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. by Reuben Shapley,
at his Store on his Wharf,
Holland GIN of a superior quality, per pipe;
Cogniac BRANDY' per pipe ;
Madeira ^E hi pipes, half pipes and quarter
casks;
Linseed OIL per cask ;
WHITE LEAD ground in Oil, in kegs ;
Dutch CANVASS suitable for light sails ;
Raven's DUCK, and TICKLINBURGHS;
HESSIANS suitable for Cotton and Coffee bags ;
1 box Marbled OIL CLOTHS; from 7-4 to 5--4
wide;
Floor and Hearth BRUSHES different sorts;
1 box PAINT BRUSHES ;
Lisbon FEATHERS ;
OLIVE OIL in jars.
Portsmouth, October 13, 1804. 3-5,.
~ REMOVED.
Alexander Ewen
Respectfully informs his friends and the public, that
he has removed his Auction Office, to the Brick
store, No. 3, Bow-street, where he is opening a fresh
assortment of
Fall & Winter Goods,
which are ready for sale by piece, or otherwise—
viz.
Superfine and low priced BROAD CLOTHS and
COATINGS ; Rose BLANKETS, of various
sizes; a few cases of Irish LINENS; Callicoes;
Velvets, Hosiery, &c. &c.
WAFTED
&^<^i^ Berries,
apply as above. Oct. 27.
THE Subscribers having
formed a connexion in trade under the rirm of
Abel & Robert Harris,
their business will in future be carried on at the store
lately improved by Robert Harris, in Bowstreet,
where cash will be paid for
FLAX-SEED ;
OX-HORNS;
POT and PEARL ASHES; ,
—Usa
in M. White Oak Bbl. STAVES ; and;
a few thousand Hhd. do ;
ABEL HARRIS,
ROBERT HAR RIS.
Portsmouth, October 26, 1804. ,_^ '
FOR SALE,
Fore-street, North End,
BALES OF UPLAND COTTON; and TIER
CES OF RICE, for retailing, for cash or ap
p oved credit.
Portsmouth, Oct. 27, 18C4.
Fur Savannah, & Charleston.
O CT
THE schooner Ed
ward,to sail in 12 days.—She will take
• Freight of 100 Bbls, apply to the mas
ter on board, or co
? SAMUEL BOARDMAN.
Portsmouth, October 26, 1804.
Peter Cochran
GIVES Notice, that Iris Singing School com
fiehces next Monday Evening in the Chamber of
the Brick School-House. October 27.
Important News.
The Wheels are agoing ! agoing !
And we flull loca have accounts of one and a
nother drawing Capital Prizes. Well, they who
venture ought to get. There is, however, a chance
yet left for tbofe who have been dilatory, and have
notasyet furnished themselves wih Tickers. The
Lottery began drawing yesterday, and will finifo
in 40 <|avs.
A few Tickets and quarters yet for sole at C.
Peirce's Book-Core, Daniel street, Portfmoutb.
Rags. ' 7
Cash given for RAGS at T&M^wl&ft Book
gwe..
THE Proprietors of Pischtaqua Bridge are no
tified, that their annual meeting will be held at the
East Chamber of the State-House in Portsmouth,
on Wednesday, the 14th day of November next, at
So'clcck in the afternoon.
SAMUEL ELLIOT, fry Clerk,
October 27. %
% \J«\ : s{3 3^.
One cent Reward.
LEFT the subscriber on Thursday evening last,tan
Indented Apprentice named JOHN FERNALD;
aged I,years—Had on blue Jacket and Trowsors,
and brown Shag Wrapper. He has light hair.
All Persons are forbid harbouring or trusting him
as they would avoid the penalty of the law. All
Masters of Vessels are particularly cautioned against
receiving and harbouring said boy.
GEORGE FERNALD, Cooper.
Portsmouth, October 20, 1804
Vol. XV.]
OTALLTfIEDraPOSmONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLTTIAL PROSP&til^^LftHi^^ AREINDISI^SANT SUPPORTS.—Wa^ngton.
Piscataqua Bridge.
POR SALE at the Store qf
Robert Rice,
ORACLE POST
Will commence drawing on the 19th day of De
cember, and finish in thirty working days,—agreea-
Ible to the plan proposed and subjoined to the scheme.
The price of Tickets, after the 20th day o' Novem
|her, will be advanced to five dollars and fifty cents,;
and will remain, at tliat rate until the third days
drawing shall begin ; after that time the price will
be six Dollars, and will continue rising until the 25th
day's drawing.—Adventurers, subscribers, and ven
ders will please to observe this hint, and supply.
themselvesin good managseason' as the ers are ve
ry desirous tliat every person should supply them
selves before the price advances—Venders will most J
certainly see their own interest inseparably connect
ed with this plan—A company is found to take all|
the unsold Title's, which may remain, aLur'ihe
third day's drawing,—but subscribers, whom having
previously engaged any number of 1 ickets, shall lie
intitled to receive tliem at any time before drawing
commences, it five dollars—Agents that liave taken
tickets to sell must strictly attend to fulfill their en
gagements with the managers—the true meaning of
which is, to return all the unsold tickets remaining
in their hands,three days before the drawing begins,
or hold them for their own account and risque—and
to pay or remit all monies, due from them for tick
ets sold or retained, twenty days after the drawing is
completed—after that time ten days is allowed to
send in their prize tickets, to, balance their respec
tive accounts—serious consequences to the managers
having attended the want of punctuality,by some ven
ders in the first class, which we flatter ourselves will
be avoided in the second—otherways the purpose
for which the Lottery is granted, will be totally d@-
THE subscriber informs the public, that he has
taken that convenient and pleasantly situated Tav
ern, above mentioned ; where, Ladies, gentlemen,
Travellers, and parties of pleasure, will find good
entertainment, constant attendance and civil treat
ment ; he intends to provide the best Wines spiritu
ous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, &c. and good stabling for
Horses.
JK B. Wanted a capable, well qualified man, to
attend the bar and wait on company ; and a capable
Woman who understands the most approved meth
od of cookery ; good wages will be given—
'Apply to CYRUS FRINK,
Piscataqita-Bridge, Oct. 27.
seated.—
THOMAS THOMPSON, )
THOM AS MARTIN, > Manager:.
ELIJAH HALL,)
Portsmouth Oct. 27.
Evening School.
TOFTN RAYNES proposes to open an
tf 9 Jiyening School, for teaching reading writing,
;and Ari/bmetic, at the Chamber over Mr. Lapph's
;Storey in the New^Brick Buildings on the Parade,
;the frft Monday Evening in November next.
October 26.
WA Person, who would
teach Scholars,either in Reading,Writing, common
Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, the Rudiments
of the Latin and Greek languages, or Rhetoric, may
be employed in the care of any small School in the
vicinity—application being made to ihl Rioters.
October 27,1804.
ON Androfcoggin River, seven miles
from Brunfwic-Falls, which is at the bead of
the tide, a Saw-Mill, together with a Hule, Barn,
and Store, pleasantly Gtuated, about 15 rods from
said Mill—ajfo about thirteen acres of good Land
under improvement, well watered—the Buildings
have all been ereaed within five or fix years,—
those unacquainted with laid River are informed
that it is the m'ft confideratye Branch of the Ken
nebeck, and is supposed to have more timber on it
Mau that River, or any other in the Diftrift of
haine—Mill Logs of rhe largest size, and best,
kind of white pine Timber are brought down that
River by the rising of the water in the Spring and
Fall, from ten to upwards of a hundred miles.—
Said mill has water to saw in the dried season.—
This situation is twenty-seven miles from Portland,
and about seven from Bowdoin College, and on one
of the mod confidcrable roads from the westward to
Hallowell and Augusta, and offers good encourage
ment to a trader.—Credit with fecuriiy will be giv
en for one halfthe purchase, or real Ellate will be re.
ceived io or near Boston for the whole, land abla
anee given should it exceed the value. For further
particulars enquire of Joseph Adams in Strarhani,
or Benjamin Adams, Court street, Boston.
October 27.
Whereas an Act of the Gen
eral Court, puffed on the goth of December, 1803,
requiring Thirty thousand Dollars to be affeffeu,
levied and paid into rhe Treasury on or before the
firft Wedbefdaty of December next, and directing
the Treasurer to issue extents for all Taxes which
fliall then remain unpaid—Notice is hereby given
that the Treasury Office will be continued at Exe
ter, until the 18th day of November next, and
opened at Concord on the fiift Wednesday follow
ing.
NAT. GILMAN, Treasurer.
Treasury-Office, Exeter, October 26, 1804.
Piscataqua Bridge Lottery,
Piscataqua Bridge Tavern.
To the Collectors of State Taxes.
A Saw Mill.
70 BE SOLD,
SECOND cuss
Tuesday, November 6, 1304.
He Bees at the village of Rowley near Hales Owen,
about seven miles from Birmingham in Strarford
shire, and two miles from an estate of the late Mr.
William Shenstone, called the Leasowes.
I After he was taken from school he had no means
It gratifying hi insatiable thirst after reading and
14 &%u4Uh but by procuring the magazines iri*h
such littie perquisite c< W could trick up, until a
bout five years ago, when an accident brought him
acquainted with Mr. Shenstone.
That gentleman, who by improving with a true
taste of her beauties has rendered the Leasowes the
admiration of ail who have seen the place, used
to su her uis delightful walks to be open to every body
until the mischief that was done by the thoughtless
or the malicious, obliged him to exclude all but such
as should have his special, permission on a proper
application to that purpose. Woodhouse, who, more
a looser by this prohibition than almost any other per
son whom this excluded, applied to Mr. Shenstone for
leave to indulge his imagination among the scenes
which had so often delighted him before,by a^opy of
verses; This immediately pn ~ >ed him the liberty be
solicited, & introduced him to iLr. She: st< ne himself.
The poem appeared to be so extraordinary r,r a
person in so obscure a station,"who had peen taken
from a school at seven years old and had since read
uothingput magazines,that he offered him the use of
not only his garden but his library.
Woodhouse, however, did not suffer his love of
poetry, or his desire of knowledge to intrude upon
the duties ofhis station ; as his work employed on
ly his hand, and left his mind at liberty, he used
to place ppi and ink at his side while the last was
in his lap, and when he had made a couplet he wrote
it down oa his knee ; his seasons for reading he bor
rowed, not from those which others of his rank usu
ally devote to tippling, or skittles,but from the hours
which otherwise would have been lost in sleep.
The versification of this extraordinary writer is
remarkably harmonious, his language is pure, his
images poetical, and his sentiments uncommonly
tender and elegant
His poem to Mr. Shenstone was written when he
was atout twenty-three ; and though in the charac
ter of a suitor, and with a proper sense of the infe
riority of his station yet there is a consciousness of
that equality of nature, which petitioners and dedi
cators too often prostitute or forget.
After an address to Mr. Shenstone in which he
encourages himself by considering the general kind
n:^ of his character he says :
I Shall he, benevolent as wise, disdain
I The muse's suitor, though a scandal'd swain I
Tho' no auspicious rent-rolls grace my line,
' I boast the same original divine ;
I Tho' niggard fate withheld her sordid ore,
I Yet literal Nature gave her better store ;
Whose influence early did my mind inspire
To read her works, and praise her mighty Sire.
A copy of this poem, and of another address to
the same gentleman, were sent by Mr. Shenstone^
direction, and with some manuscript poems of his
own, to a friend in London ; this friend shewed them
to some of his acquaintance, and a small collection
was made for the author, which produced an ode on
benevolence : by this ode he appears to have profit
ed by Mr. Shenstone's library ; fur he talks of Pal
ladium skill, Sappho's art, Phidias' chissel and the
pencil of Titian. But his force of thought, and skill
in poetical expression, appear to greater advantage
in a poem of fifty stanzas, each consisting of four
verses, entitled Spring. This contains a striking
picture of the infelicities of his situation, and the
keenness and delicacy of his sensations.
After regretting the vacant cheerfulness of his
earlier days before domestic connections condemned
him to incessant labor, and absorbed him in cate and
solicitude, he exhibits this picture of the pain and
pleasure that are mingled in his conjugal and pater
nal character.
This extraordinary person is about twenty-eight
years of age, and has a wife and several small chil
dren whom lie endeavors to maintain by great ap
plication to business, and by teaching ; children to
read and write, which is all the learning he ever
received himself, being taken from school at seven
vol's old.
But now domestic scares employ
And busy every sense,
Nor leave one hour of grief or joy.
Bat's furnish'd out from thence,
Save what my little babes afford,
Whom I behold with glee,
When srailing at my humble boards
Or prattling on my knee.
Not that my Daphne's charms are flow,,
These still new pleasures bring ;
Tis these inspire content alone ;
Tis all I've left of Spring.
There is something extremely pathetic in the last
verse ; and the first of the next stanza, whe^e he
mentions his wife endeared to hire by her sensibili
ty and distress, is still more striking.
The dew-drop sparkling ' in her eye,
The lily on her breast ;
The rose-buds on her lips supply
My rich, my sweet repast.
He that can feel the following will need no assis
tance to discover their beauty, and to him who can
not, no assistance will be effectual.
1 wish not, dear connubial state,
To break thy silken bands :
I only blame relentless fate.'
That every hour demands.
Nor mourn I much my task austere.
Which endless wants impose ;
Bat, 0 ! it wounds my soul to hear,
My Daphne's melting woes !
For oft she sighs, and oft she weeps,
And? hangs her pensive head ;
While blood her furrow'd fingers steep.
And stains>the passing thread.
When orient hills the sun beholds,
, Our labors are begun ;
And when he streaks the west with gold,
The task i§ still uudoae.
ACCOUNT OF JAMES WOODHOUSE,
The Poetical Shoemaker.
BIGGRAPHICAL.
In a country where the liberty of the press pre
vails, its use must be a shield of defence, as it is an
instrument of attack. This is consonant witii jus
tice, and congenial > ith the principle of equal rights.
It is then legal to establish a defence by the press
against the attacks made through the medium of
the press. This sacred principle of self defence is
as inherent to political states, as it is to individuals ;
and when an offence is thus made against a sovereign
which cannot be brought into a court of justice, it is
not only the right, but also it is the duty of the re
presentative of that sovereign or nation, to repel the
attack with the same weapons wliich are made use
of for his injury.
Were the foreign ministers to be deprived of this
right enjoyed by every individual who breathes the
air of the United States, they would be reduced to
the sad condition of distinguished slaves in the very
centre of the land of liberty. For some time past
some of the Philadelphia Newspapers had publish
edparagraphs and circulated emmertte about the
existing differences between fire kite; of Spain and
the United States, multilating facts, altering circum
stances and drawing false conclusions highly contrary
to the character of justice and generosity, so often
and so magnanimously pro\ |1 by the king, my mas
ter ; I myself was pointed out as the author of some
letters from Cadiz and Madrid, although I never
knew of them but by the newspapers, hnd with the
same injustice, an abusive paragraph against the Pre
sident was , since attributed to me : thus the public
mind was poisoned with incorrect accounts and ob
noxious conclusions—under such circumstances, I
believed then, and I believe now, it was notonly my
right but also my duty to check the torrent ofimpres
sions as contrary to truth as to the interest of my
country. Being very well acquainted with the great
influence of public opinion in a popular government,
as is that of that of the United States, with a just
intention of bringing the subjects of discussion under
a forcible point of view, which had been carefully
concealed, and presenting them to the public ee
under new aspects, anti apprehending that the edi
tors who had previously espoused a party on the
question would refuse to insert in their papers my
intended publication, I thought that Mr. Jackson, a
mong others, would notperhaps have the reluctance
which I anticipated in the former. I requested him
to call on me, and having acceded to my request,
after a desultory conversation about the news ofyhe
day, es Mr. Pinckney having called for his passports
(my apprehensions of the rash step) and the detri
ment which would arise from a war between ^vo
nations invited by their reciprocal interests to th®
preservation of peace, I told him he could do more
good to his country by advocating peace,than b, the
warlike principles he was proclaiming in his paper.
I dwelt awhile upon this topic and finished by bring
ing forward the only subject of our meeting, and
telling him if so disposed, I could give tohimfor
publication explanations and elucidations which could
not fail to be favourable to the cause of peace, and
that for his trouble he would have the acknowledge
ment that would be proper ; those were my only
words upon this head in all the course of our con
versation ; in this offer I had in view but the just
compensation which is due to 'an editor of a news
paper, full of advertisements as Mr; Jackson's, for
the room that my intended essays woykl have occu
pied in his Gazette or a reward foriris labor if ha
was to take upon himself to couch my ideas in a,
more correct language than I cohld do myself. Sure-'
ly the honour of a man who is in the habit of retail
ing the space erf his paper by Zines, should not be
hurt at a je^t compensation which wasoffered, when
it was questioned of occupying some columns of it,fc
Mr. Jackson is less excuseable in the perversion of
my meaning (converting under outA a mere sur
mise of his into the affirmation of a fact) as I repeat
edly told him, Sirgkie is not a diplomatic intrigue
it is a /da» rity and if there was any thing dis
honourabirin i,, I^uld be the last man to propose
it, and you would be the last man to whom it whuld
be proposefey-me, Why Mr Jackson has omit
ted in his affidavit these expressions of mine so il
lustrative of my true meaning, is better known to
himself, but if he is a man of honor, lidefy him to
deny them ; and leave to your consideration, Sir, if
it had been my intention to persuade a person to ap
improper conduct I would have been so awkward
as to bring the sentiments of the most , §crtwlous
honour before his eyes : it is then e, ident that Mr.
Jackson has perverted the meaning ofthe cun pep
sation offered and this is'the mTe ridiculous' rar the
ody thing which in rigor was &%Umpluwd by „
For this reason, and for the respect I owe to the
President of the United States, to this government,
and to myself, I have thought proper, in thus addres
sing you, to enter into the explanation of this tran
saction, innocent in itself,consonant with the laws of
the country, proper in my station, and which can
not be disfigured even by the artifice of insidious
malignity.
Had me said effience appeared isolated, wit^na
other weight but name of the editor,' and the
circumstances of his deposition I would have treated
his malicious attack wita the silence of contempt, as
all the facts therein related, even when true, would
not prove I had violated the laws of this country,nor
the duties ofmy station ; but a letter from the Pres
idejit of the United States to Jackson, having been
circulated along with his evidence,this circumstance
alone (although the President does not express his
opinion upon the subject) stamps this affair with a
degree of importance it would have been otherwise
divested of.
The following letter communicated to the Secret^
''d °J State, is published at the request cf
Marquis de Casa Yrujo.
Sir,'''
HAVING been absent from Philadelphia for these
18 days past, and travelled far into a part of Virgin
ia, where I had no opportunity to see the late news
pipers from the northward, it is but toMay, on my
return to Washington, I have been apprised 014
publication highly injurious to my character, which
under the garo of sworn evidence, has been made
by a cerum W. Jackson of Philadelphia, in the pa
per of widen lie is the Editor, called the Political
From the National Intelligent*.
Political Miscellany.
MARQUIS YR UJO.
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