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A,cat variety of
Men's patent knotted worsted;
silk & worsted, all silk, and cotton Hosi
ery ; Lilies' cotton and silk Hofc, some
with laced clocks; women's long & short
colored cotton Gloves and Mitts: black
cotton and worfttd ditto; black, white
- arid colored long and (bort silk Gloves;
Men's beaver Gloves, some linel with
flannel, cotton and silk ditto..
Fashionable colored and black
SarfnelCimbrnks; blickji< koneiMuf.
lins,cambrickMuA ^ s, j conet book.book
fprig'd, a °d Tam^red M flns ; ^ ite<i
Cambricks ; rtw3 n r T -:.Chiefs ;
, Tambored neck Cloths; # ftoc4 OUpers.
// o*€,/ variety o'
Florence fitks; Lidia & French
Infringe; f.riprd and pb ri bd^n Silks;
English and l^in Satins hr Cloaks;
pclingSrtuns; Modes; C< rh; Ganz ,
wide and narrow Italan,Cr,c ; black
silk velvet; thread Laces anti Edg tags;
black Laces; fattir, mode & china Rib
bons; pound Ribbons and G dooms.
A. few elegant London full dress
Bonnets, Ladies' split straw village Bon
hets, gipfty hat Bonnets, gipfey Hais,
girls' and women’s common flraw^m
willow Bonnets, chip Hats; straw Trim
mings ; Bands and Talfels, straw Rhetts,
fancy straw Flowers and Plumed ahi
ficial Flowers and Wreaths, Sunflower
Wreaths.
/ large afctwnt of
Men's beaver and other Hats of
all prices by the case or retail ; Women's
beaver Hats and Bonnets,with bands and
flumes.g
Umbrellas, some with walking
canes; Parrafols; Fans; Cotton and
silk Braces; colored and white Threads ;
pound Pins, packet and bundle, ditto;
Z& yard wide Irilh <nd German Lin
nun ; brown Hollands ; Indb Cottons ;
Cotton ftfipes and checks, India Calli.
coef, Sewing Silks and Twills; falh
;Qe ^d P l *^ c() '! , d . vest
Buttons ; Button ^ulds ; Penknives;
toils ; ScifforO Wy Combs; Vd
vet bindings;re.lMorcCCorffketbooks ; .
Indies' Morocco Pocketbooks &Threa
cases; shirt Wires ; Ink Powder ; Tapes ;
Bobbins, &c.
Carpets & Carpeting.
Paper Hangings and borders at
reduced prices.
Porfa^ 0%^ ^ ^
A jew Copies of
Mr Wolcott's Addiefs
arc ffitfor file at Treats
A large Assortment of
Superfine,midlihg & low priced
Broadcloths and Caffimeres the moll fash
ionable colors and mixtures ; Devonfliire
Kerfeys; Plains; Serges; ForeftCloths:
Ratteens; brown, blue, drab and mixt
Coatings; fearnaughts; Shaggs; Swan,
skins ; 3aize6 and Flannels ofall colors ;
8 78& io Rose Blankets.
A great variety of
E'egant silk velvet vest Shapes,
Sawandow and Todinet ditto; white &
colouredQuihing ditto; men's rich black
Savin and silk Florentine ; striped Sattins.
Ahandfome Afrtment of #
London Chintzes ; Callicoes ;
Patch Furnitures ; Copperplatrs ; Dimi
ties; Muflinets; Damask table cloths ;
India Napkins ani table cloths; Cotton
Fringes.
Black, white, and fancy colored
Camels, hair Shawls, elegant silk Shawls,
mufliri, chintz and purple Shawls, Linen,
Cotton, Bandanna, Smterfoy and black
silk Handkerchiefs, cotton and linen
cambrick ditto.
Wildbores ; Camblets ; Shal
loons; plain and striped Calamancoes ;
Ruffels, Florentines, Durants and Tam
mies; Velvets; Ticklers ; Coidurnys;
HonersCorl; Fuftains^ Jeans; Dar
rels and Nanking.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
NEW GOODS.
—o—
James Rundlet,
IN FORMS his friends and cus
tomers that he has imported in the
Minerva and Galen from London, and
the John Adams and Warrington from
Liverpool, an extensive assortment of
Staple & Fancy Goods,
fuitabk for the prefect and approaching
season, which are now opening and vill
be fold at a small advance, by wholesale
and retail, VIZ—
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL 1
prosperity, RELIGION AND MORALITY are INDISPENSIBLE >
SUPPORTS—- WASHINGTON'S Legacy. J
m.XIII.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, (802.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Published every
Witto ^tate^
Portsmouth
To the reader into whose hands this KAR
ratife may fall ; especially my Sea
faring BkimißEN.
FRIENDS,
When any remarkable circumstances
take place in adman's life, he feels com
monly a disposition to communicate
them to the world : If they have been
deliverances from great and signal
dangers, he will make this communi
cation from a principle of gratitude to
the Being who hath protested and pre
ferred him : he will with to engage
others to be thankful on his behalf; —
and a knowledge of the kindness of
Heaven to him may lead others to trust
in God, when they are brought into
like distress and danger. By these mo
tives the fubje& of the following pages
hopes he is influenced in publishing
them to the world; which is all the
apology that may be expeded from the
Public's distressed friend,
BARN. DOWNES, jun.
Barnfable, Sept. 10, 1786.
A NARRATIVE.
IWAS born in Barnftable, in New-
England, October 2, 1757, of credi
ble Parents, whom I served as an obe
dient son, I hope, until the commence
ment of the late war called me from
my home, and led me to exchange the
occupation of a hu^andman, to which
I was bred, for the more dangerous
employment of a soldier. In this ca
pacity, I served my country 3 cam
paign, and know not that my behav
iour was censured by my officers. ^
After having returned For a time to
the farming business, I concluded to
try my fortune at sea: I entered ac
cordingly on board the schooner Bunk
er Hill, Capt. Isaac Cobb, commander,
on a privateering voyage : hut we had
not been out more than 6 days before
we were taken by the brig Hope, one
Brown, commander, and carried into
Halifax. We were committed to jail
and kept very fliort : Then I was tak
en with the Small pox, thro' which
Gop fafely carried me when destitute
of the neceffarfes of life, and under
great preflure of mind. But after my
being recovered so far as to be return
ed to the jail frbm the hospital, in con
sequence of my having nothing but a
small allowance of salt provisions, which
were next to poifoh tor a sick person, I
^Was taken with a violent fever, which
returned me again to the hospital, and
brought me to the gates of the grave.
No person who hath not experienced it
can imagine how gloomy and distress
ing it is to be Tinder such circumstanc
es :To be far distant from our dearest
friends ; to be among persons who are
not only without any concern for us,
or interest in our fate, but who ate our
profeffed enemies, and not governed
even by the common principles of hu^
manity, is a case truly melancholy.—
In this situation I wa§ attacked with a
bleeding of the nose, (to which I had
before been fubjed) which brought me
to the very borders of eternity !
After this I was; by the smiles oT
heaven recovered and restored, by a
cartel, with 400 of my Countrymen to
our own homes. How welcome they
were to us, and how pleasant it was to •
me to fee the faces of my friends again,
any one may imagine more easily than
I can describe 1
But though I had been so unfuccefs
ful in my firft attempt at sea, I could
not refill the inclination I had to try
once more What Providence would do
for me: I left my native place, went
to Bolton, and entered on board the
brig Arnold, James Magee, command
er. J well remember 1 felt an unusu
al deje&ion when I entered on this un
dertaking ; and tho' I pretend not to
fay that this foreboded the misfortunes,
I wa^to meet with in this fat^l vessel,
For the ORACLE.
—o—
Messrs. Treadwells,
The following is a feple narrative of
one of the most afeeing feenes ever exhibit
ed on the coasts of New-England. It was
original/, published in the fam of a pamph
let, for the benefit of the narrator, who was
one of the unhappy fufferers. I fend you
the only copy of it, which, after considera
ble enquiry, I have been able to obtain, that,
if,ou please, it may be rescued from oblivi
on by an insertion in the Oracle.
—o—
PREFACE.
upon the quarter deck.
It is not portable to describe my sensa
tions at this period ; death appeared iri
efitable, and we waited every moment
for its approach ! Even now, when I
recoiled my feelings it is difficult to
Ready my pen! And indeed I had
ground enough for my appreherifions,
for we had not been 16ng upon the
quarter-deck before the water upon the
taain-deck was even with it. Our fore
maft was dill ftanding,which cauty the
vessel to roll very much,but when We had
cut that away file lay stiller. The brig
now lay funk 1 the tide was flowing
faft and the sea broke Very heavily over
Us. We were all upon the quarter
deek, and the water came in upon us
ancle deep.
Therte was a fail in the netting upon
the windward-quarter, which we con
trived to lash over its, but there were
so many under it that we Should have
been. Rifled for want of breath, if we
had not cut places to let in the air.—-
The tide Was then about at its height
but the storm did not abate. The>e
was nothing to be heard around but
screeches, groans and deep lamenta
tions for themselves and their families,
and earned cries to Gob for mercy and
relief!
There was such a croud upon the
quarter deck we could not (land up
without treading upon one another.—
Being in a Struggle 1 was thrown
down & trampled upon as if the breath
would be crouded'out of my body :—
However I soon recovered my feet and
trampled upon others in my turn ; for
but a very little way from the brig,and
the cold was extreme ; we continued
hard at work all day without eating
or drinking any thing Scarcely, having
but little appetite with the profpe<ft of
death continually before our eyes.
Until now We had hopes of escape,
but just before night we looked into the
hold and saw the calks floating about ;
this drove us to despair, and we for
fook the pumps without a ray of hope
but from the immediate interposition of
divine Providence. Many of the peo
ple now began to prAy, and I went in
to the cabbin and fat upon one of the
gun-carriages. I had not been there
long before I saw chests floating about
and perceived that the tide was flowing
on us very faft ; by diredion of the
captain all left the cabbin and came
On Saturday December 26, about
6 o'clock in the morning, from the vi
olent motion of the sea, the brig struck
the bottom as though it would drive
her keel in. As there was not depth
of water plough to work the vessel in
the place'where we lay, and we saw a
heavy storm coming on,our Command
er thought it bed to cut our cables and
let her drive, which was Immediately
done. The storm increased very faft,
so that we were obliged to cut away
the main-mad, and we drifted upon an
hard flat a little to the westward of
Beach-Point.
fel began to leak very faft, and with
every motion of the fed she struck the
bottom as tho' file would split in pieces.
We kept 2 pumps going, but could not
gain upon the water. The storm now
increased to a most prodigious degree :
It snowed so thick that we could fee
and we now laboured hard in throwing
over our wood and getting our guns
off the decks into the hold, but the vef-
yet I have often refled-d upon it since
with a degree of admiration.
While the brig lay in the harbour, I
attempted with some other hands to go
on board another vessel in a small boat,
but the wind suddenly rising we were
in danger of being drowned ; the boat
run on Governoi's Ifiand, and we were
obliged to flay there 24. hours before
we could get off. Providence preferr
ed my life in this danger, in order that
I might live through greater, and tefti
fy to his loving kindness and mercy.
On December 24, 1778,Capt. Magee
failed from Borton: We had been at
sea but a few hours, when a most terri
ble gale of wind arose, so that the wa
ter was almofl knee deep on the lee
ward fide of the quarter-deck. We
continued in the Bay that day and the
night following, but on the next day
we got into Plymouth. The wind was
abated but the cold was severe and in
tense beyond description. We came to
anchor a little below Beach-Point, in
the Harbour of Plymouth.
This was early on Saturday morning,
I recovered gradually, but was oblig
ed to pass through the painful opera
tion of having some of my limbs sepa
rated from my body : But after all
these distresses I am ftilbamong the lii>
ing to praise Gon! Let my (pared life
be devoted to his service, rhd may I ev
er be mindful of his benefits ;
Names oftbe deceased belonging to Barnftable,
Capt. %bn Rujell, Barn. Lothrop,
Daniel Hall, Tho. Cafley, Eben. Bacon,
fafey Garritt, John Berry, Barnabas
Howoes, Stephen Bacon, Jon. Lotbrop,a.n&
BoJl^h a negro man. l
Front the Gazette of the United States.
VARIOUS reports have been cin
culated about the sale of the stock
which was owned by the government
in the bank of the United States, and
notwithflanding the anxiety that has
been expressed respecting the disposal of
such a large amount of national pro
perty, and some months have elapsed
since the sale, the Secretary of the Trea
sury has not thought proper to inform
the public, either of the quantity fold,
the terms of sale, or the disposition of
the proceeds. On the contrary, we
have reason to belelve, that the whole
business was conducted under ftri& in
junctions of secrecy. This being the
case, an individual may be permitted
to state such information refpeding the
transition as has come to his knowl
edge ; and leave it to the people to
judge of the expediency of the measure.
Struggling in this manner and try
ing to clear ourselves from those who
fell down ,had pulled off most of Our
(hoes, and the wet and cold soon froze
our feet. Nature could sustain it no
longer and the people began to die all
around me. Capt. John Russel of
Barnftable was the firft of those with
whom I was acquainted that died, but
many others soon followed him. Fa
tigue and distress, added to the extreme
cold and despair of relief, put a period
to the lives of great numbers. Those
who were able to (land were obliged to
huddle up close together, and breathe in
each other's faces to preierve them
from freezing to death, while their com
rades were dying arpund them all
night. In the morning a most awful
fight presented itfelf to us ; 60 of our
comrades lay dead across each other,
and but two of my townsmen, were a
mong the living !
On Lord's-Day, Dec. 27, the storm
abated and the fun appeared clear, but
the severe cold dill continecL We saw
Plymouth and a number of people com
ing along the ffibre for our relief: We
could difeern theffi push off two boats ;
and make an hard trial to come to us,
but the harbour was so full of ice they
could not reach us : We saw them re
turn and it gave 11$ an inexpressible
shock. The elevation which their ap
pearance gave us tended to fink us the
lower. Our situation was very gloomy
—we had little to support nature except
rum; no shoes on our feet, and very
much frozen ; the Heavens was oar on
ly covering!
I retained my senses until about 2
o'clock on Lord's-Day, but was then
deprived of them and lay on the quar
ter-deck until the next day, when a
boat got to us in order to carry the liv
ing ashore, which amounted only to
32. When they were looking around
to colled the furvivors,they at firft sup
posed me to be dead, but feeing one of
my eye-lids move they took me up and
laying me in the boat carried me ashore.
I was carried to Mr. Bdrtlet's tavern
whole kindness to me I would thus
publickly acknowledge, and hope I
(hall always remember with, gratitude.
My cloaths were firft cut from off me
and I was put into cold water in order
to take out the froft : I was then plac
ed in bed and having my teeth forced
open had some cordials poured down
my throat, but I have nd remembrance
of any of these tranfadions, for I lay
perfectly senseless until 2 o'clock on
Monday, When my, senses came to me
at once. My eyes were not open, but
I heard the voices of persons talking a
tound me,and the firft idea which struck
me was, that I was still on board the
brig, but that a boat come to our re
lief I soon however opened my eyes
and was informed of what had happen
ed and where I then was.
the immediate regard which every man
had to his own life prevented him from
attending to the distresses of his neigh
bours ! _
6,ADVERTISEMENTS reasonably & conspicuously inserted—COMUM
( NIC ITIONS duly attended to—and etoy FAVOR THANKFULLY
1 ACKNOWLEDGED.
Saturday Morning; by WILLIAM TREADWELL, & C
PRICE 1 DOLLAR 50 CENTS Pet Annum. [No. 1.
federal government, fourteenth IP
Advertiser.
©Wie anti
There is also good reason to believe
that the payments for laid stock are ?6
be made by inftalments,the firft of which
is not to take place until January ; and
in the interim the purchaser will receive
the July and January dividends, which
will no doubt be equal to nine per cent,
on each (hare of 400 dollars, which
was their original val,e. In addition
to which, he is allowed to make the
payments in bills on Holland, at a rate
of exchange two per cent, above par.
Admitting the foregoing to be a joft;
flatement of fads, let us fee, without en
tering into minute calculations of inter
est, what the House in London will, in
all human probability, make by the
purchase and, which is the fame thing,
what might have been laved to the U
- nited States, if Mr. Gallatin had pur
sued a more prudential line of conduct,
by employing suitable Agents to opo
rate in favor of the United States.
Dolls.
A&ual sales of 2220 \i33o (hares, at 155 pr
(hares at 45 per cent,/ cent, the lowest price
Dolls. 1,387,600 (in London 1,376,460
Profit & loss 194,473) Add 3 dividends,
fay 9 per cent, ba
406 dollars per
(hare, 79,930
a per cent, advance
er exchange, fay,
1,287,600d01b. 25,75%
1,483,073 <,483,073^.
The writer will leave it to those who °*
ire inclined, to make such comments
as they may think proper. This is the
firft evidence ofMr. Gallatin's financial
talents that we have beeiynade acquan
ted with, and no doubt hands connect
ed with, Ind may have arisen out of the
repeal of the taxes on whiskey and plea
fureable carriages. ECONOMY.
GIFFORD's JUVENAL
The lovers of literature have now an'
opportunity of enriching their libraries
with one of the molt admirable produc
tions which has appeared for many
years. It has long been felt and re
gretted, that no good translation of the
works of the Giant Satirifthad been made
into English. Dryden's, though far the*
best, is essentially deficient. Do&or
Johnson in his partiality to. 'that poet,
fays that his truncation of Juvenal
wants die dignity but preserves the wit
of the original ; yet it is certain chat it
wanes tie kind of wit that was Juvenal's,
Rill more than his dignity, the broad
buffoonery, the loose jokev and clumsy
levities of Dryden, are indeed the very
reverse of the bofti, grave, severe, man
fly wit of the Latin fativift. It was
supposed that Churchill pofleffed many
requisites for improving on the attemps
of Dryden : But when it is considered
into whole hands the talk has at daft
fallen, it is not to be lamented that his
dissipation, his indolence, or his private
avocations prevented him from the un
aertaking. No Poem iri any modern
languge display so much of the spirit
of Juvenal, as do the Eaviad and
Beviad. —Thofe who, after entering
into the marrow of Juvenal, had pe
rused those poems, could not but enter
tain a wish to fee a translation from the
pen of the fame author. That wish is
now abundantly gratified. For, ex
clulive of a genius naturally congenial
to that of the Roman poet, Mr. Gifford
has an evident advantage over Dryden,
in the pofleffion of that which poets of
ten want ; a perfect knowledge of the
world as it is, and a keen penetrating
insight into the palling vices, foibles &
follies of the day ; this with his long
study of the author, has enabled him,
without departing efleptialiy from the
original, but merely by a happy fekc-
and whether Mr. Gallatin has (hereby
proved himfelf to be an able financier,
and faithful negotiator.
The number of (hares held in the
bank and fold to a House in England
were 2220, oil which the U.S. received
half yearly dividends, equal one yefr
with another including a triennial fur-,
plus, to Q per cent, per annum ; and
we are told the sale was made in order
to discharge part of a debt due to mo
ney lenders in Holland, for which the
Government was paying no more than
at the rate of five per cent, interest.
The sale was made in the month of
June last, and at the rate of 1„ per
cent, and upwards,both inPhiladelphia
and Newyork ; and in London, where
the dividends are regularly paid to flock
holders by the Agents of the bank half
yearly,the price was equal to 155 a ijo
per cent.