Portland gazette (Portland, Me.), 1805-04-22 00:00:00

PORTLAND GAZETTE.
BY ELEZER A. JENKS.
[No. 1, of Vol. VIII.]
PORTLAND (MAINE) MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1805.
[Whole No. 365]
Miscellany.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
The Pilgrim.—No. XXIV.
Qui suadet optam curu couilgere metum, Multa tulit fecitque puer; sudavit et alit. HORACE.
The youth, who hopes th' Olympic prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain. FRANCIS.
Whether we regard present interest or amusement; whether we are more desirous of success in this world, or solicitous for our reception in another, the cultivation of our minds will be equally deserving the highest attention. The mind, like the waters, that are purified by perpetual undulation, when constantly agitated by a desire of knowledge, is preserved from that stagnation which emits noxious exhalations, and swarm with hideous monsters. Between the squalid clothing of Hottentots and the elegant garments of an European, although there is highly characteristic of mental improvement, there is much less difference than in their intellectual acquisitions.
Industry is usually the attendant of virtue; idleness is of the family of vice, and may sometimes be taken for her mother, and sometimes for her offspring. The mind of man, like a soil naturally fertile, must produce something; and if care be not taken in rearing more valuable plants, weeds, spontaneous in their growth, and difficult to eradicate, will be the only harvest.
In the Olympic games, to which Horace in our motto alludes, whoever wished to excel, should from his youth have been inured to hardships, not making vigorous, yet inconstant, and therefore useless, efforts, but devoting himself with unremitting exertion to the acquisition of a reward, that conferred immortality. Thus in the pursuits of science or literature, constancy is no less requisite than activity. How many, who begin the race with alacrity, soon become impatient of the fatigue, or are terrified by the length of the course, and ingloriously relinquish their hopes and their claims.
Meditating one evening on this subject, in spite of my fervent resolutions to the contrary, I fell asleep, and had the following vision.
I saw an exceedingly high hill, on the top of which a splendid edifice bore the inscription of "the temple of science." It had a hundred doors ever open; but, though the avenues near the bottom of the mountain were thronged with those who directed their course to the summit, the worshippers in the temple were few. The road seemed to be of tedious ascent, and in some places dangerous precipices threatened the travellers, and impervious thickets obstructed their way; but I observed, that it became less perilous and more pleasant, after they had proceeded some distance.
I therefore wondered that so few were to be seen on the higher parts, till I discovered the habitations of the Sirens, Idleness and Pleasure, situated near the bottom of the mountain, where the path began to be broken by irregularities, or darkened by overhanging trees. Here many, who thus far had travelled cheerfully, were seduced from their journey by one or other of these females. Some entered the labyrinth of Pleasure, and were lost in its mazes; but being unable to return, continued to rove without satisfaction through meads of flowers, that faded as they were gathered. Others, a more numerous band, obeying the invitation of Idleness, passed the fatal threshold, where a few only were observed to linger with irresolution, and to utter groans, like the Trojan horse, in crossing the prostrated walls of the heaven deserted city.
A venerable figure was engaged in directing and assisting the travellers in their journey,
"whose head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er, Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, But strong for service still."
Those, who disregarded his advice, were generally wearied by unavailing efforts to surmount some difficult pass, and returned to obey the mandates of discipline with humility. Some however, confident in their own powers, scorned the directions of their instructor, whom they expected to surpass by their ardor, declaring they would rather be lost in exploring new paths, than arrive at their object by following the old one.
In the midst of the temple grew the tree of fame, under whose golden branches were seated the poets, orators and philosophers of all ages. The fruit of this tree was distributed with impartiality; and I beheld with wonder an English bard, whose labors had deprived him of light, receiving a reward equal to that, which many ages before had been bestowed on Virgil.
Through the long period that succeeded the settlement of the barbarians in the Roman empire, until the fifteenth century, very few votaries had arrived at this temple. They appeared at great intervals, like the solitary stars, visible in an evening of clouds, whose lustre, instead of being magnified, is diminished by the surrounding darkness, or quenched by the humility of the sky.
The ceremony of conferring the rewards of a long life of labor on some genius lately arrived, so stimulated my nerves, that I instantly started
from sleep, and in my first emotions of pleasure prayed, that I might not, like Moses from the top of Pisgah, be favored with a view of that land, which it is destined I shall never possess.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
TO MR. QUERIST.
SIR, YOUR piece, entitled "The economy of the present administration," published in the Gazette of the 1st inst. contains some malicious insinuations, which I could not see palmed upon the public without endeavouring to refute.
Granting that the net proceeds of the post-office, were in 1801, sixty seven thousand dollars and in 1804 but fourteen, does it follow, that the several postmasters have embezzled the public money? No sir; be it known to you, they have accounted for every cent of it. When you say "the revenues of the individual offices have doubled at least since 1801," you speak the thing that is not. On the contrary, the decrease of revenue in the individual offices, is in a due ratio to that of the whole: and this not on the principles to which you allude, but on those which every well-wisher to his country will be proud of: I mean those true economical ones which aim at the good of the people, and not the paultry traffic of revenue of fifty-three thousand dollars; which is the difference.
Pickering and Haberham (for sinister views no doubt) appointed such deputies as we foolish people could confide in; so that we thoughtlessly threw our letters, whether of importance or not it made little difference, into the post office and let them shift for themselves. The revenue increased to fast that one would think we all did nothing but write letters, and then send them by the mail just to see how fast they would go. At this rate we should all have been ruined.
But now, having a new post master general, and new deputies; the tables are turned, thank heaven, and our eyes are opened to our true interests, and we saved from ruin. Instead of squandering away our time in writing letters, and our money in postage, we now write as seldom as possible, and then look out for a private conveyance.
A man used to travel to Boston with no other consequence than what his own money, and his own business gave him: but now, 'tis fifty to one, his own money is not the tenth part of what he carries; and the letters he is charged with is of greater bulk than his cloaths. This helps his self love, and is at once making a better man of him. For according to the doctrine (by inference) of the greatest philosopher now living, we are all perfect, negroes excepted, if we can only bring ourselves to think so. Besides this way of doing business establishes a friendly intercourse among neighbours and makes us better disposed to each other: it being a settled axiom among all philosophers, "That a man's gratitude rises in exact proportion to the benefits he receives." It also makes us more alert. Formerly we had nothing to do but walk away like drones, with our letters to the post-office; whereas now we must step round the town briskly, sometimes for two or three days, to seek some body by whom to send them. You surely can't deny that this is for the best; for it keeps us from the rust of idleness; a sure way to keep us out of mischief.
Moreover, we have heretofore been in the habit of sauntering into the post office almost any stirring hour in the four-and twenty; but now, having to go sometimes twice or thrice, perhaps to no purpose, we are encouraged to seek for other conveyances. An additional help to economy.
Hence it is plain, sir, that the deputy postmasters are no defaulters; but that the decrease of this revenue is done with a design, and that with a single eye to our good. For you see it is plain, sir, that the less the revenue is from the post office, the better it is for us as individuals. If it is true that the revenue in four years has decreased from 67 to 14 thousand dollars; it follows that it will take no great while to sink it wholly. The post-office then must be supported by other revenues, when it will be viewed in its true light. I mean a public nuisance, and will of course be as it ought to be, abolished. And then Mister Querist, I hope we shall hear, no more of your grumbling.
HUMPHREY QUIZARRO.
From a late Liverpool paper.
To the Printer.
SIR—that instances of longevity are not so rare in modern times as is usually imagined, the subjoined list, collected from various sources, is a curious proof to which I beg you will give a place in your columns, if you think it will afford any amusement to your numerous readers. That I might not swell it to an inconvenient length, none have been inserted who have not attained their 130th year, or whose longevity has not appeared to be well attested. Many more might, without doubt, be added, by those who have better opportunities for collecting such accounts. The date affixed to each name is the year in which each person died, when that has been ascertained, or when
not, the last year in which each is known to have lived.
   Year. Age. Year. Age.     1795 D. Cameron, 120 1766 Thos. Dobson, 139   '66 J. de la Souel, 130 '85 Mary Cameron 139   '66 George King, 130 '52 William Laland, 140   '67 John Taylor, 130 Count Deimond, 140   '74 William Beadle, 130 1770 James Sands, 140   '78 John Warlon, 130 '73 Swartinga, a monk 142   '80 R. Macbride, 130 — C. M'Finaldy, 143   '80 Wm. Ellis, 130 1757 John Effingham, 144   '64 Eliza Taylor, 132 '82 Evan Williams, 145   '75 Peter Garden, 131 '65 Thos. Winsloe, 146   '81 Eliz. Merchant, 133 '72 J. C. Drahaufen- 146   '72 Mrs Keith, 134 berg, 146   '67 Francis Agne, 134 1659 William Mead, 148   '77 John Broomey, 134 1713 Francis Coufir, 150   '44 Jane Harrison, 135 1642 Thos. Newman, 152   '59 James Shiele, 136 1635 Thos. Parr, 152   '68 Catharine Noon, 136 '56 James Bowles, 152   '71 Marg. Foster, 136 — Henry West, 154   '76 John Moriarty, 136 1648 Thos. Damme, 157   '72 J. Richardson, 137 1762 A. Polifli peasant, 152   '93 — Robertson, 137 1797 Jos. Surington, 160   '57 Wm. Sharpley, 138 1668 Wm. Edwards, 168   '68 J. McDonough, 138 1670 Henry Jenkins, 169   '70 — Fairbrother, 138 1782 Louisa Truxo, 175   '72 Mrs. Clunn, 138  
To these may be added a Mulatto man, who died in 1797 in Fredricktown, North America, and who was said to be 180 years old.
In the county Chronicle, of Dec. 13, 1791, a paragraph was inserted, which stated, that Thomas Cara, according to the parish register of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, died the 28th of January, 1588, aged 207. This is an instance of longevity so far exceeding any other on record that one is disposed to suspect some mistake either in the register or in the extract. Such however as it was there given, I now send it you, and if it should find a place in your columns, will oblige,
A. B.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
An act in addition to an act, entitled, "an act establishing an incorporation by the name of the Maine Turnpike Association."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That so much of the first section of an act, entitled, "an act establishing an incorporation by the name of the Maine Turnpike Association," passed the eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and three, as authorizes said association to lay out, make and keep in repair a Turnpike road from Portland to Augusta Bridge be, and hereby is repealed, any thing in said act to the contrary notwithstanding.
March 11, 1805.—By the Governor Approved.
An act to alter the times of holding the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in the county of Cumberland.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the term of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in the county of Cumberland, to be holden by law on the third Tuesday in February in the present year, and after the first Tuesday in March instant, the said Court of General Sessions of the Peace shall be holden but twice in each year, viz. on the first Tuesday of September, and on the first Tuesday of March in every year, when the said Court shall be holden in the town of Portland, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
March 14, 1805.—By the Governor approved.
Intelligence.
PETERSBURGH. (Russia,) Nov. 30.
According to the laws of Russia, but one son out of every peasant's family, can be obliged to enlist into the army; and when there is but one son in a family, he is entirely exempt from military services. Notwithstanding the eldest son of a peasant's family in the government of Twer having been killed in battle, the second was taken, and the third also in the late enrolment, leaving to the unfortunate parents to support them in their old age, only a blind girl and a dwarf, who was the fourth son, who had been most kindly treated by nature. The mother fell a victim to the distress in which they were involved; after her death, the dwarf formed the resolution of coming to his capital, though he had five werst to walk. He set out on his journey, without knowing an inch of his way, and subsisting entirely on charity.
Having arrived here, he procured a person to draw up a petition for him, containing an exact narrative of all those particulars. He went to the palace with the intention of presenting it to the emperor; but he came too late; he went there again the next day, but his heart failed him. The third day, having acquired more resolution he threw himself at his majesty's feet, and presented his petition. As soon as the Emperor had returned to the Palace, he instantly read the petition, and was so affected by its contents, that he gave immediate orders that a strict enquiry should be made into the whole affair: the petition was found to be perfectly correct in all its circumstances. His Majesty commanded the Minister of justice to issue orders for the immediate freedom of the dwarf's brother, and that 500 roubles should be given to the dwarf as a reward for his trouble.
The Minister sent for him, and communicated to him his Majesty's pleasure, adding that there was a carriage at the door at his service, in which he might have the satisfaction of going himself for his brother, who was quartered at Gatchina. The poor dwarf could scarcely believe what he saw and heard; when he was convinced of the truth of it, he forgot all distinctions of rank and state: he leaped about, laughed, and committed every sort of extravagance. At length he got into the carriage, arrived at Gatchina, shewed the Emperor's order, and brought his brother back to his aged father and his blind sister. The perpetrator of this act of injustice to those poor people, is to be criminally prosecuted for the same.
FROM THE WEST-INDIES.
Basseterre. March 15. —On the 5th, a French fleet appeared off this town, anchored, and fired a shot at fort Smith. Having no force to resist so powerful an enemy, six gentlemen went off, with a flag of truce, to offer a capitulation—when the following terms were offered:—That the merchant shipping should be surrendered: That J. Smith and Blue Point should be occupied by French troops; and that a contribution of a million of livers, should be sent on board the Majeſteux, by nine o'clock the next morning. This could not be complied with. The French troops were landed, and gen. Barbot ordered the treasurer to produce 5000. sterling by 8 o'clock the next morning; in penalty of being amerced in double the sum next day; and if not then completed, the town should be delivered up to pillage, and then be demolished. The French general said, he considered the levy as made on the British government, which would indemnify the island.—Independent of the 5000. he declared he must have 200,000 livers as a compensation for the trouble of the troops. The sum required not having been paid, gen. Barbot demanded double; and it being impossible to procure the cash; recourse was had to bills; and Mr. Coffin drew on gen. Matthews (on a visit from the United States) for 10,000. pound sterling, in favor of gen. Barbot; which were accepted by gen. Matthews; who immediately drew on the American consul at Paris, for the amount.
In the afternoon the committee were carried on board the Majeſteux, when gen. Grance complained of the smallness of the sum raised;—and demanded 22,000. more. and on the committee declaring it impossible to raise the money; they were ordered into confinement. Soon after, however, gen. Barbot, informed them they must pledge themselves to bring on board 2000 guineas, by 8 o'clock, in which case no injury should be done the town. This was complied with, and on the 7th they left the island; and proceeded to Nevis; where they obtained 4,200. currency, but did not land any soldiers. They demanded at first 20,000 guineas.
St. Domingo. —From Cape Francois, we learn, that on the 26th Feb. gen. Christophe, attacked St. Jago, (in the interior of St. Domingo) at the head of 6000 men, and after a severe conflict with 1500 Spaniards, carried the place. The inhabitants were indiscriminately put to the sword. On the next day, this ferocious army marched against Santa Domingo.
From St. Thomas March 5. —A French consul has arrived here from the city of St. Domingo, and has published the proclamation of the French commander in chief of St. Domingo, declaring that all persons found on board neutral vessels, within two leagues of any of the ports in possession of the blacks, going in, or coming out, shall be punished with death.
Capt. Bowyer, from Santa Domingo, arrived at Newyork, informs of the capture of St. Jago, by the black army, and of the murder of all the men, women and children; and that they were then marching against Santa Domingo.
From Jacmel, March 7. —The Haytian (black) army has got within six leagues of the city of Santa Domingo.
The black army gone the city of St. Domingo, amounted to 40,000 men. Christophe was commander in chief.—Gen. Brave, (a ferocious black) commanded at the assault of St. Jago, and was said to have been mortally wounded.—He lost a thousand men in the assault.
Gazette d'Haiti. —Captain Boyer, of the schr Harriott, from Cape Francois, yesterday obligingly handed us a regular file from its commencement to the 22d ult. of the Gazette politique & commerciale d'Haiti , printed at the Cape, by P. Roux, printer to the Emperor. The editor states that the paper is published "under the auspices of his excellency the general of division Vernet, minister of finances." The motto is appropriate.
L'Injustice a la fin produit l'Independence.
Volr.
These papers are almost entirely filled with extracts from English and French prints relative to European affairs, and articles from American, respecting the civil transactions of this country, especially with regard to our relations with St.

Domingo. The editor seldom indulges in remark. As a sample, however, we may give the following. "The great interests which the American merchants find in the commerce of this country, guarantee to us their perseverance in continuing it. And whatever Mr. Phipps and his partisans may say, the empire of Haiti is independent, and contains in itself the power of preserving this independence. Its laborious inhabitants have procured for themselves, by the richness of their culture, means sufficient for defence, of which the valour of its soldiers knows how to profit. Above all, what have we to fear from the attempts of our enemies? He who has conquered them with so much glory, is he not at the head of a numerous army, of men hardened by misfortune, and who, for the most part, have been personally victims of long and cruel persecutions, which they themselves have to avenge?" [N. Y. D. Adv.]
A gentleman from St. Bartholomews, which he left 23 days since, informs, that Commodore Hoom, in the Centaur, of 74 guns, had arrived at Antigua, from Barbadoes, with a reinforcement of 600 seamen and troops; and that the naval and land forces collected at Antigua amounted to between 12 and 14,000 men. — That the French fleet had been off Antigua, but learning the state of defence, stood off to the southward. The Cork Fleet, under convoy of two frigates, having on board 1700 troops, had arrived at Barbadoes.
Political.
From the Vermont Herald. MR. ELLIOT, TO HIS CONSTITUENTS.
LETTER II.
The first important subject, which came before Congress, on which it became necessary for me to abandon either my principles or my party, was the first bill for the temporary government of Louisiana. By this bill, all the military, civil and judicial powers, exercised by the officers of the existing government of that territory, were to be vested in such person or persons, and exercised in such manner as the President of the United States should direct. Surely a government of this description must be a perfect despotism; and this indeed, was admitted by its advocates, who sustained the measure on the ground of necessity alone. — This necessity I could not discover. By the laws of nations the institution of the ceded country would remain in force until changed by the legislative power of the United States; and it could be the work of a few days only to devise some system of a general nature, which should be competent to the temporary government of the territory, and at the same time consonant to the republican principles of the Constitution. The union of legislative, executive, judicial, and military powers, in an individual, was utterly incongruous with the spirit of that instrument; and the delegation of a power to the President to appoint a supreme governor of the territory, was repugnant to its letter; the Constitution; the Constitution having authorized Congress to vest the appointment of inferior officers only in the President alone. By the institutions of ancient Rome when the Senate received information of the conquest or cession of a country, they consulted what laws they thought proper should be prescribed, and sent commonly ten ambassadors, with whose concurrence the General of the troops in the conquered or ceded country might settle its concerns. The two first laws which Congress passed relative to the government of Louisiana, display a very singular improvement upon the too republican system of the ancient Romans. It is a subject of pleasure and of pride that I opposed them; and I am clearly of opinion that the adoption of similar measures by the federalists, while they held the reins of power, would have been considered by the republicans as unquestionable evidence of a disposition to create a monarchical system of government.
The celebrated alteration of the Constitution, providing for a distinct designation of the electoral votes for President and Vice-President comes next in order in the present review. The following letter which I addressed to the council and House of Representatives of this state, unfolds the views and motives which governed my conduct in relation to that subject. The council, although they had forwarded to me an instruction in the form of a request to vote in favour of the amendment, forbade their Secretary to read to them my reasons for disposing their instructions. This conduct may have been truly republican, but it will be proper previously to the admission of that point, to examine the constitutional power of the State Legislatures to instruct Representatives or even Senators in Congress, with respect to amendments to the Constitution. The Constitution has declared that "Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or on the application of two thirds of the Legislatures of the several States, shall call a convention, &c." Congress are vested with a perfect discretion in the case; they may propose amendments when they deem it necessary. Congress and the State Legislatures are, constitutionally, distinct initiative bodies, as it respects amendments, each completely independent of the other. — To justify the State Legislatures in instructing even Senators to propose amendments, the Constitution should first be amended so as to read thus — Congress, whenever the States Legislatures shall instruct them to deem it necessary, shall propose amendment, &c. I shall at this time only add that I have, upon mature reflection, altered the opinion avowed in the following letters, that the amendment is not materially injurious to the small States; and
I shall devote my next letter to an exhibition of the reasons which produced in my mind that alteration.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 1803.
Sir. I DULY received a communication from His Excellency the Governor, covering a resolution of the council and general assembly, instructing the senators, and requesting the people of the state, in congress, to use their exertions to obtain an amendment to the constitution of the United States providing for a distinct designation of the votes for President and Vice President. Previously to the arrival of this communication, a resolution providing for that object had passed the house of representatives by a large constitutional majority, and was sent to the senate for their consideration; for that resolution my vote was given. The senate did not act upon the resolution, but originated a new one, contemplating another material alteration in the constitution, connected with the principle of designation. The alteration to which I allude is a provision in case the house of representatives shall not make a choice of president, when the right of making such choice devolves upon them, before the fourth day of March, the vice-president elect shall be president for the next four years. To the resolution from the senate, myself and brother members of my own political sentiments, four from Massachusetts, one from Pennsylvania, and one from Virginia, after making fruitless attempts to amend it, were compelled by the dictates of conscience, to give our decided dissent. And it becomes me, in the peculiar situation in which I stand, respectfully to offer to the legislature of the state, which I have the honor to represent, the reasons for which I adhered to the great principle of designation, but my conduct.
thought the additional provision of the senate calculated to reproduce the same evil which that principle was intended to remove, by creating new probabilities of the introduction of a man to the presidency, who was never contemplated as a suitable candidate for that office, either by the people or the electors. We urged that the day would probably soon arrive when our political interests would require our country, and numerous candidates be presented for the presidency. That upon the establishment of the principle of designation, the office of Vice-President would become of minor consequence, and the public attention would be turned upon all the most prominent characters in the Union, merely as candidates for that of president. That two large states, each involving several smaller states within the circle of its influence, might present two candidates, equally and prominently qualified for the office of President, and equal, or nearly equal, in the number of electoral suffrages, to the house of representatives: That each of those great states might be oblige to in its pretensions, and that several small states might, as happened at the last election, be divided and give no vote; that it would be in the power of two or three individuals to prevent an election; that the vice-president, already chosen, either by the electors or the senate, would be enabled to promise those individuals the first offices in the power of the executive to bestow, although they might be as totally unqualified for them as himself for the presidency, and that he might make his promise with a perfect certainty of being able to perform it, if they should protract the election, until the fourth day of March. We urged that this could not be considered as an extreme case, because the American people, although now virtuous, would be at no remote time in some degree corrupted and would always possess ambitious and unprincipled individuals of talents and influence. That the proposed addition to the constitution contained language inconsistent with that commanding voice of the original constitution by which the house of representatives is directed to make an election of president at all events; and that, although the imperative force could not be considered as intended to coerce moral volition, it was improper after commanding the house to make a choice, immediately to tell them they may do it or not as they please. That this provision seemed to invite to corruption, and to open a broader avenue through which intrigue and ambition might advance to the very vitals of our republican system, that a free people had ever established as a radical principle of their constitution. — That it was dangerous to alter the constitution with precipitation, and to insist upon blending with a principle which the public sentiment unequivocally demanded, a novel principle which the people had never contemplated. — That it was irrational to conclude, that the discriminating principle would be lost by a rejection of the present resolution; a conference with the senate might follow, and an accommodation immediately be made, or the senate might proceed to consider the resolution sent from the house, and the probable result would be its adoption. Although almost every member in the majority allowed our objections to possess great weight, we were not favoured with many answers to our arguments. We were only told that the evils we feared might never be experienced, and that if we did not adopt the resolution in the form in which it passed the Senate, we should in all probability lose its principle altogether.
The members who generally constitute the minority in the house upon political questions supported our objections, but relied principally upon a point which I consider as untenable, viz. that a principle of discrimination between the votes for president and vice president, impairs the privilege and relative weight of the small states in the union. They supported this position with much sincerity and ingenuity, but I could not discover great force in their arguments. I possessed the sentiments of the legislature and people of Vermont with respect to the question of designation, but could not anticipate their opinions upon the extraneous subjects, and therefore felt myself at liberty to vote against the resolution, which was carried by the casting vote of the speaker. It was matter of great consolation to me in this painful situation, to find so many members of the same political sentiments with myself, and of much greater political experience, uniting with me in opinion a circumstance which will preserve me from the imputation of having adopted a solitary and eccentric opinion, from prepossessions adverse to cool reflection.
JAMES ELLIOT.
The following is the commencement of a series of papers, now publishing in the Hampshire Gazette, which we presume will afford much information to our readers in general, tho' the papers are addressed to the inhabitants of a particular district.
To the Public, particularly to the independent electors of North Hampshire District.
FELLOW-CITIZENS, IN a government constituted like that of the United States, where so much depends upon public opinion, and where the people are acknowledged as the source of legitimate power, nothing can be of greater importance than the dissemination of correct information. And among the several topics deserving public attention; a general view of fiscal transactions cannot be viewed as a subject of minor importance. Having been honored with a call to a public station by the free and unforced suffrages of my fellow-citizens, which gave me some opportunities for examination, not so fully enjoyed by the people at large; while my own curiosity was gratified, I thought I could not do a more important service to the public, than by devoting as many spare hours as I conveniently could to the investigation of public documents. In doing which, I have endeavored to make such plain brief abstracts as I supposed to contain useful information, from those lengthy and particular details, which are too voluminous, and in too few hands for general investigation. I trust that motives, different from those of vanity or ostentation induced me to lay some of these before the public. My intention is to publish these statements occasionally, as I can find leisure for their preparation, and room for their insertion. I have no view to eulogise or crim-
inate either the past or present administration, but merely to give an impartial statement of facts. The only thing aimed at will be accuracy. The present prevalence of party spirit cannot but be viewed with regret; and while too many attempts are made to enslave it, some of them, without any regard to either truth or decency, any thing tending to allay its fervour is of importance. How far the following statements are calculated to have that, or a contrary tendency the public must judge.
S TAGGART.
NO. 1.    Exhibits a comparative view of the public debt of the United States, on Dec. 31, 1790, and on Dec. 31, 1799.   Amount of foreign debt, Jan. 1, 1790, dis. 12,001,198 7   Interest on the French debt, during 1790, 224,014 56   Ditto on the Dutch debt, 39,524 69   Ditto on the Spanish debt, 8,700 55   Total amount of foreign debt, Dec. 31, 1790, 12,343,299 80   Funded domestic debt, viz. 6 per cent stock, 80,087,650 5   8 per cent stock, 19,701,545 1   Deferred stock, 14,643,320 21   Total funded domestic debt, 64,438,515 27   Total nominal amount of foreign and domestic debt, Dec. 31, 1790, 76,781,953 14   The funds in the possession of the government at the close of the year 1790, applicable to the reduction of this debt, consisted of the following items, viz.   Cash in the treasury, 415,540,023 88   Cash in the hands of collectors, 925,788 95   Custom house bonds, uncollected, value, 1,052,215 18   Moneys collected from the credits of the late government, 62,586 74   Debts paid in specie during 1789, 15,927 13   Funds arising out of the sale of lands to Pennsylvania, 151,392 21   Several debts purchased and discharged during 1790, 518,424 8   Total amount, 2,596,356 42   Deducted from 76,781,953 14   Leaves the true amount of debt, Dec. 31, 1790, 74,185,596 72   N.B. This sum of 74,185,596 72 was exclusive of sundry debts to a larger amount, which were contracted by the late government, which were chargeable upon the specie in the treasury, and paid as the accounts were settled, but were not included in the funded debt. The amount of these, as well as of several other sums distinct from either the ordinary support of government, or the payment of the principal and interest of the national debt, but which were unavoidable expenses on the treasury of the United States, will to far as they can be ascertained with accuracy, be the subject of a future statement.   The public debt of the United States, Dec. 31, 1799, consisted of the following items, viz.   Foreign debt due in Amsterdam & Antwerp 10,760,000   Premiums on a loan obtained 1784, 59,000   Funded domestic debt of several descriptions, 65,834,920 30   Temporary loans principally obtained from the bank of the United States, not included in the funded debt, 3,400,000   Nominal debt of the United States, 1799, 80,291,820 30   The funds in possession of Government at the close of '99 applicable to the reduction of the public debt, were,   Cash in the treasury, 2,061,683 49   Cash in the hand of collectors and supervisors, 652,247 31   Remittances to Holland beyond the sum necessary to meet all demands on the foreign debt to the close of the year 1799, 548,955 82   Bonds uncollected at the custom-house, after deducting debentures and drawbacks, bounties and allowances, and expenses of collection, estimated at six millions, payable upon an average in six months, deducting interest for that time, 5,823,214 1/2   3220 Bank shares at their value 1,110,000   Total, 10,079,101 14   True amount, Dec. 31, 1799, 70,212,718 16   Less than its true amount 1790, by 3,972,878 68   The true amount of the public debt at the close of the year 1797, after deducting funds then in the possession of the government, was dollars 67,627,338 36. The increase of the public debt during the years 1798 and 1799 occasioned by the extensive preparations to repel the aggressions of France, was 2,585,379. 
To be continued.
COL. OSWALD—ANACHARSIS CLOOTZ.
From "Yorke's Letters from France." — I remember the last interview I had in this garden, (the Thuilleries) with the mad colonel Oswald, who has written several insane publications in behalf of what he called his fellow creature, the brutes; also a "Review of the British Constitution," &c. I have in possession, a little pamphlet, which he circulated under the title of "The Government of the people," in which he asserts, that a representation of the people is as great a despotism as absolute monarchy. He insists that the voice of the people cannot be represented; and by way of illustration he roundly asserts, "that as a man cannot pass by proxy neither can he think by proxy." On the full conviction of this principle, he proposes to new model the governments of all the nations of the world; men & women are to assemble in an open plain, and there make or repeal their own laws. I have often endeavoured to persuade him, that his plan was not sufficiently extensive, as he had excluded from this grand assembly of the animated world the most populous portion of his fellow creatures, namely, cats, dogs, horses, chickens, &c. Oswald was originally a captain of a Highland regiment in the British service, and had travelled by land from India, during which he lived a considerable time with some Brahmins, who turned his head. From that period he never tasted flesh meat, from what he called a principal of humanity. He did not however enter into the whole theology of the Brahmins, for he was a professed Atheist, and denied the Metempsychosis; but he believed in the immortality of the body, and drank plentifully of wine. From what has been said above, it is of no consequence what his opinions were, but such a man living in a fermented capital was capable of doing much mischief. He dined on his roots one day at a party of some members of the Convention, at which I was present, and in the course of conversation, very coolly proposed, as the most effectual method of averting civil war, to put to death every suspected man in France. I was shocked at such a sentiment coming from the mouth of an Englishman; but Oswald had been for some time the commandant of the pikemen of Paris, and in this capacity had forgotten his national character. The expression
was not suffered to pass unnoticed; and from the famous Thomas Paine he received a short but cutting reprimand; 'Oswald,' said he, 'you have lived so long without tasting flesh, that you have a most voracious appetite for blood.' In consequence of a strong and successful opposition which I had made against some proposals respecting Ireland, that Oswald had offered to the government, I met him by his own appointment, in the garden of the Palais Royal. As soon as he perceived me approaching towards him, he darted forward, and drawing his sword, exclaimed, "You are unfit to live in a civilized society." Having uttered these words, he returned his sword into the scabbard, and turning from me, disappeared in a moment. We never saw each other more. His regiment was ordered to La Vendee, where, while bravely leading on his men at the battle of Point de Ce, he was killed by a cannon ball, and at the same instant, a discharge of grape shot laid both his sons, who served as drummers in the corps of which he was colonel, breathless on their father's corpse.
His wives (for he had two) still reside in Paris. They were extremely handsome, and he had brought his domestic economy to such a perfect state of discipline, that they lived together in the greatest friendship & harmony. A singular fact! which has I believe, no parallel in the history of the fair sex.
The history of one maniac brings to my recollection a curious rencontre which I had in this place with another character of the same description; whose eccentricities of opinion made him for a certain time, the astonishment of all France. I mean Anacharsis Clootz, who called himself the Orator of the human race. For some hours did this man compel us to listen to all his whimsies and political dreams. In six months the tri-colored flag was to wave over the dome of St. Sophia, at Constantinople; a month after it would be seen on mount Caucasus, then on the walls of Peterburgh and Peking.
A grand amphictyonic council, composed of deputies from all the states of the world, and excluding the deputies from Botany Bay, Oraheite, the friendly islands, and the savage tribes of America, were then to be assembled at Paris, which would be the capital of the world. This once established mankind would be composed of but one family, subordinate to one government only, and that the French language, would be the sole language of the world. All this was to be brought about in the short space of three years. Within this period, however, the sage Anacharsis was led to the scaffold, and publicly executed together with a number of fanatics and knaves. I heard the man propose, in the club of the jacobins, that instead of killing the Austrian and Prussian soldiers, the French army should, the moment they came in sight of them, throw down their muskets, and advance towards them dancing, and with open arms. Such a measure, he was certain, would strike the wretched victim of tyranny with a sentiment of affection, which they would, doubtless, answer by a movement equally sympathetic, really, after such a proposition, I cannot avoid suspecting, that Clootz meant to ridicule the French nation for he exhibited, upon some subjects, proofs of a very enlightened mind; and from what I have since collected respecting him, I find the more sober people of Paris still think he was a pensioner of the king of Prussia. It is true, that they regarded most of those whose heads they cut off as pensioners of the desiccated powers, but whether they be correct in this surmise, I am not competent to decide. Unquestionably, Clootz, by his speeches and conduct, cast more ridicule upon the revolution than any other man; his abominable deification and worship in the church of Notre Dame of a prostitute, whom he created Goddess of reason, and the manœuvres he employed to persuade Gobel, Archbishop of Paris, to renounce his character and believe at the bar of the convention, are decisive proofs either of madness or of conspiracy.
Further from St. Domingo — Capt. Paddock arrived at New-York, from the city of St. Domingo and Porto Rico, informs, that the Haytian army appeared off St. Carlo the 5th March, and on the same morning shot a French general who was walking on the ramparts. On the 8th they crossed the river, and pitched their tents. On the 11th the French general Deharque, at the head of four hundred troops, made a sortie from Fort Carlo, and routed the besiegers (who lost their commander, and one hundred troops) after a smart skirmish of four hours, with the loss of only three men killed, and five wounded, including general Deharque, slightly. On the succeeding day general Ferrand ordered all the shipping to leave the port, on account of the injury they would sustain from the firing of the negroes; and compelled them to take on board all the women and children in the place, and convey them to Porto Rico. Capt. Paddock received sixty of these unfortunate persons on board his vessel. The garrison at St. Domingo consisted of about 4000 troops, well supplied with arms, ammunition, and provisions; and the commander in chief apprehended no danger from the threatened attack.
Coos bank counterfeited. — We are informed, that twenty dollar bills, purporting to have issued from the Coos Bank, are in circulation in and near Stanstead, in Canada. The public are notified, that no bills of a larger denomination than ten dollars have issued from that Bank — of course, all of the former description must be spurious.
Dartmouth Gaz.
The Rev. Mr. Gilbert, of Yorkshire, for one hundred guineas paid to a nobleman about two years ago, receives a guinea a day as long as Bonaparte lives.
Lon. pap.

Gazette.
PORTLAND, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1805.
FROM WASHINGTON, APRIL 10.
We hear that Mr. Crowninshield has declined his recent appointment, and that Commodore PREBLE will fill the place of Secretary for the department of the Navy.
TRIBUTE TO VALOR AND MERIT
On Thursday last a public dinner was given to our meritorious and distinguished townsmen, Commodore PREBLE.
VOLUNTARIES.
1.—By Commodore Preble.—The town of Portland, may its commercial interests ever meet a ready and efficient protection from our navy.
VOTES FOR GOVERNOR.
We have received no additional returns from this District since our last.
FROM EUROPE.
Yesterday arrived ship Numa, capt. Killoran, 64 days from Liverpool, with London dates to Feb. 8.
From Lord Mulgrave, to M. De Talleyrand.
His majesty has received the letter which has been addressed to him by the chief of the French government, dated the 2d of the present month.
Downinging fleet, 14th Jan. 1805.
(Signed) MULGRAVE.
FRENCH EDICT.
Yesterday's mail furnishes us with the following document, corroborative of the late accounts from the West-Indies, stating that the trade of America with Hispaniola was interdicted by the French, on pain of death.
L. FERNAND, General of brigade, commander in chief of St. Domingo, acting as captain general, and a member of the legion of honor.
ding the necessity of putting a stop to rapacity, and to treat them as pirates, has proclaimed and proclaims—
ART. 1. All individuals, whomsoever, found on board of any vessel or vessels, allies or neutrals bound to any ports in Hispaniola, occupied by the rebels shall suffer death.
Those found on board of any vessel, allies or neutrals, coming out of and in ports in Hispaniola occupied by the rebels, shall suffer death.
Those found at two leagues distance, from any port on the coast of Hispaniola, occupied by the rebels, on board of allies or neutrals shall suffer death.
ART. 2.—The general informs, that all prisoners made in those different cases shall be brought into one of the ports of Hispaniola, occupied by the French, to be tried by a military commission, which is to pronounce sentence.
ART. 3.—This proclamation shall be put into execution on the 1st Floreal, (21st April) and until that time all the preceding proclamations, in order to prevent all kinds of communication with the coast of Hispaniola, occupied by the rebels, shall be strictly executed.
ART. 4.—Of this present proclamation registered at the colonial inspection, one hundred copies are printed, published and posted up in all the chief places, round the east part of Hispaniola and all necessary steps shall be taken to its publicity, in all the islands and continent of America.
Done at the head quarters of the general of St. Domingo, the 16th Pluviose, year the 13th (5th Feb., 1805)
The general commander in chief acting as captain-general and member of the legion of honor.
(Signed)
L. FERNAND.
THE TOULON FLEET.
We learn from Mr. Smith, supercargo of the ship John Jones, from Marseilles, that they were boarded in the gulf of Lyons, by several of Lord Nelson's squadron.
REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR OXFORD.
MR. JENKINS, AS in a short time we shall be called upon to chuse a Register of deeds for the county of Oxford, I would recommend Doct. SAMUEL P. CROWELL, of Paris, as a person who merits the confidence of his fellow citizens.
To the independent women of the county of Oxford.
FELLOW CITIZENS! You will soon be called upon to give your suffrages for some person for a county Register, and as there are a number of persons held up as candidates for that office:
To the Free Inhabitants of the county of Oxford.
AS there is shortly to be elected a Register of Deeds for the county aforesaid, I would recommend to your notice Mr. ARTHUR BRADMAN, of Hartford.
DEATH.
In this town, Capt. JOHN THURLO, Aet. 67.—A man of integrity and benevolence, whose days have been spent in constant practice of the religious and social duties.
In this town, a child of Mr. John Hall. In Gray, a son of Mr. John Starbuck, Aet. 9.
CHARLESTON, MARCH 23.
Suicide.—On Thursday evening at 5 o'clock, captain, Matthias Rider, of the Schooner Clarissa & Eliza, arrived a few days since from Jamaica, shot himself on board his vessel, and in the presence of his mate.
Port of Portland.
FRIDAY, April 25.
Arrived brig Harriet, Richard Codman, master, from Point Petre. Left there, ship Sally, Clark, jun. Newfoundland, to sail Sunday, March 24; ship Joseph & Phebe, E. Perkins, New-York, uncertain; sch. Sally, Wm. Nichols, Newburyport, 24 days; brig Sally, Russell, New-York failed in company; brig Lydia, B. Chase, Newburyport, 5th April; sch. Fame, Young, Newburyport, 5 days; brig Alexander, Reynolds, Philadelphia, 4 days; brig Ellen, Jordan, Portland, 20 days; brig Polly, Moran, New-York, uncertain; sch. Pearl, Living, New-York, uncertain; brig Orion, Forsyth, New-York, uncertain; sch. Nabby, Hadlock, Newburyport, uncertain; brig Mayflower, Coane, Newburyport, 3 days; sch. Plymouth, Phillips, Boston, in distress; brig Three Brothers, M'Gueal, Baltimore, 20 days; brig Little Dick, Ryan, Newburyport, waiting for cargo; sch. Rachel, Woodbury, Beverly, 21 days; brig Ranger, Bradley, Philadelphia, 6 days; brig Franklin, Naion, Philadelphia, 20 days; sch. Sally, Waters, Salem, 10 days; ship Louisa, Ingersoll, New-York, 5 days; Nancy, Pickett, Charleston, 15 days.
Sunday, April 21.—Arrived ship Numa, Captain Killoran, from Liverpool, 64 days—failed in company with ship Brothers, Furrington, for Virginia. Spoke, April 11, ship Brutus of and from Newburyport, bound to Isle of France, 10 days out, in lon. 60.—Same day, ship Robert, Murrey, of and from New-Orleans, for Cherbourg, 20 days out—same day sch. William, of and from Boston, for Teueriffe, 7 days out.—April 15, spoke a sch. from Beverly, for Grand Bank, 4 days out.—April 18, spoke ship Packet, Trott, from Liverpool, for Boston, 18 days, lon. 65.
Same day.—Arrived brig Edward, Wm. Prentiss, master, 23 days from Voclain, Mart. Left there, brig Polly, Moor, of Portsmouth, not discharged; brig Fair Manhattan, Salter, 7 days for New-York; sch. Molly, Sulkins, 5 days for Marblehead.
WILLIS & M'KINSTRY, Have just received, For Sale, A General assortment of FRESH GOODS, suitable for the season. MUSKETS.
AARON FITZ, FISH STREET, sign of the Trunk, next door to the Maine Bank, has for sale, CHEAP for CASH Muskets with Bayonets, Cartridge Boxes, Bayonet Belts, &c. Knapsacks, Balls, Flints, Priming Wires and Brushes, according to Law. Officers' Sword Belts. * Military work made at the shortest notice. April 22.
W. KING, PHISIOGNOTRACE. Respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Portland, that he takes correct reduced PROFILE LIKENESSES, at Mr. Josiah Paine's boarding house, with his PATENT DELINEATING PENCIL, which for accuracy excels any machine before invented for that purpose.
To Let. HALF of a Dwelling house, pleasantly situated in Federal-street—containing 6 rooms, a good cellar, and garret.—Inquire of THOMAS WEBSTER. April, 22.
THE subscriber has for private sale at his Auction Room, Fore Street, head of Ingraham's wharf, 36 bales of GEESE FEATHERS, of a good quality, containing from 50 to 100 lbs. each. Mahogany SECRETARIES & CARD TABLES, Common dining & card do. A few Cakes RAISINS, Some CUTLERY & HARD WARE, Plated HATS, INDIA COTTONS, BANDANNA HANDKERCHIEFS, &c. at reduced prices, for Cash. N. B. All consignments either for public or private sale, will be faithfully attended to, by the public's most humble Servant, DAVID PEASE. Portland, April 15, 1805.
GLAZING & FANLIGHT MAKING. SAMUEL STARBIRD, Respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has removed from the shop under the Union School, in Union street, to No. 1, Jones' Row; where GLAZING & FANLIGHT MAKING, in their different branches, are executed by him with neatness and dispatch.
FRESH LEMONS. Just received, For Sale, By JAMES M. INGRAHAM, Boxes fresh LEMONS. On Ingraham's Wharf. April 18.
DEMOCRACY UNVEILED. JUST received and for sale at the BOOKSORE of ISAAC ADAMS No. 6 Jones' Row, (Price one dollar,) DEMOCRACY UNVEILED, OR, TYRANNY stripped of the GARB OF PATRIOTISM. BY CHRISTOPHER GAUSTIC, L. L. D. &c. &c. Cecum domus felus omne velut. You ROGUES! You ROGUES! you're all found out! And "WE THE PEOPLE," I've no doubt Will put a period to your dashing, And HONEST men will come in fashion. April 15.
TO BE SOLD or LET. An eligible stand at Freeport, Union Wharf Landing, for carrying on the Lumber and Fishing Business; situated in a good harbor at the entrance of Freeport river, navigable for large vessels at any time of tide. Said landing is within Twenty miles of Portland, and a commodious place, to fit our Fishermen and making of Fish, also leading to an extensive back country, well furnished with all kinds of lumber, and cord-wood.
FOR SALE. THE possession of a FARM, Lying in Monmouth in Kennebec County, containing one hundred and forty seven acres, with a convenient dwelling house and barn thereon, well watered.—For particulars Enquire of in Brunswick, of JOSEPH ROBERTSON. Brunswick, 28 March, 1805.
Paving Stones wanted. WANTED to purchase 100 ton of PAVING STONES, for the use of the town. Apply to GEORGE WARREN. Portland, April 8.
Book Binding Manufactury. JOHN PRATT, respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has removed from the Bookstore of Mr. Daniel Johnson, and taken a chamber over Mr. B. D. Bryant's store, Fithstreet, directly opposite the Maine Fire and Marine Office, where he intends carrying on the BOOK-BINDING BUSINESS, in all its various branches.
Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Company. THE Stockholders in the Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Company, are hereby notified, that a meeting of said company will be held on Monday, the thirteenth day of May next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at their office Fith street Portland; to determine on the time for paying in the remainder of their Capital Stock, agreeable to their act of incorporation, and to act thereon as they shall judge proper. By order of the President and Directors. LEVI CUTLER, Secretary. Maine Fire & Marine Insurance Office. Part a d, April 22.
THE Stockholders of the MAINE TURNPIKE ASSOCIATION, are hereby notified to meet at the Court house in Portland, on Tuesday the fourteenth day of May next, at eleven o'clock, in the forenoon, to act on the following articles—to wit: 1st. To choose thirteen directors for the year ensuing. 2d. To choose a Treasurer and Clerk for the year ensuing. 3d. To consider and determine if any part, and what part of said Turnpike shall be made the ensuing year and to act thereon as they shall see fit. 4th. To consider and determine whether any Assessments shall be made upon the shares of said Corporation and to act thereon as they may think proper. 5th. To receive any report or reports, of any former Committee, and act thereon as they may think proper. 6th. To act upon any subject which concerns said Stockholders, and which they may lawfully act upon at their annual May meeting. Portland, April 12. J. D. HOPKINS, Clerk.
Copartnership dissolved. THE connection in trade existing between the subscribers under the name of JOHN & W. R. STOCKBRIDGE, is this day dissolved. All persons indebted to said firm are requested to make immediate payment to Wm. R. and C. S. Stockbridge, those to whom said firm is indebted are desired to exhibit their demands. Falmouth, April 22, 1805. JOHN STOCKBRIDGE. WM. R. STOCKBRIDGE.
Copartnership formed. THE subscribers inform the public that they have formed a connection in trade under the firm of Wm. R. & CALVIN STOCKBRIDGE, and have lately received a variety of fresh Goods which they offer on as reasonable terms as any one in Portland, without exactions, for cash, country produce or short approved credit. Northarmouth 22, April, CALVIN STOCKBRIDGE.
PEPPER. FOR sale Sumatra PEPPER, by the ton or bag.—Apply at WILLIAM GODDARD'S Store, No. 4 Union Row. April 8.
COACH & CHAISE MAKING. THE subscriber informs his friends and the public, that he still carries on the Coach, Chaise, and Harness, Making, in its various branches.—Strict attention paid to repairing Carriages, cheap for cash. BENJAMIN RICHARDSON. N.B. Coach and Chaise Harness made of the best materials, and warranted Chaise Wheels on hand cheap for cash. April 8.
BOLD RANGER. THAT beautiful Horse, called the BOLD RANGER, will stand this season at the stable of ALEXANDER M'LELLAN, near Robin & Lonsdale's store, at Gorbam Corner—at Two Dollars and Fifty Cents the single leap, and Five Dollars for the season; and to warrant a Foal, a price that may be agreed upon.—Ranger is a full blooded English Hio se, ten years old this spring, and was imported by Dr. Craigie, of Cambridge, near Boston. Traveler was undoubtedly one of the best Horses that ever was in New-England. Ranger's dam was a fine large breeding mare, and her dam was an imported mare of a good size. Ranger is a large Horse, sixteen hands high, and well made—his colour is a beautiful brown bay, a colour much esteemed by the best judges. Ranger has proved himself to be a very certain Horse, and perhaps there is no horse can be found in this part of the country, to equal him for beauty and size. Any gentleman disposed to improve the breed of the most useful animal in the world, may call and see him and then judge for themselves. Ranger's Colts commonly grow large and handsome; and when fit for market command the highest price—as may be proved by a number that have been sold in the vicinity of Wolfsonborough, in New Hampshire; where he has been kept for the most part of the time, for seven years past. Any gentleman who may please to bring their Mares to the Bold Ranger, shall have particular attention, and the sincere thanks of A. ADAMS. Gorbam Corner, March 30, 1805.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed administrator of the estate of ASA HUFF, late of Bath, in the county of Lincoln, Sailmaker, deceased; and hath undertaken that trust, by giving bond as the law directs. All persons therefore, having demands against the estate of said deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement, and all indebted to the said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber at Arundel, in the county of York; or to Mr. NATHANIEL COFFIN, my attorney, at said Bath. SETH BURNHAM, Administrator. Arundel March 23, 1805.
Wanted, Immediately. ONE or two journeyman, who are good workmen, at the House Carpenter or Joiner's Business.—To whom the highest wages will be given. Inquire at the Gazette office. April 8, 1805.
Taken by execution, and to be sold Vendue, at the highest bidder, on the 4th day of May next, at David Pease's Auction Room, in Fore-street, Portland.
THE following SHARES in Portland Bank, taken as the property of BENJAMIN GAGE, of said Portland, viz Nos 893, 894, 900, 901, and 902, subject to the encumbrance of the claims the said bank has thereon. Sale at 2 o'clock, P. M. By order of CALEB GRAFFAM, Deputy Sheriff. DAVID PEASE, Auctioneer. Portland, April 24, 1805.

LATE OMISSIONS.
A Register, for the county of Oxford.
AMONG the many new offices, for the county of Oxford, there is no man within its limits, better qualified for a Register of Deeds, than the rev. John Strickland, of Turner. He is a gentleman of an unspotted moral character, good mental endowments, and recommended to them by a College Education. He writes an uncommon Good Hand; and has a Son, not one and Twenty, Whom he can easily call to his assistance, that very few in the new County can equal in a good Hand Writing. I earnestly hope that the new County will obtain him for their Register.
By publishing these observations, you will oblige a constant customer, for a number of years. S. P. Hebron, March 22d, 1805.
The freeholders of Oxford county, are informed that Mr. GREENFIELD BLAKE, of Turner, is a candidate for the office of Register of Deeds in said county.
To the free Electors of the County of Oxford.
AS you will be soon called upon to make choice of a person for a Register of Deeds for said county, it is of consequence, in order to save expense, that you are united in some good man. I have made this inquiry who is best qualified? and most likely to obtain the votes of the whole county. The result is, so far as I can judge, that ISAAC LIVERMORE Esq. of Livermore, will be generally supported in all the towns near where he lives, and the whole of the North east part of the county, and his connections are large, his character fair, his abilities good, and has every qualification requisite for that important Office, he needs only to be known to have the united suffrages of the whole of this large extended country.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2.
We this day publish the report of the grand committee of our house of assembly, on the subject of calling a convention. From this report it appears that a majority of the committee are in favor of a revolution, though they wish more perfectly to ascertain the popularity of the measure, before they will venture to call a convention. We however consider the report as adding greatly to the probability, that the revolutionary faction will ultimately succeed; as those members of the legislature who have joined that party, and who are said to compose a majority of both houses, will doubtless exert their influence among their constituents to ensure success to their revolutionary projects.
The governor has returned another bill, which was a favorite one with the revolutionists, without his signature. The party have become so enraged, that they can retain their fury no longer; and the whole kennel which used to be kept and trained by Mr. McKean and his friends for worrying their political adversaries, are now let loose upon him. He and Mr. Dallas are openly denounced and insulted in all the papers of the new faction, and are likely to be completely trodden under foot by that very description of people upon whose shoulders they have heretofore been elevated.
New-York, April 2.—The democratic legislature of this state has been most violently abused in the "Citizen," the leading democratic paper in New-York, on account of the incorporation of the Merchants' Bank. The most unqualified charges of bribery and corruption have been made and persisted in: and both branches have been branded with the most flagitious epithets.—In consequence, on Saturday last, the honorable Mr. Van Vechten, introduced a resolution into the Senate, directing, as the late day in the session rendered it impracticable to have the author or authors, and publisher of the said libels, brought up seasonably to answer therefor, at the bar of the Legislature; "that the Attorney-General be, and he is hereby directed to take all necessary legal measures to bring the author or authors and publisher of the said false, wicked, seditious and flagitious libels to speedy and condign punishment." There is no question of the concurrence of the assembly.
A few short months since, the public was called up to rejoice in the triumphant election of a genuine Republican Governor, Senate and Assembly, in New-York.—Now, forsooth, through their own organ, these same genuine republicans are denounced as corrupt receivers of bribes, and of having bartered their honor and consciences for money! Mr. Cheetham seems to know his men; and what they are made of.
We have strong ground to believe that the mother of the Empress Bonaparte is a passenger on board the frigate La Ville de Milan, lately captured by the British frigate Leander, and carried into Bermuda. It is certain that repeated invitations were sent to this lady from France, after the elevation of Bonaparte to the office of First Consul, all of which were rejected upon the plea that the tenure by which her son-in-law held his office was too unstable and precarious to warrant the propriety of her leaving the tranquil retreat which she possessed in Martinique, and adding that her cot might at no very distant day afford an asylum to her daughter.—We understand that since the coronation of Bonaparte, a more pressing invitation has been sent and accepted, and it is said the lady had taken her passage in the La Ville de Milan.
The idea (says a foreign correspondent) of removing the Portuguese government to the Brazils, rather than be controled by France, has never, for a moment been laid aside. It is indeed surprising, that it has not been put in execution. By abandoning their little spot on the European continent, for which they at present purchase peace both of France and Britain, and establishing the government in Brazil, they would effectually place themselves out of the reach of their disorganizing and turbulent neighbours, and might, in a short time, become as respectable as any nation whatever.
CODMAN & SWAN,
No. 3, Union Row, Have for Sale, 17 Bales of INDIA GOODS, consisting of BAFTAS, MAMOODYS, COSSAHS, BOURBOURN GURRAHS. MOW SANNAHS, SAUNS, and other white cottons. BLUE GILLA HANDKERCHIEFS, BANDANNAH, SOOTY, ROMAL, and RINGA, ditto—BLUE CLOTHS of various kinds.—CHINTZES of various kinds.—Some bales of assorted goods—all of which are entitled to delcature and certificate. Also, 30 Cales OLIVE OIL, in prime order. A quantity of ROLL BRIMSTONE, & German STEEL. Also, ENGLISH & WEST-INDIA GOODS, as usual. Portland, April 8.
FRESH GARDEN SEEDS,
JUST received and ready for sale by DAVID GRIFFITH, A general assortment of SEEDS which he had from the person who raised them, and can be depended on for the first quality, which he thinks will leave no room for reasonable complaint, if the Seeds are properly managed. A catalogue of them may be had at his Store, next door to the Portland-Bank.
A variety of good FRUIT TREES.
Also, POPLAR and BALM-GLEAD TREES, for sale as above, which can be taken up, and replanted at a short notice. W. India Goods and Groceries as usual, and constant attendance from sun rise, till 10 o'clock and the smallest favors attended to with cheerfulness. Portland March 26.
THE Partnership of JENKS & SHIRLEY, is this day dissolved by mutual agreement: All persons having accounts open with said firm, are requested to settle the same with William Jenks, jr. WILLIAM JENKS, jr. ARTHUR SHIRLEY. Portland, April 9, 1805.
THE public are respectfully informed that the PRINTING BUSINESS will in future be transacted at the office in Fifth-street, occupied by the late firm, by WILLIAM JENKS, jr. Where all kinds of Printing will be executed neatly and expeditiously.
THE encouragement already received for publishing the PORTLAND MAGAZINE, advertised by the above firm, is such as to warrant the undertaking—and as soon as arrangements can be made, the first number will be issued. April 15, 1805.
THIS is to give notice, to all concerned, that the Copartnership of JOSEPH CHENERY & Co. as also the Copartnership of CHENERY & MITCHELL, are dissolved by mutual consent—All persons having demands against either firm, are requested to exhibit the same to the subscribers for immediate settlement—And it is expected those who may be indebted will make immediate payment. JOSEPH CHENERY, PLEAS MITCHELL, SILAS HAMILTON.
N B. The BUTCHERING & FANNING business carried on as usual, at their stand near Stroutwater Meeting-house, where constant attendance will be given, and all favors acknowledged. Falmouth, April 13, 1805.
ATTENTION!
OLD SOLDIERS, of the late Revolutionary army, who enlisted for during the War, who served three years under that enlistment, (for this State's Quota) and received an honorable discharge, are entitled to Two Hundred Acres of Land, granted and located by this Commonwealth, and those who wish to take the Land, and comply with the act granting the same, are requested to meet at the Green Dragon Tavern, (so called) in Boston on the first Wednesday in June next, at ten o'clock, for the purpose of forming a company, and providing ways and means for settling the same. Those who may be prevented from attending in person, by distance or indisposition, will write or send by their representative who attends the next general court, from whom they can receive the best information. The land is good and well wooded, lying in the province of Maine, fourteen miles from St. Andrews, and three miles from a branch of St. John's River, and now bears the name of Mars Hill township. HENRY PURKITT, BENJ. FESSENDEN. Agents. Boston, April 9, 1805.
FOR SALE,
A VALUABLE FARM in the town of Livermore, pleasantly situated in the Centre of said town, on the county road leading from Farmington, to Portland; Containing upwards of one hundred acres of excellent Land, 80 of which are under improvement and capable of keeping thirty head of horned cattle, summer and winter; with a Dwelling house, Barn, Store and other out buildings. It is a good stand for a trader, business having been done there for six years last past to good advantage. Also, One Hundred acres of wild Land, lying within half a mile of a suitable quality to reserve for wood and Timber. Also, A Farm, joining the aforesaid farm, and within one hundred rods of a good School house Containing sixty or seventy acres of Land, with a house and Barn and under such improvement as to keep ten head of horned cattle summer and winter. Also, A Farm on one of the principle roads in said town of Livermore, and within one hundred rods of a good Sawmill and Cornmill, and within a few rods of a good School house; Containing fifty acres of Land twenty or thirty of which are under improvement, with a house and barn thereon. Also, A Tract of wild Land laying in the Easterly part of said town of Livermore, joining on the town of Fayette, and within twenty miles of Hallowell; Containing upwards of two hundred acres of excellent Land. Whoever wishes to purchase all or any part of the above may have them at a fair price, with paying twenty five per-cent down, and giving good Security for the remainder, at a generous Credit.—For further particulars apply to the subscriber. DAVID LEARNED. Livermore, March 11, 1805.
To be sold,
TWO pair of Cart WHEELS, well made, at the westward of Boston, warranted to be of a good quality. Enquire of HOW & EVANS, Middle street. April 1.
NOTICE
IS hereby given to the non-resident proprietors or owners of Land in the Town of Limington, in the county of York, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, that the lots or parts of lots of land hereafter mentioned, are taxed in bills and Committed to me the Subscriber, collector of said town for the years 1803 and 1804, to collect in the sum following, Viz.
   No. Range No. Tax for 1803 Tax for 1804 Proprietors Name.     15 F 50 cts. cts. Hancock.   12 K 50 39 73 Widow Wells.   1 5 100 30 30 Enoch Isleys' heirs.   1 1 75 30 30 Pike.   7 B 30 13 17 Unknown.  
Unless the above taxes with all necessary intervening charges are paid to me, on or before Thursday the thirtieth day of May next, at three o'clock, in the afternoon, so much of the said lots or lands as will be sufficient to discharge the same, will then be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder, at the dwelling house of Thomas Forster, inhholder in said Limington, as the law directs. JOSEPH TYLER, Collector. Limington April 3, 1805.
To be sold,
A Fine Stand for a trader or brickmaker, a good HOUSE two stories high, nearly finished, about six years old, pleasantly situated, with a good barn, and orchard, about three acres of Land, with two brickyards laid out on a wharf where vessels of a hundred tons burthen may load four feet from the Brick kiln, and easy falling twenty feet and upwards on the yard, with a run of water from the above, sufficient to supply both yards with water; where brickwood can be bought for one dollar per cord, on the yard, within four miles of Bowdoin College. Payments made easy to the purchaser. For particulars apply to STEPHEN CALEB, living on the premises. Brunswick - April 15, 1805.
To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court assembled, in January 1805.
HUMBLY shew, the subscribers, citizens of the county of York, that it will essentially advance the interest and convenience of the inhabitants of said county, to make an alteration of the plans in which the courts of Common Pleas & General Sessions of the peace are now holden in said county, so far as it respects those courts which are now holden at Biddeford, and Waterborough, within and for said county, as both of those courts, are inconvenient for the members of the court-parties and witnesses to attend, for want of proper and suitable accommodation for all those who are interested and concerned in said courts.
They therefore humbly pray, that the aforesaid courts may be removed, and holden in future at Alfred, within and for said county, where one of the terms of the Supreme Judicial Court is now holden, and where a new goal has lately been erected and which place is the most central and convenient for the inhabitants of said county which alterations your petitioners pray may take place as soon as may be.—And as in duty bound will ever pray. DANIEL HOLMES, Twenty three others
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In Senate, January 26, 1805. ON the petition of Daniel Holmes and others, praying that the Courts of Common Pleas, which are now holden at Waterborough and Biddeford, within and for the county of York, may be removed from said places to Alfred, within and for said county—
ORDERED, that the petitioners cause an attested copy of their petition with this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the Portland Gazette and Eastern Argus, 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 concerned may then appear and show cause (if any they have) why the prayer of said petition should not be granted.
Sent down for concurrence. DAVID COBB, President. In the House of Representatives, January 26, 1805 Read and concurred, H. G. OTIS, Speaker. A true copy— Attest, WENDELL DAVIS, Clerk of Senate.
WHEREAS Nancy wife of me the subscriber, has left my bed and board, and during my absence been married to another person, (named Thompson) This is to forbid all persons harboring or trusting her on my account, as I will pay no debts of her contracting after the first day of January last at which time it appears she was married to said Thompson. SAMUEL X GARDNER. mark Portland, April 13, 1805
NOTICE
WHEREAS Mercy, wife of me the subscriber, has quitted my bed and board, without much provocation, this is to forbid any person or persons from harboring or trusting her on my account, as I will not pay any debt of her contracting after the date hereof. JACOB STONE. April 5, 1805.
WHEREAS SAMUEL ROLFE, my husband, has posted me in the public papers, as having left his bed and board, &c.—This is to give notice, that instead of having quit him, or having deviated from the duties of a careful wife he has left me without informing me of his intention with two small children, and without any thing to support them. ANNA ROLFE. March 29.
P. S. If the advertisement abovementioned, was not written by the said Samuel, any one will confer on me an obligation, by informing who is the person, that has thus attempted to injure my reputation. A. R.
FURS WANTED,
FOR which cash and the highest price will be given for any quantity of Sable & Cats Skins, and all kinds of Shipping & Hattng FURS by, ABIJAH CHEEVER, No. 1, Middle-street-Row Middle-Street, Portland. Dec. 17.
Tickets and Quarters, IN the AMOSKEAG CANAL LOTTERY, which commences drawing on the 15th inst. Also, TICKETS IN THE SOUTH-HADLEY CANAL LOTTERY. For Sale, AT THE PORTLAND BOOK STORE, By DANIEL JOHNSON. Portland, April 3.
Stores to Let.
THE two Stores now occupied by Messrs. McLellan & Brown, in Fifth Street, adjoining the Maine Fire and Marine Insurance Office,—For terms apply at said Office. March 20, 1805.
THE MANAGERS OF PISCATAQUA BRIDGE LOTTERY, OFFER to the Public the following SCHEME, for the THIRD CLASS.
   Prizes, Dollars.     1 prize of 8000 dollars, is 8000   2 1000 4000   6 500 3000   30 100 3000   100 50 5000   100 30 3000   100 20 2000   3750 8 30,000   4111 60,000  
12,000 Tickets at 5 dollars.—Subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 per cent, on payment of prizes. Capital Prizes determinable on the following days. First drawn number against the Blank on the fifth day, 1000 dollars, 20. 10th, 1000, 30. 15th, 1000, 50. 20th, 8000, 100. 24th, 1000
500 Tickets shall be considered as one complete day's work and the fortunate Blanks shall be determined at that rate of drawing, whether a greater or less number come out of the wheels in one day—All prizes to be paid at the expiration of thirty days, (excepting the highest) which will be paid, within sixty days after the drawing is completed—the drawing to be completed within 20 days—Prizes not claimed within one year will be considered as generously given to the bridge, and will not be paid after that time.
The Scheme is calculated at less than two Blanks to a prize, and is composed of a great number of handsome Prizes—the chance is much better than in any former Lottery, composed of very high and very low prizes. An early day will be appointed for drawing in Boston. The Managers flatter themselves that the punctuality observed in the two former classes, will insure a ready sale for Tickets in this class.
Tickets will rise to five dollars and fifty cents, twenty days previous to drawing, and to six dollars on the fourth day of drawing. THOMAS THOMPSON, ELIJAH HALL, Managers.
Tickets and quarters, in the above Lottery, for sale at THOMAS CLARK'S, Book store. Amoskeag Tickets, for sale as above, will rise to 5 dollars, 50 cts. and quarters to 1.50, after the 10th inst.—And South Hadley to 75 cts.—Quarters 1.87 1/2 after the 24th. April 8, 1805.
Removal.
JOSHUA RICHARDSON, has removed to No. 3, Long-Wharf, where he has
FOR SALE, 300 Quintels COD FISH. 200 Bbls. Mefs No 1, 2, and 3, BEEF. 100 half Bbls Mefs and No. 1 do. 70 Bbls Bone Middlings, No. 1, and Navy Mefs PORK. 4 Pipes Cogniac BRANDY. 3 do. GIN. 80 Kegs BUTTER. 10 Casks Hylson Skin TEA. 50 Boxes Mould CANDLES. 20 Casks Souchong TEA, of superior quality 100 Bbls. TAR. 40 Do. ROSIN. Hds. MOLASSES. Bags COFFEE and Calcutta SUGARS. Ravens DUCK, and Russia SHEETING. Liverpool and Isle May SALT. March 25
By ships Nabby and Eliza from Liverpool.
WILLIAM GODDARD,
HAS received a very extensive addition to his former assortment of HARDWARE GOODS, which are for sale at his store, Middle-street, by wholesale and retail.
Also a large quantity of Shot; Blacksmith's Anvils and Vices; Brass Kettles, Sheet Lead; Sheet Iron; Red Lead; Sad Irons; English Shovels, and Frying Pans. A large assortment of Joiner's plains, of almost every description. Likewise—300 Boxes to by 8, 9 by 7, and 5 by 6 Bricks, and Liverpool Crown Window Glass.—90 casks Cut and Wrought Nails, &c. &c. Portland, Oct. 22. (t.f.)
Upholtery Store.
AARON AUSTIN, & CO. HAVE for sale, at their store, Fore-street, head of Ingraham's Wharf, a constant supply of Live Geese, Sea Fowl, Russia, and Lisbon FEATHERS. Also—Cotton and English BEDTICKING, of different kinds. Russia BEDS and MATRESSES ready made Beds made and filled at the shortest notice. Spanish and French INDIGO. The above assortment of Feathers is warranted of the first quality, and will be sold as cheap as can be purchased in Boston.
Shipping Furs—
Cash given for all kinds of Shipping Furs—apply as above. (tf) Portland, Jan 14.
NOTICE.
THE Co-partnership of the subscribers under the firm of Waldron & Knight, is this day dissolved by mutual consent: all persons indebted to the said firm are requested to make immediate payment, and those who have any demands to exhibit the same for settlement. RICHARD WALDRON, GEORGE KNIGHT. Portland, April 8 1805.
This Gazette,
Is published every Monday, by E. A. JENKS, at the Printing Office, No. 7, Fifth-Street, PORTLAND; where subscriptions, advertisements communications, &c. are received with attention—The price, to country subscribers, who receive their papers at the office, or in packages by the mail, is ONE DOLLAR & FIFTY CENTS a year.—Subscribers who live in town, and those whose papers are sealed and forwarded separately will be charged TWO DOLLARS a year.