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POETRY.
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=LONDON, FEB, to.
ANNI7ERSARr
OF TUB BIRTH-DAY OF BURNS.
' On Saturday the <Bth ult. a feled party of the friend#
Ina admirers of our native Bard, met at the Cottage in
which he was born, to celebrate his birth-day—lmmedi
ately after dinner, the following Ode, campofed for the oc
casion, was read to the company :—
ODE
for the Anniversary of the Birth Day of Burns.
15th January 18%
"While Gaul's martial Demon inflated with pride,
'Of invasion fends threat after threat o'er the tide,
And the sons of the Britons with banners unfurl'd,
By patience heroic aftonilh the world ;
In wielding our arms and our gaffes by turns,
We will fplend the convivial hours ;
And fir'd with the bold independence of Burns,
Wake our social, our patriot powers :
'And till the loud roar of the battle shall cease,
Round the chaplet of war wreath the garh-nd of peace.
Should the menacing host e'er by Health gain the land.
Shall they marshal their millions secure on the strand ?
No—the Air and the Doon deeply Rain'd by our blood,
Shall firfl widely crimson the sea with its flood.
At fight of the Tyrant what fury will rife
In the breads of brave Scotia's sons ?,
' What noble rtfentment will slash from their eyes/
As they handle their swords or their guns'?
Nor warlike exertion, nor condud flfall cease,
Tffi again we repose op the pillow of peace-
How thrdbs my proud bosom, opprefs'd with delight,
As I view these lov'd patrons of Genius so bright,
Who befriended the unfriended Poet, and drew
From his pen the encomiums so justly their due*.
O far, diflan: far, be the forrowful day,
When the Bard's benefactors and mine,
Shall, like him, bid me weave the funeral lay,
And the Yew with the Cypress entwine.
On earth with your years may your blessings increase,
And may Burns at last greet you in regions of peace,
•Tie Twa Brigs © Air, aud lie Cotter's Saturday Night,
delisated to two gentlemen of tbe party.
The memory of the Bard, the PatroneG of the Ferft,
the Laureatof the Day, and similar toads, afforded to the
Peeffes an opportunity of communicating to the meeting a
manufeript, which he dated, from refpedlable authority co
be the production of one of the sons of ou{ lamented Poet.
—The Preffrs sung it, to an appropriate air, and we give
it to our readers for their perufah
Hae ye seen in the frefh dewy morning
The wild-warbling red-breast fae clear?
Or the low-dwelling fuaw-breaded gowon,
Surcharg'd wi' milfe'ening's foft tear?
O then ye hae seen my ain laffic,
The iaffie I We best of a';
But O ! frae the hame of my lassie,
I'm mon, a lang mile awa f .
Her htir is the wing o' the blackbird,
Hhr bye is the eye of the dove,
tier lips are the mild blushing rose bud,
Her bosom's the palace of love.
Alas? when I fit down to dudy,
1 now can do naething at a'<
My book 1 indeed keep my eyes on,
iMy thoughts are wi' her that's awa’.
O Love ! thou'rt a dear fleeting plcafure,
The fwested we mortis here know ;
Ah ! soon is thy heaven bright gleaming
Oercaft with the dark cloud of wo!
[Thus the moon on the ofc changing ocean,
Delights the worn failcr's glad eye,
When red ruth the derm, of the defect,
And the wild waves dark tumble on high.
Mt. Alderman Shaw of London, an Ayrshire gentleman,
some time after the death of our admired Poet, patromfed
a fubfeription for the behoof of his widow and children.
The sum so raised was veiled in the 3 per cent, fe need !
annuities, and amounted to jocl. of that flock—As the par-1
ifh of Air had given birth to the Bard, the Alderman
wiffied that the Proved and Baillies of Air should rake rhe
management of this fund for their behoof, which they
cheerfully accepted. One day last we-k, the A'derman.
while in company with Sir Francis Bating, the conversa
tion turned on Mr. Burns, and the circumdances of his
family, and being told that be had promoted a fubfeription
fob their relief, the worthy Baronet, who is a warm ad
mirer of our Poet, begged that he also might havf the ho
nor of being a contributor, end immediately put into Ins
hands tool. Gerling, which was also bought uro the fame
Rock, ,nd the receipt feet to the Magistrates, with the jool.
snakes 6,61. 19s 10 3 per cents Handing in the name of the
Proved and Baillies of the town of Air, for the benefit of
the widow and children of Robert Burns, the Airfbire Po-,
€t_We have additional pleafurc in Rating, that Mr Ad
dington had assumed the patrowge of Mr. Burn's elded ,
son Robert, and will soon place him in one of the public
offices under government, where the road to hoQor and ce
lebrity will lie fair before him.
MEDLEY. /
“ IN ancient times Parnassus was considered as hard
of afeent, and its top appeared almost inacccffibl©—But io
modern times we seem to have made a beaten cart-way
over it, and who is so dull as not to travel it without dif
ficulty or danger ? Helicon was reprefeuted as a scanty
fountain, and happy was the poet, who could get an in
spiring draught—But now ic has fuelled into a river, and
every ploughboy, in the field of science, waters bis herfes at
^he ftiebm—Ancient poets sung of a fecra influence from
the muses, which purged their mental vision, and difcov
trfd scenes fairer than Tempe to their view—But inspi
ration now defects in the form of a fog, and the becloud
ed fancy, which points a mopta, while it talks of Fetch
ing nature, so admired for the boklncfa and todnefs of its
conceptions-" ' Hivr.
The flowing to an instance of beautifulfinfelicity►
Timour or Tamerlane, tn consequence of a Severe a&ion,
having his followers reduced to ten, wandered in the de
ftrt. After fwimmiog the Oxus, hd was joined by some
of his confederates, who had some time fought him in the
desert. Timour describes their fortunate meeting in the
following beautiful and firoplc manner :—" When their eyes
fell upon me, fays he,they were overwhelmed with joy ; and
they alighted from their horses; and they came and kneel
ed ; and they kissed my Hirrup, 1 also came down from
my horse, and took each of them in my arms. And 1 put
my turban on the head of their firft chief; and my girdle,
rich in jewels and wrought with gold, 1 bound on the loins
of the second; & the third I clothed in nay own coat. And
they wept, an; I wept also; and the hour of prayer was
arrived, and we prayed—And we mounted our horses and
came to my dwelling."
Profeffor Sefee, the celebrated Bontanid, who bad been
absent 8 years, at the bead of a party of naturalise,fas re
turned to Spain. He had been over all the Spanish pos
sessions in North-America, and the Islands on the coast.
It is said he has enriched botany with 2500 species of
f unknown plants, and has also difeovered 80 fifties not yet
described.'——; —
Demosthenes being afleed by what means be had made
such progrtfs in eloquence, replied, “ By consuming more
oil 'than wine." 4
RAG^~
Cafb given for Rags at Treadwell's Book-Aore.
Atherton Poor & Cram,
No. 1, Suffolk- Buildi»g,State-J}reet,Bofton,
Offer for sale, received by the Packet, John Adams
Mary, Avery, Patty & Sally from Liverpool,,
a large JupW of
Spring Goods,
among which are
BLACK and Olive Velveteens', elegant
wide black and blue Velveteen for cap and
polices; a few bales of Superfine, French' Black,
Black Mixture, Spahifli Blue, Corbeau, Savelift,!
and. Scarlet BROAD CLOTHS; a complete if
fortment of Hosiery; extra fine Cotton Gloves;
1&^ Cambrics glazed and unglazed. also,
by the Galen & Minerva, from London,
Fafhionable.filk Shags for Bonnets ; el
egant embroidered, and laced clock'd Silk Hose ;
laced Caps; Thread, L^ces anJ Edgings; Black
and while patent laced IWs; Chambray Muffins;
Prins; Jeans; Qultr 4 Nankeens, &c. &c.
an afeitment of
Cutlery Ware.
Bo£oh, April 21, 1804. 6w.
— NEGOODS'
Nathaniel Dean,
Has just received
A large and general afortmeit oj
Spring and Summer Goods,
OF the latest importations, which are
now offered, for sale very cheap ^t his uore
in Coogrefs-ttre: t, some of winch he imported di
rea from the mionfaaurers in England.
NEW" goods7 .
Oliver Briand
HAS just received q^rge and general
assortment of SPX.B GOODS, of the
latent importation, which are now offered for sale
very chebp, at his (lore in Forefreel, N° 2 Mer
chant's Row. Portfmouth,™ April 28, gw.
'William Garland,
Ilas just received a general affoitment of
Spring & Summer Goods,
which will be, fold cheap. May 5.-
Fresh Grapes, Muskadel &
Cask Raisins,
Just Received and for Sale at
B. LEVEKETi's Grocery Store.
opp r iKc the Copt Eoufe, v here he has tpn
handy for sale, a general assortment of
W. India Goods & Groceries,
Also, Clover ^ Herd's Grad-Seed.
NOTICE! ~
M. J. de Rochenlont,
RESPEC I'FULLY acquaints the Citizens
of New. iamptbire, that he has issued
Propofols for edablilhing in th % town, a weekly
Newspaper, to be entitled 'I he Political
Star. It has met with the flipport of many of
the mod re,enable inhabitants of this town;
and it is hoped that the liberal encouragement
of performs elsewhere will enable him fhcrtly to
ilfde the fird number. Proposals will be sent to
the principal towns throughoutthe State.
N.B. M. J. de Rochemont most ftlemnly
assures the public that no individual whatever is
any ways interested in the Star, but himfelf.
This caution is thought neceffaty in town —per-
haps elsewhere no left.
50 Dollars Rewards
WHEREAS fame evil minded, mis
chievous person, or performs have lately
pulled down fundfy Notifications, Handbills,
' and Advertisements, that have been set up ac
cording to law, to stand up fourteen days, and
they have also proceeded so far in their works of
datknefs as to break the Glass Windows in the
dwelling houses of the peaceable inhabitants at
late hours in the night, and have been so auda
cious as to throw Bones at and break the win
dows of a house occupied for Public Worship,
in service time, thereby endangering the limbs
or Jives, of those nffembled in said house, and
other enormities have been done oy them to
disturb the peace 2nd quiet of the town.'
Therefore the Selectmen offer the above re
ward of fifty dollars to any person that will give
evidence fufficient to convict the perpetrators of
their nefarious works, before any Court proper
to try them, that they may be punished accord
ing to law., i
Portfmoutb, Mav 5, 1804.
BRICKS For S^lej
A BOUT thirty thousand Bi&ks of an
excellent quality, may he defftfQ.
('lately. Inquire ofihe Printers. April 28.
To be Let,
And possession given immediate!v,R OCRR' s
WHARF, & STORE thereof, fitted at
the foot of Daniel-street, adjoining the middle
Town-Wharf, for particulars apply 10
GEORGE F. BLUNT. *
April 28. _____ 4*.
THE Hero will stand at the~ftable of
the fubferiber for covering Mares this sea
son, on the following terms, viz. to fay five
dollars the leap ;— eight dollars the season, ten
, to warrant a foal—-The Hero is full blooded,
sixteen and half hands high, come and fee him
and he will be prefered to any other.
~ Samuel Ayers,
Greenland, Aprils, 1804.
THE tubfcftbers Health Officers for
the town of Port fmouth, being authorifed by
a statute law of this State, pitted June 10, 180,,
make the following By-Laws.
id. All Hogs Sties mail be cleansed as often as
'they become ommfive.
2d. No frefh Figi, headsor their entrails shall be
left in the docks, Greets or where they may be
come offenfive.
gk No owner or keeper of a livery liable or
liable within the town of Portfmoutb, shall
keep by him more than one cart load of dung from 1
and after the last day of May Until the fifteenth day
I of Odober.
4th. No person ftiall throw any dead animal,,
dirt, filth, dr vegetable Yubftances into any of the
streets, lanes, yards, or where tfy may become of
fenfive.
§th. All privies and vaults foall be cleansed as
soon and often as they become offenfive.
6:b. No stagnant water or putrid vegetables firll|
remain in any cellar or other places within laid
town, after the last of May, until the firft day of;
November.
Extras of a law passed by the Legislature of this
State June 10, 1803, viz. ]
BE it enaaed by the Senate and House of Re-j
prefentatives in General Court convened, That the !
4 health officers now in office, and those who may 1
be hereafter chosen, according to the direaions ofl
, the ad 'aforefaid, shall have power, and they arej
hereby authorifed and empowered, from time to|
time, and as in their judgment the health and fafety1
of the said town, and of the people may require, to<
make such rules and regulations, to have effect :
within the limits of said town and port, as to them 1
shall appear necessary for those purposes ; also for
preventing and removing nuisances ; which rules,
orders, and regulations being approved by two or
threejuftices of the peace, one of whom being ofj
the quorum shall be binding, and ftriftly obfervecbl
within the town and port of Portfmoutb. And ifj
any person or persons shall disobey or violate thej
rules, orders and regulations of said health officers,j
so made and approved, at any time after three days|
from the publication of the fame in two of the j
newfpspers printed in said town, such person or'
persons shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars, 1
I to be recovered by the said health officers before a [
juflice of the peace.
Samuel Jones,
Benj. Sherburne, 1 Heafh Officers.
Joshua Brackett, )
State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham, ff.
Pottfmduth, May 3, 1804.
Approved of by Samuel Penballow, R. Cutis
Shannon, Justices of the Peace and of the quo
rum. L
Piscataqua Bridge Lottery.
THE Managers are, with great reluctance,
compelled to postpone the Drawing there-i
of until the 19th of Jul„ when the Public, mayl
be assured the Drawing will positively commence|
—They hope the following reasons will apolo
gize to the Public, for this necessary delay.—l
The almost impassible Bate of the roads, for two |
months past has been such as to render the com-!
munication which the Agents employed for ven-1
ding Tickets, in the several towns in this and thel
Massachusetts State, impoflible to obtain returns|
of Tickets fold, or on hand;—Thofe circum
flances, with others combining, the interest of the
Lottery, and for accommodation in Boston, to
avoid interference with prior Lotteries drawing|
there in May, near the time we had appointed.|
THOMAS THOMPSON ' I
THOMAS MARTIN, [Managers
ELIJAH HALL,
Portsmouth April 11, I SO4. „
; Strafford, ff.
TO the honorable the Justices oi the
Superior Court of Judicature, holden at Do-1
ver, ir t^d for the county of Strafford, on the
fourth Tuesday of February, 1804.
HumbiyShews Philip Leavittof Kinf
manton, (fu c ^/) in the county of Kennebec and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hufbaudman,
guardian of the perion and tftatcof James Leavitt,
a m no/hoder the age of twenty-one years, which
niinor is a child of.Jofeph Leavitt >ate of Wake
field, in the county of Straffed, gentleman, deceas
ed, that the said minor is seized of and in a certain
tract or parcel of land situated in said Wakefield, in
the firft divifyn of lots in said town, and lying on
the northerly fide of Levels pond, (so calle, ) con
taining forty-five acres and one hun.dredand thirty
three rods more or Jess, ind bounded as follows, to
wit, loutherly on Lovels popd, north wefteily on
land owned by Betsy Leavitt, catlerly on hud own.
ed by Ebenezer Cook, and is all the laud which de
feeuded to said minor from his late father's eflate,
lying on the northerly fide of Levels pond—The
said Philips repre(rnts that it would be conducive to
the interift of h : s said ward to have the la^ afore
faid told—Wherefore he prays that licence may be
granted him to fell and dispose of-the land afore
faid, as the law in such case provides, and he, as
bound, will praj,&c.,
PHILIP LEAVITT.
Strafford,ff—Sifcricr Court, February Term 1804.
Ordered by 'the Court that the petitioner notify
all persons concerned to appear before the Justices
of the Superior Court of Judicature, to be holdem
at Dover, within'ind for the county of Strafford,
on the firft Tuefday of September next, to (hew
cause (if any they have) why the prayer of said pe
tition should not be granted, by causing said peti
tion bad order of Court therein, to be pnbliflied
three weeks fucceffivcly in the Portsmouth Oracle,
the last publication whereof to be fix weeks before
said eerm..
Attest, NATH'IADAMS, Clerk.
Copy examined by NATHJJIDAM^C^^
Notice!
WHEREAS Amos Thompson, a
minor, has absconded from the House of
the fubferiber—All Persons are forbid harbouring
or trailing him on nqy account, as I am determined
not to pay any debts of his contrasting.
John Thompson.
Cattrc.@tar, @l7 16,1804.
Strafford, f
TO the honofable the Justices of the
Superior Court of Judicature, holden at Do
ver, in and for the county of Strafford, on the fourth
Tuesday of February 1804.
Humbly Shews, Noah Robinson of
WakefielJ, in laid county, trader, guardian of the
person and estate of Betty Leavitt, a minor under
the age of twenty-one years, which minor is a child
of Joseph Leavitt, late of Wakefield aforefaid, gen
tleman, decrafed, that the said minor is seized of and
in a certain trad or parcel of land fituaied in said
Wakefield, in the firft divifinn of lots in said town,
and lying on the northerly fide of Lovels pond so
called ^rontaining forty-five acres more or less, and
bounded as follows, to wit, Southerly on Lovels
pond so called, northwesterly on land owned by
Betsy Leavitt and James Leavitt, caderly on land
owned by Ebenezer Cook, fouth eafter!y on land
owned by James Leavitt, and is all the land whicls
defeended to said minor from her late fathers estate,
lying on the northerly fide cf (aid Levels pond.—
The said Noah represents that it would be condu
cive to tire intermit of his said ward to have the
land aforefaid fold. — Wherefore he prays that li
cence may be granted him so fell and dispose of the
land aforefaid, as the law in such cases provides,
and he, as bound, will pray, &e
NOAH ROBINSON.
Strafford,ff Superior Court, February Term 1804.
Ordered ny the p^urt that (;petitioner notify
all persons concerned to appear before the Tuftices
of th^Superiar Court of Judicature; to be holden
at Dover, within and for the county of Strafford,
on the firft Tuefday of September next, to fltew
cause, if any they have, why the prayer of hid pe
tition should not be granted, by causing, said peti
tion and order of Court thereon to be published
I three weeks fucctffively in the Portsmouth Oracle,
the last publication whereof to be fix weeks before
Ifaid term.
ArteS, N?\TH'1 ADAMS, Clerk.
I Copy exarwned±y_N ATH'I ADAMS, Clerk.
;nr 0 be fold at Public Au&ion, ±n Monday
I 28th May, ini. at 3 o'clock p. m. at the
I Meeting-House of the First Parish in Ports-
Imouth, for delinquent tax for»ißcj—Tie fol
lowing Pew in said Meeting House, unless pre
vented by payment cf tax and charges.
Pew, No. 65 — iodous. Resets.
Joseph Akerman, Collector.
May s.
To Sick People.
THOSE People afili&ed with various
_ complaints it is expelled have something
about their machine that js cut of order! some of
the veffelsare untoned ! The blood and brads want
purifying! The frame is jaundering ! The Limbs
are weak ! The Joints tremble ! The Skin itches ! !f
Well,' fee if there is nothing among the following
I remedies which will hdp,ou.- I presume there is.
Dr. Cooley's genuine anti-pestilential,
I attenuating and restorative Fill's greatly eftremtd
b in Rheumatic Complaints, and Biliorfs d : feafes.
price „o cents.
I Dr. Rawson's Family Physic, k$ CoG
Itivene's, InHgeftion, Headaches, Dizzimfs, Pains
:inthe Stomach and Bowels, Dropucal Complaints,
1 &c. ,>ice 2^ cents.
Dr. Wheaton's genuine jaundice Bitters,
which are said to be the best preparation of the kind
ever offered to the Public, and are a p r etty certain
I cure for all kinds of Jwnhicy and Bilious com
} plain® As a proof of the high reputation cf
I this Me<Hiine, eighty thoufird boxes have been
fold in the United States, the last two yearc.
price 58 cents.
Or. Rawson's Anti-bilious and Sto
made Bitters; celebrated for their wonderful cures
of Ami-bilious and various cth:r disorders.
' pice ^o cents.
Dr. Haskell's cure for the Jaundice,
confiding of Pills and Powders, taken mornings
and evening. price §0 cents. _
Dr. Lee's genuine Windham bilious
Pills for Bilious Fevers, Jaundice, Ittyigeflim,
Co&veorfs, Dropsy, Female Complaints, &c. &<.
Dr. Cooler's Vegetable Elixir, or Gcuph
Drops; which ar^ileund to exceed every other
Medicine for the cure of Confumptio us Complaints
Asthmas, (pining of Blood, Coughs, Shortness cf
Breath, aqd every pther species of dihale to which
the lungs are exposed. price „cents.
Dr. Hinkley's complete remedy for
the Piles! price ;o cents, er box.
Dr. Tilly's Medicamentuni Gratia Pro
batum, 'excellent for Gravelly Complaints , Hyf
tcrical Affections ; Affhmas, &c. price accents.
Dr. Noufer's Worm Powders, which,
deficits and expels from the body, all kinds of
Worms. force docents.
Dr. Haskell's Dysentery Fills and £° w *
ders, which are a certain and ipeedy cure for tills
distressing complaint. price cue dollar.
Dr. Hamilton's celebrated Worm de
stroying LoZuUges, price gocts. a package, or one
dollar a bottle.
Dr. Thompson's celebrated Aromatic
Paste for the Teeth and Gums, price gocts.pr, 6m
Best imported Tooth Powder,price sects.
Dr. Rawson's genuine, celebrated and
beautifying Itch Ointment ! being a certain cure"
for this horrid disorder. price 50 cents a box. One
box will cure a grown person or two children.
D'r. Haskell's warranted American Itch
Ointment. price go cents.
The whole of the above may be had
at the Bri& Book-Store of C. Peirce, Daniel
ftrect,Porrfmouth, who has received a supply ditea
from the Patentees. April 30, 1804.
The Portsmouth Oracle
is published every Saturday morn for the town and vicin
ity, and the
Oracle Post
every Tuefday morning for the Country, by Winya*
^Daniel Treadwell, at their Book and Stationary
shop, corner of Court and Buck Greets, Portfmouth,N. H.
Terms, 1,50 cents per ann.—so cents, m advance—punc
tra%fOTw^dcd ^ alt part, ofthts State, and the Diflrie
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