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The Orac LE.l
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FOREIGN.
Accounts have been received from Europe, to the
27th day ot October. They contain the usual mi
nuteness ot preparatory details. France is unre
mittUgly active, in her exertions; and Great Bri-I
tain has neglected nothing, on her part, that has a;
tendency to repel the meditated plains of attack.l
His Ruffian Majesty still holds to determined neutral-I
ity. Prussia copies the example of Alexander. Spain
talks of remaining quiet ; But appearances are, that
flie will be forced into the war againit Greatßritain.
Portugal is completely at the difpoial of Bonaparte.
The Swedish Monarch, meditates a conference with
the Firit Consul ; and we suppose, that he WB only
have the choice of implicit obedience to hisffvereign
Mandates,or the certainty ot inev itablaannihilatiun,
will as inflantly ensue.
It is whispered, that the armies of France have
given judgment against the Gun beats, as inefficient
for theintended design of transportation ; and some
mock politicians,vho catch at the shadow of, fyade,
to r^el the idea ^f ingnon, have feid, th*the
Consul will yield to the ^hmondrances of his troops.
This is in thq liigfiM degree improbable. He will ;
fee must moke, he attempt. It is impollible for him,
to abandon the project, if he were certain that all
would fink in mid Channel. France may
the waste of 300,000 men: but Buonaparte
, 'could never repair the rums of his reputation, it he
Should give up the long meditated expedition. Even
the Ghofis of Jaffa, would point the finger of scorn,
at their cowardly aflaffin.
Particular and Distressing Account of a
') recent Calamity at Madeira.
(From Lung and Cos New York Daily Gazette.)
This extraordinary event, which we briery
noticed in our paper of yesterday, Happened on
Sunday the 9th of October, at 8 o'clock in the
evening. The d^y had been previously very
cloudy and a continual rain had fallen, accom
panied with squalls, which were not violent, until
the fun had funk beneath the horizon, when the
sea appeared to be unusually agitated, and such
a darkness prevailed, that an objed was not dif
cernable at a yard's distance—during this pro
gress, every person remained within their houses,
in seeming security, and wholly unconfeious of
t^t approaching horror which was destined so
shortly to sweep them off the earth !
The clock of the cathedral was striking eight,
when an instantaneous storm of terrible lighten
ing and thunder began, and the rain fell in such
torrents, that all the cross Greets of the eastern
part of the city of Funchall, were suddenly filled
with mud and water above the firft floors of the
houses, which was occasioned by its being im
peded, in some measure, from its furious descent
from the ravines of the mountains into the sea.
At this ihocking period the stoutest hearts felt
appalled ; nothing was to be heard but the din
of ruin working in every direction : hundreds of
hugl stones, that had been torn from their quar
ries on the kills three miles above the town, were
tumbling over each other in stupendous concuf
,lion, carrying with them, in conjunction with the
: deulge, churches,convents, Greets, trees, bridges,
I&4jfyn@U&T^ hundred human beings
nto the bottom:of the deep !—,Whenever a Hath
of lightning penetrated the gloom, were seen
mothers wading through the streets, up to their
chins in water, holding their infants on their heads
with one hand, and endeavouring to catch secu
rity with the other : while those who attempted
to assist them were frequently maimed or killed,
by the beams of timber or wine pipes which float
ed around them ; and the sea, presented a feene
not less awful, though leg ruinous ; moG of the
vessels loft their cables, anchors and boats, and
many of the seamen were walked overboard.
The (hips rolled, in some part or other, several
feet beneath the water continually, and all the
sailors who were there on that dismal night,
whether Americans, English, or Portuguese, gave
themselves up as 101 l men.
Thus, in so short a space of time as a few
minutes, were many hundred individuals carried
to their eternal home, in the very plentitude of
an apparent security ; and several tl^ufand re
duced from affluence to poverty ; and many of
them, it is probable, in the indulgence of those
imperfedions, which conffiitute our criminality or
our folly, and sent to their account, "unblanched,
unannointed, enapnuled." Ten thousand pipes
of wine and brandy were destroyed, and the sea
shore was drifted on the enduing morning with
millions of fragments, among which the mourn
ing forvivors of the calamity were eagerly seek
, ing for the dead remains of their relations or
friends. Several days after, the air of Funchall
became so putrefeent, from the rotting of the
bodies that were buried beneath the congregated
mud and filth, that a pestilence was apprehended ;
but in consequence of burning tar and pitch and
other neutralizing ceabultibles, that scourge was
providentially avoided.
<, It was remarkable that this deluge, in its
^urfe, swept away twenty-nine vineyards that
were situated on the fouth weft fide of the city ;
and so decisive was the ruin, that it tore up all
the trees by the roots, and bore away not only
diem, but all the cottages, with their inhabitants,
' the ground, cattle and Appurtenances, and left
the rocky basis, as bare of vegetation as the cliffs
' of Norway.—All this assemblage of objects, were
? whirled into the Ribeira Brava, or mad river,
' and ingulphed nearly the whole of the small town
l which bears that name.
? In this wreck of matter there was but one hu-
Iman creature saved, and that was an infant in a
^wooden cradle, which was lodged among some
D^'' °" " e " °'* e declivity, and when dis-
Covered on the ensuing day, was in a profound
ffleep :—This unconfeious infant was saved from
lits ignorance of fear, as it is in the nature of fear,
Jto counteract its own desires.
All the vessels that arrived at Funchall, for
fhfeveral Weeks after this miserable occurrence,
Agave an account of the dead bodies, calks, and
dboxes which they had seen floating many leagues
feoff qt sea ; and it is, believed that some of the
4 crews were considerably enriched by the contents
sos many of the trunks.
The small town of Machico, was likewise ru
ined by this singular tempest, and many lives
were loft there also; whichleads to a supposition,
that the lamented event was occasioned by a wa
ter-fpout, that had burst against the fide of the
mountain, and difeharging itfelf adbwn the gul
lies, produced those afflictive and fuddeu disasters,
that all the feeling persons must deplore :
and which, whenever recollected mould operate
Ito1 to remind us of our frailty and our refponfibili
: ty, & make us live well that we may die happily.
/This is admitted to have been the greatest civic e
vil,that has happened since the earthquake of Lif
r bon in 1754, and was the most tragical, of its
nature that ever happened.—Had the younger
Pliny been on the spot, it would have been ade
quately detailed.
IThe property destroyed has been estimated at
upwards of a million pounds Gerling.
Boston, Dec 17.
BANKRUPT LAW.
There are accounts in town, that the Senate of
the United States has concurred with rhe House
in the bill to repeal the Bankrupt Law. By the bill
we learn, all proceedings under the Bankrupt* Law
are null and void after the repealing Aa has receiv
ed the President's signature.
The following were the only members of the
House rs Reprtf ntativ,s who voted against the re-1
pal of tile Bankrupt Laws :—Meffrs. J. Campbell
J. Clay, Early, Euftice, D. Heister, Huger, Jackion,
Lowndes, M'Creery, Moore, Nicholson, Skinner,
J. Smith.
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Marine List.
Arrivals and departures face Dec. g.
3, Arrived schooner Rambler, White, Turks Island,
6, do. brig Hope, Riley, St. Thomas
do. ship Jefferfon, Venard, St. Kitts,
7, do. brig Triton. Beck, Martinice,
8, do. schooner, Sucoefs, Young, Demarara,
12, do. schooner Dove, Trefethcn, New-York,
14, failed brig Equator, Shaw, Demarara,
do. schooner Resolution, M'Lane, Dominieo.
Dec. 6, Arrived ship Jefferfon, Venard, 24 days from
St Kitts. The Jefferfon failed from Demarara the 29th
August, with a valuable cargo for this port, but was cap
tured by the Britilh privateer Hawk, captain Clark, and
carried into St Kitts on fufpicioß of having Dutch property
on board.—On trial at Antigua, the 4th November, the
Captor who was not commissioned, tho't best not to make
his appearance—and the ship was cleared together with 2
other American vessels in half an hour, and damages allow
ed—Capt. Clark insolently threatened to pursue and carry
the Jefferfon into Jamaica, if Capt. Vennard attempted to
put to sea—but he left Sandy-Point in the night, and thus
escaped the pirate.,
At Ncwyork, Dec. 9, schooner Polly, Ayers, of this
port from Demarara.
At Amsterdam, O<ft. 16, Rebecca, Batman, for Ports
mouth. No date, lat 21, lon 70, was spoke, b. r ig Betsy, of
New-Hamplhire, from Grenada—Dec. I, on soundings,
schooner Hero, from Demarara for Boston—Dec 2, lat 30,
lon 59, 30, ship Tom, Turner, of Portsmouth, 49 days from
Amsterdam for Norfolk.'
Odober 6, off Fair Isle, was spoke Capt. Hart, from St.
Petersburg, for Portsmouth, who had been taken by a
Dutch privateer.
Nov. 17, lat. 38, 28, was picked up the crew of the
brig Cygnet, consisting of 9 in number, from New-Lon
don, bound to Barbadoes, which foundered on the ixth, in
the above latitude.
filf^^fWtoWmAM,toM
Died yesterday morning, in this town, miss Deborah
L. Laiohtom in her fifteenth year, daugte^fafy-^in
Luke M. Laighton.
She bore with uncommon patience a long and distressing
illness, and exhibited a hope, faith and resignation, which
afford her surviving friends great consolation.
Miss Laighton having been a pupil in mr. Aldan's Acad
emy, the young ladies who have belonged to that institu
tion, are hereby invited to repair to the house of mourning
directly after public woefhip on the Sabbath, in order to
pay the lift tribute of affc&ieß and refpe& to the remains
of their departed friend and companion.
At New Castle, on Sunday last, Mrs. Hannah White,
aged 67 years, wife of mr. Jolhua White#
^»^^ torn ^mtmmt^rn ^
, Just received per the ship Baltic from Liverpool,
1 and for Sale at
Thomas Sheafed storey
A fore street,
Quantity of coarle Liverpool Salt ;
1 Crates Liverpool Ware, well aborted ;
Window Glass 7 by 9 and 8 by 10, in
half and whole boxes;
Calks rod. & 2od Nails ; Patent Shot ;
Bbls. Whiting; Red Lead ;
do. Yellow Ocre ; Spanish Brown ;
; White Lead, ground in Oil in ; and f
Cwt. Kegs;
Sheet Lead; Copperas;
Iron Pots of all sizes— also —
14 bbls. Bone Middlings Pork.
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Fresh Flour.
Now landing from schooner Dove, from
New-York, and for Sale at above.
; 120 bbls, fuperfine Flour.
30 half bbls. do. do. from new
Wheat. December 13.
I Fresh Oranges.
JUST received by Nathaniel White,
and for sale by hundred or otherways—a Quan
.tity of Fresh Oranges. December 17.
Paper Hangings.
CHARLES PEIRCE has a constant
fapply of Paper Hangings for sale on the fame
terms as at the Manufadory in Boston—also, Bor
derings suited to the fame.
He has also
A good assortment es other Papers,
such as Letter Paper of all qualities, from 12 to
50 cents per quire. Writing Paper from 20 cents
to 2 dollars per quire.
Log Book, blotting, wrapping and
press Papers, various qualities and prices.
A good assortment of Account Books,
also, Writing & Cyphering Books ready.
Brick-Book-Sttre, DaQfrffl, December 9,
NEW GOODS.
James Rundlet,
Respectfully informs his cus
tomers and the Public, that he has just received per
the Venus &, Maria from Liverpool, and the Tiger from
London, an additional supply of
Seasonable Goods,
which completes his Winter Assortment—they arc now
opened and are ready For Sale at a small advance by
wholesale and retail—the assortment consists of
BEST Superfine London Broad Cloths;
Middling and low priced ditto a large supply ; best
Superfine and common Caffimeres; Superfine and common
Coatings and Ratteens ; Duffilh ; Forest Cloths ; Serges:
Baizes ; Flannels ; Swanfkins; Dometts ; Lambskins ;
Rose Blankets; Kidderminfter and Scotch Carpets and
Carpeting.,
A large assortment of
Fashionable Swanfdown ; Toilinet and silk
Velvet Waifyoating; Velvets and Hunters Cords; mens
plain and Griped black Sattins ; black silk Serge incompa
rable.
An extenfiie assortment of
Calicoes and Chintfes ; Ginghams ; Sarfenet;
Cambricks plain and embofs'd, fafhionable color'd, and
Black; Boogjackonet, Tambor'd and Cambrick Muslins;
Black Muflirs and Cambricks; Muslin Shawls and Hand
kerchiefs. A greet variety of
\ Patch Furnitures with fringes and tass
els to match : red and white, blue and white and purple
and white Copperplates; Dimity Furnitures; Muflinety
and Dimitier; Camels hair Shawls colored and white;
Silk Shawls; purple and white and patch color ditoo;
spotted and checked Pocket Handkerchiefs ; Cambric, linen,
pullicat, lungee, fiagg, bandanna and black silk Handker
chiefs. A banefome assortment of
Plain, changeable, itriped and checked
Italian Silks; black and colored India Luftrings; Sattins;
Modes ; Italian Crapes / Cypress; Gunzes; Thread, Lac
es and Edgings; black patent Laces; Lace Veils, Lace
Shawls, Lace Vandykes and Lace Cloaks; Ribbons,
Tastes and Gafoom Bindings.<
A large ejectment of
Diaper and lUnialk Table Cloths,
ftom 75 cents to 10 dollars each , 3 4 5 67 0,3
4? V T'V4"
wide Diapers ; India Napkins , Kiih Linens ; India Cot
tons ; India Caliicocs ; Oil Cloth Patterns , • Muffs and
Tippets.
American and London made Beaver
Hats of the newefrfafhion; mens and youths common fur
and camels hair Hats; womens Beaver Hats and draw
Bonnets; fafhionable wreaths and Flowers; flraw Trim
mings; Ruffels; CaJamancos; Durants; Tammies; Shal
loons; Camblcts; Wildbores; Florentines : Umbrellas,
Pirafols.
1 Men's worsted, cotton and silk Hose,
women's & misses colored & white cotton do. b lack Worsted
do, women's silk, cotton and worsted Gloves; men's white
and black gauze worsted Hose; men's silk, cotton, beaver,
and beaver lined with flannel Gloves—cotton and silk Brac
es, Hat Cases.
1000 Groce fafhionable coat and vest,
Buttons, Shirt Wires—Ten-knives, Sciffars, Knives and
Forks, Jack-knives, Tooth Brushes per groce, Tapes,
Ib. and bundle Pins, Needles per M. Threads, Sewing
Silks, Twists, Morocco Pocket Books and Purfes—Ladies'
Pocket Books and Thread Cases, Bobbins, Silk Cord, Ivory
Combs, Lead Pencils, Button Moulds, Nankeens, dec. &c.
Portsmouth, Congress-street, near the State-House,
December 13, 1803.
JOHN MAN,
has for Sale at the corner of Market, and
Bow-streets, Spring-Hill,
RUM, GIN, and BRANDY, pr.
bbl. or gallon, Hyfou, Souchong, and Bohea
TEAS ; Loaf and Brown SUGARS;
No. 1, and 2 Chocolate ; Coffee ; Span
ish INDIGO of an excellent quality pr.
dozen or less quantity ; GINGER pr.
keg, dozen, or lb. Gun Powder do; Nut
megs ; Cloves; Pepper; Allspice ; Salt-
Petre ; Copperas ; Allum ; Red Wood;
Fuftic; Soap; Starch; Spanish Segars, 4
with most articles in the
GROCERY LINE.
Also American and Englilh Shovels;
Frying Pans ; Flat Irons ; Cotton and
Wool Cards; Blocktin Tea Pots; Pew
ter Bafons; Spoons ; Knives and Forks ;
Jack-Knives ; Pen & pocket do. Razors ;
Scissors ; Japan Cannisters ; do. Waiters;
Pins; Knitting & sewing Needles &c.
A complete assortment of
Iron Hollow Ware, viz.
Small and large KETTLES ; Pots;
Dutch-Ovens ; Bafons; High-pans ; spi
ders ; Skillets ; Large & small Cart boxes,
Waggon do. & Chaise do. a large supply
of Dogs & AN DIRONSof all sizes; lod
&2od Hammered NAILS ; 4,6, 8,10,
& 20 cut NAILS ; English Blistered,
German, Halback & Trieste STEEL,
some of which is suitable for Shoeing
sleighs ; Livepool SALT per hhd. or
bushel—all of which he will fell low for
Cash.
December 17.
INDIGO.
For Sale by Wm. & C. NEIL,
2501b5. Spanish float Indigo,
of the firft quality. Dec. 17, 1803.
Rose Blankets,
from 6 to 11 quarters, of a superior quality, may
be had remarkably Cheap at the Acre of/
William Garland,
near the State House. Dec. 17.
WE are authorized by the Editor of
the PORT FOLIO to receive payments for
that Paper. W. & D. TREADWELL.
Those who are in arrears for the Or
acle thirty months, are informed it is absolutely
necessary their accounts should be immediately
fettled.
AUCTIONS.
Sale at Auction,
AT THE
Office of Alexander Ewen,
in Daniel-street, Portsmouth,
commence this day, and to be
continued from time to time, till the whole
are fold, viz.
12 packages of Merchandize,
confining of Blue, mixed and drab Broad Cloths ;
Caffimeres, Swansdowns ; Plains ; Coatings; Lin
ens ; Silk and Cotton Handkerchiefs ; Shalloons;
Grogram's Hats; Knives and Forks; Looking-
Glasses; Pocket Books, &c. &c. ALSO. +
A few Boxes Lemoris, to be fold for
cash without reserve. Dec. 17, 180,,
A Bargain.
A^lT° ° e S °'d al:Ven
" due, on Wedneftlay the 28th
&^^^!"ft. on the premises, that beautiful
fituated Brick-House and Farm,
nt n ttoprey River Landing, with convenient . uc
Houses, in good repair, well situated for a Tavern,
nr Tradeing. Said Farm contains about 200 acres,
well watered, and wooded land, about zo acres of
which are interval: produces yearly, 50 tons of
Hay, and 6g barrels Cider; Pouring and Tillage
in proportion. Any person wifiing to purchase,
will please to apply immediately to
John Mead,
now on laid premises. Fete te Ir.
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Robert Harris,
Has removed from his flore on Langdon's
Wharf, to one on Cburch-Hill, mubere be offers
for Sale, at lou prices,
Brandy, I Iron,
Gin, J Spanish Segars,
Rum, Allum,
Malaga, ]^ Olives,
Sherry, 1^ Bd. lod. izd. and zod,
Vidonia, J Nails,
Bohea, 1 ° Burton Ale,
Souchong, I ^ Porter,
Hyfon-fkin, > ^ = Cotton,
Young Hyfon 1 > Soap,
and HyfonJ co Almonds,
Pepper, Florence Oil, and
Allspice, I Ton good
Raisins, Indigo, BUTTER.
N. B. The Boston price, in Cash given for All
Flax-Seed, Pott & Pearl Alhes, that
may be delivered by the 10th January also, for
Ox & Cow-Horns, & Horn Tips.
December 10, 1803.
Z. Robinson & Co.
at the head of the Pier, have for Sale,
200 M. Boards ;
800 W. O. Shooks with Heading ;
500 boxes fmoak'd Herring ,
200 bushels Rye.— also —.
A large afortment of
Crockery & Glass Ware.
For Sale by
T. MORTON,
'U" °f "' e Golden Key, Congref-freet,
Two Doors from the Portsmouth Pone.
HYSON, Young Hyfon, Hyfon-fkin,
Soufhong and Bohea Teas warranted. Cog
niac and Barcelona Brandy ; Holland's and Amer
ican Gin; Rum per hhd. or otherwise; Madeira,
Sherry, Lisbon, Claret, Port, and Sweet Wines, per'
quarter calk or less quantity; Loaf, India and
Brown Sugars; Coffee; Flour; Pollock Fish ;
Sail ; Cotton ; Cards, &c. together with a general
assortment of
W- India Goods & Groceries,
of the firft quality, and very low for ready cash.
Attendance from fun-rife, until 9
o'clock in the evening. (t.£)
Portsmouth, December 3, 1803.
THE Subferibers appointed Com
missioners to receive, examine and adjult the
claims against the ellate of
WILLIAM ROBINSON,
late of Exeter, Hatter, deceased, represented insol
vent, give notice that they will attend that business,
at Mr. HUTCHINS' tavern in said Exeter, on the
firft Monday in December next, and of the five fol
lowing months, from four to eight o'clock, P. M.
on said days.
Nathaniel Parker,
Jeremiah Dow,
Joseph Smith.
Exeter, November 14, 1803.
-AQUEDUCT"-
THE Proprietors of the Portsmouth
Aqueduct are notified, that their annual
meeting will be held at the Eatt Chamber of the
State House, on Wednesday the fourth day of Jan
uary next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Samuel Elliot, Pro's. Clerk.
December 17,1803.
Just received and for Sale by
Quincy & Pierrepont,
A FEW Chests of Souchong Tea of
a good quality.
December 3, 1803.
It>=———-—— II— ——j L~^
Dr. Brackett,
INFORMS the Public that he has ta
ken a (hop and lodgings at Mr. Amos Tappan'S
nigh Rev. Mr. Walton's Meeting House, and next
door to Samuel Penhallow's, Esq,
December 10, 1803.