Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-05-11 00:00:00, page 4

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AGAINST REPINING AC FORTUNE.
THO, in my narrow bounds of rural toil,
No obelisk or fplendtd column rile ;
Tho' partial fortune dill averts her smile,
Aud views my labors with condemning eyes ;
Yet ail the gorgeous vanity of Rate
1 can contemplate with a cool difdaiu ;
Nor shall the honors ot the gay and great ,
E'er wound my bosom with an envious pain.
Avails it aught the grandeur of their halls,
With all the glories of the pencil hung,
If Truth, fair Truth ! within th' unhall o w'd walls
Hath never whisper'd with her seraph tongue ?
Avails it aught, if mafic's gentle lay
Hath oft been ecbo'd by the founding dome ;
If music cannot fouthe the griefs away,
Or change a wretched to a happy home?
Tho' Fortune (hould invert them with h er spoils.
And banish poverty with look severe, %
Enlarge their confines, and decreofe their toils,
Ah ! what avails if the increase their care?
Tho' fickle die disclaim my moss grown cot,
Nature ! thou look'd with more impartial eyes,
Smile thou, fair goddess ! on my sober lot ;
i'jl neither fear her fall, nor court her rife.
Can he, « ho with the tide of Fortune fails,
More pleasure from the sweets of Nature share ?
Do zephyrs waft him more ambrosial gales,
Or do his grovesa gayer liv'ry we^r ?
To me the heav'ns unveil as pure a fl:y ;
To me the fluw'rs as rich a bloom disclose;
The morning beams as radiant to toy eye,
As darkness guides me to as sweet repose.
If Luxury their lavish dainties piles,
And bill attends upon their fata hours,
Doth Health reward them with her open smiles,
Or Exercise enlarge their feeble puw'rs?
Tis "hot in ricbeft mines of Indian gold,
Thar man this jewel happiness can find,
If his unfeeling bread, to virtue cold,
Denies her entrance to his ruchlesmind,
Wealth, pomp/and honor are but gaudy toys ;
Alas, how poor the pleasure they impart !
Virtue's the sacred source of all the joys
That claim a lading mansion in the heart
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ABSOLUTION.
IT blew a hard dorm, and in utmost confufion,
Tife sailors all hurried to get absolution ;
_ Which done, and the weight of the fins they'd
center'd
Was transferred, as they tho't, from tbemfelves to
the pried ;
To lighten the ship, and conclude their devotion,
They tofs'd the poor parson souse into the ocean.
His temperance and (everity of manners were
his chief prune. Ip his early years he never tutt
ed wine ; nor would he drink out of a painted
cup. He ccrodantly dept hi his armour, with his
spear in his hand ; nor would he the a tettje axe
wiiofe handle was inlaid with brass. He did not,
however, persevere in his contempt of luxury ,
nor did he ciofe his days with honor.
One evening, after hunting the gules, or wild
dog, being bewildered in 3 fofitary torell, and
having passed the fatigues of the day without any
interval of refrelhment, he difeovered a large
flare ot honey in the haliow of a pine. This was
adainty which he had never tafled before, and
being at once faint and hungry, he fed greedily
upon it. from this nuufual and delicious rep-dll,
he received so nruch (dtisfa&icn, that at uis re
turn home, he commanded honey to be served up
at his table every day. His palate by degrees,
became refined and viciated ; he began to i<>(e Ins
native relish for fiinple (are, and, contracted a
habit of indulging hhntelf in delicacies ; he order
.ed the delightful gardens of his cattle to be thrown
open, in which the mod luscious fruits had been
fullered to ripen and decay, nnohf rved and uro
touched for many revolving aurtimns, and gratifi
ed his appetite with its luxuries. At length he
found it expedient to introduce wine,as an agree
able improvement, or a neceffiry ingredient to
his new way ofliving ; and having oncetatted it,
he was tempted, by little and little, to give a loose
to the excesses of intoxication. His general Im
plicit/ of life was changed; he perfumed his a
parrmems by burning the wood>of the most aro
watic fir, and commanded his helmet to be orna
mented with beautibil rows nt the teeth of the
rein-deer. Lidoh nee and effeminacy dole upon
' him by pleating and imperceptible gradations,
relaxed the linews of his refutation, and extin
gwilhed his ibirft for military glory.
EFFECTS of LUXURY.
HACHO, a king of Lapland, was in his youth
the molt renowned of northern warriors. His
martial atchievments remain engraven on a pillar
of Hint in the rocks ot Hauga, and are to this nay
loleinnly carolled on the harp by the Laplanders,
at the fires with which they celebrate their night
ly fetlivuies. His eye wasfo piercing, that as an.
cient chronicles report, he could blunt the wea
pons of his enemies only by looking at them. At
twelve years ot age he carried an Iron veiled, ot a
prodigious weight, fol the length ot five furlongs,
in the piclence of all the chiefs of his father s csl
tle.'
Nor was he lets celebrated for his prudence
and wifJoin. Two ot his proverbs are yet re
membered and repeated among the Laplanders.
To express the vigilance of the supreme being,
he was wont to fay, "Odra's belt is ulwaysbuck
led." To thew that the molt profperm, condi
tion of life is often hazardous, his xenon was,
'' When yoo Hide on the Imoothelt ice, beware ot
pits beneath." He condoled his countrymen when
trey were once preparing to leave the frozen def
artsofLipland, and resolved to seek some warm
er climate, bv telling them that the eallerp na
tioas, notwitnlianding their boalted fertility, pas
sed every night amidit the horrors of anxious ap
prehenfian, and were inexpreflioly frighted and
aim-lit (tunned; every morning, with the node ot
the fun while he was riling.
A SIMPLE rurtic boy trudging along with a
loaf of bread under each arm, met the Iquire of the
pari th, who, being offended at the want of an
obeisance, sternly said,“ Sirrah !J think yon
might move your hat.''—" So I will," replied the
boy,''lt you will hold one of my loaves the
while."
A thief being bro't to Tyburn to be executed,
the Ordinary of Newgate, in taking his lad con
feffion, alked him if he was not lorry for having
committed the robbery for which he was going to
buffer ? The criminal answered, yes, but that it
grieved him more that he hackuol stolen enough
to bribe the evidence.
TAKE -NOTICE
The co-partnerfllip of
NUTTING & WHITELOCK,
Is this day Dissolved by mutual
consent.
All persons indebted to said firm are requeu
ed to snake immediate payment to
SAMUEL NUTTING.
Ledger-Office, April co, 1802.
Jonathan Goddard,
Has received by the Inf arrivals from London
and Liverpool,
An extenfire alfortment of
- HARD FLARE
GOODS,
which aic for late, by wmdufale and retail,
lor cash or approved credit.
He has aljo for sale,
Madeira, Red Port, Sherry,
Lisbon and Malaga Wines.
Rum, Brandy and Gin.
Hyfon, fouchong & bohea Teas.
Double & tingle refin'd loaf Sugar.
Brown Sugar.
Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Alfpice
and Pepper,
Painter's Oil, Colors and Brnlhes.
Window Glass.
Nails of all kinds.
English and German Steel.
Clover Seed.
A complete assortment of Trunks,
&c. &c. &c.
Portfno ah, PLiv 4 1802.
GEORGE DA^£
Continues his practice in
Miniature Painting,
^7fo PORTRAIT P/INPING.
H_ wishes further encouragement from
uis friends, and will so far gratify them,
that 'b mid he fail in alikeness to
their fatisfaafon, his labour he
' will citeem nothing.
Specimens of bis ability may be J ecn on appli
cation.
N. B. He has for file, Bass
Viols ; Violins ; German Flutes ; Ciario
netts ; Hautboys ; Fites ; large and final!
Drums ; Bass Viol and Violin Strings and
Bows ; Bridges and Pegs ; Reeve's water
colours, per Box and Shell ; Camels Hair
and Black Lead Pencils ; Drawing Paper ;
India Rubber ; Boxes Marking Instru
ments for Linen, &c.
Portsmouth, May 4.
Charles Hardy,
TAYLOR,
Has just received and for Jale, an afortment of
SPRING &f SUMMER
GOOD S.
Atjo, a. variety of
Fashionable Buttons
and other Trimmings.
Crofsfreet, May 1.
While Hacho was thus immersed in pinafore and
in repofc, it was reported to him, one morn ng,
that the preceding night, a dhahrous omen had
been tfifeovered, and that bats and hideous birds
had drunk up the oil which huurdhcd. the per
petual lamp in the temple iff Odin. About the
Cme time, a meflenger arrived to tell him that
the k : ,g of Norway had invaded bis kingdom,
with a formidable army. Bacho, terrified as he
was with the omen of the night, and enervated
with indulgence, roused himfelt from Ids voluptu
ous lethargy, and recollecting some taint and L,
sparks of veteran valor, marched forward to meet
him. Both armies joined battle in the for.il
where Hacho had been 101 l after hunting ; and it
so happened that the king of Norway challenged
him to higgle combat, near the place where he
had tailed the honey. The l^pl-nd chief, lan
guid and long disused to arms was soon overpow
ered ! he fell to the ground ; and before his in
fulling adversary flruck bis head from bis body,
uttered this exclamation, which the Laplanders
Hill use as an early Itlfon to their children : "The
vicious man (hould date his deftrottion from the
firft temptation. Howjullly do I fall a facrifice
to sloth and luxury in the place Where 1 iirll
yielded to those allurements which reduced me to
deviate from temperance and innocence ! The
honey which I tailed in this foreff, and not the
hand of the king of Norway, conquers Hacho."
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Temple of £9mus-
Any gentleman, who wishes to purchase
a plcafant filiation, has now an opportuni
ty. For further particulars enquire of
the Preceptor of Gilmanton Academy, or
JOSEPH RICHARDSON, on the pre
mises.
^ Gilmanton, April 24, "1802.
Wanted, immediately,
CT An adive Lad as an apprentice to the
Blacksmith's bufmefs, enquire of the prin
ter. May 4.
FOR SALE BY
PETER WILSON,
30 M. Refufe BOARDS.
Apply at No. 6, Long Wharf.
FOR SALE,
A handsome MARE, about four
years old, with a good saddle, brmle and
baiter. Inquire of the Printer.
May 4.
Wanted Immediately,
• Two Lads from 13 to 15
years of age, as apprentices to the
Printing Business.
Enquire at this Office.
M FARM FOR SALE.
A Farm in Gilmanton, with
in one mile from the congregational meet
ing house, and two from the Academy, very,
pltafantly fitnated, containing eighty acres!
of excellent Land, confiding of mowing,,
ploughing, p.;ftoring, orcharding, &c. and
well watered. - '
Said Farm is under good improvement, a
comfortable dwelling House, and a good
Barn, 70 feet by 30.
A/fo, for sale.
Another frazil Farm adjoin
ing, containing upwards of thirty acres of
good Land, consisting ofjnowing, plowing,
&c. as above, with decent buildings, like
wise a wood lot, comprising about 30 acres,
thickly timbered, confuting of different kinds
of growth, but chiefly hard wood.
Said Farms are favorably situated to be
come united, and are well calculated to
make one noble Farm.
LANDS FOR SALE,
JFithoat reJerve.
In the county of Grafton and
towns of Littleton 500 acres, Lebanon 200
acres, the right of M. H. Wentworth, be
longing to John Wentworth. Unity 500
acres ; Gilfurn 500 acres, Unity and Gillum
in the county of Chelhirc,to be fold sepa
rately or jointly, for one dollar per acre, the
lowed price.
A tract of land in the coun
ty of Grafton, belonging to John Wen.t
worth, called Capt. Bellows' grant, adjoin
ing to Chatham, containing 5370 acres.
Piermont, part of a right or
lot, the right of John Wentworth, contain
ing 160 acres.
A right or lot in Middleton.
Barrington ico acres. Effingham two lots
100 acres each, all in the county of Straf
ford.
Dummer, 100 acres in the
county of Grafton---the rights or lots <'
Mark flunking Wentworth, belonging to
John Wentworth.
For terms apply to Mr. JOHN WENT
WORTH, at his Office in Pieafant-Rreet.
Portsmouth, April 26, 1802.
William R. Hardy,
TAYLOR.
Has just received aT his Jbop in High-free!,
An assortment of
SPRING & SUMMER
GOOD S.
dijo, a variety of
Fashionable Buttons and o
ther Trimmings.
'NEW SPRING GOODS.
oliverbriard,
HAS JUST RECEDED
And is now opening for Jale, a large and
freJh apartment of
GOOD S,
fnitabie for the Icalon,
Which he offers for sale, at the very lowest
calh prices, at his llore in Market-street.
Portsmouth, April 26.
7*o BE SOIL) AT
PUBLIC VENDUE. 1
On T^rfaay the 27th day fra irt p. at Eleven
OC % in b, so
Juoge A tie p^ate -a ill
the (.oarer" NchQfo"
All that valuable real estate situate
in Port fomuth, lately belonging to Mr..
Thomas Hart, deceased,
rf^^ A lar f anfion
I,1B llfIIf Hotife at .mod ions lot
Illifl ^ hand # .xthe eattcrly fide
AiVMvinzTa >f Iwre-lbeet, bcingan ex-
Cellini place iur trading, with a good water
privilege, also, .one other lot or garden foot
on the westerly fide of laid Fore-lhecr, di
redly opposite laid dwelling house, and i 3
fifty seven feet fronting on said Street, and
two hundred and twenty feet deep.
N. B. There is a part ot the wharf that
will be fold fcpai^ely, either at public or
private sale, as may best hut the ptuchafer
of the mansion house and lot.
The sale will be on the premises, and the
conditions of sale and terms of payment will
I then and there be made knovyn---for further
particulars enquire of
George Gains,
Executor.
Portsmouth, April 27, 1802.
FOR SALE
At Public Au&ioh,
On lEednefdav Ate 27th da, of Ma, inf. a!
12 Cibek A. M. on the Premises,
✓S^A A House in Gate^
Creel, lately occupied by
Mrs. SALOME FOSS.
Said Honfe is very conve
nient, has five rooms on the floor, with a
thop, a good well of water, and a good gar
den : Conditions will be made known at
the time ot sale. Ma, d..
TO LET.
The Store at present occupi
ed by the fubferiber, at the upper end of
Buck-Rreet, will be let-in June next, any
person wishing to hire the fame, may know
the terms by applying to
E. WENTWORTH,
April 26, 18^2.
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Take Notices
All persons indebted to or
that have any demands against the estate of
JONATHAN AYERS,
of Portsmouth, deceared, are requested tor
exhibit their accounts to THOMAS MAN
NING, of lUrfinouth for feitlement, by
order of JOSEPH AYERS, Adminis
trator to said cllate.
Portsmouth, diarch. 30, iso2.
ONE cent REWARD..
^ < Ranaway from the
^§W '"bferber, on Sunday lalf, an in
dented apprentice, named JESSE
°'°'' '°^°" *4 years, about 4
™feet 9 inches highlight complex
ion, short light hair ; had on when he went
array a short bluejacket and brown trowfers.
All perlons are forbid harboring or trotting
said boy, as they world avoid the penalty of
the law. JOHN WALDEN,jr.
PortJmouth, Pla, 4, 1802.
Three or four gentlemen Board
ers may be handfomcly accommodated, in a
genteel family, in the centre of the town,
EnfiuiAf the p: inters.
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