of an arrival there from Tortola, with information that three commissioners had failed from Guadalupe with a flag of truce, for the United States, to try to settle the difference between the French West India islands and this country.
Extract of a letter from Holland, dated the 30th of August, 1798, written by a gentleman of the highest respectability, and on the correctness of whose judgment and information, the most implicit confidence may be placed.
"The energy and great respectability of the United States, has produced a state of things in the Directory of Paris, from which we may yet see the rights of neutral nations in general respected. It would dilate every artery in you to see the glory which is spreading over the United States, at this moment, in the eyes of Europe. She comes on the stage, at an instant, highly propitious to eclat, when the heart of this continent had sunk. She places her foot with firmness; France recoils, and every body is revived, and in triumph, for France has recail and I
THE GAZETTE.
Portland.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1798.
Congress.
From Philadelphia, Dec. 4.
Yesterday, conformable to the adjournment of both Houses of Congress in July last, a number of members assembled in their respective chambers.—A little after 12 o'clock, the Speaker of the House of Representatives took his chair, the names of all the members were called over by the clerk, and there appeared only forty present (fourteen short of a quorum) a motion was made to adjourn, and the House adjourned accordingly till this day at 11 o'clock.
In the Senate only nine members attended. Of course eight members are wanting to form a quorum.
DEC. 5.
The members of Congress met yesterday, pursuant to order; at 11 o'clock, the Members names being called over, 49 only were present. The standing rule of the House requires 54 to form a quorum. Adjourned to 11 o'clock this day.
In the Senate, only 11 Members attended. Adjourned to 11 o'clock this morning.
From the SALEM GAZETTE.
Our government is under a moral obligation formally to DECLARE WAR against France—or the principles upon which their late measures respecting her have been founded must be abandoned as false. It is true those measures would have been sufficient to have roused any nation, possessing one spark of national honour or self respect, or feeling any energy in her resources, either to propose an honourable accommodation, or to declare an open and honourable war. It is true this formality will not much alter our relations to France, but it will very materially affect our internal situation; for until that is done, France will not abandon her hopes here; her secret agents will be more industriously employed than ever; and divisions will be constantly excited and fomented by them. But that act would take us at once out of our present amphibious situation, and crush the French party in this country. At the same time it would not create an enemy, but only put us in a situation to act with more energy against the enemy that has already attacked us. —Every measure yet taken by Government against France, has been opposed by men who have afterwards been convinced that it ought to have been taken before; and this will undoubtedly share the fate of the rest.
A London paper of Sept. 24, says, "WEI-SHAUPT, the celebrated founder of Illuminatism, is said to be employed in an answer to Abbe Barruel, and Professor Robison, which is expected to appear in the ensuing winter."
British papers speak with confidence of the rapid approach of a new convulsion at Paris. The Directory, they seem assured, will make an effort to establish their supremacy, and overthrow the legislative bodies.
The violent and horrid methods employed by the French to recruit their armies, have resulted, as might be expected, in an immense diminution of their population. It is supposed there are at this moment in France, thirty women to one man. Barbe Mabois, describing their cruel requisitions of human beings for slaughter, inveighing with bitterness against the prolongation of that delusive war which in the midst of triumphs, mowed down the flower of the French youth; that dolorous war which came to search even in their cradles, for infants to enregister on the lists of requisition. It was not to the
of Lord St. Vincent's fleet have not set foot on land for nearly five years.
The Inhabitants of Charleston, S. C. contributed 5,100 dollars, & 200 tierces of Rice, to the poor of Philadelphia.
[The following is the report of the Kennebeck Printer, whom I lately charged with weathercockishness, on account of his fickle and undecided paper:]
"Notwithstanding The Gazette, printed at Portland, is a truly federal paper, yet the Editor thereof must be a rank jacobin, for he will still has his doubts, although he has proofs, weekly, to convince him, as conspicuous as the meridian sun.
"KENNEBECK PRINTER."
[Indeed Mr. Kennebeck Printer, this seems almost too trifling for reply. But as it may be the means of fixing you to some point, I will indulge myself in a few words.—It is unnecessary to waste a syllable on your ridiculous charge of my being a rank jacobin, when in the same sentence you say, the paper of which I am "Editor" is "truly federal"! And more especially, as you have nothing to offer in proof of it but my DOUBTS of your FEDERALISM!—So long as this is the case, I shall rest secure as to my political reputation.—And here let me tell you, Sir, that so long as I find you acting the double part—first on one side of the question, and then on the other—now espousing the cause of democracy, and then assuming the sacred name of federalist—here exhorting the democrats to support a republican DEARBORN, and there watching an opportunity to mix in with the majority—still undecided, and "open to all parties"—so long, I say, as I have the clearest evidences of such conduct, I shall entertain the strongest DOUBTS of your FEDERALISM; any professions from you to the contrary, notwithstanding. I have more hopes of a decided jacobin, than of a wavering, undecided, time-serving printer, who dares not openly assert and maintain his sentiments in behalf of his country and government.
EDITOR.]
Marine Articles.
Port of Portland.
Saturday, arrived sloop General Knox, Drinkwater, from Boston.
Yesterday arrived, sloop Portland Packet, Blanchard, also from Boston.
Several vessels were cast away on Cape Cod during the late storm.
It is said that the American Frigates are to be stationed off the West India islands in order to blockade the French ports.
A Wet Nurse, wanted
immediately. Inquire at this Office. Dec. 17.
FRESH GOODS.
FRYE POOR,
Respectfully informs his customers and the public in general, that he has just received, and has ready for sale, at his Store in Fifth Street, opposite the Insurance Office, PORTLAND, a general assortment of
English & Hard Ware Goods,
which he is determined to sell on as low terms [FOR CASH] as may be had at any store in town.
among which are
Superfine & second Broad-
cloths, Cassimers, Elastics, Plains, Devonshire Kerseys, Duffs, Swan-down, Blankets, American manufactured Bedticking, Red, yellow and green Baizes, Black, white and yellow twill'd Flannels, India Cottons, suitable for shirts and sheeting, Diapers, Linens, Brown Hollands, Muffins, Mullineys, Dimots, Patch colored and purple Mullin Shawls, Silk ditto, Silk Hankerchiefs, Black Modes and Sattins, Colored ditto, Black, white and changeable Lustrings, Persians, Sarinets; an assortment of long and short Kid Gloves, Men's leather and silk ditto, Men's silk, worked and gauze Stockings, Ruffles, Durants, Shallons and Callimancoes, an assortment of Ribbons, Fashionable Callimancoes, Sewing Silks, Twists, Threads, Ladies' black red and green Slippers, an assortment of men's, boy's and children's Shoes, &c. &c.
HARD WARE.
4d, and 10d, Nails; 3d, 4d, 5d, and 6d Brads, 14 oz. Tacks, and 2d. clout Nails; Thumb Latches, H and HL Hinges, Skates, Curricombs, Webbing, Floor, hearth, cloth, furniture.
SALES AT AUCTION.
COUNTRY TRADERS AND OTHERS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND!
On THURSDAY, the 20th instant, (if a fair day, if not, the first fair day)
The stock in trade of a
Gentleman lately deceased, at the Auction Room in Fifth Street—consisting of Broadcloths, Baizes, Flannels, Camlets, Calamancoes, Durants, Tammies, Shallons, Satinets, Lastings, Wildbores, Mullins, Cambrics, Lawns, Irish Linens, Silk Gloves and Mitts, Satins, Modes, Ribbons, Sewing Silks, Scotch Threads, with a variety of other articles, too numerous to be particularized. Sale at 10 o'clock.
EDWARD OXNARD, Auctioneer. N. B. Conditions made known at the place of sale.
AT THE SAME TIME WILL BE SOLD. A Feather Bed and four post Bedstead, mahogany foot posts—2 Bedquilts and Rugs—2 mahogany Tables—Kitchen Chairs—Pine Chest-of drawers and Table. Portland, Dec. 17.
Samuel Waldo's Estate.
NOTICE is hereby given to all concerned, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administrator to the estate of SAMUEL WALDO, late of Portland in the county of Cumberland, Merchant, deceased; and has taken upon herself that trust by giving bond as the law directs. She therefore requests all persons, who have any demands on said estate, to bring in the same for settlement; and all those who are indebted to said estate to make payment without delay, to SARAH TYNG WALDO, Administratrix. Portland, December 18, 1798.
William Cogswell's Estate.
NOTICE is hereby given to all concerned, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administratrix to the estate of WILLIAM COGSWELL, late of Portland in the county of Cumberland, Merchant, deceased, and has taken upon herself that trust by giving bond as the law directs. She therefore requests all persons, who have any demands on said estate, to bring in the same for settlement; and all those, who are indebted to said estate, to make payment without delay, to HANNAH P. COGSWELL, Administratrix. Portland, December 4, 1798.
JOHN LOW and Jacob Fisher, Merchants of Kennebec, in the district of Biddeford and Pepperellborough, in Massachusetts, having been severally sued in the District Court of Maine, for four hundred dollars each, for a violation of the 27th section of the Act entitled "An Act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on tonnage of ships or vessels", for being knowingly concerned in removing and securing seventeen puncheons of foreign Rum, to that the revenue of the United States had been defrauded of the duties thereon—The Jury found a verdict against them respectively for the said penalty, upon such satisfactory evidence as induced them to give it, without going off the stand; and in obedience to the law in that case made and provided, the publication in the paper is now directed to be made, by JEREMIAH HILL, Collector. Dphr of Bill for V Pepperellborough, December 12th, 1798.
Stolen,
ON the evening of the 13th instant, from the door of JEDIDIAH COLLINS, in this town, a HORSE, belonging to the subscriber.—Said horse was of a light red colour, with a white spot in his forehead—his mane hanging each side—had on a saddle trimmed with red plush—with a striped housings—and a bridle without a throat latch.—Wherever will apprehend the thief, or give information so that the horse may be returned shall be handsomely rewarded by MARTHA EMMONS. Portland, Dec. 15, 1798.
Fresh Fall & Winter Goods.
Now opening, and for sale by WILLIAM CODMAN, At his Store in Fifth Street, A LARGE & FRESH ASSORTMENT OF English Piece Goods, Suitable for the present season, and of the latest importation, which being laid in on the best terms, will be sold very low for Cash. ALSO,
A general assortment of HARD WARE GOODS.
4d, 6d, 10d, and 12d Nails. 20d, Nails. 6 by 8, 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 Window Glass. Swedes, Russia, and Ph. Hyson, Souchong, and Bohea TEAS fresh and imported by the last arrivals from India.

POETRY.
From the Columbian Centinel.
A PROPHECY.—By MERLIN.
The Sin of unbelief is worse than the Sin of witchcraft. HOLY WRIT.
WHEN Heads, encircled with a Crown, Are from their regal height cut down, Whose virtues, traitors did despise; Five hundred hydra heads shall rise:— When the great Champion of the Wbore Of Babylon, shall be no more; When Belgia's land, once rich and gay, Shall groan beneath "bliss Freedom's" sway; When all the pride of mighty Rome, Shall be by Monkeys overcome; When th' Asiatic Town shall be No longer mistress of the sea; When Media's Knights shall quit the Chair, And place unworthy Coyners there; Whe' in the fam'd Egyptian tide, Of seven-mouth'd Nile, French fleets shall ride; When prowling Wolves shall trace the land, Of that long desolated land:— Then shall old Albion's Lion roar; His thunders shake the Afric shore, And whom the monsters in the deep Who would eternal warfare keep; Who from her seat religion hurl'd, And banish'd justice from the world; Who long have bath'd in human gore, And fill'd insatiate, thirst for more:— Rain their Chief shall overtake And all his dreams of glory break:— How through Arabia's burning lands, He led his brave victorious bands; How through Susa's isthmus he Soon join'd the long-divided Sea, Embark'd his troops, uncurb'd his sails, Which swell'd with Freedom's heavenly gales; How the Red Sea's obsequious tide, Once more its billows did divide; How Liberty, what God of yore Perform'd, did for his troops once more; How Reason, like a flaming brand, Soon led him to the proudest land; How his illustrious navy lay, Safe moor'd in Bengal's ample bay; How Britain's Indian realms were lost And France possess'd the golden coast:— These airy visions shall give place, To ruin, to ruin, and disgrace; And Nelson's brave victorious fleet Rejoicing England soon shall greet: And Fame declare from shore to shore, Toulon's Armada lives no more. Venice.
From the Gazette of the United States.
IN a rage for new conquests, LEREAUX feiz'd a map, Misaking a blot on the Chart for a Gap; Ah, ha! cry'd this Wizard, to admiral Brueys, I find here a pass, through this Isthmus, by Suez; By which, with our fleets, you shall sail the Red Sea, To plunder all India and Asia for me. —Brueys said—and he plundered each Inlet about; Still the way he went in, he was glad to get out; Till embittered by long disappointment he swore To find a Red Sea or to find France no more. Left this oath should be vain, or brave Nelson forgot, Old Neptune gave out the Decree, That French blood should run a Red Sea on the spot, And Nelson ride late on each Sea.
* President of the French Directory, at the time the Toulon expedition was planned.
MISCELLANY.
Fatal effects of a too susceptible heart, in a young Prussian Officer.
“MY son was an ensign in a regiment in which I ranked as captain. We had served two campaigns together, and I was pleased with the marks of a cool and sensible courage, which I had observed in him, and which promised the most flattering hopes of his becoming one day or other an ornament to his family.
His heart was naturally generous and tender. This virtue endeared him to me; but I trembled for its effects. It might, I thought, shake his fortitude in the trying scenes of the miserable spectacles of war, and possibly suppress the enterprising spirit of youth; a quality so essential to the advancement of a soldier, and so necessary an embellishment to his character.
Oftentimes, when his overflowing compassionate heart would vent itself in a burst of sorrow for the unfortunate, I had recourse to the sophistry of argument, to paint those objects of his reflections in different colours to his imagination; and while reproving him with his unmanly weakness could have clasped him to my bosom for the melting tenderness of his nature.
I frequently, though with utter repugnance, conducted him to the trying scenes of suffering criminals; thus attempting to familiarize his mind to the disastrous events which life is two often embittered with.
Some little time after the affair of Schweidnitz, our army burnt and sacked a small village of the Austrians. It was our chance of duty to be sent to this place. When the general confusion of the day had subsided, and some order restored among the troops, we had an excursion round the village to view the effects.
On our approach to the ruins of a once clean and neat house, we were suddenly shocked by the approach of an old woman. The genius of extreme wretchedness seemed faithfully portrayed in her ghastly countenance.
She flung herself upon her knees and in shrill voice of desperation, impetrated the most direful curses on our heads. “If,” says she, “you call yourselves men and not savages of unequalled brutality, either kill me instantly, and end my extreme suffering, or let me have help to search for the remains of my children.”
I tenderly exhorted her to calm herself—that she might expect every assistance; and staying with her till my son had returned with a few soldiers, I learnt, that on the alarm of the sudden approach of our troops to the village, the unrestrained disorder which was naturally to be expected, had forced her son and daughter, with
two grand children, to seek shelter in a cellar of the house; which house shared the same unfortunate fate with the rest, was soon pillaged and set on fire—that she herself had fled some little way into the country, and had retired from the danger of the enemy, in hopes that, in case of a discovery, her age might secure her from that fate which her grand children, two young women in the bloom of life, might otherwise be exposed to—that their father, who was a notary of the place, with his wife, had resolved on slaying with the children in their concealment.
When my son returned with the soldiers the old woman shewed us the spot where we should search for the devoted family. We had not been long at work among the ruins, when we broke into the cellar whither the family had fled.
Here a scene presented itself, that would have turned a monarch's heart from the felt de of war, which brings such desolation and horror in its course.
Clasped in each others arms lay two beautiful sisters, with their father and mother, by their side, suffocated by the smoke; while the old woman, with horrid yells was bewailing the lot of her unfortunate children, kissing the bodies, and frantic with grief. My son stood musing over this melancholy spectacle.
I solicited him to depart; I urged him to withdraw from so affecting a scene. Sternly did he return his eyes on me, and seemed petrified to the spot. In vain did I reason on the necessary consequences of war; that it was no premeditated cruelty, but one of those casual misfortunes that even the civil transactions of life are often chequer'd with.
Where is your reason, your manhood, my boy? Shall a Soldier be overcome with weak womanish feelings? For shame! for shame! All men in the course of their lives must make up their minds to calamities like these. Away! Your countrymen will ridicule your want of firmness; and the laurels which you have hitherto acquired, will only serve to point you out as a more conspicuous instance of effeminacy.
I took him by the arm to draw him gently from this distressing sight, when he flung himself away from me, and exclaimed, pointing to the youngest of the girls, whose tongue, from the convulsive gasps of death, hung from her mouth, “Behold this unparalleled butchery of my countrymen! Will not the wrath of heaven revenge this outrage on humanity? Cruel, cruel Prussians! you are bloody, indeed! Accursed profession! Hell has only invented thee.—From this moment I abjure thee. I will not return to these blood hounds—I will fly to the deserts forever, and hide my face from such inhumanity;” with “see there! my father,” pointing again to the dead bodies, and burst into a flood of tears.
It required some force to bear him from this calamitous scene; and so strong was the impression, that a fixed melancholy took entire possession of him; and such was the extreme delicacy and tenderness of his feelings that I was declined to see this beloved child seized with a violent fever, and to hear him, in the paroxysms of his distemper, rave in the wildest, yet most pathetic language of this event.
Some little time before he expired, he had summoned one of the young women into his wife; and started up in bed, cursing the war which had snatched her away from him, he fixed his eyes ghastly upon me, which I readily translated into a remonstrance for being the author of his unhappy malady, fell back into a swoon, from which he never recovered.”
THE French by compelling their young men to fight four years for their wives, will doubtless raise the value of the fair sex, and the character of matrimony. The ladies are thus made the reward of valor, and the desire of connubial happiness will derive an adventitious importance by the difficulty of attaining it. Indeed, it is in some measure restoring the old chivalrous fashion, when a Knight durst not presume to ask a lady's love till he had been beaten to mummy.
IT has been often a subject of wonder that Tom Payne should so easily procure the means of subsistence in France, but the following anecdote explains the nature of his resources: In the year 1792, Tom's political and literary reputation gained him many admirers at Paris, and he was applied to by some of the principal booksellers in that city, who offered him a pension of 1,500 livres for ten years on condition of his giving them the copy right of all the pamphlets he might write within that time, which they were to get translated into French; the proposal was agreed to, and tho' he has only written four pamphlets since, he has constantly touched his pension.
From an English Paper.—Og. 2.
WASPS.—There never was known in the memory of man such numerous swarms of wasps as there have been this season. The injury they do the fruit, and the offensive nature of the insect, makes it a desirable object for Naturalists to turn their attention to the best means of destroying them. It is a curious fact in the natural history of this insect, that the males are almost all destroyed by one another, or perish with cold in the severity of the weather, and that some few of the females only survive to lay their eggs, and hatch new swarms the succeeding summer. From this peculiarity it is said that every single wasp destroyed between the months of January and May, saves a nest, for a single female wasp will generate 10,000 before the end of August. Should it not then be a general object to destroy them during the early months of the year; and what would be the best means of hunting them out? It is a fit enquiry for our public societies.
THE Trustees of the PORTLAND ACADEMY, are hereby notified to meet at the Dwelling House of the subscriber, on FRIDAY, the 21st day of December, inst. at 10 o'clock, A. M. At the request of three of the Trustees, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Sec'y. Portland, Dec. 8, 1798.
Cumberland County.
THE Collectors of the County Tax, for the year 1798, are notified, that Executions will issue against all that are delinquent on the 1st of February next.
JOSEPH M c LELLAN, Treasurer. Nov. 23, 1798.
Elizabeth Berry,
Informs her friends and customers, that she makes and has for sale, Muffs, Tippets, and Cloak Trimmings. Also, for sale a large assortment of
Russia Furs,
And a new and great variety of TOYS FOR CHILDREN.
Best Poland Starch, and Mott's Snuff.
Sable & Fox Skins dressed in the best manner at her shop, corner of Temple and Federal streets.
Portland, Nov. 24.
THE Standing Committee of the Society of Cincinnati, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, agreeably to the votes of the Society—Hereby give public notice to such of their brethren, as are reduced to necessitous circumstances—the widow and orphans of others, who may be in like circumstances, that all applications for relief or assistance, may be made on, or before the 2d Tuesday in January next, to any individual of the said Committee, who will communicate the same, and their respective circumstances will be duly considered. The names of the committee are as follow, viz.
Gen. Lincoln, Dr. Eustis, Thomas Edwards, Esq. Gen. Jackson, Col. Winslow, Dr. Townsend, Col. Perkins, Maj. Gibbs, Capt. Clark, Capt. Johnson, Capt. Green, Col. Tudor, Robert Williams, John Callender, Capt. George, Capt. Rowle, Maj. Drew, and Samuel Armstrong, Recorder. Boston, Nov. 28, 1798.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors of lands lying in the town of Hebron, in the county of Cumberland, that their lands are taxed in the State, county, and town tax, for the year 1798, and committed to me the subscriber to collect, viz.
Table with 4 columns: No. acre, State tax, County tax, Town tax. Lists tax amounts for Jonathan Greenleaf, Esq., James Prescott, Esq., James Sturtefield, Jonathan Greenleaf.
Unless said taxes with intervening charges are paid to me the subscriber, on or before the twenty-first day of March next, so much of said land will then be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Seth Bearse, ionholder in said Hebron, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay said taxes and charges.
BARTLETT HOLMES, Collector. November 19, 1798.
A Heifer, found.
CAME to the barn of the subscriber, on Monday last, a brindle coloured Heifer, about two or three years old; some white about her flank, tail, and legs. The owner may have her again by proving property and paying charges.
SAMUEL BUTTS. Falmouth, Nov. 23.
For Sale,
A Fount of Brechiere Types, weighing about 200 wt.—and a fount of English of about 200. Each nearly one half worn. For terms apply at the Gazette Office. Nov. 22.
Cow for sale or exchange.
FOR sale, a likely COW, about six years old, that will probably calve about April next. The owner will take a fat Cow or Bullock in exchange. Apply at this Office. Nov. 19.
Good Boarding,
VERY near the centre of the town, convenient for masters and mates of vessels. Inquire at this Office. Nov. 5.
Coopers' Business,
A stout, active LAD, about 15 or 16 years of age, who may wish to learn the above business, and receive good encouragement, may hear of an opportunity by applying at this Office. Nov. 19. 1798.
General Prices Current, PER QUANTITY.—BOSTON, DEC. 10
Table with 4 columns: Item, Price per unit, Dls., Cts. Lists prices for various goods including Ashes, Bread, Butter, Beef, Beans, Brandy, Bees Wax, Cocoa, Coffee, Cotton, Chocolate, Candles, Cheese, Cod Lins., Fish, Flour, Feathers, Flaxseed, Grain, Hops, Hoops, Hogs Lard, Iron, Molasses, Nail Rods, Nails, Pepper, Pork, Pitch, Rum, Rofu, Sops. American white, Sugar, West India, Salt, Liverpool, Steel, Tea, Tobacco, Wines.
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