Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1817-06-17
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Tuesday, June IL, 1917.

corted by civil and military officers 10 the
battery, and after reviewing the troops which
were paraded there for that purpose. was es-
corted by several regiments 10 the City Hall.
He was then conducted to the audience cham
Der of the hall, where he was waited on by the
Governor Of The State, the Mayor Of the city,
and many other gentlemen of distinction, when
he was presented by the Mayor with an Ad-
dress to which be returned suitable reply
He isexpected in Boston in the course of six
or eight days. Should this be the case he will
not reach this place till about the 4th of July.
The General Court Of this Commonwealth
IS expected TO have arecess this day or tomor-
row.
An arrival from Pernambuco, brings intel
gence from that country as late as the 18th of
April. BY the accounts which she furnishes,
The revolutionary cause in the Portuguese do
mlnions did not look so promising as at first
imagined would be the case. Several armed
ships had blockaded the coast, and were said
to be manned with body of volunteers. A
merlcan vessels were ordered to leave the
place in "a hours: and after being detained
awhile by the Patriot government, were per-
mitted TO depart.
The accounts from South America, from
time TO time, seem to be involved in great I'M
certainty, and it is extremely difficult to know
what to believe, or TO expect. AT one time,
we have news of great and decisive victory
gained by the revolutonists, and it would seem
as il the independence of the country was at
hand. The very next news, perhaps the sto-
ry is either contradicted, explained away in
great degree, or, perhaps, matched by roy
al triumph over the nsurgent troops, and eve
ry thing appears dark and gloomy around
them.
We presume the contest is feebly conducted
on both sides, neither the physical, moral, nor
intellectual force, engaged, being great on eth
er side. 1.-THE Portuguese government Should
bring any considerable body of their discipln-
ed troops from Europe, under the command
of officers formed g an The gar Of the PENN
sula." and above all, if she should obtain any
important assistance from her old ally, Great
Britain, We think the republicans of Pernam-
buco will have hard struggle to establish
themselves as free and independent people.
TN. Y. .1dvertizer.
The Treaty commissioners have salaries of
4444 dollars, and the Agents salaries of
5000.
John Rose, late clerk in the post-office, at
Fredericksburgh, Va. has been tried and con-
victed of robbing the mail.
Flour is falling (says the Richmond En-
quirer in consequence of the state of the
market in England-Superfne FLOUR sells,
say, for s 10 rs.
The editors of the Connecticut Courant,
Geo. Goodwin & sons, of Hartford, say they
have not purchased the copy right Of Mr..
Webster's spelling book, and have no interest
in it.
A daring attempt has been made to rob The
Newburyport Bank. They succeeded in get
Ting into the Bank, and made off undscoyered.
without obtaining any booty. They did not
attempt to break open the vault
On the same evening, the shop of Mr.. Abel
Mouton, goldsmith, in Merrimack Street,
was entered by false key, and several arti-
cles OF Jewelry stolen TO large amount.
Notwithstanding the alarming accounts of the
ravaSes ofthe Hessan Fly in the South the price
ofhour has been gradually falling for several
weeks and the southern papers now begin to an
ticipate very abundant crops of wheat.-We sus-
pect that IN every part of the country the danger
Of the destruction of the crops has been very much
magni6ed " in the telling.r-N Y. pap.
le late genial rains Gays the fredericksburg
Herald) have revived the dropping spirits of the
farmers. We are happy in being able to state, that
with very few exceptions, the crops in The neigh
borhood promise TO yield plentiful increase. Ii
the remainder Of the season be propitious, many