The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-08-26 00:00:00, page 4

RELENTLESS Time deflroying pdw’r
, Whom stone and brass obey,
Who giv’ft to ev’ry flying hour
To work some hew decay;
TJnheard, unheeded, and urrfeeb,.
My yocth met fortune fair array’d ;
In all her pomp (he /hone.
And might perhaps have well eflay’d
To make her gifts my own;
But when I saw the bleflings Ihow’r
On feme unworthy mind,
3 left tiukchace, and own’d the Pow’r
Was justly painted blind.
I pafs’d the glories which adorn
Thefplendid courts of kings
And, while the perlons mov’d my scorn,
I rose to (corn the things.
My manhood felt a vig’rous fire.
By love encreas’d the more ;
But years with coming years conspire
To break the chains 1 wore.
In weakness fafe, the sex I fee
With idle luftre flline ;
For what are ail their jdy% to me,
Which cannot now be mine!
But hold—l feel my gout decrease,
My trouble, laid to rest ;
And truths which would disturb my peace
Are painful truths at belt.
Vainly the time I have to roil
In fad refledlion flies 1
Ye fondling passions of my foul!
Ye sweet deceits 1 arise.
I wifely change the feene within
To things that us’d to please $
In pain, philosophy is spleen j
In health, *tis only ease.
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From a late London Paper,
. Mr. Editor,
■
“ZANE ounce of man’s own
V_X wisdom is better than a
pound of other people’s.” This
is an axiom universally admitted,
from thd Prince down teethe Ple
beian. In the present political
ferment every Mechanic is a Prime
Minister, and every Cobler’s stall
is a Cabinet Council:—Honcft
Crifpin will swear that the French
are a set of fad foies; Snip, the
Taylor, would not give a button
/or the Convention •, while Anvil
the Blackfmjth,cries he’ll bed—’d
if the Duke of York won’t nail
thole what do ye caw ’m fellows—
thofe—faucy clouts —this cam
paign ’’—‘Saucy clouts'!’R6arsan
excifeman, “you fools you means
fantguliurs, which in true Englilh
lignifies fellows with monstrous
swallows, or fad gullets.”
A group of these acute expound
ers had got together a few even
ings ago over a newspaper and a
tankard, when one, with more aud
able lungs than the rest, was chosen
oracle; and among other curious
paragraphs, he stumbled upon
the following:—•‘Strongnortherly
winds have of late prevailed, and
Boreas, with his element^ft^ge
has, we fear, been at least partially
injurious to our Slipping.^r
us! Exclaimed one of thrcom*
Thy lecret saps prevail.
And ruin man, a nice machine,
•fey na use form’d to fail.
My change arrives; the change I meet.
Before 1 thought it nigh,
My fprir.g, my year® of pleasure, fleet.
And all their beauties die.
age I search, and only find
A poor Unfruitful gain—
Grave w’fdom (talking flow behind,
Oppress'd with loads of pain .
My ignorance could once beguile,
But new experience shews the blds,
For which I fondly fought,
-Not worth the long impatient wilh
And ardour of the thought.
And fancied joys inspire ;
My errors cherifh’d hope co fmfle
On’newly born defirc,
An IMITATION of sofas
French Verses.
Poet’s Corner.
ANECDOTE.
A Scotchman giving evidence :
at the bar of the House of
Lords in the affair of Capt. Por
teous, and telling of the variety j
of Ihots that were fired upon that
unhappy occasion, he was alked by
the Duke of Newcastle what kind ’
of (hot it was. “ Why,” lays the
man in his broad dialed, “ such as
they (hoot/^Zi* with,and the like.”
“What kind of fools fays the
Duke, smiling at the word; “Why,
my Lord, Dukes* and such kind
fools”
*ST be Northern pronunciation
of fowls and ducks.
E X T R ACr.
IN other countries, bad govern
ments reduce men to poverty and
wretchedness. In America few
are poor, but from laziaefs and. in
temperance. In Europe, if men are
swinish, it is from the vices of gov
ernment ; in America none are
swinish, but (uch as render them
selves so, by their beastly
In Europe, people Sometimes coi
led: in crouds and fight for bread ;
in America, we hear of no riots for
bread, but sometimes for whiskey.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.
New-London, Aug. 14.—0 n Fri
day 25th ult. brig Nabby, Capr.
J. Norcott, failed from this port
for the Weft Indies, having on
deck 32 oxen, and a valuable in
board cargo, confiding of flour,
rice, &c.—On the Sunday follow
ing, at 2 o’clock in the morning,
being a degree S. E. of Montague
Point, the captain being on deck,
and observing the clouds to look
wild, ordered the light fails to be
handed; which was hardly com
pleted, when it was observed that
the veffeMid not mind her helm,
and was hhuch upon a careen, ah
though Kitle wind was felt at the
time-, but scarcely had thofeon
deck time to express their surprise,
before they found the veflel fettling
very faft. As soon as their aston
ishment would permit, t^y ran tc
the companion way, and called
those who were below, which were
* Mr. Joseph Hurlbut, of this city,
principal owner of the vessel and
cargo, and four of the people; but
in a moment Ihe filled and fell on
.her larboard fide, three feet only
of her starboard remaining out oi
water. ’The people in the steer
age, attempted to get on deck, bui
were at firft prevented by the wa
ter rushing in upon them; three
of them at length effected it by the
companion way, and the forth for
ced his way, he cannot tell how,
into the cabin, and was taken out
of the starboard window. Mr.
Hurlbut was frequently called to,
but was heard only to exclaim,
p u ? on us
vrerc fevgral jfetr els, and a quanti
ty 01 onions in the cabin, which,
as he lay in a larboard birth, were
supposed co have fallen upon him
* when the veflel srft overfet.
Os *
pany, Whole he ?—Here the rea
der, taking off his fdpplemental
eyes, and putting on a smile offu
periprlagacky cries, Here’s a pret
ty fellow 1 he docfn’c know who
Barus is!—Mercy on us! how
ignorant feme folks is ’—Why
Borus he’s a—a—-a—Admiral in
the French service to be fare—
and this Mr Elemental Scourge
must be his Aid decamp or lecond
in command.” A. B.
A prudent attention had been
paid to the pumps, and Ihe had
been purhped dry but an hour
and an half, previous to the fatal
accident; it is therefore undoubt
ed, from the suddenness of her go
ing down, that the butt of a plank
must have started off. At ten
o’clock the Tame morning, the
tloop Levina, Capt. Hatch,, who
failed from this port at the fame -
time with Capt. Norcott, fell in
with the wreck, and took the peo
ple off- In Ist. 36, Capt. Hatch "
spoke the fchodner Nancy, Cape.
Clark, bound to Bodon, who J
took them on board and left them
at the Vineyard, from whence
thev arrived at home on Sunday
W J
§^THE Annual Meedng of
the Eaftera Dtftrift N. Hampshire Medical
Society, wifi be held at the Inn of Stephen
Lam lon io EXeter,on the FirflF Wednesday
of September neir, at ten of the clock in
the forenoon. The Members are desired
to govern thecnfclves accordingly.
Per direction of Awi R* Cutter—
Lfrefi'dent.
Josiah Bartlett, Sec. c. h. m. s.
Stratham^ 17th AuguQ, 1794-
THE Subscriber informs his
Customers for the Herald of
Liberty, that a new arrangement in
Post Roads is about to take place
the fir ft of Oft. next, which will
fender it necessary that a full and
final settlement be made prior to
" that time. Those persons who take
said paper in Nottingham, Deer
field and Eplom are informed that
payment must be made ro the sub
scriber, and not to the Printers as
ufual— ln Cajh.
All persons indebted to, or have
demands are requested to call on
the fubferjber at his several stages
before the 20th of Sept. next.
OzIAS SILSBY.
EUettr, August, t 794«
By this truly melancholy catas
trophe, a widowed mother has to
lament the loss of a foo, whose .
mild virtues, and filiaf tenderness,
had multiplied the uts of parental
affedion. The fulvity of this
young gentleman’s disposition had
gained him esteem and warm at
tachment of his acquaintance; and
the tears of his relatives filed on
the unhappy occasion, have not
fallen alone.
Rockingham, fl.
BY the Hon. Samuel Tenney
Esq. Judge of the Probate*
Wills &c. for said County :—
The heirs to the Estate of John
Page late of Kensington yeoman
deceased, are hereby notified, that
the account of Elizabeth Page of
her administration of said Estate,
will be examined at the Probate
Office in Exeter on Monday the
thirteenth day of September next,
at eleven o’clock before noon, in
order to its being allowed.
Wm* Parker, Reg’r.
August litb, 1794. :%■
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One Penny Reward,
RAN away from the iubfcriberfn July
lift an apprentice boy, named ’Thomat
Davit, ALL pefons are. forbid harbour
ing or trusting him on my account as they
Would avoid the penalty of the law.
Whoever will return said boy Still re
ceive th^bove reward, and no thanks.
SAMUEL PEAVEY,
Brintwo^Augvft 13,1794. /
The misfortunes of this family
are singularly (evere ; three out of
four brothers have been loft at sea
within three years 1 The sou-th, a
master of a vessel, is now at sea.
a——Minim 1■!. Him ' i i
REfpe&fully informs the public, that
he proposes, next week, to com
mence riding Post from Exeter to Tam
worth, instead of Mr. RoWe, whole health
will not admit of his pursuing that
buflnefs.
feritifli Oil,
^Terlington’s Bal
sam of Life,
Lockyer’s Pills,
Hooper’s Female
do.
Hat Case ?
Oil of Vitriol,
Spices,
Said Longfellow will supply Mr.
Rowe’s customers with the American He
rald of Liberty. And any other bufinefe
with which he may be entrusted will be
performed with accuracy and funßuality.
Exeter, August 12.
THE fubfcnber having ac
counts open and small notes
of hand again ft a number of pcr
fons of Long (landing, and the
Law now makes it necessary that
those old accounts should be fettled
and.notes paid or renewed : There
fore all persons against whom I
have Notes or accounts of more
than two years (landing, are earn
estly requested to call and fettle
them soon, or otherwiie 1 (ball -be
Under the disagreeable neceffityof
procuring a fee dement in a differ
ent way.
JOSIAH BARTLETT-.
'Kingfto'wh Augujl 6h, 1794.
A General AJfortment of
FRESH MEDICINES?
RAN away from the fubferib*
er oh the 9th in ft. an ap
prentice boy, named Joseph C.
Hoit, aged feVenteen years, about
five feet nine inches high—-carri
ed with him a variety of cioath
ing, viz. A fedilh fnuff coloured
coat, a redifh brown coar, striped
patterned waistcoat, also black
everlasting waistcoat, and a pair
of striped velvet breeches, a paw
of hemlock coloured trousers and
ftqped furtout, likewise a bear
(kin napfack.
Whoever will return said boy
to the fubferiber, (hall have tour
dollars reward. All persons are
forbid harbouring him, for I am
determined not to pay any debts of
his cohtrafling hereafter.’
Shbarborn Dearborn
Cbtjler, Augujl 11.
THE highell price given far
good clean Barley, by
Gilman & Boyer— -or
Daniel Connor,
at either of their fibres in Exeter^
August la, 1794^
W AN T E D
By tbs printers hereof two or tbrei
hundred green
Sheep and Lamb Skins,
immediately after the wool is takenoff
RAGS.
4s —* -. ■
CASH* Writing-Paper, or
Books given for clean
cotton and linen Rags at thu
Office.
Medicines will be fold
at his (hop on the lowef term) for money
and good Beef.
Exeter, August 11, 1794-
BARLEY wanted.
Jonathan Longfellow
\ 9 be SOLD by
Jofcph Tilton,
Among 'which arty
Caflor,
EiT. Pip. Menth,
Cephalic Snuff,
Salt Petre, .
Flour Brimstone,
Borax,
Court Plaifter,
Blue Vitriol,
White do. &c. &c