The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-09-22 00:00:00, page 4

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FREEDOM.
FREEDOM h^l ! lair child of Heaven,
Guardian of this happy day :
Richest gift to mortals given,
Tyrants yet shall own thy sway.
. chorus. _ -
-' Independent, brave and free,
^ Are thy sons, 0 liberty.
Here, fair Goddess, fix thy Ration,
In this land of peace and love :
Spreading hence through every nation.
Let the world thy blessings prove.
Cho. —lndependent, &c.
Firm beneath thy banners moving,
Form we here a Phalanx firong ;
. To the world—to tyrants proving,
Vice can never triumph long.
Cho. —Independent, &c.
Avaunt ! Avaunt ! ye slavish minions,
Enemies to Freedom's sway ;
Hie ye fall from her dominions,
You would damn our happjly.
Cho.—lndependent, &c.
. Welcome here, ye sons of freedom,
'. Os whatever foil or clime;
Should proud tyrants frown, ne'er heed them,
Short and fleeting is their time-
Cho. —lndependent, &c.
Tho' by folly's Tons Supported,
Here a petty tyrant shone:
Who with sacred freedom sported,
Yet this triumph was not long. ~
Cho. —lndependent, &c.
Now the reign of Terror's over.
Standing armies are no more ;
- Vile Sedition Laws have vanish'd.
Alien Bills, and all are o'er.
CHORUS..
Independent, brave and free,
Are thy sons, O Liberty:
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HAIL LIBERTY.
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HAIL [Liberty, supreme delight,
Thou idol of the mind ;
Through every clime extend thy flight.
The world range unconfin'd,
The world range unconfin'd ;
CHORES.
The virtues of the just and brave,
Exist alone with thee;
Nature ne'er meant to form a Have,
Her birth-right's Liberty.
Tho' all the tyrants in the world,
Have dat'd to crush thy fame,
Yet shall thy banners be unfurl'd ;
Eternal be thy name,
Eternal be thy name.
= The virtues, &c.
Then let the world in one great band.
Os glorious unity,
Drive defpofrfm from each land ;
Or die for liberty.
Or die. for liberty.
, The virtues, &c.
Columbia, how bleft art thou,
While free from tyrant's sway!
feflert jhy rights, thy laws avow;
Drive difeord far away,
Drive difeord far away.s
CHORUS.
The virtues of the just and brave,
Exist alone with thee ;
Nature ne'er meant to form a Have,
Her birth-right's liberty. <
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CONTENTMENT.
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LET the world take it< follies, and revel in joy,
And drown the dull moments in wine ;
Their bliss each unprofperous gale must annoy,
And with it each pleasure decline.
Let Players go flrut on the flage so refin'd,
And mimic kings, cobiers, and elves;
/, To entertain gazers, whose poor vacant minds
Were ne'er entertain'd by themselves.
Let heroes court fame in the wild feenes of flrife,
.And after it eagerly jog ;
It allures them from virtue—the funfhineof life,
. And leaves them to ihourn in a fog.'
Let avarice count up his millions of ore,£
, - And lead his dim eyes on its shine :
He starves upon water till [leer'd from life's Ihore,
And his heirs all enjoy it in wine.
Let lords firive to cutin the world a great figure^
.. And monarchs look big in a crown;
If bigness they aim at, they never are bigger.
Or seldom so big as a clown. :
.7 Be mine the pursuit which holds goodness the game
Its joys with grey time can contend :
; Its companions—Misfortune could never yet tame,
• , ^ Sweet Liberty, Love, and a Friend,
^oralift.
ON THE LOVE OF LIFE.
An essay.
Our wishes lengthen as car fun declines.
NIGHT THOUGHTS.
AGE, that lessens the enjoyments of life, iu
creafes our desire of living. Those dangers which
in the vigor of yo^th we had learned to despise,
assume new terrors as we grow old. Our caution
iuc-eafing as our years increase, fear at last be
coues the prevailing pailion of the mind, and the
final! remainder of life is taken up in useless ef
forts to keep off our end, or provide for a conti
nued exift^nce.
Srange contradiction in our nature, and to
which even the wife are liable! If I should judge
of that part of life which lies before me by that
which 1 have already seen, the profpeft is hideous.
—^ Experience tells me that my past
enjoyments have brought no real felicity, and
pnfation assures me, that those I have felt are
Wronger than those which are yet to come. Yet
experience and sensation in vain persuade ; hope,
more powerful than either, dresses out the distant
profpeft in fancied beauty ; some happinef&in
long perfpeftive, Kill beckons me to pursue; and/
like a losing gamester, every new disappointment
increases my ardor to continue the game.
Whence then is this inci eased love of life, which
grows upon us with pur years ? whence comes it
that we thus make greater efforts to preserve our
exigence, at a period when it becomes scarce worth
tkeeping ? Is it that nature, attentive to the
preservation of mankind, increafe® our wishes to
live, while the leffensour enjoyments ? and as she
robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imagina
tion in the spoils ? life would be insupportable to
'an old man, who, loaded with infirmities, feared
death no more than when in the vigor of man
hood ; the numberless calamities of decaying na
ture, and the confeioufuefs of surviving every plea
sure and enjoyment, would at once induce him
with his own hand to terminate the feene of mi
sery ; bet happily the contempt of death forfake^
him, at a time when it could only be prejudicial ;
iand life acquires an imaginary value, in propor
tion as its real value is no more.
Our attachment to every object around us in
trgifes, in general from the length of our acquain
tance with it. The longer we know bur friends,
and find them to be really such, the more unwil
ling we shall be to part with them. “ I would
not'chofe," fays a French philosopher, “ to fee an
old post pulled up with which I had been long
acquainted." A mind long habituated to a cer
tain set of obje&s, insensibly becomes fond of fee
ing them ; pfits them from habit, and parts from
them with reluctance : from hence proceeds the
avarice of the old in every kind of possession ; they
love the world and all it produces ; they love 1
life and all its advantages ; not merely because it
gives them pleasure, but because they have known
it long.
^umotiL
A person feeing the son of a common woman
throw [tones among a crowd of people, “ Take
care, young man, laid he, that you do not hit
your father."
As a country gentleman was reading a newspa
per in a/avern, he said to a friend who faunext
him, " I have been looking some time to fee what
the ministry are about, but I cannot find where
those articles are put, not being used to the Lon
don papers."—" Look among the robberies," re
plied the other.
A tradesman lately calling upon a gentleman
for the payment of a bill, desired to know when
he would let him have the money for it, he an
swered, “ call to-morrow, and I'll pay yon." —
The tradesman accordingly called the next day,
on which the gentleman told him, “ His word
was hi; bond, as I told you when you called lafl,
call to-morrow and I'll pay you ; R I fay now,
you may trifft to mv word ; your servant." —To
morrow never came.
Front a late London Paper,
THE PIOUS THEFT:
A TRUE STORY.
FOUNDED ON THE LATE SCARCITY OF EREAD.
WHILE bur school books are 'full of the gen
erous instances of devoting life to principle in an
heroic age, and among a people for whom futu
rity had no terror, let us record a late event to
which Birmingham was witness, and upon the
anthem icity of which our readers may rely.
A widow woman went one morning to the ba
ker's during- the delivery of the bread to the peo
ple, and taking up a loaf, hurried away with it to
her home. The Baker observed it, and followed
her immediately.
The house to which he traced her wore the ap
pearance of a neat poverty—Sluttifhnefs was not
there to degade misfortune.
When he entered the room he saw the loaf di
vided aipong three children, who devoured
it with the most ravenous hatle.
He taxed the woman with the fa&, which she
did not hesitate to acknowledge.
"I know (said fhe)-I mult fuffer for the theft,
and I am content to do do so, but not to fee my
children perish.",
It is not easy, at all times, to verify the com
• plaints we hear, and the baker doubted the wi
dow's dory.
" I fear (said he), you are accustomed to fitch
actions, and live by theft—What have you in that
cupboard ?"
« Look (said she) and fatisfy yonrfelf."
He perceived a dish, which he thought had meat
on it, and exclaimed, " 1 suppose this was Rolen
also ,
« Look nearer it and judge, said the wretched
mother. The man approached and beheld the
remains of a dog! He shuddered—his eyes filled
with tears! HiS'had spontaneously fought his pock
et—he put half a crown in her hand, and charged
her to call frequently upon him.
the man went to the most wealthy part of his
, customers, and told the Rory with the plain elo
quence of truth. He procured a liberal fubferip
tion for this poor family, and has been the happy
, instrument to preserve Worth, beyond what poets'
have immortalized in past ages, r e,
To Young Housekeepers.
C. PEIRCE,'
No, frDaniel-)reet, Portfmou/b, has just re
ceived from London,
A final! assortment of handsome
LOOKING-GLASSES,
AND
GILT FRAM'D PICTURES,
Which will be fold low considering the size and
elegancy of them.
To Sea-faring Men.
C. Peirce has also received a capital affGrt
ment of
CHARTS & MAPS,
of the British Channel ; of Spain and Portugal ;
of all the Weft-India Blands ; of the coaß of A
merica, &c. &c. &c.
Also, a hamfome assortment of
Day & Night SPY-GLASSES.
" 'Afew'of
Hadley's best Quadrants, Scales &
Dividers, and a variety of FAMILY BIBLES;
BOOKS ; STATIONARY, &c. &c. all of which
he will [ell at a very low advance, for calh.
Portsmouth, Sept. 7, 1801.
ELIPHALET BARKER,
POST RIDER,
Intending to quit that business on
the firft of October, earnestly re
quests all those indebted to him
for the Republican Ledger to make
immediate payment. ~
pro BE SOLD BY
JOHN BODGE,
Lower end of Daniel fireet,
;Excellent clarified Spermaceti Oil,
per retail. Sept. 1.
B. LEVERETT,
HAS JUST RECEIVED,
AND HAS CONSTANTLY FOR SALE,
At hit fore on Spring-Hill,
'THE FOLLOWING ,
GOODS,
—viz.—
Gun Powder,'
Hyfon,
Young Hyfon,,fr I? A C
Hyfon Skin, ( 1 A
Souchong arid
Bohea J
Os the best qualities.
^^ftRANDY.
Old and common RUM. ,
Old Cherry do. *
Holland's Gin, real white.
Molasses.
Sherry, ° 1
^ [WINES.
Claret J
Long cork'd CLARET, by the
c.fc or bottle. ,
Double refined Phila-1
delphia, Single do.f
^a, /SUGARS
EaR-ludia, and | *
Havannah J A
Weft- India, ? nnr/TfYKT
and Georgia j C/U 1 UN•
Fresh Mufcatall Raisins, pr. box.
do. „ do. pr. cask,
do. Black Zant Currants,
Shell'd and unfhell'd Almonds.
Real Cinnamon, Cassia, Mace,
Nutmegs, Cloves, Pepper, Alfpice,
Ginger, Poland Starch, Rice,
Hair Powder——Coffee,
Welch's best No. 1 and 2 Chocolate, do. S hells,
Anchoives, Capers and Olives per bottle,
English Mustard per lb. do. pr. bottle,
Sweet Oil pr. flaft, Cayenne do. pr. bottle,
Scott's Liquid Blue per jug,
Windsor and Crown Soap,
Boflon Pigtail Tobacco" pr. roll,
do. Small Twist,
No. I, 2 and 3 Smoaking Tobacco,'
American Segars, ',
Spanilh Segars pr. box or retail,
Spermaceti and Mould Candles,
Spanish and common Indigo,
Double refined Salt Petre,
English Gun Powder and Shot,
Elliot's Snuffy per keg,
Wrapping Pafer per ream,
Stone Joggs, assorted from 3 gallons down td 1
quart, f /
Ditto Pickle Potts, to contain 3 gals. &c. &c. &c.
FOR SALE BY
CHARLES GRACE,
At hit Jhop near Liberty -bridge,
100 bbls Menhaden, put up
^ in the best manner.
1 1-2 tons excellent Oakum.
I PATENT, AIR-TIGHT AGITABLE '
LAMPS,
The peculiar advantage of which i; not only t,
prevent frilling the ill, but by being made
air-tight the oil is defended from the pref
fare of the atmosphere, which causes it
to rife much lighter and further to
the burners, burn brighter and
- prevents it from coagulating.
The above LAMPS are kept constantly for file,
BY
JOHN BADGER,
Tin-Plate Worker, *
Oppojite Mr. Peirce's Boolflore, Daniel-flreet.
Tin & Pewter Ware as usual.
Portsmouth, Sept. I, 1801.
. GENTLEMEN'S
TAYLORING ;
IN THE NEWEST & NEATEST FASHIONS.
Mon£ L. SERRAT,
FROM FRANCE,
Refpedfully informs the Gentle
men of Portsmouth and its vicinity, that he
has taken a [hop in Water-street, where
he intends to carry on the Tailor
ing business, in all its branches.
He flatters hiwfdf that fonftant at
tendance to his business, together with the
neatnejs and dijpatch of the work which
he may be favoreu with, will meet
the encouragement he wishes,
and secure the patronage
of a generous public.
FOR SALE BY
LEWIS BARNES,
On the lowefl terms for cofh or short credit,
8 9000 wt. firit qilllitv,
DEMERARY COFFEE.
Apply at Mr. Jacob Walden's, or at the fore
Mr. Wm. Chafe.
Aug. 24, 1801.
'JOSIAH SMITH
RefpeHfully informs the public that be has re
moved from the Sun Tavern to the
New-Hampshire HOTEL,
At the head of Portsmouth-Pier,
Where he has made such arrangements as enables
him to entertain customers to entire fatisfa&ion ;
the hall has a repair, and is well calculated for
public companies.
He intends keeping on hand an assortment of
genuine LIQUORS, and good attendance, at a
moderate price.
Portsmouth, Sept. 7, ißor.
JOHN MARBLE,
Sculptor & Stone Cutter,
Will be in this town, from Oniucey, on the 31st
inftanr, with a itock of
ITALIAN MARBLE,
AND
QUINCY SLATE STONE,
Suitable for table flabs, hearths, chimney-pieces,
tomb-stones, grave-flones, and many other ufes—
:which he is determined to fell on reasonable terms,
' if appliecLfor soon, at Mr. Mark Rogers' wharf.
I N. B. Gentlemen engaged in building, may be
supplied with any kind of Stone by giving a ihore
;notice.
I Portfmouth, Aug. 18, 1801.
Co tbe LaDies.
SAFE TOUR RAGS.
CASH, and the highest price given , for
; Clean linen, & cotton & lineh Rags
atthis Office.
If the ladies would fafpend a bag behind the -
door, and inflead of sweeping their Rags into the
fire, as is frequently the~,put them into the
bag, they will find it more to their advantage, than
the offensive smell of burning Rags Dr. Frank
lin used to fay, that a penny saved was two pence
earned ; indeed, he said many good things :—He
often told his female friends, that " a diligent &
frugal woman always had a large fhift".—That
66 if you would be wealthy, think of saving as
well as getting"—A nd thatx
" Many cflates are spent in the getting,
Since women for tea forfook spinning and knitting,
And men for their punch forsook hewing and fptiiting."
- So; without delay prepare you bags,
And &ke some care to save your RAGS.
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<raeekip Calendar.
SEPTEMBER HATH 30 DAYS.
Full moon 22 day, eh 41m morn.
VfcH Moon
Days of the R. S. water. R. S
Q - Weefe. H. M, st. M. H. M
;69 7 it 56 m.rfe
23 Wednesday, 6 06 12 ^0 6 41
24 Ttyurfday, 6 26 o 44 7 4
25 Friday, 6 36 1 3 2 7 34<f
26 Saturday, '6 56 2 22 8 6
27 Sunday, 6 66 3 13 8 48
28 Monday, 6 86 4 56 31
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