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alirge assortment of
aionable corded, silk velvet, ivmfe
" r eg Marseilles Vesting printed Jeans ;
M^\ a and ribb'd Satins ; silk Nankinets ;
cutter C^ simeres; yellow Nankins ; Jeans ; Fus
ti^ : r" in 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 picnic 'Gloves ; and
Mitts ; extra long white black and colored silk
Gloves; women and men's white and color'd cotton
Gloves; beaver Gloves ; fashionably 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 arid colored Hose ; men's
brown Hemp Hose ; men's vandyke and imperial
India and Florence Luteftrings; Modes;
Sarsnets ; Guazcs ; 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 ; Brovin Hollands ; Sew
ing Silks ; black Velvet Bindings ; worsted Bind
ings ; 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
^etts.
Callimancbes / Satinets ; Durants ;
Moreens ; plain and ribb'd black Wildbores.
a large assortment of
-Men's and Youth's HATS.
India Nankins.
ftrt&mouth, May 4, 1805, No. 3, M — ket-street.
NEW GOODS.
JUST RECEIVED BY
Nathaniel Dean,
^ handsome assortment of
SPRING & SUMMER GOODS,
that will be sold as cheap for cash, as can be bought
at any Store ' in town. jllso,
A large supply of Linens by the piece,
from 2s, to 6s. per yard ; also Silk Umbrellas by
the dozen or single—A few dozen Cotton Umbrel
las, &:c. &c. May 4, 1805.
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Boots & Shoes.
Tilton and Thompson,
INFORM the public in general that they have ta-
I ken the shop directly opposite Dr. John Jack
son's, Buck-street, where they intend carrying on
the BOPT and SHOE MAKING business in all
its various branches. They intend to keep on hand
an assortment of Ladies' real Morocco and Kid
Shoes of the first quality, and as cheap as can be
purchased in Portsmouth.
, Portsmouth, May 11, 1305. ^-
Spring Goods.
Joseph Haven,
No. 1, Merchant' s Row,
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.
CHe has a new supply from New-York, of
American Beaver Hats,
of a very superior quality. May 6, & 18u5.
Rew Goods.
FRESH AND CHEAP.
Oust received and now opening by
Benjamin Swett,
Num. 8, MARKET-STREET,
A. handsome assortment of
Spring & Summer Goods
Henderson & Cooper
Have just received a large assortment of
Fashionable & other Goods,
WHICH ARE NOW OPENING— viz.
A great 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.
WHICH will be sold so low for cash, as cannot
fail to meet the approbation of those who
may please to favor him with their custom, among
which is a large assortment of fashionable SILKS.
Portsmouth, May 11, 1805.
Black and colored Sarfnet Cambrics ;
Ekrsnet jaconet, book jaconet and Cambric Muslins;
spotted Book Muslins; black Cypress Shawls;
black Crapes ; black Bombazeen.
Cambric fatin,check'd, color'd cam
bric, purple and chintz Shawls , Peacate Veils ;
F^i- Veils ; white and black Netting ; black and
vh Cypress.
Vol. XVI.]
NEW GOODS.
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORA LITf A RE INDIiPE NSA i L £ S^PPORTS.— WASHINGTON.
mil 9 aB I ™
' B. Brierley
BEGS leave to inform his Friends and the Public,
that he has just received by the late arrivals
I from Europe, his regular and extensive assort
mentof
Fancy, Fashionable, & Staple
GOODS,
suitable for the season—among which are,
4 & 4 Cambric Muslins, all prices; some
thin and'very fine for Gentlemen's wear ; jaconet,
mull and cobweb sprigtyand japan'd do ; book do. ev
ery quality ; India book do ; elegant lace Cambric ;
dfy lace ground and picquet Muslins; 6-4 muslin
Veils, and. lace muslin Shayis ; Chambray Mus
lins ; Sarsnet Cambrics all colors ; plain and sprig'd
Patinett Lace for shades, &c. ; black and white Lace
Veils, from 15s. a 22 Dollars each ; black Lace
Cloaks, Spencers; Shawls,, and Mantles; black and
white patent Laces ; Thread, Laces and Edgings ;
India Lutestrings at 6s. per yd. ; black and colored (
Italian and Florence Silks ; do. Persians ; silk
Handkerchiefs; also 6-4 Silk Shawls; Ribbons of
all kinds ; Fans from 4 cents, to 4 dollars ; black
and colored Italian Crapes; plain and spotted
Guazes; black and white Parisnet; white and
colored silk and cotton Cords, all sizes ; Tassels ;
Gown Buttons and Gown Trimmings ; Flowers
and Plumes; Dimities 2s. a 4s. per yd.; a few
very fine Cambric Dimities ; Sewing Cottons, white
and colored of all sizes ; Floss and Nun's Threads ;
colored Threads ; patent do. ; sewing and marking
Silks ; Cap Wire ; Buckram.
For Portland & Kennebeck.
THE sloop Avis,
■ ™" sail in a " next week,
—For Freight or Passage, apply to
PETER PRAY.
, May 11, 1805;.
T 4KE NOTICE
Wanted as, soon as possible,
a Frame for a Meeting House, any person wishing
'to contract for the same, may know the particulars
^Applying to the printers. May 11, 1805.
Pasturing,
qro be let good pasturing at $ 7 the season, the
X saffie is well supplied wi,th water during the
summer.-apply to RICHARD EVANS.
May 4. ;,. ^.• •
an assortment of
Straw, willow, and cane Hats, and
Bonnets; white chip Flats, and white colored cane
Flats for making Bonnets ; boy's Leather Caps,
some large sizts : men's and boy's Hats, all prices,
a few large brimm'd for summer wear. Al§o,
Best fupernne and low priced Broad
Cloths and Kerseymeres of all colors; Velvets;
Thicksetts, &c. together with almost every other
article usually kept in a Dry Good's Store :—All
which will be sold (not for Cash only, but also on
short approved credit) full as cheap' as can be
bought at any of the self-styled CHEAP CASH
STORES in town.
Portsmouth, 11th May, 1805.
Printed Cambrics and Calicoes. very
cheap ; ^-8, and 4-4 Irish Linen ; some very low ;
5-4 Irish Sheetings ; 5-8, 3-4, 6-4, 8-4, 9-4, and
10-4 Diapers; Linen Cambrics 7s. a 30% per yd.
India Cottons and Chintzes very cheap ; do. blue
Cottons and Checks ; blue and yellow Nanknens ;
twilled Nankinetts ; patent colored Nankeens, and
cotton Kerseymeres/ f
Hosiery, a large assortment both silk
and cotton ; a few ladies very elegant rose color
ed silk Hose ; ladies white and colored Silk
Gloves and Mitts; do. picnic, and lace do. kid
Gloves; silk and cotton Umbrellas ; some of a very
superior quality ; walking cane Parasols various
sizes.
Patent Hinges, Nails and'
Brads.
DAVID MORSE, informs the Pub
lic, that Letters Patent have been granted
him. by the President of the United States for a
new invented Machine, by which he manufactures
Hinges, Nails and Brads of all sizes, which he will
jell ,wholesale and retail, at the lowest prices, at his
Manufactory, on the head of Captain Obadiah
Horton's wharf,, near Merrimac^street, a few
rods below Market street, Newburyport, where or
ders will be respectfully received, and promptly
attended to.
A Patent right of the above Machine
acknowledged by competent judges to be superior
on many accounts, to any in the United States, win
be disposed of, if desired, for the County of Suffolk
in Massachusetts, and for the State of New-Hamp
shire. N. B. One man will cut 40,000 Brads in a
day by said machine. ~ May 4.
Portsmouth Bath.
NOTICE is hereby giveli, that the
Portsmouth B&th will be opened on Wednes
day afternoons, and Thursday and Saturday after
noons and Sunday mornings—Tickets may be had
at Mr. Charles Peirce's Bookstore, Daniel
street, at the Gazette Office, and at Mr. Jonathan
Mendum's shoe-maker's shop, in Vaughan-street,
opposite the mansion house of the late Judge Pick
ering, and near the Bathing-House.
o^/11, 1801. , , " ;
New Goods.
OLIVER BRIARD refpedfolly in
forms his friends and Customers that he has
just received alarge and very general assortment of
Spring Goods, which he is now selling very cheap,
at his store No. 2 Merchant's Row, Fore-stieet.
May, 4 1805.
a handsome assortment of
TUESDAY, MAY 21, I^s.
April B—Com mences moderate breezes and thick
foggy weather. At Ip. M. began to fall in. with
the ice so thick, was impossible to avoid striking
some of it ; took in sail again to stop the ship's
headway, altering our course from south;to .west,'al
ways endeavouring to get as much to the southward
as possible, expecting that the most sure way of
getting clear of it. At half past 1 re. M. there ap
peared no passage open in any direction, and we
entered another of those bodies as before; rounded
to and afterwards made sail as before. In this sit
uation we remained tijl 7 p. M. forcing our way
through, night coming on, which gave the most dis
mal appearance. At a quarter past 7, we discov
ered a clear opening ahead, wlrich we soon got jn
and clear of the field, and no appearance of any
more ice ahead, breeze increasing. Half past 7,
only a few small pieces : every person overjoyed,
& thinking ourselves clear,all hands to supper, only
an officer and one man on the bowsprit, to look out.
8 p. M. began to rain—more islands and large pie-<
ces—weather continuing very thick, not being able
to see twice the ship's length ahead—luffing and
bearing away to clear the ice—found the ship go
ing too fast—coming up with it immediately after
seeing it, and hardly &8 e to ^ u l dear from it--
took in top-gallant sail and stay-sails—hauled up
courses—double reef top sails, to keep the ship just
under headway enough to answer her helm, —quick
going as per log, about 4 knots. &9, heard a tre
mentions roaring to the southward, all the time
passing large quaintities of ice isUmds. We took
this roaring to be a Jong train ol ils^nds of an im
mense size, as the breakers oh them roared like
heavy thunder. At 10 P. M. falling in with the ice
fast, almost impossible to avoid it, it was thought
most safe and prudent to keep the ship uniter head
way and all hands stationed to tend the braces;
headsails, &c. to assist the ship in answering her
helm keeping a good look out from the bows, jib
boom, forecastle,bee. expecting every moment when
we would fail in with islands that we could not find
a passage through,' not bgipg able to see more th^n
die length of the ship/ahead at times, arid in that
case it was well known tre ship if to touch ope
would go to pieces' instantly—tfre island rising apd
falling in the sea 30 fee, or upwards. In this most
dismal situation, remained till day light, which w§is
a happy welcome. At SA. M. the ice was more
scarce ; made sail ; at 6 saw none d consequence,
at 7 saw a sail spoke her—she was a schooner from
Marblehead to Bilboa: informed us the day before
she .'ell in with a larg&field of ice, in lat. 42, 30, as
far as his eye could extend each way—he bore a
way to the northward, and run six leagues before
he found an opening. How far it extended to the
southward he could not tell. He likewise saw ma-,
ny large islands the day before. At half past 7.
bore away, steered W. and W. by S. as per l?g, to
avoid falling in with the fields of ice we had inlor
mation of. The schooner immediately lw%e to. At
meridian the wind came to the westward a^d clear
ed up. We saw a large island cf ice to thl westward
— • J*ew-York, April 27.
Extract from the Log-book ofthe shift Oliver EIR
^ ;w, Captain Bennett,from Liverpool.
: A^ 7, 1805.—Lat. 45, lon§ 46, at 3A. M. fell
in w th a small island of ice, moderate breeze, and
thick foggy weather. At SA. M. saw a very
large isfohd, close on board : being alarmed lb the
roaring <[ the breakers,' before we could se/aw
thi:ty{t&ed the ship's course, ^d passed withy
hM rhole of the island which appeared to be about
190^ : or upwards above the surface of the wa
teifcarder being so thick, could not see the
extent of it This caused great alarm and a sharp
look out. We soon fell in with many small pieces ;
and at 8 A. M. fell in with them so fast were oblig
ed to take in steering-sails, spanker, main-sails, stay
sails, with all bands placed to-the braces,to assist the
ship in answering her helm, with a sharp look out
from the bows, bowsprit, and mast-head, to con the
helm. At 9A. M. almost impossible to avoid the
pieces of ice ; hauled up courses, clewed up top
gallant-sails, to deaden ships headway, in case of
striking any of the pieces—at the. same time get
ting over the bows spars, bites of cables, old junk,
&c. to prevent its cutting the ship's bottom through,
not being able to avoid only the longest of the pieces.
At half past 9 it appeared to be a continent all
round, when we hauied off south, in hopes of finding
some passage, iff then being closed to the westward
and impossible to make a passage ; we soon began
to raise it ahead, and on the weather bow, at which
we hove about and found the same dismal appear
ance the other way, expecting every piece would
cut the ships bottom through, being obliged to keep
headway on the ship to keep her under command
of het helm. At half past 10, it being impossible
to keep any longer cut of the main body, having to
keep away every moment to avoid large islands
that would have torn the ship to pieces the moment
she touched them ; their rolling very heavy
and threatening immediate destruction, -we round
ed-to to stop the ship's headway, and then let her
ware round head on the apparent field which we
entered with very slow headway, expecting every
moment the ship to be cut through notwithstanding
evefy exertion with spars cables and every thing
that could be kept against the bows. We found it
was not a solid body, but was a continent that had
been broken to pieces by the wind and sea. At
this time the ship had entered it, and stopped her
headway. The weather being thick and foggy,
could not see far ; but as far as we could see, there
appeared a solid continent. At present there was
no alternative but to make all sail, and endeavor to
force a passage, which we did. Then about a six
knot breeze, we forced our way about half a knot,
and sometimes stopped entirely. We found our
spars and cables of great use after we entered the
body. As the sea was very smooth, there was
hardly a motion, which was very fortunate for us,or
we should have been cut to pieces,for We soon discov
ered our sheathing cut through. At meridian, we
found it to get thinner, and shortly saw a clear o
peping ahead, which gave, us great joy and new
life in hopes we would soon be past our dangers,
only having islands and large pieces to encounter,
which we could clear by luffing and bearing away.
Ship' Oliver Ellsworth.
MISCELLANY.
Besides the injury done to society in general, he
who destroys his own life, seldom fails to inflict the
deepest wounds upon all who stand mere immediate
ly related to him in domestic and social life. Sav
miserable guan ! who art contemplating the crime
of self-murder, hast thou no parent, the evening of
whose days, by this crime, would be embittered, or
whose grey hairs would be brought down with sor
row to ?' lc grave ? Hast thou no amiable partner
of thy life, who would be precipitated by this step
into the deepest affliction .'hast thou no tender babes
who by thy desertion, would be left fatherless, and
exposed to all the dangers of an unpitying world ?
Hast thou no brethren or sisters to share in the
griei, and the disgrace of thine unworthy conduct?
Are there no friends who love thee, who would
weep over thy folly and sin, and feel themselves
wounded by th/fah ? In short, would foe execution
of thy wicked purpose disturb the peace of no fam
ily ? Torture no bosom cf sensibility or kindness ?
Defraud no creditor ? Plunge no friend intodifhcul
ty ? Rob no fellow creature of happiness ? Did thy
conduct extend only to thy own person, though still
a crime, it would be Comparatively small.—But the
consequences ot such a step would probably extend
beyond thy conception and last longer than thy
memory. Stay then,guilty man! Stay thy murder
ous hand ! Extinguish not the happiness and the
hopes cf a family ; it may be, ,of many families !
Forbear, O forbear to inflict wounds which no time
can heal, and which may tempt survivors to wish
that thou hadst never been born!
********** * * * * ******* * * * *
—Let us go to yonder victim of impatience and je
%sPai, w h° wanders silent, melancholy and alone,
meditating the termination of his sorrows by the
pistol or poisonous draught—Let us approach, and
inquire why he is disgusted with life ?—You are
embb^rasfed in your circumstanced ; you have been
robbed of your property by fraud, or by other dis
asttyfyoccurrences ; you have been precipitated
from t^ height of affluence to abject poverty ; you
cannel dig, to beg you are ashamed ; kind there
fore resolve to fly from life. But before you tqke
this dreadful and irrevocable step, pause a mo
ment, and answer me the following questions : Is a
large portico of property indispensably necessary
to happiness ? Haye not thousands been contented
arid happy with as small a pittance as that which
you yet possess ? Nay, have n^ some found more'
real enjoyment after being thus reduced than they
found in days of their affluence affdAfeperrtv ?
Was not the Saviour of the world, when he so
journed upon earth, without ^ place where to lay
his head ? And has he not, by his example, made
poverty and sufferings honorable ? Besides, though ~
'you are now in straitened circumstances, may not
a kind Providence hereafter snpile upon you,, and
reward your.industry with comfort and plenty ?
Wherein tell but that, like Job, your latter end, in
this respect, Piay be more, blessed than your be
giving) But even supposing the worst ; will you
destroy a lite on which so, much depends, for the
sake of treasures which areti;ansient and unsatis
fying for a little glittering d^st, which perishes in
the using ; “ For so much trash as may be grasp
ed thus ?" " Miserable estimate ! ignoble alterna
tive ! Live, and exhibit, the sublime, the edifying
spectacle, of one, struggling with want, and yet
holding fast his integrity !
CEfctrat of a letter from a Gentleman in Madison
'County ddted.
* r Richmond, April 4.
e ON counting the scalps on yesterday of a squir
rel hunt in this county, there were including a few
crow's andWawk's sculps eight thousand eight
hundred and fifty ^cvezz produced on the ground."
v READ!
. In the Vermont Gazette, we observe a letter to the erf
rtors of that paper from Mr. ELLIOT, occasioned by
feme remarksol a correfpobfot, who, Mr. E. favs mis
quoted a passage from him, and drew falfe conclusion!
After corredOg him, Mr. E. makes the following decla-
D ^ fß . uc Tl?K of the CONsriTW
' ^^ ^.^ has been determine
on in a priv:,3 ca^s of the junto I have Alluded
.A mernper of’Congte^ who, % ear the least
ir;en,ly to t^s party, made the following declare
attops, in January last, at Washington—That he
^Constitution but
'.!?^." °' ° fr , u E re r,d=th?.t he consid
eiea taree fourths of its framers as fools aA
knaves—that; it was made for the benefit of st.
lators and merchants, and not for the public good—
that me Senate is a hospital of incurables, and Iwo
thirds at least of its political existence must be d>-
stroued—that the judges ought to be dependent ur,.
, Congress-^that he wished a comn^ttee could
be appointed.to sit during the whole recess of Con
gress, to digest alterations of the constitution, &c.
'^^ra^ns were made in presence of my
self, and Air. Ellery, a republican senator from R.
Island, and Mr. Jackson, a republican representa
tive from Virginia ; and appeared to strike those
gentlemen with great astonishment, It is to
the people, not against themselves, but against the
°f revolutionists, and at the same time to
vindicate my own conduct, that I have written my
letters to my constituents. The facts which I have
stated are true, and my constituents believe them "
A JA '^ S Elliot.'
Jmttleborougn, April 19, 1805.
The question is not whether Mr^lliot is a Fed
erahst, a Democrat, or a third party man, butsimn
ly whether he states FACTS. Let his enemies
fix upon him ad the odious epithets, which the ex
posure of the views of an unprincipled faction 'may
prompt ; still few if any, will accuse him of false
hood.—What further evidence, is then necessary to
prove the existence of a settled determination on
the part of the most influential democrats to effect
destruction of evety valuable feature in the
Constitution . It is time to be awake—for destruc
tion cometh !
' — traffbQOram——-
EXTRACT.
From Dr. Miner's excellent discourses on Suicide,
recently published.
supposed to be nearly 100 feet above the surface
or the water.
April 9.—-Commenced with moderate breeds
and clear Saw another small island of ice to
noi thward—At 6 p. M. passed it..
—^bo*c—
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