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tom rich Parnassus' gay Paterre,
We gather Bowers to please the fair.
Lines written upon feeing a LADY dre, in tbs pre
sent indecent fa,ion.
WHEN Mary Wolftoncraft began
To make the women ape the men,
She only mean: the mind;
Nor did file dream that any maid
In native ,innocence array'd,
Could be so weak and blind,
As half her garments to throw by!
Exposing to the curious eye
Her shape as well as size.
But now the petty-coat is gone!
The muslin skirt and gown of lawn
Disgust all modest eyes.
Dear girls I pray excuse a friend,
Who would not for the world offend
If petty-coats displease ye;
Adopt the manly panteloon,
And aft awhile the gay Buffoon,
Nor let this madness seize ye.
The black, the yellow, brown and fair,
is painted on the face and hair
Os every lovely creature ;
Those limbs that once fair virtue veil'd,
Trust me fhodtd always be conceal'd,
It is a law of nature :
The garb impervious to the eye
Has often raised the ardent sigh
Which ne'er had fwell'd the wind.
Had gauze defeending from the waist
Been only round the damsel plac'd
To pain the ynodeft mind ;
The modest dress the mind bespeaks
And while we view on beauties cheeks
The blush of innocence,
The bosom is with anger fir'd
If in a robe unchaste attir'd
She virtue gives offence:
Nor would I take a wife so drefs'd
If every beauty she poffeft'd
I'd swear 'twas all a cheat:
I'd sooner take the rustic maid
In modest, humble, garb array'd,
Where worth and virtue meet.
THEODORE.
THE MORALIST —No. 390.
Vlltue the Happiness of 4 People.
Men often complain of those evils which
are wholly of their own procuring, and which
it is in their own power to remove whenever
they please. There is nothing more evident,
from reason, revelation and common experience,
than the tendency of virtue to the happiness, and
the'tendency of vice to the misery of mankind,
both in private and social life. But, while
this is generally acknowledged in speculation, it
fy much disregarded in practice. All expedients
to relieve the burdens and distresses of the day
without a general reformation of manners, will
be but of little cfcd; this will effed a general
cure.
Let rulers, influenced by the fear of God,
and by love to mankind, use all their power
and authority to encourage righteousness, pro
tea innocence, redress wrongs, and baniOi ini
quity ; Let laws be made with the single design
to advance the general interest, and be executed
with diligence and fidelity : Let people of all
ranks conilitutionally difeharge the duties of
their refpe&ive flations: Let justice and
integrity take place in all pfivate intercourse :
Let benevolence operate, in all exigences, to
excite mutual aid ; so that no man (hall be miser
able, While it is in his neighbours' power to
relieve him, In all controverfics between man
and man,or in society, let condefeenfion immed
iately step in to adjust the difference: Let every
man, in his private capacity, maintain sobriety
purity, temperance, industry & felf-govcrnment,
and attend more to the cultivation of his mind,
the improvement of his virtue, and the regulat
ing of the manners of his domeflics, than to the
indulgence of pleasure, or the accumulation of
wealth :—Let this be the general spirit and
c ondua of mankind, and what will be wanting
to make them as happy as the condition of mor
tals will permit ,or his being in a Rate of proba
tion PU reasonably defirc I
Os, eace sweet peace, that maid of heavenly birth,
These lovely feenes my lively mind shall fill,
And from my lips their honied sweets distill.
Like Cynthia thus would fllinewith gentlellrays,
And leave to Sewall, Sols meridian blaze ;
To whose great mind, and " mule of fire" tis
The following exh all is banded us by an attentive,
and obliging female correspondent.
I'LL not attempt to sing in lofty Grains,
My humble mule may ramble o'er the plains,
May crop a flow'r or catch the vernal gale,
And the pure incense of fair spring inhale;
Sometimes weuldtafle the sweet inspiring flream
And view yon orbs as they in glory beam ;
Or as through fields and blooming meads I rove
Os friendfhip talk and sing of glowing love ;
Os rural virtue, or of humble worth,
given,
T' afeend sublime " inventions highest heaven,"
Bright genius hov'ring o'er his cradle fmil'd,
Call'd him her son her own immortal child ;
And as from youth to age his footfteps ran,
Grew with his growth "& triumph'd in the man.
Sewall (hall write and Delia Philo praise,
While I exult in all their charming lays;
But who can equal Sewall's heav'nly drain ?
Such heights sublime ! my muse can ne'er attain.
Yet envy shall not in my bosom swell,
To deprecate the worth 1 love so swell,
But his sweet muse shall breathe upon my lyre,
And his fame blaze, with sparks from his own
fire.
(ORIGINALS.)
Lines addressed to a young LADY, wbo , relented
tie Author a Rose— remarking, that it .was the
firfl that bad blown in the Garden.
HAT pleasure in my bosom glow'd.
When on me foiling, you beftow'd
The pride of joyous spring :•
True friendfhip thro' the favor fhone=
'Tis this facet girl, and this alone
Awakes my muse to sing.
The joy receiv'd from the rich fa 'r
Seon fled. For lo! in one short hour
It faded, dy'd away !
No more 'twill grace gay nature's feene
And ihine of ffors the unrivall'd queen,
Nor you to pluck it flray.
But thou (a fairer rose) mud fade,
And in the dust thy charms be laid,
Yet, THOU, Ihalt bloom again !
In the paterre es the bleft sky
(Where reigns sublime THE MAJESTY)
And nobler charms attain.
IMMANUEL, tby bright jun shall shine,
O'er tbee, shall steal loft dews divine,
Tby fragrance heav'n perfume.
Seraphs shall view with wond'ring eyes,
Thy spreading foliage, dazzling dyes,
And never fading bloom. S, S.
O
Poetical Repofitor,.
At Lancaster, (Penn) miss Catbarine Bradburn,
daughter of John and Mary Bradburn, aged B,ears.
At Providence, Capt. Elijah Bacon, aged JO.
At Demerara, James Richards, of Pre,on, 2j.
At Pomfret, miss Alice Chandler, aged 16.
At Lyme, William Champlin, aged 20.
On bis passage from Surrinam, after a few days
illness, Capt. Godfrey Greene,'f Warwick, aged 33.
At Bo,on, ma,er Abel Wheelock, aged II years,
fan of Abel W. and bis brother ma,er Joftab B.
Wheelock, aged 4 years ; mrs Hannah Bass, aged
61, wife of Capt. Alden Bass; William Barber,
HmfcWrigbt, aged 3%; mrs Priftilla Broaden,
aged 45, leife if Baribelomrw Broaders.
At Watertown, suddenly, Daniel Whitney, aged
23,e1d,f0n of Deacon DanielWbitney, of that town.
At Weymouth, much lamented, miss Betsey Wil
liams. aged 21, daugbter of Rev. Simeon Williams.
At New-York, Dr. Richard Baily, health officer
of that port.
At Dorcb,er, Ebenezer Davenport, aged 66. .
At Marblebead, Capt. John Humphreys,aged 47.
DROWNED.
At Andover, Jaab Farnum, Son of Dea. V.
Dr. Cheyne once, when Nash was ill, dree
up a prescription for him, which was sent in
accordingly. The next day the doftor, coming
to fee his patient, found him up and well upon
which he alked if he had followed his prescrip
tion ? “ Followed your prescription! (cried
Nash,) no, egad, if I had, I should have broken
my neck, for 1 flung it out of the two pair-of
flairs window ?"
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At Providence, Daniel Sbeldon, to miss Ruth Ma
son, daughter of Aaron Mason Esq.—Nicholas Stil
well, to miss Elizabeth Page, daughter of Wm. P.
At Bo, on Smith Downey, to miss Nancy Brails
ford ; Stephen Turner, to miss Nabby Cooper ; —
fobn S. Jones, to mrs Ann Joyfe.
At New-Haven, John Marfion, mercban., to
mrs Yates, widow of the late A. B. Tates, both of
New-York.
At Hinsdale, (Per.) Lewis R. Morris, Esquire,
Representative in Congress from the Eaflern Di,rift
of that State, to miss Helen Hunt, daugbter of Jon
athan Hunt, Esq. of Hinsdale.
At Hackenfack, (N. J.) Jonathan Pearfee, jun.
Esq. to miss Sarab Loudon, daugbter of Samuel
Loudon, of the City of New-York.
At Newark, Thomas Beach, to miss Betsey Curry.
At Newtown, (L. I) Dr. James S. Stringbam,
to mrs Lydia Hunt, both of New-York.
At New-York, Cary L. Clarke, Esq. to miss
Eliza Mather ; John M'Kenny, to mrs Sarab
^^^^^^^^^;^^^^*^^^^^^
But if, on the contrary, pride felfifhntfs,&. the
love of pleafure,reign among all ranks ; if injus
tice, fraud,idlenefs, luxury,oppreflion, and other
vice , generally prevail there is no need of
special judgments to make them miserable, and
no need of prophecy to forefee their deftrudlion.
Every man, therefore, as he regards his own
and the general happiness, is bound to prac
tice virtue himfelf, and to promote it in
others.—This obligation immediately results
from his relation to society, abftnfted from the
Gonfideration of those more grand and solemn
motives which religion proposes.
We have seen the time when the people of
this country, alarmed at the dangers which
threatened them from an usurping and invading
power, could unite in arms for the common
defence: they thought no expence too great
to be incurred no facrifice too dear to
be made, that they might rescue their trembling
liberties from devouring oppreflion.—Our social
happiness is now in danger from another quarter
—from the prevalence of vice and impiety—
from our increasing luxury, extravagance, felfifh
nefs and injuftiec. Let us exert ourselves with
the fame united ardour to extirpate this internal
enemy, as we have done to repel a foreign ene
my, and we may hope for equal success ; and
success in this attempt will give our liberties a
firmer establishment, and a more permanent se
curity, than all the successes of war.
A philosopher and a wit were crossing the
water, when a high gale arising, the philosopher
seemed under great apprehension leaf! he should
go to bottom. " Why," said his friend, "that
will suit your genius to a tittle ;-as for my part,
Lam only for skimming the furface of things.
O
It having been reported to the dauphin of
France, that a man in that country had made a
little coach, so confiruaed as to be drawn by
fleas, he asked the Prince of'Conti, who he
imagined made the harness, " O," replied the
prince," probably some spider in the neighbor
hood."
An anecdote is told of a Brrtifh sailor at the
attack of Helder, which is truly chara&eriftic :
He was one of the detachment of seamen sent
on shore to assist in drawing the artillery up the
beach. The party employed in this fcrvice
were converted by a body of grenadiers, one of
whom having dropped, Jack started from his
gun, and examined the body, exclaiming with an
oath, that he was a dead man ; he said he would
take his place, and having stripped off the
grenadier's belt and cartouch box, and equipped
himfelf therewith, he seized his firelock, and
began loading and firing at the enemy. He
difeharged his piece fix times, at each time
bringing down his man. At lengthhe dropt him
felf, and was carried on board the hospital ship
to be amputated,h .'"ng received a bail through
his knee. This was not ^h he was told that he
mull be brought to trial for . ying deferred his
post, and taken upon him a tak ^ut of the line
of his duty. “ But plcafe your hoc or, I killed
fix of them." That may be, replied his Captain
but you flew from your quarters. ' Then
please your honour," fays Jack, in the fimp. city
of his hearty" forgive me this once, and I vill
kill no more of them."
Rouffcau, when young, once shewed Voltaire
an epistle, addressed to posterity. “ My friend,"
said Voltaire ," this letter will never be deli
vered according to its direction."
Let night, let day, let funs, let clouds, let flow rs,
To giddy mortals some great truth convey :
Behold man's little life—bis morn—his hours--
Scarce reaching up to noon—he fades away .
Hail, hallow'd Wedlock I firfl of blessings giv'n
In smiling Eden, by all bounteous heav'n !
O'er all the human race extend thy sway ;
But teach us firft thy precepts to obey.
As kindred elements with kindred join,
So kindred fouls with kindred should combine ;
Congenial minds alone true bliss can prove,
And harmony alone's the bliss of love.
fofofe^fofc^«*«+•¥«<•«+*<•
COURT of HYMEN.
The ' MEDLEY—No. 171.
MORTHLITT.
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DIED.
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R Etailers of Wines,and foreign
distilled Siprits and holders of riding
Carriages, in the County of York, arc
hereby notified that attendance will be
given at the office of the Subferiber, in
said York, from the 6th to the 30th of
September next, (Sundays excepted) to
issue licences to retaihers, and to receive
entries and duties on Carriages agreeably
to law— The fine for retailing without
licence is Fifty Dollars, for omitting to
enter and pay the duties on Carriages 25
per Cent on the amount,
Real Cinnamon, Cassia, Mace,
Nutmegs,Cloves,Pepper,Alspice,
Ginger, Poland Starch, Rice,
Hair Powder Coffee, Wellh's best
No. I and 2 Chocolate, do. Shells, An
thoives, Cape^ & Olives per bottle,
iglifli Mustard pr. lb. do. pr. bottle,
Sweet Oil pr. Bilk,Cayenne do pr. bottle,
Scott's Liquid Blue pr jug, Windsor &
Crown Soap—Button pigtail Tobacco
pr. Roll, do. Small Twist — No. 12& 3
SmoakingTobacco — American Segars —
Spanish Segars pr. box or retail—Sper
maceti & Mould Candles, Spanish &
Common Indigo — Double refined Salt
Petre—Epglilh Gun Powder & Shot—
Elliot's Snuff, per Keg — Wrapping Paper
per Ream—Slone Juggs, assorted from 3
Gallons down to 1 quart. Ditto Pickle
Potts, to contain 3 Galls. &c. &c, &c.
Po? t/mouth, Auguf 15.
Viz.
Gun Powder,
Hyfon, Young,
Hyfon, Hyfon ! TEAS-
Skin,Souchong I ^^u
& Bohea'
of the firft qualities.
^ r fr' & }BRANDY
Old & common RUM,
Old Cherry, do.
Holland's Gin, real white,
Molafles,
^^ ^° n : }WINES,
Malaga & Claret )'
Long cork'd Claret, by fehe case
or bottle,
Double refined Phila-)
X^^
E. India,&Havannah )
H,^'' W -} COTTON
India&Georgia„
Frelh Mufcatall Raisins, pr. box,
do. do. pr. calk,
do. Black Zant Currants,
Shell'd ^unlhell'd Almonds.
in Fore Street,
St. Martins SALT.
Isle of May do.
Bohea TEA.
IRON and STEEL.
FLOUR and CORN.
Kiln dried MEAL.
Ship BREAD.
BEEF, PORK & TONGUES,
&C. &c. Portsmouth, ful, I|, 1801.
English Shaving SOAP, of the
b e fl quality, price 20 Cents per Cake,
RAZORS from 20 to 100 cents
RAZOR STRAPS & PASTE.
Shaving Boxes and Brushes, &c.
Has just received, and has constantly for Jale
at his Store, on Spring-Hill, the following
Tooth Powder and Brushes, and
a great variety of PENKNIVES.
For Sale at C. PEIRCE's Book-flare,
Dr. SPALDING continues to inoc
ulate for the KINE-POX, having by
adual experiment proved it a sure and
effectual preventive of the Small-Pox.
Wafoington-ftreet, 15th Huguft.
Twenty-five Hundred
Pounds fUrling in Bills on London,
sixty days. Enquire at Itore No. 11,
THOMAS SHEAFE'swharf.
Port,mouth, Augn, 21, 1801.
TAKE NOTICE.
SHAVING MATERIALS.
GOODS,
FOR SALE BY
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No. § Daniel-Jkeet, Ponfmouth.
Post,mouth, August IJ.
B. Leverett,
JOSEPH TUCKER,
Colieflor of the Revenue.
York, Au^uft yh, ISOI.
SAL T.
WANTED,
KINE-POX.
—ALSO—
AROMATIC PAS TE,
For the Teeth, and Gums,
"It is that white, and yellowish Tar.
tariied Calk, which adheres to the teeth,
next the gums, caufiog, scurvy, loose flab
by bleeding gums; and the complete
deftruaion of the enamel of the teeth ;
that so frequently disfigures the beauty—
rentiers the teeth' rotten and loose in their
sockets, and afflicts mankind, with pains,
he moll excruciating.”
Hide. London Med. Efiay
^ CAUTION!
Be ever particular to obfove, that the hue
and genuine Page is fa dark purple colour
which is in,anti, diflingufhedfroth counter
feits ; and is fold only in this city by the (üb
fc? iber, being the only proprietor in America.
Titis PASTE will, on ufiog, be sensi
bly perceived to brace up and Lengthen
rhe fibres, and with a little continuance
will perkily cure the Scurvy in the
Gums, changing them from that livid
dilagreeable colour, to a fine pale red,
occasioning them to grow firm and close
to the teeth ; so that those teeth which
were before loose and ready to drop out,
will become entirely sass and Ready, and
from being black and foul, will make
them appear white & beautiful. It like
wise preserves„ the teeth from growing
rotten, keeps fucb as arc decayed a long
time from growing worse, and takes off
all difagreeble smells from the. breath,
which generally arise from scorbutic
gums and bad teeth. It has a beautiful
aromatic taffe and flavour.
Price §0 Cents per box.
Prepared only in America at the (tore of
Sam'l H. P. Lee, New-Loudon.
FOR SALE BY
Jacob Sheafe,
A quantity of W. India RUM,
SUGAR, MOLASSES,
COFFEE, BRANDY,
Englith CANVAS No. 4,5&6.
CORDAGE & BOLT ROPE
of all fixes.
A few Bbls. Connecticut PORK.
Ship BREAD, &c. &c.
—ALSO—
Affing" The Schooner
FRANKLIN and
appurtenances bur
then 104 Tons —as she now lays at
SHEAFE'S Wharf. Hugu, t,
Prepared only by Samuel H. P. Lee, M.D
Nezu-London, Connecticut,
THESE Pills are celebrated through
out the United States, and Weft-
Indies, in the cure and preventi ,n of In
termittent, Remittent, Bilious, Inflamma
tory, and Yellow Fevers—jaundice—
Bilious Cholic—lndigeftion —Droply—
Gout, Rheumatism, Pleurisy, Chlorofis.
Worms, Dy fentery, Billions Vomitings,
Convultion and Epileptic Fits, Asthma,
Coughs and Colds accompanied u ith
Costiveness—Foul Stomach—Scurvy-
Sore Throat—Hypochondria, anu Hyl
terical Affedions, &c. &c. &c.
They are alto highly esteemed for their
virtues when taken in the spring feafoD,
summer and autumn, and by removing
an overcharge of Biliiaus redundancies
in the Stomach and Bowels, and thereby
prevent mod of those dilcafes concurrent
with an Epidemical felon—their opera
tion is an easy and effectual purgative,
and may be taken without risk of getting
cold or any inconvenience, therefore ex.
remely proper for travellers by lea or
and, they are good to relieve the fyllem
after a hearty meal or a nights debauch,
their use in Epidemics of any kind are
too well known to need any comment ;
their success in Dyfenterics are peculiarly
beneficial, and have been found to be
the best evacuant to remove the caules of
Fluxes of any.—Certificates of their ef
ficacy may be seen at the place of sale,
price 50 Cents per Box, and 5 Dollars
per Dozen, to fell again.
JOSIAH DWIGHT,
Agent for the Patentee in Portsmouth.
Also, That valuable Medicine
The Celebrated
After waffling the teeth and gums clean,
dip your brufli or finger into the paste,
and take about as much as will lie on the
point of a penknive, and rub the gums
and teeth freely, until it has removed ev.
ery impurity—This do every morning
and waffi it off with water. Sold as above,
Drugs, Medicines and Dying
DRUGS, fold as usual by
For New- York, or Philadelphia,
ffi^ THE Sloop MA-
I R Y, William
Trefethen &laster,
For Freight or Passage apply to
said Matter, at JACOB SHEAFE's
wharf. August 21, 1801.
CASH
will be given for OLD RAGS at the
Oracle Office.
INTERESTING.
BY APPOINTMENT.'
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from the Patentee, a further Jupply of
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BILIOUS PILLS.
METHOD OF USING.
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The Retrospect, or
Collection of Tracts published at various
periods of the War —lncluding some
reflections on the influence of Mr.
Locke's Theories on Government in pro
ducing the combination of anarchy Sc
oppression which has assumed the name
of Jacobinifm. With a general Preface.
By JOHN BOWLES, Esq.
W HATEVER tends to throw
light upon the causes of the French Revolution ;
or of the war which has lately caused such de
vaflation in Europe; mull be very acceptable to
the sincere enquirer after truth. The French
Revolution (to use the language of our author)
being "a Revolution which has little in com
mon with other revolutions but the name ; —
and which mull be viewed in its relation to
those circumstances which are peculiar to itfelf,
in order to account for the unspeakable mifehiefs
which it has already produced, as well as for
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If, in reasoning upon the fubjeds of
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ceffary to keep conflant in remembrance, that
the war itfelf differs so effentiallyfrom all form
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Rates have been obliged to resort to hostilities
in order to repel ambition, to refill injustice, to
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not to extend empire, but to subvert govern
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impulse which leads to refinance for the fake of
preservation, and in the union which arises from
a sense of common danger, may be found the
true principle of the war. it is as remarkable
as any other circumflance of the war, that in the
various States which are now defending their
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without being able to plead indigenes as an ex
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