Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-12-19

ing folders for its protection however
From what Rate are ,hefs troops faid |
they are not tysops faiG the gentleman
they are militia We fhould be in a
pretty condition If we relied upon Uni.
ted States troops. Why 10, ff, l asked
won, they fight think YOU : Fight, faid
he--laughing -yes-if here Uere any.
And who pays shote militia, | asked !
why the Rate to be fse. Then what
ufe is the general goveiament faid l, if
it neither tends yoa ssoops. ues alin~.
you money! Why, faid he. do not
know, in fact, what ule, urlefs il be to
tax as, to take our money from Us, to
iquauder it upon Canadian attacks, and
to pamper favouriies. Now thinks |, we
ihould call that man tory IN Suffolk
County that is, thoie among IS, who
don't know any better.
l had heard fome hints about national
bankruptcy, without exactly und:ritand-
ine them, and l concluded that, perhaps,
it would be as we'll to fell out The United
States itock, for which | had paie a THU
fand dollars at the beginning of he var,
thinking it good fpecuiation. SOD wen.
to the bank where | had fubfcrped ana
paid for it, and told the gentl"nan that
concluded upon the whole ug''e up tnat
ltcck, and take back my sQney. VIVA,
ttock fays he--that With ! iao'erloea
here, you know. Yoa ant 90 fha'' iaio
he. BeGde. your .Douand d0ilars won't won
fe,ch e;obt lunA<Jlow. and doaot whe
49, nv vonld ieven. Why, what is
, ,he' r ra, !, .on't BscauIe fad he
hec,ni. . !, we,'t, aud that's all the latisfacs
,ion / couI get on. OF him. Upon thu:
...n, h.x TO the Exchange Broker and
ia h;n the whole iory. and ne fairly
LAM, in my face. Why faid he, gov
errSent mas no money, and nobody
Lows when they viii have People
axe flock now, as en,erprliing genius
,uy counserfeit money from tnoie who
make tito fpeculase with mot becAnie
/ IS good for any thing. have Gnce
houeh, and pondered great DEAL upon
his nv (tery, and ihouId never, probably,
nave been able 10 find out how X had
thar this iiock had fallen 10
much ii value. If had not net an old
in,creAed in :his buiinsfs
liz myfelf, who faid, that he had been
}, the fortune teller in albany about ii
Who told him, that when Mr.. Madi(on
nd MIR. Munroc, and MIR. Jones, ran
way from Admiral Cochburn's fleet at
Warrington, they forgot, in their fright,
o take the trcaiury along with them,
md 10 the Britiih burnt it all up I; aud
nat was the rcaion they were 10 much
,dr Of credit juit now. But he told me
hey had 60. new man to take care OF
he nca(ury now an Engiihman who
lad made a contrivance to get all the flock
oscther and build bank on it. Our
certificates Of flock, fays he, are on eotton
md linen paper I; but the bank will take
hem all in, and they will ifiue their notes
On fix paper and fix, you kaow, is a
great deal better than cotton and oi
courfe, fix money muit be great deal
better than cotton money. he told mt
further, that he had it from Alderman
Wendovcr, that the reafon why con,inen.
Ial money turned out in the end to BE-
good for nothing, was becauie they had
never thought Of printing il on hlk paper,
But, ! believe, there mutt be fome mil
understanding in this matter I; for, relat.
ing the whole conversation to Alderman
afterwards, he told me, thai
Alderman Wcnaover was the wifstt mar
in the whole corporation, and knew bet.
ter, than TO talk of making "a ELK purf'
out Of the flows ear"
Well, Mr.. Examiner, / don't know
how it is But it ieems to me, that Tome
how or other, things are not going alto
pether right. 10 be fure, l cannot e,
actIy fay where the taulr is in particular
perhaps thai is beoaulr it is svery 7ubeyl
One thing is certain. Things 60 0,
worle and worfc every year. have no
to be iure, liked the federalilts much
bur then think, we are very much il
the condi,i IN of the three Lepcrs .
the gaze of Samaria. If que remain sUber
ws are, we (a,ey muf die and II zve g
to the camp s(tbs 1lyrians. ave can but die
So here goes, for one, tays l.