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Vol. XIV.]
spring & summer Goods.
Edward Parry
Has imported by the latest arrivals, a gen
eral assortment of
Fashionable Goods,
among which are,
THE best London Superfine, black,
blue, mixed & drab BROAD CLOTHS;
Double milled Caffimeres ; black and olive Vel
vetts ; twill'd Nankinetts ; Dimities & Mufli.
netts; Lawn, Cambrick, & Sarfnett Muslins ;
Imbofs'd Cambrick; ; Colonade and Tambored
Muslins ; Book & Jaconet Muslin, and Muslin
Shawls; Plain & Figured Chintzes ; Best Lon
!don made Hatts of the latest fafhion.
I a complete assortment of
l lrish Linens & Sheetings,
'with a large assortment of other Goods as usu
al—all which wilhbe fold cheap, by wholesale
and retail, for cash, or liberal credit, at his
Brick Store, No. 10 Market flreet
-20,000 yds. good Tow-Cloth
wanted. Porffmoutb, May 5, 1803.
New Goods.
William S. Cooper,
Hasjuft relieved and is now opening at bis sap adjoining
the Bell- Tavern, Congrejs flreet an assortment of
Spring & Summer GOODS,
which he will fell at the very lowefl prices.
BROAD Cloths ; Caffimeres ; Black
& olive Velveteens; Wild bars ; Durants ;
Ta mmies ; Moreens ; Plain & ribb'd Calliman
coes ; ^l great variety of (
Latest plaid Callicoes and Chintzes,
(very cheap) ; CopperpHtes; Dimiies ;
Plain and plaid Chambray Muslins ;
Emboffd Muslins Qg& 4 black, white & colour'd
Cambrick Muslins; Book and Jaconet Muslins
Fashionable Sarinet Cambricksl—
—silk Shags, for Bonnets ;
Waistcoating ; Men's plain and flri ped Satins;black
and other color'd Nankinetts; Satin firip'd do
Clouded Nankeens ;„
Men's white, black &: color'd Cotton
Hose; Women's white & blk. Cotton Hose ;
Women's black and color'd Cotton Gloves ; Men's
beaver and cotton Gloves;
Linen, cotton, romal, Bandannoe, &
black silk Handkerchiefs ; purple & chintz Shawls;
white Parifnert ; black Cypress ; black Modes;
patent black Laces ; Edgings; black Lace Veils ;
Parafob.
Afew pieces of
Linens; India Cottons; Threads; Sew
ing Silks; Ribbon 5 Buttons ; Tapes; Bindings;
Cotton Braces ; Cotton Umbrellas; India Nan
keens.
PAPER HANGINGS.
• May 5.
' ADVERTISEMENT. ~
IT is notorious that most diseases of the
present day which affii& the human frame,par-$
take more or less of a Bilious ^ropcrament ; hence
tire unfrequency of thole, wlxre the glands and
membranes being attacked, and styled inflamma
tory —filch as Pairify, llripheumony,&c. and the
increasing prevalence of Fevers of the Spring sea.
son, of mixed type, always refusing from a predis
position occafr>n«iby bilious redundances in the.
flunach and bowels. Diseases of this clals, are
more difficult to cure, when the attack is serious,
2nd combined with the interpofnion of bilious se
cretion, invading the blood and juices of the body.
It is therefore found, by daily experience, that
the best method of removing predisposition,, is to
remove the contents of the flomach and bowels, by
efficacious andiuitable purgatives; and as often as
symptoms of heaviness, latitude, debility, loss of
appetite, pains in the stomach and bowels, flow fe
vers from colds, a fcnfe of weight at the flomach,
and costiveness, &c. occurs, it is of importance
immediately to promote those evacuations, for
thereby the causes of more severe illness may be
speedily and happily removed, and much trouble,
expence and danger avoided.— To answer those
purpofes,and to be within the reach of every indi- 4
virtual to preserve his health by a timely exhibition
of miler and Citable purgatives, no public medi
cine extant deserves so high a rank, as "Doct.
Lee\ Patent New-London Bilious Pills"
—which have been found, by a fix years expe
rience, to have engaged the attention, not only o
thofe whose judgements and opinions were candid
and unbiaffed, but of the faculty of Physic, whose
prejudices have been honorably overcome (after
ascertaining their real merits) by adopting them in
their daily pra<ftice ; the numerous letters with
which the Dodor has been favoured from Pradti.
^tipaers and others, from all parts, of their Superior
virtues, is a Sufficient proof of their eligibility for a
place in every family and sea medicine theft, tra/
veller's portmanteau, Sailor's trunk, and lady's
toilet.
The Pills abovementioued may be procured,
with direaions for use, price go cents the box, ax
the flore of Doct. JOSJAH DWIGHT, Portf-'
mouth, and to avoid mistakes, (other pills of Sim
ilar titles, &c. being kept in Shops, but in no wife
partaking of the qualities of the above pills) the
public are requeued always to fee tharthe direc
tions is headed with these words— "Doflor Leo's
Patent New-London Bilious Pills," prepared only by
Samuel H. P. Lee, Member of the Coone&icut
Medical Society—wittout which they cannot be
the Patentee's,' M, 19.
New Goods.
Daniel Weeks,
Nekt doorto Mf.Abner Blasdell's Buck-street
has just received a great variety of
Spring & summer Goods,
among which are
BEST fuperfine Broad-Cloths & Caffi
meres ; fine and common do. all colours ;
plain & striped, black, blue,drab & olive Velvets;
black Twill'd ; black, blue & buff English Nan
keens ; plain & twill'd ankinetts ; silk Velvets;
plain & striped Sattins ; Merfaiels Quiltings for
Waistcoating ; Chintzes & Callicoes ; Copper
plate & patch Furnitures ; Chambray Muslins ;-
A great Variety of
Black white & coloured cambric Mus
lins ; farfoer Cambrics; book & jaconet Mus
lins ; Dimities ; Muflinetts; silk Shags for Bon
nets ; Straw Bonnets ; Ladies black, white and
fashionable colour'd .cotton Hose ; some very
nice, Gentlemens black arid white cotton Hose ;
black rid white 61LQ; bbitk, tehhe and
colour'd (ilk Gloves.
White & colour'd picnic Mits; Cotton Gloves;
gentlemens' Beaver Gloves ; black and coloured
Cotton do. ; black, white and coloured double
Sarfnet for gowns ; Luftrings ,• Silk Velvets;
black and white patent Laces ; white thread
Laces and Edgings ; black and white Lace
Veiling ; black Modes ; black and white Parif
net ; black Crape ; black and green Gauzes.
Silk Shawls ; fancy silk Handkerchiefs ;
Linen; cotton, bandannoe, & black silk Hand
kerchiefs ; % 9 and ^ netting cambric Shawls;
black do"; white embroidered do ; falhiooable
fancy Fans; black do ; morocco Slippers; black
Russel ; Moreens ; Calimancoes ; Durants ;
land ^ Irish Linens; Shirting Cotton; Oil-
Cloths; Morocco; silk and cotton Bracers ;
Umbrellas; Pins; Kneedles; Sewing Silks;
Threads ; Combs; Ribbons ; Tastes ; Buttons ;
Scissors ; Knives ; Razors, &. &c. all very low
for cafli or short credit.
Portfmoutb, May 5, 1804.
Paints Lead & Shot.
T) ECEIVED per Galen and Minerva from
London — White Lead; do.ground in Oil;
Black Lead; Red do. Venetian Red ; Spanish
Brown; Spruce Yellow; do. ground in Oil;
Patent Yellow; Prussian Blue ; Vermillion ; Ver
digrife; Vitriol ; Whiting ; English Glue ;
Rotten Stone ; Gold and Slver Leaf, &c.
Thick and Thin Sheet Lead ;
Patent Shot, all sizes.
Likevdfe an assortment of
Books, Charts and Stationary ; among which
are, Park on Insurance, sth edition ; Eaftln
dia Dire&mry ; Malham's Gazeteer; More's
Daily Assistant.; Southland's Ship Builder;
Art of Mast-Making ; Globes, &c, &c.
Alfa on band
Blunt's Practical Navigator; do. Coasting
Pilot, last editions,- for fate by
LADD & SMITH.
No. 5, Merchant's Row. May 5.
NEW^OODf
B. Brierley,
No. 9, Market-flreet,
'n AS i uft received by the ships John Adams,
TA & Packet from Liverpool, a very extensive
assortment of
Spring Goods,
among which are,
'Superfine Broad Cloths, and Kerfeymeres
of the very firft quality, fine and common do
all colors ; Painted Calicoes ; Dimities ; Muf
linetts and Thicksets.
4,1 and % white, black and color'd
Jacoriet and Cambric Muslins ; check'd do. ;
black and color'd Chambray Muslins; Cobweb,
tattoo, colonade and laced ground ditto ; Book
do. all prices; Sarfnet Cambrics all colours;
black, blue and other color'd, plain and twill'd
Nankiriett ; Silk striped do ; black, white,
and color'd Cotton Hose ; ditto; ditto,
cotton and silk Gloves and Mitts ; black and
uhite Parifnett ; black Cypress, and other Gau
zes ; black ind white, plain and figured Pati
nette ; do, do. patent Laces and Edgings ; do.
do. Lace Veils, Cloaks; Spencers, Shawls, Man
tles and Feiffes ; white Thread, Laces and Edg
ings ; Umbrellas and walking cane Parasols ;
linen and cotton Checks and Stripes.
Likewifi a large quantity of
Straw, willow, and cane BONNETS;
pans ; Gown Trimmings of the newest faction ;
silk Girdles: silk and cottori Cord all color,;
1 Chintz and white Bed Laces; Boot Strapping;
Flat and round Bobbins, &q., making together
with his former Stock, a moil complete affort
merit of Choice Goods, which he offers for
✓ ' a 'e, m very low terms ffir Cash or approved
Credit, Portfmoutb, April fy 1804.
F9R SALE, ' —- —
10 Chests Souchong TEA ;
6 db. Hyfon-ikin;
Pipes BRANDY and GIN;
'Quarter chests Bohea TEA ; apply to
William Garlqnd..
May 19/ , A • >
ORACLE POST.
—
TUESDAY, May 5,1804.
^^^ IRE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS
WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY
AND MORALITY ARE . INDISPENSA
BLE SUI PORT $ -Wafoington s Legacy.
MISCELLANY.'
Erom the Charleston Courier.
a blessings of Democracy \^:re ihed most abun
dantly upon the cirrus of Cavanah on Wednef
o' Judge Bowen, in his charge to the
Grand Jury made an enthusiastic expedition of
the rights Man. '1 he Jury did not tender the
of the r thanks to his honor nor did they
reqtett that his charge fliould be made public.
Heated to the Jury his wifli that his charge
Ihotpd be publilhed—They took the flud, and 1
an vuercation ensued, which refused in his or
dering toe Jury to jail.- The sheriff was ren
dered motionless b, this extraodinary procedure,
whOi his honor took from his pocket a pistol,
2nd threatened to (Loot him if he would not
l°dg< the jury in jail whither they were conduc
ted. Ihe citizens of Savanaah/net, and passed
r'y of refolu ions—they afterwards went to
,=/*-, ^ YaLu th. jarv: thence ro the lodz
ings of the judge, whom they seized and con
dueled to ptifon.
His honor pre bibly thought there was no
harm in recommending liberty and equality.
Tom Pain had done all this in his Rights of
Man."--Another Tom had done the fame in wri
ting to his friend Bannecker, the almanac maker
and on all oceafions, had deplored rhe condition
of "firing bimanity.” Although this was found
philofiphy from both the Toms, yet it seem
ed hrely in a Georgia judge, and he has been
condemned by a town meeting to pass his time
in prison. Qt this Judge Bowen, all we know
is, that he i/ a furious democrat ; that he came
with notions/fome years ago from Rhode Island
and vas nude a Judge of the Superior C3urt
in Georgia.,
Democrac, will be found to be a mighty foolifh
thing in any country, but in these fou't'hern states
it will provq more than fuicidical. The federal
republicans have long feared that every thing
would be coufumed by our demagogues. If
these poetical incendiaries were to perish alone,
in their own revolutionary fires, there would be
no harm done, (as Gen. Washington expressed
himfelfin his letter to Mr. Carrol.) but we have
mighty interests at hazard—the conflagration
will be universal, and the people of this country
will, we fear difeover, when it is too late, the im
possibility of setting limits and boundaries to de
mocratic principles. Like the frelhes in our
great rivers they will spread over the land, hoc
fertilizing, but destroying every thing in their
course. The people of France, the people of
Holl.fyd, the people of Switzerland and the peo
ple ofltaly, have alt been enslaved by the oper
ation of democratic principles. To be sure, the
demagogues who hd and milled them with pro
feffir^ what they never ?elt, with talking about
repubiicanifn,have been made consuls, proconsuls,
and ^t good places under government ; but what
have the people get ?—They have got despotism,
with all its humiliations ; they have been made
hewers of wood and drawers of water. Let the
people of America look to these things—dema
gogues have carried them to the banks of the
Rubicon, let them halt there, and think for
themfeives.
Extract of letter from one of the officers of the Phila
delphia frigate to bit friends in this city.
Tripoli, Nov. 24, 1803.
I mentioned in my last, under date of the 15th,
that, in consequence of orders from the Bafhaw,
communicated to us on the evening of the 13th
we were on the following morning conduced to
the castle. The objeft of this removal was to
punish us byway of retaliation, for ill treat
ment which they fay the Tripolitan officers, ta
ken in the ship captured by the John Adams, re
ceived from Capt. Rogers. The prime minister
a few days previous, had wiitten to Captain
Bainbridge, informing him that a letter had
been received from the Tripolitan Captain at
Gibralter, in which he complained of being ill
treated by Captain Rogers : and in conference
of this byway of fatisfaftion, the prime minder
requested Capt. B. to write, and order Commo
dore Preble to deliver up all the prisoners taken
in that (hip ; in which case we Should continue
to be treated as heretofore ; but (hould Captain
B. not comply he would be compelledto exercise
retaliation upon us—No exchange was proposed
but we were to deliver up seventy-eight prisoners
to infuie our not being ill treated. Capt. Bain
bridge declined compliance, and we were con
duced to the castle. The change was indeed an
unpleasant one from a large commodious house
to what they call a castle, which in fad is nothing
less then a loathsome prison. We were placed
in the fame place, with the (hip's company. How
well calculated the room was to contain such a
number you may judge when I tell you that it was
about 80 by 25 feet; how comfortable, when the
only place to admit tlie air was at two holes in
the ceiling, grated over. However, it was not
intended that we fliould remain there any time
and was only done under the idea that we were
to be frightened into a compliance with the prime
minister's demand.
While we were there, Lisle, the Tripolitan ad
miral accidently passed that way, and was very
much surprised to fee us there. He came up to
enquire the reason of our removal, and laid that
he understood a letter had been received mention
ing that the Tripolitan prisoners had been ill trea
ted. Capt Bainbridge told him that it was an
infamous falfehood ; that the laws of the United
States absolutely forbid any prisoner being ill
treated, and that he knew Capt Rogers bad giv-
en no just ciufe of complaint ; that if such aler
ter had been written, it was, without foundation
and the writer had averted a most malicious
falfehood: That foven supposing they had been
treated ill, tha_ could not juftify their ret abat
ing upon us ;that it would not tend to producea
reconciliation ; but would have a quite contrary
effed : that we were within their power, and
they might faefifice every one of us, but the U.
States had officers and men enough to fend out.
He said that the Bafhaw was- out of town and
would not return till evening, when he would fee
what could be done.
In the evening we ^re recondu&ed to our
lodgings.. Snortly after capt. Bainbridge receiv
ed a note from the prime minister, in which he
affected to be entirely ignorant of our removal
until after it had taken place. He expressed his
grand surprise at hearing it ; and to use his own
phrase, “ could not have felt more hurt if one of
his own limbs had been taken off, or if one of his
own family had been taken away;" & included
with alluring us, we might rely upon our not
being didurbed in that manner again. The Da
nilli consul, in company with the French confuh
waited upon th? prime minißer ^ fry v- went
to the cattle, and assured us we need be under no
apprehension of a second removal. We feel our
selves perfectly secure. I cannot fay which was
greated, our contempt for a character so replete
with duplicity, or our indignation at the prime
minister, for kippofing us so weak and credulous
as to believe him unacquainted with our removal
until after we had gone. He and the admiral
are both renegadoes ; the former a Prussian the
latter a Scotchman.
I mentioned in a former letter, that, when our
(hip was plundered, the Tripolitans carried
off all our t unks and chests, fo' that we were
left enciely without any change of clothings
The prime minister got as many of ou r clothes
as he could collet, and offered them to capt.
Bainbridge for 1200 dollars. Capt. B. did not;
purchaie them ; and a day or two ago the min-|
ifler gave us permidion to go to his house, and
purchase whatever we wanted. We only bought
a few of the most necessary articles of clothings
We also pmchefed so ne books which were ex
trembly acceptable, having been as great a rarity
as clothes. They were fold far belowtheir value.
BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES
OF
General Moreau.
This young hero h:s lately been brought before
the public, in consequence of his supposed friend
fhip and connexion with Pichegru. Considering
his setting out in life, it is d fficult to fay whether
his rife er his fall, had the suspicions of his fidelity
been well founded would have been most furpri
ling.
He was born at Morlaix, in ^^ ^ictigrrc.
His father was a man of great refpe&ability, and
on account of his integrity, difinterellednefs, and
various private virtues, was commonly called the
father if the poor. On the braking out of the rev
olution, such was thegeneral confidence in his hon
esty, that be was kicked by the gentry and nobili
ty of Morlaix and its neighbourhood, principally
those who proposed to emigrate, as the properest
perlon to be entrusted with the management of their
affairs. The great number of commiflions and
deposits which he received on this occasion from
the nobles and emigrants, contributed not a little to
bring nim afterwards to the guillotine, under the:
government of Rubelpierre. He was put to death
at Bred ; and eye witnUTes declare, that the people
present at his execution, filed torrents of tears, ex
claiming several times, " They are taking our best
father away from us." Such a wor by father could
not be disappointed in <ht liberal education which
he gave his foo, on account of the excellent example
which he conftanily let before him.
loung Moreau had from hs early youtha ffrong
prepotfeliion fur a military life, and at the age of 13
heenlifted himfilf as a soldier. H : s father, howevl
er, who considered his condud as the efct o f im
prudence, bought his con?) and sent him back to re
sume his studies. Whether the fludy ts law was
an unpleafaut talk to him, or whether his propentity
f^r arms got the bete- of every other inclination, it
is certain that he loon enl fled agrin. Hs father
hurt at this second ad ol raflinefs, with a view that
he might feel the hardships of the life he had cho.
fen, luffcred him to serve as private, during four
months or thereabouts, after which he was prevail
ed upon by his friends, not to kt the young man
continue any 'longer in that low condition, as it
would occasion him to lose the benefit of his early
education. Before the revolution, a man who was
not of the call of the Noblefe,had little hope cfad
vanctment in the army, whatever might have been
his condua or merit. Moreau was therefore, al
most in spite of himfelf, compelled again to return
• tp tte dryfludy of the law, and to follow the pro
feffion of his father, who was, we. have already no-•
•need, an eminent lawyer.
When the, Revolution broke out Moreau was
Prevot de Droit at Rennes, a mark of fu per ioriy
among the lludcots io law. In that office he ac.
quitted himfelf to the complete fatisfaaion of his
fellow-Rodents. It is said that, when M. Ie Cbeva.
lier de Bremieres brought the Edicts of May i,Sg
to the Parliament of Rennes, to be raftered, Mo!
reau, then a fupportcr of the privileged order, against
the Court, went to the Literary Chamber, and of.
sered the fludents together wiiha -great ^unQr of
other yoting. people, to the Parliament, as volun
teers ta fu; port it against the measures ofthe Court.
Observing, however, the flubuornnefs and want of
principle among the priv hedged orders, be soon re
linquiflud bis concern for ihur inteftfond efpou
led die party of the people.
In the month of QAober, 1788, the;ftates of Bri.
taony allembled at Rennes: but the- Tiers Etat
were then not wUlingAo fit with two other outers,
[No. 34.