The United States oracle of the day — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-09-26 00:00:00, page 1

' PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Published every SATURDAY
Laws &c. of the United
Which are now opening for sale, by
IVholefale & Retail, —viz.
London and Yorkfliire best Superfine
Broad cloths ;
ladies Habit Cloths ; Caffimeres ;
fine Beaver Coatings; fine Ratteens ;
Dcvonlhire Kerfies; Fortft Cloths;
Baizes ; Flannels ; Serges ; Whitneys ;
Blankets; Wildborcs ; Cambiets; Crapes;
Hairbines; Durants; Tammies; Shal
loons; Calamancoes ; Rufftit; Satti nets;
Florentines.
A great variety of
Fashionable Waistcoating ;
Thicksets; Hunters Cord; Velvets;
black,crimfon, nd green Shags ; Worst.
cd and Silk Plush; Mens' plain and
striped Black Satins ; Fustians; Jeans;
Denims; Cottonets; Quiltings.
A layge affirtnrcnt of
Calicoes & Chintzes ; Chintz
and Dimity Furnitures; Ginghams ;
Muflinets; Dimities ; Cambricks; Ta.
ble Gloths ; green Table Coverings ;
Copperplates.
A great variety of
Book, jaconet, ftrip'd, check'd
and tambor'dMuflins; fafhionable figur'd
Muslins; white and black Cambrick
Mullins; Mullin Handkerchiefs; Neck
erchiefs. "
Camel's hair Shawls, some
with silk nettings; purple, chintz, mus
lin and silk Shawls ; romal, cotton, linen
bandannoand black silk Handkerchiefs.
A great variety of
English & India Luteftrings ;
ftrip'd and check'd Italian Silks ; black
and color'd Satins; Modes; Sarfoets;
Tiffanies; white and color'd Italian
Crapes ; plain, net and crape Gauzes ;
black lace Veiling.
A large Aflortment of
Thread, Laces and Edgings ;
black I.aces ; a variety of fafhionable
Ribbons ; gold & Giver Laces and Fring
es; golu and silver Epaulets.
A great variety of
Fashionable straw, chip and
willow Bonnets; a lew silk Bonnets,
full trim'd.
A large affirtment of
Kid and Morocco Shoes ;
Shoe Rofetts; Glove Ties ; cotton and
silk Gown Trimmings; elegant pearl
Necklaces, and Ear Drops; straw Trim
mings ; flioe Ties.
Ladies Fashionable black Bea
vers; fancy Feathers and Floweis ;
Meng and Youth's fafliionables Hats.
/ A large afotment of
. Mens' and Youths' Worsted,
Cotton and S Ik Hole ; Womens' Cot
ton and'Silk Hose; Childrens' Cotton
and Worsted Hose ; Womens' white &
color'd Si ! k and Cotton Gloves and
Mitts; Mens' and Women's black
Gaiter's ; Worsted Socks; Mens' and
Boy's Worsted Gloves; Miffes' Worsted
ant 'Cotton Mitts; Men's mill'd and
colored Worsted Caps ; Mens' white &
black Gauze Hole.
Woifted Pantaloons ; Panta
loon Pieces and Hose ; worsted & cotton
Drawers ; Mens' beaver, buck, wood
ftock & silk Glovesfwhite kid Gloves ;
emigrant Socks and Boots; cotton and
silk Braces ; Stock Stiffeners.
Fashionable, gilt, plated and
other Buttons; button Moulds ; sleeve
Buttons; fleel Knee Buckles ; silver
Thimbles; fttel and gilt Watch chains,
Seals and Keys; Tooth Brushes; Pins;
Smelling Bottles.
Irish Linens ; India Cottons ;
Irish Sheetings ; Counterpanes ; brown
Hollands; Checks; Threads; embroi
dering and other Sewing Silks; Twist ;
Gallooms; Ferrets ; Tapes; Bindings.
TICKETS !!
TICKETS in the 7th Class of Amo-
Ikeag'Qnal Lottery, which is to
commence drawing the 7th of next
month, mav be had at C. PEIRCES
Book Pore, No. 5, Daniel Arret, Ports
mouth, for New-Hampfl^e B?nk Bills,
payable at Philadelphia ; thole biHs ^i!l
be preferred before all others.
FRESH_GOODS.
Peter Coffin,
Has received per the flip Salty,
from Liverpool, a very extent
five Affirtment of
Fashionable, Fancy and Staple
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1801.
GOODS,
ge Wttd States
or all THE pisrosiTioxn. and habits which lead to POLITICAL prosperity, RELIGION and MORALITY arb indispensable supports WASHINGTON'S b^^
LOOKING-GLASSES
Japan'd oval & odagon Tea-
Trays ; Waiters; Knife Trays; bread
and fruit Baskets ; Carriers; Turn
biers ; Cadets ; Snuffer Trays; iron and
polifh'd steel Snuffers.
Block tin, composition and
till'd iron Tea and Table Spoons; hair
Sieve Bottoms ; box and Reel Coffee
Mills ; Hones.
^ very large afotment of
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 German Steel; An
vils and Vices.
Brass and iron Locks, Hinges, Latches
and Bolts.
Steel & coihmon plate SAWS,
viz. pit, cross cut, tenon, turning, hand,
pannel, fafli, dovetail, compass & keyhole.
Brass Scales ; bright and paint
ed Scale Beams; Steelyards; Money
Scales and Weights, in Mahogany cases ;
Inkstands.
A handjome affirtment of
Coat and veil Buttons.
Speaacles with common, plated and
silver bows ; Reel Spudacle Cales; Razor
Cases ; Shaving Boxes ; Snuff and To
bacco ditto ; Curling Tongs and pinch
ing Irons ; ivory and horn Combs.
Scales and Dividers ; Mathe
matical Instruments; Spy Glasses; Ship
Scrapers ; Caulking Irons; Pitch Ladles;
Cabin Mops ; Palms ; Sail Needles and
Twine; Time Glasses; Fidi Hooks and
Lines; sash, curtain, bell, & chalk Lines.
Wood Screws of all sizes ;
Bed Screws; Bed Keys ; 'Englifli and
American Sleigh Bells ; House aud Tea
table Bells ; Ctewet 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 plaiftering
Trowels; Coffin Lettersand Figure s, &c.
He has also for sale
Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, Red Port and
Malaga WINES.
Rum; Gin; French and
Spanish Brandy.
Hyfon; Souchong and Bohea
Teas; Chocolate ; Cotfee; Raisins ;
Mace; Nutmegs; Cloves; Allspice ;
Pepper ; single and double refined Loaf
Sugar ;'Salt Petre.
Painters OiL & Colors.
Window Glass ; Spikes, Nails and Brads
of all kinds.
Writing and Wrapping Pa
per ; Quills, ; Ink Powder ; Slates.
Cast Iron Ware.
Eripty Rum Hogflieads, Brandy fipes,
W<nr C.dk;, Barrels and Keg,.
PonJmwh, Sept. 18, ißot.
which with those before on hand make a
very complete assortment, cartfflirty of
BRASS KETTLES;
brass and Copper Warming Pans;
copper and sheet iron Tea Kettles; brats,
copper and iron Chafing Diffies; plated,
princes metal, brass, yapan'd, screw bot
tom and common iron Candlesticks.
Brats Skimmers ; brass cabinet and
clock Furniture; brass thumb Latches &
Knockers ; Prince's metal and brats
Chair Nails; London and Bristol Pew.
ter; Tea Pots, of'various kinds ; Flat
Irons ; Frying Pans; Shovels and,T<>ngs ;
Andirons; brafa pipe and common Bel.
lows; bell metal Kettles; brats and ftcel
Chimney Hooks.
A great variety of
Knives and Forks ; Jack
knives ; Penknives ; Razors , Scissors
and Shears.
Floor, hearth, dust, wax, clothes, scrub.
biug, whitewash, teeth, hatters, paint,
and shoe BRUSHES.
Jonathan Goddard
Has received by the Ship Sally
from Liverftp, a g reat variety of
Hard Ware GOODS,
Hard Ware Goods,
By H'holefale and Retail.
THERE can be no doubt, that
when Mr. Jeferfon composed the
above beautiful period, he had in his
mind that Prince of “ Liberty men,"
Roberfpierre, and his colleagues. But
left some of your readers (Mr. Tread
well) should not feel the full force of
the Sentence, I fend you some extracts
from a late biographical work i—
" Who (hall describe" (fays the au
thor) " all the horrors which at this pe
riod stained the foil of France ? what
m>de of narration can convey to the
mind of the reader, an adequate idea ?
A general enumeration of victims a ould
convey no diftind notion o' that dread
ful system which involved guilt and in
nocence, which refpeded neither old
age, adolescence, sex, sickness, pregnan
cy, courage, or past tervices ; while a
separate recapitulation of the cases of
the various fufferers wopld fill volumes
with records of cruelty unparalleled in
the annals of tyranny, without affording
a clear pidure of the horror, diftraftion,
and desolation which pervaded the
country. Who fhali L future times
obtain belief when he relates the cruel
ties and assassinations practiced at Ly
ons, Marseilles, Nantz, and in La Ven
dee—the horrible joy with 'which the Na
tional Convention applauded and repeated
the revolutionary jokes of the assassins, and
encouraged their bloody P r ', e f —and the
indifference with which that body fuf
fered their own members to be snatched
from them, and the citizens of Paris saw
their relations and friends daily con
signed to the executioner by wretches,
who outraged justice by an utter con
tempt of all forms of jurisprudential
proceeding, and humanity ; by savage
indifference, and even affected pleasant
ry with which they committed their
murders ? Will it be believed, that the
wives and children of innocent prison
ers, when they went to the houses of
deputies, to solicit in their behalf ; were
turned to indecent ridicule, and com
pelled to drink and dance ? will it be
believed, that in one of the departments,
all the unmarried young women, and
even all the children of the town, down
to seven years old, were compelled to 1
march in procession to the Temple of
Reason, and take an oath never to
marry true republicans ? Religion that
corrector of the human heart—that ;
consoling panacea for every mental
wound, was prescribed.—The torpid
dodrine that " death is an eternal fap!'
publicly avowed, extended its influence,
and blighted every affeftion, and every
principle. There never was known in
the annals of man, a period where the
want ofvirtue was encouraged as a pub
lic boast—where hypocrisy dressed her
felf in the character of vice, instead of
its opposite : Yet this phenomenon
distinguished the reign of Rober
fpierre. Every one who valued his
own fafety was forced to applaud
and repeat sentiments which made his
blood run cold ; and many who had
incurred suspicion were obliged to boast
of actions they had never committed,
and at which their hearts recoiled.—
How could it be otherwise, when in
forming, treachery, calumny, and as
sassination were ereded into virtues ; —
when the sentiments of nature were
carefully extinguished ; and fury, per
fidy, and inhumanity lighted up in
their stead ? The servant announced his
nrafter, the friend betrayed his friend,
brothers accused their brothers, fathers
their sons, and. children their parents ;
they were applauded, and received the
homages of their corrupted country
The nobles were in the most wanton
manner, confined and moved from prif
fon to prison ; every avenue to the city,
(Parisj presented the disgusting fpeda
cle of one or more cart loads of these
unfortunate personages of both sexes,
and of every age, from infancy to ex
treme old age, exempt from a charge
of crime, tied with their lands behind
them, and exposed to the heat of the
fun, the fury of the elements, or the
still more diftrefling outrages of the
hordes of revolutionary banditti (the in- 1
furiated men before mentioned) who load-|
The PICTURE OF
“ INFURIATED MAN,
''Seeking through blood and Daughter, bis
"long-Ql LIBERTY."
Far tie United States' Oracle of the Day.
flltfcellanp;
Vol. XI.
No. ;I
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TEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THIRTEENTH YEAR.
iOracle of tye Bap.
1
Morning, by WILLIAM TREADWELL, & C 2 Printers of the
States, in New-Hampshire.
There must be a ruling ,^er or there,
can be no government. A majority
must decide, or there can be no free
constitution. If the whole mass is
tainted, it is folly to seek for absolute
purity ; and falfe accusation serves only
to prevent discipline, and is the occa
sion why so many real offences pass
with impunity. Party prejudice, which
used to fluctuate like a moderate gale,
and give signals of danger, is now blow
ing up a dorm : and is itfelf become
the greater danger.
Freedom of thinking is essential to
civil and religious liberty; and so
is decency of speech. But they who
fay more than they believe to be true,
are falfe to their own hearts, and un
faithful to the community. If they
depart from decency of language, they
depart from their dignity ; and when
this is loft, authority will cease, and an
archy ensue.
" Jhe Jacobins had given Roberfpierre
the title of incorruptible ! [the enco
miums of the Jacobins of America may
also be recollected] "he was stiled the
glorious incorruptible Roberfpierre !
who covers the Republic by his virtues
and talents, as with a Ihield ; who joins
to the felf denial of a Spartan or Ro
man of early date, the eloquence of an
Athenian. Even the tendernef and hu
manity of his difpftion «were praised !
One man congratulated himfelf on a
personal resemblance to him ; and ano
ther at the distance of fix hundred
miles, declared;^ was hastening to
Paris to feaft his eyes with a fight of
him. He was compared, not by an
individual, but by a body of people, to
the Messiah, announced by the supreme
being as the reformer of all things ; —
and afterwards, he was said to manifeft
himfelf like the Almighty by mira
cles !! !" But let us proceed no fur
ther in recounting the enormities of
those wretches whom Mr. Jefferfon is
willing to apologize for, under the de
nomination of " infuriated men seeking
their long loft liberty."
O' We arc indebted to an attentive and re
fpedlable friend, for the following Extracts from
a Work of much merit, but which is little read
in these times. Overrun as the country now
is by acccmpljbcd Profligates, and patriotic
Knaves, we trust they will not be wholly with
out good influence.
ed them with every disgusting insult ।
language can supply. The inhabitants|
of Paris weye daily shocked with the ;
fight of cart loads of perlons similarly
bound, going to the guillotine ; this
infernal objed took away the pleasure
of their belt walk, reddened their iireets•
with the gore which adhered to the
fhnes of those who directed their steps
near the place vbore it was crewed,
and shed human blood in such profu
fion, that the earth being incapable of
absorbing it all, it ran to discolor the
waters of the Seine. The night was
no less terrible than the day ; for be
sides the dread of domiciliary visits
of plunder and assassinations ; those
whom illness, or accident kept awake,
were alarmed with the noise of carts,
carrying people to some of the prisons,
which were now to be found in every
street ; and from one to the other of
which the prisoners were conveyed in
the most outrageous and wanton man
ner. The guillotine seemed to preside
over every thought ; even the women
are said to have given to their babes,
instead of a carol, a machine which re
presented the action of that instrument
and the falling of the human head un
der its stroke. The passage of the con
demned through the streets to the guil
lotine was embittered by every sarcasm,
and insult, brutality and malice could
fugged ; and it was not uncommon to
fee children of twelve years old, fucking
the blood which trickled down the fatal
machine !
YOU ask me how stands the POLIT
ICAL ton ? I follow the banner
of common sense, and common honesty,
esteeming true politics as true religion,
and have, therefore, but little to fay in
these times. When I fee an accom
plilhed knave, or an extravagant prof,
ligate venerated as a PATRIOT,
I think the nation is run mad. In ev
ery state and condition I apprehend
that we owe it to our present comfort,
and to posterity; we owe it to our'
maker and the Great Sovereign of the
christain world ; we owe it to our
immortality, to use our utmost endea
vors to preserve peace, good-will, and
good order ; consequently to suppress
factious ideas and difeontent.
PRICE i DOLLAR 50 CENTS Per Annum.
HOMO SUM.
The truest friends to virtue will ever
be the most guarded in censuring ; —-
and never condemn on the evidence of
popular clamour. sA'e should all speak
modetUy of what we may be allowed
to comprehend ; but where our infor
mation is deficient, and we da not take
time for invettigation, experience proves
that we plunge ourfclves into a laby
rinth of diftrefy.
IVe are CHRISTI ins, and humility is
the inftparable companion of our reli
gion. If we examine the condud of
car Saviour, in a concern foreign to
his million, or in other words, to what
was his business, we find him referring
to the temporal power in being.
The fact is, we are in general become
undisciplined. Children towards pa
rents; servants towards masters ; each
is pressing on the other's rank and of
fice. So many aspire at things foreign
to the government of their own hearts,
the wonder is, that we have any gov
ernment.
If piety, moderation, and humanity,
are necessary to the peace of a family,
they are erfential to the peace of the
community ; as a house divided again!
itfelf cannot stand.
Truth is most easily difeovered thro'
the medium of candor and humility ;
but, alas ! these are virtues so rare in
the political world, it is no wonder that
peace and comfort should inhabit the
bread of so few. The malady lies in
the heart, and we have many teachers
of pride, and few of meekness. We for
get that in l^nds ruled by arbitrary
power, this stands as a lubltitute for
good or evil administration : but with
us the virtuous scale mud preponderate,
or coafufion ensues. This rule applied
to public or private life, difeovers the
cause of the evils we complain of.—
Want of virtue creates mutual con
tempt ; till at length men devour each
other. The evil originates in a bad
heart ; a rage for money, not as the
instrument of virtue and true pleasure,
but of vice and falfe pleasure. These
are the parents of diffipatien, and gene
rate undisciplined habits ; which as
they grow to maturity, become the
patrons of infidelity. Thus the founda
tion of the political fabric is undermin
ed, together with our religion, and our
country is in perils from her own chil
dren.
I am sorry to be in some meafuree
constrained to tell you so much; but
it seems to be the evil propensity of our
times, to ascribe every thing to second
caufa : and forgetting the firfl, we be
come the objects of divine resentment.
I do not mean, but that many yet adore
the God of their fathers, who having
fuccoured so many generations paft,may
yet fuccour us ; and you ma, be one
for whose fake the nation may be pre
served. Whatever shall be the issue :
whatever your own condition shall be :
offer to God the homage of your heart.
THE bulk of mankind from the
days of Adam to the present gen
eration, have been easily duped by the
crafty and designing. They have been
beguiled by flattery, and gulled by
empty profeffions. A man of fortune
of of parts, however void of real merit,
who would artfully flatter the people,
has generally been rewarded with their
confidence, and sometimes with their
adoration. Such a fuccefsful adven
turer for popular favor was Jchr. Wilkes.
Few men in modern times have been id
extensively celebrated as he was, for
pare devotion to the interests of the
people.
A Modern Patriot,
should p;Tumc to have queftiuned o .
About thirty years ago, the name
of Mr. Wilkes was famous, not only in
Britain, but aifo throughout the British
American colonies ; insomuch that a
pocket handkerchief or a fnuff-^°x was
hardly faleable, unless it exhibited the
particular motto of "Wilkes and Lib
erty."
I remember that about that time, I
saw a little ragged boy (landing bv a
Liberty Pole, which had been ere&ed
on the memorable occasion of the Ame-•
rican Stampt Ad. As I was palling
the pole, the little fellow observing me,
pulled off his old hat and threw it into
the air, exclaiming with all the llreng::
of his lungs, " Wilkes and Libert
huzza." in those days, any man v+r
1 FROM THE BALANCE.
DISSECTED.