Oracle post — Portsmouth, N.H., 1804-01-03 00:00:00, page 1

LADD and SM,H,
Have for Sale atmeir
Slip Chandler Store,
/ No. 5, Merc^^^s Row,,
4^'RDAGfr:, Joltrope, Worming,
Houfling, ^Affiin, Points, whipping and
fetyg Twingrofia Sheeting ; Tow Cloth ;
Lather ;(heet Copper and Lead ; Tar ; Rozin ;
:jw4@Hrchit e Varnish ; fpermacita, porpoise,
tAWmd linseed Oil ; spirits of Turpentine ; dry
ground White Lead ; ground Venetian ;
red do ; Yellow Ochre ; powder'd do ; Spanish
ftown; Whiting; Lampblack; Verdegrife and <'
Vermilion ; Paint Brushes aid Tools ; Roll and|
Eulpher Brimflone ; Tallow; Sand and House
Sheathing Paper ; Mop Yarn ; Matt Hoops;
Hanks rOars; Handspikes ; Perkins' Patyt
Pumps ; (hips Camboofes, Spikes ; deck, ^|,\
1 ,'h^tyQ&^^^^^^ fyl
zod, rod, 6#„df4d, 3d, 2d and id BraQ;
6d, 4d, 3d, 2d & ipouncc coarse and fine Clouts ;
tin'd Pump Nails ; Rivefs ; Hooks & Thimbles ;
brass & iron Cabin door Locks ; Stays, Buttons,
Hooks, & Hinges ; Woodcock, iron rim, closet,
pad and portmanteau Locks ; H & HL Hinges
from 3 to 10 inches ; cast iron patent but Hinges
with and without loose pins ; chelt and box
Hinfes ; Wood Screws, different sizes ; patent
copper Binnacle Lamps ; do feeders ; jappan'd
lamps ; Candlesticks ; speaking and hand Trum
pets ; brass and wood Cocks ; copper, tin, and
wood Hand Pump,; wood and tin Tunnels ;
draw and water Buckets ; iron bound Cans;
iron Shovels ; Boffi HRoks ; Grains ; Harpoons ;
Ihaik hooks ; can hooks ; marlinfpikes ; crow
bars ; ma:lin, boltrope, and fail Needles ; Palms;
deep sea from 60 to 120 fathom and hand Lines ;
log, mackrel, squid, 9,1?, 15, and iS thread
Lines ; deep sea, hand and filh Leads ; fiffiing
hooks ; broad and narrow Axes ; Hatchets ;
Adzes ; Hammers ; steel p'ate, common and
compass Saws ; Chisels ; Gauges ; fcrewand
pod Augers; Plains ; Files ,• Tap borers ; Bits ;
Gimblets ; Nippers : Marking Irons ; Iron
Squares ; Compares ; Chalk lines ; Drawing
Knives; Saw setts ; Caulking Tools.
Table and Carving Knives and Forks ;
fiffi Knives ; table and tea Spoons ; Coffee Mills;
tea and large Kettles; Iron Pots; Spiders ;
Gklllets ; Bake Pans ; Dutch 'Ovens; Frying
Pans; Gridirons;Tkimmers; Ladles; Tormen
tors ; Iron Spoons ; Tinder-boxes and Reels ;
tin and horn Lanterns ; Bellows; Kitts , Bowls;
stew Pans ; Coffee Pots; tin and wood Meafurcs;
stone Jugs; Pewter.
A general assortment of
and Wood Ware; Floor, Hauth, buffing.
Scrubbing, & Tar Brushes; Mfr ; Birch and
Corn Brooms : Cabin Bells ; Mouse & Rat
Traps ; Cork Screws ; Corks &c.—Powder,Shot,
Pallets, Flints, Powder cafes,ferew.drivers, worm
screws and gun locks.
10 by 8 & 9 by 7 Glass ; Grindstones ;
red, blue, yellow and white Bunting ; Colours,
Ensigns, Pendants, Jacks and Burgees.
GROCERIES.
Rum ; Biandy ; Gin ; .Molasses ;
hyfon, hyfon (kin, fouchong and bohea Teas ;
Mufcovada, India, lump & loaf Sugars ; Coffee ;
Chocolate ; Pepper ; Mace; Cinnamon ; Cassia;
Cloves; Nutmegs; Railins ; Ginger ; Salt-Petre ;
Starch ; Milliard : cake and bar Soap; Cotton ;
White Beans : Pollock fifh.
WAN! ED—Oakum, mop-yarn, points,
tow cloth, leather, mast hoops,hanks, lampblack,
oars, handspikes, buckets, cans, brooms, ferving
mallets, log-reels, and hand pumps.
„ Portsmouth, 2,th Dec. 1803,
Ebenezer Thompson,
Has,rjaleat his li'are- Houje, Bt/w street,
OLD Sable Russia Iron per ton;
Brandy per pipe or bbl/
Gin, do. Rum, do.
Mbiaffes per hhd. Sugar per bbl.
Superfine and fine FLOUR;
Liverpool SALT;
Hyfon, Young Hyfon, Hyfon-skin, Sou
cbong and Bohea TEAS, per ch.A;
A few boxes Spaniel Segars;
2oolb. Nutmegs, in bags of lolb each,
which will be fold by the bag or fipgle pound— cheap,
DCcemhCTUi^i „
Stephen Hardy ^
HAS just received and for sale at his
shop in Buck-Are t, a variety of fafhionable
Gold Ear Rings; Finger Rings, Handkerchief
Pins, Gold Necklaces, Combs, Snuff Boxes,
Smelling Bottles, Dressing Cases, Plated Candle
sticks, japan'd Lanterns, Tea Pots, Penknives,
Scissors, Pocket Bocks, Waiters, snuffer Trays,
N. B. Cash given for old Gold and
Silver. Z Pmtfmouth, Dec. 2^.
ta—= t___ »'■■"., 111 1. —l■■ CTCWW ,■ ■in,«*—..,., —Q
LOST last Wednesday afternoon, on
the Road to Greenland, an
English Silver Watch,
black flk firing, Glass Seal, fmaH. Key. A gen
erous reward will be given the finder on leaving it
at Treadwells' Book-fliop, or to the owners
John Snell,
Greenland December 23, 1803. _
A Maid wanted, apply to the Prin
ter, Decembers;.
.eiMiii iiiift.^ iiiw
Vol. XIV.]
OF ALL^THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITSS
WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROPER!TV,
RELIGION and MORALITY ARE INDISPENSA
BLE SUPPORTS.—— Washington's Legacy
- "moralist.
We find that the judgments and opinions
of mankind are more or less divided relpeaing every
fubjeft on which they are employed.-—lt is proba
ble that two persons have never existed since the
creation, whole opinions have io all refpeas perfe&
ly coincided.—-The author of ourexiftenceevident
-1 ly bellowed upon us this diverfay ofopinion, which'
I is so univerfaity diffused among mannia I, as ou
principal source of our improvement and happineb
in our interceurfes with each other. S>ci ty, with
out this, would not only lose its rchfh but its Very
exigence. How tedious -insipid would Hat corn'
paw, appear, where ill the me^aqs e%„ dT/Q
,? 4 ?^ ^ f^acm/ %s ; est iff &+!,! -
reded by o„e mind. Whatever fine things poets and
orators may fay •,' uniformity of opinion, of one
foul aauating a whole community ; the truth is that
(liquid luch a thing universally take place, locket,
wo^l d loon become not only tasteless, but fhltip.
ponably irksome, and mankind, instead of improv
ing each other in knowledge & refinement would
gradually degenerate to a race of nuns and hermits.
Besides the filutary effias which variety in.opin
ion evidently produces in society, it has,an immed
iate tendency to improve the understanding and en
large the sphere of human knowledge, by prompt
ing men to a diligent and perfevmiig investigation
of luchlubjea£,?j require that attention and appli
cation chich nothing else is able to excite. To
this we are indebted for almost all the übfhl know
ledge cf which we ate now poiLffd.—Had not
Cafini doubted the trv'l nf $,, Isaac Newton's op
inions, refpeaing the figure of the earth, itstrue form
would probably, nor l^ve been proved to us at the
prefentday. Had not God in his mercy furnifliedus
with a fuuabte number of delfts and infidelsto op
pose chriftiaoity, we should not, at this time, have
Deen cble to prove the divinity of the scriptures ;
and, indeed, I much doubt whether ocr prececeffors
would have taken the pains to prefeve and transfer
to us those holy repofimries of truth,—ln fliorr, such
is tlx natural propensity of the mind to Both and
macLviy, that nothing but the fafeinatmg hope of
catqueft,and a ftrongdefire of maintaining our own
opinims in opposition to those of others, would
prompt us to lay slide our native indolence, and to
'PP'y ourselves with assiduity to the examination of
the various arguments that may be bro't in support
of the different tides of a queftion,by a comparison
of ^hich we are enabled to convince gurfelves and
others on which fide the truth lies.—lt is this love
of core ueft alone that can rouse to a&ion the latent
faculties of the foul, and make them shine forth in
all the fnl&gn of rhe^fc and oratory. Put for ,
thte, the eloqtfehte of thr orator, mut me cogent ar
guments of the deep & logical reasoner, would have
remained inadive and unknown in the breads of the
possessors.—At the fame time it must be allowed, to
the disgrace of humanity, that this, like all other
blessings, has been fhamtfully perverted by man
kind ; and that instead of promoting our felicity,
as was originally designed, it has, by us, been mace
the cause of many unhappy quarrels, wa's and per
secutions, which have perpetually distressed the
world. But we can no more argue from hence,
that adversity of opinions is prejudicial to oar hap
piness than the discovery of iron has been a misfor
tune to mankind, because it has furnifhed them
with instruments for destroying each others .lives. —
Since then our beneficent Creator has kindly been
pleased to implant in our natures foch an inexhaust
ible fountain of pleasure and improvement, it is bar
indifpenfible dty to make the most wife and judi
cious use of it,by candidly comparing our own op
inions with those of others, and frankly laying our
ftlvcs open to conviction, with a fixed determina
tion to embrace truth wherever it may be found.
^MISCELLANY.
Useful.
Wehaveread an interesting memoir on the Wax
tree of Louisiana, by Charles Louis Cadet, of the
College of Pharmacy at Paris. The following
are his observations on the utility of the wax which
the tree affords.
The war, fays he, is fufficiently abundant to
compensate th§ care and expence of cultivating it
for a buffi in full bearing yields from fix to seven
pounds of kernels, one fourth of which 'may be
obtained in wax. It is superior in qualit^^g©,-
wax.
The astringent principle of the myriCTtxfyc
ted in the large way, may be very ufeful in med
icine and in the arts ; it may to a certain extent
be fubflitutedinftead of gall nuts in dying,hat-ma
king, and probably in certain processes of tan-|
r"^ The colouring principel appears fuffici^nt
r,!,folid to deserve some attention ; and if it be
true that some fine cakes have been obtained from
it in Louisiana, may we not expeft advantages
from it in painting.
When this wax tlall have become plentiful &
cheap in the market it promises great advanta
ges in the fabrication of foa^
The traveller Thalm fays that the soap of it
washes linen perfectly white. Z/
Candles made of it afford a white flame, a
good light, without smoke, and do not gutter ;
they emit when quite frefh a balsamic odour;
which the inhabitants of Louisiana confider as ex
tremely wholesome for persons in ill health.
iMn Alexander, Surgeon, fays, ihat the liquor
in which the grain has been boiled, and from
whence the wax is procured, having been poured
out and evaporated to the confidence cf an
extract, checks the most obstinate dyfentaries.
There exists at Orleans and at Rambouillet, two
orchards of the wax-tree, which contaui more
than four hundred ffirubs.
ORACLE POST.
TUESDAY, January 3, 18%
CTURBEFB^.-t^r^TteT^^en -^raforaQramtwtcßHrararaA
&.he Louisiana wax-tree Mr. C. observes, is
"Tree fame species that grows in Penfylvania,
O'>ia and Virginia. It rises higher and its
gi^ns are fmaJler. In some places it is as large
as a fcrry tree, and it grains of the size of co
riaiter feed. 1 Its botanical names ntyrica cerifera 1
c^j^'faia. That which grows in Penfylvania'
- ^eAled neyriea ccrifera latifiia.
0
PCEfophic Queries
fold or would net Mr. Jefferfon's" Salt
\ ta w, hkeany heap ot alt, dissolve or dim
in 1: indtralong continued aßion of rain and
he? :.•.?-i.c, if not penetrable to such causes,
cun i oe nfed for the common putpofes of fait ?
'^ as been affected by these natural a
gefr whatmuft its dimenficns have been at the
t d "° n °' '" wor ~> according- to the an-
M.,L^*tf% calculating framhsyiefcnt height
,is it a:rill fupriting that from this "Wt Moun
tain?' there Should flow " Salt Springs,'; & might
not Mr- lefferfon have made the prodigy greater
by taufim; to flow from his “ Salt Mountain"
thl pared springs of frefh water.
fife red the traders up towards the regions cf
this fupwfe< i" Salt Mountain''in the habit of
carrying salt so: sale ? And have not travellers
heretofc e, particularly the intelligent Scotch
tr„elle (whole raama we forgetat this moment)
but wl a explored that country, a few years a
go, far! ter than it had ever been explored be
fore or perhaps since —-have not they all been fi
lenc as o such a “ salt mountain ?” And are not
these t,o circumstances of the traders and trav
ellers I convincing proof that there is such a
" salt fountain ?"
Mat not this “ salt mountain" be fine Attic
fall : And, in that case; might not the Pfefideut,
his Cc urt and his Congress be much bettered by
performing a pilgrimage thereto, as fjon as pos
sible.
After all, may not Hr. Jefferfon's " salt moun
tain,' 180 miles long, and 4; wide, be nothing
more .han one of the frlaller breed of Mamm< ths
grow 1 perfealywhite & torpid with age, perhaps
lUeVaft "almoftfponraneoufl;"ina quagmire of
that P immense prairie filled with bufatoe, deer
and ^her kinds of game" —in search of" grass ?"
Dll Sergeant EUwt e^.r-hcar of furh a phenom
enotiin « correfoonding Witudes r" And if so,
" reasoning from analogy," wmH it not be worth
whilf 10 fend him with file of Jefancratic Honor
ab;et|on a voyage of di:%very ?—Yet at la & » there
a prfibiliiy !lrt the Searg^t, or Mr. C^cke, or
Mr. Claiborne, or Mt. Smilie, or Mr. Wright, or
Mr. Lyon, or * score of others, now '' Honorable”
ex officio, would any where in their expedition meet
Congress of the United States.
The Message.
To the Senate and House of Reprefevtatives of the
United States.
I HAVE the fatisfittjon to inform you, that the
aft cf hostility, meotiontd in my meflage of the
4th of November to have been committed by a
cruder of the Emperour of Morocco on a vessel of
the United States, has been dif&vowed by the Em
perour. All differences in confequcoce thereof
h?re been amicably adjusted, and the treaty of
1,86, between this country arid that, has been re
cognized and confirmed by the Emperour, each
party restoring to the other what had been detain
ed or taken. I enclose the Empereur's orders giv
en 00 this occasion.
The conduct of our officers generally, who have
had a part in these tranfaaioos, has merited entire
approbation., The temperate and corred course
pursued by our Consul, Mr. Simpson, the promp
titude and energy of Commodore Prebble, the effi
cacious co-operation of Captains Rodgers, and
Campbell, of the returning fquHron, the proper
decifioq of Captain Bainbridge, that a veflel which
had committed an open hostility was of- right to be
detained for inquiry and confederation, and the
general zeal of the other officers and men are hon
ourable fads, which I make known with pleasure.
And to these I add, what was indeed tranfaaed in
another quarter, the gallant enterprize of Captain
Rodgers in destroying, on the coast of Tripoli, a
Corvette of that power, of 22 guns.
I recommend to the consideration of Congress a
just indemnification for the inttrefis of the Captors
of the Mifhouda and Mirboha, yielded b, them for
the public accommodation.'
^1 TH : JEFFERSON.
December 5, 180,
THE iMPEROUR'sORDERS.
Praise be given to Gad alone. Moy Ged be profc
', tiout to our Mafler Ma&et and to his family.
\ [sell.]
<KNOW dll those who fill fee this noble writ
ing-all our Goveroours—thofe recharged with
our affairs and Captains of we yeffels, that the A
mericaS ination ace ftili a#mfry were in peace and
friendffip with our perff exalte by God.
• Their Terfels are figboth at lea and in port, and
so are their merchants, and you are not to disturb
the peace between us and them. What has hap
pened with nu+and their vessels, has only been an
affair among the veffcls, but rhe said nation con
tinues refeaed as they were wits us, and under all
security, and equally fc their v<ffcls.
Wherefore we hereby order, that all those of our
Govetnours—thofe encharged with the command
of our paths and Captains of our ve&ls,who fha|l
fee f hiswriting, that they ad in all refpe&s fhr the
fulfilment of this order, and that they do not de
viate tlierefrom—thofc who shall contravene it will
be punished wrh a fevery punifliment. •-
This order was given ou the lift Chemadi, the
fecood in the year (1218, Oft.tyh 1803) and at Uft
„ace in _>« Q% with die Uki dole.
rican nation, as our fathers (0 wbon God be mer
ciful) was, recording to the treaty mide on he ill
day of Rh^madan, in the year 1200.
Tne origin d of the foregoing was translated from
Arabic to SpaniJh by Dr. Ma»uei De Baceas, and Jrem
I Spanifi to Englijl, by
(Signed) JAMES SIMPSON.
Certified at Tangier, 176 OIL 1803.
Praise be given to the eraly Gd. My God be pro.
pitious to our Master Mahomet and his Jamil,.
[sea%.]»
OUR fer+ant the Govertwur Ben Abdel §adak,
ond ah officers of our port of Mogadore, May God
affiftyou—Peace with the mercy and bluffing of
God be with yu.
F >w know ye, that the Almighty having recon
cilrd wna thad happened with the American nation,
because of th# ads of the v§ffel% and that we are
now as we were before witl itffe, in peace and
:t- rJ'b:% > 'A,: e i wft, or, fuh-fio whm Gid
-,. MXort--/LAcu? Uvt^nQ^^fy^rJpiyff,:
thing a,oft them, or Clew them any dtft&e4 or
rtfregard, for they are as they were in friendlhip and
in jieace, and we have inerfofed our regard for
'hem in confiquence of the friendship they h^ve
minified to ourperfon which God has exalted. —
And we order that y>ube careful and be diligent'
in all -heir concerns, and reorder that you do well
with their vessels arid with rheir merchants.
Place BE WITH you ALL.
241/: Chew© 'a the /cond 1218.
filth Oaber, 1803)
The original of the foregoing was fra^/fated from the
Arabic to 3parijh. by Dr. Manuel De Baccas, and
from the Spanijk to Englijh, by
,(Signed JAMES SIMPSON.
Certified G t Tangier, \]th Off. 1803.
& ^ a ^*=° i T*r_:r'.'-:'trrt: ^™#™=2Z2°2±r.r,
Mr .Plumer's Speecht
It THE SENATE.
In Debate on the motion for altering the clattfs of the
Confitution, defignatin, *4? mode of chafing the
Frejident and Vice Prudent.
Mr. Plumer, said that he had generally con
tented himfelf with expressing hie opinion by a
filenc vere, but on a question " hich. affected the
;rights of the smaller Rates (one of whicn he had
I the honor to reprefenc) he requeued the indub-
I gence of che Senate to a few observations
I He said the Conhitntion had provided only
;two methods for obtaining amendments, and
;both are guarded with great caution. If tw
! thirds of the several date tegiflatures apply, Con
ig'e'f^all call a Convention, who are to piopofe
amendments,which when ratified by die convex,
jtions of three fourths of the dates will be valid.
I If this mode is adopted, Congress have nothing
I to do bat to ascertain the fad, whether the na
ceffary number of dates inquire 1 convention —
If they d> . a convention waft be called. The
state legislatures are only to apply for a conven
tion—they can neither propose or decide the a,
mendments.
The other mode is, if t<wo thirds of both hou,
fes of Congress deem it neceffar, to propose amend
ments, and three fourths of the state legislatures
I ratify them, they are valid. This is the prefen#
I mode. The state tegiflatures have nothing to do
: I till after Congress has propoled the amendments,
I and then it is their exclusive province either to
, I ratify or reject them. But they have no autho
-1 rity to direct or even requeit Congress to pro
: pose particular amendments for thenfelves to
; ratify. Inßru&ions on this fubjeft are therefore
I improper—'Cis an assumption of power, not the
exercise of a right. 'Tis an attempt to create an
1 undue influence over Congress. It is prejudging
}the quellion before it is proposed by the only au
.; thopty that has the constitutional right to move
; it. If these inftru&inns are obligatory, our votes
must be governed not by the conviction,pf our
own judgments, or the propriety and fitnefs of
I the measure, but by the mandates of other legif
■ latures. This would destroy one of the checks
ithat the conftitu ion has provided againfl inno
, vation. State legislatures may on some fubjeftt
: inftrud their senators, but on this their iatlruc
tions ought not to influence, muchjefs, bind us,
to propose amendments, unless we eurfelves
1 deem them neceflary.
IThe Senate benfifts of two members from each
I state. And in this case, the concurrence of two
thirds of all the Senate are neceffaiy. A majority
I of the Senate constitutes a quorum to do business,
ibut that quorum is a majority of all the sena
tors that all the Hates are entitled to cleft. This
applies with equal force to the term two thirds
of the senate. But in cases where from neceffit,
a speedy decision is requisite, and where the con
currence of two thirds is required, the contticu
tion is explicit in confiding that two thirds to
the members prefent-^as in cases of treaties and
impeachments, and also a fifth of the membets
present requeuing the yeas and nays. If amend
ments c@n be constitutionally proposed by two
' thirds of the senate prefect, it will follow that
twelve senators, when duly , quorum is prefect,
may propose them against the will of twenty
two senators. %
h Mr. Plumer observed, that he had said the
constitution had provided fofcamendments bat
iwith great caution. In some cates, they canmet
in the nature of things,g,lfo4de For in-
Ifiance, the equal repiefimftfen of each state in
the senate cannot be abridged without its own
.^ content. Other parish the Comtiffcion cannot
;be amended till afters certain period, to wit,
I। those relating tp Oaves And the appointment of
direQ taxes. The United states are bounc to
guarantee to each Rate a republican form of gov.
I ernment, and to protest each against invasion.
Can these stipulations be expunged? They can
not. Because a change here, would introduce
new principles into &*Conftitution. That in
strument is a compel founded by each iadivi-
[No. 12.