Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1805-01-21
E2 .rs SEATS.

The trial of Nathaniel Pendieton, Efq who
was indicted for acting as the fecond OF General
Hamilton in the unfortunate duel nv which the
latter was loft TO his country, cac,e on lat ihurf
day IN the court Of oyer and ternliner and general
goal delivery now fitting in This city. he pro-
iecution was conducted by the attorney general
on the part of the ttate: and the defendant was
ably aTihed by The Talents Of Mr.. Radcliffe.
Mr. Hoffman, and Mr.. Golden. The court
vas crowded The trial continued from eleven
o'clock in the morning till eight o'clock in the
evening aud the jury retiring for about twenty
minutes returned a verdict OF GUILTY.
The Pun thment preicribcd by law for the Of
fence of which Mr. Van Ness and Mr. Pende-
ton have been found guilty, is compleat dil-
Jranchiem ent for the term OF twenty years.
From Wilmington len, s
Since mr. lat Communication, there have arr
Zen fcveral occurrences which cannot FAIL Of ar
refting The attention and curioliiy of the public.
The mott important to our country, is, the one,
which relates to our unhappy affairs in the
Mediter anean, and which you will fee officially
announced in me government p per. The
" difpatches, containing the particular accounts,
are from MIR ODrien, and exhioit fcene Of
diiaaer that mutt not only give p1in to every
/. American, who has aheart to feel for the milf
cries of his unhappy countrymen, but fix an
mdeliblc difgracc or the preicnt administration,
for the peurile and protraaed neaures which
have produced them.
The houfe, on motion Of Mr.. Randolph,
have pahcd Relolution, calling Oh the Pot-
Matter General, to lay hef ore them thc psrticu-
lars of all the contracts he had made for
ring I'll. mails the latt year. This hcp has
gwen the Federaliits great fat'sfa&ion, as they
j expect thereby TO fee tbs developement of many
fcracs of corrupt and unfair dea ing in the PoG-
= Office department.. The caufe which produced
] this meafure of the political Hoj3a, of Con
yrefs, arofe from fome exprelions of cenfure
on his conduit, relative TO the Georgia land
claimants, which Mr.. Granger, as one of the
! agents on this buhnsls, had taken the liberty
30 make From this circumhancc aid the ex-
itence of many other jeaioufes Between the
northern and fouthcrn Democrat Members, we
have the mott aattering aauraace, that tate
of things will foon ariie, OF iuicieut weigh
and enormty, 70 CONVINCE the nilguded OF this
country, that their great national Concerns have
Seen placed in the hands of weak, wicked AID
rscreenary men.
F,om Mata-A letter f,om an ofilcer IN the
] American Mediterranean fquadron, to his ir end
in Bottom, dated Malta, Or. II, So4, iay',
"Nothng Deceive aganlt Tripoly, | imagine,
! viii be done this fall; as the weather has be-
come too boittcrous for the gun-bcats 70 keep
{ the fea, and they have returned to Meiilaa
1t Tarbell is now frf of the Prciident, 1t
Hull is well. Commodore Preble, and MIR, Har-
kauen will return home in the John Adams.
which will iail loon. The Syren fails tor CID
taltsr tomorrow
A letter from an American officer, dated at
eyraeufe, Sept. 20, 1904, obiervcs =
s'Lait night we hearP the particulars OF poor
hcmmrrs' fate i'm BANDING IN TO the bay or
Trpoli with the fire fhip he was boarded by
two gunboats and ons hundred men, the mo
men, they got on board, it Is iuppoied the match
vas put TO the powder, 50 barrels he ia''
Of our boats thar left them reports thar DOM
ners and Wadfworth were both Handing ol
the trains, the two gauboats were desiroyeo;
and every foul periihed; large number Q,
bells went into the town * did grea; daa'sgs'