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{Claiming it with a loud voice, with little or no
reflation. On the 13th day, at times he was
studied with spasms and extreme tremblings,
which would cause the bed to shake under him.
The 14th 15th & 16th days, he continued howl
ing, snapping his teeth at 'the corners, of his pil
low,biting the bed clothes, gaping and curling
up his tongue, and making many other canine
gestures. During a?l the fix days he slept not
one minute, nor could r$ grains of crude
laudanum, with other liquid preparations of
laudanum, in, large quantities, given each day,
cause the leaf, appearance of drowsiness upon
his eyes till the latter part of the 16th day of
July inflant, when his voice and strength be
gan to fall, and about seven o'clock in the
evening he began to drowse a little, and be
, fore eight he died, in the 4 %d year of his age.
He has Icftav^Flndh^c^^
' WILMINGTON, AUG. 2.
Last WW^, came up to this town, the fi
Liberty, Copt:Mater, of this fert, in 9 weeksfrom
Londonderry, with ^boffengert, or upwards.—
m there were many children,two of whom counted
byt ore fcfoger. it ufuppofed there were, infudirg
th flip, crew, ^c. about SCO fouls on board; all in
^ecg be^hb, W — =+-=*
him, on which the dog fiiapped, and made with
his tooth in an old fear on the back of hi§ hand,
a flight wound which caused him to fufpe& that
the dog was mad, which soon proved to be the
fad, by the fame dog, on the next day, biting a
heifer, and attempting to bite a yoke of oxen,
but was prevented by the vigilance of a perlon
„ Handing by. , "the dog was then killed, and a
bout fifteen days after the heifer run mad, and
died ; the wound on Mr. Felton's hand, which
observed that after his lying and resting but a
short time, he would rife, mon, t his horse, and
steadily proceed on his business; at other times,
when riding out to a neighbour's house, and had
come within fix or eight rods of the door,
a,i impreffion* would suddenly seize on his
mind (though perfectly to all appearance sen
sible) that he could-not ride one step fur
ther, but muff dismount from his horse, and
and travel into the house upon all fours, which
he would do ; and after letting and convers
ing about the business which he went upon,
he would mount his horse again, and ride
home; at other times, when setting in com
pany, tranquil in mind to appearance, at home
or abroad, he would suddenly cry out with
a terrible loud and irregular voice, as if he
was seized with piercing pain ; on aiking
him the. reason, he would fay, I can't help
it. Are you in pain ? No, but I can't help
it. For some months pall he has been troubled
with weakness and great pain in his hips and
lower extremities, which rendered him una
ble to walk. The foregoing are some of the
strange and uncommon symptoms which have
attended Mr. Fcltpn for almost two years
past ; and upon the iith day of July last
he became delirious, fancying himfelf posses
sor of great riches, and owner of the whole
earth, that 'be angels in Heaven and all crea
tures were fubje& to him. On the 12th day
he continued much on the fame fubjta, pro-
Ttecoomlon enquiry is, what have you heard
from our envoys ?—Days, weeks and months
hurry on to the goal of oblivion, and the only
answer we are able to give, is, tlut rip official
accounts of what they have been about have
been received from them. Rumour, always «fy,
and Conj&re always partial to its wishes ;
. load every breeze with tales of profe&s of the
speedy accomplishments of the object of their
mission , and Report has even been desperate e
nough to affeety that the Secretary of State had
received difpnehes; but we learn, that none
T had reached the President four days Since.—
Were we to give an opinion, it would be, that
many morc'days, and weeks, and even months,
will in all probability be added tothofe already
past, before any thing definitive will be conclud
ed; notwithstanding we have not the lead
: doubts our Envoys wjll chert every effort to
bring the negotiation to an iffue—Tallyrind
has.praaifed the " hfoleftte of cfi„e''—ht also
knows how to pra&ice" & la 7 J 3 delay."
, Mad Dog.
Onor about the 18th day of Mak „$,, Asa
Alton,of Danvers, a person of a plethoric ha
bit and fanguioe complexion, as he was walking
Vvith his old dog trotting by his file, attempted
fl[by holding out his hand as ufu^l) to play with
yielded but little blood, without any surgical
application soon healed, and for above five years
after he continued in general good health,labors
cd hard, eat & drank heartily, made no appli
cation to any physician for medicine nor advice ;
though during the above term he frequently
desired his wife if he Should be seized with ill
ness, to have him immediately Confined ; by
which it appears, that he was apprehensive of
funding the fad confcquence of the bite in
fame future time: and he was invariably un
well every year after the bite, at tile time he
was bitten ; and in the Curie of the five years
abovefaid, he at timeswould appear very fro
ward, peevish and passionate, more than be
used before to be; and for above a year past,
he had fuffered greatly with inquietude of
mind by night and day, fiept but little, troub
led with frightful dreams, as that he was fall
ing into deep water, into his well, &c, &c.
In the night he often complained of great
thirst, and of a burning pain in the back of his
hand; and at times he has fuffered grievous
mental derangement ; would often tell that he
had seen the Devil, and that he should come to
want, and made several attempts of silicide, once
by throwing himfelf out of the scuttle of his
house, and falling nearly thirty feet upon hard
trodden ground, by which fall his collar bone
only was broke, and he for a little time Punn
ed, though he never after would own that he
had any knowledge of his going out at the scut
tle, or falling from it ; some times he has been
found lying on the ground by the fide of his
horse ; at such times he 9ould complain of gid
diness in his head, which caused him to dis
mount and lie down ; this some people would
attribute to intoxication, but it has been often
BOSTON, AUGUST TJ.
The flip Providence, Adams, of Providence,
has arrived at New-York from Barcelona. By
.this veflfel feme information from Cette, of the
date of June fab, has been received, Rating that
the American ctromiffioners at Paris had doled
the business of nheir mission with the deputies
of the French flation, and, waited only the as
sent of the Chief Consul, who was then abfept
from Paris. Aid we (hall fay on this para
graph is that nd intelligence like ft, had been
received in London, on the 24th June; and
that the absence of the Chief Coriful would not
retard the tranfi niffion of the result hf the ne
gotiation to the Psefident of the United States,
whose assent is ^s necessary as that of Buona
parte's.
I A London paper of June at.fays, upwards of
50 vessels have failed from White haven for A
merfca, thirged to bring cargoes of Flour and
Rice from thenteto this country.
Account of the flrange effefls of a bile by a
TbefoMcrurin^ bay tie* omitted for two weds fall to
give place to more important Concerns.
110-TON, ACCOST ~
ABOUT “ our Errors:'
Now, fellow-citizens, be not deceiv
ed ; the Jacobins would never be at
this great expense, did they not exped,
or now receive, fourfold the amount
of their expenditures ; therefore be en
treated, ye hoheft FEDERAL RE
PUBLICANS, to guard against the
Impending dorm, that blackens the po
litical horizon of your Country, be not
deceived by the bare faced lies that
Croud every column of the Jacobin de
famatory news papers ; they are a dead
ly poison driving to accomplish a revo
lution in America, and finally lay us
under French contributions, to defray
the expenses of their Jacobin presses, a
bolish a)l religious and moral obliga
tions, &c. When this is effeded, then
will the glorious time arrive, that the
name of America shall be known in the
world, only as a.bye.<word and a depend
ent beast of burthen to a licentious French
man. Genet may then, with impunity,
threaten an appeal from the Govern
ment to the people of the U. States ;
secure in his own villainy, and the folly
of Americans, in not guarding against
the infiduous wiles, played off on A
merica, ever since the commencement
of the French revolution, by the trait
erous aid of our own vulture; and wolves,
in the garb of patriots, or friends to
the people.
I repeat it, my fellow-citizens, with
anxious concern for our happy govern
ment ; that you will not be duped ; —
for as the devil goes to and fro seeking
whom be may devour, so are his Col
leagues, the Jacobins, running with equal
industry. Be on ypur guard the ap
proaching election, the 25th infant, and
cast a voje for no one, but
The Hon. ABTEL FOSTER,
JOSEPH PEIRCE,
SAMUEL TENNEY
And GEORGE B. UPHAM, Efqr's,
and all other lifts of candidates, which
may be offered you, rejed as from a
Jacobin source ; spurn the man, who
will consent to have his name used as a
handle in a Jacobin v&icle.
AN AMERICAN,
Treer, the most heavily laden with she rich
est fruit, are sure to attrad the stones of the
boys.—No wonder then, that such men as'
Pickering, Hamilton, Wolcott, and others, are
so often pelted by the white and fad boys of
Europe and the United States.
A great; part of the abuse of the administra
tors of the Federal Government,, issues from:
jail-birds—From Cooper, through the fewer of
the Aurora ; and from Callender, who dates his
productions from “ Richmond goal." Such fel
lows, thus situated, it is true, have a prefctiptive
right to rail at government :
" For all goes wrong, in Cburcb and State,
The French 'have demanded the following
contributions in Suabia :—From the Landgrave
of Fuftenburgh 50,000 florins; from the town of
Ueberlingen, 30,000 —Memingen, 60,000 —
Biberach, 45 ,000— Buchorn, 30.000 . • Ravenf
bfrgt 30,000 : Plullendorf, 20.000: Salman
wicl, 100,000 . •St. Blaife, 200,000 —the Ab
bey of Buchau, 50,000 —Althaufen, 50,000 —
Schuffenried, 25,000 —Abbey of Werffenau
25,000 —Wangen, 50,000.
It is to be,feared that the next contribution
will come out for 50,000,000 dollars upon the
United States of America; and as the French
have so many more admirers of her Politics
in America, than America has hcrfelf, a most
cordial payment of the contributions is antici
pated ~
The American Citizens are indebted solely
to the wildoro and vigilance of it^ Executive
that a French contribution has thus long been
warded off
" Seen through perJpeaive of tbe gate."
But the public ought to know the sources from
whence the abuse proceeds, that they may esti
mate it accordingly.
SATURDAT^UGUfT 16, 1800.
For the United States Oracle of the Day.
Mr. PEIRCE,
A Few years pad, when it was af
cejtained that Benjamin Bache's
Aurora office, received three thousand
dollars from France, for publishing li
bels on our Government, and uling its
utmost endeavors to bring it into disre
pute, and letting the people against it,
by falfe and malevolent representations
of the measures of Corigrefs. I fay Mr.
Peirce, when this faftwas ascertained
that mercenary Bache was a penfoner,
or rather a French hireling traitor, it
flopped tht mouths of our exclusive
patriots,4/to modern Jacobim. Fo; a
Short time We heard nothing, of Britifo,
gold, ,',foitid of interejl" and the like ri
diculous fumes of folly, but the Demo s
begin to harp the old tune again of
Brrtilh influence.
Now if it had been an eftablilhed fad,
that the British were as aftive in lap
porting pieces in America, as the
French, or had ever Contributed a cent
for filch vile purposes, then the Jacobins
might, with truth, retort, and cry, Bri
tifo Gold! but as the contrary appears ;
I will aik if it is not as probable, that
every Jacobin, prostituted, seditious ve
hicle in America, receives the benefit of
the heavy contributions, that are con
stantly exacted by the French from eve
ry place that falls into their power ? If
this was not the case, why do tne Jaco
bin: purchase printing types and presses,
and edit news-papers, form themselves
into societies. choose treasurers, whose
duty is to defray the expenses of Inch
offices, pay rents, and all other charg
es? I fay, would this be ..done, if the
fame rules were not observed towards
Jacobin offices throughout the U. States
as there is towards the Aurora office?
sott(moutb
Further French Contributions.
whofag^r and bled for his Country,
Tn one of our Parts papers ire sod the following,
account. “ reGerda, tie easier of one of the prin
cipal banking boufes in this city Jbot himfelf on account
of an error of 2g thousand francs which appeared
in bis accounts. Tbe oftener be examined them, the
more tee'fed be became, andlbe left able was be to
discover whence the error arose. After bis deatb. the
bankers with wbofe affairs he was entrufled. bad
them fettled, and found them perfeEll, in order." —
Such uncommon sensibility for tbe charaßer of bon
efly merited a better fate.
Lately at Norfolk, tbe Ceatber was so extreme
ly bot, that a negro drayman refused to cart feme
wood for a gentleman, unless be would agree to lend
bim an umbrella.
i'eirce's Oracle's Marine Journal.
PORTSMOUTH, ACCOST 16.
Put into this §ort on Wednesday Taft, the
armed brig Hibernia, from N p w-York bound to
Rollon, the wind being against them, could not
fct°hinto Boston harbour.
'SHOCKING?
AUGUSTA,(Gear.) JUN? ST:
DIED] — On Monday morning tbe 16tb infl.
John Hammond, Esq. at bis boufein Falmoutb,
a g e d $T years —j^l, lamented b, bis numerous fam
ily and friends. Tbe deatb of this unfortunate
gentleman eras preceded and attended with circum
fances almost too distressing to relate On tbe night
of tbe 24th April last, a new boufe which be lately
Built at a small dfance from Campbelten. and into
wbicb bejbortl, after intended moving with bis fa
mily, during tbe approaching inclement fcafon, was
malicious, burnt to ajbes. He commenced a pro
secution against federal persons, who were charged
with having done it on very Jirang grounds. Three
of them were sent to goal, one of whom was soon af
terwards very incautiously bailed. On tbe 21flof
last month be was foot in bis own yard, about eight
o'clock in tbe evening, as be was going from tbe
boufe be lived in, to tbe one in which be fact,from
over tbe fence. The till in, in order to make fore
work, bad loaded tbe gun with four ballets and up
wards often buck foot. He bad deliberately set Ufa
barrel and two blocks on it, within x 6 or I, yards
from tbe boufe be was going in at when be was
foot.
Tbe premeditated malice and savage cruelty with
which it was done, exceed any thing of tbe kind ever
perpetrated in this part of tbe country. He receiv
ed fix wounds in different parts of bis body ; tbe fa
tal one went through bis left Jboulder. From the
time be was foot till bis deatb, be languijbed in tbe
most ex^rutiaiing agony, bearing with heroic forti
tude not only tbe fevers fangs of bis wounds, but tbe
corroding sense of tbe cruel injury be bad received at
tbe band of abase afaffn.
DIED] — At Demcrara, after apart illness, 7bo's
Greene, aged 34, of Boflon
— Trinidad,' Hon. Charles John Warner, Esq.
of tbe Ifand of Bequia, and one of tbe council of St.
Vincent--
— Cbarlefton, Wm. M'Courtney, aged 14 ;—
^ames AJtew, Sikverfmitb
— Hopkinton, N. H, Samuel Walker, aged 44
— Bepp rel oro', Daniel Page, aged fyO
SAMUEL BROOKS, Esq. is re
eleAed Register of Deeds for the Coun
ty of Rockingham, by a majority of 18
Votes ! !!!
If the foregoing toasts excite shame
and indignation in the American breast,
the following, drunk at Washington
arid published in the Aurora, is equally
calculated to produce the fame effect.
" Judge Bee ; May his exaltation be
equal to that of Jonathan Robbins."
Is it not reasonable to suppose, that
men who avow such a feritiment, would,
had they power, realize their wish ! Is
it not reasonable to believe that the
spirit which dictated it, is that fame
jacobinic fury, which has deluged
France in the blood of its citizens. A
mericans ! Open your eyes to the views
and wishes of these enemies of your
happiness, look at the conduct and pub
lic avowals of these men. “ Think on
these things." [N.Jdfo Gaz.]
The crops of wheat to the weAw&rd and
Northward arc exuberantly abundant.
OLIVER PEABODY, Esq. re
elected County Treasurer.
At an entertainment of gentle
men and ladies at Jefferfon's Vil
lage, in the eastern part of this state,
fays the Newark Ceatinel, the follow
ing toad was drunk ; “9. The officers
and foldicrs of the fate difbtnded ar
my-may the gratuity of three m onths
undeserved pay be considered by them
as full compensation for their arduous
^ ru 3b! e wich ^ e an d fleas at Green-
Brook." A toad disgraceful to decen
cy of manners and purity of morals.
It is said 'to have been drunk not only
by males, but reader ! will you believe
it ?—By females ! Where is the Ame
rican who does not blulh >
At Schraalenburgh, the Indents of
D ; vinity and of Phy 'ic, toasted, among
other things, “ Thomas Jefferfon and
the Aurora." That any American
Should toad theft, is lamentable ; but
that Students of Divinity should mark
with public approbation a man who
has openly declared that he confiders
it of no difference in society whether a
man be an atheist, or a believer in
twenty gods, and a newspaper devoted
to the cause of infidel France, and is
suing from the fame press with Paine's
Age of Reason, and many of the anti
chriftian writings of the present day, is
enough to .chill with horror the blood
of a considerate man and a Chriftiam
a The spirit, the manner, and the 0-
pinions of the people may often be col
lected, with considerable precision from
the toasts drunk by them at public fef
tivals. These are generally prepared
previously to the occasion, with some
degree of deliberation, and therefore,
cannot claim that apology to which
they might he entitled, were , they pro
duced, without consideration on the
Spur of tne moment, during the enter
tainment. In this view, some of the
toads drunk, on the late festival, by the
felf-ftyled " Republicans," defetve to
be remarked- •Co examine all which
have been published, to expose their er
rors and improprieties. Would be a te
dious, nauseating and useless talk.
Extraordinary Honesty.
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' lard, of AJbburnbam, to mifo Tile Oaks, of Cobafo.
At B^lm, Levi Goodrieb, to mifi Matilda Bel
lowe
— In this town Mr. fohn Marlhall, jr. to
Mils Mary Trundy Tredick.
FOR SALE on board _the sch.
Betsey, George P. Frost, M&r,
'King at the Long Wharf, a quantity of
Alexandria Superfine, and fine
FLOUR.
Terms may be 4;nown by a,plying
to the Mafleron board. August 16.
tTrraßnmnßmttßß^ Atm tai
THE Subicriber begs
A. leave to inform the public, and his
friends in particular, that he has opened a
BROKER'S OFFICE,
in Market street, Portsmouth, and offers
his service in felling or purchasing on
commiffioß, all kinds of Merchandize,
Bills of Exchange, VefTels, Houses and,
Lands, &c. &c. &c.
He hkewife has a licence as an Auc
tioneer, and will receive Merchandize or
any of the above articles for public file ;
and promises that those gentlemen who
imay be pleased to favor him with any
articles for file, that his belt endeavors
(hall not be wanting to compleat tbe fame
with fidelity and dtfpatch, and the (mail
est favor (hall be duly attended to, by the
public's most obedient humble servant,
Alexander Ewen.
Convenient Stores will be al
ways ready to fore any quantity of goods,
&c. and every attention paid to all pro.
perty that may be committed to his care.
HE has now on hand, for file, a qu nti
ty of MUSLINS & CALICOES; an
Invoice of Fall GOODS, confiding of
Coatings, Blankets, and Hofery,
with sundry other articles.
A quantity fecund-hand RIG
GING; and a second-hand CHAISE
with haroefs,—F< (ale as above
N. B. All Letters directed to him in
the line of his business, (post paid).will
be duly attended to.
rortfrowh, &Q i§, :800.
A noJkea^ Lottery prizes.
CT The Editor of the Oracle receiv
ed last evening a lift of Prizes in the
Amofkeag Canal Lottery ; and the zd
person that applied to fee the lift, had
Nos. 2301, 2,3, 4, and 5, the 2303
was a prize of ONE THOUSAND
DOLLARS, and all the others were
prizes but one. This is encour
agement for others to come and pur
chase in the Philanthropic Lottery,
which positively commences drawing
the zßih init. Tickets and quarters
may be had in said Lottery at the
Booktlore of the Printer hereof.
A Jebacco BOA I', 16
Tons burthen, ahnoft new and complete.
'Y rig^ ed and fit for a filling voyage, —
She may be viewed any tim: previous
L^-'L'E"^"''"^/''
FRESH FLOUR.
Ar Public Auaion,
on MONDAY, September 8,
1800, at 3 o'clock, P. M. will be SOLD
at the South Meeting.Houfe,
Four new commodious PEWS
in the bioad A IF.
Porf/m -^h. Aura, r< tßoo -
THIS DAY,
CT 1L & B£ SOLD at Public
VV AUCTION, precisely a> Thrre
o'clock, ill the afternoon, at Mr. Jeffrey's
Wharf, Spring.hill, P lymouth,
g,73e REFORMER No. 6, in ear tert
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FOR PUBLISHING, BY SUBSCRIPTION,
An original, intneftin^, and entertaining
work, to be intitled
THE Spirit 'of the
FARMERS' MUSEUM, and
LAY PREACHER'S GAZETTE.
Being a judicious fcleainn of the tug live
and valuable productions, which have
occasionally appeared in that paper, since
the commencement of its establishment.
Confining of American biography, the
choicest efforts of the American muse,
pieert of chaste humour, the easy eflays
of rhe Hermit, the most valuable part of
the weekly summaries, nuts, epigram $,
and epitaphs, f mn-ts, rriricdm,& &c.
" Hue vina, eteunguenta et nimium breves
Flores amenz ferre jube rofa." HORACES
" Throw hither all your quaint enamel d eyes,
That on the green turf fuck the honied (bowers.
And purple all the ground with vernal flowers."
MILTON.
Mast of the valuable prouucuoiu of
American genius originally appear in the
periodical papers ofthe day. " Man,
of our own ports," of whom it may be
said, perhaps, with equal propriety, as of
Pope, that th, " lifp'd in numbers,"
generally choose that the efforts of their
genius should make their firft appearance
in a newspaper. It is the objed of the
editor to compress. into a duodecimo of
about 300 p g^, all pieces of genius and
merit, which have heretofore g ven the
Farmers' Museum so Otffufive and so just
a celebrity. Sensible of the vahie of such
a feleaion, the editor is convinced, a"d
by gentlemen of literary taste has been
affund, that a liberal hibfeription w it
follow his attempt. He is confident in
averting, that for the number if its pages,
no work has been published in America
which has been fuperio? in hutfoour, in
tertft, and various merit, as jh^ of the
prefept volume:' The w<k will be ex
ecutedin a neat and correct flyte through
out, on a fair type and fide pap%
Those gentlemen who have, and do
now take the Farmers' Mukum, who
will probably u (!) to annex their names
to the lift, and who reticle in places at
great distances from Walpole, by . lireto
Alex. Thomas, postmaster, Walpole, may
depend on the ftriaeft aUentim to the r
orders. T r postage on twelve (liters
at any great diftarce would be about
eighteen cents, at< sh 't d fiance It Is.
CONDIIIONS.
I. The wo?kf,al! commence at fan as 300
copies ere fu'fo ibedfir.
11 It will config of near, or quite 500
'pages in duodecimo.•
111. 10/übfr bns the price so these hound
in hoards, and lettered on paper, will or ei,-
'J f rcen a *d " '"'' cents ; ntad, boand m
.leather and lettered, one dollar.
IV. Gentlemtn who become accountable
for as man, as fa fall be entitled to twelve
and a half per cent of the mm, which she,
pa, over to the publifers.
tfSublcripnons for the ab^r work
are received at CHARLEY PEIRCE's
Columbian- Book-store, Por>fa>om,,
f|^T(h:mthat he re-
ATHtrnentlw ce a month.
%,The pub ! ic are refpe&fully
informed, that no V.nier of Sho $ ,qad.
ly as good as the above, ran be affor led
at the above re ieced prices —but a Spi
rit of monopoly and executive privilege
having set the example, the Subscriber is
under the nect ffity of conforming.
ABNER NEWHALL.
POTtfmouth, Auoufl 16. 1800.
FOR SALE at Store No. 4. Long wharf,
100 bushes Maryland CORN.
20 bbls. Philadelphia fuperfine
Freth FLOUR.
2 Tons Philadelphia IRON.
Aps to Mo/es Woodwardjr.
P r r' f m°utli. duoufl rr '9%
COR N.