Oracle post — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-11-29 00:00:00, page 4

Selections from London papers.
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&gentleman, (au active magistrate in the counts of
Somerfe?) has invented a machine upon the principle of
a time piece, whose profeffed objt& is to keep watchmen
and laborers constant to their duty, or to ascertain at
what periods they betray the confidence reposed in them
• The face of the nocttiaey is divided into hours and parts
of hours, with cells answering to each period of time, and
revolves once in twelve hours. The test of regular and
well sustained vigilance is given by a watchman dropping
a token as he passes into the cell, and each cell is irrecover
able when paired. It will also be highly ufeful in manufaa
ories, where,it is at present, the employment of an overseer
to watch the end period when each man comes to his
work. By the use of the Noduary the «lh of the watch
man, which are convenient w arnings to the neighbouring
thief, will be superseded, as the flighted found alarm the
watchman, walking in silence, and not drowning the diftaut
noise by that of his own voice.— Cori paper.
Useful.-—Marine Spencer.
The London Humane Society have awarded to Mr.
Knight Spencer, an honarary silver medal, for inventing a
Marine fpencer. It is described as confiding of a girdle
to fit the body, fix inches broad, composed of about
800 old tavern corks, strung on a wire, laffied together
with cords, covered with canvafsAnd painted in oil so as
to be water proof, When to be used, 4 mud be Aided from
the feet close up under the arms and fattened over each
shoulder with cords. It is observed that a person thusequip
ped will float head and (houlders above water in any Rorm,
and 6y paddling with his hands may cafily gain a (hore, if
wrecked in the neighbourhood of land.
An eminent divine, (fays a London paper) pre
fers sis with the following recipe, which he lays is
better than gold, and which he allures us has given
wonderful releif to numberless persons who were
sadly affixed with pain in their bowels, colds, and
asthmatic dilorders, and even to many who were
bordering on cunfumption. Take a handful of fe
ver few, rosemary tops, and linseed, bruile the feed
and boil all together in three pints of water till half
reduced, flrain it off and add as much Norbonne
honey, as the stomach will bear ; take two t?ble
fpoonfuls night and morning. Isa child one (poon
ful is fufficient ; if a long aftbmatie complaint with
difficulty in breathing take the honey on toasted
bread every morning with new or warm milk or
tea, made of rosemary or lage; it will cure them
if persevered in.
A worthy clergyman in Yorkshire, lately deceased, be
queathed in his will, a considerable property to his only
daughter on the subsequent Conditions: —First, that the did
not enter into the date of matrimony without the consent
of his two executors, or their representatives; Iccondly that
she dressed with greater decency than the had hitherto
been accustomed to do. The Testator's words are—
" But as my daughter, Ann , hath not attended to
my admonitions refpe&ing the filthy and lewd cullom ot
dreffiog with naked elbows, my will is, that in case (he per
fills in so gross a violation of female decency the whole of
the property deviled by me as aforefaid, and intended as a
provision for her future life, (hall go to the eldcft son of
my sister Caroline , and his heirs lawfully begotten,
To those who may fay this reftridion is severe, I answer,
that an indecent display of personal habiliments in woman,
is a certain indication of intellectual depravity.
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Whatever plot the chief consul deteas against his
person and power, he suppresses the particulars,
and covers the whole with Ghnse. He knows that
to propagate accounts of confpiractes will create con.
fpirators, especially when the objeft conspired isgen
erally detested. His enemies know this also—and
hence the rumors of plots. They wifli by those
rumoursto foment plots, and they are not wholly
fuccefiful. We have great reason to believe from
a variety of circumstances that have come within
our knowledge, which would appear frivolous,
were we to state them, that some great and extensive
design has becen for two months in agitation, to free
the nations of Europe from the reliefs ambition atty
tyranny of the Jaffa assassin.
• On the night of the 15th at the opera, fix wel
dressed ycun<men were seized by the police, fail
to have confpir^d agam(l the Cortical). Upon them
were found leaded piftojs & pollened daggers; some
other arrests took place at the Theatre de la Republic
at the fame ti ne. At both Itefc Theatres Bona
part was exp^cd, but appeared at neither, being
• according to his courtiers, prevented bvillnefs, or,
- as others wili have it, by the entreaties of his mother,
and family, en account offline InfpeAed plot. N
Paris paper August it
The following circuitnee on x6 r h Augufl oc
curred io the neighbourhood ot Bury St. Edmond's :
—A fine girl 18 years of age, and d.uglrer of a re
fpedable farmer there, conceived an affedion for a
drummer belonging to a party of guards, quartered
in that town. Some evening since he met them
walking in one of his fields, when he reproved her,
informing Irr that the soldier was married. The
communication so powerfully operated on her mind,
as to induce the refutation of committing suicide ;
and on Tueilay evening, having adrireffed a letter
to her father, (he retired to her chamber and (hot her
felf. The report alarmed, her filler, who, ruflfffig
into die room, found the unfortunate girl weltering
in her blood, holding the pistol in one hand, and a
prayer book in the other. The ball which entered
the body beneath the left bteaft, was extruded from
the right fide, and die is now in a date of recovery.
A person having called a few evenings since on a Sexton
in a country village, to desire that he would prepare a
grrvx for the remains of an old friend—" You most call
to-morrow morning (cried Mr. Spade) we grave-digger!
• keep taking hours."
It. is calculated that one-half of the French army of tea-
Con are composed of three daffes—theftf those who wish
to get rid of their wives—the feoond of their creditors—and
the third of their fives.
If Bonaparte should defer his visit to this country till
after the herveft, he'll just cpme in time for a tbrefoing.
Madame Ricamier was a great favorite with Madame
Bonaparte, till (he began to rival her in suppers and
wigs of different colored hair.
It is not furpriziog that the Englifli ladies exp-efs
an Inclination to avert the blessings of French lib
erty, when they are informed of its effeds on the
-state of thefair in France. At Toulon, about three
thousand are employed in clearing out the docks !
What work this must make with the bewitching
foot and lily hand ! Really, Bonaparte, in his parox
ysm of universal philanthropy, seems to have loft
his gallantry. In England the ladies have offered
to drive the cattle from the coaff, in case of an in
rafion. This has some resemblance to ancient pas.
total life, and might employ the fancy of the poet ;
but what compliment a French lover could pay to
hi sweating Dulcinea, with hg feet faft in the mud,
is hard to copjeaure.—X 1. Repertory.
Encourage home manufactures!
THE Subscribers inform the public,
that having entered into partnership under the firm of
Sparhawk & Curtis,
they have taken the Store at the corner of Daniel and
Boeufreels, where they manufacture the best of BEAVER
HATS, Caftors, dec. equal or superior to any imported—
Having procured some of the most experienced workmen,
they flatter themselves with the hope of giving fatisfadien
to those who may please to favor them with their custom.
Samuel Sparhawk,
Joshua Curtis.
^Wanted, one or two Journeymen
Hatters, who understand fine work, to whom liberal
wages will be given.
**Cafh given for BEAVER and oth
er Hatting FURS. Port,mouth, Nov. 15, 1803.
Landing from sloop Juno, and for Sale by
Waldron & Holman,
SUPERFINE and fine FLOUR,
from new Wheat, and
; A few Chaldrons Virginia Coal
also in Store,
I go Hhds. retailing Molasses;
Hhds. & Bbls. N. E. Rum;
p l5O Bbls. Ship Stuff.
>Portfmouth, Nov. 15, ISO 3.
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; REMOVAL.
•B. Brierley
f DEGS leave to acquaint his friends,
.D and the public, that he has removed from
, Broad-street to that commodious new Fire-proof
ißrick-Store, No. 9, Market-street,
, where he has for Tale, received by the late different
l arrivals from Europe, a mod extensive and checie
ASSORTMENT OF
I \Fashionabe, Fancy, & Staple
GOOD S,
, which will be fold at a very low advance bv
I WHOLESALE or RETAIL. < Octobers."
1 Fall & Winter Goods,
, Just received & for sale by
William R. Hardy,
i Tailor, at his Shop in High-flreet,
SUPERFINE Navy blues, black,
brown, corbeaus, drab, and mixed Broad
, Cloths; double milled Caffimeres ; ForeftCloths;
'Coatings; Ratteens; Swanfdowns ; Velvets;
Corduroys ; Flannels; India Cottons; Brown
! Hollands; Fashionable Buttons.
Silk & Cotton Braces ; Ferrets ;
Gallooms ; Bindings, &c.
James Rundlet
Has this day received per the Galen and
Minerva, from London, and the Warrington
and Two Pollies from Liverpool ;
A frelh lupply of
Fall and Winter Goods
which with those received before, make a very
extensive and valuable a(fortment of staple and
fancy Goods, which he will fell at a very small
advance by wholesale or retail.
Congrefs-fttreet, Oft. 29, 1803.
;new goods:
1 Peter Coffin,
, H a s received per the Galen and Minerva, from
London, an additional supply of
Fancy and other GOODS, consisting of
BEST fuperfine London Blue, Black,
and mixed Broad Cloths; Black double mill'd Cassi
. meres ; Superfine London Waist coating.
i A great variety of fafhionable Chintzes ;
I Chintz Furnitures ; Dimities; Rich worked colonade
) Muslins; Cambrick and fprig'd book Muffins, Black and
white Sarfnet Cambricks; Black Gingham! ; Wide black
! Laces ; White and colored Norwich Shawls; Fine twill
ed Bandannoes; Diapers; Brown Hollands ; Threads, &c<
' Portsmouth, October 2%, 1803.
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Joseph & Joshua Haven
; No. I, Merchants' Row;
; TTAVE received by the last arrivals
I Fl from England, a large assortment of
1 Fall & Winter Goods,
which are now ready for sale, wholesale and
retail. November 5, iSofc
11 -= :—; : _
'Juft received and For Sale
Charles Hardy,
_ Ta,lor, at bisfbop in Crof^reet, —an affor tment of
Fall & Winter Goods.
" oTwo lads as Apprentices wanted,
e apply as above. Nov. 4.
Fresh Raisins.
! —°—
e T?EW Casks of Raisins imported in
e r the Brig Diligence in 38 days from Malaga,
! may.be purchafcd at the Ware House of
; Eben Thompson, Bow freet.
; November 12, 1803.
Paper Hangings.
;W il LI a M S-COOP er offers for
VV fate, at his Shop adjoining the Bell Tavern, an
> elegant assortment of PAPER HANGING,- which being
a configamCTt, will be fold at reduced priori.
NEW GOODS.
0
JOSHUA BLAKE,
(Removed to the new brick Store, No. 8, Market-street)
Has received a very large assortment of
FALL & WINTER GOODS,
of the latest fajhions, which he offers for sale ver,
cheap for cafh —Among which ate,
BEST fuperfine Broad Cloths of the
most fashionable colours ; second and low
priced do ; Caffimeres ; fuperfine and low priced
Coatings and Ratteens ; Fearnaughts ; Kerfeys ;
Forest Cloths ; Serges; bwanlk ins; Baizes;
Flannels ; an assortment of rose and duffil Blan
kets ; Crapes ; Wildbores ; Durants ; Tammies ;
(hattoons ; plain and rib'd |Colimancoes ; Ruff
ek ; Taßoreens A large assortment of
Fathionable silk Velvet Swanidowns and
Sattin Waistcoating ; best twilled black and co
lour'd Cotton, Velvets ; corded do. Thickfetts ;
Corduroys; black silk Velvet; Men'sblack, white,
and color'd silk, cotton and worsted Hose ; Wo
men's cotton & silk black, white and coloured
Hose ; Women's black worsted Hose ; ditto
black & white cotton and silk Gloves and Mitts ;
white & colour'd kid Gloves; Men's furr, bea
ver, worsted, cotton &silk Gloves ; Men's worft
d Caps ; cotton and silk Braces ; Stockfliffners.
^ great variety of
Chintzes and Calicoes of the newest
fafhions ; patch Furnitures ; Copperplates ; In
dia Calicoes ; black and coloured Ginghams ;.
black and colour'd fa fnet Muslins and Cambrics ;
fprig'd,plain and figur'd book Jaconet and Cam-'
brick Mullins ; embofs'd Mullins.
A large assortment of
Black, white, and colour'd camel's hair
Shawls; cambric Shawls ; cotton and silk do ;
cambric, linen, cotton, romall, bandanna,check'd,
figur'd and black silk Handkerchiefs; Men's
Neckerchiefs; muslin Shawls and Handkerchiefs.
A variety of
Black and colour'd Italian and India
Luteftrings ; falhionable pelice Silks; Florence
Silks ; Perlians; black and colour'd fattins ;
Modes ; Sarfnets ; Tiffanies; wide and narrow
silk Crapes; Cypress nett and plain Gauzes ;
Millinets ; bonnet wire; white thread Laces and
Edgings ; black and white silk Laces ; black lace
Cloaks; black and white plain & figured lace
Veiling A large assortment of
Muffs and Tippets ; kid, morocco and
fluff shoes; Rofetts; Glove Ties; draw and
cane Bonnets ; Men's beaver Hats ; Umbrellas;
Fans ; India Cottons of all prices, some very fine
for Shirtings ; Irish Linens ; check'd Linens and
Cottons ; brown Hollands ; Diapers ; white and
colour'd Threads ; pound and bundle Pins ;
•Needles ; fashionable Ribbands ; Buttons ; but
ton Molds ; Oil Cloths for table coverings ; mark
Ing Canvass ; &c &c
Also a quantity of Mock Sable, Ge
nett, Elt and other Furrs, suitably dressed for
making Muffs, Tippets and Cloak Trimmings,
very cheap. October 29, 1803.
SAMUEL HILL,
INFORMS his friends and Customers
that he has removed from the Store he lately kept,
belonging to Madam Whipple, to his new Store, No.
7> Merchant's Row, built on the spot where his old Store
was burnt —and has for sale the following GOODS, by
B, Wholesale and Retail; viz.
. Quantity Hard Ware Goods,
among which arc,
3 doz. large full finished Stock Locks ;
Nails of all lorts ; Nail Rods ;
30 tons Swede's, Rufiia & Philadelphia
IRON;
Heart and Club Halback and Haffen
clever STEEL;
Iron Hollow WARE;
120 Grind Stones, different sizes;
A large assortment Fishing Gear ;'
Lines of all sizes ; Netts of do.
2 & 3 th'd. Herring & Mackerel Twine;
Salmon & Seine, do.
Hooks of all sizes ;
TEAS per chest ;
Hgeneral ajortment of
West-India Goods.
120 hhds. coarse SALT.
tfCASH,and the highest price given
for SHIPPING FUR.
Portsmouth, November 4.
Lands for Sale.
ANY Gentlemen in- town or country,
to whom it will be agreeable to be more
or less concerned in the purchase of two geej
townfllips of Land, between the rivers Kenne
beck and Penobfcot, in the Diftrid of Maine, at
a low price, are requested to wake known their
wishes to the Printers of this paper, within fif
teen days, and they (hall focn be furnished with
particular information relative to the premiles.
N0v.5,1803.
4 Dollars Reward.
LOST on Tuefday Evening last, a Red Mo
rocco Pocket Book containing 16 Dollars.
.—Apply to the Printers. Nov. 19.
ANTED-A"Wet Nurse.
Apply to the Printers.
«isitftf4«%#Tst «•#*&«¥
} RAGS! RAGS!
Cafa and the highest price, given for clean
Linen, Cotton, and Cotton & Linen Rags,,
, at Treadwells' Book-Store.
D the Honorable the Justices of the
Superior Court of Judicature now holdca at Exe
ter, within and for the County of Rockingham.
HUMBLY SHEWS,
Peter Tilton, of Hampton Falls,
in said County, Esq. Guardian unto Hannah Wadleigh,
a Minor, daughter of John Wadleigh, late of said Hamp-•
ton Falls, husbandman deceased That his said Ward is
heir to and owner of one undivided moiety or half part of
a certain real estate, lituate in Hampton Falls aforefaid, con
fiding of seventy acres of Land, with a House and Bara
ftnnding thereon—That it would be conducive to the in
tereG ot his said Ward, that the said half part of said pre
mises ihotild be fold, and the proceeds thereof put to inter
est for her benefit—Wherefore, he prays that he may be
authorifed tofell and dispose of the fame, as the law in such
cases provides, and that your Honors would grant him a
licence accordingly—and he as in duty bound will pray, &c.
Peter Tilton.
September 23, 1803,
Rockingham, ft" .Superior Court, Sept, term, 1803.
ORDERED by the Court,-that the
petitioner notify all persons concerned to appear before the
Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature to be holden at
Portsmouth, within and for the County of Rockingham, eu
I the firft Tuefday of February next, to (hew cause, if any
they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be
granted, by causing said petition and order of Court there
•on to be published three weeks successively in the Fortfmeutb
Oracle, the last publication whereof to be fix weeks before
said term.
Attest, Nathaniel Adams, Clerk.
Copy examined by
Nathaniel Adams, Clerk.
. THE Subferiber hereby gives notice,",
A that he (hail present his account of his ad
* ' adminiftertog the estate of
JOHN ADAMS,
late of Portsmouth, deceased, at the Probate Court,
to be holden at Portsmouth, in the county of Rock
ingham, on the third Wednesday of February next,
for fettlemenr, and at the fame time the lift of
claims against fa id tftate, allowed'by the Commis
sioners, will be returned to said Court. A„ per
son interefled, desirous of examining either of the
above documents, may have an opportunity by ap
plying at the office of the Subferiber, previous to
laid time.
Nathaniel Adams.
Portsmouth, Nov. 16, 1803.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
administering account on the tft-te of
ELIPHAPHET QUIMBY,
late of 'PortfmoHtb, deceased, wi|i be presented for
settlement to the Probate Court, to be holden at
Portsmouth in and for the county of Rockingham,
on the third Wednesday of February next.
Nathaniel Adams,
Nov. 16, 1803. attorney to Administratrix
THE fubferibers, Executors of the
last Will and Teflament of
Madam MEHITABLE ROGERS,
late of Portsmouth deceased, give notice to all
Persons having any demands on the estate of the
said- Testatrix, to exhibit the fame for settlement
and payment, and to all indebted to said Estate,
to make payment, to
Daniel R. Rogers, ? Exeats
, Daniel Humphreys, j
.Portsmouth, Nov. 11, 1803.
NOTICE. The fubferiber having been*"
duly appointed administrator to the estate of
J. ARNAULT CORMERAIS,.
Mariner, has given bonds as the law direds. All
persons indebted to said estate are desired to make
immediate payment, and any persons holding de
mands against said estate are desired to present their
accounts for fettle ment, to
John Rindge, ddmini/lrator.
Portsmouth, Nov. 12, 1803.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the
fubferiber is duly appointed administrator
on the Estate of
HENRY BURLEIGH,.
late of Portsmouth, merchant, deceased—and
requests all Persons having demands against said
estate to present the fame, and all indebted to
said estate to make payment to
Edward j. Long, Adminiftrator.'
Portsmouth, November 5, 1863.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the
fubferiber has been duly appointed admin
iUrutor on the estate ofc
SAMUEL WEARE, Esq.
late of Hampton-Falls, deceased, and has taken upon
himfelf that trust, by giving-bonds as the law directs,
all Persons having demands 011 laid estate, are re
quelled to exhibit the fame for settlement, and all
Persons indebted to find estate, are desired to make;
immediate payment to
Peter Russel, AAmihiftrator.
Bradford, November 7, 1803.
One Dollar Reward.
RAN away from the fubferiber a Mulatto
young man, about 20 years old, he is about
fix feet high, and is known by the name of
James Jackson. All persons are forbid harbour
ing or trusting him on my account, as they would
avoid the penalty of the law, and any perfoo
who will return said Runaway, (hall receive the
above reward.
Duncan M'Naughton.
Moultonborough, Nov. 6, 1803.
The Portsmouth Oracle
is published every Saturday morn for the town and vicin
ity,and the
Oracle Post
every Tuefday rooting for the Country, by William
W Daniel Treadwell, it their Book and Stationary
(hop, corner of Court and Buck streets, Portsmouth, N.li
Terms, I,fo cents per ann.—so cents in advance —puna
, ually forwarded to all parts of this State, and the DiOriti
of Maine.
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