The constitutionalist — Exeter, N.H., 1810-05-28 00:00:00, page 3

stance, we hire lost an opportunity for an
honourable adjustment of the most interest
ing concerns, which perhips may never re
turn. Had our government asserted its
rights with an adequate force, created with
a small proportion of the millions which
have been sacrificed in the prosecution of
this imbecile system of measures, against
the aggressions of France, all these evils
might have been stifled in their origin. A
humble submission to French rapacity, is the
•main source of our unhappy decline. The sys
tem of restriction is now abandoned by its
advocates; and the dreams of Philosophic
theorists have at length vanished into empty
air. Whence this visionary scheme of mea
sures? Is it to be imputed to the want of
spirit iri the nation ? Or, to a defect of re
sources against the maritime power of
France, annihilated to our hand by the Brit
ish navy? No, the cause has long existed
and become inveterate, a cause which can
be better understood than expressed, a
Cause which will be reflected on with .re
gret by all true Americans, as long as the
names of Washington and Jefferson shall be
contrasted upon the page of history."
THE GIGANTIC POWER OF FRANCE.
Extract from the Rev. Mr. Chan
ning's Fast Sermon.
IN the very heart of Europe, in the
centre of the civilized world, a new
power has suddenly arisen, on the
ruins of old institutions, peculiar in its
character, and most ruinous in its in
fluence. We there see a nation, which,
from its situation, its fertility and pop
ulation, has always held a command
ing rank in Europe, suddenly casting
off the form of government, the laws,
the habits, the spirit, by which it was
assimilated to surrounding nations, and
by which it gave to surrounding na
tions the power of restraining it ; and
all at once assuming a new form, and
erecting a new government, free in
name and profession, but holding at its
absolute disposal the property and life
of every subject, and directing all its
energies to the subjugation of foreign
countries. We see the supreme power
of this nation passing in rapid succes
sion from one hand to another.—But
its object never changes.-—We see it
dividing and corrupting by its arts, and
then overwhelming by its arms, the
nations which surround it. We see
one end steadily kept in view—the
creation of an irresistible military
power. For this end, we see every
man, in the prime of life, subjected to
military service. We see military talent
every where excited, and by every
means rewarded. The arts of life, ag
riculture, commerce, all are of second
ary value. In short, we see a mighty
nation sacrificing every blessing, in the
prosecution of an unprincipled attempt
at universal conquest.
The result you well know. The
surrounding nations unprepared for
this new conflict, and absolutely inca
pacitated, by their old habits and in
stitutions, to meet this new power on
equal terms, have fallen in melancholy
succession ; and each, as it has fallen,
has swelled by its plunder the power
and rapacity of its conquerors. We
now behold this nation triumphant
over continental Europe. Its armies
are immensely numerous ; yet the
number is not the circumstance which
renders them most formidable. These
armies have been trained to conquest
by the most perfect discipline. At
their head are Generals, who have risen
only by military merit. They are
habituated to victory, and their enemies
are habituated to defeat.
All th^ immense power is now
centred in one hand, wielded by one
mind—a mind formed in scenes of rev
olution and blood—a mind most vig
orous and capacious ; but whose ca
pacity is filled with plans of dominion
and devastation.—lt has not room for
one thought of mercy.—The personal
character of Napoleon is of itself suffi
cient to inspire the gloomiest forebod
ings.—But in addition to his lust for
power, he is almost impelled, by the
necessity of his circumstances, to carry
on the bloody work of conquest. His
immense armies, the, only foundation
of his empire, must be supported.—
Empoverished France however cannot
give them support. They must there
fore live on the spoils of other nations.
But the nations which they successive
ly spoil and whose industry and arts
they extinguish, cannot long sustain
them.—Hence they must pour them
selves into new regions. Hence plun
der, devastation and new conquests,
are not merely the outrages, of wanton
barbarity ; they are essential even to
the existence of this tremendous power.
~Wbat overwhelming, disheartening
prospects are these! In the midst of
Christendom this most sanguinary
power has reared its head, and holds
the world in defiance—and now let me
ask, how are we impressed in these
dark, disastrous times? Here is enough
to rend the heart of sensibility. Here
is every form of misery. Weare call
ed to sympathize with fallen greatness,
with descendants of ancient sovereigns,
burled from their thrones, and cast
potto contempt ; and if these will not
Dove Is, our sympathy is demanded
by a wretched peasantry, driven from
their humble roofs, and abandoned to
hunger and unsheltered poverty. The
decaying city, the desolated country,
the weeping widow, the forsaken or
phan, call on us for our tears. Na
tions broken in spirit, yet forced to
smother their sorrows, call on us, with
a silent eloquence, to feel for their
wrongs ; —and how are we moved by
these scenes of ruin, horror and alarm ?
Does there not, my friends, prevail
among us a cold indifference, as if all
this were nothing to us, as if no tie of
brotherhood bound us to these suffer
ers ? Are we not prone to follow the
authors of this ruin with an admiration
of their power and success, which al
most represses our abhorrence of their
unsparing cruelty?
IMPERIAL LUXURY.
The wedding robe which has been
made in Paris for the new Empress of
France, is embroidered all over with
diamonds, the intervals filled with Mou
linslace. Its value is estimated, 85,000
dollars !
The Miniature of Napoleon, which
the Prince Neufchatel presented to
the Archduchess Maria Louisa of
Austria, on his first introduction to
her, is set in 16 solitaires, each of which
is estimated at 30,000 florins—making
in the aggregate 480,000 florins.
How many tragical events take place
from trusting to the care and discretion
of very young children! The follow
ing is a fatal and warning instance,
which happened 'at Marblehead, on
Thursday evening the 3d inst. A wo
man by the name of Jones, left her
daughter, of six years old at home to
keep house, while she herself was absent
at a night meeting. A person, passing
by observed an extraordinary light in
the chamber, and being alarmed went
in ; when he found the child (who it is
supposed had been overcome by sleep)
lying on the floor wrapped in flames.
She lived in great agony till the next
day and then expired. Her body was
burnt in a manner too shocking to be
described. The livinr worms were
seen retreating from the heat through
her mouth and nostrils.
Justice's Wjits and Execu
tions ; Warrantee & Quitclaim Deeds ;
Subpoenas; Rules of Court; For the
Confession of Debtors; Notifications
and Subpoenas for taking Depositions ;
Captions for Depositions ; Subpoenas
for Cases under justice's Rules ; For
the Collection of Militia Fines; For
Surveyors of High-ways; Note books,
&c. &c.•
Q^" The above Blanks are neatly
printed on paper of a good quality,
and pressed between glazed boards.
Jfay 28, 1810.
We regret that “ 'Hosein” was not re
ceived in season for insertion in this Num
ber; it shall be inserted in our next.
In East-Greenwich, (R. I.) Mr.
Henry Olin, aged NINETY-THREE
years, to Miss Sally Aylesworth,
aged 75 ! —ln Salem, Capt. Thomas
Bickford, to Miss Catharine Wilder.
In Charlestown, Mr. Asaph Church
hill, of Milton, to Miss Maty Gard
ner, of C.
In Boston Mr. David Boynton, to
Miss Sophia Sawyer.—Mr. George
Bethune, to Miss Mary Amory 3d
daughter of the late John Amory, Esq.
—Mr. John May, of Boston, to Miss
Mary Hunt, of Liverpool, (N. S.) —
Mr. JosephC. Tucker, to Miss. Eliza
Hammond, of Wilmington, (Penn.) —
Mr. James Pratt, jun. to Miss Sarah
Pepper.—Mr. Asaph Stone, to Miss
Jane M'Farlane.- —Mr. Charles Hood,
to Miss Harriet Gordon.
It does not appear that the demo
cratic contagion has extended to Con
nccticut—that State is preserved like
the land of Goshen amidst the plagues
of Egypt N. Y. Herald.
In Providence, Wid. Mary Walsh ;
she died of wounds inflitced by a Capt.
Niles, an insane person, who is com
mitted, to be tried in Sept. next.
In Concord, N. H. Mr. Abraham
Osgood, 2Et. 44. He was very badly
wounded, two or three weeks since by
placing himself on a log, which he was
sawing iu the saw-mill and before he
was aware of his danger, he was caught
by the saw and received two or three
strokes up and down the back part of
his shoulder.
C. Norris & Co.
Keep constantly for sale, at their,
Book-Store, the following
Blanks, viz.
BLANKS.
A Shocking Occurrence.
to correspondents.
Married,
Died,
Wholesale and Retail
BOOK-STORE.
EDWARD LITTLE & CO.
BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS,
No. 3, Market-Square, Newburyport,
Have constantly, for Sale a large assortment of Books,
consisting of the most esteemed authors in
Divinity, Biography, Agriculture,
Physic, Trade & Commerce, Mathematics,
Surgery, Law, Miscellanies,
Chemistry, Philosophy, Voyages,
Anatomy, Poetry, Travels,
History, , The Drama, Classicks, &
A very extensive assortment of School Books, such as are
in general use in the most approved Seminaries—consisting of
Bingham's Columbian Orator; do. American Preceptor; do. Child's Compan
ion; do. 1 onng Lady's A evidence; do. Geographical and Astronomical Cate
chism ; Murray's English Reader; do. Engffih Grammar ; do. do. abridged ;
do. Key to Grammar; do. Exercises; do. I "%Aluction ; do. Sequel ; Alex
ander's Columbian Dictionary ; do. English Grammar ; do. Latin Grammar ;
Adam's Latin Grammar; do. Understanding Reader ; Webster's Spelling
Book; do. Institutes of Grammar ; do. Americam Selection ; do. Elements of
Useful Knowledge; Gloucester Greek Grammar; Smith's do. do.; Wettin
hall's do. do. ; Smith's Latin Grammar; Pennsylvania do. do. ; Latin Acci
dence ; do. I'rimer; Claris's Corderius; do. Erasmus; do. Eutropius ; do.
/Esop's Fables ; do. Introduction to making Latin ; Dana's Selection ; Morse's
Universal Geography; do. Abridgment; do. Elements of Geography ; Par
ish's Universal Geography; do. Modern do. ; Dwight's Geography ; Morse
and Parish's History of New-England ; Scott's Lessons ; Blair's Lectures ;
Perry's English Dictionary ; Walker's do.; Perry's Spelling Boole ; Hilton's
do.; Webster's do. ; Johnson's Dictionary ; do. do. in Miniature; Staniford's
Grammar ; do. Art of Reading ; Walsh's Mercantile Arithmetic ; Pike's A
rithmetic ; Adam's do. ; Kennie's do. ; Merrill's do. ; Noyes' do. ; Hilton's
do. ; Little's do. ; French Grammars and Dictionaries ; Spanish do. do. ; Art
of Speaking ; Enfield's Speaker ; Walker's Academic Speaker ; Dramatic Di
alogues; School do. ; Orator's Assistant; New Pleasing Instructor; Picket's
Spelling Book ; do. Juvenile Expositor; Beauties of Bible, &c. &c.
BIBLES of every size and price; The New Testa
ment in large and common sizes, various prices; Prayer Books; Watts'
Psalms and Hymns, &c. &c.
An extensive assortment of Stationary.
Imperial, Royal, Medium, Demi, Foolscap, and Pot WRITING PAPER;
LETTER PAPER of various sizes and qualities ; Marbled, Wrapping, Cart
ridge, Log Book, Drawing, Music, Blotting, and Bonnet Paper; Ebony,
Pewter, Wedgwood, Glass, and Brass Inkstands ; Dutch Quills of various
kinds ; best Dutch Sealing Wax, red and black; best Irish and common Wa
fers; Large Office Wafers, different sizes; an elegant assortment of Pen
knives ; Kazors ; Scizzofs ; Copy Slips, various sized hands ; Slates and Pen
cils; Superfine and common Lead Pencils; Gentlemen's Pocket Books and
Wallets; Ladies Thread Cases; Ass Skin and various kinds of Pocket Memo
randums ; Backgammon Boards; Playing Cards; Message do. ; Gold Leaf;
Cases Mathematical Instruments ; Gunter's Scale and Dividers ; Letter Racks ;
Battledores ; Reeve's Boxes Water Colours ; India Ink ; Red and Black Ink
powder ; Willis' new Drawing Boxes, containing Paints, Pencils and Designs
for Drawing, and Familiar Directions for Drawing in Water Colours ; Camel's
hair Pencils ; Drawing Paper and Blank Drawing Books; Tooth Brushes;
Children's Writing and Cyphering Books, and
Blank Account Books of every description.
©"Country Store Keepers and Preceptors of Academies supplied on the
most liberal terms. May 28, 1810.
JOHN FOLSOM,
Tt AS just received, and for Sale, at his store in Exeter, an additional supply
of EUROPEAN and INDIA GOODS, with a general assortment of
HARD WARE, CUTLERY, &c.—Also, W. I. GOODS and GROCERIES,
which he will sell on good terms for cash or short approved credit.
AMONG WHICH ARE ,
Superfine, middling and low priced
Broadcloths and Cassimeres, of fash
ionable colours ; good twilled black &
olive Velvets; scarlet, purple, brown,
black, and fawn coloured Tabby Vel
vets ; black Satin for men's vesting;
Cotton Cassimeres ; Grandurells ; A
variety of handsome vestings ; Wash
ington Stripes ; blue and drab Floren
tines ; blue, black and yellow Nan
keens; Plaid, Italian and Florence
Silks ; India black Lustrings and Sat
tins ; black Pclong Sattin ; green,
straw coloured, blue and purple Sars
netts; 1-2 and 3-4 black Modes ; blk
Crape ; a variety of glazed and unglaz
ed Ginghams, of buff, pink and dark
colours ; dark plaid, silk and cotton
do. ; a good assortment of Calicoes ,
India do.; 3-4, 4-4 and 6-4 black,
white and coloured Cotton Cambrics ;
3-4 and 6-4 Cambric and common Dim
ities ; 4-4, 5-4 and 6-4 figured and
plaid Cotton Shawls ; 6-4 damask,
black and coloured Silk Shawls ; black
Barcelona Silk Handkerchiefs, of dif
ferent sizes; cotton Armlets ;' white
muslin Shawls ; men's and women's
black and white Silk Stockings ; black,
white and coloured Cottondo. ; black
and coloured Worsted do.; men's and
women's black, White and coloured,
long and short Silk Gloves ; black and
coloured Cotton do.; a good assort
ment of ladies' short Kid do.; a great
variety Os fancy figured, striped, seed
ed and corded Cambrics and Muslins;
very nice and cheap Book Muslins ;
Furniture Chintzes; 7-8 and 4-4 Irish I
Linens; 3-4 and 4„4British Cottons ; I
NEW GOODS.
ALSO,
a large assortment of India Cottons, of
different qualities and widths; India
Checks and Handkerchiefs ; blue In
dia Cottons ; Bandanna and fancy silk
Handkerchiefs ; plaid Madrass neck,
and cotton pocket do. ; white cambric
do.; plaid silk Parasols; of different
sizes and prices; cotton Umbrellas ;
low priced white stick Fans; some tif
fany mounts with spangles ; black do. ;
black and coloured Ferretts, and black
Galloons; linen Threads; white and
coloured cotton Sowings; plain and
diaper Tapes ; Russia Sheeting; Rus
sia Diapers ; white cotton Laces ; blk.
silk do. ; blk. and coloured Ribbons;
black and coloured Sewing Silks ^nd
Twists; Brown Hollands and Brown
Cottons ; Bobbins ; Shirt Buttons;
Pins and Needles ; Cap Wire; black
and white Millinet; black Russells ;
Calimancoes; blue, black and green
Shalloons; coloured Durants ; black
and bottle-green Bombazetts ; linen &
cotton Platillas; Oil Cloth; cotton&
silk Braces; Quality and Shoe Bind
ings; black and blue basket worked
silk Coat Buttons ; best standard gilt
and common do. of fashionable sizes;
Vestdo. ; Coat & Vest Button Moulds;
men's and boy's Felt Hats ; an assort
ment of American and English Nap &
Fur Hats ; youth's do. ; white, yel
low, red and green Flannel and Baize ;
bottle-green Pelisse Flannel ; an as
sortment of black and coloured Mo
rocco Shoes,very nice ; morocco Pock
et Books.
Continued above..
es; Carry Combs; Stirrnp Irons ;
^Snaffle Bitts ; Girt Webbing; Awl
"Hafts ; Bed Cords; Cotton Cards ;
7 by 9 and 8 by 10 Window Glass by
the box ; Powder and Shot; Nails £
Brads of all sizes.
A general assortment of Crockery
and Glass Ware.— Also, Iron Hol
low Ware, such as Pots, Kettles,
Tea Kettles, Cart Boxes, &c.
Likewise, Russia and Swedes Iron ;
Blistered Steel; Iron and Shod Shov
els ; Robinson's Hoes ; Scythes ;
large and small Spinning Wheels ; Salt
Mortars and Sugar Boxes.
W. I. GOODS $ GROCERIES.
Hyson,
Young Hyson, I TEAS,
Hyson Skin, > ,
Souchong and | o f first quality.
BoheaJ
Rum, Brandy, Giri, Molasses, Loaf,
Havana and Brown Sugars, Lisbon
Wine, Raisins, Nutmegs, Cloves, In
digo, Salt Petre, Allum, Starch, Oat
meal, Alspice, Cassia, Ginger, Pepper,
Rice, Cotton, Flour, Coffee, Shells,
Isle of May Salt, Fish, Chocolate,
Windsor Soap, English Mustard, best
Fig, pigtail and fine twist Tobacco,
Real Spanish, Baltimore and Boston
Cigars, Charoots, real English Cephal
ic Snuff, Lorrillard's and Clark's Mac
coboy Snuff, Rappee do. Smoking To
bacco, Pipes, Lemons and Oranges.
(^Writing Paper and School Books
constantly for sale.
M^y 28.
WILL be sold at Public Auction, on the!
premises, a FARM, containing up
wards of seventy acres of excellent land
for mowing, tillage and pasturing, well
wooded and watered, pleasantly situated in
the Town of Stratham, within two miles of
Exeter great Bridge, and on the westerly
side of the post road leading to Portsmouth",
and adjoining a branch of Piscataqua river
—also a House and Barn, together with
about one and a half acre of land, with a
fine orchard on it, within a few rods of said,
Fanil, and about twenty-eight acres of ex-
piece on said river—also about twenty-five
acres of wood and timber land, thickly wood-[
ed with large timber pines, white oaks, and.l
building timber of all sizes. Said wood !
land will be sold in fifteen lots having a con
venient drift way to each lot from the high
way to the river, so that the purchaser may
get at his timber in summer or winter either
way. The whole of the above described,
land being a part of a valuable tract of land
called the Seammoh Farm.
Condition of sale will be made known ah
time and place.
OV. B. any person wishing for more paA
ticular information may be informed by ap
plying to Thomas or Simeon Folsom of Exeter,
William or Hezekiah Scammon, on the>
premises.
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Looking Glasses ; Shovels & Tonffi %
a good assortment of Knives & Forks ;
block tin Tea-Pots ; Sad Irons ; Com.
mode Handles; Rose do.; brass and
Iron Candlesticks ; Draw Locks ;
Chest, Fall, Trunk, Prospect and Pad
do. ; best steel plate Hand Saws; Dora
Tail, Pannel, Sash, Compass and Key
hole do. ; Norfolk Handles; Thumb
Latches; Gun Locks ; Cupboard and
Closet do. ; Stock do. ; Wood Screws;
Plane Irons; Hinges of all kinds ; aim
assortment of Files ; Rasps ; Bellows;
Tailor's and common Shears and Scis
sors ; Sheep Shears; Razors; Pen
knives ; Shoe do. ; Jack do. ; cast steel
Chissels by the set; common Chisscis
of different widths, and carpenter's
Socket do. ; mortising do. and Goug
es; Spurs ; Chopping Knives ; Glue;
Mason's Trowels ; Brass Cocks; Brass
Nails; Shoe do. ; Brass Knobs; Join
er's two feet Rules ; Awls ; Iron andi
Blocktin Spoons ; Shoe Pincers ,
Hearth, Clothes and Shoe Brushes ;
Steelyards ; Augers; Hammers ; Com
passes; Snuffers; Ink Stands; Bed
Screws ; Lamp Tops and Lamps ,
Hinges, Hooks &c.for Window Blinds,
Book Case Bolts; Trunk Handles,
Spike and Nail Gimblets; Tap Bor
ers ; Watch Keys and Seals; Netting
Pins ; Sieve Bottoms ; Spectacles ; Tea.
Cannisters ; Knee Buckles ; Snuff Box-
cellent pasturing, two pieces of Salt Marsh
containing between seven and eight acres
each, one of said pieces is on the round-
about (so called) aid is the most valuable
On Saturday, the 2d June, 1810, at 1 o'clock
adjourned from Monday 21st May.
HARD WARE,
PUBLIC SALE.