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thousand crowns a year from bis father, com
menced marquis at Paris, and being a gay vo
h;i|e genius, goon get the better of his fortune,
and was reduced to the lowest ebb of wretch
edneffr Yet, in the midst of it he never left
bis spirit and courage, or impotcntly repined at
what was not to be remedied : but with tie
final! pittance he had left he purchaled a mule,
and turned water currier. eomettme after
wards as he was trafficking bis merchandize up
and down the street, he happened to meet two
of his old c< mpanions, who would have ivoid
-1 d him for f<ar of giving.t.tepin. at being
1 '
alter having spent our fortunes and impaired
cur health by the continual exercise of its in
. toxicating influence, it leaves us in a labyrinth
from which we are unable to escape.
Pleasure, fays the fable, is but a painted but
terfly, which, though arrayed in all the beau
ties of a spring-time flower, has nothing but
bollownefs and unsteadiness within.
Poetical Repository.
LINES
IN. THE MANNER OF EHENSTONE,
How bright vz my youth's early morn,
Ere reflexion had clouded my brow ;
I fclcftcd the rose from th^ thorn,
And was happv, 7 ba,til, knrw bow.
joined in the sports of the plain,
With rapture I heard the bright long ;
In the dance, I was firft of the train,
And was gayest among the gay fhrong.
Tis true, my heart oft breath'd a figb,
But it rose from mild pity alone ;
If a tear sometimes ftray'd from my eye,
It flow'd not from griefs of its own.
No sorrow corroded my heart,
No falfehood awakened a fear ;
For my bosom a stranger to art,
Believ'd every friend was sincere.
But ah ! these fair visions of youth,
Disappointment has chas'd from my mind ;
And rhe friends, whom 1 fancied all truth,
Alas ! can be sometime unkind.
I have seen the bright azure of morn,
With brightness and clouds (hadow'd o'er,
1 have found that the rose has a thorn,
Which will wound when its bloom is no more.
The sigh, that from sympathy rose.
Now heaves not for. others alone ;
and the tear, as it silently flows,
Conftffefa a source of its own.
In the general calamity of this inundation,
one infant only was saved; it floated in its
cradle on the water, a cat belonging to the fam
ily fat on the fide cf it ; when the cradle inclin
ed, the cat, in a panic, leaped on the highest fide,
and by the counterpoise, restored the equilibri
um. This was perceived from the land, the
cradle was waited for and the infant was pre
served. From the infant defeepded M. Van
der Hoven, who is Consul of France at Rotter
dam.
WONDERFUL PRESERNATION.
In the year 1421 the Maefe having burst its
dykes, and being considerably swelled when the
tide came in with great violence, the country
bordering on Dort was overflowed, above one
hundred theufand persons perished; and fifteen
churches with steeples, several caftics, and se
venty two villages were overthrown : their me
lancholy ruins are still visible at low water.
A new sea formed itfelf on the southeast of
Dort which is called the Briefbos. This sea
communicates with the old Maefe, and with
the open sea, and forms the island on which
Dort is situated.
Things to come.
When Alexander the Great took up resolu
tions to make a defeent into Persia, he gave
his patrimonial estate to his friends, and having
legally passed away the whole, Perditas said,
“ Arnd what, 0 king, do you referee for your
felf?"" My hopes!"faid Alexander. " Why
then of thole only will we that are your follow
ers be Carers ;" and for that reason refuted
what the king had freely given him, and his
example was followed by fcveral others.
A Rhodian taking too much fredom in re
prehending the vices of a tyrant, he was (hut
up in a cage, his hands were cut off, his nodrih
flic, and his face disfigured by many imir
gashes cut in it ; whereupon a friend advited
him to put an end to his miseries, by familhing
himfelf to death ; but he with great indigna
tion rejected the proposal, faying, while a man
has breath all things are to be hoped for, and
he would not lose the pleasure of hoping,
to rid himfelf of his present affliction.
Hiforica! Memorandum.
After the death of Barnevelt, the virtuous
and intrepid Grand Penfionary of Holland, who
Offered rather for reasons of policy, and for
opposition to Prince Maurice the Stadtholder,
thanforany thing elfe,his children entered into a
conspiracy against the Prince, were detected,
and condemned to death. Their mother wait
ed upon the Stadtholder tp beg their lives. He
told her, be was surprised that (he, who had
never begged the life of her husband, should
now request the lives of her sons. "My Lord,
replied (he, " I did not ask the remission of the
fenteuce of my husband, because I knew that
he wastinnocent ; but 1 ask the lives of my sons
because I am well assured of their guile."
it among the gaudy fripperies of life—in the
gratification of passions which grow more law
less by indulgence : but let us look to that true
fountain from which alone it flows, and receive
it in the relieved tranquility of a contented
mind. SOLON.
The Qualities of HOPE, or expectation of
IN the pursuits of happiness, nothing can be
of greater disadvantage to mankind than an
appetite for inordinate and sensual plealures. —
It is to this that mankind generally impute eve
ry trouble and perplexity in life. But although
in theory the truth of it seems evident, there
are few that are milling to practice on the mo
ral. Infeed of shunning fcnfuality, as the bane
of social virtue and happiness, we fee most men
recurring to it, as the antidote against distress.
The pleasures of feufe tend only to throw us
into anxieties and disappointments —They serve
but to liquidate our faculties and foften the pow
ers of intellect. Pleasure is of a deceitful na
ture —it fetves for a while to transport us with
hopes of happiness, and to fatisfy the cravings
of a greedy appetite : but after being drawn by
it into all the miseries of debauchery arid vice—
THE MORALIST—No. 386 -
The MEDLEY—No. 169.
If we with for true happiuefs, let us not seek
A Gentleman of Gafcoine who inherited two
ON PLEAS URE.
MARRIED] — At Newark, John Collett, to
miss Mary Roakc, of Peeks Hill
At Newyork, (Con) Hon. John Allen, ofLiteb
field, to mifi Ursula M'Curd
DIED] —At Hampton, in the 96th year of
her age, mrs. Sarah Toppan, mother of the
Hon Christopher Toppan, Esq. Possessed of a
good understanding, and favored with an early
religious education, ffie maintained a life of ex
emplary godliness. Her old age was peculiar
ly peaceful to herlclf, and edifying to those with
whom foe was conversant. Her piety,though
ardent, was inviting and cheerful—(he relished
the society even of the young, and in language
the most perlualive. urged them to remember,
amidst all their amusements and occupations,
that one thing is needful. She habitually expressed
a deep sense of the value of the gospel and of the
infinite condefeenfion ofits divine author, and
desired nothing so earnefliy as that her defeend
ants and friends might be partakers in that di
vine life with which (he was animated. Her
joyful expectations, in the day of death, were
fuels as to extort even from the most inconside
rate, the exclamation of Balaom, Let me die the
death of the righteous, and let my last end be like bis.
DIED] —At Buxton, on the 3th in(t. Nathaniel
Hill,aged'jß. Benjamin Elwell, who attended
the funeral, went to Mr. Hill's well, drank some
celd water, and expired instantly
In Buck's County, (Penn) after a j-t illness,
mrs Mary Barnes, comfort 0, Ifauc Barnes
In Pennsylvania, Capt. facob Stake, aged 45—
a dijtinguijbed officer in the Revolutionary War
At Windsor ( Kt) Jonathan Langnuortby, in the
49th year of bis age and bis 3dJon Jonathan Lang
wortby,in the lßtb year of Lis age ; they both died of
a bilious fever, and "within an hour of each other
At Cbarlejlon, (S. C.)mrs Sarah de Tollcnare.
The corpfc was put into a boat, to be carried across
a river, to be interred in a family vault. The Jon
Charles, aged 23 attended—on the way a form arose
—the boat upset, and the youth perifoed.
At Hartford, Ralph Bingham, aged 45. In the
battle of Bunker- Hill, be bad the command of a field
piece, "which be managed with great intrepidity, and
genuine courage ; He was the las on the retreat, and
received high exprtfions of refpefl from bis superior
officers for bis good conduß. Soon after, and in con
sequence of the tranfafiions ^ that day, be "wasfeized
with a rhcum*ic affeaion, which confined him to bis
bed until his death, completely belplejs and dependent.
Hezekiah Merrill, aged „. For federal years
CoJbicr of Hartford Bank.
Some time in April If, in Newyork, Mr. John
Hempfcad, aged 106 years. He Was a native of
Newyork; was a sobuf, heart, man, until a few
yearsJince, He retained bis senses and recollection
until the if, and was seemed an bonf man. He
bad frequently been beat d to relate anecdotes of the old
French near, and of expeditions again, the Indians,
in times when the bees of the fete, waved their
proud taps, where the busy throng now swarm in the
Ji reels of the City. He has outlived all the companions
of bis youth, be has been 4 witness to many genera
tions fucceflivcly rifsng and vanijbing away. He
w^s by fiade abi caches -maker, and it is foid took a
difguf at the alteration of fajhion which took place
about chat time in the Gulli,te breeches, and has never
been known to wear any other.
At Bofan, William Speakman, aged 6x ; miss
Mary Sett, daughter oj freelove Scott
At Ipfwicb, mrs Lus, Hodgkins, aged ,3
!!!^!^^!!!^^^!^!,!!!^,^,
" Now green in youth, note veitb'ring on the ground ;
" Thf following spring another race supplies,
" They fall fucceflive, and fucceflive rife ;
At South-River, Henry Applegate, to miss Betsey
Slaver —Daniel W. Defborougb, merchant, to mifi
sane Han Tine, all of South-River
At Falmouth, Captain George Morton of Ply
mouth, to mife Betfey' Bartlett, of the former place
At Bridgeton, Stevens Ingalls, to miss Rebecca
Kilborn
At Sbapleigb, Asa Merrill, to miss Hephzibah
Hubbard
" So generations in their course decay,
' So flourifu those, when these are past away."
He who is puffed up with the firft gale of
prosperity, will bend beneath the firft blast of
ad verDry.
At Haverhill, Levi Doty, to mis, Catharine
Whipple
REMARK. By taking revenge, a man is
but even with his enemy—but in passing it
ever he is superior.
ASAD, Pacha of Damascus, being one
day in want of money, the informers advised
hifn to levy a contribution on theChriftians and
Manufacturers. " I will shew you, (replied
Afad) that I am an abler extortioner than you*"
He then sent for the Mufti and told him, he
was informed he had long led a very irregular
life in private; and by threats he so terrified
the Mufti, that he agreed to pay fix thousand
piasters, if the Pacha would forgive. Afad
then fends for the Cadi, the Wali, the Nakib,
the Aga of the Janifaries, the Mohtefeb, and
the wealthier merchants; each of these charg
ed with offences peculiar to their situation, and
above all accused of intrigues, were anxious to
purchase pardon by contributions, When the
sum total was colleaed, the Pacha being again
with his intimates, thus addressed them, “ Have
you heard it reported in Damafaus, that Afad
has been guilty of extortion ?" No, Seignior."
“ By what means, then, have I found the two
hundred purses I now ffiew you ?" The inform
ers began to exclaim in great admiration, and
inquire what method he had employed. “ 1
have fleeced the rams," replied he, “ and not
skinned the lambs and the kids."
Mr. Pennant is a most ingenious and pleaf
ffng writer. His "Tours" display a great varie
ty of knowledge, expressed in an engaging way.
In private life he has some peculiarities, and
even eccentricities, Among the latter may
be ciaged his lingular antipathy to a wig—
which, however, he can suppress, till reason
yields a little to wine. But when this is the
case, off goes the wig next to him, and into the
fire.
Dining once at Chester with an officer who
wore av „, Mr. Pennant became half fcas over;
and another friend that was in company care
fully placed himfelf between Pennant and the
wig, to prevent mischief. After much pa
tience, and many a wishful look, Pennant Part
ed up, seized the wig, and threw it into the
fire. It was in flames in a moment, and so was
the officer, who ran to his sword, —down flairs
runs Pennant, and the officer after him, thro'
all the streets of Chester. But Pennant escaped,
from superior local knowledge. A wag called
this “ Pennant's Tour in Chester."
caught in fitch an equipage. But he prevent
ed them, sprung forward and fainted them
with his usual freedom, and when they seemed
to pity hi# ill fortune, brilkly interrupted them
by laying, " that he had forty thousand crowns
worth of water in the Seine, but for want of
servants, he was obliged to fell it himfelf."
ANECDOTES.
MAXIM.
Mr William Bowst, who lately died at
Salem, was a man of uncommon uze and
strength. He was nearly seven feet high, and
weighed 300 weight, The following instances
will prove his great degree of ftrenfh. He
was on board a privateer 141 war, which
got among the breakers off Cape Breton . •when
it became necessary immediately to cast anchor §
but there being none upon deck, as many hands
laid hold of one which was in the hold as could
get at it, but could not start it; Dowst pufk
ed them aside, seized it himfelf, brought it up
on deck, carried it forward, and held it upon
the timber heads while a cable was bent to it;
when he threw it over, and saved the vessel and
lives of the crew, as they were then upon the
point of daihing upon the rocks; the anchor
weighed 700 weight. At another time, eight
or ten hands were sent to] Beeket's ship-yard
from the well-known privateer ihip Grand
Turk, co bring up a fore-yard for the (hip:
Dowft was among them, but naturally dilatory,
he did not at firft take hold ; the others Shoul
dered it, but began co stagger under it and com
plained that there were not enough to carry it ;
Dowft laughing at them, told them he could
carry it alone; on which they threw it down,
and he took ic up, and carried it co the Ship,
without assistance. At another time, when he
attended the fiffi flakes at Windmill Point, he
was directed by his employer to go for a Jack
ass which was in an adjoining field; when
Dowft got him to the partition fence, being in
rather a lazy mood, to save himfelf the trouble
of letting down the bars, he took the beast and
lifted him over, and then got upon his back, and
rode him to the place where he was to be em
ployed. He once raised from the ground the
anchor of the prize ship Rochampton, which
weighed 1700 and which four men had imme
diately before endeavored in vain to lift, upon
a bet. Being at Bilboa, la& war, in a privateer,
an English vessel came in, which had in its
crew a profeffed bully, who was challenging
every one to combat, and hearing of Dowft,
sent a particular challenge to him : they met,
and the Englishman, who was superior to our
Sampson in the art of boxing, knocked him
down three times, and the last time twilled his
fingers into his hair to gouge him, when Dowft
gave him a blow upon his arm which broke
it, and with another blow he broke in three of
the bully's ribs, who it was said died of his
wounds, Dowft, with his amazing Strength,
was remarkably good-natured, and tender in his
feelings, and rather of an indolent habit: but
when he was roused to anger, or exertion, his
efforts were irresistible. He enjoyed through
life, a large Share of health. For three months
previous co death, he had been afflicted with
the dropsy, but appeared to have considerably
recovered; and the last day of his life he walk
ed abroad the greater part of the day, according
to his usual habit; hut the next morning his
wife found him dead in the bed !
JUST LANDED,
'/IND FOR SALE, BY
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No. 8, Portfmoulh Piet.
-VIZ—
-4 Cables, 6, 94, & 11 inches.
4% tons assorted CORDAGE.
200 bolts ift, 2d, & 3d qualities
RUSSIA DUCK, and
50 pieces RAVENS DUCK.
—ALSO—
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MOLASSES.
Hyfon TEA.
LOAF SUGAR.
10 bales ITALIAN PAPER.
SPANISH IRON.
50 crates assorted WARE. &c.
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\_ ri A T Cld-York, the
HULL of a new
BRIG, with her masts and
fpirs; burthen 113 tons— F& particulars
enquire of the widow Olive Harmon at
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PART OF A
HO U S E,
„::I ' n good repair' with a lot of
I LAND adjoining, situated
in Deerrtrect —Enquire of
T !%m Printers. JAv 24, 4801.
James Rundlet,
HAS JUST RECEIVED,
A HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF
Eng/i/h, French & Florence
LUSTRINGS.
Blacklndia Luftrings & Taffaties.
Plain, changeable and ftrip'd
ITALIAN SILKS.
Strip'd & plain Satins for Vests.
Bert French navy Blue
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Fine % & 4 .IRISH LINENS.
Cambrick MUSLINS.
Tambor'd & lappet do. black do.
Company NANKINS.
Umbrellas and Parasols.
Common and ingrain
CARPETING
&c. &c. July 17.
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AT PRIVATE SALE,
.^—^ A 'PART or the
' 1A whole of a valuable
■ II Eftate—Confining of a dou-
T be House with a large Lot
cTChZxzsof Land adjoining, with the
privilege of a good Well of water.
Said Estate is situated on the lower part
of Gates-Street.—-For Particulars apply to
SALOME FOSS,
Administratrix to laid Est He —refilling on
the premises. Jul) 24, 1801.
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CHARLES PEIRCE.
CT Said Peirce will continue his
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usual. He has now on hand, an ex
tensive aflbrtment, which he will fell
reasonable. He has also, a large as
sortment of Bibles, Testaments, Clas
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A number of Men's real American made
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given and no questions alked. Jul, 3.
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A Lot of LAND,
Twenty-one feet in front, and
40 back, with a barn thereon, suitable to
change inro a two-story Dwclling-houfe,
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Apply to WILLIAM DAME.
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of August THEREFORE—
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^^ THEIR ASSORTMENT OF
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time. July 3, 1801.
STRAYED or RUNAWAY
from William Seaward, on the
12th inst. an Indented Apprentice boy by
the name of James Witham, jun. 14 years
old, about 4 feet 6 inches high, rather dim
— (hort brown hair, had on a brown short
jacket, flriped trowfers, and round blac k
hat, he had served about i§ months
whoever will return laid runaway, or give
information where he is (ball receive one
Cent reward.—All persons are forbid har
boring, trusting, or employing him—and
maflers of vessels and others are forbid
admitting on board their veffcls or car
rying him away, as they would avoid the
penalties of the Law. Kittery, Jun- 17.
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FEATHERS.
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CORDAGE
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OF
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^LOST!
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about the last day of September next—
for which purpose he will meet with
them at certain places most convenient
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before your eyes with a view to prepare
you for the event, and to enable you to
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appear in the month of September, by
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confequeuecs.
,^^^T'" Convenient
BUILDINGni
Mint VZughan-ftreet either for a
Dwelling Houle or store,
or both together. Oppo*
site Col. Clap's, and the Garden adjoin
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(tree's in the town, Vaughan-ilreef, and
110 feet 6n a crofeftreet. The lot is
large and at the corner of two Greets.
The buildings in pretty good repair.—
The situation an eligible one, and will
be fold on reasonable terms. For par
ticulars apply to
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Port/mouth, July 1 T. iSoi. •
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age— Enquire es the Priori.
Letter-Books, Wastes,& alphabets, and
a large supply of common ACCOUNT
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Alfa, Writing, Lecter, Wrapping, Sheathing
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Slates of all iizes per dozen or single.
Pocket Books of various prices.
Aikin on the Kine Pox. July Is.
Ledgers, Journals,
Lately publiJled in Bf&n, and now received and fa
sale at C. PEIRCE', Boofore, Portfmoutb, ,
1 Candid Reply to the arguments of
^' the late Rev. Elhanan Wiruhefter, in his
Universal Dialogues, &c. By Eli(ha Andrews.
price 2,3.
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An extensive aifortment of
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VV Mercantile arithmetic, adapted to
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Mayor's collection of Voyao es ;
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Didiontry—Alexander's do.—Peacock's
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Farmer's Boy, a rural poem,
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Beauties of the Studies of Na
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TO BE SOLD,'
INTERESTING !
HAKE FOR SALE