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Vol. XIV.I
' Fancy Goods.
Peter Coffin,
Has just received per the Galen and Mi
nerva from London, a great variety of
Fancy, fashionable fond staple
GOODS.
Which are now opening by wholcfale & retail.
14mong which are a large afl'ortment of,
Calicoes & Chintzes; printed Cam-|
bricks ; Muflinets; Dimities ; Black Modes;|
Black double Sarfenet for Gowns ; black Lace
Cloaks and Shawls ; wide black Laces for Cloaks
and Shawls ; black Lace Veils ; elegant white
Veils, front 3 to 20 dollars ; black and wh'ite
Laces and Footing ; black and color'd Crapes ;
Black Turkey Gauze for Cloaks ; Cyptefi Gau
zes ; Black talk Han'k<r chiefs and Shawls.
Mens' Cotton,¥cK!;;„:i 'IK Hose;
I Womens' Cotton and Silk Hose; Womens'
' plain, black and white Siik Gloves and Mats ;
.Vandyke and Picknic Gloves ; Cotton Gloves
and Mitts; Mens' Beaver, Silk and Brown
I "Thread Gloves ; Cotton and Siik Elastic Braces;
;Stock Stiffeners ; Mens' and Boys' Hats.
Fashionable Silk anil Cotton Girdles;
Silk Cords ; Gown Trimmings ; Cambrick ,
Shawls ; Checks ; Sewing Silks ; fashionable
Buttons ; Bindings ; Bed Laces ; white and co
lor'd Fringes, Cords and Tassels ; Umbrellas ;
Parasols with walking Canes. ~.
^ great variety of
Fashionable Straw and Cane Hats
an( l&c. _‘ May 5'
spring & summer Goods.
' Edward Parry
' Has imported by the latest arrivals, a gen
eral assortment of
Fashionable Goods,
among which are,
THE best London Superfine, black,
I blue, mixed & drab BROAD CLOTHS;
Double milled Caftimeres ; black and olive Vel
/Vetts ; twill'd Nankinetts; Dimities & Mufli
netts; Lawn, Camkick, & ^arfnett Mullins ;
Imbofs'd Cambrick; ; Colonade and Tambored
I^uflins ; Book & Jaconet Muffin, and Muslin
Shawls; Plain & Figured Chintzes ; Bed Lon
' don made Hatts of the latest fafhion.
a complete afatment of
Irish Linens & Sheetings,
with a large affirtment of other Goods as usu
al—all which will be fold che p, by wholesale
and retail, for call), or liberal credit, at his
Brisk Store, Na. \o Market Jlre^ti,
20,000 yds. good Tow^Clbth
wanted. Portfesoutb, May 5, 1893.
New Goods.
William S. Cooper,
Haiff relieved and is now opening at hisfop adjoining
the Belt- Tavern Congress f reet an afotmtns of
Spring & Summer GOODS,
which he will fell at the very lowest prices.
BROAD Cloths ; Caflimeres ; Black
& olive Velveteens; Wiidbors ; Durants ;
Tammies ; Moreens ; Plain. & ribb'd Calliman.
Coes ; it great variety of
Latest plaid Caliicoes and Chintzes,
)(very cheap) ; Copperplates; Dimities ;
Plain and plaid Chambray Mullins ;
EmlmfTd Mullins ;| &&, black, white & colour'd
Cambrick Mullins ; Book and Jaconet Muffins
Fafliionable Sarins Cambricks—
Fashionable silk Shags, for Bonnets ;
Waistcoating ; Men's plain and flriped Satips;black
and other Color'd Nankinetts ; Satin flrip'd do
Clouded Nankeens;
Men's white, black & color'd Cotton
Hole; Women's white & blk. Cotton Hose;
Women's black and color'd Cotton Gloves ; Men's
beaver and cotton Gloves;
Linen, cotton, romal, Bandahnoe, &
black silk Handkerchiefs; purple & chintz Shawls;
white Parifnea ; black Cypress; black Modes;
^patent black Laces ; Edgings ; black Lace Veils ;
Parasols.
Afew pieces of
Linens; India Cottons ; Threads ; Sew
ing Silks; Ribbons Buttons ; Tapes; Bindings;
Cotton Brack ; Cotton Umbrell?;; India Nan
keens. '
PAPER HANGINGS.
May 5.
SPRING GOODS.
James Rundlet,
,tl AS this day received per the Mi-
XX nerva, and Galen from London, and the
Patty .from Liverpool, 4 valuable aftertwent of
Staple & Fancy Goods,
which are now opening and are for sale at a small
advance, by wholesale and retail.
r 0 ..
g^Bills on London wapted.
PafoCb, Ma, 5, 1804.
New Goods.
Daniel Weeks,
Next door to Mr. Abner Blasdell's Buck-ftteet,
has just received a great variety of
Spring & summer Goods)
among which are
BEST fuperfine Broad-Cloths & Caffi
meres; fine and common do all colours ;
.plain & striped, black, blue,drab & olive Velvets ;
I black Twill'd ; black, blue & buff English Nan-
Ikeens ; plain & twill'd Nankinetts ; filfc Velvets ;
, plain & striped Sattins ; Merfaiels Quiltings for
Waidcoating ; Chintzes & Callicoes ; Copperr
plate & patch Furnitures ; Chambray Mullins ;
^ great variety of
Black white & coloured cambric Mus
lins ; farfnet Cambrics; book & jaconet Mus
lins ; Dimities ; Mufiinetts; silk §hags for Bor
ners ; Straw Bonnets ; Ladies black, white and
faffiionabje colour'd cotton Hose ; some very
nice, Gentlemens black and white cotton Hose ;
black and white (ilk Hose ; black, white and
colour'd silk Gloves.
White & colour'd picnic Mits ; Cotton Gloves;
gentlemans' Beaver Gloves ; black and coloured
Cotton do. ; black, white and coloured double
Sarfhet for gowns ; Luttrings ; Silk Velvets ;
black and white patent Laces ; white thread
Laces and Edgings ; black and white Lace
Veiling ; black Modes ; black and white Parif
net; black Crape ; black and green Gauzes.
Silk Shawls ; fancy silk Handkerchiefs;
1 inen; cotton, bandannoe, & black silk Hand
kerchiefs ; $ 9 and % netting cambric Shawls;
black do"; white embroidered do ; iafhiooable
fancy Fans; black do ; morocco Slippers; black
Russel ; Moreens ; Calimancoes $ Durants ;
I and + Irish Linens; Shirting Cotton ; Oil-
Cloths; Morocco; silk and cotton, Bracers ;
' Umbrellas ; Pins ; Kneedles; Sewing Silks ;
Threads ; Combs; Ribbons ; Tastes; Buttons ;
Scissors ; Knives ; Razors, &. &c. all very low
for cash or Ihort credit.
Portfaoutb, May 5, 1804.
Paints Lead & Shot.
D ECEIVED per Galen and Minerva from
London— White Lead ; do.ground in Oil;
Black Lead ; Red do. Venetian Red ; Spanish
Brown; Spruce Yellow; do.' ground in Oil ;
Patent Yellow; Prussian Blue ; Vermillion ; Ver
digrife; Vitriol ; Whiting ; English Glue ;
Rotten Stone ; Gold and Silver Leaf, &c.
Thick and Thin Sheet Load ;
Patent Shot, all sizes.
Likequife an assortment of
Books, Charts and Stationary; among which
are, Park on Insurance, sth edition; Eaflln
dia Directory ; Malham's Gazeteer; More's
Daily Assistant ; Southland's Ship Builder ;
Art of Mail-Making; Globes, %.&o< 1
Also on band
Blunt's Practical Navigator ; do. Coasting
Pilot, last editions,- for fate by
LADD & SMITH.
No. 5, Merchant's Koras. May 5.
NEW GOODS.
B. Brierley,
No. 9, Market-free^
HAS jtift received by the lips John Adams,
& Packet from Liverpool, a very extensive
affortmentof
Spring Goods,
among which are,
Superfine Broad Cloths, and Kerfeymere^
cf the very firft quality, fine and common do
all colors ; Painted Calicoes ; Dimities ; Muf
linetts and Thicksets.
4, 4 an d % white, black and color'd
Jaconet and Cambric Muffins ; check'd' do. j
black and Color'd Chambray Mullins ; Cobweb,
tarton, colonade and laced ground ditto ; Book
do. all prices ; Sarfnet Cambries all colours;
black, blue and other color'd, plain and twill'd
Nankinett ; Silk striped do ; black, white,
and color'd Cotton Hose ; dittb, ditto,
cotton and silk Gloves and Mitts ; black and
white Parifnett ; black Cypress, and other Gau
zes ; black ind whit^, plain and figured Pati
netie; do. do. patent Laces and Edgings ; do.
do. Lace Veils, Cloaks; Spencers, Shawls; Man
tles and Peiffes; white Thread, Laces and Edg
ings ; Um&ellas and walking cane Parasols ;
linen and cotton Checks and Stripes.
Likmife a iarge quantity of
Straw, willow, and cane BONNETS;
Fans ; Gown Trimmings of the newest faffiiop ;
silk Girdles : silk and cotton Cord all colors ;
Chingz and white Bed Laces; Boot Strapping
Fl^fcand round Bobbins, &c. making together
with his former Stock, a most complete assort
ment of Choice Goods, which be offers for
sale, on very low terms for Cash or approved
Credit. Portfaoutb, April 3, 1804.
RAGS! RAGST~~
CASH and the liigheft price given for
clean Linen, Cotton, and Cotton and Linen
RAGS, per 100 or smaller quantity, at Taban
wells' Book-Store.
• Au, 18, f'
ORACLE POST.
Tuesday, may 22, 1804.
"l^l J HE DISPOSITIONS ANB HAB!TS
WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY
MORALITY ARE INDISPENSA
BLE SUPPORTS. ^WaJbinglQn's Legacy.
-misce LLANY. =
Mr. Sleeve s Letterto the Secretary of State.
DURHAM, APRIL 24.
Sit,;
I Have this day had the honour of receiving
your fetter of the gift March, accompanying the
evidence of my appointment to the office of At
torney of the U. States for the New-Hampthite
Difri& —a token of refped, that, under other
circumstances and impressions, would have been
flattering to my feelings; butthe pleasure resulting
from a coinedence of inclination and propriety
is denied @/m ghfe occasion—Although I may
have once y/ld'ed to.different proportions, my
mind has ,%,%reded on a deliberate refutation of
nuibing all prokffioaal business, in a few months
from this time ; a period much too limited for
entering upon a new engagement, requiring fame
preparation, if the dignity & interest of govern
ment be supported—Beyond the regulations, thus
prescribed to mylelf, it can only be necessary to
.add, that I was unwillingly made a contributory
instrument in creating vacancies; and a due re
gard to my own reputation forbids me to profit 1
by that achievement. It remains to be observed
that governmental agency has left me no justi
fiable alternative,but that of declining to accept
the appointment — I, therefore, avail myfelf of the
earlieit means of forwarding to you the commii
fibn submitted to my consideration.
With fentifhents of high fefpeft,
I have the honour to be.
Sir your obed't ferv't,
JONA. STEELE.
James Madison, Esq.?
Secretary of State. J
From the Charlton Courier.
The bittrift Court was engaged nearly the
whole of last week by a catife of considerable
magnitude and importance to the commercial
world.—Captain Sachs, commanding a national
corvette of France was arretted ih Charleston at
the suit of Messrs. Mui and Foltz, for the cap
ture of the Anita, ah American vessel, the cargo
of which he was charged with having unlaw
fall, disposed ofin the Island of Cuba. Sachs
being afterwards on a cruile put into Savanna
for provisions, and coming here on business to
the French Consul, was arretted. —Mr. Williams
Loughton Smith appeared in his behalf, and
pleaded in bar to the juriidifton of the court, it
appearing that the Anna, being concerned in
the Have trade, prohibited in American bottoms
was navigating as a Danish vessel, and exhibi
ted to the captors no other but Danish papers ;
and it being clearly established that a vessel shall
be considered to belong to that nation under
whose pafports ffie fails. In fuppoft of the jur
ifdidioq it was ably contended by Meffre. Turn*
'bull, Ward, Ford and Parker, that althapgh the
Anna, navigated as a Dane yet as it was clearly
proved that both (hip and cargo were real Amer
ican property, the court was bound to take cog
nizance of the suit. To this it was replied b,
Mr. Smith and Mr. Gailliard, for the defendant
that if the' court should consider the Anna as A
merican, then thecaufemuft be dismissed, because
it was admitted the claimants were engaged at
the time ofthe capture, in an illegal traffic, and
to this effed Mr. Smith quoted a late judgment
of Sir W. Scott, where it was declared that a
claimant who had violated an ad of Parliament
could never be entitled to the aid of an English
court of jufticc against a captor. Mr S. further
warmly contended that an American court of
Justice ought not to countenance these maftedvoy
4^, in whieh a foreign dress was put on and
off, like a kind of new, invented marine fencer,on
purpose to evade the laws of the land. The Courr
fcl For the Defendant, in case these two grounds
failed, relied moreover on the articles of the trea^
ty with France, by which our Courts are retrain
ed from arresting national officers, or taking
cognizance of prizes captured b, French veflels.
His honor Judge Bee, dated in a clear, and con
cise degree, the law in this case : Having repor
ted the evidence he observed, that our treaty
with France plainly designated the kind of docu
ments to be exhibited on the high seas to the
Cruisers of the French republic ; that the Anna
at the time ts her capture, produced none such
as were so required ; she exhibited none but the
Danish papers, she fai'rd under a Danish flag, &
the captain palled for a Dane. Under such cir
bumfiances the Court was bound to consider her
as Danish and of course could not take cogni
zance of the suit. That when individuals under
took these wafted voyage/ with falfe papers they
ran all risks and could not justly complain of any
subsequent lot fuflained thereby. That it was un
heceflary to give any opinion onthe other points
as on this he was clear, the Anna mutt be cpnfi d
ered as Danish and the Court consequently had
no jurifdiaiotb=The plea in bar to the jurisdic
tion was fu&aibed, and the libel dismissed with
coils.
From the Guardian. _
About 60 rears ago, when the plague raged at
' Naples, Sir George D.vis, consul the Englifb na
tion, retired to Florence. It happened one day he
went out of cUriotity to fee th# Duke's lions.
In one of the dens by a lion which the keeper in
three years time could not tame, with 'all the art &
gentle usage imaginable. Sir Ge^ge no looser ap.
peared'at the grates of the den but the Itou ran to
him, with all the marks of joy to tmfport he was
capable of expreffinf Ik rargd himfelf up and lick.
_=re^^
ed his hand, which this gevUeman put in through
the grates. The keeper affrighted, took him by
the arm & polled him away,begging him not to haz
ard his life by goidg so riea r the fierteft creature of that
kind that ever entered those dens. However noth
ing would (atisfy Sir George, notwithstanding all
that could be laid to diifoade him, but be must go
into the den to him. The very inflaht he entered me
Tian tarew his paws upon his Moulders, and licked
bis face, and rart to and fro the den, fawning Ind
full of joy, like a dog at the fight of his matter. —
After Several embraces & faiutatious exchanged on
both tides, they parted very good friends. —The
rumourotthisinterview between the lion & the flan-
Iger ran immediately through the whole city, and
;Sr George wis very near puffing for a Saint among
the people. The gieatdukewhen heheardof it font
for Sir George, who waited upon his bighnefs to the
detymf to fatisfy his ceriofiry gave hid) the follow
ing account cf what seemed to strange to the duke
and bis followers.
"A captain vs a (hip from Barbary .gateme this Ifo
on when he was a ,munr whelp I brought him up
tame, but When I thought him too large to be faf^
feted to runabout the house, I built a den for him
in my court yard, from that time he never was per
mitted to go foole, except when I brought him with
io Poors to (hew him to my friends. When he was five
years old in his gamesome tricks, he did some mif-'
chief by pawing and playing with people, having
, griped a Man one day a little too h#d, I ordered
him to be (hot, for fear of incurring the guilt of
what might happen ; upon this 4 friend who was;
then at dinner with me begged him. flow he coma
here I know not.
Duelling being so nloch the order of the day, two
Jews, resident in Sheerness, having had a quarrel
a few days ago, determined that their names fhoukl
appear in the lift of the many who have lately
fought" the bubble reputation even in the pistol's
moUtb." One of the parties having teafort to doubt
of the courage & attendance of the other on the ap
pointed morning, proposed that they mould each
depofitfve pounds in the hands of a third periop to be
forfeited by the defaulter in attending the field :
which precaution, it appears; was very necessary, as
the party fufpeded procured a friend of his to ap
prize the Magiffrate of the dreadful deed that was
going to be enaded, who of course had the parties
brought before him, and bound in very heavy pen
alties to keep the peace. The pledges for their punw
aridity were delivered to him by the umpire, and
be very propetly ordered the money to be diftribu- 1
ted among the poor of the parish. Lon. pap.
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, BY THE MAILS.
Washington, May 7. %
OFFICIAL LETTERS.
From Commodore Preble, be the Sece tarv ofthe Na%
Malta harbour Jan. 17, 1804.
" The coast of Tripoli js extremely dangerous
at this season cf the year, but I could not avoid
paying it a visit, and on the morning of the 23d
ult. I captured a vessel in fight of Tripoli, which
left that in the night bound to Bengaza—She
! was under Turkish colors and navigated b,
Turks and Greeks, brit had on board tWo Tripo«
lineofficers of diftirtdion, a son of one df the offi
cers, a number of Tripoline foidiers, arid forty- .
two black men and women llaves belonging to
the Bafhaw and his fubjeds, and a small sum of
about one thoufand'dollars in money, Tripoline
property.
"My objed in doming over her, was to attend
to the tranflatiori of the papers, to look out for
some good boats for light cruizers, and to for
ward some necessary [applies to ohr Unfortunate
countrymen.
v "If I find on the translation of the papers,
that the vessel is Turkish property, 1 firall freleafe
her together with all the people which the capt
claims, viz. an officer of the Captain Pacha,
three Turks arid seven Greeks ; the remainder
amounting to about 60 Tripolites and slaves be
longing to the Bafhaw and his febje&s, I shall
keep as prisoners. I have written to the Ba
fhaw proposing an exchange, and hope this cap
ture will, enable me to release some of our coun
trymen, or at any rate, it will afford us confider
at& advantage in any negociation for a ransom
or peace. .
"I have this day had indirect proposals from
the Bafhaw for peace.— He is willing to reftqre
the frigate Philadelphia for a fchooper, and he
will give tip our officers and men for §©o dollars
each. I believe that on these terms he would
make peace but he demands an annual Ripend
for keeping it, such as the Swedes or Daves pay
him amounting to dollar# per annum,
payable in This we ought nevdr to accede to,
as it would stimulate the avarice of the other,
Barbary powers, arid probably induce them to
declare war against ,us.
New York, May &
EAR THQUAKE. #
About one o'clock thi# morning the foock ot
art earthquake was fcnfibly felt in this city. The
report which evidently Brook the ,oufes in its
passage, appeared to Proceed from the east to
the weft. The atmofehere, ,t mi, hour was
tranquil, and the so W^ agd brilliant.
- NEW-YORK, MAY 7.
The late inundation at Sangerfieid, Oneida
,County, has produced very serious effeds to the
lives as well a- property of the inhabitants A
mill dam which eroded one of the streams in this
" vicinity, owned by Mr. John B. Williams, by the
great pressure of water, gave way and seemed to
sweep every thing in its direction. Anut 'er a
little neiow, owned by Tuftus Taw^r,Efq. being
better fortified, opposed for a few moments the
mtog of the Rood -Not ^fpeding danger, Esq.
Towff wdh m of his neighbours, Mr. Will-
/No. 33.