Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1809-01-09

motto, (" Conmtree Dearyed,' on her
bows, and on her fern, i" Ffeas aff5e
Embargs, She was nayigaled by a
matter, boat(wain, &c, her colors
were difplayed at half matt, as were
thofe of the ihipping in the harbor
The procefii0n moved through the
principal itreets in the town, during
which time The bell tolled, minute
guns of diitrefs were discharged, :he
Gy was enveloped in clouds, drum
mufiled in back Grape was beat .
folemn dirge~; the movement Of The
proceiIion was aow and hlent, mel
sncholIy was depicted on all counte
maces, and nothing broke the awful
flnce but the found of cannon, the
tollng of bells. the mournful drum,
or bsariwain's whifIe Indeed every
embkm figni6cant Of diftrefs, fuch
as heaving the lead, tolling the ihip's
bell,tie boarfwain's call and matters
orders were executed in manner 70
appropriate, that it Seemei TO be rash-
ter the reality, than the picture. AT
iunfet The bell was tolled, for half
au hour, cannon difchargeI, and
colors hauled down. No diforder,
difcord or murmur was heard during
the day. At corner of one of the
principal ifreets, the procelion hall
ted, and the following Grafton was
delivered by Jack Tar:
ALL HANDS AHDI!
BRoTHsR TARs,
Let me beg your attention for few Aain-
utes to the ffory Of an old me1matc, while he
relates to you the melancholy difsaer which
has happened to the Chip A.0;ssu comm1a,
and her unfortunate crew.
This day twelve months ago, as appears by
her log book, the beautiful. well known and
fan failing fhip, called d~sr,eas cemmoS. Of
this port, ftout, flaunch. lrong and feA~orihy,
vietualled for long voyage with valuable
cargo, well flowed and hatc hes fecured, hav-
ing on board her full completeness of as hearty
fons Of oak as ever tipp'd can to his M nth,
were falling upon the high ieas. with the fair
wind Of PROPERTY; al half palt ,. the
1ky being then clear and the weather fine, a
iudden fquAll from Csrf0s Mosrfsis (which
La upon our fouhern board) firuck the fhip
AJAX all Banding carrying away by ne vio-
lence feveral Of her fpars and all her light
Eaila, and threw the fhip upon her beam ends.
The crew. however, enufed to dangers,
were 10 . fair way of ri9hsing her, by exer-
ting all their 4ill ia clearing the wreck, and
heaving overheard quantity of FIN and -four,
the natural exports Of their own country.
While they were thus employed, feveral
supplemental fsualls from the fame quarter,
bsf31ed all their efforis. In this 6,uailon ihe
lay water logged for comfortable time At
l2o'eioek, the next day, we found ourfelves
by obfervaiion to be in he latitude of Cape
Small Hope, and longitude Of Mifery: and
having examined the chart, we difcovered to
our great forrow, thar we were on the lee
more Of Democracy, with an increasing gale |,
and as every ion of Neptune knows, that this
coat affords no fafe harbour to diiirefed ma
riner, we refolved to keep her off fhore, 70
long 40 circumllances would permit, well
culiar fpecies Of fha k that prowl around lis
I OAyS auu uAtuote w Queit VI tue ucdtiIiS IIdx-
ments of fhipwrecked commerce, and ihe Ian
bifcuit of the weather beaten tar. But the
I fwel Of the Tea having forced US into the brea-
kers of Defpair. which always beat upon this
inholpitable coal--in this critical ituation,
the Ian timber head JUN disappearing, every
mothers fon of US was obliged to ihiit for
himfelf for the prefervation Of his life, com.
mitting ourfelves to the mercy of the waves |,
and while very few OF this gallant band of
| feaworthies have been able to keep their
chins above water to this hour, the remainder
have either gone to Davys locker, or have
besn devourcd by the aforelaid fharks. In
this Gtua,ion you behold the iurvivors, upon
the bleak COAT of Delpotifin, without duds,
without grog, bifcuit, rather, or even a
Jingle fhot in the locker, aiI,mbled in FAD
commemoration of that fatal day on which
Commerce was annihilated; aud We invite all
free born American IL ITO join the procei-
Con formed on this folemn location.
Caassfs,, Dee so, 1908.
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s..The following are the returns fas far as
received) of Votes for P,si1sa and pise-P,s-
! Eas.t of the United States--for four years
from March 4, lsoo-Electisn held Dee. .,
1903.
P,sfdsaf ri~ F,.lids~.
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