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From a London ft after. ?
- Ingenuity of the Spider.—-T. A. Knight,
Esq. of Hertfordshire, has, in a Treatise on the
culture of the Apple and Pear, introduced the fol*
lowing anecdote concerning this curious animal.—
"I have frequently placed a spider on a small up
right stick, whose back was surrounded by water,
observe its most singular mode of escape. After
having discovered that the ordinary means of re
treat are cut off, it ascends the point of the stick,
and standing nearly on its head, ejects its web,
which the wind readily carries to some contiguous
object. Along this the sagacious insect effects his
escape, not. however, until it has previously ascer
tained, by several exertions of its whole strength,
that its web is properly attached at the opposite
end. Ido not know that this instance of the saga
city of the Slider has been noticed by any cutomol
ogical writer, and I insert it here in consequence
of having seen in some periodical publication, a ve
ry erroneous account of the origin of the spider's
threads which are observed to pass from one tree
rr bush to another in dewy mornings."
Exchange on London,
FOR SALE BY
Samuel Elliot.
At his Office at head of Daniel-street where or
ders for buying and selling foreign and inland Bills
<f Exchange, Funded Stocks,&c. ^c. are punctually
attended to. May 24,
A voung man, a Midshipman in the sea ser
vice of rather obscure birth, was taken prisoner
during the Spanish war, and carried to Peru, in
South-America, where he remained on parole for
some vears.— During this period, an accident
brought him acquainted with a lady, a near rela
tion of a very high female personage in the king
dom of New-Spain, whose influence at length pro
cured his liberty ; some time after which lie re
turned to England. In the pursuit of his profes
sion, he has had the fortune to have a birth on board
the ship, perhaps the most successful in capturing
the Spanish prizes lately arrived in our ports. It
happened that this young man was detached with
a party of seam& to take possession of a valuable
prize just taken—when upon boarding the ship, he
found to his utter astonishment, the very lady to
whose kind attention he had been under so many
obligations. It was now his singular fortune to have
his case exactly reversed, to enjoy the supreme fe
licity of being able to repay his obligations with a
large interest. The circumstance was no sooner
made known to his shipmates, than with the gene
rosity so characteristic of British seamen, the offi
cers and crew immediately agreed to restore her
property to their illustrious captive. All her large
and beautiful vessels of pure gold, an immense
quantity of the most valuable jewels, all her costly
furniture, and property of every description to an
exceeding large amount^ with wliich she was re
turning to her native country, were restored to her,
thus nobly proving that humane and generous treat
- ment of a British seaman in misfortune, will never
fail to be gratefully remembered by his gallant
comrades, when occasion shall present itself.
The fortunate Midshipman, (whose share of
prize money cannot be less than between 4 and
50001.) has taken as might be supposed, his illus
trious friend under his protection during het stay
in this country, and ttey are both we believe, at
tills moment in the metropolis." — St. James Chron.
Q TASTE! thou sure unerring guide to fame,
Without whose influence talents lead to shame ;
Devoid of thee, though fashion yields them place,
Our labors sink to slow, but sure disgrace;
Which reined by reason, and with virtue nurst,
Os all created beings forms the first;
Whence life's best ornaments and honor spring,
That gives distinction by distingisding ;
Pow'r of the soul, whose influence all confess,
The polish'd garden, or the wilderness ;
Whose wond'rous fitness makes thy nature known,
As well around the cottage as the throne ;
Who, blending kindred forms, and chafing strife,
Walk'st with complacent majesty through life ;
Taste ! be my goddess, all accomplish'd maid .
Sitting with Genius calmly in the shade,
Oft bring thy graceful footsteps to my view :
Where Vinci painted, and where Julio drew ;
Where Michael's giant genius warms thy breast,
Or Raphael clasps thee in his arms comprest,
Oh ! had my fortune led me to that coast
Where Grecian arts exist, tho' Rome be lost ;
And of its native honours dispossest,
Taste only rears her ever blooming crest ;
Where just Etrurian, and Athenian forms,
Delight the lover, and the artist warms ;
Then had I trac'd the fountain whence they came,
And pass'd my days amid the seats of fame :
Still should the goddess ; in'a fickle mood.
Who seldom flatters where she is not woo d,
With pleasing wealth obliterate the past,
And give me independence at the last ;
Grateful I'll travel to that distant seat,
For wliich my bounding heart so long has beat,
Naples' broad bay, whose undulating trave
Chafes the smooth bossom of each sun-gild wave ;
Or fann'd by cool refreshing breezes, plays
In golden lines beneath his soften'd rays ;
Naples' wide bay, where palaces arise,
Crown'd with fair islands, blest with cloudless skies,
Where Bia^s fields present a lengthning green,
And proud Vesuvius terminates the scene.
Naples I'll seek, with fond affections warm,
Where ev'ry element contends to charm ;
And should Eliza, gentle, good, and fair,
She, whom my inmost thoughts adopt, be there :
And those who know my heart, my plans approve,
Then blest with friendship, competence and love.
JOHNSON was once called abruptly from home,
and returning in about three hours, said, he had
been with an enraged author, whose landlady pres
sed him for payment within doors while the baliffs
beset him witliout ; and he was drinking himself
drunk with Madeira to drown care, and fretting
over a novel which wlien finished was to be his
whole fortune ; but he could not get it done for dis
traction, nor could he step out of doors to offer it
for sale. Johnson therefore set away the bottle, and
went to the bookseller, recommending the perform
ance, and desiring some immediate relief, which
when he brought back to the writer, he called the
woman of the house directly to partake of punch,
and pass their time in merriment. This poor au
^hpr was no other than Goldsmith, and his novel
his charming Vicar of Wakefield.
FROM CUMBERLAND'S LEWINA.
DR. GOLDSMITH.
— -<*oo^ Am —
Just received by the John Adame, and Packet,
from Liverpool ; and Galen from London,
And this day opening at
DRAPER'S
Cheap new Cash store,
A very extensive supply of
Fancy & Staple Piece Goods,
AMONG WHICH ARE
Elegant 6-4 Muslin
Shawls#
ditto 5,6, & 7-4 Silk do.
6-4 Muslin Blush'd
check'd ditto,
6-4 lace Cambricks.
4-4 and 6-4 Book Jaco
net and Cambric Mus
lins.
Linen Cambrics.
A great variety of pink
and dark plaid Cali
coes.
Pink, blue and Buff
6-4 Sarsnet Cambrics.
Slate and Plumb color'd
ditto.
4-4 and 6-4 Black do.
Black Lutestrings,
do. [Florence, do.
black Crape yard wide.
Black and white Parisnet
Gauzes.
Pocket Handkerchiefs,
4 Cents a piece.
Ladies short Silk Gloves
do. Kid do.
do. long white Kid do.
English and French Silk
Gloves.
Black arid white picnic
do. *
Pink and blue Muslins.
Fashionable Willow Bon
nets; Chips for do.
Straw ditto.
Parasols with walking
Sticks.
Dimities.
White Chips for Bonnets
Gentlemen's black and
white silk Hose.
Ladies' black, white and
slate color'd ditto.,
Ladies' white and col
or'd Cotton Hose.
Gentlemen's do. do.
Blue, drab, dark mixt,
and strip'd Cotton
Cassimeres.
English yellow Nankeens
Nankinets, Jeans and
Fustians.^
Sprig'd Book Muslins.
Variety of nice and com-
'To be Let,
A convenient Shop, with, or without the Cellar
and Chamber, opposite Mr. Charles Peirce's
Book Store, in Daniel-street.
apply to S. ELLIOT.
Portsmouth, April 18, 1805. '
FOR SALE on very liberal term&,
300 Bbls, of No. 1 & 2 Beef.
foci. N. A. & J. HAVEN.
Henderson & Cooper
Have just received a large assortment of
Fashionable & oth,er Goods,
WHICH ARE NOW OPENING—viz.
Jgreat variety of
PLAID, plain, salmon color'd and
black Chambray Muslins ; elegant laced Cam
brics ; emboss'd Cambrics ; pink, dark, mourning,
and common Calicoes ; Furnitures; tape-stripe,
narrow and corded Dimities; Muslinets.
Black and colored Sarinet Cambrics „
sarsnet jaconet, book jaconet and Cambric Muslins;
spotted Book Muslins; black Cypress Shawls;<
black Crapes ; black Bomhazeen'.
Cambric satin check'd, color'd cam
bric, purple and chintz Shawls; Peacate Veils;
black Veils ; white and black Netting ; black and
white Cypress.
a large assort ant of
Fashionable corded, fuk velvet, white
and figured Merseilles Vesting ; printed Jeans ;
Men's plain and ribb'd Satins ; silk Nankinets ;
cotton Cassimeres ; yellow Nankins ; Jeans; Fus
tians ; plain and ribb'd Velvets.
a large variety of
Women's habit, black grain, and extra
long kid Gloves •; long white Kid Gloves ;
black and white pic .nic Gloves ; and
Mitts ; extra long white black and colored silk
Gioves; women and men's white and color'd cotton
Gloves; beaver Gloves ; fashionable white, black
and spangled Crape Fans ; Parasols.
Women's white and black silk Hose
for 10s. pair ; women's superfine white and black
cotton Hose ; misses cotton Hose ; men's outsized
plain and fine ribb'd cotton Hose; men's black cot
ton Hose ; youth's white and colored Oose ; men's
brown Hemp Hose ; men's vandyke and imperial
Hose.
India and Florence Luteftrings ; Modes;
Sarsnets ; Guazes ; Millinetts ; black Laces ,
Edgings ; linen ; cotton, bandannoe, check'd and
black silk Handkerchiefs.
Silk and cotton Umbrellas ; cotton
and silk Braces ; colored Threads; Ferrets ;
Gallooms , Cap Wire ; shirt Buttons ; Floss
Thread.
Irish Linens ; Brown Hollands ; Sew
ing Silks ; black Velvet Bindings ; worsted Bind
ing, ; gilt and plated Buttons; India Cottons ; In
dia Chintzes ; Madrass long Cloths ; Checks.
Superfine and common blue and black
Broad Cloths ; Cassimeres ; Woolen Cord; Thick
setts.
Callimancoes ; Satinets ; Durants ;
Moreens ; plain and ribb'd black Wildbores.
a large assortment of
Men's and Youth's HATS.
India Nankins. 1
Portsmouth, May 4, 1805, No. 3, Cheap-side.
Spring & Summer Goods.
NEW GOODS.
mon Fans.
White Lace Veiling.
Black and white Laces,
and Edgings.
Velvet Bindings.
Ladies' rose color'd Silk
Hose.
1 Case 7-8 and 4-4lrish
Linens.
1 do. gentlemens' Hatts,
first chop.
Drab Tabby Velvet.
-Black do. de.
Snuff do.
Black Silk Velvet,
do. Cambric Shawls.
Slate do.
fancy silk Handkerchiefs
Black Modes.
Blue, white and Pink
Sarsnets.
Fancy Merscillcs Quilt
ings.
Plain and strip'd Sattin
Vestings.
Long Lawns.
Furniture Chintzes,
low pric'd Calicoes.
Dark purple Shawls.
Brown Hollands.
Italian black Sewing
Silks, by the pound.
Color'd Threads, do.
Corded black Velvets,
do. light do.
Superfine Broad Cloths.
Cassimeres.
Bandanna Handker
chiefs.
Cotton Checks.
Blue India Cottons.
Linen Checks.
India Calicoes.
Cotton Umbrellas.
Gilla Handkerchiefs.
Blue and yellow Nan
keens.
A very large supply of
India Cottons, of all
prices some as low as
9d per yard.
Black Morocco Shoes.
Diapers, and Diaper 4
Table Cloths, &c. See.
Portsmouth, May 3.
which are now oftening.
A LARGE assortment of Chintzes
and printed Cambricks of the latest fashion,
elegant Maroon Town Chintz Furniture. Color'd
Sarsnet Cambricks. Embus'd Cambricks ; lapet
japan laced Muslins ; sattin sprig'd Muslins;
chambray Muslins ; nett and embroidered cam
bric Shawls; elegant silk Shawls ; white silk
lace Shawls ; colored Tiffanies; Paris nett and
Turkey Guazes ; Dimities ; linen Cambricks.
A great variety of
Thread Laces ; black and white silk
Laces; Lace Veils; fashionable gown Trimmings,
gown Buttons and Frogs ; silver Shoe Roses ; silk
and cotton Cords and Tassels ; colored silk Cords;
fancy Flowers and Wreaths ; Necklaces and Ear-
Drops ; gold and silver Thread ; Epaulets : a great
variety of fancy Ribbons ; velvet Ribbons ; a vari
ety of fancy tiffany Fans; English Lustrings ; Sars
nets. ri large assortment of
Cotton and silk Hose, some'outsized ;
black and colored silk Gloves ; men's outsized black
silk Gloves ; women's buff Limerick Gloves ;
women's and misses colored cotton Gloves ; misses
cotton Hose.
ri great variety of
Dunftable, split straw, imperial, chip,
cane and Willow Bonnets. Mens silk Leghorn
Hats ; Boys Morocco Caps ; Nursery Aprons.
Best superfine blue, black, Corbeau, bottle green,
brown and other Broad Cloths ; Cassimers ; great
variety of fashionable Waiscoatings.
A large assortment Linens ; Irish Sheetings ;
Durants, Tammies, Shalloons ; Calimancoes.
Yellow and blue Nankeens ; Black India Lus
trings for 6s. Best black Crape at 6s. India Cottons
and Chintzes. May 25.
15°More New Goods.
James Rundlet,
Has just received per the Little James from Lon
don,, and the Warrington from Liverpool,
An additional supply of
Staple & Fancy piece Goods
Which are now often?ng and will positively be sold
very low for cash or approved short credit.
Among which are
T)EST London Superfine Broad Cloths and Cassi
" meres.
Cotton and Silk Hosiery.
Silk Shawls and Handkerchiefs.
Black, White, fluff, Yellow, Salmon, light Blue,
Plumb, Pink, Brown, Slate, Olive and Drab
SARSNET CAMBRICS.
Patch Furnitures, Tassels and Fringe.
Fashionable Plad and small figure Calicoes.
Black and White Laces, ditto Lace Veiling.
A great variety of Black, White, Plad and Fancy
figur'd RIBBONS.
A large assortment of Fans.
Durants, Russels and Caliraancoes.
Mens' rich Black Sattin and Florentine.
A large assortment of Irish Linens and Sheetings.
Diaper Table Cloths.
Dimities and Muslins.
India Cotters, some extra fine, very low.
A fresh supply of India Chintzes, very low, and
free from damage, any thing to the contrary not
withstanding.
Company and common Yellow Nankeens.
Blue ditto.
Gentlemens' Leghorn Summer Hats, wide rims,
Black Florence Silks.
Black India Lustrings, wide sort, at 6s. per yard.
Best Bologna Crapes, at 6s. per yard.
With a great variety of other Goods, too many
to enumerate, the whole of which wither the ex
ception of a single article, will be sold at the very
lowest prices, he being determined not to be under
sold in any article by any new dasher what
ever.
A small Invoice of Stylish articles in the
Mould & Dipt Candles
FOR SALE BY
J. LANGDON, jr.
Any number of Boxes can be supplied at the short
est notice— Also just received
30 casks fresh Malaga Rai
sins. Langdon's %eharf, Mau 18, 1805.
JUST RECEIVED
From on board Schooner Rising Sun from
Charleston, S. C.
60 casks Rice,
of a Very superior quality, for Sale by
WIIiLIAM HILL, No. 6, Merchamt's-Row,
Portsmouth, May 25, 1805.
NEW INVENTED
Boot & Shoe Gloss,
for sale by S. SPRAGUE,
Ah, 4, DarcLWe<h June 1, 180%
which he will repack in quantities to suit purcha
sers as cheap as can be had in Poston.
He has also for sale,
1 Case Irish Linens entitled to Debenture ;
2 Seroons best Spanish-Float INDIGO ;\
RUM, BRANDY and GIN, by wholesale and
retail ;
Madeira, Lisbon, Sherry and Malaga WINES ;
West-India COTTON;
Bohea, Souchong, Hyson-Skin,and Hyson TEAS ;
Gun-Powder TEA—very fine ;
W. India, E. India, & Loaf and Lump SUGAR ;
f Pepper, Alspice, Ginger, Cloves, Cassia ;
Nutmegs ;
Flour ; Rice, Florence OIL ; Elliot's SNUFF, &c.
100 White oak BARRELS ;
100. do. do. Half BARRELS;
17 Those indebted to the late firm ofW. & C.
NIEL, are again requested to make immediate pay
ment, otherwise they may expect to find their ac
counts in the hands of an Attorney. May 25.
Hat received by the latest arrivals from Liverftoo
an extensive assortment of
will be sold low by wholesale, and on liberal terms.
May 22.
Ilas just received by the Little James, from Lon
don, and Warrington front Liverpool,
an additional supply of
Crockery & Glass Ware,
FanOy and other Goods,
Peter Coffin
William Neil,
Jewelry Line,
Pearse and Walker,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED FOR SALE,
" Dearborn's Proportional
BALANCES
THESE instruments for weighing, are of such
utility as to be fast getting into general use. To
state every advantage in the use of them would be
superfluous ; suffice jt to say, they may be ^pur
chased for halt the cost and used with half the
labour of scales and weights ;" for "ease, dispatch
and precision," they surpass any thing of the kind
extant. The frequent, demand for them through
the states and elsewhere, is of sufficient proof of
their usefulness and merited approbation.
Portsmouth, May 24.
FOR
23 casks MACK's Lime, of
an excellent quality.— lnquire of
D. AUSTIN.
June 1.
ALL persons indebted to the
Estate of
Mrs. MARY JACKSON,
late of Portsmouth, widow, deceased, relict of the
late Dr. Hall Jackson, are requested to make im
mediate payment to the subscriber Administratrix
to said estate, and all persons having any claims a
gainst the estate of said deceased, are requested to
present them immediately for settlement
MARY ELIZABETH SYMMES.
Portsmouth, May 25, 1805.
THE PORTSMOUTH ORACLE,
is published every Saturday morning for the town
and vicinity, and
THE ORACLE POST
every Tuesday morning for the Country by
, William and Daniel Treadwell,
at their Book and Stationary shop, cpposF t^
Court House, Portsmouth, JVewhani,shirt .-■ —<
Terms 150 cents per annum, 50 cents paid in ad
vapce—Punctually forwarded to all parts of this
State and the District of Main.
SPRING AND SUMMER ▼
GOODS. 1
Edward Parry
Informs his friends and the public in general,
that he has just received an additional
supply of
Spring & Summer GOODS.
all V which he will sell by wholesale or retail, as
. cheap as can he purchased in any store in this
town ; for cash or approved credit —
AMONG WHICH ARE
The best and mostfashionable,
BLUE, black, mix'd and drab Su
perfine Broad-Cloths ; and Cassimeres ;
best superfine white and figured Marseilles and
Jean Vesting.
a complete assortment of
Cobweb, fattin, fprig'd and collonade
Muslins ; gland and undress plain, white and col
or'd Cambricks and Book Muslins ; Dimity and
Muslinetts ; cambrick and muslin Shawls ; black
and white Laces and Edgings, (very cheap ;)
plain and twilled Nankeens ; Jeans and Fustians ;
silk Gloves and Mitts ; Ladies silk and cotton Hose;
an elegant assortment of dress silk Hats and Bon
nets ; Chintzes, of every description, from Is 6, to
6s. per yard ; Irish Linens and Sheetings ; Table
Cloths and Diapers, remarkable cheap • black
Florence Silks; black Modes and Sattius'-Cali
mancoes ; Russels, Durants and Tammies *
loons, Sec. '
rT^y A r ED y^°°° ¥" ds of ^°° d Country
CLOTH; for which any of the above articles will
be exchanged at cash price.
Portsmouth, May 18, 1305.
Spring Goods.
Joseph Haven,
u, No. 1, Merchant's
Has just received a general assortment of
European & India Goods,
Suitable to the season, comprising almost every ar
ticle usually required in a Piece Goods Store'; all
which he offers for sale at the most favourable
terms.
iD"He has a new supply from New-York, of
American Beaver Hats,
of^eo^^l^yy- %6, 1805.
NEW GOODS:
OLIVER BRIARD refpc&fully in-
Y f °! ms ^ friends and Customers that he has
just received a large and very general assortment of
bpiing Goods, which he is now selling very cheap,
at his store No. 2 Merchant's Row, Fore-street
^May, 4 1805.
Henry ByWilliams'
Hasfor sale Ab. 2 Portsmouth Pier, W
FFW pipes Brandy and Gin ;
5 Bbls. Cognac Brandyfirft quality;
30 boxes Soap ;
10 calks Dutch Gun Powder ;
5 calks American do.
5 calks fire cut Nails, assorted;
50 Bbls. Beef, No. 1 and 2 ;
Few calks Raisins ;
Quantity of Clover and Herd's Grass
rileo on Comnwon,
20 crates assorted Crockery Ware.
Wa?lt ed a quantity of POT end PEARI.
Seed ; and
I Trunk Dry Goods, assorted;
The above articles will be fold very low
for cash or approved credit.