Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-12-21
E.aorv cai4ers sftbs Senate. GnSeftts

1T is a circumltaDce OF hucere g!atfIcation
| 10 me, that on meeting the great coonciI OF
| the nation, am able to announce TO them on
grounds of reaionable certainty, that fbe wars
and teubles, which have for 20 many years af-
Rie1d our litter nations, have at length come TO
/ 40 end & that the communications of peace &
commerce are once more opening among them.
WhR we devourly return thanks TO the beneh
cent being who has been Pleaied 70 h~eathe Into
them the fpirit at Cancellation and riyenefs,
we are bound with peculiar graft, to be
| thankful to him that our own e has
| teen prtlerved through 70 perilous feat u, ard
| on ielyes permitted quietly TO cultivate the
| earth, and TO pra6tife and improve thoie ait
] wh:cht tend TO increafe our comforts. The al.
furnaces indeed of friendly difpohIion received
from all the powers with whom We have Prin
| cipai relations, bad infpired confidence that
oui peace with them would not have been diff
| tn-bed. Bur ceaation Of the irregularities
! which had afflicted The commerce Of neutral
nations, and Of the irrita;ions and injuries pro-
| duced by them, cannoI but add to this corn
denoe; and ft'engthens, az the fame time, The
hops, that wrongs committed on unofending
lIiends, under Prehlre oil circumitances, will
now be reviewed with candor, and will be con
Gdered as founding iua claims Of retr button
for the paR, and new adnrauce for the futu' G
7 Among our Indian neighbors ALTO ipiri' OF
peace and iriendlhip generally prevails and
am happy O inform you that the continued
efforts 10 iatroducc among them he imp ements
and he practice ofhulbandTy, and ofthe houle
hold arts, have not been withou; iUccefs Th4t
they are become more and more ienliole OF the
/ inperiority IF this dependence for clothing and
fubGaence, over he pecarioas re!ources of
/ hunting and hlhng A nd alfea3y we are able
10 announce that, inGesd of that confant di
mnution of numbers produced by their wars
and their wants lome OF them begiR TO exPe
renee an Increale Of population.
To thia Gate ~ general peace with which
we have be-n ble6ed, one only exception exits.
TripOli, the lead COZ fiderable of the Ba barry
It4tes, had come forward with demands R0
Funded either in right or 10 compact. aaj had
permitted tielf 70 denouace war, on our failure
70 comply before given day. The lyle OF
the demand admitted bur enc snfwer. lent
fmall fquadron Of frigaes rito the MejiteF-
raneAn, With afurances 70 that power of our
| lincere delire TO remain in-peAce /: but wiki
orders TO protect our commerce aEAlnh the
III eaIenrI attack. The meaiETe was fashionable
and lalGtary. The Bey had already declared
war in fora. His ciuifers were out Two had
lrrved At Gibraltsr. Oar commerce in thS
Mediterranean was hl0ck4ded ; and that q the
Atlantis in perl. The arrival Of our tqnadror
fprllei the danger One of the T ipolitan
cruilcrs having fallen in with ard engaged thf
linail ichoener Enterprise, commanded BY 1t
Sterret, which had gone cut as a tender to our
larger ve1es, was eaptured, after heavy
4 n Fhel NfS IL
one on our part. The bravery exhibited BY
our citizens on that element will, trua, be q
| ettmony to the world, that ia is not a want Of
that virtue, which makes US fcek their peace
but conlcien' ions detre TO dirsG the energies
Of our nation 10 the multiplication Of The hu
man race and not n It's dearudion. Unau
thorized by tk- contribution, without the fame
ton Of Congrefs, TO go beyond the line Of de
fence. the vedel being difabed from commit
ting further hoai.i.ies, was liberated with It's
crew.
The legifl4ture will doubtIefs con6der whe-
ther, by aut horiijng mealures of ottenc- alto,
they will place our force en- an equal footing
with that Of its adverfaries. communicate all
material Inform alton on this fubjed, that 10 the
exercifr OF the important function con6ded by
the Contribution TO the Legislature exclulivelY,
their judgement may form itGelf on know
ledge and confederation Of every circumstance
Of weight.
| with could fay that our i;uaion with all
the other Ba,bary States was entirely latisfatto-
/ n.y. discovering that fome delays had takea
place in the performance of certain arucie'
ltipuated by us, | thought it my duty by m
mediate meafures for fulfilling them, TO vindi
cate 10 ourielves the right of coniidering the
effect Of departure from Ripula ion on her iite
rtom the papers which will be laid before youi
VA will be enabled tojudge. whether our trea
ties have been regara ed by them as fixing at all
the mcclure of their deman Is, or as guarding
againA the exercfe Of force our veaeis within
their power; and 70 coniider how far It will be
fate aad expedient to leave our affairs with them
in their prefent poRure.
! lay before you the re(ult of the Genius late
ly taken of our inhabitants, to a conformity
! with which wa are to reduce the enfning rates
; of approximation and taxation. You will per
ceive thit the encreafe Of numbers, during the
lat ten years, proceeding in geometrical ratio,
: promiies duplication IN little more than TWEEN.
ty two years. We contemplate this rapid