Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

From the Boston Gazette.

Although there may happen times when necessity urges us to exert every power we possess, to accomplish what we deem most conducive to private interest or public utility: yet that time can never arrive when truth ought to be sacrificed to gain a private or public advantage.—Although I am a Republican, I cannot doubt but that you will bear honorable testimony even against the falsehoods that may originate in the party feelings of federalism.

Rumour with a trumpet tongue, has reported that a new appointed Sheriff, in his maiden account of services, brought forward to the Court a bill wherein he charged fourteen dollars for the half of a cord of wood for the supply of a small stove, and urged its correctness, as his servant cut the wood and attended Court and kindled the fires. And it is further said that in the same account he charged the services of a Mr. John Brown at fourteen dollars more, who was the same black servant who attended to cut the wood, &c.

Now, sir, this cannot be true. Is it possible that a gentleman who has been at Washington, a great man, a member of Congress, who has seen Mr. Jefferson’s pedometer, and bowed to the lady of the great Madison, a man who swore last spring he would be counsellor; I say, is it possible to suppose such a man should be guilty of such meanness, for the paltry sum of twenty one dollars more than he deserved? Such reports should be spurned at, let them come from what quarter they may, although originated in the