Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

WILLIAM KING, PUBLICLY Electioneering For himself!

The enemies of the Washington policy, the foes of Commerce, the friends of the embargo and advocates for the continuance of the oppressive embarrassments and restrictions on the Coasting and Foreign Trade of the District of Maine, held a meeting on Monday last, in Topsham, (Lincoln county) for the purpose of aiding the election of the democratic candidates--who, if elected, will exert all their power and influence in support of those anti-commercial measures which for fifteen months past have spread ruin and distress throughout this part of the country. A correspondent has furnished us with the following account of these would-be Senators and Rulers.

"The meeting was in the Court-House, open and public--about 40 federalists were present; and we heard with perfect calmness and serenity, the abuse poured on the federal party by that modest, diffident, and immaculate character, the hon. the Maj. General of the 11th Division. He never appeared more in his element, & laid such emphasis on certain parts of his borrowed oration, which undoubtedly was the work of a much superior hand. The words turbulence, opposition to the laws of the union, and many other such expressions, were perfectly familiar to him. Bonaparte would not have preached in a more imperious and commanding tone to his vassal Senate.

Then comes the secret committee, headed by Joshua Wingate, jun. with their secret report, full of inflammation. This however went down heavily. It was more than even democrats could chew---They were obliged to swallow it in a lump. And it choaked some so, they could not get their hands higher than their mouth.

Then Mr. Ames read his philippic on Mr. Gore, and mounted Mr. Lincoln to the skies; coupling him with those who fought at the side of Washington, of Greene, of Gates, and of Lincoln; note the fraud.

Mr. Ames's stuff was undoubtedly written by Honestus. All the democrats in the district could not make out such a billingsgate performance. It was full of the gall of bitterness, and betrayed the hand of a disappointed, virulent partizan. Proceeding in the style of interrogation, he says, Who did this piece of iniquity? C. Gore and his party. Who did this act of wickedness? C. Gore and his party. Who robbed the people? Skinner! Skinner! Skinner! an involuntary buz---before he could get to the subject of choosing electors.

All this meeting at Topsham originated with King.--was paid for by King, and was solely to subserve the interest and ambition of this overbearing, aristocratic demagogue, who, after we had heard all his obloquy and slang, invited us to retire. He could not bear to hear what we had to say. He could not, he knew he could not bear to hear himself contradicted his arguments refuted, and his calumnies retorted. A realizing sense of this, and the nomination of this honorable man to be Senator, was noticed to make him blush, but his unconquerable impudence soon returned to his aid. The Lord help us, if we are to be under the domination of such a tyrant."