The gazette (Portland, Me.), 1799-03-25 00:00:00

The Gazette.
[NUMBER 48.]
By ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, Portland, Maine.
[VOLUME 1.]
MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1799.
A Torrent of Eloquence,
From the pen of the late Right Honorable EDMUND BURKE.
The following is an extract from Mr. Burke's "Third Letter to a Member of Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France," published since his death.—Mr. B. (say the Reviewers) instead of the whining, pitiul conduct of Mr. Pitt, on the return of Lord Malmesbury from France, would have had the minister adopt the language of menace, and assume the attitude of defiance. Here (say they) he pours out a torrent of eloquence, so powerful and so terrible, that we cannot withhold it from our readers."
AFTER such an elaborate display had been made of the injustice and in- solence of an enemy, who seems to have been irritated by every one of the means which had been commonly used with effect to sooth the rage of intemperate power, the natural result would be, that the scabbard, in which we in vain attempted to plunge our sword, should have been thrown away with scorn. It would have been natural, that, rising in the fulness of their might, insulted majesty, despised dignity, violated justice, rejected supplication, patience goaded into fury, would have poured out all the length of the reins upon all the wrath which they had so long restrained. It might have been expected, that emulous of the glory of the youthful hero* in alliance with him, touched by the example of what one man, well formed and well placed, may do in the most desperate state of affairs, convinced there is a courage of the cabinet full as powerful and far less vulgar than that of the field, our minister would have changed the whole line of that unprosperous prudence, which hitherto had produced all the effects of the blindest temerity. If he found his situation full of danger (and I do not deny that it is perilous in the extreme) he must feel that it is also full of glory; and that he is placed on a stage, than which no muse of fire that had ascended the highest heaven of invention, could imagine any thing more awful and august. It was hoped, that in this swelling scene, in which he moved with some of the first potentates of Europe for his fellow actors, and with so many of the rest for the anxious spectators of a part, which, as he plays it, determines forever their destiny and his own, like Ulysses, in the unravelling point of the epic story, he would have thrown off his patience and his rags together; and, stripped of unworthy disguises, he would have stood forth in the form and in the attitude of an hero.—On that day, it was thought he would have assumed the port of Mars; that he would bid to be brought forth from their hideous kennel (where his scrupulous tenderness had too long immured them) those impatient dogs of war, whose fierce regards affright even the minister of Vengeance that feeds them; that he would let them loose, in famine, fever, plagues, and death, upon a guilty race, to whose frame, and to all whole habits, order, peace, religion, and virtue, are alien and abhorrent.—It was expected that he would at last have thought of active and effectual war; that he would no longer amuse the British lion in the chase of mice and rats; that he would no longer employ the whole naval power of Great Britain, once the terror of the world, to prey upon the miserable remains of a peddling commerce, which the enemy did not regard, and from which none could profit. It was expected that he would have re-asserted the justice of his cause; that he would have re-animated whatever remained to him of his allies, and endeavoured to recover those whom their fears had led astray; that he
would have re-kindled the martial ardor of his citizens; that he would have held out to them the example of their ancestry, the assessor of Europe, and the scourge of French ambition; that he would have reminded them of a posterity, which, if this nefarious robbery, under the fraudulent name and false colour of a government, should in full power be seated in the heart of Europe, must forever be consigned to vice, impiety, barbarism, and the most ignominious slavery of body and mind. In so holy a cause, it was presumed that he would (as in the beginning of the war he did) have opened all the temples; and with prayer, with fasting, and with supplication (better directed than to the grim moloch of regicide in France) have called upon us to raise that united cry, which has so often stormed heaven, and with a pious violence forced down blessings upon a repentant people. It was hoped that when he had invoked upon his endeavours the favourable regard of the Protector of the human race, it would be seen that his menaces to the enemy, and his prayers to the Almighty, were not followed, but accompanied, with correspondent action. It was hoped that his shrilling trumpet should be heard, not to announce a shew, but to sound a charge."
* The Archduke Charles of Austria.
By Authority.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine.
An act to divide the county of Lincoln and to constitute the Northerly part thereof a separate county, by the name of the county of Kennebec .
SECT. 1. BE it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same. That the county of Lincoln shall be divided by a line beginning on the westerly line of the county of Hancock , at a place from which a line running west north west, shall strike the northeasterly corner of the town of Harlem , from thence running south easterly by the easterly line of said town to the southeasterly corner thereof, thence southwesterly on a strait line to the northeasterly corner of Pittston , thence by the easterly line of said Pittston to the southeasterly corner thereof, thence westerly by the southerly line of said Pittston to the south westerly corner of said town last mentioned, thence north westerly by the westerly line of said Pittston to the mouth of Purgatory-stream (so called) which empties itself into Cobbessecatee stream (so called) thence west north west to the east line of the town of Monmouth , thence southerly by the east line of said Monmouth , to the southeasterly corner thereof, thence westerly by the southerly line of said Monmouth , to the westerly corner of said town, thence west to the easterly line of the town of Greene , thence southerly by the easterly line of said Greene to the southeasterly corner thereof, and thence westerly by the southerly line of said Greene to Androscoggin river , or the dividing line between the counties of Cumberland and Lincoln ; and that the county of Lincoln aforesaid be, and the same is hereby declared to be bounded, northerly and westerly by the line aforesaid.
SECT. 2. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid. That all and every part and parcel of the late county of Lincoln , situated on the northerly and westerly side of the aforesaid dividing line, and extending northerly & westerly so as to comprehend all the territory, lying between the counties of Cumberland and Hancock , and on the northerly and westerly side of the dividing line aforesaid, shall be, and the same hereby is formed and erected into an entire and distinct county, by the name of Kennebec , of which Augusta shall be the shire or county town: and the inhabitants of the said county of Kennebec , shall have and possess, use, exercise, and enjoy, all the powers, rights, and immunities, which by the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth the inhabitants of any county within the same, have, possess, use, exercise, enjoy, and are entitled to.
SECT. 3. And be it further Enacted. That there shall be held and kept within the said county of Kennebec a Court of General Sessions of the Peace and a Court of Common Pleas, to be holden, in and for the same county, at Augusta ,
aforesaid, on the second Tuesdays of June and Dec. annually, and also a Supreme Judicial Court, to be holden at Augusta , aforesaid, in & for the same county, on the third Tuesday next following the fourth Tuesday of June, annually, and the Justices of the said Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and Court of Common Pleas, when lawfully appointed, commissioned, and qualified, shall have, hold, exercise and enjoy all the powers and authority which are given and granted to Justices of like Courts in any other county within this Commonwealth; and all Judicial Courts within the county of Kennebec shall bear the same legal relation to each other, by process and legal proceedings of every kind, as the like Courts do in other counties of this Commonwealth.
SECT. 4. And be it further Enacted. That the method and proceedings directed by law, for choosing a County Treasurer and Register of Deeds, and the modes, forms, and proceedings, known and practiced in bringing forward and trying actions, causes, pleas or suits, and of originating and conducting legal processes of every kind, whether civil or criminal in the Judicial Courts, established in the several counties in this Commonwealth, and for choosing persons to serve as jurors at said courts, shall be observed and put in practice, used and exercised within the said county of Kennebec . Provided however, That the county Treasurer and Register of Deeds, for said county of Kennebec , shall, for the first time, originate in the same manner, as is prescribed by law where vacancies happen by death or resignation.
SECT. 5. And be it further Enacted. That deeds, conveyances, and transfers of real estate of every kind, which shall happen or take place prior to the appointment of a person for Register of Deeds within and for said county of Kennebec , and to his being qualified to discharge the duties of that office, may be recorded in the office of Register of Deeds in and for the county of Lincoln , and such Registering shall have the same effect and operation, as though recorded in the Registry of Deeds for said county of Kennebec .
SECT. 6. And be it further Enacted. That the several towns, districts and plantations, within the said county of Kennebec , shall pay to the Treasurer of the county of Lincoln , their due proportion of all county taxes, that shall have been granted prior to the day when this Act shall begin to operate; and the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, in and for the county of Lincoln , shall have the same powers and authority to proceed with and assess upon all such towns, districts and plantations, severally, their due proportion of all such taxes, which shall be granted as aforesaid, in the same manner as if this Act had never passed; and the Assessors of all such towns, districts and plantations, and the inhabitants thereof, severally, shall be governed by, and subject to the same Laws of this Commonwealth, and held, bound, and obliged to perform the same duties, and be under the same penalties, with respect to assessing and paying all such taxes, as if this Act had never passed; and the Treasurer of the said county of Lincoln , shall be, and hereby is directed, and empowered to proceed in the same manner for the collection of such taxes, and shall have the same powers and authority to collect and levy the same by warrants of distress, in due form of Law, as if this Act had never passed; and all lawful precepts issued by said Treasurer for the county of Lincoln , for the collection or levying such taxes, directed to the proper officer, within and for the county of Kennebec , shall be duly obeyed by such officer, under the same penalty; and such officer shall be liable to be proceeded with for any default therein, in the same manner, as in like case, where a similar default happens in any county in this Commonwealth, within, and to which both said Treasurer and officer belong; and the said county of Kennebec shall be held to pay their due and just proportion of all debts that shall be due and owing from the said county of Lincoln on the day and time when this Act shall come into operation. And after the payment of such debts shall be entitled to their due proportion of all monies and credits which may belong to the present county of Lincoln on the first day of April next.
SECT. 7. And be it further Enacted. That this Act shall begin to operate and be in force on the first day of April next, and not before.
SECT. 8. And be it further Enacted. That all actions and civil suits, of every name and kind, now pending in the Supreme Judicial Court, next to be holden in and for the county of Lincoln , and for the counties of Lincoln , Hancock and Washington in July next, or which may be commenced and brought forward to have day in said Supreme Judicial Court, before the said first day of April next, in which real estate shall be sued for that is situated in the county of Kennebec , or in which the original plaintiff or plaintiffs, petitioner or petitioners, one or more of them reside within said county of Kennebec , or in which, the original plaintiff or plaintiffs, petitioner or petitioners, do not live or reside within the present county of Lincoln , and the adverse party do not live and reside within the
county of Kennebec , and all indictments and criminal prosecutions of every kind for offences committed within the county of Kennebec , together with all recognizances, scire facias , and suits, wherein the Commonwealth is a party, and the adverse party resides within the county of Kennebec , shall be transferred and removed to, be heard, tried, and have day, entered and proceeded upon, in the said Supreme Judicial Court, which shall be next holden in and for said county of Kennebec , & all the papers and documents, belonging to all such actions, suits, petitions, indictments, criminal prosecutions and recognizances that shall be filed in the Clerk's office of said Court, within the county of Lincoln , shall be delivered over by him to the Clerk of said Court that shall be appointed for the said county of Kennebec . And all actions and civil suits of every kind pending in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and Common Pleas, which by law are to be holden at Walthborough , in and for the county of Lincoln , on the first Tuesday of June next, or which shall be commenced or brought forward to have day in either of said Courts last mentioned, before the first day of April next, or before a Clerk shall be duly appointed and qualified as such, for said Courts, in and for the said county of Kennebec , in which real estate shall be used for, that is situated in the county of Kennebec , or the original plaintiff or plaintiffs, petitioner or petitioners, one or more of them, reside in the county of Kennebec , or in which the original plaintiff or plaintiffs, petitioner or petitioners do not live or reside within the present county of Lincoln , and the adverse party do live or reside within the county of Kennebec ; and all indictments and criminal prosecutions of every kind for offences committed within the county of Kennebec , together with all recognizances, scire facias , and suits wherein the Commonwealth are a party, and the adverse party live or reside within the county of Kennebec , shall be transferred and removed to be heard, tried, and have day, entered and proceeded upon, in the said Courts of General Sessions and Common Pleas, respectively, which shall next be holden within and for the county of Kennebec ; and all papers and documents, belonging to such actions, suits, indictments and criminal prosecutions, filed in the office of the Clerk of said Courts last mentioned for the county of Lincoln , shall be by him delivered over to the Clerk of the same Courts for the county of Kennebec .
SECT. 9. And be it further Enacted. That all laws heretofore made, providing for holding Courts of General Sessions of the Peace, and Common Pleas, for the county of Lincoln , at Augusta , on the second Tuesday of January, & at Waldoboro' , on the second Tuesday of September, annually, be, and the same are hereby repealed; and instead thereof.
SECT. 10. Be it further Enacted. That there shall be held and kept a Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and a Court of Common Pleas at Warren , in and for the county of Lincoln , on the first Tuesday of November, annually.
SECT. 11. And be it further Enacted. That the said county of Kennebec , for the choice of Senators, shall be considered as forming a part of the district heretofore known by the name of the counties of Lincoln , Hancock and Washington , any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding; and that the inhabitants thereof shall have and enjoy the same rights and privileges, with respect to the election of Senators, as if this Act had never passed: and the several towns & plantations, within that part of the county of Kennebec , which is comprehended within the first eastern district for the choice of Federal Representative, shall have and enjoy the same rights and privileges, and be subject to the same restrictions, as are provided by law; and all returns of votes for Senators and Federal Representatives within the county of Kennebec , shall be made in the same manner and under the same penalties, as is by law provided in other Counties within this Commonwealth.
In the House of Representatives, Feb. 16. 1799. This Bill, having had three several readings, passed to be enacted.
EDW. H. ROBBINS, Speaker.
In Senate, Feb. 16, 1799. This Bill, having had two several readings, passed to be enacted.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President.
Feb. 20, 1799.—By the Governor Approved.
INCREASE SUMNER.
Attest, JOHN AVERY, Secretary.
THE subscribers, administrators on the estates of John Burnham & John Burnham, jun. late of Portland, deceased, hereby give notice to all persons who are indebted to, or who have any demands against said estates, to exhibit their accounts for settlement by the first of August next. The subscribers will attend for that purpose on the first and third Thursdays of each previous month, at the dwelling of THOMAS BURNHAM in Portland.
Thomas Burnham, Josiah Burnham,
Portland, Feb. 23, 1799.

By the last Mail.
"Let our CANNON declare the free charter of trade."
Official Account
OF THE CAPTURE OF THE FRENCH FRIGATE L'INSURGENTE.
Extract of a letter from Capt. THOMAS TRUXTON, to the Secretary of the Navy, dated on board the United States ship Constellation in sight of the island of St. Christophers, Feb. 10, 1799.
DEAR SIR, I WROTE you the 4th inst. to which I must beg leave to refer and soon after weighed from Basseterre road, St. Christophers, and proceeded to sea, having made the necessary arrangements with the merchants and masters of vessels for a convoy, to sail this day for the United States, under the charge of the Norfolk and Richmond, which vessels I directed to cruise, in the mean time, near St. Bartholomews and St. Martins, so as to be at hand to proceed with the convoy at the time appointed. As soon as I left the road of Basseterre (which I did with the Constellation solus) I stretched under Montserrat and towards Gaudaloupe by the wind, and from thence under the lee of Antigua and Barbuda. In this route I only met two merchant vessels, and a British frigate. I therefore thought it best to change my ground, which I did, and run down towards the island of Nevis, and on the 9th inst. at noon, that island bearing W. S. W. five leagues distance, discovered a large ship to southward, on which I bore down. She hoisted American colours, and I made our private signals for the day, as well as that of the British, but finding she answered neither, I immediately suspected her to be an enemy, and in a short time after found, that my suspicions were well founded, for she hoisted the French national colours, and fired a gun to windward (which is a signal of an enemy.) I continued bearing down on her, and at a quarter past 3 P. M. she hailed me several times; and as soon as I got in a position for every shot to do execution, I answered by commencing a close and successful engagement, which lasted until about half past 4 P. M. when she struck her colours to the United States ship Constellation, and I immediately took possession of her. She proved to be the celebrated French national frigate Insurgente, of 40 guns and 407 men, late out from France, commanded by Monsieur Bureau, and is esteemed one of the fastest sailing ships in the French navy. I have been much shattered in my rigging and sails, and my foretopmast rendered, from wounds, useless; you may depend the enemy is not less so.
I intend to get into Basseterre road, St. Christophers, if possible, with my prize; but the wind being adverse and blowing hard, I much doubt, in the crippled state of both ships, whether I shall effect it, and if not, I must make a port to leeward. The high state of our discipline, with the gallant conduct of my officers and men, would have enabled me to have compelled a more formidable enemy to have yielded, had the fortune of war thrown one in my way;—as it is, I hope the President & my country, will, for the present, be content with a very fine frigate being added to our infant navy, and that too with the loss of only one man killed, and two wounded, while the enemy had (the French surgeon reports) 52 or 53 killed and wounded. Several were found dead in the tops, &c. and thrown overboard 18 hours after we had possession. I must not omit, in this hasty detail, to do justice to Monsieur Bureau, for he defended his ship manfully, and from my raking him several times fore and aft, and being athwart his stern ready with every gun to fire when he struck his colours, we may impute the conflict not being more bloody on our side, for had not these advantages been taken, the engagement would not have ended so soon, for the Insurgent was completely officered and manned.
INSURGENT'S WEIGHT OF METAL.
 4 Cannon, 36 Pounders,  2 ditto, 24 ditto.  2 ditto, 18 ditto.  24 ditto, 12 ditto.  8 ditto, 6 ditto.  40 Guns. 
Extract of a letter from Capt. THOMAS TRUXTON, to the Secretary of the Navy, dated 14th February.
"On the 13th, after the greatest exertions having been made, we gained these roads with both ships, & anchored them safe about noon. It is impossible for me to state to you the joy demonstrated by the inhabitants on this occasion; the ship was filled with gentlemen of the first dignities in the island, and a salute requested, in order that it might be returned, which was complied with on my part, particularly as it came from a member of the king's council, Mr. Tyson, an old friend of mine of many year's standing.
I have just received a polite letter of congratulation from the commander in chief, who offers me every service in his power; and I have directed all the wounded from the Insurgente to be immediately landed, and sent to the hospital.
The following is an accurate return made me this morning by lieutenant Rogers, commanding the prize, taken from the examining officers of the killed and wounded on board the Insurgente, viz.
 killed, 29  badly wounded, 22  wounded more slightly, 19 
Total killed and wounded, 70
We had, as I wrote you before, only one man killed, and two badly wounded, one of which is since dead, the other is a midshipman, Mr. M'Donough, who lost his foot; an ordinary seaman was afterwards discovered to be slightly wounded: this is the whole number lost and injured on board the Constellation.
I shall proceed to repair the damages sustained to both ships as speedily as possible, and until the pleasure of the United States is known. I intend to give Lieut. John Rogers an order to command the Insurgente. He was one of the first Lieutenants appointed, has a claim to being among the first promotions, but a very strong one, for behaving well, and being the first lieutenant of the Constellation, at the capture of the first governmental ship of any consequence ever made by the arms of the United States at sea since our being known as a nation; the other officers I shall appoint in the same way.
My gun deck is divided into three divisions, the first of 5 guns, and opposite superintended by the first lieutenant, Mr. Rogers. The second of five guns, and opposite by the second lieutenant, Mr. Cuper. The third of four guns, and opposite, by the third Lieut. Mr. Sterrett. The zeal of these three officers in performing their duty, and complying strictly with my orders, cannot be surpassed, but I must not, in praise of them, be silent as to the good conduct of Mr. Shirly, the master, and Mr. Archer the 4th lieutenant, who acted their part near my person on the quarter deck, and who are also deserving of notice, but for the honor of our nation, I must declare that it is impossible for officers, and men in any service to have behaved better than my people did generally on this occasion; it must therefore not be understood, because I have mentioned the names of a few of the principal gentlemen, that those of an inferior grade in their stations are less deserving; on the contrary, to the latter I always feel myself most indebted for their exertions in the hour of battle, as they have generally much less at stake, than those in higher stations, and consequently less inducement to display their valour."
Letter from Capt. TRUXTON—dated
"United States ship Constellation, Basseterre Road, St. Christophers, 17th Feb. 1799. Before this can reach you, the capture of the Insurgente, French national frigate, of 40 guns and 400 men, taken by the arms of the United States (in sight of this island) on board of the above ship, after an action of one hour and a quarter, will no doubt be known to you in Baltimore."
"The Captain of the Insurgente observed that my taking of him would be considered a declaration of war against France. I told him if the capture of a national vessel was to be considered as a declaration of war, his taking of the Retaliation, which belonged to the United States, was certainly a declaration of war against us on the part of France. However be it war or be it peace, I told him I should certainly take every French frigate and other French armed vessel I met with, if not overpowered, and of this determination I requested he would inform General DESFORNEAUX."
"I have sent up a cartel to Gaudaloupe, in hopes of exchanging the prisoners. If I can get men I will have the Insurgente cruising with me by the 1st of March."
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
A letter from Capt. TRUXTON, to Mr. YALLOTT, of Baltimore, gives the Insurgent's complement of men, as under:—
 52 Officers sent to Gaudaloupe.  180 in prison ships, some slightly wounded.  100 in gun in Buffeterre.  34 in hospital, wounded.  29 killed and died of wounds.  14 retained on board the Constellation, &c. 
409 in all.
The third Lieutenant of the Constellation, Mr. Sterrett, of Baltimore, has written his brother, an account of the action, at the conclusion of which he says: "One fellow I was obliged to run through the body with my sword, and so put an end to a coward. You must not think this strange, for we would put a man to death for even looking pale on board this ship." The sailor's name thus killed, was Neal Harvey.
The West-India papers do justice to this brilliant exploit. Recruiting parties were opened at St. Thomas's, and other places, to man the prize.
By the PRESIDENT Of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, A Proclamation.
WHEREAS combinations to defeat the execution of the laws for the valuation of lands and dwelling houses within the United States, have existed in the counties of Northampton, Montgomery and Bucks, in the State of Pennsylvania, and have proceeded in a manner subversive of the just authority of the Government, by misrepresentation to render the laws odious, by deterring the public officers of the United States to forbear the execution of their functions, and by openly threatening their lives: And whereas the endeavours of the well affected citizens, as well as of the Executive officers, to conciliate a compliance with those laws, have failed of success, and certain persons, in the county of Northampton aforesaid, have been hardy enough to perpetrate certain acts, which I am advised amount to treason, being overt acts of levying war against the United States; the said persons exceeding one hundred in number, and armed and arrayed in a warlike manner, having on the seventh day of this present month of March, proceeded to the house of Abraham Levering, in the town of Bethlehem, and there compelled William Nicholas, Marshal of the United States, in and for the District of Pennsylvania, to desist from the execution of certain legal process in his hands to be executed, and having compelled him to discharge and set at liberty certain persons whom he had arrested by virtue of criminal process, duly issued for offences against the United States, and having impeded and prevented the Commissioner and the Assessors appointed in conformity with the laws aforesaid, in the county of Northampton aforesaid, by threats of personal injury from executing the said laws, avowing, as the motives of these illegal and treasonable proceedings, an intention to prevent by force of arms, the execution of the said laws, and to withstand by open violence the lawful authority of the Government of the United States: and whereas by the constitution and laws of the United States, I am authorized, whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed or the execution thereof obstructed in any State, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals, to call forth military force to suppress such combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed: And whereas it is in my judgment necessary to call forth military force, in order to suppress the combinations aforesaid, and cause the laws aforesaid to be duly executed, and I have accordingly determined so to do, under the solemn conviction that the essential interests of the United States demand it: WHEREFORE, I John Adams, President of the United States, do hereby command all persons, being insurgents, as aforesaid, and all others whom it may concern, on or before Monday next, being the 18th day of this present month, to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes; and I do moreover warn all persons whomsoever, against aiding, abetting, or comforting the perpetrators of the aforesaid treasonable acts, and I do require all officers, and others, good and faithful citizens, according to their respective duties, and the laws of the land, to exert their utmost endeavours to prevent and suppress such dangerous and unlawful proceedings.
IN testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States of America to be hereunto affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
DONE at the city of Philadelphia, the twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and of the Independence of the said United States of America, the twenty-third.
John Adams.
By the President, TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State.
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 12.
The Marshal of this State, in the prosecution of his official duty, in the service of a number of writs on persons who have refused compliance with the requisitions of the Land Tax Act, has been opposed in the county of Northampton. Several of the arrested, appeared at Bethlehem, in order to be conducted to this city, but were refused by an armed banditti of horse and foot; who set at defiance the government of the United States, and scoffed at every attempt which might be made to punish them. The arrested were desirous of accompanying the Marshal; but the rebels refused them by force. The names of these wretches are known; and the President of the United States having issued his Proclamation, according to law, commanding them to disperse by the 18th instant, the strong arm of government will in case of refusal be immediately stretched forth, to inflict the most exemplary punishment on these profligate and daring opposers of the laws of the land.
One FRIES, a German heads the insurgents in Montgomery county. The gallows groan for the fellow.
By further private accounts from Northampton, we learn that the Insurrection gathers head there.
A letter from on board the Montezuma, dated lat. 30 long. 13, Feb. 20, '99, states that "commodore Barry, of the frigate United States, has been so fortunate as to reach a French privateer with his heavy metal, and sink her; and had just time enough to run a long side and save 60 men, which he attempted to send ashore at Basseterre, Gaudaloupe, by hoisting a flag of truce, but it being fired on, the benevolent design was given up."
Extract of a letter from Lisbon to a respectable Mercantile House in Philadelphia, dated 5th Jan. last.
"The French have lately met a severe check in Italy—The King of Naples, at the head of his army, has taken possession of the Pope's dominions, and every where beat the French army most severely. On the Neapolitans entering the city of Rome, General Mack, the commander in chief, summoned the castle of St. Angelo, which was still in possession of the French, to surrender, which they refused—He then sent them a message, declaring, that if they fired on the city, that for every gun, he would deliver a Frenchman to the populace—This did not intimidate the French—they fired several guns; and General Mack, as good as his word, delivered as many Frenchmen to the mob, who murdered them in the most cruel manner—he then sent them another message, relating what he had done, and what had happened to the poor Frenchmen, who had fallen victims to their folly, on which they ceased firing, and delivered up the castle. A few days after that, a severe engagement took place between 25,000 French, and about 35,000 Neapolitans, in which the latter were victorious—they took about 4000 prisoners, and killed in battle about 5000."
The loss of the Neapolitans was very trivial compared with that of the French. The son of the king of Naples was arrived with a division of the army of Civita Vecchia, & had taken possession of that city and port. The Romans were every where flocking in great numbers to enter into the Neapolitan army. I have no doubt but the French will be more rapidly driven out of Italy than they entered it. Buonaparte, all accounts agree, was shot at a council of war, by an Egyptian soldier, and his whole army by this time destroyed—so much for that Egyptian."
The President of the United States has ordered the French intriguans, who have lately been detected at Charleston, to be conveyed to the seat of government.
BOSTON, MARCH 21.
At the late truly federal election in Portsmouth, truth and patriotism triumphed. Mr. Giman had 314 suffrages, while his rival candidate, Mr. Langdon, had but 65.
THE DETECTED CONSPIRACY
At Charleston, is confirmed from all quarters. The agents are in prison, and their papers sent to the Secretary of State. The conflagration of the city of Charleston and an insurrection of the negroes of the south, are two of the items of the conspiracy. The early discovery of the plot, establishes the preeminent vigilance of the Executive; and it is wholly owing to the false delicacy of the paragraphists of Charleston, who first narrated the event, that a ridiculous levity has been attached to a very serious affair.
NEWBURYPORT, MARCH 19.
British Captures at Martinique.
Copy of a letter from Mr. Samuel Cabot, agent for American claims, dated London, Dec. 15, '98.
GENTLEMEN, "The court of admiralty here have at length taken up the Martinique cases.—About two thirds are heard, and decreed to be restored.—The others will be decided on in a few days. Where the ownership and neutrality is established, restitution is immediately ordered. This has been done in the Betty, Nov 11, New Adventurer, Freeman; Beisley, Ingals; Lucy, Treadwell; Three Friends; Norton; and Eagle. Gerritsh. In the Polly, Storer, further proof is ordered as to cargo. The owners have neglected as yet to find on rest affidavits. The judge has not given any sentence or opinion as to the question of damages in this class of cases—we cannot therefore say whether an appeal will be necessary—we rather expect it, however, and also finally to go to the treaty Commissioners."

The reader will find several articles later than the Mail, taken from the Boston Centinel of Saturday last, received by the packet Margaret. Capt. Robert Knight, who arrived yesterday after a short passage.
A Duty,
The most highly essential to the preservation of the rights of free men, is a due attention to the Election of suitable characters to fill our places of public trust. Under a conviction of this, it is not doubted but the good citizens of this District will evince their attention to merit, and their approbation of good conduct, by giving their suffrages (on Monday next) to His Excellency INCREASE SUMNER, Esq. for Governor.
MR. JENKS,
IN order to prevent a division of the votes in the county of Cumberland, for Senators, for the ensuing year, I wish to inform the electors, through the medium of your Gazette, that by information from several parts of the county, the
Hon. STEPHEN LONGFELLOW and DANIEL DAVIS, Esq's.
will be very generally supported. Their abilities, and attachment to the interest of their country, strongly recommend them to a repetition of the suffrages of CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
MR. JENKS,
HAVING lately travelled into various parts of the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec, Hancock and Washington, I have been much gratified in finding some of the most respectable characters warmly engaged to support the Hon. NATHANIEL DUMMER and WILLIAM KING, as Senators for these counties, for the ensuing year.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
John Davis, Esq. of Augusta, is chosen Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, for the counties of Kennebec, Hancock and Washington; and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Kennebec.
Richard Derby, Esq. of Salem, is appointed a Captain in the Navy of the United States. He will command the frigate building at Salem. The Philadelphia papers contain appointments of 10 Lieutenants and 30 Midshipmen.
The Senate of Pennsylvania has ordered the Virginia resolutions to be "thrown under the table," sans ceremonie.
Gen. Hamilton, it is said, will be ordered to quell the new Pennsylvania whisky insurrection. He is an able physician in such disorders.
The southern papers mention, that arrangements are making for the meeting of Congress at the Federal City at their next session.
Truxton's brilliant victory has been publicly honored by the citizens of Boston.
The Hon. Isaac Parker, Esq. is appointed Marshall of the District of Maine, vice John Holby, Esq.
Latest from Europe.
From Salem March 22. Captain Phillips, in the Keene John, arrived here yesterday from Lisbon, which place he left on the 22d of February. Before he failed, it was reported there, and generally believed, that the French troops had made themselves masters of Naples, and that his Neapolitan Majesty had retired to the island of Sicily.
From Boston March 23. Capt. Amory's troop of Cavalry are under marching orders, to escort the President of the United States, whose return to his seat at Quincy is daily expected.
From New York, March 15. Yesterday the ship Sampson arrived here from Calcutta, 150 days. The English have marched an army of observation towards Tipoo Saib's territories.
This morning a ship, next where the United States frigate is building, was consumed by fire. Suspected an incendiary design.
ERRATA.—Number 27 of the Heads of Acts passed by Congress, was omitted, through mistake, in the last Gazette. It is, "An act for the government of the Navy of the United States."
MARRIED.—At Bridgton, Mr. Joseph Fitch, of Flintton, to Miss Sally Knap, daughter to Lieut. Jesse Knap of Bridgton.—Mr. Simeon Burnham, jun. to Miss Lucy Smith.
At Otisfield, Mr. Thomas Peabody to Miss Polly Read.
DIED.—At Cape Elizabeth, Capt. Samuel Stillings, aged 96.
DROWNED.—From on board fchr. Mary, Mr. John Jackson, of Portland.
Marine Articles.
Port of Portland.
Arrived on Monday the 18th, ship Rebecca, Captain Pervis, 16 days from Tortola. Left there Brig Little John, Butler, of Philadelphia; fchr. Defiance of New York; brig Nep une, of Norfolk; and fchr. Narcissus, of Baltimore; all captured and sent in by the English—Spoke, in lat 41, to long 67, brig Mars, of Newburyport, 24 days from Martinique; she failed with the fleet Saturday 23d, arrived brig Joseph, Capt. William Lowell, 37 days from St. Croix.—Spoke ship Cleopatra, Lewis New York.
The snow Sally, of Kennebunk, has been taken by the French. Her crew arrived at Newbedon.
Schooner Hannah, Decker, of Wiscasset, failed from Martinique 38 days since, and r convoy. A ship belonging to Capt. Hilton, of Wiscasset founded near Wood-Island, on her passage from Boston. Cargo lost, except 6 hides run.
Arrived at Salem, ketch John, Phillips, 27 days from Lisbon. Capt. P. informs, that Capt. Freeman, from Toulon bound to Alicante, was captured by two French privateers, after an obstinate engagement of three hours, and carried into Malaga.
Capt. in Barker, of Salem, off Bilboa bar, was attacked by three French launches, which he beat off, killing 17 of the crews, and wounding nine.—He had arrived safe at Bilboa.
Boston, March 21.—The brig Union, Crabtree, master, belonging to Messrs. Weeks & Tucker, of Portland, ten days from Charleston, went on shore on Thursday last, at 11 o'clock, A. M. at the head of Nantasket-Beach; vessel lost, and all her cargo excepting about 100 bbls. tar—crew saved. She was freighted with rice, tobacco and naval stores for this port.
March 23.—We have accounts of the safe arrival of the Galen, Mackay, in a short passage, in England.
NEWYORK, MARCH 15 Extract from the log-book of the brig Chatham, arrived yesterday from Jamaica.
On the 27th Feb at the S. W. end of Cuba, a brig hove in sight, which proved to be the Lucretia, of Boston, from Kingston, bound to Norfolk.—She hove too for us; immediately after we saw two fchouers, whom we supposed to be both privateers, from their maneuvers. We consulted the captain of the brig, and he agreed to give us all the assistance he possibly could, as he was unarmed; we therefore hoisted out our boat, and got four men from the brig. At half past 9 A. M. we were all ready for action. We saw the smallest of the two soon after, which appeared to us to be an American built vessel captured by the enemy. At 10, A. M. the other hoisted French colors, and aided by us, which as soon as we perceived, we hoisted our American ensign, upon which she gave us a heavy shot, when the action commenced, and lasted until 12 o'clock: we found our six-pound shot did not reach her till we got close in with her; when our shot reached her, she bore away for the shore, within the hour: we then lay too for her till she came within shot of us with her bloody flag at her fore-top mast, and then renewed the action, which continued about two glasses, when she bore away from us again. At half-past 2 P. M. she again put after us with a man hoisted at the fore-yard arm, and renewed action, with her bow-chases, which were very heavy guns, and we returned her compliment with our stern-chases. We supposed our shot did considerable execution, as there appeared to be great confusion on board the enemy. We were determined to defend ourselves to the last man, and bravely did at our quarters sooner than to be taken by this hellish crew. We kept up a smart fire with our stern-chases till half-past 4 P. M. when she hauled her wind, and ceased firing, and we stood on our way to New York, not thinking it prudent to chase her, our ammunition running short.
We had six 6's, and the enemy four 6's and 24, and a fchuel, and 75 men, which the captain of the brig Polly, of Providence, from Kingston, bound to Providence, informed us next day, whom she had detained five days, and treated the captain extremely ill, beat the men unmercifully and let her go, after plundering her of almost all her provisions, and every article they could lay their hands upon. The captain, second-mate, a man from the Lucretia, & cabin-boy, were slightly wounded.
FROM THE CENTINEL OF SATURDAY LAST.
ODE,
To Capt. THOMAS TRUXTON, Commander of The U. S. Frigate Constellation, of 36 guns. Occasioned by his capture of The French Frigate L'Infurgente, of 44 guns, Feb. 9. 1799.
FAVOR'D Chief, to whom the auspicious powers, Have given firm courage, like the foul of Mars! High, o'er thy lofty mast Victoria towers. And crowns with conquest stern's Columba's Tars— By thy example fir'd they deal the blows, Of patriot vengeance on their country's foes.—
For thee has Fame th' eternal wreath entwined— Sparkling with glory's gems thy decks thy brow! For thee, within her sacred dome assign'd A throne, mid heroes who impell'd the prow, Thro' Ocean's crimson'd waves, in old or modern time, With skill directed helm and energy divine.
See Gallia's vaunting prophecy belied— Her breast of boasting—chill'd with fore dismay! With her struck flag—has sunk her impious pride— When TRUXTON triumph'd in the "bloody fray!"
Vain Gallia, conquer on Italia's field— [fear: Our ships contain no MONKS—no CONVENTS ride the No servile cowards fear thy threatening arms;— Our hardy mariners to dain to yield;— Above, alike determined to be free, Even holy PRIESTS will join the martial host, Rang'd in Battalia on our coast— To guard our cities and defend our farms!
Ye Tritons found your loudest shells— And while along, the boundless vassle of air, Shall Fame with golden trump declare, The deeds of SEAMEN, emulously brave— Proclaim thro' Neptune's regal courts, Or where, with green-hair'd nymphs he sports In coral groves, or chrysal cells, How TRUXTON fought, and how the indignant wave Blush'd to become the briny grave Of French polluted confes— Tell him, Ye Who with your clarion's b blasts w.ke furges on the sea—
Two kindred Navies now triumphant ride, The world's protectors, guardians of its right, From waters red with morning's orient light, To realms where sucking day, fades in the Western tide!
"The stern and useful to the foes of Rome, He is all good off."—CATO. In times of peace poets may sing of fair Columbia— At present she assumes a majestic courage.—The burnished casque gleams portentous from her brow; and her manly shield bids defiance, while in her strong right hand the "heaven-extended spear" threatens destruction to her enemies.
NEW BOOK-STORE. F. A. JENKS, Has just opened at the store under his Printing-Office, A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF Books and Stationary, Which will be sold at the lowest Boston prices. Books for social libraries procured on short notice. PRINTING executed with neatness.
LATE PUBLICATIONS, Just received and for Sale, at E. A. Jenks's Book-store, Directly under his PRINTING-OFFICE, Middle-Street, near the head of Fifth-Street, PORTLAND.
The Monk, Written by M. G. LEWIS, Esq.—This most delightful Novel has already passed through several editions. "It is entertaining beyond conception; the style is beautiful; the work is original in every sense of the word, and is justly regarded as the most finished performance of the kind in our language."
The Castle Spectre. By the same author
Joan of Arc.—By R. Southey.
The Italian.—By Ann Radcliffe.
Clery's Journal Of Occurrences in the Tower of the Temple, during the confinement of LOUIS XVI. King of France.—This is a very interesting work.
Count Rumford's Essays—political, economical, and philosophical.
Addresses to the President, with his Answers.
Mitchel's System of Book-Keeping.
Kyd on Exchange.
A variety of other Books in the different branches of literature, which will be inserted in a catalogue.
ALSO, Bibles, Testaments, Psalters, Watt's Psalms & Hymns, Belknap's do. Singing Books, Webster's Spelling Books, Grammars, and a variety of Chap Books.
TOGETHER WITH AN ASSORTMENT OF Stationary, &c.
Writing paper of different kinds, Gilt and plain Letter Paper, Dutch Quills, Best Ink Powder, Ink-stands, Wafers, Sand boxes, Penknives, Led Pencils, Slates & Slate Pencils, American and English Playing Cards, Morocco Pocket Books, Memorandum books, Copy Slips—Pungent Smelling Bottles.
An assortment of Account Books, made of good paper. American Coast Pilot—Seaman's Journals, &c. &c.
BLANKS of all kinds may be had at the above store.
Subscriptions For Park on Insurance—Count Rumford's Essays—A Treatise on the Plague and Yellow Fever—Sky-Walk; or, The Man Unknown to Himself—received by E. A. JENKS. March 25, 1799.
PAINTS for sale. JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE By William Codman, At his Store, Fifth Street.
WHITING, White Lead, Red Lead, Spanish Brown, Verdigris, Prussia Blue, and Linseed Oil. ALSO,
A quantity of GUN POWDER, of a superior quality—With a general assortment of European, India, & W. India GOODS, on the most reasonable terms for cash. Portland, 9th March, 1799.
Rags, Old Funk, &c. Money or Books will be given for Rags and Old Funk, at Jenks's Book-store.
Rev. Mr. Williams' Estate.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administratrix to the Estate of the Reverend EBENEZER WILLIAMS, late of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, deceased, and given bonds as the law directs.—All persons, therefore, who are indebted to, or having any demands against said Estate, are desired to exhibit their accounts for immediate settlement. MARY WILLIAMS, Administratrix. Falmouth, March 19, 1799
Golden Britain.
WILL stand this season, the elegant horse called the GOLDEN BRITAIN, upwards of fifteen hands high, fired by the most noted horse called the Peer Horse. Said horse has been kept in the States of New Hampshire and Vermont, and has been as much celebrated as any horse in those States.—He will stand at the stable of NATHANIEL JENKS, in New Gloucester, and at Poland in the most central part to accommodate those who wish to improve their breed of Horses. Said horse will be in the adjacent towns, provided sufficient encouragement shall be given.
Terms, 1 dollar & 50 cents a leap—3 dollars the season—and 5 dollars to warrant a foal. March 25, '99.
To the Honorable the Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WE the subscribers, inhabitants of Portland and Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, beg leave to approach the Legislature with this their humble petition. Not to trouble your honors with reciting the particular articles of our religious creed, we cannot however forbear saying so much as will excuse us from being justly charged with duplicity in the great and important matters of our religion.—We protest to believe in Jesus Christ the only name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved, whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. And we wish to adore the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. We therefore humbly request your honors to incorporate us with all those that may hereafter unite with us into a society for religious purposes, by the name of the Universal Christian Society of Portland and Falmouth.
William Brackett, Vincent Robards, John Grant, Ebenezer Waite, Peter Knight, Amasa Waite, Paul Huston, James Gardner, Robert Huston, Aaron Chamberlain, Paul Huston jun. Joshua Waite, Simon Lord, John Motley, Jacob Knight, Elisha Deering, Amos Knight, 3d. William McLellan, David Steele, Enoch Barbour, Floyd K. Patrick, Adam Barbour, Joseph Wormell, William Buxton, jun. James Burson, John Dole, William Wormell, Nathaniel Hale, Joseph York, Edmund Knight, Increase Pote, Amos Knight, Samuel Bucknam, jun. Richard Knight, Thomas Sawyer, Mark Huston, Anthony Sawyer, jun. Winlow Knight, George Isley, Enoch Knight, Anthony Sawyer, Job Knight, William Sawyer, Moses Knight, Asa Sawyer, William Lunt, John Higgens, Stephen Gowell, John Anderson, John Waite, jun.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In SENATE, Feb. 20, 1799. ON the petition of William Brackett, and others, inhabitants of the towns of Portland and Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, praying to be incorporated into a separate religious society, by the name of the "Universal Christian Society."
ORDERED, that the Petitioners notify the said towns of Portland and Falmouth, by publishing an attested copy of their Petition, and this order thereon, three weeks successively in Jenks's Gazette, printed in Portland, the last publication to be thirty days at least, before the second Wednesday of the first session of the next General Court, that all persons interested may then appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said Petition should not be granted.
Sent down for concurrence. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. In the House of Representatives, February 20, 1799. Read and concurred, EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. True copy—Attest EDWARD M'LANE, Clerk of Senate.
For Sale, By Newhall & Watson, At No. 3, Long-Wharf,
RUSSIA and India Sugar, Ravens Duck, India Cottons, Brandy, Do. Sheeting, WINES—sherry, Lisbon and Malaga. NAILS—Sheathing and TEAS—Bohea & Souchong, Drawing, 20d. rod 8d. Coffee, Chocolate, 6d. & 4d. Pepper, Nail Rods, N. E. Rum, Do. Plates, Flour, Iron Hoops, Cod Lines, Do. Shovels, Log Lines, Sheathing Paper, Twine, Portland, March 18, 1799.
Take Notice.
The Committee for examining and passing upon the Town Accounts, will meet at the Auction-Room of EDWARD OXNARD, for that purpose, on the 29th and 30th instant. EDWARD OXNARD, EBENEZER MAYO, LEMUEL WEEKS. Portland, 16th March, 1799.
A number of Cows and
young Cattle—Also, Farming Utensils; among which a good Winnowing-Mill, to be sold for Cash or merchandise. Inquire of the printer hereof. March 18th.

POETRY.
THE TEST OF CONJUGAL LOVE.
Duprendi miserum est. HOR. Sat.
ON his fever-burnt bed, quick gasping for breath, Lay Strepbon, convulsed with pain, While the wind in his throat shook the rattle of death, The hot blood rag'd thro' the swollen vein.
Large drops of cold sweat on his forehead did stand: The lustre was dimm'd in his eye; While the chill of his feet, and the chill of his hand Pronounc'd that poor Strepbon must die.
His neighbours all wept, and his kindred all cry'd, With handkerchiefs held to each eye; While a boy and a girl sobb'd aloud at his side, To think that their father must die.
But who can describe the fond griefs of his wife, Her shriekings, her tears and despair, When she vow'd that same hour should end her own life, And tore off by handfuls her hair.
O death! thou fell monster, in anguish she rav'd. Oh spare my dear husband! Oh spare! Throw thy ice dart at me, let my husband be sav'd, Or I sink in a whirl of despair.
Oh how shall I live, when my husband is dead, Or why this loath'd life should I save? Then haste, welcome death, take me in his stead, Or I'll go with my love to the grave.
The wind whistled high the old mansion about, And rock'd like a cradle the floor, When death in the entry stood knocking without With his knuckle of bone on the door.
And he burst the lock, and the door open'd wide, And in the slim spectre flow strode, And he rattled his jaws and he rattled his side, As over the threshold he trod.
Who's here, cry'd the spectre, who calls loud for me? Who wants death? the thin spectre then said Why, who? cry'd the wife, why who should it be But the gentle man there on the bed?
Miscellany.
Our Mothers!
AMONG the many very singular circumstances which attended the settlement of this country, there are none more entertaining than the exportation of wives from England, for the colony of Virginia. Dr. Belknap, in his American Biography, a work replete with information and entertainment, has given us the following short account of that very uncommon article of merchandise.
"It seems to have been a general sentiment among these colonists, not to make Virginia the place of their permanent residence, but after acquiring a fortune, by planting and trade, to return to England. For this reason, most of them were destitute of families and had no natural attachment to the country. To remedy this material defect, Sir Edward Sandys, the new treasurer, proposed to the Company to send over a freight of young women to make wives for the planters. This proposal, with several others made by that eminent statesman, was received with universal applause, and the success answered their expectations. Ninety girls, "young and uncorrupt," were sent over at one time, (1620); and sixty more, "handsome and well recommended," at another (1621). These were soon blessed with the object of their wishes. The price of a wife, at first, was one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco; but as the number became scarce, the price was increased to one hundred and fifty pounds, the value of which in money, was three shillings per pound. By a subsequent act of assembly, it was ordained, that "the price of a wife should have the precedent of other debts, in recovery and payment, because, of all kinds of merchandise, this was the most desirable."
Ah, desirable indeed! The hearts of those rustic bachelors must have leaped for joy. And could that "most desirable" object be now obtained for so trifling a quantity as "one hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco," there would not be a bachelor found in the country. Our beaux, by only preserving the remains of their legars, might soon purchase what perhaps, their gallantry could never acquire. Our desert country would soon be converted into beautiful fields waving with that delicious weed; and a sweet favour would arise, testifying our attachment to the fair sex.
Scraps.
A CLERGYMAN took for his text, these words—"the flesh, the world, and the devil"—and began his sermon in the following manner:—"I shall just touch upon the flesh, pass lightly over the world, and hasten as fast as I can to the devil."
THE facetious and eccentric Tom Brown, celebrated in the days of the English Charles II. describes newsmongers, or newspaper paragraphists, as lying in sheets, for want of better covering.
IT was an observation of Frederick the Great, "That all battles would be determined in favor of that power which could bring the greatest number of well appointed and well served Artillery into the field."
Arts and Sciences.
THERE has just been imported into our country, a happy specimen of the progress of those Sciences which employ the early attention of Youth, called, The Planispherical Planetarium , by Mr. F. B. WATSON.
The facility to acquire knowledge by the aid of sensible objects is a point universally admitted, and happily demonstrated by the ingenuity and learning of Mr. Watson. Youth and Society at large owe much gratitude to exertions of this kind. Often has the abstruseness of verbal explanation damped the dawning ardor of the mind, and repressed forever the flights of genius.
Some men of great talents have been peculiarly happy in their modes of facilitating the communication of knowledge to youthful capacities. Mr. Watson's plan would not discredit their eminence: on his Planispherical deliniation, we have strongly to offer its recommendation to all youthful students. Besides the diurnal motion of the earth round its axis, which, indeed may be fully exemplified by a terraqueous globe to the student, and the consequent cause of day and night, he will find a facility to understand its annual motion round the sun, and the cause of the seasons. Mr. Watson was perfectly aware of this difficulty in the terrestrial, or celestial globes, which are not always adequate to the object of fully explaining and inculcating the idea of the mode of the earth's annual course round the sun; and by his ingenious improvement he has removed an obstacle, and smoothed the way to the learner.
AGRICULTURE.
Approved method of keeping Crows and Rooks from Corn Lands:
TAKE a quart of Train, as much Turpentine, and bruised Gunpowder; boil them together, and when hot dip pieces of rag into the mixture, and fix them on sticks in the field.—About four are sufficient for an acre. The birds assuredly will not approach the spot.—The expence of the above remedy for the evil occasioned by large flocks of ravenous birds infesting corn-fields, is a trifle compared to the injury sometimes sustained in a few hours.
THE culture of a most useful vegetable, altogether unknown in England till within these two years, is at length brought to the utmost perfection, in and near Bristol. This is the Anjou Cabbage, perhaps the most profitable and useful luguminous plant that can be raised. The seed of this truly valuable plant was supplied by a French Emigrant. This cabbage is a most excellent table vegetable, and is so tender, that it is dressed in three or four minutes boiling. It is a most excellent food for cattle, which feed upon it greedily, and it has the valuable property of occasioning cows to yield abundance of milk, at the same time preserving them from declining in flesh. In rapidity of growth, its great bulk, and the little culture it requires, this cabbage exceeds all other of the Brassica species. The stalk of this cabbage, which is commonly as thick as a man's leg, is used, when dry, as fuel; and it was a common saying in Anjou, of which part of France it is a native, that every cabbage was worth (before the late alteration in the value of money there) five sols (two pence half-penny) each. Though this plant is at the present day scarcely known at Paris, yet at Anjou, Poitou, and Brittany (but particularly in the former Province) the farmers are bound by their leases to plant a certain number of them, in proportion to the extent of land they occupy, and to leave a certain number standing when they quit their arms. [Eng. Paper.]
Alden vs. Coffin.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
MR. JENKS, ALTHO' I consider Doctor Charles Coffin's statement of "Facts" in the Gazette of the 11, and 25th ult. as a trifling, boyish performance—And were it just (which I deny) not calculated, to draw down upon me, that weight, that load of censure, which he contemplated it would. Yet as the Doctor has exerted himself very much, to convince the public—That I without any justifiable cause whatsoever, have handled him and those with whom he is connected in a very rough, and base manner—That I have aspersed female worth &c &c. I feel myself perfectly justifiable, in bringing him forward at this time to the bar of an impartial public. And in order that he may be properly seen by the good citizens of the Commonwealth, I shall, of that hypocritical dress, in which he has heretofore appeared, and that his character, conduct, and disposition, may appear, in a proper point of light—I shall notice in the first place a piece entitled "the first book of Reywal &c" written by the Doctor, and published in the Newbury-Port Herald & Country Gazette, on the Eleventh day of December last. In this piece, the Doctor has introduced, his Sister by the name of Etah (which delicacy forbids me to explain) not only to satirize but to insult and abuse me. Tho' it lies, as he has said by the "Second Book of Chronicles" in its nakedness, "before the public eye", yet it is not generally known what trouble the said Doctor was at, in placing it there. Sometime last summer or in the first of last fall, he, who has so earnestly called upon every person to censure me, transmitted the above piece to a gentleman in Portland, to give to Mr. — to publish; But Mr. — finding it to be a piece calculated to make a difficulty, refused to publish, or even notice it in his paper. The Doctor fired with resentment against Mr. — for not gratifying his wicked, wilful, and malicious disposition, wrote him a very severe letter; after the receipt of which he said "First Book of Reywal &c. was immediately returned."
At length however, it made its appearance in the Newbury-Port Herald and Country Gazette, with such reasons assigned, by the Printer for its publication, as will ere long cause, him a bitter repentance—And yet notwithstanding all this, the Doctor is barefaced, and impudent enough, to address the Editor of the Gazette, in a manner, that would lead every person to suppose not only that the author of "The Second Book of Chronicles" made the first attack, but that he was unprovoked. He says (Oh modesty! where art thou fled)
"Mr. Jenks, To your impartiality, to your attachment to truth, but especially to your sensibility for the honor of female worth aspersed by brutal bauners, I appeal for a prompt insertion of the following detail of facts. In the next sentence he says "To the public ear, I am conscious the recital of private wrongs ought not in ordinary cases, to be addressed. My apology for the violation of this rule is found in the Gazette of the 21 Jan. in a production entitled 'The Second Book of Chronicles.'" Again he says, "I beg leave from a motive of delicacy to distinguish the lady by the name of Etah. I would here ask from what motive he distinguished the lady by the name of Etah, in the "First Book of Reywal &c"?" This question I presume to say no person will be at a loss, to answer in a proper way and manner. I would here again ask What person of common sense, could suppose that the same hand wrote, the above sentences, that wrote the "First Book of Reywal &c"?" The Doctor appears now (as he presumes to say ought) self convicted, self condemned; And I doubt not but that he will receive the punishment, that he so sanguinely expected would fall upon me. By the evidence I have already adduced, I think it is manifest that the Doctor's main object was to mislead and deceive the public, in their opinion respecting the difficulty between us. However, I cannot but mention one or two sentences which I find in the conclusion of his statement, to the same purpose. "If the facts be denied, let proof of their falsity be adduced. If a single misrepresentation can be found it shall be corrected." Rough and base as has been the treatment described in the preceding history—(his story,) both of myself and others connected with me, let it be shown, that it has been in any measure deserved from Mr. A. and the plea shall be admitted in extenuation of his conduct." Blush Oh impudence! His offer to extenuate my conduct upon the abovementioned condition I consider as an unpardonable insult. Does he not recollect how basely, how infamously, and scandalously, I have been treated by him and his brothers family, ever since last March. It certainly appears as if he had no recollection of any thing, that made in the least against him. But however the Doctor has not mistated any thing, through forgetfulness, but with a base intent to forestall the public opinion, and to bar and preclude me, from an impartial hearing. How far he has succeeded, I cannot say. Amongst some of his particular friends, I suppose he has to the utmost of his wishes. But great as has been his success, I am not ashamed to throw my face, in the open field of facts with him. I could go into a detail of facts, I could fill up some part of a Newspaper with extracts of letters, I could mention what Mr. D said to Mr. E. and what Mr. F said to Mr. G. But I should thereby reduce myself, to a level with Doctor Charles Coffin; which I would not do were I to gain a kingdom. As to my letters I have nothing to say, but as to the letter, which the Doctor says, Etah sent me I have this to say that I never saw, or read such a letter in my life. And what his object could be in publishing it, I cannot conjecture; as he has been told that I had not the least knowledge of it. And I think, that I can convince any person that he is not the author of it. If I am called upon in a proper manner. I shall insert and notice two or three more sentences, of the Doctor's and then close the cause, as briefly as possible. The Doctor in relating and stating the conversation, which happened between him and me at my office, has gone wide, from the truth. One sentence in particular is absolutely false—it is this—"He also declared that he had not any thing against me." How he could say so, I cannot conceive, when he knew that previous to his calling at my office; that his and his Brothers conduct, toward me had been one continued series of insult and abuse. That an agreement made between me and his brother relative to the settlement of the difficulty which he himself had made between me and his sister Etah had been violated and broken in consequence of a series of letters, which had been written by him, his Brother, and his Sister Etah.—The Doctor has stated that I circulated a report that he intended a prosecution against me for a breach of promise. This is as false as the last mentioned sentence, which I have cited from the Doctor's statement. A Mr. M. A. C. whom I invited to dine with me one day, observed when at the table, that he heard, that Etah intended to prosecute me. I treated the story as any person in my situation would, and never expected to hear any thing more about it. Yet the Doctor has seen fit, to swear it upon me; however I have no idea of being considered, the father of it. The only sentence that I think it necessary now to make any remarks upon is the following—"Take care Mr. — said Mr. A. to the gentleman, you will be hanged, if you break your promise." I acknowledge that I made use of some such expression to see whether the Doctor would be as good as his word. For he had before said that as I had refused to give him any satisfaction for the injury which he supposed I had done his sister Etah—he should take no more notice of me, than he would, of a table, clock, or chair. It seems however that his feelings ran away with his word—To conclude if I have said or done any thing that is harsh or severe, or that has injured any persons feelings in particular let it be known and remembered that I was provoked and had occasion so to do—If any person should think fit to resent any part of my treatment, to any particular person or persons in a gentlemanlike manner, I shall be always ready and happy, to answer for myself—Adieu—Adieu!
PETER OLIVER ALDEN.
Brewster March 4th, 1799.
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SAMUEL PHILLIPS, Presiden..
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