The gazette (Portland, Me.), 1798-07-23 00:00:00

The Gazette.
[NUMBER 13.]
By ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, Portland, Maine.
[VOLUME 1.]
Monday, July 23, 1798.
POLITICS.
Extract from Mr. King's ORATION.
This Oration is just published, and now for sale at this Office. Some idea of its merit may be formed from the following extract:
"FRANCE, in the meridian splendor of her conquests, was the idol of our worship, the toast of our clubs, and envy of America. But now alas, when she grasps at universal dominion and enjoys in imagination the conquest of the world; no national hymns are sung, no patriotic carmagnole are bestowed in our streets; no societies are self-created to cherish and preserve the darling influence of France, or superintend the operations of our own government; no tri-coloured ribbons and cockades grace the fair daughters of America—Nay, so insensible are we grown, that we can hear of conquest after conquest achieved; nation after nation falling on the sanguinary sword of French Liberty and Equality; nay more, we can see them victoriously domineering over our country, generously plundering our property and humanely torturing our citizens, and no effigies of our worthy citizens are burnt on our commons—no neutral huzzas of "France forever" are heard in our streets—No feasts of reason are celebrated in our halls, nor roasted oxen followed in procession through our streets.—Great God! Is it possible that this ever could have been a true picture of America, of free, independent, neutral America! No never—never—They who have thus conducted, must have been foul fiends of darkness, who assumed the glorious appellation of Americans, to screen from contempt their vileness & deformity. But praises to the God of heaven, those days of folly and delusion are passed—the eye of reason is open to the danger of our country—the ardent fire of patriotism is enkindled in every breast—and the spirit of Liberty and of America pervades our land. Cherish the blessed flame—let its blaze consume the bare remains of party spirit and foreign influence; that the American name and character, like gold seven times refined, may burst upon the world in their native purity and splendor.
"AMERICANS, we know not the extent of the dangers which threaten our country: We know not the hidden vengeance which is prepared for our destruction. Look at Venice; consider the fate of that ancient and respectable republic; which by France itself is held up in terror, to frighten America into unconditional submission. After surviving for more than fifteen centuries, the storms and tempests of European climates, we behold the noble ship of their constitution wrecked and destroyed on the sunken rocks of French duplicity: Their country conquered, their constitution annihilated, and the free-born citizens of Venice, by their humane victors, basely bartered away and sold into eternal bondage. Is there an American present, who does not prefer his country to all the world; who is not in heart, soul, and conduct, a free, unbiased American, let the wretch receive the reward of his baseness, depart our country, and not traitor Arnold like, prey upon the vitals of America! But you the friends of my heart, whom the noble spirit of patriotism animates, who are resolved never to be slaves—Upon you America
calls to save her from the destruction with which Venice is overwhelmed.—Behold Switzerland likewise! there contemplate the desolation intended for America! Switzerland like every other free country, at the commencement of the French revolution was the pretended idol of France. The same professions of esteem, the same expressions of fraternity and friendship, bestowed on America, were lavished upon the unsuspecting Swiss: A destructive influence was thereby introduced into their country, divisions among their citizens, and distraction in their councils—and when the awful period of their calamity arrived, and destruction had knocked at their doors—when the eternal night of their extinction seemed far advanced, and the alarming cry "our enemy cometh" was resounded in their streets—alas, unhappy people! too late they fatally experienced that the lamp of vigilance was extinguished and the oil of wisdom exhausted.—Hark! methinks I hear the voice of murdered Switzerland, in friendly accents saying, America, "your enemy cometh"—rouse from your fatal slumbers—be vigilant, and revenge my fall!
"AMERICANS, if a spark remains in your breasts of that ethereal flame, which has immortalized the defenders of our country's rights, it now must blaze forth in deeds of valor and renown! If a drop of patriot's blood still circulates in your veins, it must boil with indignation, at the dastardly insults, which our country has received. Vigorous measures have been adopted by our government, but it rests with American freemen to give them stability and effect. Now is the time for manly exertion: the door of accommodation is closed; and though we deprecate a war, still ought we vigorously to prepare for that dreadful calamity. It is in vain for us to hope to better our condition by any expected change of affairs. We ought not to expect that justice from the mercy and clemency of other nations, which we can be in a situation to demand. But it will be objected, our preparations for war may excite the jealousy, may rouse the indignation of France—and it may not be their intention to make war upon America? What, must we tamely wait till she pleases in form to declare herself our enemy? Do not her actions speak louder than any declaration? Is not her hostile temper declared by every capture on our heretofore defenceless ships, by every measure of her arbitrary government? Did France in form declare hostility against Genoa, Venice, Switzerland, or did she not fasten the leeches of her baneful influence upon them and suck the vital blood from their citizens? Yes this is the insidious policy of that crafty and ambitious nation: and this is the system which they have attempted in America. But never will I believe that the free-born sons of America will submit to be slaves; or sacrifice without a noble struggle, that liberty and independence, in the attainment of which the richest blood of America freely flowed. Yes fellow-citizens, I have the fullest assurance in the union and patriotism of our countrymen, confident that they will rally magnanimously, round the standard of Liberty and America, and bravely repel the ambitious foe who dares invade our rights. Yes, though our deadly enemy, by the infernal thirst of blood and rapine hurried on, should throw their rapacious legions on our coast; drive and expel us from our towns and cities, and the flower of our strength should fall in the conflict, still with liberty in our train, like our exalted ancestors, we would seek, beyond the cloud cap-
ped hills and in the deserts of our country, an independent and glorious retreat! But though earth and hell should fiercely combine their powers and rise in arms against us, still encouraged by liberty and supported by independence, we should rise superior to their base assaults and bid defiance to their stern vengeance!"
On the Politics of the Day.
[The following is from a series of Letters lately published in the Albany Centinel, Addressed to the People.]
THE French revolution, tho' not affecting the existence of the United States, so directly and immediately as that of the European governments, has yet proved, in some respects, peculiarly, and in many respects, essentially, interesting to our happiness and peace. The warm emotions of sympathy excited here, by the view of a great nation struggling to break its chains, and to reform the monstrous abuses of ancient despotism, though natural and just in their conception, and honorable to the human heart, tended, unfortunately, to involve us in painful and perplexing embarrassments. This national sentiment, like excess of charity, two honest and unscrupulous to discriminate its objects, qualify its views, or calculate its own tendencies, was received by France as a sure pledge of personal devotion, and as equivalent to a tender of national services—This persuasion in the French government was a great leading cause of all our troubles:—This it was, that gave such a bold and insolent assurance to her minister Genet, in his correspondence with the President.—To have the people in favour of liberty, was, in the view of that vain zealot, to have them in favour of France, with all her follies, absurdities and crimes. "To me," said he, "it appears inconceivable that all the enemies of tyranny, that all virtuous men, do not march with us to the combat." To him, also, it was equally inconceivable, that the mobs should not speak the voice of the people, and that the President should not obey the voice of the mobs.
The laborious and trying struggle we have sustained, to protect our rights, and maintain our neutrality, is the dear tribute we have paid and are still paying to the indulgence of this generous, but misguided national sentiment.
The current of the popular feelings, if left to its own natural operation, would soon have made a stand, when it was discovered that the object which excited was no longer worthy of them: when it was perceived, that the genuine cause of liberty and reform was abandoned for visionary speculations, swallowed up in the vortex of civil convulsions, or outraged and trampled on by lawless and criminal usurpation: But powerful artificial causes contributed to keep up the tide and swell these emotions into a dabbled and irregular passion. They began to operate at the commencement of the war between France and Great Britain. This war, involving the interests of our commerce to a great extent, and furnishing a convenient stalking horse to the ambition of our parties, easily and naturally impressed its own image on the face of our affairs: Many were willing to embark us, on one side or the other, in this great controversy; some from self interest, some from ambition and others from mere weakness and folly. To determine the simplest measures of domestic policy, topics of argument were drawn from the distinctions of Europe. Parties were not ashamed to borrow the dialect, affect the cant, and assume the livery of foreign factions. Our ancient prejudices against one nation, and our sentiments of gratitude to another, were collected & excited with zeal and ardour, and formed into inrefragable arguments to justify or excuse the follies of puerile politicians, and the atrocities of bloody usurpers. Thank God! that, amidst the wild vagaries of our parties, the policy of our government, tho' agitated, has been pure; that while noisy mobs have shouted the praises, and clamored for the rights of French fraternity, the privilege of plunder and the guillotine; the true spirit of American independence and liberty, always moral, always rational, & forever firm, tho' still, not extinguished, despising little cares and idle clamors, but ever ready for great occasions, has steadily prevailed, and still animates the hearts of the American people.
When we take a survey of our peculiar situation during the last six years, when we consider what powerful means of influence that situation has afforded the partisans and agents of the French system in this country, and with what zeal and address they have applied them; when we consider the indulgence with which they have been listened to, and the liberality with which their intrigues have been tolerated, it is a subject of surprise, that this government and this people have not suffered still greater embarrassments. A situation more singular or more critical cannot be conceived. Two powerful nations were engaged in a violent conflict: To one, we were
attached by the force of ancient habits and opinions, by the extensive and increasing relations of commerce, & by a thousand nameless ties growing out of national consanguinity: To the other, chiefly, by certain moral sentiments and views, which, derived from recent sources; and applicable to particular objects, were not therefore the less genuine or lively. Between these impressions, a painful struggle took place: and the United States seemed, to the careless observer, to be divided between two foreign nations, and devoted to the cause of one or the other. All the passions and all the enthusiasm of the country were enlisted on the side of France: These passions were at once fomented and disciplined; and to cure the disorders which the iniquities of the French government had created, a thousand disguises were invented to blind or pervert the views of the people, and to draw their attention upon the corruptions and oppressions of the British monarchy, represented as the enemy and persecutor of liberty. A large party under impressions of strong prejudice against the British nation, some who had sustained their oppressions, others who had been stung by their pride and many who had suffered loss of property by their unjust captures, sought revenge in the contemplated overthrow of the government, and a revolution there. In this favorite project, the French were considered as the natural and powerful agent: In this view they were declared to be the essential auxiliary and natural ally: This is the true import of that "natural alliance" so much talked of and so little understood; an alliance founded on the passions of a party, and supported by a fiction.
On the other hand, certain friends of the British interest, considering the resources the force and stability of that government as the most effectual bulwark against the progress of revolutions and the reign of anarchy, strongly, perhaps superstitiously attached to its forms, entertaining exalted ideas of its power, & distrusting the natural resources of intelligence and energy in our people, may have betrayed, in some instances, an inclination to embrace its principles, and to give a certain tone to our government, not strictly warranted by the sober and free spirit of our ancestors. This is the natural effect of party-spirit. It is but just, however, to allow that though such inclinations may have been entertained, you have no certain evidence of an organized policy, of settled combination, or active intrigues. You discern no indication, on the part of that nation, of a regular and secret attack upon the independence of the United States, at any period, or in any shape. It must be acknowledged, that, however jealous of your prosperity they may have been, they have never invaded your internal peace; however they may have outraged your rights on the high seas, they have never disturbed the functions of your government, insulted its authority, or labored to deprive it of the affections and support of the people.
But it is not my purpose to draw parallels between the demerits of different foreign governments, and the parties professedly attached to them. A more interesting view is presented, by considering the direct relation which the politics and parties of France have borne to the government of the United States, its dignity, independence and tranquility. If there ever has existed a party in this country, which could properly be denominated the British party , who would consent to any sacrifice of our peace, interest or dignity, to the benefit of that nation, or to render us, in any degree subservient to her designs; I am persuaded that such a party has never affected the policy or influenced the measures of the government: but it cannot be denied, that the audacious intrigues of the agents of France, supported by the passions, indications, or improper views of many of our own citizens, have influenced the policy of the administration, and compelled it, in some instances, to assume critical positions, and recur to hazardous and delicate expedients, to preserve the peace and protect the safety of the country.
The friends of the revolutionary system, derived from their address, activity and zeal, and from the force of circumstances, a strength and facility of influence, which became as formidable to the government, as it was pernicious to the people. But it must not be supposed, that the number or weight of this class of men have borne any proportion to their activity or rage. At no period, have the genuine sentiments of the body of our citizens, on this subject, fairly, fully and publicly appeared. In questions, which involve no other interests than the interests of humanity, and which require no efforts but the simple exercise of the understanding and the moral sentiment, the wise, rational and modest man easily retires from the controversy, and yields the contest to the noisy demagogue. He cannot sport his principles, or measure his reason, with the logic of the enthusiast.
You well remember the period, when the French revolution seemed to establish a kind of tyranny over the judgments of men; when those, who questioned the justice or rectitude of its proceedings, were silenced by loud reproaches: If you ventured to distinguish between the

merit of measures, you were charged with disaffection to the cause of liberty: If you presumed to condemn, you were accused of ingratitude, and with devotion to the interest of despotism: If you dared to express your horror, you were loaded with ridicule; and both your complaints and reasonings were drowned in the clamors of 'patriotism,' and thunder of 'ca ira.'
But the principle and sentiments of the American people, tho' oppressed, still remain pure and firm: Strengthened and matured, in their retirement, by repeated impressions of disgust and indignation, and roused at last by insupportable injuries and by the alarm of public danger, they now begin to appear in their full vigor, assume their proper attitude, and advance to the front of the theatre, while the monsters of anarchy and faction shrink, retire, and hide their heads.
MARCUS BRUTUS.
Riot in the German Capital!
Particulars of the late attack upon the French Ambassador at Vienna.
THE conduct of Gen. Bernadotte, from the moment of his arrival at Vienna as ambassador of the French Republic had been such as to create the utmost disgust and indignation, and to prove plainly that he had instructions (which appear to have been well suited to the coarse brutality of his native disposition) to offend against every established form—to shock every principle and prejudice, to vilify the character, and to affront the loyalty of the nation among whom he was come to reside, and to push to the utmost limits of its patience, by every species of absurdity and imprudence, both in the language and nature of his official communications, the court with whom he was destined to maintain the relations of amity and friendship in recourse. His suite were evidently schooled to the same purpose.
While the train of the ambassador was irritating the people, by abusing the emperor, and their favorite the archduke Charles, it was the business of the ambassador himself to insult the government. He accordingly made demands of privileges and distinctions absurd and unheard of in any civilized country of modern Europe, and wholly incompatible with any idea of equality among nations. He demanded that the quarter of the town in which the French citizens reside, should be exempted from the general police, and subjected to his particular jurisdiction:—He demanded the exclusive jurisdiction over all the French citizens throughout the Austrian dominions. And he even anticipated the exercise of these rights, (which no government, not absolutely dead to all sense of its own safety, could for a moment entertain) and extend them beyond his own absurd demand, by affording to a Pole and Italian, whom the government had good cause to suspect of practices that called for the animadversion of police, the benefit of his assumed protection, and the asylum of his pretended sanctuary.
Something more marked was yet wanting—something that should bring to one point the feelings of the Emperor and his subjects, and at that point should meet them with such a shock of violence, spitefulness and malice, as should equally wound them both, and if they bore it patiently, should double the disgrace upon each of them, and make the sovereign, and the people ashamed ever after to look each other in the face.
The opportunity which was selected for this trial of the spirit of a great, sovereign and a gallant nation, was as ingenious as malice could devise.
On the 13th of April, 1798, the mass of the population of Vienna had voluntarily arrayed themselves in arms, to defend their city, and the palace and the person of their monarch, against the attack of the French army, then supposed to be on its full march to Vienna. It was a movement of sudden and spontaneous loyalty. The Emperor had received it with gratitude and delight—it had been a knowledge and recorded in the public acts of the government, and its anniversary was to be celebrated with ceremonies of civil pomp and religious solemnity—calculated to excite & cherish the impressions of attachment to their country and their sovereign, among all ranks of the people.
On the evening of this day, and during the ferment of these sentiments among the populace, for the first time was the tri-colored flag displayed in triumph at the balcony of the French ambassador's hotel.
Is it to be wondered at? Would the people of Vienna be to be spoken of with patience, much less with respect, if it had not on such an occasion happened that the hatred and resentment so long and from so many causes, kindled among the people, broke out into acts of open violence? The flag was hoisted a little before sunset; and the report of this circumstance suddenly spreading, produced murmurs of discontent among the populace, and occasioned their assembling in small groups in the different streets. One of the chief commissioners of the police immediately waited upon the Ambassador, and pressed him in the most earnest and solemn manner, to order the flag to be removed, declaring that the people were so exasperated, that it was impossible to answer for the consequences, if it were suffered to remain. The ambassador received him with great haughtiness, and putting his hand upon his sword, announced his determination to defend the flag, which was
hoisted, in consequence of orders from the Directory, to the last extremity.
The populace, in the mean time, were approaching in great crowds to the house of the ambassador. They demanded, by loud and incessant cries, that the flag should be taken down, and at length proceeded to assail the house with stones, by which all the windows were soon destroyed. The loudest acclamations of loyalty and attachment to the Emperor, were heard on all sides, accompanied with the strongest expressions of execration and detestation of the French. A final picquet of calvary, with some infantry, soon arrived, but they were unable to check the violence of the people. A boy assisted by those who were next the hotel, mounted to the balcony and pulled down the flag, which was instantly torn, and the standard to which it was attached was burnt.
The resentment of the people, however now put in motion, did not stop here. They burst open the gate of the hotel, threatening in the most violent language to sacrifice the ambassador and all his suite to their vengeance. They demolished every thing they found on the ground floor of the hotel. They laid hold of two of the ambassadors' carriages, and dragged them one to a neighboring square, and the other to the court of the palace, and broke them in pieces. While they were thus employed a considerable detachment of militia arrived, and availing themselves of the absence of the mob, occupied the entrance into the street in which the ambassador's house is situated, and prevented their return.
Marshal Kinsky, the governor of the town, and another officer waited upon the ambassador, and informed him that he had nothing further to apprehend. The gates of the town were shut during the night, to night, to prevent the crowds being increased by the people who were flocking in from all quarters of the suburbs—when they were opened in the morning a picquet of cavalry was stationed at each gate.
Early in the evening Mr. Bernadotte wrote to Baron Thuguet to inform him of the insult offered to him and to demand protection. M de Deglemana was immediately dispatched to him with orders to express the concern with which the Austrian government had learned the disturbance that had taken place and to assure him that an adequate number of troops was already detached to protect him.
In the beginning of the tumult the ambassador invited the ministers of the powers in alliance with France to visit him at his house. The Spanish ambassador and Dutch minister, the former by his secretary, and the latter in writing, expressed their concern that the state of their health did not permit them to leave their room at so late an hour.—On the following morning they both waited upon him, when he declared to them his determination to quit Vienna; and shortly afterwards M de Godin, first secretary of the embassy, attended by an Austrian corporal, passed thro' an immense crowd, bearing in his hand a letter for the emperor. When they arrived at the court of the palace the people appeared to take offence at his national cockade and insolent air, and the crowd began to press upon them on all sides. The corporal then prevailed on him to take refuge in the guard house, where the commanding officer intreated him not to think of penetrating to the emperor, as the passage was crowded with people, and undertook himself to announce the business to the officers in waiting. One of these officers having taken the emperor's commands, came down and received the letter.
The contents of this letter were to require, as the conditions upon which Gen. Bernadotte would consent to stay at Vienna.
1st. The dismissal of the minister Thuguet.—2dly. The immediate & exemplary punishment of the chief of the police, and of the commanding officer of the military.—3dly. The establishment of the privileged quarter in the city of Vienna (already required and refused) for the French mission, and its compatriots.—4thly. That the emperor should repair at his own expense the flag and flag staff, and the picture of the French arms.
It can hardly be necessary to say, that the whole of these demands were peremptorily refused—upon which Bernadotte quitted Vienna denouncing vengeance against the Austrians, and threatening to return and punish on the spot the outrage upon the dignity of the Great Nation!
[Who can patiently read such abominable insolence? It is thus these infernal emissaries insult every nation where they are suffered to reside.]
The last Mail,
Furnished the following late ADVICES FROM EUROPE, by the Venetia, Bates, from Liverpool. Papers to the 24th May.
Official account of the affair at Ostend.
[We have received, by the Venetia, a handbill dated May 24, with an official account of the issue of the English expedition against Ostend.—It is given in several letters, which, of necessity, occasions many repetitions. The following contains every important fact. It may be necessary however to observe, that the Bruges Canal was the grand vein of the inland navigation between Holland, Flanders and France; and its destruction was conceived an object of such importance, that Major Gen. Coote, who commanded the troops on the expedition, observed, that if the surf should prevent the retreat of his men, the success of the enterprise would be a full compensation. The whole number of vessels engaged in the undertaking were 21, large and
small, principally gun boats. Three seamen were killed and sixteen wounded. The number of soldiers made prisoners, private accounts compute at 1300—there is no official statement.] Mercury.
LONDON GAZETTE Extraordinary.
Parliament-street, May 22, 1798.
A DISPATCH, of which the following is a copy, has been this day received by the Rt. Hon. H. Dundas, from Lieut. Col. Warde, of the 1st reg. of guards, dated on board the Expedition frigate, 8 o'clock, P. M. May 20, 1798.
SIR,
In consequence of the Minerva frigate (on board which were the four light infantry companies of the 1st regiment of Foot Guards) having unfortunately lost her situation in the squadron under the command of Capt. Popham of the Royal Navy, during the night of the 18th inst. the command of the remainder of the troops, from that accident, has devolved upon me; and I have the honor to transmit you the most correct account that I have been able to collect.
Early on the morning of the 19th instant the following troops, under the command of Major General Coote, viz. two companies light infantry, Goldstream Guards; two ditto, ditto, 3d Guards; 11th regiment of foot; 23d and 49 flank companies, with six pieces of ordnance, disembarked and effected their landing, at three o'clock in the morning, to the eastward of Ostend, and completed the object of the expedition, by burning a number of boats destined for the invasion of England, and by so completely destroying the Locks and Basin Gates of the Bruges Canal, that it was this morning without a drop of water; and as I understand all the transports fitting out at Flushing were intended to be brought to Ostend and Dunkirk by the inland navigation, to avoid our cruizers, that arrangement will be defeated, and it will be a long time before the works can be repaired, as they were five years finishing, and were of some of the most complete works of the kind in Europe. The troops had retreated, and were ready to re-embark by twelve o'clock the same morning, with the loss of only one rank and file killed, and one seaman wounded, but found it impossible from the wind having increased, and the surf running so high as entirely to prevent their regaining the boats, upon which they took up a position on the Sand Hills above the beach, where they lay the whole of that day and night upon their arms. The enemy taking advantage of the length of time and night, collected in very great force, and soon after day break this morning, attacked them, on every side, when, after a most noble and gallant defence, I am grieved to add, they were under the necessity of capitulating, to a very great superiority of numbers.
I herewith inclose a list of the killed and wounded, and I have every reason to believe it correct.
Lieut. Col. Hely, 11th Foot, killed, Major Gen. Coote, wounded, Colonel Campbell, 3d Guards, wounded, Major Donkin, 44th Foot, wounded, Capt. Walker, Royal Artillery, wounded, And near 60 rank & file killed and wounded. HENRY WARDE, Capt. and Lieut. Col. 1st Guards.
Affair at Marcou.
Advices have been received at the Admiralty from the island of Marcou, stating that a French Flotilla of fifty gun vessels, with 5000 troops had made a vigorous attack upon that place, which was so well prepared to resist the assault, that by a brisk and incessant fire kept up from the batteries, the enemy were soon repulsed with considerable loss, and obliged to return to Havre. Six of their gun boats are stated to have been sunk, and a greater part of the remainder so much damaged that they are supposed to be unfit for further service. Their loss of men, killed and taken prisoners is said to amount to nearly three hundred. We are happy to add that the loss on our side is very trifling.
The king has erased the name of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox from the list of Privy Counsellors.
Some of the Paris papers say, (though there is no official communication on the subject) that Bernadotte is to return to Vienna, "where he will receive that satisfaction which is due to him."
By letters from Vienna of May 2, we learn, that the reports of the renewal of war had considerably increased; in consequence of the indignation which had been manifested by the subjects of his imperial majesty at the conduct of Bernadotte. The French Consul at Trieste had nearly given rise to another riot, by displaying a tri-coloured flag. The preparations for war were carried on with great activity.
It was some time ago intimated to the public, that Mr. Beckford, who had just then come from France, was charged with a proposition to our Ministry from the Executive Directory. We now learn that this proposition was, for the British government to put 50,000. into the private pocket of the Directory, which, it was insinuated, might dispose them to turn a favorable ear to our proposals for peace. The overture was of course rejected with that scorn which all virtuous men must feel at the development of such unexampled baseness and venality.
There are upwards of three hundred Gun Boats lying at Middleburg.
A Paris paper says a forced loan has been imposed upon all persons of property at Rome,
and in the different districts of the Roman Republic. The payments are to be made in the space of 15 months, under the penalty of military execution against those who do not comply with the terms of it.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
The following particulars of this man's arrest, are from a Dublin paper of May 21:
"Information having been received that Lord Edward Fitzgerald was concealed in the house of Mr. Murphy a feather merchant, Mr. Justice Swan, Major S ir , and Captain Ryan went there on Saturday evening last, with a party of soldiers in two carriages.
"Whilst Major S ir and Capt. Ryan were placing the guard to prevent an escape, Mr. Swan got into a small outer office, and from thence into the lower part of the house, and went up stairs, where meeting a woman, he pushed her down, and got into a room on the first floor, where he found a decanter with the remains of some wine, and some glasses on the table, with chairs round it; meeting no person there, he rushed into a back room, two stories high, where he found Murphy, the owner of the house, standing in the room. Lord Edward lying in the bed, with his coat off, and his breeches and stockings on. Mr. Swan informed his Lordship, he had a warrant against him for high treason, was sorry for his situation, but he should receive from him every polite treatment suitable to his rank. His lordship immediately rose up in the bed, darted at him, and he, Mr. Swan, feeling something, as if a pistol was snapped at him, saw Lord Edward snatch a dagger from under the clothes, with which he made several stabs at him, which passed through his clothes without wounding him.
"His lordship then closed upon Mr. Swan, shortened the dagger, and gave him a stab in the side, under the left breast, having first changed it from one hand to the other over his shoulder (as M r . Swan thinks); tho' severely wounded, he was unwilling to take his lordship's life, and desired him frequently to surrender, and endeavored to wrest the dagger from him, and in the struggle his lordship made many violent attempts to repeat his blow; finding the blood running from him, he was compelled, in defence of his own life, to discharge a double barreled pistol at his lordship, and wounded him in the shoulder; he fell on the bed, but recovering himself, ran at him with the dagger, which Mr. Swan caught by the blade with one hand, and endeavored to trip him up: Captain Ryan, directed by the report of the pistol, ran up into the room, and found Mr. Swan bleeding and entangled with Lord Edward; Mr. Swan said to Ryan, "he has murdered me," on which Ryan threw himself upon Lord Edward and Swan, and was then stabbed by his lordship. On Capt. Ryan's approach, Lord Edward made a strong effort, and forced the dagger from Mr. Swan, and rushing on Ryan, gave him a desperate wound in the belly and other places.
"Major S ir then came up, and seeing Lord Edward entangled with Mr. Swan, made at Lord Edward. The soldiers then came up, and would have instantly put his lordship to death, if they had not been restrained. Here Lord Edward was surrounded and disarmed, and bro't prisoner to the castle. Capt. Ryan was so badly wounded, he was obliged to remain in the house for some time, from whence he was removed to the house of Mr. Laurence Tign, of Thomas Street, where he remains dangerously ill. Mr. Swan, after depositing his prisoner in the castle, was carried to his house, having refused to have his wounds dressed until the surgeons had first attended Lord Edward."
French Treaties Annulled.
An act to declare the Treaties heretofore concluded with France, no longer obligatory on the United States.
WHEREAS the treaties concluded between the United States and France have been repeatedly violated on the part of the French government; and the just claims of the United States for reparation of the injuries so committed have been refused, and their attempts to negotiate an amicable adjustment of all complaints between the two nations have been repelled with indignity: and whereas, under the authority of the French government there is yet pursued against the United States, a system of predatory violence, infracting the said treaties, and hostile to the rights of a free and independent nation,
BE it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States are of right freed and exonerated from the stipulations of the treaties, and of the consular convention, heretofore concluded between the United States and France; and the same shall not henceforth be regarded as legally obligatory on the government or citizens of the United States.
[Approved, July 7, 1798] John Adams.

THE GAZETTE.
Portland.
This number completes one quarter since the commencement of THE GAZETTE. The extensive and respectable support which it has acquired in so short a time, excite my warmest gratitude. Already between five and six hundred papers are issued from this press weekly; and every day adds to my list. Gratifying as this must be, it affords equal pleasure to conduct the first paper that has openly reprobated those horrid French and Jacobin principles that have preyed upon the vitals of my country. The numerous letters and expressions of approbation and support, from different parts of the country, strongly evince the liberality and federalism of Maine. Thus supported, I have nothing to fear from my very contemptible opponents. By some means, two jacobins* got on my list, perhaps in expectation that I should favor their party; but those rigid truths that have opened the eyes of the public, have only stung these hardy demo's, and they have withdrawn their names. If any of this description remain, it is hoped they will do likewise, as I do not wish to serve the enemies of my country.
The person who requested the name of a certain author, is informed that threats make me obstinate. EDITOR.
* One of these rebels lately expressed a wish that every American who attempted to defend himself against the French, might meet the fate of the unfortunate Capt. Smith! The Sedition Act, which I shall publish next week, will fix these gentlemen.
Jacobins Discomfited!
The town of Buxton, has in a very handsome and federal manner, annulled the proceedings of the band of Jacobins in that town; which my discerning brother printers, inserted in their consistent and neutral papers, as the proceedings of a whole town! It is thus the Jacobins are every where routed.
The American Cockade is adopted by almost every one who is friendly to his country and the Federal Government.
By advices from St. Domingo, it appears, that the blacks are dreadfully afraid of the effects of the new commercial regulations of this country. They expect to be starved; but may we not rather expect they will cut the throats of their French masters?
The latest papers from Europe speak of something very much like a rebellion in the king of Sardinia's dominions. He has made a peace with France, and peace with her is ruin and death.
The Grand Duke at Florence has experienced the blessings of a peace with France in the same way as the king of Sardinia has. Nothing but conspiracies against his life are talked of. He who shakes hands with France must take good care of his throat!
The brave Capt. Hoon, who was killed in the combat with the French ship of 80 guns, lately captured from the French, died shortly after he received his wound, having repeatedly exclaimed, "Why was I brought below! Why was I not suffered to die at my post?" He stretched out his hand, received the sword of his vanquished enemy, and instantly expired!
Talleyrand, in presenting the new Roman Ambassador, observed with extreme propriety; that France, by conveying liberty to the Romans, had avenged the blood of one of her heroes! Her liberty is, indeed, an avenging sword and a consuming fire.
Citizen Merlin, in presenting Baron Stahl, the Swedish Ambassador, told him, that "the good faith of France was celebrated in all countries."—In Venice, Switzerland and America, for instance.
Commencement at Cambridge. On Wednesday, the period for conferring Collegian Degrees at Harvard University, was observed in the usual manner. The indisposition of the worthy President, however, damped that ardor of conviviality which has commonly distinguished this festive period. Dr. Howard performed, by election, the duties of President. The exercises were judiciously selected, ingeniously discussed, and gracefully pronounced.
Foreign papers insinuate, that the Directory of France, have demanded of the Emperor of Germany, the dismission from Vienna, of the Russian and English ministers, as being the instigators of the steps which have been taken against Bernadotte.
A bill to encourage the capture of the armed vessels of France by the private armed vessels of the United States, by allowing a bounty upon the vessels taken, in proportion to the number of guns which they carry, has been sent to the House from the Senate of the U. S. Mr. Harrison moved to postpone the consideration of this bill until the next session. This motion was negatived 38 to 31, and the bill was committed.
The Sedition Bill, has passed the House of Representatives; of course it becomes a law.
The Congress of the United States adjourned on Monday last.
Capt. Conway, arrived at Baltimore, from Cape-Francois, informs, that an express arrived there the 25th June, with intelligence, that 10 sail of the line and a number of frigates, had arrived at St Domingo from Spain.
Capt. Truxton, arrived at Baltimore from Arquin, informs, that provisions are very scarce and dear, particularly at Port-au-Prince; that they had not sufficient to subsist on a fortnight. Flour 24 dls. a barrel.
The Baltimore Federal Gazette of the 11th inst. says, "it is reported that Capt. Truxton, of the Constellation frigate, has taken a French privateer, and that she is on her way up the bay,"
The United States brig Unanimity, commanded by capt. Cochran, designed for a cruiser off the southern coast, has failed from Charleston.
It is said Victor Hugues has ordered his privateers to give no quarters to resisting Americans. He may next cry for quarters from those he now persecutes.
Victor Hugues, the faithful agent of the French Directory, is continued in office for a further term of 18 months.
Three French frigates are said to be on their way to the American coast.
Fifteen dwelling houses were consumed by fire, at Quebec, on the 20th ult.
Three waggon loads of Crowns have been lately sent to the National Mint from New York.
Capt. Cole, who arrived at Boston on Thursday last, from Malaga, via Gibraltar, informs, that it was the general opinion at both places, that a speedy accommodation would take place between Great Britain and Spain. While he was at Gibraltar, Ad. Nelson failed into the straits with a fleet, avowedly to take from the harbour of Malaga, two Spanish frigates which were laying there. They were to be demanded, and if not given up, it was designed to batter the city. Capt. Cole speaks with confidence of their success.
The Ladies do not fail to evince their federalism. At Deerfield a number met on the 4th of July, on a tea party—after tea, a number of toasts were drunk—among others the following:
May each Columbian Sister perceive and pursue the insidious system of exterminating Jacobinism. While we open our arms to the loves of our hearts, may we never be deceived to Jacobinic embraces.
MARRIED—At Berwick, on Sunday evening, July 15, by the Rev. John Thompson, TIMOTHY HOVEY, Esq. to Miss MARY LORD, eldest daughter of Mr. Mark Lord.
DIED—In this town on Wednesday last, Mrs. ELIZABETH DOUGLASS, aged 75. On board the ship Butler, 11th inst. on the homeward bound passage, Mr. Clark Alden, of Rhode Island.
FOR THIS GAZETTE.
Communication.
IT was a master piece of Machiavellian diplomacy to take us on all our weak sides at once. France knew that we had had great struggles to get the federal government established, and the minority that were against it were good materials for her party. She knew too that the government having made no experiment of the new machine might probably be easily intimidated. She knew that we were not one and indivisible like herself, but subsisted by alliance and federation, of which the constitution was the only band; so that this very constitution was her worst difficulty and greatest obstacle; for if it could be set aside, the single States would be as apt subjects of intrigue as she could wish. Upon this ground its poor blind enemies among ourselves were her natural tools, and, simple souls, they are always ready for any kind of mischief out of pure patriotism. France knew that we had but just escaped from the war with England, who was likely to prove her most powerful enemy, and here again it was ten to one that she could get the people, right or wrong, expedient or ruinous, to bully the government into another war with England. She also knew that the sound of "Liberty!" which still vibrated in the American atmosphere, would operate as wonders on that benevolence which our own emancipation had excited—and that we should toss our caps as high, and shout Ga Ira as loud as the sans culottes themselves. What a fine basis of facts, to build an appeal to our "Gratitude" upon, when we put it into French language!—"Sister republic, we fought for you, and bled for your side; we are now learning from you to be free, and are opposed by the whole world—Oh, give us at least, your good wishes!"
Traitors!—At this very moment she was availing herself of the most pernicious intrigues, and of the most daring presumptions. Genet, a name that in any modern mythology of hell, would take the place of Milton's Belial, set every engine to work to possess the public mind, and the good naured people suffered him without resentment, and even saw him without surprize, assume a loftier carriage than the President himself and brow beat him in the most public manner. With a licence unbounded he construed treaties at pleasure, and wholly despised the "worm eat" laws of nations. He cajoled the multitude and hastened by the most rapid strides to ruin the nation. As a mark of the beast which is in all of us, we recollect that the system of terror then practised in France was introduced in America, and our own citizens without rhyme or reason, and under the very best possible government, were taught by this root of evil to threaten each other with the guillotine! Americans! are you not ashamed of being so cunningly surprised and jockeyed?—The writer of this, and many others, about this time had very significant threats from the false people, or democratic society, and they even held up the idea that 100,000 armed men were ready to bully Congress into French measures. Suicides and fools!—France, like a crocodile, was shedding tears of sympathy and gratulation, and these idiots ran right into her jaws.
While Robespierre was Dictator, and the murderous Jacobins in power in France, the French engine to insert their influence in other nations was popular societies in imitation of their own, and which they might govern. Just so now, wherever France conquers she makes a Republic, as she calls it, either Cis palum, Ligurian, Trans-Rhenane, Lombardian or Roman. I might except the case of Venice which she took merely because she wanted it to exchange with the Emperor for Belgium. Admit that France had conquered us—pray Messrs. Jacobins, how would you go to work to make a Republic of the United States?—Where are your crucibles, and your philosopher's stone?—Without the abilities of a common tinkler, how would you set about this vessel?—It is clear that you could do nothing but what the latter of you have always done i. e. raise a vast smother of audacious wickedness to conceal the most contemptible imbecility of mind—But come, tell us how you would make a Republic of the States?—In the first place, I suppose, your bungling wits would make us "one and indivisible," and so away would go at one French dash of a pen the state governments—and your Findlegs, and your Smiles who were so terribly afraid of a "consolidation" by the federal constitution, must wheel to the right about, and confess that they like it better when done by France than if we had done it ourselves. For these fellows are Jacobins, in common with other opponents of the constitution. Next I suppose your unhallowed hands would strike down the Executive, and substitute a Directory—for could not France govern five, or at least perplex them, easier than one?—so of the rest—and then France would "lend" you 50,000 men* to put your republic in motion keep it right, and beget Jacobins upon your virgins.
There is not, even in the limbo of vanity, one assignable reason why any American should be opposed to the constitution or administration of the United States. The peevishness of overgrown liberty and second childhood, the little vanity of momentary consequence, and the insatiable rapacity of the daughters of the horseleech, among us, have been alike the dupes of wily France; and shame—deep shame and indelible disgrace is stamped upon the American history. I shall shew that the Jacobins have been the cause of all this, and of every evil under which we labour. (To be continued.)
* This is the practice of France whenever they new model a government.
Marine Articles.
Port of Portland.
Monday last, arrived ship Butler, Jones, 15 days from Cape Nicholas Mile.
Wednesday, arrived brig —, Alden from the Mole.
Thursday, arrived ship Betsey, Hart, from Martinique.
Saturday night arrived, ship Commerce, Chamberlain, from Martinique.
Yesterday arrived, ship Fortitude, Dyer, from Martinique; brig Polly, Lowell, ditto; Schooner Union, La Rabee, ditto; Schooner —, McLean, ditto; and sloop —, Gray, ditto. Also, Schooner Mary and Betsey, Crois from Demarara.
Most of the above vessels sailed with a convoy of 200 sail for different parts of the continent. The Commerce, Chamberlain, who has several French passengers on board was boarded by a French pirate, after leaving the convoy, and robbed of a great quantity of military articles.
Particulars of the First Capture:
Being the first Installment to Talleyrand's Douceur!
From Philad. July 9.
Yesterday Capt. Decatur, of the United States sloop Delaware arrived at the Navy Office. He informs, that the Delaware sailed on Friday last, and on Saturday evening captured a French privateer Schooner of 12 guns and 70 men, close in with Egg Harbour, and last evening the prize was brought to Fort Mifflin. Capt. Decatur left his ship at Newcastle and brought this intelligence to town. Capt. D. after he had got to sea on Sunday morning, met with the ship Alexander Hamilton, from New York to Baltimore: the Captain of which informed him that he had been plundered by a French privateer, and gave him directions what course he had steered. Capt. D. immediately went in search of her, and soon got in sight of four Schooners; but not knowing which was the armed Schooner that he had received information of, he thought it best to stand off as if he were a merchantman, and alarmed at what might be armed vessels.
The manoeuvre had the intended effect, for the armed Schooner gave her chase, until she discovered the Delaware to be a vessel of force, when she attempted to sheer off and get in land (where she supposed she could be free, taking the Delaware for an English vessel of war) but she was obliged to surrender after a pretty long chase to the Delaware, and several shots being fired at her. The privateer is a new vessel, said to have been built at Baltimore. She sailed from Cape Francois on the 19th June, and has been on our coast only two days, during which time she has captured the ship Liberty, Captain Verbenke, which sailed from New York since from this port for Liverpool; the vessel was fast to the West Indies, and the Capt. and crew of the Liberty were put on board a vessel bound for Boston. This privateer had also taken an English brig.
This capture has excited universal satisfaction in this city, and the bells are now celebrating it. This joy must not be looked upon as inspired merely by the taking of a privateer of 12 guns and 70 men, but as the beginning of the good work; the epoch in which we are to date the expulsion of the Sans-culottes and of the Jacobin principles from America; in short, we celebrate it as the commencement of a war, a war which is to wipe off the deep disgrace which these insolent miscreants have imprinted on the American nation and name; and seeing the capture in this point of view, it is an event of national importance, it ought to excite universal joy, and the man, by whose spirited and judicious conduct it was achieved, merits universal applause.
A few copies of Mr. KING's Oration for sale at this Office.—Price 12 1/2 cents.
Affixe of Bread,
Stated by the Selectmen of Portland, for direction to the Bakers and Clerk of the Market, July 21, 1798.
   lb. ss. dr.     A Biscuit of three coppers price, well baked, 0 9 12   A four pence half penny white loaf, well baked, 1 6   Bread of other prices in proportion.  
SAMUEL FREEMAN, Chairman.
SHEEP SKINS!
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S. Bird, Leather-Dresser. Portland, July 23.
POWDER.
THE Selectmen of any town, or other persons who are in want of musket or cannon POWDER, may know at the Post Office in Portland, where they can purchase a supply on reasonable terms. July 23.

POETRY.
To COLUMBIA.
To Columbia, who, gladly reclin'd at her ease, On Atlantic's broad bosom lay smiling in peace...
Rous'd, Columbia rose up, and indignant declar'd, That no nation she'd wrong'd and no nation she fear'd...
Minerva smil'd cheerfully as she withdrew, Enraptur'd to find her Americans true;
Jove rejoic'd in Columbians this union to see, And swore by old Styx they deserv'd to be free;
Minerva resolv'd that her Aegis she'd lend; And Apollo declar'd he their cause would defend;
Ye sons of Columbia then join hand in hand; Divided we fall, but united we stand;
THE SOLDIER'S ADIEU.
HARK! hark! sweet lass, the trumpet sounds, 'Tis honor calls to war;
Ah! hush, fond lass, those rising sighs, Ah! check that falling tear;
My life to fame devoted was, Before my fair I knew;
It is not fame alone invites, Tho' fame this bosom warms;
[Communicate.]
Says Henry to his spouse one morn, Now twenty years of love are gone;
THE COLLECTION.
"A THING OF SHREDS AND PATCHES."
PRESIDENT ADAMS.—The following is an extract from "A Tour in Holland," in 1784.
"IN popularity and influence at this court (the Hague) Mr. Adams undoubtedly bears the palm in the Diplomatic Body.
"He may indeed be considered as a veteran in politics, having long acted a conspicuous and important part, and acquired vast experience at several of the courts of Europe...
SCRAP OF HISTORY.—Sir Francis Bacon, being once ask'd, what was his opinion as to the assumed legislative right of punishing for murder with death...
SUPERSTITION.—A countryman, a few days ago, walked eight miles to a small town with a few old coffin nails...
A method to make Cider Spirits equal to good Brandy.
TAKE especial care that the cider is put into clean vessels, free from must or other disagreeable smells, and avoid running the low wines two long...
The above is not from theory, but has been practised with constant success for more than 20 years by Joseph Cooper...
Characteristics of the French!
DISPLAYED IN Extracts from the "Bloody Buoy."
"Mrs. LAILLET informs the tribunal, that six young ladies, of the name of Lameterye, were sent to Bouffay.
"Laillet deposes, that Deron came to the popular society with a man's ear, pinned to the national cockade...
"Laurence informs the tribunal, that he saw, at one time, three hundred men conducted to the water. They were all naked...
(To be continued.)
REMOVED.
Jesse Richards,
INFORMS his customers and the public that he has removed from his shop at the head of Titcomb's wharf...
HATS
of every description. Those who may favor him with their commands, shall receive every attention.
Isabella Child,
Has for sale at her shop in Fifth-street, a fresh assortment of
GOODS,
suitable for the season.
TAMBORE, Japan and plain Jack-onet Mullins. Chickered, bordered and sheer ditto. Black Mullin, ditto Italian Crapes...
Also, a large assortment of
SHOES,
of all kinds. Hair Powder, Raisins, and a number of other articles, which will be sold cheap.
MILLENNARY, done in the latest fashions.
FLOUR.
SUPERFINE and fine Baltimore and Philadelphia FLOUR, of an excellent quality, for sale by WALTER SIMONTON.
Notice.
WHEREAS SAMUEL WARD, who now lives in the town of Gorham who holds a note of hand against me the subscriber...
BENJAMIN CHIPMAN.
Ten Dollars Reward.
DESERTED, from brigantine Joseph, JOHN CHASE, about six feet high, light complexion, long dark hair...
ASA CLAP.
Ran Away,
FROM the English ship Admiral Duncom, Capt. CUTHBERTSON, JOHN SMITH, an apprentice boy, about fourteen years old...
JOHN PILE.
To the Honorable the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland...
EBENEZER LANE, and Ebenezer Lane, jun. both of New Gloucester, in said county, yeomen, and Job Lane of Poland...
SAMUEL THATCHER, Attorney for EBENEZER LANE, EBENEZER LANE, JUN. JOB LANE.
At a Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cumberland, begun and holden at Portland, in said county, on the last Tuesday of April, A. D. 1798.
ON the petition of Ebenezer Lane, and others, whereof the foregoing is a copy, the Court order, That the petitioners cause all persons interested to be notified thereof...
Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk.
Latest Prices Current
AT BOSTON—PER QUANTITY.
Table with multiple columns listing various goods (e.g., Ashes, Butter, Beef, Brandy) and their corresponding prices per quantity.
Wanted, As an apprentice to the Leather dressing business, a LAD about 15 or 16 years old...
One Cent Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber on the 22d ult. BENJAMIN HAYES, an indentured apprentice, about 17 years old...
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