Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-11-11

CITY of water aud buckets rendered The chief Of
them ulelefs; and thirteen dwelling houfes and
flores were either dearoyed or materially injur-
ed, before the progrefs of The defrnetive ele-
menr could be arreled. By the extraordinary
exertions of fome fearlefs citizens, the principal
part Of the property contained In the aores, was
refcued from the flames.
NEwYoRK. o. a6.
On The 16h Thermidor, Louis Nicholas Mo.
hue, aged ze years Pierre Michel, brigadcr
general, aged 50; Barthelemy Leveille, chief
of brigade, aged AZ !; Thomas Mondion, chief
of brigade, aged 90; Jean Edouard Wand, ag
ed 40 Jofeph Pironeau, butcher, aged "a
Touiant Dultout, aged A. ; and Pierre Paul,
municipal officer of the commune of the Cape,
aged IS; were condemned to death, and the
commander in chief of the diiriet ordered to
fee them diligently executed within the fpace of
"a hours, in conformity to the 6IIzIh article OF
The penal code, of the sd BrumAre, year 4,
which is couched in theie terms All con-
fpiracies and plots tending to diaurb the re-
public by civil war, in arming the citizens a.
gaina one another, or againa the cxercife of
the legitimate authority, ihal be punihed with
death, as long as that punifhment mall exit,
and by "a years imprisonment in irons, after it
fhall be abolilhed."
They were condemned by four out Of FIVE
voices of court ma. tial, a1embled at the Cape,
by order of citizen Henry Chritfophe, chief de
brigade, and commander in chief OF the diir
of the Cape.
TROY, (Nfayork) ocr. 23.
Ian Wednefday was brought to this town,
and lodged in the goal of the county, William
Bentley, of Hcofck, man nearly Eventy years
Of age, for the Murder of his Vile. he er-
minal confenas that he committed the murder
and af1igns no other caufe for the horrd aa, than
JEALOUSY 1t appears from the report of the
Coroner's Inqueit, that he fri ftruck his wife
with hoemaker's hammer, on one Of her arms,
which was broken in two places che attempted
10 efcape, and had proceeded ionue way towards
neighbours houie, when he overlook her, and
ftruck her repeatedly with the edge and head of
an axe, on her head and ihoulders. The furviv-
ed but few hours. The criminal will receive
his trial at the circuit court, to be holden in this
town next September. He has formerly been a
Bsp.p A1iuyfsr.
NORWICH, ocr. a..
In purfuance of an act of the Legislature OF
Connecticut, the Executive of that fate has
conveyed to the United States, the forts Trum
bull-and Crfwoid, which command and de-
fend the harbour of Newlondon. The former
OF thefe forts is in a Respectable fate OF repair,
with heavy canaon mounted.
BosroN, Nov. 6.
or TIE ENJOYS.
Our information refpetting the ENJOYS has
been perfectly correct. They embarked on Sun.
day lat, from Newport. in the frgzte United
States, of a. guns, Commodore Barry. We do
not imagine they will be landed in the French
Republic, but at Hamburg, or fomc other ncu.
trail port in the North Sea- As Mr.. Murray
is placed at the head of the EmbaGy, eoniulta.
tions with him will be neceifary, as to their
preliminary proceedings, which cannot 70 conye.
niently be held in France.
The g new orders" as they are called, which
have been received by the Brtilh Naval Com
manders at Halifax, to iearch veIels under con.
yoy, affect all neutral nations and are founded
on the mot eftablilhed and acknowledged prin-
ciples of the Laws of Nations. Thofe prnci-
pies have recently undergone thorough invef
figation, in Europe, in coniequence of the cap.
ture of a Swedifh convoy which, though under
the protection of Royal Frigate, was neverthe-
8 lefs condemned and one of the aligned cauiss
Of condemnation was, that the Swediih frgate
prepared to reff fearch after contraband
goods. The King of Sweden has acquieiced
in the decifion. A neural natien, TO enjoy its
rights, fhould be careful that its citizens do not
infringe the rights of neutrality. If individn.
ais will run rilks without contfonl, they ought
TO bear the coniequent loaes without grumblpg,
and not involve a nation in war, to crafty their
inordinate avarice.
OF BIONAPhRTE.
BaroT, in the French Legislature obferved,
that he viewed the expedition TO Egypt, as the
work of party jealous of his fame, and anxious
10 exhile him. He explicitly accufed Taley.
rand. He propoted, as proper, under exiting