Gazette Of The United States

PORTLAND, (District Maine.)

At a meeting of the merchants and others, in the town of North Yarmouth, Casco Bay, the 19th day of August, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:

1. THAT peace and tranquility are blessings which ought to be considered at all times in the highest estimation, and that the preservation of them is essential to our present happiness, and the prosperity of our country.

2. That especially when so many powers are at war with each other, we, who can go free and unmolested to different ports, as heretofore, when the same powers were at peace with each other, must undoubtedly partake of advantages peculiar to our happy situation; and that therefore it is our interest by all means to avoid any interference whatever that may be construed by any of the belligerent powers as a departure from that neutrality already declared.

3. That we highly approve the late Proclamation of the President of the United States; and being sensible of our present happy establishment, we will do all in our power as good citizens, with integrity and uprightness, to support the objects of his recommendation, and thereby promote the benefits we enjoy, and the general prosperity of our country; and that we will discountenance whatever may be considered as deviating from the right et line of neutrality, should any steps of that sort be discovered by us, in any of our fellow-citizens.

Voted, that these proceedings be printed in the Portland papers; and that a copy be transmitted to the Hon. Thomas Cutler, Esq. to shew our hearty concurrence with our fellow-citizens of the town of Boston; and that the chairman sign it.

WILLIAM MARTIN, Chairman.