The gazette (Portland, Me.), 1798-10-15 00:00:00

The Gazette.
[NUMBER 25.]
By ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, Portland, Maine.
[VOLUME 1.]
Monday, October 15th, 1798.
Historical Facts,
Relative to the Plague, Yellow Fever, &c.
The Yellow Fever, in its present pestilential diffusion over the principal cities of the United States, seems to have given rise to much puritanical invective against the peculiar wickedness, irreligion and profligacy of the times, as being the guilty instruments of bringing down the wrath of Heaven on this devoted land. Shame on such fanaticism! It is a fact that Moral Virtue never had more votaries than at the present day; and it is a truth equally tenable, that the yellow fever, which these impious bigots have pronounced the heaven-commissioned scourge of demoralised man, is not only not an imported disorder, but an inhabitant of this country from time immemorial. For the conviction of those who still retain their infidelity on this subject, it is only necessary to extract the following statement of historical facts from a late medical tract published in New York.
[Ruffel's Gaz]
From the New-York Commercial Advertiser.
At this time of distress and alarm, when a dread pestilence is laying waste some of our most populous and wealthy cities, the inhabitants of town and country are anxiously inquiring, what are the causes? What are the means of prevention or of cure? Why has not this deadly fever raged before? Are our cities to be afflicted with it every year?
Alarming as the fact may appear, there is not a history of the plague in existence. Of the most awful calamity that befalls the human race; a calamity of which probably more persons have perished, since the Christian era, than there are now on the globe, no regular account has ever been written; and some of the most important phenomena of epidemic and pestilential diseases, are not known even to the most eminent medical men in Europe. For want of attending to these phenomena, even a Mead and a Cullen embraced the most egregious errors respecting the causes of pestilential diseases, and on those errors have been built systems of regulations, and laws of quarantine, for preserving public health, that are almost entirely useless and in many states and kingdoms, inhuman and barbarous.
It has fallen to my lot to write a brief account of pestilential diseases, from such materials as can be found in this country; and to discover a number of important principles respecting the origin and progress of epidemics. To satisfy my fellow citizens who are involved in distress, and seeking for consolation, as to some of their anxious enquiries, I here offer to them a few observations, which are the results of my investigation.
1. Pestilential diseases of all kinds usually originate where they exist. A few doubtful cases on a small scale may be exceptions; but I have demonstrated evidence that most diseases of a contagious nature are the fruit of the soil in which they are found. The means prevention therefore are not to be found in Quarantine Laws.
2. Pestilential epidemics are progressive in their malignity, and several of them usually follow in a series or order—such as catarrh or influenza, measles, anginas, or disorders of the throat, spotted fever, yellow fever or plague. The yellow fever or plague never appears as far as I can discover, without some one or all of the other diseases for precursors. Something like the order of the influenza, measles and scarlet fever, in these states, from 1789 to 1795, is always observable before all the plagues that have infested the old world.
3. In addition to malignant diseases, as the dysentery and violent bilious remittents, from marshy effluvia, which may be local, and occasioned by peculiar seasons, there are certain periods, when pestilential diseases, invade whole quarters of the globe, nearly at the same time, and sometimes both hemispheres. A remarkable instance of this happened from 1759 to 1763, when Egypt, Syria, all Europe and America, experienced a great increase of mortality. Two or three instances have occurred since but the epidemics were less fatal.
4. The duration of these pestilential periods is various, from five to ten, fifteen and even twenty years. Intervals of health are also of very various duration. The bills of mortality in London from 1718 to 1742, were on an average more than twenty per cent higher than they have ever been since; owing to a continued series of mortal epidemics. In America, no formidable pestilential disease appeared from 1762 to 1791, a period of twenty-nine years—an unusually long period of health. The dysentery of 1775 and 7 was the most destructive disease experienced in that long interval. The scarlet fever spread in 1785 and 6, but was lighter than usual. From 1791 to the present time, we have felt severe sickness, and how long this pestilential period will endure GOD only knows.
5. But let us not despair. After the close of this sickly period, health will again revisit our cities, as it now does the country. The scarlet fever spread from New-York in 1792 to Maine in 1796, and has finished its course, leaving the country in usual health. The dreadful plague that now scourges our cities is probably the effect of the great and all subduing heat of the last two months, and it is more than probable that the succeeding winter and summer may be temperate and healthy. Such a winter and summer as the last are uncommon.
6. To those who ask, why this pestilence never appeared in former times, I answer, it did. In certain periods, when great plagues have raged in the East, the yellow fever has prevailed in America, from the first settlement of the country by the English. Nay more it effected and wasted the Indian tribes before the settlement of New England by the English. At least 30,000 Indians perished by the yellow fever in the year 1618; of this fact I have authentic testimony. It is therefore the natural plague of our climate.
Instead of being a new disease, or imported from the West Indies, it appeared on this continent before the islands were settled by the English, and as frequently before any trade was opened between this continent and the Islands, as it has since. Only thirteen years after Massachusetts was settled, a pestilential autumnal fever carried off one fifth of the Plymouth planters. This was in 1633. In 1645 a similar fever raged among the Indians at Martha's Vineyard. In 1647, a similar fever prevailed in Connecticut. In 1654 and 1662 similar diseases swept away many people. In 1668 a pestilential disease prevailed in New-York. In 1699, the yellow fever was as malignant in Philadelphia, as it is this season; this was but seventeen years after the place was settled, and when it contained few people. In the same summer, the disease was so fatal in Charleston, that most of the principal people died, and the survivors almost abandoned the place.
In 1702 the yellow fever raged in New-York, and an eruptive fever was nearly as fatal in Boston, in 1798. The yellow fever raged in Charleston in 1728 and in 1732; and again in 1739. In 1741 the same disease raged in Philadelphia and in Virginia. In 1743, in New-York—in 1745, again at Charleston. In 1746 in Albany. In 1747, again in Philadelphia—and also in 1762. The same disease swept away almost all the Indians on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard in 1763. The same disease in its milder form appeared in Philadelphia in 1778.
These facts may satisfy inquiries on this head. From authentic histories of plague for two thousand two hundred years, I can assure my fellow citizens, that it is rare for cities between the latitude of 32 and 45; to escape malignant pestilential diseases for 30 years, at any one time. Generally, once in twelve or fifteen years, a series of epidemics spread over the whole world. In healthy positions, this pestilential state of air is limited in malignity to measles, and scarlet fever—in other positions, it extends to small pox and petechial fever—in large cities and less healthy situations, it often runs into the plague. This has been the fact uniformly from the days of Hippocrates.
This pestilential state of air is evinced by the catarrh, or influenza, which during the period of contagion, appears in a whole hemisphere, at once and sometimes over the whole globe, seizing people on this continent, in the West Indies and on the ocean at the same time. This epidemic is usually followed by great mortality in the succeeding years. To this fact, there is hardly an exception in the three last centuries, before which period our accounts of that disease are few and imperfect.
This general pestilence is of various degrees of violence. Sometimes it appears in a milder form and is confined to a few places, as in New-York in 1795 and 6—at others, it becomes universal and mows down mankind, with undistinguishing severity, as in the present year. In two or three instances, since the christian era, it has been so violent, as to attack men in scattering cottages on the healthiest hills and mountains, without and communications with the diseased. It has raged sometimes through the winter, and two or three times has invaded the inhabitants of Iceland and Greenland.
From these few facts which stand on unquestionable authority, and which I am preparing in detail for the press, the people of the United States, will judge how far they are to expect repetitions of this distressing malady. For their consolation, it appears that our cities will not be continually harassed with this autumnal fever. Periods of health will occur—sometimes of longer and sometimes of shorter duration. Then will occur a series of epidemics and our cities will be laid waste with pestilence. This has been the case from the date of our earliest histories to this day, and we have no right to expect the laws of the Universe are to be now changed.
Great good effects however may be brought by introducing different modes of constructing our houses—by changes in diet and habits of bathing, and by the use of fresh running water
in cities. The water beneath a city should never be used for drink. It is probable that such changes in Europe have very much mitigated the severity of mortal diseases in the large cities, within the present century. Yet they are all occasionally visited with malignant fevers, that fall but one grade below the plague. Our present mode of building cities, and our present habits of living, will not suffer us to escape pestilence. We are precisely in the latitude most obnoxious to autumnal pestilence; and if New-York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore continue to increase on the present mode of constructions till they equal cities of the first or second rate in Europe, it is their inevitable doom to be ravaged with the plague, as often as Caira or Constantinople.
It is to be observed, however, that with a very few exceptions, since the days of Moses, the plague is exclusively the scourge of cities or populous towns. It is, in ordinary cases, entirely in human power to avoid this dreadful calamity—every commercial city might be so laid out and constructed, as to be even more healthy than the country. But ignorance and interest forbid us to indulge the expectation of ever realizing such a project.
There is nothing new in the horrors of the present plague. The same scenes have happened in every period of a few years, from the days of Homer. Armies and cities are continually exposed to pestilence, and always have been. The present sickness will subside and soon be forgotten, and men will proceed in the same round of folly and vice. All our habits will continue—and the same practice of piling together buildings, accumulating filth, and deflating fresh air, and preparing new and more abundant materials for pestilence, which will continue to assume greater virulence and to prove more destructive to human life, in proportion to the magnitude of our cities. If more wisdom should be exerted in America, it will be a glorious but an unexpected event.
N. WEBSTER.
Extracts
From the Charge of Judge Rush, to the Grand Jury of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
"NOT more certain is it, that a corrupt fountain will send forth corrupt streams, than that immoral principles will produce immoral actions—and to those causes it must be ascribed, that at this moment, from recent and authentic accounts, France exhibits a scene of more brutal sensuality, profligacy and debauchery, than even Sodom and Gomorrah of ancient days.
"It seems almost impossible, that any person of a candid and liberal mind, who attentively examines the transactions of the French reformers, can bring himself seriously to believe, they ever had in view the happiness of mankind. They certainly had too much sagacity not to know they were scattering firebrands, arrows, and death; and too little virtue to be concerned, if they did not rejoice in the consequences.
"I am deeply sensible, that some serious, well disposed among us, have viewed the affairs of France, with too little horror, if not with approbation; from an opinion, they are so many links in the great chain of scripture prophecy. We should remember that several things belong to the Lord. In the mean time, we are commanded, not only to abstain from evil; but never to do evil, that good may come of it. I need hardly add, that the man who approves of evil, is not much better than he who commits it. It is clearly your duty and mine, and that of every moral agent, steadily to set our faces, and on proper occasions to raise our voices against every species of enormity; leaving it to the God of Heaven to accomplish his purposes in his own way and time.
"We have too long, at least many among us, rejoiced at French successes. Their victories over humanity—their overturning establishments that diffused peace and happiness to millions—their carrying fire and sword through offending countries—nay, their murders and massacres have been celebrated in our country. A more striking spectacle can scarcely be exhibited, than
crowds of persons assembled to manifest their joy at the triumphs of lawless power and ambition, over nations who have done us no injury, nor had given any just cause of war to their cruel plunderers. A mind untinctured with superstition may be permitted to express its fears, lest such conduct should ere long drawn down upon us, the righteous retribution of Heaven.
"Our country has been too long allied to France—it was the connection of unsuspecting youthful virtue with an old bawd; at one period disguised in robes of monarchy, at another in the less fascinating garb of republican dress—but invariably the same.
"From a nation thus perfidious and ambitious—from a country thus steeped in blood and all manner of vice and corruption, surely every benevolent heart, every lover of his country and of virtue, will rejoice that we are at last divorced. The maxim, that evil communications corrupt good morals, is not less true with respect to individuals, than to nations. The treaty of 1778, laid the foundation of a continual intercourse between the two countries, and drew them up into a close, but unnatural union. Their politics—their infidelity—and their immoralities, became fashionable, and have spread like an infectious disorder through our land. The French nation distinguished by enterprizes equally brilliant and wicked, attracted admiration, which has been followed by an imitation of her principles, and an approbation of her crimes. And it seemed highly probable, if no event had occurred to put a check on our meretricious fondness, we must ere long have perished in her vile and loathsome embraces.
"Let us however, gentlemen, indulge the animating hope, that the period of our deliverance from this complication of evils, is dawning upon us. The seventeenth day of July draws a line, and tears up the foundation of our national connection. Hail auspicious day! henceforth the ridiculous claim of national gratitude, will be no longer rung in our ears by ungenerous benefactors. Let the seventeenth day of July be had in everlasting remembrance. Upon the anniversary of that day, let the voice of joy and gratitude be heard through our land. It is a declaration, I trust, of our independence on France, and perpetual exemption from the baneful effects of her morals, her religion, and her politics. From calamities infinitely more to be dreaded, than those commemorated upon the 4th of July, it is calculated to secure us. The one shielded us only from political dependence and subjection—but the other we flatter ourselves, will be the means of saving us from religious, moral and political destruction."
Miscellaneous Articles.
His Britannic Majesty has granted 18,000l. to the French emigrant clergy.
The French General St. Cyr, has ordered the Pope to quit Tuscany.
The press of the Propaganda is seized; it contains the alphabet of 28 languages.
A demand of 124 millions has been made for the French navy and granted. The council of 500 ask 15,000 livres to buy foreign newspapers.
The Julian Calendar is abolished throughout Switzerland. Some of the Swiss Cantons still wage an awful war.
The Batavian Directory has caused all the popular societies which declared against the late Revolution effected in that country to be shut.

Gleanings of Foreign News.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 25.
The anxiety of the Porte on account of the French Toulon expedition, and its destination, increases daily. We are alarmed for Egypt, the treasures of Mecca and even the tomb of the prophet.
There is a report here, of an agreement between the knights of Malta and the French, and should the latter obtain possession of that island, the acquisition will not be viewed with indifference by the Porte, as it would much rather see that important fortress in the hands of a feeble Order, than in those of a powerful and formidable nation.
Both in the Morea and in the islands of Archipelago, a great number of Greeks have been arrested, suspected of entertaining revolutionary principles, and several have already been strangled.
To day, in consequence of a very rigid firman, 200 coffee houses were suddenly surrounded with soldiers, and all persons found in them arrested.—Some were soon after set at liberty, and others imprisoned, of whom some have already been drowned or strangled. These had used expressions in favour of liberty, and a change of the Turkish government, praised the conduct of Pashwan Oglu; and declared their wish that the great General of the present age (Buonaparte) who had revolutionized so many countries, would soon arrive at Constantinople, and effect a similar change there.
LONDON, AUGUST 2.
An union between Great-Britain and Ireland is understood to be a measure certainly fixed upon in the cabinets of both countries. The experiment will be tried in the month of November, when the Parliament of both Countries will be convened to take this momentous question into their serious consideration.
If the opinion of the Turkish Ambassador at our court is to be relied on, the Port, have no apprehension whatever respecting the destination of the Toulon expedition.
The Pope's health is so reduced, that he is scarce able to walk above twenty paces. All his property is sold at Rome.
The republic of Ragusa, says a Frankfort article, "has lately offered to submit to the imperial yoke."
LONDON, AUG. 10.
Relative to the ultimate object of Buonaparte's expedition, rumour and conjecture continue to be made the substitutes for authentic and official advices, of which the people of Paris are as much deficient as the people of London. Never was a political secret more inviolably kept nor was the curiosity of Europe ever more excited than on this occasion. Among the various destinations assigned by rumour to the expedition, Candia, Cyprus, Constantinople, and Alexandria are mentioned; and one account goes so far as to state, that Buonaparte must have arrived at the latter place by the beginning of last month. To this opinion some degree of plausibility is afforded by the following letter, which we submit to our readers as the most important article contained in the Paris papers:
"ALEXANDRIA (Egypt) JUNE 4.
"The magazines which have been formed here are all ready. We were taught to expect the arrival of 40,000 men, they now speak but of 20,000.—The other 20,000 are to go by the Isle of Cyprus to Aleppo, and from thence to pass by the Euphrates to the Persian Gulph. The column from this place will go to Suez by Rosetta and Cairo thence to embark on the Red Sea, where the French Engineers have constructed rafts which cannot be endangered by the shallows. These carry 3, 4, or even 500 men each. The ships of war which the French have at the Isle of France and Bourbon are to meet them at the mouth of the Gulph, and to
protect the passage through the Indian Sea, where the English have only a few frigates. The two French Commissioners who are here insinuate to the Turks that they are going to fight the enemies of the religion of Mahomet. This produces such an effect, that they may raise any number of recruits, if so disposed. Two Frenchmen who have served in the army of Tippoo Saib, have been here for some days.—They wait for the French commander in Chief, to confer with him on the future operations in India. The French have plenty of money, and are, of course well served. The Pashas have received orders from the Porte to furnish whatever they may require."
This letter altho' it bears not an official complexion, is not without some features of probability, and it is certainly the most important communication that has yet been published on the subject of Buonaparte's expedition. Our Ministers, we understand, view it in a very serious light; and, at a late hour last night we were informed that orders had in the course of the afternoon been issued from the War-Office for the officers and surgeons attached to the British regiment at Lisbon immediately to join their respective corps, which with the rest of the troops destined for India, are to sail for that quarter without delay.
ANSWER of the EMPEROR,
To the Ultimatum given in by the French.
RASTADT, JULY 8.
Translation of the note given by Austria, in answer to the last note of the French plenipotentiaries.
THE ministers of Austria, after stating that they had opposed, in an amicable, but energetic manner the new demands of the French Plenipotentiaries, that the Deputation of the Empire had already consented, with some modifications, to the most oppressive demands, and that considering the nature of the Germanic constitution, the Deputation was not only free from the charge of having temporized, but had even done every thing to accelerate the treaty, proceeded in the following manner:
"The last French note of the 22d of June has very much disappointed the flattering hopes that the important motives alledged with a view of obtaining more favorable conditions would be at length rewarded with deserved success, since, with the exception of some trifling modifications, the principal points were insisted on even in the actual form of a demand, which with respect to the free navigation of the Rhine, and the other rivers of Germany, had not been before manifested but in the nature of a wish. Austria has, in every point of view, been influenced only by the dictates of duty, which shall direct her in her present vote. She proposes, therefore, to declare repeatedly in a new answer to the Minister of the Republic, that it is expected,
First, "That the Republic will desist from her pretensions on all the Islands of the Rhine, and confine herself to the limits required by herself, preserving the way in which the duties are collected, of the navigable part of the river.
Secondly, "That Cassel, Kehl, and the tete dupont of Huningen, belonging to the right bank of the Rhine, shall remain in the possession of the Empire of Germany, and that in general every thing on the Upper Rhine shall be restored to its former state before the present war.
Thirdly, "That the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, shall remain untouched.
Fourthly, "That the sequestration imposed upon the property of the nobility immediately dependent on the Empire, shall be taken off, and a restoration shall be made to them of every thing of which they have been deprived to the present moment. That no distinction shall be made between those situated on the right and left bank of the Rhine, nor between those who have not voted in the Diet of the Empire, and those who sit and vote in it; and
that the nobility immediately dependent on the Empire, shall be indemnified for their feudal rights which have been suppressed.
Fifthly, "That with respect to the ecclesiastical establishments, it shall be determined whether the pia corpora shall be comprehended in them, as it is here believed ought to be the case.
Finally, "Austria must propose the frequent representation of all these considerations, and of whatever the Deputation shall think proper to add, to the French Ministers, in amicable expressions, but at the same time in terms of energy, with the intent that the French Government may be induced to come to a resolution to recede from her hard demands. There is reason to expect that such will be the event, more particularly as the French Ministers in their last note extol, themselves, the liberal system of politics pursued by their government, its respect for humanity, and its sincere desire to accelerate the conclusion of peace. The Deputation places two much confidence in this last declaration, as well as in the preceding ones, to entertain a doubt of their being realized."
The Emperor of Russia has intimated by a proclamation, "that in consequence of the French having seized even in neutral harbours all ships laden with Russian goods, he has given order that all French goods in Russian ports should be put under sequestration without regard to whatever power the ships in which they may be found shall belong, or whoever may be owners."
A letter from Leghorn, says, the Moors, near 4000 of whom were liberated at Malta by Buonaparte, were so grateful to their deliverer that they offered their services in the fleet, and to follow wherever he might lead them.
AMERICAN ARTICLES.
From Russell's (Boston) Gazette, of October 11th.
Commercial Communication.
Extract of a letter from "Gottenburg, dated July 25th, '98, to the Editor.
"The duties on goods imported in, or exported from Sweden, in foreign vessels, are 40 per cent higher than on those in national bottoms. Our consul, Mr. Elias Backman, made all his exertions, and prevailed upon this government to reduce the same for American vessels, at only 10 per cent above Swedish vessels; inasmuch as we are now enjoying an advantage of 30 per cent they pay less than all other foreign nations.
"This advantage is peculiar to Gottenburg, which besides is a free port. When the goods imported are for home consumption, the duties abovementioned are due. When the goods are intended to be re-exported, they are stored in public magazines, and liable to a single duty of 1/4 per cent of the value for recognition.
"You know that in addition to these advantages, Gottenburg being situated at the entrance of the Cattegat, fronting the North Sea. No sound duty is to be paid, and the dangers of navigation are much lessened.
"This port is always furnished with every kind of produce of the Baltic; and American cargoes are sold easily. The East India Company have in their stores, a constant assortment of dry goods, china and teas.
"A regular American trading vessel, could make thee voyages a year at Gottenburg; and no danger of cruisers passing North about."
The above letter contained in a Postscript, the following intelligence.
"Sweden is very quiet; the young king is beloved, and expected shortly at Gottenburg; preparations are making for his reception.
"Some internal and military disturbances prevail in Russia; no stranger is admitted there; a line of troops is spread over the limits of that empire. It is reported here that the Emperor
was killed; but no confirmation of it.
"The mail of this day brings the news, of the negotiation at Seltz being broke up; Francois de Meuschateau set off for Paris, and count Cobouzel for Vienna. The Congress of Rastadt was to break up also, and their is a prospect of war again between Germany and France. This intelligence is dated Frankfort 9th, and Rastadt 8th July."
The Danes and Swedes have eight sail of Men of War out a cruising, and are determined to protect their trade against the French.
SALEM, OCT. 9.
Capt. Burgess, in the ship Hero, arrived here yesterday from St. Petersburg and Copenhagen. He sailed from Cronstadt with a large fleet under convoy, which he left off the coast of Norway. Off the Naze, he spoke a Danish frigate and brig, cruising for the protection of neutral property. Was informed from the frigate, that they would not suffer any French cruisers to capture any vessels bound to or from Danish ports, or to remain upon their coast. He was also informed, that a French privateer, having put into Christianstadt, was detained there; and the current of conversation at Copenhagen was highly resentful against the French.
The Emperor of Russia, Capt Burgess was informed at Petersburg, had an army of four hundred thousand men on foot, and his navy was completely manned and equipped. His Majesty had publicly declared, that the insults and injuries of the French were no longer to be tolerated.
These accounts corroborate those of a new coalition being forming against France.
It has been said that the policy of Catharine II. would have led her openly into the war against France, but that she was restrained by a fear that it would occasion the publication of M. de Rulhiere's manuscript history of the revolution which placed her absolute on the throne. Paul I. is free from a restraint of that nature.
THE GAZETTE.
Portland.
Monday, October 15th, 1798.
Communication.
IF monarchy, considered as a form of government, were now contending for the palm of preference in the world, it is a fact that it could claim to be as respectable now as ever it was upon earth. The French preached a crusade against kings, and what has been the consequence?—All monarchies remain entire, and all republics have fallen a sacrifice to the Liberty and Equality which like a staunch couple of blood-hounds were turned loose upon the fair face of Nature. How does this happen? Why thus—In monarchies the favourite hellish principle of division and distraction finds difficult access, the prince being but one, and his ministry of the same fashion with himself. This is an advantage admirably preserved in our constitution by the adoption of the President's office divested of all the obnoxious trappings of royalty. But in republics this same internal business of DIVIDING IN ORDER TO GOVERN is easily managed, for the outcry of aristocrat and democrat is enough to make two parties, and by the help of all manner of lying, vulgarity and villany it is probable the latter may be made to exceed the former in number for a time; as much as the former always will the latter in sense and honesty. The nature of man in the lower stages of life is restless, jealous, invidious and vindictive; and this the partymonger very well knows—to that in applying these base passions to his designs it is he who undervalues and degrades the people whom he misleads, and not those whom he belies to the people, for these are very sorry to see the multitude so grossly cheated, and would detect the imposture, if their influence were not for the moment fatally impaired. Thus these ridiculous words aristocrat and democrat have turned Europe "upside down," and have "come hither also," where they are perfectly insignificant except so far as they serve to convey an idea of French influence, and show us what fools we have been. For want of executives all the European republics have fallen a prey to the pestilence of intrigue which always marches in the van of the French armies—and by having an executive this country has escaped the bottomless pit of their lying, canting, whining, threatening, and on the whole most rascally policy. So that it is by the very trait in our constitution in which it partakes of monarchy that we have been saved—while the more

ular part has trembled, and had it not been for the former, would possibly have crumbled to pieces as all the pretended republics in Europe have done. And finally, to complete the glory of democracy, the French republic itself, after having by a thousand whoredoms produced those bastards in her own likeness, which like Sin in Milton has received again into her own body—The French republic, mother, sister, and prostitute of all others and of her own self—to give an indefeasible proof of the durability of democratic whirlwinds and of the boasted eternity of LUMINOUS PRINCIPLE, NO LONGER EXISTS. So far from needing no executive, its five headed substitute has found it necessary to expunge all freedom from the face of France, to usurp all power, ESTABLISH DESPOTISM, and GOVERN WITH THE SWORD. So much for democracy!
To proceed—After two very great rascals, Genet, and Fauchet, having lost their usefulness here, had been suspended from their offices, were under some marks of the displeasure of the republic to "preserve appearances," as Talleyrand says: still the work was left unfinished—the glorious business of getting the Americans into a civil war; of depositing the federal administration; of building the TRANS-ATLANTIC REPUBLIC on the smoking ruins of the United States—and in the event, of gormandizing all American wealth and property—was in a precarious state, and required some chosen devil, to give it the coup de grace, M. Adet—the very same Adet who was sent to Geneva to replace a French minister there who had grossly affronted that little but elegant republic; the very same Adet who had matured the destruction of that poor little state while enjoying the rights of its hospitality; the same Adet for whose intrigues the Genevan fathers have borne their gray locks in sorrow to their graves, and the Genevan virgins have torn their hair from their heads, was sent to practise the same arts in the United States. He proved inferior to our Mr. Pickering in abilities; but well he might, for we had right on our side, and France nothing but mischief in her heart; which she could but awkwardly conceal, even at that time—and now, by the mouth of Talleyrand confesses. M. Adet left the country just before Mr. Adams was chosen President, and nothing was plainer than that he intended to throw what weight he could into Mr. Jefferson's scale, by sowing discontent among the people at that critical moment.—However, Mr. Pickering's elaborate, but nevertheless perspicuous and spirited investigation of his lying manifestos, defeated his designs and France was foiled once more by truth and honour, means which our government has always chosen to employ, because they will always finally prevail.
It is to be observed that wherever France has had a point to carry in any nation, and met with a party opposed to her designs; it has been the invariable practice of the republic to charge that opposition to British influence. So far did in Switzerland, and in Geneva, and every other place where a single patriot was found so hardy as to withstand her pernicious intrigues. So here in America, (for the laws of nature are not more uniform to regulate than the arts of France are to disorganize the world,) no sooner did our very best men begin to doubt the good tendency of the hairbrained measures of Genet, than there was a great out-cry about British influence. Can anything be more insulting and humiliating to a people that has soul enough to keep its body from putrefaction, than to suppose it has no principle of action within itself, but must be goaded by a foreign impulse before it can show signs of life and sensibility. What unparalleled impudence is it in France to tell all nations that they are under the influence of one, and that therefore the Republic has a right to consign them to perdition!—Suppose it were true, what right has this insolent republic to dictate the measures or regulate the policy of mankind any more than England? Because she treats them better?—But it is found that this British party, so called by France, is in fact only the AMERICAN party, that is, those who find it necessary to oppose the gross aggressions of the impudent unprincipled Republic, and to keep in order those among ourselves whom unfortunately she has been able to mislead. Not one instance of British intrigue has ever been exposed by the boasted diplomatic talents of France. On the other hand, the utmost openness and manly intercourse has ever existed between us and England since the treaty, which was death to the hopes of France in America, precisely in the same ratio wherein it was beneficial to the United States. And reason good—for if any men were left in France who could weigh consequences, it must be apparent to them that the operation of the British treaty would slowly convince the Americans of its beneficial tendency, and yield them so much knowledge of their own consequence and of the nature of foreign connections, as would entirely unfit them for French pupillage, and prepare them to give advice rather than to receive it.
M. Adet returned to France to be sent on new missions, and evangelize freedom to republics and neutral powers whither a French army could follow him on dry ground. Let us be thankful that a bridge cannot be built from France to America, and that the French navy is completely ruined. Buonaparte with his motley fleet, composed in part of the stolen navies of the Pope, Venice and Malta, may wander about the Mediterranean awhile like Blackbeard the pirate; but the suppression of this armament will put an end to French enterprize, and probably let loose a whole infested world upon a degraded nation and its abandoned government, whose battles this General has fought much better than their cause deserved.
(To be continued.)
FOR THE GAZETTE. MR. JENKS. I UNDERSTAND that the partiality of some of my friends has induced them to name me as a candidate for the representation of the Second Eastern District, at the approaching election. To prevent the loss of any votes, I take this method to inform the Electors, that I should decline the acceptance of that or any other office, which would be incompatible with my professional and domestic engagements.
But were it in my power to command every vote in the District, I should with pleasure transfer them to General WADSWORTH, as a just reward for his federal and patriotic conduct ever since he has represented the district, and more especially at the last session of Congress.
DANIEL DAVIS. Portland, Oct. 12, 1798.
FOR THE GAZETTE. MR. JENKS. AS the time approaches, when the citizens of the District of Maine will be called on to elect three gentlemen to represent them in Congress, perhaps a few remarks on that event may be useful—especially at this interesting period of our public affairs.
The last election terminated much to the honor of the District; and were not the Jacobin faction now struggling to support some characters, whose political tenets are equally black and shameful, perhaps silence might be proper on this occasion. Though this struggle has a precedent of recent date, and will doubtless end in the same manner—yet it is laudable—it is a duty incumbent on us, to manifest our attachment to federal principles, and to expose the pernicious views, and deleterious intrigues of French fraternity, in all their ugliness and deformity.
While it was the object of France to remedy the abuses of its ancient government, and to relieve the people of oppressive and arbitrary exactions, we even felt interested in her success, and saw with pleasure the progress of her arms. But when these noble objects and elevated views of France were buried in the promiscuous murders of the innocent—in the proscriptions of the best of citizens—in the confiscations of their property—in the slavery and degradation of neighboring independent States, and more particularly in the attempts to reduce us to the same humiliating spectacle—it then became criminal in us to advocate her cause, or to be silent under the lashes of her vindictive measures. The wanton destruction of our property—the constant violation of the almost immutable law of nations, and the final rejection of our ministers, have cancelled all the moral, political and stipulated duties of America towards its ancient ally, and imposed a new code of obligations on its citizens. To this code, two of our Representatives have always been willing subscribers: The third, alas! now out of office, tho' a candidate
But here, for the sake of the private citizen, and the man of tolerable military talents, let me draw a veil over his political life, nor wound his feelings by a recitation of his public conduct. I leave to time and chance the correction of his errors, and the perverse obstinacy of his sentiments.
It seems, however, that he, and one Mr. FAIRFIELD, an old superannuated preacher of the gospel, are candidates in the two districts, which have been represented the two last years by Messrs. THATCHER and PARKER. Seekers of public offices, and also all those whom the people delight to honor, are always fair game in the field of criticism and of animadversion; and they expose their talents and characters to the ordeal of public investigation. This, so long sanctioned by practice, seems to be a condition precedent of their attempts to acquire the public suffrage.
Very easy it is for a discerning mind to point out the qualifications necessary to a representative, but not quite so easy to find a man possessed of them. Does Parson FAIRFIELD in any degree possess the necessary qualifications? Is he a man of honesty, integrity and firmness? These are indispensable requisites. Has he a penetrating judgment—a comprehensive knowledge of our foreign and domestic relations—an acquaintance with the laws of nations, and with the municipal regulations of his own country? These are of the utmost importance to a legislator—without which his constituents will suffer, and his country be dishonored. Does Parson FAIRFIELD possess the talent of delivering his sentiments with clearness, precision and freedom? Is he able to encounter the impudence of Tom Blount, the gentlemen, and other southern braggarts; and to expose, by a nice deduction of argument, the sophistry and artifice of the factious? Can a man of very slender abilities, and destitute of acquired knowledge—of a profession the worst calculated for the Senate—whose life has been devoted to usury and to the admeasurement of boards, extorted from his parishioners under pretext of ministerial dues, be considered in any view as worthy the suffrages of the people—especially when the old Representative has such strong pretensions to public confidence? Mr. THATCHER has ever been a faithful centinel in the temple of liberty;—he has ably advocated the private rights of his constituents, and defended our country against the encroachments of foreign intrigue. In fine, he is a firm Federalist, and his competitor an implacable jacobin. I say nothing of General DEARBORN; his political principles, as manifested in Congress, in his retirement, and in the last session of the General Court are too well known to need explanation.
It is therefore, extremely to be wished by the friends of good government, and by the decided enemies of French fraternity, that Messrs. THATCHER, WADSWORTH, and PARKER, may again be elected for the District of Maine, into the national legislature. If this country ever witnessed a period, when energy of sentiment, and weight of character, were necessary to secure its existence, the present is the one. For proof of this, we need only recur to the conduct of France; and that this is the prevailing sentiment in all parts of America, the numerous addresses to the President very amply testify. The fatal poison of French politics, "the destroying angel of many free republics," has almost ceased to do its office here; and our exalted Jacobins, the ultra ultra of innovation and faction, begin to be abhorred and execrated.
Fellow citizens! In the conduct of the government we generally behold the true character of the governed. While therefore you reprobate the French councils, be careful how you entertain sentiments favorable to the French people. If governments possess energy, and maintain even the appearance of patriotism and public virtue, the habits, views, and character of the people, will soon be conformed to them. Discard then your distinctions between the government and people of France;—consider them as one and indivisible; and experience will soon teach you that, instead of a nation of philosophers, France is a nation of cannibals. NUMA.
The last mails were uncommonly destitute of news. A few gleanings are laid before the reader, which must answer till another arrival.—The original communications given this day deserve attentive perusal.
The Fever, seems to yield a little to the coolness of autumn. In Portsmouth it has entirely disappeared.
The military staff of England at present stands thus: 7 field marshals, 61 generals, 66 lieutenant generals, 67 major generals, 315 colonels, 614 lieutenant colonels, and 526 majors. Total, 1,686. According to the returns to the war-office, on the 1st Aug. the military establishment of that country comprises three hundred thousand effective men.
"UNIVERSALIST," cannot be admitted into this Gazette. Every thing tending to religious controversies, I conceive extremely improper for a publication devoted to politics and news.
MARRIED—At Boston, Mr. THOMAS MINNS, one of the conductors of the Mercury, to Miss SUKEY MITCHELL.
DIED—At Capelizabeth, Major Benjamin Thrasher, aged 80.—Mr. Samuel Westcott, aged 50. He went to bed well; but before morning his wife found him dead by her side.
At Scarborough Mr. Thomas Sawyer, aged 18. At Gorham Mr. Joseph Roberts, aged 45. In this town, Mrs. Mary Pool, aged 34, wife of Mr. James Pool. Mr. James Neal.
Marine Articles. Port of Portland.
There have been no foreign arrivals at this port for some time past.
On Thursday last the sloop "Jane, of Bath," was conducted into this harbor by Mr. Francis Howell and two of the people belonging to the Sophia, lately sailed from this place. It being calm when the sloop was discovered (just off George's Bank) they boarded her. Her deck had been entirely cleared, even to the pumps, but a temporary hut was found erected on it, which led them to conclude that she had been deserted at sea. She is a good vessel, and has something of a cargo, but the risk of bringing her in under a single jury mast, was imminent.
Twenty nine privateers are said to be fitting out at St. Domingo to cruise on our coast.
Most of the United States' armed vessels are out, cruising for French pirates.
District of Maine.
BY order of the Hon. DAVID SEWALL, Esq. Judge of the District Court of Maine—Notice is hereby given, that a Libel is filed in said Court by JEREMIAH HILL, Esq. Collector of the Customs for the district of Biddeford and Peppereborough, within the said District of Maine, against the
Schooner HANNAH, of Kennebunk, of the burthen of about one hundred and five tons, together with her tackle, apparel and furniture found on board and belonging to the same, seized at Wells, within said District, on the 23rd day of August last, for breach of the Revenue Laws of the United States—That the first Tuesday of December next, at Portland, is assigned for a hearing thereon, to the end that any person claiming property in the said Schooner, may appear and show cause (if any can be shown) wherefore the said Schooner and her appurtenances aforesaid, should not by a decree of said Court, be declared forfeited. Dated at Portland, 2d October, 1798. JOHN HOBBY, Marshal.
SALES AT AUCTION. BARGAINS! BARGAINS! On Wednesday, the 31st inst. WILL COMMENCE THE SALE OF The stock in trade of a Gentleman lately deceased, and will continue every Wednesday and Saturday until the sale is closed. At the Auction Room in Fifth-street, GOODS consisting of the following articles: Broad Cloths, Baizes, Flannels, Camblers, Calimancoes, Durants, Tammies, Shalloons, Sattinets, Lasiages, Wildbores, Mullins, Cannibicks, Lawns, Irish Linens, Black silk Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Mitts, Sattins, Modes, Ribbons, Sewing Silks, Scotch Threds, with a variety of other articles too numerous to be particularized. N. B. Sixty days will be allowed to those who purchase to the amount of one hundred dollars, giving a note with good endorsers. Sale at TEN o'clock. EDWARD OXNARD, Auctioneer. Portland, October 13.
NEW ALMANACKS. This week will be published, Jenks's SHEET ALMANACK, for 1799. This Almanack is calculated for the meridian of Portland, and is very convenient for public offices, counting rooms, &c. Also, next week will be published, and ready for sale, wholesale & retail, THE FARMER'S, MERCHANT'S & MECHANIC'S ALMANACK: OR, THE REGISTER of MAINE. For the year of our Lord, 1799. It is calculated for this District, and is larger than any heretofore published in this part of the country—containing, besides a great variety of Useful, Entertaining and Curious matters, a Farmer's Calendar for every month in the year.—Other particulars in a future advertisement. Shopkeepers, traders, and others, in town and country may be supplied on the most liberal terms.
List of Letters, Remaining in the Post Office, Brunswick, Maine. Thomas Pennell, Brunswick. Anne Higgens, ditto. Jacob Welton, ditto. Samuel Gros, ditto. Benjamin Metcalf, Topsham. Walter Hatch, ditto. Isaac Root, ditto. John Hearn, ditto. William Gowell, Bowdoin. Margery Southaker, ditto. Alvin Dimmick, ditto. ANDREW DUNING, Post Master. October 15, '98.
A good bargain may be had. To be sold, SEVENTY-five acres of LAND, five miles from Portland, on the road to Saccarappa, about 40 acres under improvement—the other well filled with wood and timber, one quarter of a mile from a double saw mill. A house in Port land would be taken in pay, or otherwise the payment made easy to the purchaser. Judah Delano. Portland Oct 15, 1798.
Strayed from the subscribers, On the 30th September last, a COW supposed to be ten or twelve years old, light red, with a white spot in her forehead, and one on, or near, one of her hips.—Whoever will secure said cow, and give notice or return her, to the subscribers in Portland, shall be handsomely rewarded for his trouble. Wm. & Barnard Douglass. Portland, 15th October, 1798.
For Spain, THE Schooner HUNTER, DAVID SMITH, jun. master—will sail in 20 days, having two thirds of her cargo engaged—For freight apply to DAVID SMITH, No. 1, Union Wharf. Freight on board, Codfish, Salmon, Beef, Oil, Coffee, Sugar, and Butter. Portland, Oct. 1.
Clement Fickett's Estate. THE Subscribers hereby give notice, that they have been duly appointed Administrators on the estate of CLEMENT FICKETT, late of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, yeoman deceased, and given bonds as the law directs. They therefore call upon all persons who have claims against said estate, to exhibit the same—and those who are indebted thereto, to make payment without delay, to PATIENCE FICKETT, JOHN BUTLER RYAN. October 5, '98.

POETRY.
For THE GAZETTE.
A NEW SONG.
YE heroes who've fought in America's cause, And ventur'd your lives to establish her laws; Once more the bright goddess of freedom proclaims, Your swords must not rust if you value your claims; For France by false liberty having grown craz'd, In building air-castles her people's amaz'd; By fraud they have conquer'd, by perfidy won, What by courage and arms they ne'er could have done; Their art and intrigue quite successful have grown; French freedom on wings of an eagle has flown; They profess their friendship, protection and arms, Enticements they practise like rattle snake's charms; When consummate their plans, they're ne'er at a stand, But force contributions or ducats in hand. With still diplomatic, they strove to elude Our Envoy of Peace, and our Congress delude; But wisdom will sanction the laws of our land, Whilst Adams at head of our Congress shall stand; His zeal patriotic to screen us from harm, Will the heart of each grateful American warm; With pious devotion to Power Divine, We'll trust for annoyance of their base design; The God of our fathers a blessing bestows, In great Washington the dismay of our foes; Our people unite, and him at the head Of our armies, proud France we ne'er need to dread; For conquest we arm not, our motives shall be, To let the world know that America's free. A. P.
Earthquake.
The son of a Merchant in Birmingham, who happened to be at Sienna, Tuscany, during the late earthquake there, has written the following account of it. "Sienna, Sunday, May 27, '98. Yesterday, at ten minutes past one, the most terrible earthquake ever felt in Sienna took place. I was writing in my room with Mr. H. when on a sudden a most violent concussive and reverberative motion almost threw us down, and affected us like an electric shock; the servant who was with us actually fell. It lasted half a minute, and then the most tremendous noise was heard from the bowels of the earth. Aware that it was an earthquake, I cried out, run, run; our rooms were instantly filled with dust, and the mortar and bricks fell about our ears. On descending, we found all the city in consternation, the streets full of dust and fallen chimneys; and almost the first object I saw was a poor man wallowing in his blood, who had been thrown down from a scaffold. The streets resounding with the cries of women half-distracted, while the men were engaged in collecting their straggled families. I soon returned into the house, and found our walls all cracked, brick floors burst asunder, windows broken and torn open, and in short, almost uninhabitable. We then went to the public walk called the Lizza, where was collected a vast concourse of people and carriages, all exhibiting indescribable scenes of pain and misery. The earth on the walk was much cracked, and all the houses in the city split almost from top to bottom. Returning again home, we determined to go to lady Carolina Spannochi's when a second shock made our room creak like a vessel in a storm. We found lady C. in the utmost distress; a wall had fallen upon her eldest son, and twelve others of the scholars in the college of the city; his bruised arm had been taken off, but it was not expected he would live. Every where as we returned to our lodgings, we heard the cries of distress, and at half past eight o'clock we heard a third shock, more dreadful than the former, determined us at all events to quit the city. We passed the night on numbers of sofas, chairs, matresses, &c. feeling an almost continual vibration of the earth. In the morning we returned to the city, and found it almost depopulated. The people were on the Lizza, under a kind of tents; the rich there, have no other habitation than their tents. The churches are all damaged and mass said in open air; indeed none of the pub-
lic buildings can be safely used. Sienna appears to be ruined: another shock will raze it to the ground."
By the last accounts, small shocks of an earthquake still continue to be felt from time to time at Sienna, from whence a great number of inhabitants have fled to Leghorn.
Rational Opinion.
"IT must be great perverseness and depravity in any, who can represent the late acts of Government and the necessary measures of self defence taken by Congress as a coalition with Great Britain. It may be useful, however, to analyze our ideas upon this subject. If by a coalition with Great Britain be meant a return as Colonies, under the government of that country, I declare I know no individual in America who would consent to it, nor do I believe that Great Britain would again receive us in that character. Sure I am it would be in her the blindest policy she ever conceived; for she has already the most incontrovertible proof that she cannot govern us. If by a coalition be meant a perpetual alliance, offensive and defensive, can it be supposed that two thirds of the Senate of the United States would advise or consent to it without necessity? Besides, is any one certain that Britain would agree to it if we should propose it? I believe Americans in general have already seen enough of perpetual alliances. Nevertheless, if France has made or shall make herself our enemy, and has forced or shall force upon us a war in our defence, can we avoid being useful to Britain while we are defending ourselves? Can Britain avoid being useful to us while defending herself, or annoying her enemy? Would it not be a want of wisdom in both to avoid any opportunity of aiding each other? [JOHN ADAMS.]
Useful Extracts.
Every common sailor knows, that a small quantity of lime put into a water cask, will preserve it sweet thro' a long voyage in a hot climate; while the same quality of water, in a similar cask, without lime, will in a short time become rotten and offensive both to the taste and smell. Some have with much advantage thrown quick lime into their wells when the water has become bad, and thereby restored it to its usual sweetness. If lime preserves or restores sweetness and wholesomeness to water, does it not follow, that by a judicious application, it will preserve the air sweet and salubrious; both are fluids, governed by similar laws.
Is the authority of Darwin of any value in a physiological subject? He recommends a frequent use of the hot-bath as one means of preserving health and prolonging life. What does experience say; the healthiest and most robust, the longest lived and most cheerful people of Asia are the Americans, who use the hot-bath in all of the year, but more particularly in the warmest weather. Europeans who live in Asia find its advantages, and those who have constantly used the warm bath have always escaped sickness of every kind, but what they may have contracted from excesses or imprudence of another kind. All the countries in warm latitudes of Europe and Asia have hot baths, which are rarely used but in the hot season; those who bathe are rarely affected by the plague, which is usually confined to the poor who are either too lazy or too indigent to keep themselves clean in person or apparel.
Scraps for Amusement.
THE French Count Rochefoucault, after complaining in severe language of his hard fortune, in being swindled out of the gleanings of his property in London, observed, "Well, after all, the sharper had scripture authority for his conduct—I was a stranger, and he took me in."
The Egyptians in their feasts used to
carry about the dried anatomy of a man in a coffer, not so much in memory of Osiris, slain by Typho, and in a chest cast into the sea; but that being inflamed with wine, they might mutually exhort one another to the use and enjoyment of these present good things, because ere long all of them would be as that skeleton.
A gentleman farmer, observing to one of his threshers, that he had been informed another farmer's labourer had threshed out a load of corn between sun and sun; the rustic replied, then, measter, it must have been one of Joshua's days, when he commanded the sun to stand still.
Frugality.
Certain young men being reproved by Zeno for their prodigality, excused themselves, saying, "They had plenty enough, out of which they did it." "Will you excuse a cook," said he, "that should over-salt his meat, because he had store of salt?"
A good layer up makes a good layer out, and a good saver makes a good spender.
Balance your expences by the just weight of your own estate, not by the poise of another's spending.
It is good advice of the philosopher, measure the stone by your rule, not your rule by the stone.
Take Notice.
STRAYED or Stolen out of the pasture of the Subscriber in Hebron, on the 15th day of September last one
Dark bay Horse,
twelve years old, with a star in his forehead, and marked with the saddle on each side of his back—and one
Black Colt,
two years old, with a blaze in her face, and both hind feet white.—Whoever will take up said Horses, and Thieves, if stolen, shall be handsomely rewarded by giving information to the Subscriber in Hebron, or to Captain WILLIAM WEBSTER, of Gray
WILLIAM CLARK WHITNEY. Hebron, October 5th, 1798.
10 Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or STOLEN (supposed to be stolen) on Thursday the 20th ult. a HORSE, of a light red colour a little intermixed with white, with a light coloured mane and tail light on the flank of each side; both fore feet split near the cork of the shoe. He had on a new saddle with a blue saddle cloth, trimmed with a buff colour—black stirrups, and a bridle.
Whoever will take up said Horse, or give information of him, so that he may be recovered, shall receive the above reward. If stolen, an additional reward will be given for the thief.
EPHRAIM SANDS. Buxton, October 3, '98.
Just Published,
By David West, Boston,
Numbers 6 & 7 of Count RUMFORD'S ESSAYS; or 1 & 2 of vol. 2d.
These numbers, containing 310 pages Letter Press, and 8 copperplate engravings, will be given to subscribers in boards, at 1 dol. 37 1/2 cents, which, when compared, will be found cheaper than the former numbers of this valuable work. Boston, Sept. 20.
FOR SALE, AT
Joseph Warren's Book-Store, Fifth-street, Portland,
PAPER, of all kinds, Paper Hangings, American Coast Pilot, 2d edition, largely improved, with Revenue laws, &c.
Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy. Sept. 10, 1798.
A Horse for sale.
A good likely HORSE, about four years old, that trots handsomely and has a good carriage, may be purchased on good terms, by applying to this office. October 8th.
For sale,
A good family COW. Enquire of the Printer. October 8, 1798.
October 8, 1798.
October 8, 1798.
CLOTHING MILL.
THE subscriber informs the public, that he has taken the CLOTHING MILL, erected by Mr. RUST, in Rusfield, in the town of Norway; and shall commence the business of said Mill, by the middle of October next, when those who will please to favor him with their commands, may depend on the greatest dispatch and punctuality. SAMUEL MERRILL. Biddeford, Sept. 17.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors of lands, lying in the town of Durham, in the county of Cumberland, that their lands are taxed in the State, Town and County tax, for the years 1797 and 1798, and committed to me the subscriber to collect, viz.
Table with 5 columns: Proprietors, No. Lots, No. Acres, D., C., D. C. Rows include: Proprietors (129 lots, 100 acres), unknown (114 lots, 100 acres), Samuel Rofs (143 lots, 100 acres), Unknown (136 lots, 60 acres), Ditto No. unknown (50 acres).
Unless said taxes, with intervening charges, are paid to me the Subscriber, on or before the fifth day of December next, so much of said lands will then be sold at Public Vendue, at the dwelling house of JOSEPH PROCTOR, innholder in said Durham, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay said taxes and charges. JABES DYER, Collector. September 26, 1798.
The sale of the following land, is postponed till the 6th of February next.
THE nonresident proprietors of the several lots of land lying in the town of Poland, in the county of Cumberland, are hereby notified, that the same are taxed for the State, County and Town taxes, for the year 1797, in the respective sums following, viz.
Table with 7 columns: No. Lots, No. Acres, State tax, Town tax, Road tax, Delinquent tax. Rows include: 43 lots, 100 acres; 66 lots, 100 acres; 62 lots, 100 acres; 40 lots, 100 acres; 79 lots, 100 acres; 53 lots, 100 acres; 57 lots, 50 acres; 20 lots, 100 acres; 26 lots, 100 acres; 54 lots, 100 acres; 96 lots, 100 acres; 68 lots, 100 acres. SECOND DIVISION: 65 lots, 100 acres; 21 lots, 100 acres; 3 lots, 100 acres; 7 lots, 100 acres; 142 lots, 100 acres; 148 lots, 100 acres; 106 lots, 100 acres; 145 lots, 100 acres; 96 lots, 100 acres; 30 lots, 100 acres; 56 lots, 100 acres; 141 lots, 100 acres; 23 lots, 70 acres; 85 lots, 100 acres; 89 lots, 100 acres; 123 lots, 100 acres; 153 lots, 100 acres; 107 lots, 100 acres; 135 lots, 100 acres; 127 lots, 100 acres; 93 lots, 100 acres; 110 lots, 100 acres; 129 lots, 100 acres; 111 lots, 100 acres; 15 lots, 100 acres; 31 lots, 100 acres; 62 lots, 100 acres; 105 lots, 100 acres; 17 lots, 100 acres; 44 lots, 100 acres; 58 lots, 100 acres; 76 lots, 100 acres; 6 lots, 100 acres; 144 lots, 50 acres.
If no person shall appear to discharge said taxes and all necessary intervening charges, on or before Wednesday the sixth day of February, 1799, at 9 o'clock, A. M. so much of the said lots of land as will be sufficient to discharge the same, will then be sold at Public Auction, to the highest bidder, according to law, at the house of DANIEL JACKSON, innholder, in said Poland. JOHN T. MERRILL, Collector. Poland, September 18, 1798.
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