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Succeeded in preventing the flames from spreading
so other buildings. The fire is conjectured to have
kaught from'an oven in which bread had been ba
hed the preceding evening. By this melancholy
levent, three out of the four families which occupied
pe house have loft their all ; but the humanity of
heir neighbours has induced a liberal subscription
for their relief. —o—
'Newbury-Port, Nov. 23.
Foreign News. —lt is reported that Bonaparte in
tends to take another airing, before he crosses the
channel. Preparations for his reception are making
in Flushing. Seamen of every description at Ant
werp under fifty years of age are put in requisition,
and are to hold themselves in readiness for the con
templated expedition at a moment's warning. The
patriotic spirit of France, though much extolled,
has sadly failed off since the firft years of the revo
lution. The relinquishment of four day's pay by
some of the officers and privates, is puffed up as an
evidence of partiality to the intended invafiom We
have to look back but a few years, when a month's
pay, towards the support of the war against France,
Aras voluntarily resigned by the loyaltor of Great
Britain, and at present, Government is importuned
to accept the services of innumerable volunteers,
more than their present plan of defence requires.
Hanover, like every other power under French in
terest, is groaning under the burthen of French
taxes. At Vienna, imports on sugar, coffee, and
%s:^tatfb€COiiie fyeffive, and a tax of cent per
Lent il about to be laid on foreign wines. A ma
lon in Liverpool, digging in a quarry, discovered a
talk containing 8000 pounds ftedfng tn the com 0/
William 111. fuppoled to have been concealed there
Iby some of the commissioners of his army, about
the year 1690. —o—
— NOV. rs.
Literary.
EXHIBITION—On Wednesday hft, was the Quarterly
Exhibition of the members of the Senior Class of Dart
mouth University. 'lntroduced by music the performances
were,
I. A Latin 'Oration, on the natural and political ad
vantages of the Citizens of the United States, —by Hub
bard Newton.
2. A Philosophic Oration, on Light,—by Stephen Farley.
3. A Dispute on this question, Would the purchase of
Louisiana, on the terms prepofed by the French, be advan
tageous to the Union?—by Otis Hutchins and Josiah W.
Seaver.
>4. An English Oration, —by Boswell Stevens.
5. An English Oratien, on the diffatisfa&ion of men with
their condition—by Amos Searle.
6. A Dialogue, on the fubjeQ of the "British negociation
with France—by Anson Jones, Job Lyman, and Horace
Utley.
7. A Poem, on the Origin of Monarchy,—by Thomas
H. Pettengill.
Music.
8. A Hebrew Oration, on Wisdom, —by William
Ritchey.
9. An English 'Oration, on National Dignity,—by Sam
uel Knapp.
10. An English Oration, on Mutability,—by Elias
Gallup.
XI. A dispute on this question, Did the ancients excel
the moderns in genius,-—by Alien Greeley and David
iThurfton.
IZ. A Dialogue on College Education, —by Abraham
Burnam and Stephen Farley.
13 An English Oration, on the danger of Ufupers,—
by John W Smith.
14 t Greek Ovation on Enffiufafa—by Uriah Wilcok,
/&uh. 'em
A 7hif w \y ? . ... 'W^ accelerated pro
gi—..22- ' '^ -' "^ L ' c'frwm& country, we pay
a willing tribute of zpplaufe .he pupils of this growing
inftitutior wL evince, bv heir correct lentiments and
purity of „ie, the well organized Situation of our College,
and the attention of its ditedors.
The Oracle.
TUESDAY, December 6.
' Arrived at Squam, on Sunday evening last, brig
Hero, Capt. Boardman, 34 days from St. Thomas
Antigua, Dominico and. Nevis ; from St. Thomas
last, in 20 days. Capt. B made the land and was
on soundings, and he fays he never experienced
such a passage in his life; gale after gate ) he car
ried away his main top mart 1$ days since.
FROM WASHINGTON. NOV. 14.
The SECRETARY oftbe NAVY has received
dispatches from the MEDITERRANEAN
SQUADRON, dated September 201 b, 22d, 23d
) and 26th.
The ports and coart of Morocco were well
watched by the frigates Constitution of 44 guns, the
New-York of 36 guns, and the John Adams of 32
guns, and the fch&oners Enterprise and Nautilus.
—o—
From a very authorative fonree, we are able
to contradid the report which originated in New-
York, relative to the appointment of Mr. Dawson
to the Chief Magistracy of the newly acquired
territory of Louisiana—We are assured, that
Mr. Venable, of Virginia, either has or will re
* taive thisappointment.- He was formerly member
of Congress from that State & is thefotimate friend
of Mr.Madifon, by whose agency fe is supposed,
he will have the nomination. Although the Presi
dent is partly authorized to ered a provincial
^governs ent in that quarter it is not yet known
" wh^the- Attends immeJiztely to transform ev
ery institution at prefers existing there. It is
believed that found policy and prudence will
dilate a progressive reform. [philad. pap.
Faftin England.
Ttyollromg is from a London paper.
The tgth of October is to be observed through
out England and Ireland as a day of Farting and
Humiliation, on accent of the war—and the
v next day for the fame purpofc in Scotland." *
. For the benefit of Heirs.—
%, The Governor and Directors of the South-Sea
r Company, with the charaderiftic henefty of Eng
lishmen, have ordered a lift to be made of all the
unclaimed stock and dividends since the com
mencement of their charter, For the benefit of the
defeendants of the former holders of flocks.
pet Btf&n Pa^
Qu the @h ult,the (loop Maine, Opt. Grover, bound
faro Borton to Hallowell, drove among the rocks near
Seguin, and entirely loft, together with nearly all her car
go, confining of Weft-lndia and English goods, &c. hands
fired. The fort is computed at about fifteen tboufand doi
to. Thatbelonged to & Horn Judge Dommim,
M Hrilowell, whose lort is grm
Marine List:
Arrivals and departures since Nov. 26.
27th, failed fchr. Harriot, Balch, Richmond.
arrived brig Planter, Grover, Grenada,
ift do. brig Alligator, Rice, Tobago.
2d failed brig Polly, Bayley, Demeraral
do brig Fidelity', Jenkins, do
do brig Blossom, Shapley, Washington
do schooner Fenny, Hodgdon, St Kitts
November 30 —Arrived brig Alligatar, 44 days from
Tobago, left the following vessels at Scarborough:/
Brig Safan of New-London, to fail in 10 days ; a brig
fromStoningtewn, Holmes ; schooner Betsey, Kempton,Bef
ton, to fail the 17th O&ober; brg Mac, of Newburyport;
November 20th, spoke brig Betsey hud, alley, legerfol 30:
hours out from Bofton.|
While Captain Rice lay io Tobago, a French privateer|
put into Mangrove-bay,and engaged the Letter of Marque
Ship Barbadoes Planter, of London, having 300 hhds. of
sugar on board ; the Ship cut her cables and drove on
Shore. The French burnt her, and afterward captured a
large droger laden with sugar, belonging to Scarborough! :
0 —
Marbbbe&d, Nov. 2,.
DJirfrg —On Sunday last, Capt. Ambrose Martin,
failed from Marblehead, in a coasting foop, for Borton,
with three persons on board, in beating up broad found a
sudden fquali overfet the Sloop and She immediately funk,
when a promising lad nearly Seventeen years eld, son of
Nathan Bowen, Esq. was drowned. The captain and one
more took to boards that floated from the quarter deck,
the other to swimming, and were taken up by the people
of two vertels in fight fat the time of the disaster, very
much exhaurted. By this forrowful event the afflifted par
ents mour^the loss of a dutiful son, and the Surviving
brothers and fillers, an affectionate brother.
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ORDINATION.
On Wednesday the 2jd inst. the Rev. Gideon Burt
was ordained to the pastoral charge of the church in Ef
fingham, N. H.
The public exercises were—ah introductory prayer, by
the Rev. Mr, Piper, of Wakefield—a Sermon, from A&s
xvi. 17, by the Rev. Dr. Buckminster, of Portfmouth=
the Ordination Prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Hidden, of Tam
worth—the Charge, by the Rev. Mr. Rolfe, of Parfoni
field —the Fellowship of the Churches, by the Rev. Mr.
French, of Northampton—and the Concluding Prayer,
by the Rev. Mr. Eastman, of Lingerie.
The good order and Solemnity which were uncovered,
rejected honor on the attendants, and improved the hdpe
more strongly, that God Avas present of a truth. The mu
sic, performed on the occasion, evinced the taste and high
improvement of a choir of fingers, who, we hope, will
centinu! to render those hills and vallies vocal with the
praises of God.
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MARRIED] —In this town, Mr. George Burt to
Miss Nancy Baily.
CT^mmAttwwmw^a
DIED] —In this town, on the 29th ult, Capt. BENJA
MIN M'INTIRE, aged 24 years, son of Neil M'lntlre,
Esq, Merchant.
But few characters have puffed off the theatre of life,
that have left behind them a purer fame than Captain
M'intire. To an uncommonly rtrong and enterprising
mind, a warns and benevolent heart, he added an applica
tion to the multiplied duties of a Merchant, and Master,
that won the admiration, esteem and love of a numerous
acquaintance, and made him man, friends. With a foul
thus supported, he flood the ravages of a rapid decline,
with a chriftian's calmness, and met the great destroyer
without a murmur—He fell lamented, and the tears of many
friends have followed his remains to the tomb.
" Calm let him (lumber in bis sweet repose, „,
" Till the last morn its orient beam d^fclofe,
" Then toben tbe great Arcbangel's potent found,
" Stall echo through creation's ample round ;
" Wal'dfrom ^efeep of death, with joy farvey
“ The opening felendor of another da,."
ifyfoltafatt^^
CARPETS, &c.
Just opened by
PETER COFFIN, a large affertment
of CARPETS & CARPETING.
A few pieces elegant India Gold and
Silver MUSLINS.
Coatings ; Linens ; Luftrings ; large
Silk SHAWLS, &c. &c.
Portsmouth December 3, 1803.
—— - — — — — ——. roc-
Fajhionable Drab Broad Cloths & Caffimeres
—;—O
Swett & Weeks.
HAVE received an assortment of
Fashionable Drab milled Broad Cloths and
Caffimeres of superior qualities.
Fortlmouth, December 3, 1803.
reed —__ „ —_-—___ro=_t_i
NOW landing from on board the
brig Aligator, a Cargo of
Excellent flavored Rum„'
and for Sale by WILIAM RICE,
No. 7, Portsmouth Pier,
Jufirecei^d antfor'Sak by
Quincy & Pierrepont,
AF£W £heQo£ Souchong Tea of
a good qualh,.
December 3,
'PAPERS.—™-
—o—
COR Sale by S. LARKIN, @ quanti
[ ty of Sheathing, Writing, Printing,
W rapping, Bonnet, and Press PAPERS,
very cheap— also, a few cwt. of Book-
Binder's Boards. At the fame place may
I be had Suwarrow Boots, and Gentle
„ men's fine calf s^in Shoes.
December 3.
• For Sale,
The Brig Rising Sun,
Apply to Mark, or Joseph Noble.
Portfaeutb, December 3, 1803.
A Premium given for SPANISH
fl DOLLARS, by Samuel Ham.
December 3, 1803.
WANTED, an active LAD to at
tend an English Goods Store-— apply to
Otivaß Briard,No 2, Merchant's Row.
December 3.
LADD and SMITH,
Have for Sale at their
Ship Chandlery Store,
No. 5, Merchant's Row,
BEST Ebony Sextants; do. do. Quad
rants with or without tangent screws;
Mahogany do. Day and Night Telescopes ;'
Brass and Wood Compares; Gold's patent
Logs; Patent 14 & 28 Log Glasses; Time do.
Brass Dividers, do. do. with Pens.
Gunter's Scales ; Guaging Rods;
Want Sticks ; American Pilot ; Weft India do.
Ettropeando. Mediterranean do. Roman Gulf do.
CHARTS
Os the Chefapeak, including Delaware
Bay, &c. New-England from South Shoal to
Cape Sable ; the Banks and part of the Coast of
Newfoundland ; Nova Scotia ; New-England,
from Wood Island to Good Harbour ; Coast
of America from Cape Hatteras to Cape Ro
man ; do. from Newbury harbour to New-York;
South Carolina & Georgia ; Gulf of St. Law
rence ; General Chart of the Weft-Indies ; Car
rib<e Islands ; Windward Paflages with direc
tions; Plan of the River Miffifippi; Chart of
the C^aft Guayana ; Spanith Main ; River Plate ;I
Cape <lorn; Cape of Good Hope ; Coast of
Guinea ; do. of Africa; Mediterranean Sea ;
Spain and Portugal ; Bay of Biscay ; Coast of
France ; North Sea with dire&ions; Atlantic
Ocean ; and the World.
Elements and practice of Rigging and
Seamanship; Art of Rigging; do. of Sailmaking,
Steel's improved Tables ; Guthrie's
Grammar ; Ship Matter's Assistant; Seaman's
Journals; Writing and Log Paper; Slates;
Pocket Books ; Pen, pocket, hunter's and sports
man's Knives ; Ink Stands ; do. Powder ; Sand
Boxes ; Quills ; Slate and Lead Pencils ; Ru
lers ; Money Scales, &c. &c.
Porlfmoutb, December 3, 1803.
For Sale by
T. MORTON,
Sign of the Golden Key, Congrejs-freet,
Two Doors from the Portsmouth Stone.
HYSON, Young Hyfon, Hyfon-fkin,
Soufhongand Rohea Teas warranted. Cog
niac and Barcelona Brandy ; Holland's and Amer
ican Gin; Rum per hhd. or otherwise; Madeira,
Sherry, Lisbon, Claret, Port, and Sweet Wines, per
quarter calk or less quantity; Loaf, India and
Brown Sugars; Coffee; Flour; Pollock Fish;
Salt ; Cotton; Cards, &c. together with a general
assortment of
W- India Goods & Groceries,
of the firft quality, and very low for ready cash.
Attendance from fun-rife, until ,
o'clock in the evening. (t.f.)
Portfmonth, December 3, 1803.
__- ' —I- -Or
OTOLEN from the Stable of the Sub-
O scriber in Rochester on the night between,
the 22d and 23d inst. a Dark brown MARE,
Saddle and Bridle, —said Mare is about 15 hands
high, trots all, and steps large, 4 years old last spring,
has lately had a number of fiddle biles on her back,
and is very badly (hod. The saddle has a blue broad
cloth housing trimmed with white lomewhat faded,
the bridle almost new with plated inaffle bits.—
Whoever will flop the thief and secure the Mare, so
that the owner may recover her again, shall be very
handsomely rewarded and all necessary charges paid
by Jonas C. Marche
Rochester, November 23, 1803.
A lost Son,
ON the 13th of October, a young
man, named Joseph Baldwell, about 1, years of
age, left his father's house, in Langdon, under mental de
rangement. He had on, when he went away, a dark mix'd
coloured coat, with a large cape, a pair es lenen trowfers,;
and a short wairtgoat of striped calico, under a light color
ed coat, cloth jacket. One of his legs, near the ancle, has
a callous occasioned by a wound. He rode away a dark
bay mare, five years old, her foretop tut off square : the
saddle he took with him was nearly new, the hoofing of it
blue, and the bidding of it white. Any information re
fpeding the young man will be gratefully received by his
parents, living in Langdon, Newhampfhire.
The reasonable expencea which the care of the young
man may occasion, will be paid by his parents.
ALL Persons that have any demands
on the estate of
ABNER FOGG, jr.
late of North-Hampton, deceased, are desired to
bring in their demands for settlement to the sub
scriber, at Northampton, who is empowered to
fettle the lame.
Simon Derbon.
December 3, 1803.
RANAWAY from the fubferiber on
the 21d inst. a negro boy named ALECK, rather of
a yellowish complexion, about 15 years of age, five feet
high, or thereabouts,is marked in his forehead with|a sprig.
Whoever will give information, or return said boy to the
fubferiber in Newmarket, or at the Oracle Office in Ports
mouth, shall be compensated for their trouble.
JOHN HODGE.
Newmarket, Nov. 28, 18%.
THE Subferibers appointed Com
miflioners to receive, examine and adjust the
claims against the efface of
WILLIAM ROBINSON,
late of Exeter, Hatter, deceased, represented insol
vent, give notice that they will attend that bulinefs,
at Mr. HUTCHINS' tavern in said Exeter, on the
firft Monday in December next, and of the five fol
lowing months, from four to eight o'clock, P. M.
on laid days.
Nathaniel Parker,
Jeremiah Dow,
Joseph Smith.
Exeter, November 14, 1803.
Cash and the bigheft price given for
Rags, at Treadwells' Book-Store.
4* 4 § 4fe«l«l ^4444. Qfcqfcrtfcffi M
AUCTIONS.
ON TUESDAY NEXT~AT—
S. Little's Office
ENGLISH & INDIA GOODS.
50 pair Morocco SHOES ,
20 pieces India Cottons.
^ Private Sale.
20 chests Souchong, Bohea and Green
TEAS.
10 hhds. Cod FISH.
20 bbls. No. i & 2 BEEF.
10 cases RAISINS, 10 boxes SOAP.
30 bbls. TAR, 20 bags NUTMEGS.
15 bbls. Aniseed and Clove Water.
6 Russia FEATHER BEDS.
Broad and Forest CLOTHS, of differ
ent kinds. 1000 lbs. of CASSIA.
^S. Little tranfads all kinds of
Commission Business reasonably,with
dispatch.
Portsmouth, Dec. 3, 1803.
©Take Notices
*,° be Sold at Public Auction by vir^
A. tue of a licence from the Hon. EnENEZBk
Smith, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c,
for the county of Strafford, and State of New-
Hampfliire, on Tuefday, the third day of Januar,
next, at 12 0 clock in the forenoon, at the Dwells
i n g House of John Davenport innholder in
Portfmotith, in the County of Rockingham— W
much of the real estate of Samuel Taylor, late of
Boston, in the County of Suffolk, and Common
wealth of Maffachuietts,Merchant, deceased, testate,
in the hands of Benjamin Sumner of said Boftqn,
merchant, administrator, de bonis non, of laid Samuel
Taylor, as shall be fufficienr, to raise the sum of
three thousand dollars, with incidental charges;
to wit, so much of a certain trad of land lying ill
Tuftonborough, in the County of Strafford afore
faid, containing about one thousand acres, an un
divided third part of the north-easterly half of fit
thousand acres, released by Peter Livius, Esq. to
John Moffat, Esq. and is the fame one thousand
acres conveyed by John Evans to said Tayton.
A deed of release of said premises will be given by
said Benjamin Sumner, or his Attorney duly author
ifed. Further particulars will he made knowiTat
the time and place of sale, or at any time previous
b y applying to the fubferiber.
jotham Lawrence, Attorney
to said Benjamin Sumner, or to Z. Robinson, at
his Store, in Portsmouth.
Epping, Nov, 18, 1803.
Rockingham,fs.
TO the Honorable the Justices of the
Superior Court, to be Golden at Portsmouth,
within and for said county on the firft Tuefday of
February, 1803.
Represents, Abraham Tilton, ol
Struthem in said county, bufbandman, that he is the (
father and guardian of Mary Tilton, Nancy Til
ton, John Tilton, and Abraham Tilton jr. minors,
under the age of twenty one years, that the said
Mary, Nancy, John and Abraham Tilton junior,
are the owners of one sixth part of two pieces of
land, situate in Stracham aforelaid, one piece con
taining about twenty acres, and bounded as follows,
viz. on the north by the road leading from Strata
ham, aforesaid to North Hampton meeting house, east
I by land of Thomas Moor, louth by land of Simeon
Rundlett, weft partly by land of Joshua Lane, and
partly by land of Ford Morrill; the other piece of
land contains four acres, is bounded as folbws, viz.
fouth by land of John Moor, east by land of Jamel
Odel, north by land of Joseph Clark, weft by land
of Abraham Stockbridge. The aforefaid two piece,
of land are held by the said Mary, Nancy, John,
& Abraham Tilton, jun. in common with Joseph
Merrill. The said Abraham represents that it would
be conducive to the interest of said Minors to have
their said sixth part of the lands aforefaid fold. The
said Abraham, therefore prays that your Honors
would empower him to Tell the aforefaid sixth part
of said lands owned by said Minors, and the said
Abraham will pray, &c.
Abraham Tilton.
Rockingham,Ji, Superior, Court September term, 1803.
ORDERED by the Court, that the
petitioner notify all persons concerned to appear be
fore the Justices of tye Superior Court of Judicature,
to be holden at Portsmouth, within and for the coun
ty of Rockingham, on rhe firft Tuefday of Febru
ary, next, to shew cause if any they have, why the
prayer of said petition should not be granted, by
causing said petition and the Order of Court there
on, to be published three weeks successively in the
Portfmouih Oracle, the fall publication whereof to
be fix weeks before laid term.
Attest, Nathaniel Adams, Clerk.
Copy examined by
Nathaniel Adams, Clerk.
State of New-HamfeJhire, Rockingham,fo.
THE Subscribers being appointed by
the Hon. Judge of Probate, Cdmmiffionerl
to receive, examine, and adjust all the claimsof the
creditors to the estate of
JOHN PINGREE WILLIAMS,
late of Newmarket, in said county, trader; deceased,
represented infolveut, under the admihiftration of
John Melcher, Josiah Adams & Daniel
Williams.
The creditors te said estate are hereby notified,
that we fluff attend that service at the office of Jee.
emiah Libbe, in laid Portsmouth, on the firft Mon.
day of December, January, and February next,
from , to 6 o'clock p. m. of each of said d„.
Jeremiah Libbey,
,Nathaniel Adams,
Nathaniel A. Haven.