United States oracle and Portsmouth advertiser — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-11-14 00:00:00, page 1

Stop Thief or Thieves.
BROKE into the Store ofthe
fubfcriber,thenight after the gth inst.
some person or persons, and stole from
said store, Englifo Goods and Call) to the
amount of about three hundred dollars—
confiding of the following articles :—
About 7 yards of Ipotteu Elafiic, of a
fine quality. —From 17 to 20 pieces and
part pieces of Chintz and Copperplate. —
From 5 to jo yards of greenish mixt, fine
Broad Cloth. 4 Swanfdown waistcoat
patterns. Together with a number of
articles confining of cambric |guflin
Handkerchiefs. Pocket ditto, &c— al/o,
From 2010 ^dollars in Bills & Change.
Whoever will take up said
Thief or Thieves fa that the goods and
money may be obtained, shall receive
FIFTY DOLLARS reward or TWEN
TY DOLLARS for the Tbief or Thieves,
• and all reasonable charges paid by
. JOSIAH BARTLETT.
L« ? November 6, 1801.
Whoever will stop the villain or vil.
Jains so that he or they may be brought
to justice, and the property recovered
fall receive the above reward.
HENRY B. WILLIAMS.
Durham, November 6, 1801.
Books & Stationary,
The BOOKS are on Divinity, Law and
Tbyfic ;°t & gether with Hifories, Geo
graphics, Biographies, Travels, Voyages,
Husbandry, Navigation, Poetry, and a
pleating affortmeot of NOVELS.,
A good afortment of
Bibles'and Testaments of various
fixes and prices, And a general aflo^ment of
Classical and School BOOKS.
A great variety of
PAPER, such as large folio post,
Foolscap, and excellent hot-press satin
Letter Paper; gilt, black edg'd, and com
mon ditto; Wrapping, press and bonnet
PAPERS.' Also, a good affortmert of
Stationary, such as Quills from
3fo to 12, per hundred; Inkstands of
various prices; Sand Boxes and black
Sand ; pounce Boxes; Ink Powder ;
Slates & Pencils; Cyphering & Writing
Books; Account Books and Alphabets;
Scales and Dividers; Maps ana Charts;
Playing Cards; Anda variety of
Pocket Books ; Pictures and
small Looking Glasses.
Thomas', the Farmers, and
Sewall's ALMANACKS.
NEW STORE.
INFORMS bis Friends, and the Public
in general that he has taken the St< re
ately improved by Mr. SWETT in
Market street, where he is now opening
for talc an aflortment of GOODS, luita
ble for the prefect and approaching sea
son, which he will fell low tor Cafb.
PorTrn^th, November 7, lßor.
50 Dollars Reward
for Property and Thieves.
STOLEN from the store of the fob
fcriber on funday night la'fl—
-41 dollars in cash ; 1 plain sil
ver English Watch, makers name Brent
wood ; I English second flop Watch,
makers name Servicable.
A variety of Penknives, &c.&c.
Constant attendance will be given, and
favours remembered with gratitude.
Portsmouth, Nov. 7, 1801.
rpHE Schooner
A HERO,if ap
plied for in 6 days, n<w
Jr^'ffi lying at Long Wharf,
in good repair, burthen 99 tons, Angle
dick —for terms aonlv to
GEORGE NUTTER,
or PETER WILSON,
P e rtfm^ <6. Nay 6, 1801.
HAS just received, and now ready
For Sale at his Store, sign of the
Bible & Heart, Market street, (i@lj op
polite Mr. Peter Coffin's) —
A large affatment of
Kol. XII.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1801
Os All the dispositions and habits which lead to political'
prosperity, RELIGION and MORALITY are indispensable .
supports.—— WASHINGTON'S Legacy.
European Goods.
Edward % Peirce,
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Fublilhed every
Printers of the Laws &c. of the
New Book-Store.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR.
WaJhington Peirce,
FOR CHAR TER,
@Bniteh States
Portsmouth
LOOKING- GLASSES
Japan'd oval & odagon Tea-
Trays; Waiters; Knife Trays; bread
and fruit Baskets ; Canisters ; lum
biers ; Cadees ; Snuffer Trays; iron and
polic'd ffeel Snuffers.
Block tin, compofitiop and
tin'd iron Tea and Table Spoons; hair
Sieve Bottoms ; box and flee! Coffee
Mills ; Hones.
Aver, large affirtment ts
SADDLERY.
Joiners and Saddlers Tools of
all kinds; coopers & (hoemakers Tools.
Tin Plates ; iron and brass
Wire; Lantern Leaves : Spades ; De
vonshire and square Shovels ; Sheet Iron ;
patent Shot ; Crowley, blifter'd, Hal
back's and common Gorman Steel; An.
vih and Vices.
Brass and iron Locks, Hinges, Latches
and Bolts. ~
Steel &: common plate SAWS,
viz. pit, cross cut, tenon, turning, hand,
pannel, fa(h, dovetail, compais& keyhole.
Brass Scales ; bright and paint
ed Scale Beams; Steelyards ; Money
Scales and Weights, in Mahogany cases ;
Inkstands. A handsome affirtment of
Coat and vest Buttons.
Spedacles with common, plated and
silver bows ; steel Spectacle Cales; Razor
Cases ; Shaving Boxes ; Snuff and To
bacco ditto ; Curling Tongs and pinch
ing hnns ; ivory and horn Combs.
Scales and Dividers ; Mathe
matical Instruments; Spy Glares; Ship
Scrapers ; Caulking Irons; Pitch L dies;
Cabin Maps ; Palms; Sail Needles and
Twine; Time Glasses; Fifli Hooks and
Lines; fa(h,curain, bell, & chalk Lines.
Wood Screws of all sizes ;
Bed Screws; Bed Keys; Englilh and
American Sleigh Bells ; House aud Tea
table Bells; Crewet Frames with 4 and §
glasses; Cork Screws; Thimbles; Sleeve
Buttons ; Knee Buckles; Shoe Clasps;
common and white Chapel Needles ;
Knitting Pins; rat and mouse Traps ;
Curry Combs; Flints; Gun Locks and
Mounting.
Curriers, Leather Dressers and
Drawing Knives ; brick and piaiflering
Trowels; Coffin Letters and Figures, &c.
He has also for sale
Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, Red Port and
Malaga WIN E S.
Rum ; Gin ; French and
Spanish Brandy.
Hyfon; Souchong and Bohea
Teas; Chocolate; Coffee; Raisins;
Mace; Nutmegs; Cloves ; Allspice ;
Pepper; single and double refined Loaf
Sugar ; Salt Petre.
Painters Oil & Colors.
Window Glass ; Spikes, Nailsand Brads
of all kinds.
Writing and Wrapping Pa
per ; Quihs ; Ink Powder ; Slates.
Cast Iron Ware.
Empty Rum Hogsheads, Brandy Pipes,
Wine Calks, Barrels and Kegs.
which with those before on hand make a
very complete assortment, con,fling of
BRASS KETTLES;
brats and copper Warming Pans,
copper and flieet iron Tea Katies; brats
copper and iron Chafing Diflies ; plated
princes metal, brass, japan'd, fere4 bot
tom and common iron Candlesticks.
Brass Skimmers ; brass cabinet and
clock Furniture; brass thumb Larches &
Knockers ; Prince's metal and brass
Chair Nails; London and Bristol Pew.
ter; Tea Pots, of various kinds ; Flat
Irons; Frying Pans; Shovels and Tongs ;
Andirons ; brass pipe and common Bel.
lows; bell metal Kettles; brass and steel
Cnimney Hooks. — A great variety of
Knives and Forks ; Jack
knives ; Penknives; Razors; Scissors
and Shears.
Floor, hearth, duff, wax, clothes, scrub
bing, whitewash, teeth, hatters, paint,
and (hoe BRUSHES.
Has received by the Ship Sa/y
from Liverpool, a great variety of
Hard Ware GOODS,
Jonathan Goddard
Hard Ware Goods,
By Wholesale and Retail.
♦OCTto
at the House of Daniel Watson, in
said Epping, from two of the clock 10 fix
, o'clock P. M. on the fourth Tuefday of
this and of the four following months,
and also on the second Tuefday of April
next. WILLIAM PLUMER,
JOSEPH SHEPARD,
THOMAS NORRIS.
Epping, November 2, 1801.^
KINE-POX.
Dr. SPALDING continues to inoc
ulate for the KINE-POX, having by
actual experiment proved it a sure and
effectual preventive of the Small-Pox.
Daniel. Street,
Will be opened, on Monuty,
November 9th, Time, 4 Evenings per
week. Price, 15s. per quarter.
George Richards.
Pelt[mouthy Oa. 4, rSor.
^WANTED immediately,
two smart, active LAD, as apprentices,
to the Printing byfinch—At this Office.
EVENING SCHOOL.
John Raynes,
WILL begin his evening
School, for teaching Reading,
Writing and Arithmetic, at his house in
Wafoington street on Monday next, 6
o'clock, P. M. Odober 31.
, E. Burleigh's Estate.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
lubferibers are appointed and duly
authorized as Commissioners to receive,
examine and adjust all the claims of the
creditors to the tftate cf
EDWARD BURLEIGH,
late of Epping in the county of Rock
ingham and State of New-Hampfoire,
mariner, deceased, represented insolvent,
and that we shall attend for that purpose
a Novel; founded on Recent Fads,
by the Authoress of Julia.
The' attention which a distinguishing
public in this country as well as in Eng
iand(where it has run through 2 editions)
have paid to Julia, or the Illuminated
Baron, has drawn from the fame pen
another volume which we venture to pro
nounce not inferiorto the former, io depth
and delicacy of plot, in imagery and ac
curacy of description,and in strength and
(hade of character : a candid public will
stand by the offspring of American gen.
ills, nor fuffer her sons or daughters to
languid) through the want o(public spirit.
Subferibers will call at Tread 4
well's Store for their books.
which will be fold cheap by wholefak &
retail. Also, just opened,
Cheap yard wide IRISH
LINNEN, of a luperior quality.
Portsmouth, Oflobei 31.
Hasju, deceived per the jhips Fame BI Hun
tonio from Liverpool, a large assortment of
Dirett from the manufaaurers, whch he
is now opening and will fell by whole,
(ale or retail at a final! advance. 0/7.31.
And for sale at th# Portsmouth Book-Store,
DORVAL; or,
which he will fell at tire Inweft cafli
prices. Ponfmouth, OR. 17.
Has just received at his Store in
Market Street,
A general assortment of
1,7;/ & Hunter
Oliver Briand
INDIA COTTONS.
The Speculator :
INDIA COTTONS,
James Rundlet,
Evening School,
Woolen GOODS,
Peter Coffin,
GOODS,
JUST PUBLISHED,
WOOLENS.
Jufl received, Iv
A large afortment of
As Washington, Greene, Lincoln,
Putnam, & others left their farms to lead
the American revolutionary army ; so
Gideon a refpeftable young farmer,was
called to lead the army of Israel, while
he Was threshing wheat. The condition
of that nation, by reason of an invading
enemy, was extremely diftrefling. The
Midianites and Amelekites, like Grass
hoppers for multitude, overspread their
land, reaped their harvells, and rioted
upon the fruits of their labours : in the
mean time the wretched Hebrews in order
to save themselves from death or from
a captivity, which would have been ev
en worse, were fain to flee to the moun
tains, and to hide themselves in dens
and caves of the earth—and then it was
that th e,oung farmer received a com
mission from the Supreme Court of
Heaven. The angel of the Lord ap
peared unto Gideon, while he was
threshing wheat to hide it from the Mi
dianites, an< |informed him that he
was designated to deliver Israel.—
Scarcely coqld the .modest youth credit
what he heard ; and with an amiable
fell-diffidence,he replied, "0 my Lord,
wherewith Shall I save Israel ? Behold
my family is poor in Manasseh, and I
am the least in my father's house." —
Mark the modesty of the man !—How
different from those bafiard patriots,who
trumpet their own praises, scramble
rof promotion, and impudently thrust
themselves into offices, to which neither
their talents nor theirfervices have giv
en them the least Shadow of any clainf!
The sacred historian remarks " The
Lord looked upon Gideon." It was
a look of approbation. He approved
Traduced andfupplanted bythe cun
ning, diflipated, unprincipled Pericles,
who fought to obtain his offices and his
honors, he was driven from the coun
try to which he had been the greatest
ornament, and was forced to consume
his days in exile. So it was that pol
ished Athens rewarded some of her
bravest heroes, her wisest legislators,and
her purest patriots. Yes, the Atheni
ans, the most polite, the most fentimcn
tal, the most ingenious people in arts
amongst all the human race, were dup
ed by crafty demagogues, & had base
ingratitude enough to requite their
most wife, faithful and deserving rulers
with a prison and exile !
Miltiades, the brave general of the
Athenians, and the faviour of Athens,
who with only ten thousand men Te
pulfed an invading army of an hundred
thousand, under Darius Hydafpis king
of Perfidy was a victim to the ingrati
tude and perfidy of the people whom
he had saved from llavery and ruin.—
Vilely traduced, and maliciously accus
ed by men who envied his greatness &
fought his deftrudion, he was con
demned by the voice of the people, and
being fined in a larger sum than he
was able to pay, was ignominiously
thrown into prison, where he lived and
died forgotten. After the death of
Miltiades, the chief management of
the public affairs devolved upon Aris
tides and Therniftocles. The former
by his long-tried integrity & uniformly
virtuous life had obtained the name of
" the just ;" while the latter was a craf
ty intriguing man, who caressed the
people, and poured his subtle flatteries
into their itching ears ; and his art pre
vailed over the others honesty. The flat
terer, the base intriguer, became the
favourite, while the honest patriot, the
brave general, the irreproachable states
man Ariltides, was driven into banish-
Xnent by the public voice.
Nextly Cimon, who added glory to
his country, not only by his noble ac
tions, but by a sweet and gentle tem
per, as well as inflexible probity, Shared
the fame fate.
These inHances might be enlarged
upon, and many others equally perti
nent might be adduced from profane or
common hiftory ; but, for reasons alrea
dy mentioned in some of the former
numbers, I chufe to draw my examples
or hiftorieal fads chiefly from the Bi
ble.
THE hißory of the Grecian Re
publics abounds with instances of
public ingratitude, and of the triumph
of villainous intrigues, over the wifett
and best of their rulers.
ffliftellanp.
Saturday Morning, by WILLIAM TREADWELL, & C °
United States, in New-Hampshire.
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From the Balance.
The sacred writer having remarked
the ingratitude of the children of Israel
to their God, proceeded to fay, " Nei
ther (hewed they kindness to the house
of Jerubbabaal,” namely Gideon, ac
cording to all the goodness which he
had shewed unto Israel.—This is seen
in tlie sequel. After the decease of the
venerable old general, Abimelech, the
son of a concubine, who was as intrigu
ing as Marat or Robespierre, addressed
the people with a smooth flattering
tongue, and like Abfalom, stole their
hearts. " Remember said the fly scoun
drel, that I am your bone& your flefh."
The sacred hiftory adds, " Their hearts
were inclined to follow Abimelech."—-
And so it has been in all ages,the hearts
of the infagacious multitude, have been
inclined to follow those crafty dema
gogues, who to answer their own felrilh
purposes, have caressed and flattered
them. Abimelech having won the
people,proceeded,as the hiftory informs
us to hire a set of 'vain and light persons,
lor his attendants ; that is, men with
out principles and without morals
With this banditti, the monster, in or
der to remove all such as might rival
him in the government, went and flew
upon one done the sons of Gideon, be
ing seventy perfoms. My God ! seven
ty brethren, reordered in one day, and
upon one done 1 All of them the chil
dren of a father to whom the nation
owed its liberties. Unhappy young
men I your father's merit was your de
hrudion. If he had never left his
threfoingfailto serve & save his country
you might have lived in a happy obscu
rity and died in peace.—But what were
t the feelings of the people, when they were
informed of these moll horrid murders ?
Did indignation fire their breasts at the
massacre of the family of Gideon the
father and faviour of their country ?—
Did they pursue the murderer, and ap
pease the cry of innocent b/ood by }is
death ? No, they let him live !—Did
they drive him into banishment ? No;
he was fuffered to remain in the bofomt
of his country; Well then, every na
tive Israelite, must at least have beheld
so vile a mifereant with horror, and
avoided his company.—No such thing ;
but a very different feene presents.—
The very next account after the massa
cre of Gideon's sons, is this, « Tbcpe%
his virtuous modesty, and said to him,.
" Go in this thy might, and thou Shalt
save Israel from the hand of the Midi
anites," Gideon bowed to the will of
Heaven, accepted his Commitlion, em
barked in his country's cause with a
noble ardor, and with but a handful of
men, he drave out those of the enemy
who had escaped his fword,and in such
a manner chastised and brake the pow
er of die invading nations, that during
forty years after, they never presumed
to renew their encroachments and de
predations. The fugitive Hebrews came
back out of their hiding places, retook
potfeffion of their houses, and “ fat un
der their vines and fig-trees, without
any to hurt or make them afraid."
And at the period of their deliverance,
and of the restoration of their property
and privileges, they would afmoft have
plucked out their own eyes and given
them to Gideon. They even carried
the demonstrations of their gratitude to
a very dangerous extremity, for they
offered to change the nature of their
free government, and to make their
general and deliverer an hereditary
Monarch. “ The men of Israel said
unto Gideon, rule thou over us, both
thou and thy son and thy fon's son al
so ; for thou haft delivered us from the
hand of Midian." The multitude,
governed by the present impulse are
commonly hasty and rash in their re
solves. In tbe present instance, at the
moment of their enthufiam, they were
ready to throw themselves at the feet of
their deliverer, and to surrender their
unalienable rights and privileges to his
absolute disposal ; and but for the in
tegrity and pure patriotism of the no
ble hearted farmer, he might have
bound a yoke of iron upon their tame
and fubraiffive necks. The patriotic
Gideon refufed the offer of an heredita
ry throne and said to the people, “I
will not rule over you, neither mail my
son rule over you."
This paroxysm of gratitude in the
people was soon over, and the family
of the venerable general was requited
in such a manner, as must excite senti
ments of horror in the mind of every
readei.