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POETRY.
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From a London Paper.
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IaHAMOUNY is one toe bighf mountain val
ises ^,tb< barony of Faueigny in the Savoy Alps ;
'and exhibits a kind of fairy world, in nvhicb the
mildefl appearances (I bad almost fail horrors) of
nstart ahernate tab the fofteft, and mtf beautiful,
The chain of Mont Blanc is its boundary ; and be
lies tbs Arve, it is filled with founds from the Arvee
ren, which ra/bes from the melted glaciers lire a
giant, mad naitb joy,from a du?< <cn i and forms other
torrents of fcoxu-wat", bating their rife in the
Glaciers, Q" ff e down into the valley. The
bea^f"' gentiana major, or greater gentian, with
lloffoms of the brighter blue, grows in large compa
nies a few flops from the never-melted ice of the Gla
ciers. I thought it an affeaing emblem of the bold
ntf of human hops, venturing near, and, as it were
leaning overtbe brink of the grate Indeed the
whole vale, its very light, its very found, must needs
impress every mind, not utterly callous ,with the
thought — Who would be, who could be, an Athieft
in this valley of venders ! If an, of the readers of
of the Morning Pod have lifted this vale in their
journfes among the Alps lam confident they will
not fad the sentiments and feelings tepreffeJ, or at
tempted to be expreffefir. the following poem,extra
v^t. BSTF3E.
CHAMOUNY;
T«E HOUR BEFORE tUH-RfSE.
A HYMN.
HAST then acharm to stay the morning star
In his steep course ?—So long he seems to pause,
On thy bald awful head, O Chamouny !
The Arve and Arveiron at thy base
Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, dread mountain form,
Rises: from forth thy silent sea of pines,
How silently ! Around thee, and above,
Deep is the sky, and black : transpicious, deep,
An ebon mass ! Methinks thou piereest it
As with a wedge ! Bet when I look again,
It seems thy own calm home, thy crystal shrine,
Thy habitation from eternity.
0 dread and silent form ! I gaz'd upon thee
Till thou, still present to my bodily eye,
Didst vanish from my thought. Entranc'd in pray,
I worshipp'd the Invisible alone.
Yet thou meantime wast working on toy soul,
E'en like some deep enchanting melody,
So sweet, we knew not we were list'ning to it.
But I awake, and with a busier mind,
And active will self-conscious, offer now
Not, as before, involuntary prayer
And passive adoration !—
Hand and voice,
Awake, awake ! and thou, my heart, awake /
Awake, ye rocks ! Ye forest pines, awake /
Green fields, and icy cliffs ! All join my hymn !
And thou, O silent mountain, sore and bare,
O blacker than the darkness, all the night, ,
And visited, all night, by troops of stars,
Or when they climb the sky, or when they sink-
Companion of the morning star at dawn.
Thyself Earth's rosy star, and of the dawn
Co-herdi ! Wake, O wake, and utter praise /
Who sank thy sunless pillars deep in earth :
Who fill'd thy countenance with rosy light ?
Who made thee father of perpetual streams ?
And you, yc five wild torrents, fiercely glad,
f/ho call'd you forth from Night and utter Death ?
From darkness let you loose, and icy dens,
Down those precipitous, black, jagged rockj
Forever shatter'd, and the same forever !
Who gave you your invulnerable life,
Your strength, your speed,your ;fury,and your joy,
Unceasing thunder, and eternal foam ?
And who commanded, and the silence came—
“ Here shall the billows stiffen, and have rest ?"
Ye ice-falls / ye that from your dizzy heights
Adown enormous ravines steeply slope,
Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice,
And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge /
Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts !
Who made you glorious, as the gates of heaven,.
Beneath the keen full Moon ? Who bade the Sun
Clothe you with Rainbows? Who with lovely
flow'rs'
Os living blue spread garlands at your feet ?
Ood ! Gon ? The torrents,like a shout of nations,
Utter ! The ice-plain bursts, and answer, Gon /
God, sing the meadow-streams with gladsome
voice
And pine groves with their soft,and soul-like sound
The silent snow-mass loos'ning, thunders God /
Ye dreadless flowers / that fringe th' eternal frost :
Ye wild goats, bounding by the eagle's nest /
Ye eagles, playmates of Fountain blasts/
Yc lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds /
Ye signs and wonders of the elements,
Utter forth, Goo ! and fill the hills with praise /
And thou, O silent Form alone and bare.
Whom, as I lift again my head bow'd low
In adoration, I again behold,
And to thy summit upward from thy bare
Sweep slowly with dim eyes suffused by tears,
Awake, thou mountain form ! rise, like a cloud /
Rise like a cloud of incense, from the earth /
Thou kingly spirit thorned among rhe hills,
Thou dread ambassador from Earth to Heaven—
Great hierarch, tell thou the silent sky,
And tell the stars, and tell the rising sub,
forthwith her thousand voices calls on God /
ESTESE.
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MEDLE Y—No. 224.
^Use MEN T.'
A —o—
—of students happening one even
ing to meet at an inn, the conversation chanced to
turn upon the inequality with which fortune be
stows ber favours. Each in his turn giving some
recent examples of the inftabtlity of fortune : the
conversation went on with mutual Satisfaction, till
one being desirous to show the purity of his prin
ciples, and with all bis improvement in the faffi
ionable [I had ahroft said abfurd] mode of pro
nanciation obfcrved, that “ the most splendid /br
cLin i, as nothing without virebue.'' This fer a
time put a flop to the conversation. At length
another happening to be a little conceited, and be
ing unwilling to be out done replied, " 1 ever con
fider myfclf the most fo+chinate when 1 find most
opportunities of relieving the unforebunatc. In all
my adveuchures nothing so immejately attracts my
attention, as a fellow creaebur pressed under the
perpetcbual frowns cf misforebin. The gratiebude
of tbofe whom I relieve becomes a Source Afucker
blif, and prejuces a degree of quifebue ever resulting
from vc&iebude of conduct ; and enables me to
bid defiance to the frowns of mieforebin — or if She
frown, enablesine to bear up withfertiebude Al
though the many graebuities may lessen the man's
income, yet babitchual benevolence projucee inebui
troe edeem, which every good man is anxious to
deserve; and which will have a tendency to ma
ebure the latent fe^ds of virebue, which I believe
are planted in every yuman breast. Os what Ser
vice is she most refined literature to a man if it
preface not benevolence, nor teach him to be rar
ebuous ? What if he be able to tell the latitude
and longitude even of the north pole ! What if
he can account for phenomena of nacbure ?
What if we know the feripebure,and understand
all the mysteries of the Jewish ritcbual ? 1 fay,
of what service is all this to man, while his
heart is hard to the poor ? Wbo&w his back
upon distress; and whefe mes- pleating eburne
is the voice of the distressed widow and the cries
of the helpless orphan ! Yes, I repeat it he churns
his back on distress? Can such a man deserve
fmiics of forebin ? Can virtue, fortitude, grats
ebude, or quietude, dwelt with that man who is a
Granger to reßiebude?"
“ Faith," fays cnc, who had been ftenchng
tiptoe ail the while, " our brother has Spoken
an excellent oration,but he has CHE WD it un
mercifully. —
A person giving an account of an entertain
ment to which he had been invited, said, that
“ the dinner was defper ate well cooked, the wine
terrible good, Mr.**** was dreadful polite, and
his daughters were cruel pretty, and abominable
fine.
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* SHOE SCORE. *
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The Ladies and Gentlemen of
Portsmouth and its vicinity, are re
fpedfully informed that
Robert M'Cleary,
HAS taken a Shop in Col. Gains'
house, a few doors weft ofthe Bell
Tavern, Congrefs-ftreet,where he has just
received, and now ready for fale,a hand
some a ffortibaent of La.lies' & Gentlemen's
SHOES:
/imon^ "which arc the following,
English and American Kid
SHOES, some of which are white.
Ladies English and American
Morocco do. some of which are purple.
Gentlemen's firft rate do.
Ladies & Gentlemen's Water
proof SOALS.
Ladies' Cork Soak, feme that
lace; English and American.
Misses Kid, Morocco, and
Lather Shoes. Children's Morocco and
Leather do. Do# English do. Spence do\
Boy's thick do. Men's do. Black and
Fancy Stuff do.
Ladies' Clogs and Mogerfons.
Boots & Boot Legs,
of the belt kind.— ALSO—
I Black, blue and red Morocco.
Wax'd & black grain Calf-fkins.
Hog and Sheep-Skins.
TRUNKS.
A few handlome damped Ma
sonic APRON Patterns.
Alfa a variety of
ROSETTS.
*** Allowance made to those who per.
chafe by wholesale. Falters acknowledged.
20 puncheons RUM
For fate by N. A. & J.HAVEN.
Portsmouth, Feb. 12.
For Sale by
Waldron & Holman
20 Hhds. St Croix RUM.
Frefn Superfine & Fine FLOUR
N. E. RUM. Feb. 11.
RUM&SUGAR
FOR SALE.
Thomas Chadbourn, jr
has a few Puncheons excellent
flavoured ANTIGUA RUM.
Hhds. RetailingSU GAR.
SACT-
A Cargo ofwhiteTurks-Ifland
SALT, suitable for country
ufr, to be fold on board the Schooner
Rambler, just arrived, and new lying at
the Long Wharf. — ALSO—
Said SCHOONER,
J^^FWiA burthened So tons -£„fre
/JOSEPH CHASE,^
No. I on said Wharf.
Waited to buy 400 quintals
Cod and Scale FIsH, and 12,000 Red
Oak Hhd. STAVES, for which cash will
be given. ^February 14.
'TO BE SOLD,
A Small FARM,
CONTAINING fifty^three
acres of land, with good build
ings thereon, faulted in Barrington and
abotx eighteen miles from Portfmoutb,on
the main road leading from Pifcataqaa
Bridge to Coos ; a good fixation for a
tavern, trader or a mechanic ; there is cut
on said Farm a fufficient quantity of hay
to keep a good flock, and tillage & wood
land equivalent. For conditions apply
to Capt. JOSEPH NOBLE of P„rt(
mouth, or THOMAS BALCH of Bar
rington. Feb. it.
"TICKETS QUriK i£k3,
IN the second Class of South-Hadley
CANAL LOTTERY, now drawing,
may be had at C. PEIRCE's Bookstore,
Portfmeuth — The Lottery is much enriched.
^few sets more of the
ENCYCLOPEDIA,
with 2 additional vols. as a Sup
plement, isjuft received and for sale as a
bove. Those volumes are a' complete
Library in ihemfelvea.
>&•»•)•„*•*>»o*&Wfc«+te«Q«l
; ^^ Occajioned by the late dijireffingfire^
f Joseph & Joshua Haven, *
iHave removed to the store lately occupied!
!^yMeffrs,Lang Brierly &'Co. in Court Greet.
1 food nearly opposite the Newbampfoire Unicn+
±Bank; where they have for sale a new and£
* extensive assortment of Fall and Winter]
§ IGOOD'S, wholesale and retail.f
:§ n. b, American made BEAPER HA.TS,&
• and Beverly BED TICK as usual.
r Portfmoutb, January 7, 1803. f
° fo !±!!^±!^*^*±±^±±±
James Henderson,
HAS taken a (hop in the
Dwelling-Houle of Mr.
: Richard Bidings, Congress-street,
• where he is opening a general as
. fortment of English and India
GOODS
Cheap for Cash January 14.
B. Brierley,
HAS taken part of MajorßASs's large
house in Broad-street, a few yards
north weft of the New Hampfliire Union
Bank, where he has for sale,
, A most complete n/fortment of
DRY GOODS,
fuitco to all seasons, which he will fell
low as usual for cash or approved credit,
; by wholesale nr retail.
N. B. Fearing his country friends may
meet with difficulty in finding out the
flore, he begs to acquaint them that
Broad-street is that which runs in a line
with Buck-Preet, to the Portlmouth Pier.
Porifmeuth, fan. 7, 1803.
Jonathan Goddard
HAS taken a Store in North
School Street, near the As-
Lmbly House, where he has for
sale— a general aflwtment cf
Hard Ware Goods,
Iby -Wholesale and Retail.
Portjmnuth, fan. 14, 1803.
Eliphalet Ladd,
PRESENTS his thanks to his
friends who assisted in saving his
Goods in the late conflagration, when be
was unable to assist, and informs the pub
lic that he has taken the eastern part of
Col. Gains' house. whefe he has for sale
Piece GOODS suitable for the
season ; hard and hollow Ware ;
Iron; Steel; Netts; Lines ;
Hooks and Twine ; Painters
Colors ; Weft India Goods and
Groceries, &c. &c.
Said Ladd withes to contract
with a punctual man for the tim
ber, joist, boards and shingles to
re-build his brick houses & stores
recently burnt# Ifhall exhibit
my account if administering the
estate of William Leigh, late of
Portsmouth, deceased, to the
Judge of Probate for the Coun
ty of Rockingham, at the Pro
bate Court to be holden at Ports
mouth on the 3d Wednesday of
February, 1803.
ELIPHALET LADD.
Portjmcuth, fan. 28.
Samuel Boardman,
Has for sale, on Rindge's wharf,
20 Hhds of good Molasses.
10 do. do. RUM.
Tar, Pitch, and Rosin.
Merchantable Boards#
Crockery,Glafs &ChinaWarefore.
Isaac Stanwood,
RefpeHfully informs bis cuftowers and oth
ers that he has taken the Store next that
j /Abner Blafdell's, fa'r, ^Buck-ftreet,
I where he has for sale a good Afforttnent of
Crockery Grats & China Ware,
as cheap as can be found in town.
Jan. 22, 1803.
James L. Giles,
, Tailor,
INforms his friends and cus
tomers that he has taken part
ot Mr.Chriftopherßhymes' house
on Church-hill, where he con
tinues to carry on the
1 aylor's Business,
as usual, in all its variety.
He begs his customers will ac
cept his thanks for past favors,and
!earneftly folifits their continu
ance, particularly at this time.—
They tnay depend on their work
being executed in the neatest man
ner, and with pundluality and
dispatch.
He keeps conflantly on hand a general effort.
ment of tirong ready made
Seamen'sClothi ng very cheap.
Cotton Yarn, &c.
JOSEPH S. GILMAN, agent for
Samuel Slater & Co. North Provi
dence, R. I. has received from their ex
tensive and much celebrated Cotton
Manufactory at Rehoboth, (Mafia.) a
general aflortment of Jingle and two
threaded TARN —which he is felling at
the Manufactory prices. He has also
BED TICKING as above.
(O'Said Oilman having lately eßab
lifhed a Candle ManufaElory in Exeter,
can lupply almost any quantity of Can
dles at the thortell notice and equal in
quality to any made on the Continent.
.His Mould Candles are of pure sweet
tallow, clarified and bleached, and re
quire not ten days age to give them
perfect whitcuefs. He is alio preparing
for the SOAP Business, and gives gen
erous prices for good Ashes, fallow &
Soap Greeie. Exeter, Jan. 1803.
Robert Mendum,
BEING deprived of tris fc riner
fr, on Spring Hill, bv the bre
conflagration, informs his cuft m<rs and
the public in general that he has taken a
shop in Buck-street, opposite the New-
Ham,fllire Hotel, where he continues to
carry on the
Boot arid Shoe Making
business, in all its branches,as usual.
K, Any perlon who may favor him
with their custom may depend on punc
tuality and dispatch, and the fmallett fa
vor acknowledged with oraduide.
N6 Tice.
ALL Perlons who have de
mands against the estate of
Timothy Winn, Trader, deceased,
are requested to exhibit them to
the fubferiber ; and thole who
are indebted to said estate are
called on to make payment to
WILLIAM GARLAND,
one vt ike Executors.
Portsmouth, fan. 28. l^Ofr
TH* fubferiber having been
appointed admindfrator of the es
tate and effeasof Madam
Sarah Catharine Moffatt,
late of Portsmouth, widow, thceafed, re
quells all perlons indebted to said estate
to make immediate Payment, and all
tbofe who have demands are defined to
present their accounts for immediate ad
justment.
N ATH'I A. HAVEN, Administrator
Portfmuth, January 28, 1803.
TAKE NOTICE!
ALL persons who have de
mands against the estate of
WILLIAM M'QUESTON,
latetf Litchfield, Esq. deceased, intestate,
are requested to exhibit the tame for settle
ment, to the fubferiber, adminifiratoi on
said estate—and thole indebted to said es
tate are desired to make immediate pay
ment. DAVID M'QUESTON, Adrfr.
Bedford, far. 6, tßot
ALL Perlons indtuicu to ~,
having demands on the estate of
BENJAMIN LEAR,
late of Portfmouth,Hufoindman, deceas
ed, are requested to exhibit their accounts
for fetibment to
SAMUEL LEAR, Adminifrater.
fyfafa.24, 180 g.
- TO~BE SOLD;
CHAT valuable and finely
1 situated house & barn w#h a Urge
garden, which Daniel HumphryJiAq. now
lives in, lot about 80 feet So.
Listwife,
That valuable Farm with a
large house and barn, with 120 acres of
land, formerly the estate of the late Dan
iel Sherburne, deceased, at Longlane,aboui
five miles from the state house.
And one sixth part of the Farm
with one fix h part ofthe house & barns,
and out- houses late the estate of the Hon.
Henry Sherburne, Esq. deceased, at Long
'a"e;
And the westerly half of the
house, (with about eight sett land at the
weft end) in the north part of this town,
formerly the estate of Nathan Ntckols,with
sundry house lots of lan§ in laid town.
And one valuable Farm in Lee,
about five mites fem Durham
landing, about 250 acres with a
new house and barn ; near one
thousand dollars worth white oak
timber and wood on laid farm ;
this farm joins Wheelwright bond
in said Lee. —For conditions call
on the printers.
Portsmouth, January 28. ~
= LOST !
In the confaJion attending the latefire
A coil weighing about 9 pound
STEEL WIRE. Any who
hold it shall be well rewarded by leaving
it with the Printers,as it is of much great
er value to the owner than it can possibly
be to any other perlon. Feb. 14.
FLOUR for /ate,
Fresh Superfine and Common,
on board sloop Hero, from Phi
ladelphia, at Portsmouth Pier.
NOTICE!
To be Sold at Auflicn, %
On Wednesday, 23d&b. 1803,
at 12 o'clock on RindgX Wharf,
TTHE Schooner*' 1
I SWALLGW, 1
as (he came from sea, about 1
28 tons. —and the schooner JACK, as flic -
now lies at Noble's Island. Asa about|
80 boxes and kegs of HERRING, withl
sundry other articles, which were to have l
been fold sth January, but postponed on 1 ]
account of the fire.
§t. Inventory to befan at time and place of A
tale; and terms of payment made known.
A LEX'r EWEN, Aucir. '
To the h^i. the Judices cf the Sn- 1
period Court if Judicature, to be holden at AJ
Hopkinton in and/or ike County of Hillfi
borough on thefcft l uefday of May, Anno
Domini, 1802. y
TAMAR GRANT, of Weare, inl
laid County, libels and 'giv<s said '1
court to umiertlauo that on the thirteenthl
day of Jure. Ann Domini 1793, filel
was married to LaAC Grant, late of
said Weare, blacksmith, and that fbe has 1
ever since performed JI tie duties on her AU
incumbent as a wife ; th a since her said 1,
marriage die huh had and ATI has three|
cliidren ; and Ihat said Grant has in
violation of his marrriage vows, with-1
drawn himfeif into parts unknown, and J
ever since the tenth day of February An- ,1
no D mini, 1,99, hath been abfe.it from
your libellant, and left her without relief'
a one <0 Support Gid children ; and that
he is fully .Able to contribute towards her < 1
said cbidren's support and maintenance,l
but wilfully and inhumanly withholds
that aid which he byway of tie of na-j
lure and humanity is bound to lend, and
there is no probability of his returning tol
his family and duty ;.and said Isaac Giant 1
furthermore bas been guilty of adulteryl
with other women since said marriage;l
laid Tamar, therefore, being oppreffedl
with poverty,and under those rtHiaive 1
citcumOaucts prays th^t the b nets of ~1
matrimony between her and said Gran
be decreed null and void, abd as in duty
bound will pray.
TAMAR GRANT. 4 <
Aptil loth, 1802.
Hillsborough fs. l
Superior Court, Off. Term, 1802.
ORDERED by the Court, 1
that the petitioner notify the said 1/aac J
Grant to appear before the justices of thel
Superior Court of Judicature, to be hold
en at Hopkinton, within and for the
County of Hillfborough, on the Erf?
Tuefday of May next, to fliew cause, if
any he have, why the prayer of fiid pe
tition should not be granted, by causing
said petition and order of court thereon
to be published three weeks fucceffively'
in the United Stales Oracle, the latt pub
lication whereof to be fix weeks before
said term. *
Afteft NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk.
Copy examined bv 1
NATH'I ADAMS, Clerk
Portsmouth. Jan. 28.;
NOTICE is hereby given that ■
the fubferiber has been duly ap. I
pointed administrator on rhe estate of q
HENRY TILTON,
late of Newmarket, Esq. deceased ; andl
taken upon himfelf that trust by giving |
bonds as the law direds. All persons 4
having demands against said estate are re-'
quired to exffibit the fame ; and those in
debted, are called upon to make imme
diate payment to JOHN SHUTE, jr.'
Administrator.
Newmarket, fan. 24, 1803.
THIS is to give notice to all e
persons whom it may concern, that
the fubferiber in right of his wife, who is
sole Executrix ofthe lafi Will and Tefta.
ment of SAMUEL WEARE, late of •
Hampton falls, in the county of Rock
ingbam,&Stateof Newhampfhire,efquire,
deceased, shall at the next Probate Court
to be holden ar Exeter, io said county, on
the Monday previous to the third Wed
neffiay of February next, offer the said
Will to be proved and approved in said
Probate Court, when and where all per
sons concerned, may then and there ap
pear and fliew cause, if any they have,
why said will should not be proved.
PETER RUSSELL.
Bradford, 20th January, 1803.
' 70 -BELET, '
■A Convenient
two story
HOUSE, I
at the fouth end
suitable forone
family for particulars enquire of
LUKE M. LEIGHTON.
50,000MerchantableB0AkDS,
FOR SALE BY ^
Thomas Chadbourn, jr.
Portsmouth, Feb. 4.
jusT Published, \
And for sale at
William & Daniel Treadwell',
Stationary Shop,^
The Rev. Mr. Buckminster's
SERMON, occasioned by the late deso
lating Fire —delivered the Lore's Day 1
succeeding that melancholy event.
"In ONE HOUR IS SO GREAT RICHES
COME TO NOUGHT."