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Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-08-07

Tide ii 20. This has rendered this Ferry one
Of the best in the world. Of all the works OF
art, this approaches nearest to the conveni-
ence of a bridge; and In this place perhaps
il IS superior for bridge would impede tho
free navigation of Hudson's RlYer--the steam
boat is no interruption to navigation, yet it IS
a bridge as to convenience of transit and eco
snomy Of time--it is the work of an American
mnd-a proud example of the genius OF our
country, which every American will cite with
pleasure.
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Extract Of a ietter.from Havanna, dated July
l3 1912

We have this moment received the news
that fresh reinforcement of troops have ar
rived at Mexico from Europe, with which
there is no doubt we Shall BE enabled to ami
hilate the handtti that have infested the roads
between Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico
The foregoing extract is proof that the
news lately published of the kingdom Of Mex
leo being in possession of the insurgents, is
unfounded and incorrect.
Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-08-07

The fashion of Dress is always the subject
of criticism; in 1870 it was thus humorously
9escribed.-.A modern fine fellow had a coat
on with sleeves too small for the arms, and
buttons too big Tor the sleeves; pair of Man
chester fine stuff breeches, without money in
the pockets; clouded silk stockings but no
legs; club of hair behind larger than the
head that carried it, and a hat of the size of a
sixpcnce on a block not werth farthing.
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.4necaate Of Frsdertek the Great.

No officer Of the guards at Potsdam, dared
90 to Berlin without the king leave. A mas
qaerade vas one day given at Berlin, where
the king was expected, and he thought that e.
verv off Ger would have asked leave at the pa
ra4e - 30 to it, but no one advanced for that
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JuDGMENT.

In Judging ofothers, let us always think
the best, and employ the spirit of candor and
charity. But in Judging of ourselves, we
ought to be exact and severe.
Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-08-07

Pekip OF Philadelphia. Capt, S. was ;. /,
via when the ship was towed in. AMI ~ Gaia
when be left there, the gentlemen. la+ ,a Says,
Pekin, enjoyed their beslths, spendine u The
town only the hours of business, rf,a II The
captain S.to mention nothigg rela,ivqG .eSled
Pekin bat what might offer his ram. " y! uIe
as likely it would be the first account, an ~i'''
it would no doubt be published, he x viii as
every word correct. '''cG
Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-08-07
EXTRACT

No pen can pourtray the tremendous evils
which follow laxiiy of law and order The
arena of political frenzy once opened, who
Shall close it who shall say to an inturlated
mob, thus far shalt thou go, and no further !!
The rampant which,pcotects private property
once broken down, the barrier OF right aud
wrong once RACED, who can check the wild
misrule of popular passions whose property
will be sale--whese person sacred People
of America remember revolutionary France,
and be wise!
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GOOD HELP.

Conscience is the surest help to memory /;
and where there is a clear conscience, there is
peace fmind.
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70 the Editor Of the Virginia Argns.
BUCKINGHAM, Wiz July 10.

SIR,
forward you concise account of one
of the most tremendously desolating Hail
Storms ever witnessed in Virginia, to which
you may give publicity, should you think 1t
worthy place in your useful paper.
Sir, am, &c.
JOEL w. FLOOD.
Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-08-07

q Each man has his particular habit" In
opinions and habitudes, there is permanent
diversity, and every person should In fairness
he left to the free exercise of his own.
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Notice to the Stockhdcts

Notice to the Stockhdc1S
I'm the Fauquier and Alexan ria fu.RP'Ns
4 Companyis hereby given, that the fui'lo'
sum of ten dollars on each share will DC u :
manded on the first day of august next anu
the further snIn Of ten dollars on each shSi0
on the first d>y Of September following
BY order of the President and Directors
mo Hampton, Treasure E
N B. The Stockholders in III to"" :.
alexandria are requested to N Ike rayin'".
to MIR. THOMAS MaonE, CLERK in inc pam
of Potomac, D. -
Rnckland Jnne 26.--Inly2 2NwZl- --
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JOEL w. FLOOD.
HAIL STORM !!

Between three and four o'clock, P. NJ. yes
terday the 9Th inst. afteravery short but Vlo-
lent hurricane, hail If very enormous size
began to fall, and continued for about eighi
minutes-which laid in devastation, a tract Of
country, about l6 miles in length, and 4 or
in breadth. Every species of vegetation ex-
peyienced its horrible effects. The trees Of
every description are very nearly stripped of
their foliage; SO completely WIS thus the case
Oh plantation, which visited TO-DAY, that
there was scarcely any thing of it remaining.
The bark almost Of every tree particularly
the more tender was very mach beaten off:
Our fruit trees have suffered very much, be-
ing completely robbed of leaves, fruit, and to
a very considerable extent Of bark.
Crops of corn maize where the storm
ragged with its greatest violence have been
completely DESTROYED, ior in other places vast
IL injured. Our fences wherever the sides
presented were Frustrated; nor have our
houses escaped all the windows looking to
the north and east, were completely shattered.
In the house of major Henry Flood were 7s
pains of glass broken. Our roads are almost
impossible in consequence of the very great
number of trees, boughs and twigs, the two
first Of which have evidently been cleft from
the trees BY the hail, great number OF sheep,
&c. sc. have been killed. Fortunately have
heard of but one personal injury, who un-
doubtedly would have been killed, had not
forest happily been an opposing Barrier. l
may conclude this history of horrors, by OBJ
serving that nothing has escaped which was
susceptible of injury from such cause. The
hail was all large, some found to measure .
by 8 inches in circumference.
For the theorist it is left to speculate on the
formation of these immense areal congeia-
tons. We have felt the effect OF the tact.
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LATE FROM HAVANNA.

LATE FROM HAV ANNA.
We have been favored, says the Charleston
Times of July "a, by captain Mesroon, OF the
ship Caroline, from Havana, with the Ha-
wanna Diary, Extra, of the l7tb INST. from
which the following translation Is made:
/" The following important accounts have
been received from Don Pedro Oliver; they
we're received in Campeachy on the 29th Of
June, by the Spanish sch. Esparanza which
sailed from Vera Cruz on the 28th Of the
same month; General Callejas informs his
excelency the yice-king, that on the 9th
May, there persisted in Cloace de Amilpas,
about 5000 insurgents, by FIRE and famine /;
700 were wounded, and a vast number of prl-
soners were made; amongst the latter were
nine priests; and that, although they took Sc
veral magazines full Of provisions, they found
a number of dead, who must have persisted OF
hunger and other bodies that had en- con-
verted into fixed skeletons, the cruel Morelos
having paid no attention to his troops, nor
supplied them with the necessary articles Of
life. General Colleias made prisoners near
ST. Gabriel, the TWO marshals Piedra and Bra
ho and colonel Perez, with thirty men, who
had thfown away their arms, and were endea-
voring to make their escape. These captures
were made by the volunteers OF Iabaoda and
Castillo
"Amsngst the papers taken at Cloaco from
Morelos, was found an official one from the
Junta of Cita uaro, advising the people TO &C
knowledge Ferdinand With as their only OBJ
iect was to occasion division between the
Americans and Europeans.
:: The Gazette Extra, Of Medico, ofthe 18th
May, contains another dispatch from Gen
Caeias to the king, dated at Otunba, il
which he informs him that Morelos bad made
bis escape that al the towns had come tor
ward, and declared their repentance Of what
had happened, and implored forgiveness.
"These accounts we're officially commlini-
Gated to the inhabitants Of Vera Cruz, from
Oaxaca."
A gentleman, passenger in the ship Caro-
line, capt. Messroon, who left Yucaten, Mex
ice on the 80 in t. reports, that IL consequence
Of letter from Don Diego Morphy at New
Orleans, to the captain-genera1 at 1ncaten,
stating that war would be declared by the y.
States against Great Britain, all the Americans,
50 in number, were Imprisoned, sud their pro-
perry detained. lhe gentleman ABOVE men
toned is an American citizen, and was f4vor-
ed With a friendly hint to withdraw himself,
The Information from Mr.. Morphv had been
communicated TO the governor at Havana, *
a similar proceeding was expected there as
soon as information was received of the war.
A new constitution bad been received at Ha-
wanna from Spain, and The governors procIa-
nation of the l7;h inst. declared, that it would
be promulgated on the 2lst, from which time
i would be substituted in lieu of the old one.
Cotton goods were selling fifty per cent.
cheaper at HAVANA than they could be pur-
chased in Manchester, England.
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Fulton's Pau1us-Hook Steam Ferry Boat.

T. S 4 GUtUS"41CVR
The Paulus Hook Ferry has ever been one
of the most inconvenlcnt and difficult IN the
United States: in bead winds and strong
tide, ii has oftenrcquired three hours to make
the passage, and in calm 1t has been next
TO impossible to get over such boat as would
he able TO take in horse and carriage. Even
under the most favorable circumstances the
risque and inconvenience of putting car
rage and horses into sail-boat has been SEN
sibly felt, and the passage of Hudson's River
pressed like a load on the mind of every ira
weller who was under the necessity of passing
it. 1t was preventive to social intercourse
between this city and Philadelphia happily a
work of art has removed all those difficulties
by means of floating bridge on each side of
the river. Carriages and horses are driven on
the deck of the Steamboat without the per-
sons alighting, and with all the safety and ia
ciliy which bridge gives she can take in
at one time carriages, with their horses, and
800 passengers with such load she can pass
the river ia calm In IA minutes, in a strong
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08
E9Ien,

II this town Mrs May Sto.er, coAs1rt Of
Capt Robert Slower, aged 29--M,s Lydi.
Christie, aged 33
In Warren, (Me.) since the commence.
ment Of the present year,
Mr. Clark Gerrish, formerly Of Berwick (;
Mrs Stone, wife Of Micah Stone, and thti
infant child two children Of the widow
Wilson, (burnt to death); Mrs. w ats, wife
Of Samuel Watts. aged 81 a iuf4n; child
Of Mr. PoIes Fuller; Miss Betsey Kirkpst
rick, formerly resident in Portland, aged
So a child Of Mr.. Alexander Lermond Jun
aged 5years; M. John Willie, jun. IL con
sequence Of fractured bone the widow
Fennel, re Gently ot Boston.
Erratum.-In noticing the death Of Mrs.
LYDIA Wnslow, Of Northyarmoulh, IN our
last, an error uccurred-she was there rep
resented 10 be he daughter Of Mr.. Kimb4ll.
For " Klmball," read Merrill
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08
MILITARY WORK.

FOR iale at the {everal Booklfores in town,
II Hfem Of Military ManauUerI,
compiled from the latelt and mott approved
Military publications, containing as much uGe
full matter in fmalI compass as any thing of
the kind eItant-containing,the EeBslioa Move
asHss which have been found 70 conduc We TO
luccels in the European armies, and other mod
srn improvements. Together with leveral
plates calculated to elucidate the various ma
nGuvers Of which the work treats tits obiec-
ted again(f moi works on this fubjsct, that
they are too vouminous for fuch as have bul
little time to Gudy but all milceIlaneous re-
marks, NOT necedary to eIemplify The luhjsct
is excluded from this work.
Portland, June 8.
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08

ords oil State. Review next your ever
memorable Speeches to the Legisla-
ture. The first was i'll natured and
vindictive, and met its due reward.
The second was too weak and insipid TO
attract notice from your friends or foes.
Neither of them though long, sugges-
ted many topics for legislation both
were well calculated TO heighten the
resentment Of political parties. These
your Excellency can neither forget, nor
wish to have remembered.
After the bold but unsuccessful ex-
periments of your last years Admins
tration, your Excellency will be warn
ing TO your successors never 10 become
SO elated with power as to forget the
rights of the people, nor SO attached TO
political faction as officially to aid their
attempts at usurpation. That your
Excel ncy may live to see the abuses
Of your Administration corrected, the
many evils resulting from it remedied
and the Government faithfully and i'm
partially administered by those who
approve Of our Constitution, and who
shall approve the mselves to the people
is the sincere wish and prayer of your
friend, and Fellow Citizen,
ARISTIDES.
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08
&9arrIeO,

In Paris, (Me.) by he Rev. James Hoo
per, Mr.. David CIetiord to Miss NAY
Shur,leff
50 Perpetual harmony their bed attend,
Ana Venus stdi the well ma.ch'd pair be
friend.
May she, when tine has sunk him into
years,
Love her old man. and. cherisIl his white
hairs
Nor he perceive her charms through age
decay,
But think each happy sun his bridal day"
In Hebron, by the Rev. John Trip, ar.
Joseph Glover, to Miss Sally WhittemOre.-
" And .fucob Served sevsa gears for Rachel"
In tins town, by he Rev Nc P,ysoa, M
JOhR Nichols, mer ID MISS Elizabeth Isle,
daughter Of MAJ Hosea Ilsl1y
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08

o,.eyel. that the Pres't of the Senate De
4 he IS hereby requested to inform the Gov
and Council, by written message, that IN
pursuance Of an Act Of this Commonwealth,
passed February last, providing for an snnu :
4 meeting Of the Board Of Overseers Of Har-
card College seats will be provided in the
senate Chamber, at 8 O'Clock, this after
noon, for the Governor and Council as
component part Of the said Board OF over
seers.
On Thursday, the Legislature was prlncl-
rally engaged IN choosing Notsues Public
AS soon as ;hey are al chosen we shall pup
Iish those for the District Of Maine.
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08
TO Men Of PatriOti)m, Courage
and Enterbrize.

and Enterprise.
livery able bodied man, from the age o.
- 8 to IS years, who lhall be entitled for
the Army of the United States for the term
of FIVE years, will be paid bounty of
SIXTEEN DOLLARS
in addition 10 their Rofioa5, Monthly pay ana
CioafBizg and whenever he fhall have ierved
the term for which he emitted, and obtained
an honorable difcharge, Eating thai he had
faithfully performed his duty whillt in fervice,
he ihall be allowed and paid ia addition 70
the afore!aid bounty, Three m,"tb5 pay aa1
100 Acre5 Of Land ;
and in cafe he fhouid he killed 10 action or
die in tie fervice, his heirs and representatives
will be entitled to lad three months pay and
one hundred and Gxty acres OF Laud 10 be de
Ggnated, furveyed, and laid of, Al the pubic
expence.
- Healthy active boys between fourteen
aisi eighteen years of age will be accepted,
provided they will bring the content ia wri
ting, from their parents or guardians,
~ A Rendezvous is opened IN the cham
Der over No 20 Hsy1a,E ef RasU, N PORT
LAND, where ali who are deliOus Of en,er-
ing the United States lervice 70 defend
and fupPort their country, may have An OPP
portuniEy by immediate application.
LEMUEL BRADFORD,
Captain 9iB Regirsrat Z. taat,y, U. ).
ga z
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08

are all our acts as nation, referred 70
the pleasure of the French Emperor,
against whose will our sycophant adj
ministration dare dot raise the voice Of
an injured and insulted people.
In the last published, he says, It is
true that our claims for Indemnify for
past spoliations should be heard, exam
ined and satisfied; which operation
should precede the new treaty or go
hand in hand with it. This Is dull
work, hard to begin, and difficult 10
pursue. | urged it a long time without
the effect even of an oral answer"
The following extract will show the
opinion Of those best able to Judge on
this subject, and who have seen and
heard the whole dispatches.
!" Although it was the general con
versation, before the arrival of tbs Hor-
net, that, if nothing satisfactory should
be received from France, a declaration
Of war would also be made against her,
yet, since The dispatches, from MIR.
Dai AOHS WCIC .ICICAfCA anu COIllHuill-
Gated, that idea is given up. Mr. Ran
dolph said yesterday, TO the house, in
most decided and express terms, that,
II after me late deShatche8 from Mr. Bar
lo7U, eUidsncing The shutting f2hcy Of
B0Hqt1rfc tozy1rdg us ; me abuSiUe treat
Dlent and contumeiy qve haze 70 this time
eTterienced from him and the demon
strattUe hroy Of the non-rsUocattoH of
the Berlin and Milan decrees-D after
all these, zye go 10 zvar against England,
az 7vlH indeed 8hezU, that our government
is unaer FRENCH INFLUENCE; and
History zviH record ID 10 our disgrace,
That zve are tie SYCoPHANTs and PARA
SITES of BoNAPARTE
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08
Dispatches from Trance.

y
The principal part Of Mir. Barlow's
dispatches has been published. IS COM
municated 10 Congress-but our limits
viii not admit Of their publication in this
paper. The President has not ventur-
ed to express any opinion of their con-
ttnts-but the general opinion seems TO
be that they prove no disposition in The
French government TO do Us Justice, or
even hear our complaints
Mr.. Barlow has danced attendance At
French levees, solicited interviews with
the Minister o. Foreign Relations, and
received evasive answers, or unmeaning
promists until his patience was eXhaus-
ted
Ia one letter Of Mr. B. to Mr.. Mum
roe, he says, | have scarcely been a.
bic to get an interview with the Duke Of
Bassano for the last s days, though he
has appointed several"
In another he says, The Emperor
did not like the bill we have seen before
Congress for admitting English Goods
contracted for before the nUn-importa-
ton law went into operation" Thus
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08
WHEREAS the LegilAoure of hi. Com
June 8.

WHEREAS the Legilature Of This Com
" monweaIth by an act pafied 25'h Of
Feb lait, have incorpor- ed the Society for
merry known by the name Of " the Society OF
the education Of pous young nen for the
minillry IN the Diilrict OF Name" under the
name Of" The Socie.y for biological educa
tion," aud have authOriz The iubicriber TO
cal the hra meeting Of lad InltIEution tor the
PA pole u oTganiz.ug under iaid act ofinc1r-
PoratiOn. Accordingly | hersby a = he
members Of the original Society - NEE.
Tor ,he above PurPOte. IN Halloween at the
houle Of Rev E C.liet on Thurlday 25th init
At 2 O'Clock A. NJ. ASA LYMAN, JsSfy.
June
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08
D:0rtiatlo,
Monday, June s, 1912.


On the subject Of our foreign relations it
is difficult to form a correct opinion The
intelligence from Washington wears
gloomy aspect. There is party in Congress
WHO appear determined 10 plunge the United
States into the horrors Of War, even al the
risk Of all we hold DEAR Every information
that we receive from France, gives us addi-
tionaI evidence that the TyrAnt Of Europe il
intent on the destruction ofevery veslage Of
civil liberty His fangs are constantly fasten-
ing on the American Republic, and under
the present administration he finds little TO
resist his nefarious designs. Should he sue
coed in bringing Us into q war with England,
the great object Of his wishes will be &C
compGshed the die will be cast, and A.
mer;cs must bid adreu TO liberty forever
Whether this i to be our fate, the friends
Of our country are waiting with alternate
hopes and fears.
If we were TO depend on the numerous
reports of letters received from Wilmington
declaring that War is inevitable, We could no
longer doubt on the fubjed. But mad and
infatuated as lome of our rulers appear 10 be,
we cannot yet believe that all virtue is loft,
and that the administration will finally plunge
their country headlong into thar vortex of
ruin, which has been the dellruction of almolt
every Republic on earth, When we confider
the defenceleis ltuation of our feaport towns,
our Notifications tumbling 10 pieces, and no
meaiures contemplated by Congrefs for their
repair-when we furvey the eIhaulted Gate
Of the public finances and the ucapacity of
our government to repIenllh them but by a
taxation odious TO the people-when we view
the character Of thole who have been appoin-
ted to high and refponGbIe ltaIions in the army
70 be railed-Men
"Who never fet a fquldron in the field,
"Or the diviGan Of battle know
More than fpinRer,"
We cannot helitate in declaring, that declar
alton Of war againf powerful na'ion. would
be an act of infatuation unrivaled in the an.
mails Of nations. Don Quixote's engagement
with Wind Mill does not afford ftronger
! proof Of infantry, than would fuch a mealure
The voiee Of New England Is loud-it vsgR, Il
nil be heard at Wilmington. Her patriots
will never be Perfuaded TO draw that Sword
which they know can never be lheaihed, but
il the yitals Of The Ams,isan Eagle.
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08
NOTIFICATION.

THE Annual meeting Of the Maine Mi
io1ary Society, wilt be holden II the
Meeting Houfe 40 Hallowell on Weiatfaay the
gath infant, AZ 9 cock M-The Irur
tees will meet The evening preceding.
Z. GILLET, Secretary.
p s. The members will recollect that Re-
folve paGed IN the Society, that contribution
fhould be iolicited IN tue various parile. W
which they belong, o. the fabbath preceding
the Annual Meeting
HsiiyT0tA, fne 8
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08
2fi1RH1Fu-attRntiolI !

THE Msmberf Of ne Portland RI
Re Company are dire6sd 70 Dleet At ~
Arm3ry, THIS AFTERNOON, ar a a'clgcF.
# general and PHH7uaI Attendance IL
exPedeG--Per order.
w. b. SEWALL, Q. S.
T1zs Q.
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08
STR NJ SHEEP

DAME into ths incIolure Of the fubfcriber
- fometime in the month Of February lalE
STRAY SHEEP. The owner IS defred 10
prove properly, pay charges and ;ake them a
way Apply 20 SAMUEL WlLDES.
Georgetown, June 8, l6l2.
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08

LETHFREAS salley my wife has left me and
w my bed aud board, and this IS TO certify
that forbid all Perlons trulting or hsP50ri-F
her on my account for WI not pay one c.
Of her contracting from this date:
JOHN BAKER,
Minot, Feb IA. 1912.
Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-06-08

Our readers may form fome idea Of the de-
fenceIeis fate of our iea2orts. from the Fort at
NewburyPort- which, we underfAnd, was
nruck adrift fome;ime lalt winter and hOated
to fea--whether il drifted TO WaJ6ingfon TO
take on board cargo Of Terygeias or, with
out even a" Pigeon Futterer" on board 70 d.
rect The Gege, lhe was bound 70 Canada direce,
has not yet been slcertsined.