Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1817-04-08

vatc foCicty. 10 III pubic, CERTAIN Deco
rum is necefary. Is your PreGdent's
houfc to be like tavern or market,
free to every one, becaufe you bull, and
furnifhed il I II 70. you had b:tter 60
farther, and hx the price ~ the ice creams
and refreshments we get there, and give
to the hotels faIary for her attendance,
if any faIary would compenfaie her for
fuch infinite trouble A republican can
be. and ought TO be, as polite and pollih
cd as a royalia. II is miifaken idea,
that rudenels and 0ovenly habits are ne
cedary TO the prefervaiion OF our RePub
IiczB Inftitutions. Good manners are
eaential to our good being, and cleanliness
is nearly allied virtue"
QUEBEC. MARCH IS.
Extraordinary. "A prodigious Filth
(ome days Ence run fhore. near the riv
or Ouslle, in the County of Corvallis
Its dlmentions are faid TO be enormous,
of which fome idea may be formed from
its protuding and breaking whole fields
of ice (of extraordinary thickness at thi;
feafon of the year) IN It's career. 1t has
drawn the admiration of hundreds in this
diltrid, and it is faid great portion of
the inhabitants are employed in cutting
the buober into iuncks to be reduced into
oil, of which it will afford fome thou
lands of barrels, and will yield very
handfome fun TO the provincial revenues
as drafts aud TO the Seigneur of the parllh,
who flares with the crown in the profits
ariGpg from filh of this description. The
fkrleton is to be carefully preferred for
the mufeum.
Extraa s a Letter to a Mercantile HOuts
in Ne1U York, dated .9uebsck, March 20
Our Legislature intended to lay an
Embargo to prevent the export of wheat
but finding there would be furplus OF
about Iss,oco bufhels, abandoned rhe
idea. ihere will be, if there is dc
mand, about go. 600 barrels of -four for
exploration, be6des what the Upper
Province will fupply. The price appear:
TO have broke at ID II, as. ieveral con
tracts have been made deliverable on the
opening of the navigation and that b,
government of 10000 bbls was taken a
D.I2 so.
II being proved, on trial IN London
that mans name was really Inch (whe
pretended twas Linch,) fee, lays one
of the Judges, the old proverb is veti
fed in this man-who, being allowed al
Inch has taken an l..
A Dublin Medical Practitioner fates
that he has fecn the (ymptoms of Hydro.
phobia checked by the application Of the
tourniquet. - A girl was bitten in the foot
and this disease lupervened DR. Stokes
applied a tournequet to her thigh and the
fympsons inltantly fubGdtd
EP6i90pbical Magazine.
Dygracefm. TO fhew the extent to
which privateerlng under the Patriot Flag
of South America has been carried with
IMMUNITY by the citizens of the u. States !,
two privateers under The Buenos Ayres
flag have arrived at Norfolk, and iauted
the Fort, 1Ubicb was returned One of
thefe veiiels is brig, the other fchoo
ner, they were both 6tred OUT at Balti
more, and have brought in the profits Of
their cruife.
The crew of the Brig conGits of rso
Engliih and Americans, nothing but
Enghih is fpoken on board and there
are not three Spaniards among the crew
report prevails tina, the Spanilh gov
eminent have coded Buenos to that
of the Portuguese it appears the latter
power, has prohibited the expectation of
Salt from Is territories, In consequence of
having the right conferred upon 1t. Of
fuppIying the Spaniih maine with that
article.
The London papers obfsrve that in
coniequenee OF the great publiek atten
ton which has been called to the Gueifion
OF parliamentary reform, the Britifh
niniltry intend to annihilate the power
of iome OF the rotten Boroughs to fend
members and transfer it TO Glafgow,
Manehelter, Birmingham or fome other