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Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-12-01

A young French folder of the department.
Of The MEME, formerly officer Of Health Of the
marines, blew out his brains in the Inn at Di-
Jon, on the 18th Of September laR- Nothing
could be done with greater coldnefs and even
gaietY Than this at of delpair. He left be-
hind him two written papers, in one Of which
he relates the preparations which he had made
for his death and in the other, entitled, an
Advire TO A,sateur5, he ridiCules his enemies,
the revolution, and eternitv. Wezried Of
fojoiurning in this world" faid he : feel de-
Grous Of WHITING another. IF you win to hear
news from me, my address is at the Sup. eme
Temple, department. Of eternity When re-
turn your children viii be grown up. T ole
who want to overtake me, nun put on q cir
teven league boots"
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MISceXqnv.

Inc following account Of the Greenland WHALE
FISHERY, is copied from BelfaR paper Of Sept.
I9, and well worth the attention OF the reader
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Commonwealth Of Mafachu(etts.

BY his E1celIcncy CALEB STRONG, Efquire, Cow
trnor and Commander in Chief of the Common.
wealth Of Mafachulett,
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An Aa 70 incorporate the Plantation called NEW
SCNCCOk, in the county Of ork, into town by
the name Cf LOWELL.
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National LegWatare.
Sixth CONGRESS eftbe United States.
FIRST SESSION.
FIRST SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES..

: HUUSE OF RbPRE5E NIs777VES. -
ftf .aJASuARy z9.
MIR. Grifwold from the commi,seelof untie
lvl nlhed butiuefs reported the following
refoluaion:
Rejo!vsd, that a committee be appointed to
prepare and report an AT 10 continue an atf in
titled " an act for providing means of inter.
court. between the Uailed States and foreign
-
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! pa =. JAN. 3d.
The clerk proceeded to the third readioe of
the bill entitled g Al aet to eazblh an uniform
lyitem of bankruptcy throughout the Unired
States" when
Mr.. Marlhall moved that it be recomu,ittes
to a commtses OF the whole Houf. and .ta
Houf; immediately ssiolved tisls into com,
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GONE authors have fid. that The morality
- of people or nation may be aCcertained
with comfortable accuracy BY knowing the
character Of the Gods they venerate * TO whom
they pay alteration The worihippers of Bac
chus, they tell you, are neceaIrily given 70 er-
cellive drinking-of Venus to debaucherY-
fome are deceitful-others angry and quarrel
fome.-Hence when an ancient philolopher
was told there were, in Egypt, two tribes Of
people inhabiting neighboring territories, who
worlhipped the one Cat, and the other Dog,
replied, that he was fure then there never was
much peace and harmony between them for
all people will more or lels manifeG in their
manners the predominant qualities ofthe beings
they reverence.
Whether the fame principle holds good 10
politics and the common affairs Of life, ihlll
not undertake to decide 81 have not time now
fully to examine all The phenomena that tend
to proEs that It does, but fhall, for the Preient
content myielf with noticing one great and
complicated fact IN i1pport Of this hypothesis.
The rate Of Pennsylvania, while the Quaker
intereR prevailed there, had JEHovAH for their
God, and none. but good men, fuch as Penn,
Bennezett, and Others like them, were held up
as examples and patterns for imitation. Virtue,
hoceRy, charity and all the chIifian graces
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VOX CLAIMANTS /!
FOR IENKs' PORTLAND GAzETTE.

ChOofe ye this day whom ye will ferve-whether the
Gods of the He2then, the God of the Amortes
but As for me and my houfe, We viii ferve the
Lord. BIBLE.
Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-11-10

cd Chief, Il would appear improbable. Tie
tiIings lpresd from ctnronment to cantonment,
As far a. the advan ed potts and the privates
literally Ghouted "A more he4uufu fpefacle
cul1 not he teen than that, when hi MaIefY
reviewed the army,and ma vetrdns ihed tears
81 joy. Hi, Majety', addref, to the army, IN
which he reminded the warriors of he courage.
bravery, and lelity, with which tn had 70
Of en- conqu 4 he enemy, and With which Re
hoped th- y W q further meet him not DOLLY
G. ei the mott lively joY, but aifo the higheR
relo Il ion il every individual The whole ar
my were Afterwards j form Ell, th tor three
DAYS their pay would be doubled, and the re-
vea Ing over, they re urnej 10 their Canton
m-nls. This grear agitation and The fen dejgys
# The army beng ODE we'd by The French,
their Ge eraI Ient T. enquire what was the
mean ng OF this mutual movement and was
irtor meI Of the caufe OF it. On the III h, his
MajeRy fe Cut trOmO,dO ttingen for lnfpruck,
WHERE i wa expected he would rive this day.
Dorrg the Emperor, ab'ence fom The army
il Germany, b Atchduke John will traniaa
every part If the buiint1s.
On The 4th MT. A courier arrived here from
Ge eral MelAs, Il We, ona, with intelligence
TIA. o. hat The French had given notice
Of the te min lion Of III armRice. and thar
hoar les LIQUID recommene, on the 18th Of
5 ~re'aber. In conlequence If tits, the necef.
any Pre74ra ions were Immediately made in
81 army, and the troops concentrated fncs
whish, however, tie arnillice has been pro.
ongej there AS wei is in Germany, bur It's
til 4gPrehen e1, tnai peace i yet at great
itance.
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ENGL IND.

LONDON, sEPr. 26.
The Mail Of Friday poGeEed us Of letters
from the combined Brilith and Turkh Aeet,
off Alexandra, daeI the 9th July. Sir Sid
ney Smith had fant Lieut.. Wright, Of lie Tigre,
70 Cairo, charged with difpatches to Gen. Me.
nou, and the Allies waited with iolicitude the
anfWer.
The Grand Vizier was epcampcd with about
10000 men at J4tfa, and was actively engaged
in Preparations to advance aganf The enemy,
ihould the milton of Mr.. Wright fail 10 induce
them TO evacuzte Egypt
The mott friendly and cordial intercourfe
fubiifei between the Britilh and Turkib forces !;
the Captain Pacha and lome of the principal
Officers Of his feet, fpent the greater IT Of
the 9Th July on board L. Tyre. Sir Sidney
Smith had only two Eoglilh fhips, but two
others were hourly expected to join him.
We fcme time fince announced thar feveral
diltri6ts in China had been inundated by the
overlooking Of the Tav and KAN Rivers our
recent accounts Rre the consequences Il have
been mot calamitous. The vaf quantities Of
ilime and mud left on the fulfilling of the water,
and the accumulation Of putiil bodies with
which its iurface had been covered, had occa
Toned a malignant epidemical dilorder, which
had proved fatal to upwards OF Ioo, 600 perfon5.
Some alarming commotiors hal taken place
amongt the Eaten L lrtars in con 'equence of
which he troops in the ditrqs Of Fayunen
and SlngAn were ordered towards the lrontier
At Sochew.
Il was yeferday currently reported. that Co.
vernment had coDlente to the Mar itime Ar
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Fran a Lonaar P.be1-c.a t. az.

naval gentleman, We urd-i Ga has die.
covered ethud of convey ~ intelligence by
iound Of 4 eelh to anv given diRance with
more fecr 81 and certain5y than an be tone By
N telegraph. an at the rte of Ell miles Der
mi ure Lac Monday Adnirals Young. Mann,
and Gambler, gethsr with the Hon. Spencer
PercivaL Jrt We ventor the honour to infpea
AZ ore Of the In 'i Wa ehnuf the apparatus
he has ntru6e % ihewing the principle on
which Ills plan !, fou ded, md III efFe6t It Is
capable ( pt, ducing and they were IN much
90 WINGED # ne r 6lic ibiilry of the heme,
'hA til w,re rl-sf. q etpr fs ,heir sppro-
bt.ion fl. BY me ms cf thi, ve7tion. an
RI !wer M any IN len nj he oht4ine from
PoTtmo1th ~ Qua Ter IT an hou-. The er-
pence Of he app ,ra 1s IL incoui1ti able, when
compared With il, Il ilty it viii, it i, Ead rot
exec d An bundled Pnu Is PER miie, and when
once contributed, will LAT for ages
O7oB.y q
In addition o the account We gave 1t week
Of the new df very for fuperceding the Tele.
graph, we have 70 obferve that his me nod of
,o1ve inS tehige0ce can re employed not
only in thi K, b zy. or ru.y We Their, but even
in the night The lau E ingenious Gentlemen,
II the cou~fe Of hi, Touches, has ddcovered
certain me rs founded On Pllofophcal prioci-
p es, which may have wond-rful effect in
pre,,n 1T! per o1s from eng Drowned when
the' have th- misfortune D far overheard, par
ticuia'i, during Tn time when a ihiP is lying
AZ anch q a ha our. Thief means, ~ the
good If Society, he has communicated to the
ADM atty and the Humane Society, in orler
that thy m Is llbj de q trial.
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Important (!

BOSTON, NOV p
Arrived atMarbl head, on Tuefday night laB
capt Swan, il ~ days fon lbo7 Hen,
fo m. hat our Commifl7ners 10 T ance ha'
itttled tRir holineb, with the French goVsrr
m nt--were tn dine With the Chief Contul g
the I'll O9o1er, and leave Paris for Havre ~
mex lay.
TIL, int lige &C Is corroborated BY eaP'..
Young, arrived hare yeaerd4Y from Ll0ol .
He G. Is, that "a DAYS after leaving Lii0onp,
feii IN near the Grand Banks With capt. rev
OF the bri& Mem r, who f,iIe in company w. Mi.
him from Li.bon, anu was informed, thai ~
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FRANCE.
ACTS OF GOVERNMENT.

vFNDEMIAIRE. SEPT. 26
Bonaparte, Chief Couful of the Republic,
DEGREES a. follows
I. Citizgn Clarke, General Of Diviiion, is
appointed Commandant Ext aordinary OF Lun-
vile, and Of all the department oflA Meurthe.
IL II al puzzle aft irs concerning this DIFF
tria he hall eorrefPond directly with Gov
erument.
III Meaures fhall be taken that corref
pondenee may be CARED on with Lunevie by
nnea' Of the telegraph.
" General Clarke lh IL repair immediate
ly 10 Lu eyille, and take the necedtry RePs
for the holding Of Co grels.
V. The Mniaers at W4r is charged with the
execution Of the prefent decree.
The Chef Conlul, (Signed) BoSAPASrE.
BY the Chef Conful, (Slgned) H MARAr.
Secretary OF State.
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By the arrival of the fhip Nabby, capt.
Crandal at this port, in % days
from Liverpool, we have received
the London ObssrVsr, Of Sept. %,
and the Star, Of October I'd. fix days
latelt from which the following
interefing extracts are made. We
leave the reader to make his own
comments.
Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-11-10

ratification Of the prefent preiiminafie5. which
fhall not bind the relPettive governments Till af
ter the ratification
We the undersigned have agreed upon am
iigned the Preient preliminaries, at Paris,
July 20, 1900
(SgnsdJ NJ T..nn
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PARIs SEPT. IL.

PARts. SEPT. "a.
It IS worth while to remak K, that, on the IT
Vendemiaire, there were not atPars more tn IN
1900 troops Of the line, inrludirg the gsndar-
m lie, yeL no circumdance could have dfor ded
mo, food Tor pubic curioity attracted a great
CT crowI nor given rife o larger aGem 1lages.
M IRE than 100000 fped4tn's were cole6-d in
the amphitheatres of the Champ de NJ RS, with
ont the leaf tumult, 0 the 1ightea accident
having dIttu bed the games, OF occhh ned
tear to be lhed am 4 the public joy. The
fame calm, the fame order fu flied the evening
before, when all the theatres were opened gra-
us. The Chief c .nluI was a. the Theatre de
Ia Republic, where t was iuPPofed there were
not els th n j 5000 Perions in the Theatre, the
corridors and under th1 Portlcos.
The people Jaw with much fatisfa8i0n that
the Confuls and their luie were on horepAck
at the fete, irRead Of being flu up - carria ges
II they had Mt known that thole who govern
them were labouring for Jh-r good, they would
have been very in1rf-rent about the manner in
which they appeared n pubic.
The augua manner in which the Chief Con
ful contemplated for lome minute, The remains
OF Turenne, when he was gong out Ut the
Temple on the lit VenJe midre, did not eft ape
the public atten ion. Il was remarked that
this movement Of magnanimous virtue made
fuch an impredion upon fone Of tn ldlers !
that they fpontaneou1y fell upon their knee.
i! s generally allowed iha. the maui 'eum Of
Turenue Is better feen than al ST. Denis. The
raPidity Of the execution has not injured the
perfection Of The work.
We learn that the Spanih Government has
impofsd aew reltriEons and duties on foreign
merchandise.
An account from Bordeaux, dated the zIR,
mentions, that p fl ps have arrived the from
ieveral paris of the coat, bordering on that
porr. They were loaded with corn, -four, iron,
and other articles. The approach of the equi
nox has cauled The Englilh flaps to keep away
from that part Of the coat.
In addition 10 the contribution of 100000
Gyres imPofed on the Palatinate, More4u fent
an order, few days ago, to the Electors Coun-
Gil TO provide for the lubEaence of the 10, 900
men forming the blockade of Pnilliplburgh.
The Prolongation Of The armifice will, hOwev-
CT, relieve thePaatnate from this burden and
it is truly fortunate, both for the inhabitants Of
the Electorate ard the garif5n of the place,
that the armihice has been prolonged; for the
lateh accounts aate, that for two days the fort
was very clofeiy blockaded, that the poa was
not permitted to enter, that from 80 to 20 0:
the beieged died every day, and that about
one half Of them were Gck and unfit for fcrvice.
SEPT. II.
We have received from our Correspondent
at Calais letter, dated he zs1, containing the
following particulars =" Yeierd y, at twelvs
IN the morning, an Englfh flag of truce bro't
over two dispatches, the one directed 10 the
Miniler for Foreign Affairs, and the other to
ths MiriGer OF Marine. They were inRantly
forwarded TO Paris by Courier Ekraordna.
yy,who viii reach that city this evening. Moth.
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nniNic. propo(ed BY France, on condition that
The Spanlh fquadron fhould be fufered % re
tn to Cadfz and that The Brea feet hould 5e
difnantled. It wa, aided, tia MeGeoeer
with dipatches TO this effect had neen in, for
France on he breaking up Of the Cabinet on
Fiday; and It IS faii that the advance Of one
per cent which then took place in The price Of
Socks, refuted from THIS rsfolve. A number
Of refpe5abIc names were corrected with the
report, and tended to obtain for it currency,
and, in many inhances, belief
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LONDON, OCT z.

LONDON, OCT z.
The reports in circulation reipeang he tate
Of our negociAtions with F an>e, are var Gus
and contradictory. Its plain however, from
the price of our funjs, as well as he fall in
thai Of the Freroh, that The terms Of the pro.
p fed Naval Armiaice, are accompanied with
fome difficulties.
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generality of the privilege, by expressly declar.
ng, thar every perion 'availing himlelf Of the
liberty of the prels, ihould be repoaible for thr
abufe of that liberty :. thus iecuring TO our
citizens the invaluable right os reputation
againa every malicious invader of it.
Printed publications attacking private cha.
raeter, is conIidered with great reaion by the
law AS very ATTRACTIONS offence. from its evi
dent tendency to diturb the public peace-if
men find they can have no redrefs in cur
courts of Juice for fuch injuries, they will
naturally take fatisfaaion in their own way, in
volving perhaps their friends and families in
the confetti and leading evidently to duels,
murders, and perhaps Affirmation. ~, -
The principal lubjei Of confederation with the
jury will be, what damages they are to aTefs
On this fubjed you are the almoll uncontfoua.
bic judges--it is your peculiar province. . The
court have indeed the power to order now tri-
al where the damages are executive; but in
cafes of torts and injuries Of this kind, the law
books lay the damages mul be 10 outrageouily
diirropoftonate 10 the offence, as at hfit biuih
to fhoel; every perion who hears OF it, before the
court viii order new trial.
Every one mulf know that offences of this
kind have tor iome time pafl too much aboun-
ded in our city it feems high time to refrain
them--that talk is with you gentlemen. To
fuppref. 70 great an evil, it will not only be
proper to give compensatory but exemplary
damages thus Popping the growing progreis
of this daring erime-at the fsme time the
damages fhould not be 70 enormous as abso-
lulely TO ruin the offender.
hope no party considerations will ever have
place in this court in the administration of
jultice-and l entreat you, gentlemen, to 1aniih
them, in eonidering this fabjei, entirely from
your breaas.
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VOLUME H.

have been made on the poR of Prince William
Of Glouceaer, in which that gallant youn
Prince fucceeded in fsying detachment of on
troops, conGaing of upwards of ,o,oooa,pee,
from being cut off, with the lois of only IS.
A meilenger from Holland arrived lssl nigh
IN the Fox hired cutter, which left the Texel en-
Wednesday lat, On that day the head qusr
rers OF the army remained at Schagenburela,
The right extending to Petten, and the Overfluy .
The enemy we are happy to learn, had, beea
obliged TO retreat to Alkmaar, in confequence
OF The country bsing completely inundated.
Msde' blick, with all the magazines which It
contained, was burnt or the nth by the French.
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DON, OCT. 10.

LONDON, OCT. I3.
THE Hamburger mail du. on Sunday laif,
arrived this morning. IL brings accounts of
the events which took place in switzerland in
the latter end of September, except only thoie
which relate to Mnihal Suwarrow, of which we
have nor poiiivc information. The Archduke,
il appears, was rapidly advancing to repair the
evils which had been occaioned by his abfence.
His force we know by private letters to con!it
of 10000 men, with which he was at Schaf
haufen on the ID. The army of Condo, con-
filing of about 6oco was on the fame day at
Stokaeh.
Tbefe forces joined to the Bavarians and to
the Corps of Gen. Korlakow, are, it mutt be
allowed, more than fafficient, TO fecure that part
of Germany from all danger. We rejoice at
feeling the conjedures which we have from the
fra Infant formed relpeaing the probable con-
fequenees OF the victory of MlGena, thus con,
firmed.
Ex.r0a ora A.isr jro, Jfunicb. dated Sep. 40.
Two thoufand four hundred men, as part
of the Electors contingent, are to march on the
III of next month from the neighbourh lod OF
Donauwerh to Join the army oil the Arshduke
Charles. The plan for forming into military
corps the inhabitants of the Paialnae, is to have
its elea, throughout the. circle of Bavaria. It
is framed for 10000 man, and is to DC COM
manded in Bavaria by Major General Duroy,
an Officer enjoying high military character.
1t is ffated under the head, Venice Sept 20,
that the Neapolitan troops had taken Rieta by
form, and marched to join General Frolieh
who was advancing with lfrong army from
Tuicany agsinlf Rome. On the 18th Septem.
Der General Klenau was IS miles from Genoa
Ancona .ffill held out. The French, it is faid,
are conveying their artillery from Genoa to
Nice. ~
A letter from Genoa of Sept.a5, Rates
{" We hear from Rome, that Borghefe, Santa
Croce, Mareicotti, and Boneli, at the head OF
$4,000 Romans, whom they pay and Provliion
literally, have chafed the Neapolltans fom
Freicati to Terracna, commanded by the Duke
of Roccaromani and that they had taken from
them 8 pieces of artillery, and fsveral wag-
CONS" The fame letters add, /" that at Rome
the Jews have r;len in MATS, and thu: capital
has declared war agaiua Tuicany."
The ravsges of the plague in Barbara has
this year exceeded all precedent z74,ooc per-
ions have died of that dreadful malady at Fee,
and the adjoining villages by Ne aSth of June,
among which number were 10000 merchants
and other principal perions. The diforder
which has been nearly as fatal IN o,her places
was communicated through the empire by Mu-
ley Soleman, marching apinteeted army TO the
South. The deaths al Morocco amounted TO
5000 day.
LONDON, OCT. 70.
The Glence of the Gazette on The iubieet of
Holland makes II rrablble IA m M very In,oor-
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sfEceXauy.
From ths Gazette of the United States.


f" Wbo it ka among yoa that Jaqp this b0gJs IN @fr
"fye sh,y ? and bo4u do ys fee hn'e0 Is q
" not in yaar eyer, in eomparj'0n st'a, az H0f''
"izg ?"
TITS an occurrence no. lefs intereiting, than
A extraordinary, that the departure OF JINGLE
man lhoud command the unaffected and IN
discriminate lamentation of five millions OF
pcople. 1t is an event, the Ike of which the
world has never witneAed, that the death OF an
Individual rhould 70 touch whole nation that
q the Joy of the heart ihould ceale, and the
dance be turned into mourning"
The mighty monarch, Whole throne is fur
rounded by armies as numerous as the locuhs
of fummer, and reiiRlefs as the blsls of petit
lcnee, goes down to the tomb, amid the exc
crations of opprelTed fubjeas or feePs in the
p. grave as UNDECIDED as when Numbering on his
bed of down. The prince, Whole beniiceoce
has whitened the plains Of his country, "walks
the way of nature and his fnbjees " mourn in
black" but " not in blood" becaufe they fear
"an Amurath fucceeds." The pomp and
power of royalty may cauie " mourners TO go
about the areets," and forrow may 70 "royally
appear" that thoulands will "put the faihion
on" and yet none " wear it in the heart"
Moa eminently hath the "crown fallen from
our head" Moi cmphaticaly, are "the tears
ct Cufhan in afliaion." "The father to his
children will make known" the mournful tory.
The veteran, who wrought by HIS fide q in the
heat and burden of the day" Of our deliverance,
will know, that "for this the heart is FAINT"
that for hefsshng ihe eyes are DIM" The
eztsnGve nation which has received lbcrtyfron
the valor, and happiness from the eounfsl, of
him who has fallen, will feel that this is I" the
rod of anger and the aaif of Indignation"
'His deeds exceed all fpeeeh." His fame is
" written with pen of iron with the point of a
I diamond" His counfsl is craven upon the
4 table of our heart" His deeds, his fame, and
l bis counfel will endure, till "thc great globe
i,lelf; yea, all which Inherit it lhall d(Tove"
The Lay Prsaeber Of Pen.GiVania.
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LONDON, OCT. 70,
The filence of the Gazettc on he iubieet of
Holland makes it probable that no very Impor-
aut event has happened. An attack is fad 10