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Linens; Sheetings ; Brown Hollands ;
Table Cloths of all si.es ; Counterpanes ; Diapers ;
\yellow and green Canvas ; check Linens ;—Threads!
embroidering and sewing Silks ; white and chintz
1 bed Lace, Fringes, Cords and Tanels.
)Tammies ; Durants ; Shalloons ; Ruf
b, ^s ; Calimancoes ; Moreens ; Florentines ; Sat
; Listings. ''
I % large assortment
India Cottons ; cheap Jndia Chintzes.
# g r cat varietv of
' I CARPETING, &c. &.c. &c.
I Portsmouth, ffifry 18, 1805.
T"SPRfNCLA NITSUK^ER
& GOODS.
'Edward Parry,
Infaraf his friends and the public in general,
th^he has just received an additional
supply of
Spring & Summer GOODS;
'all of which he will sell bu wholesale and retail, as
cheap, as can be purchased in any store in this
% town ; for cash or approved credit —
AMONG WHICH ARE
The best and mostfashionable
BLUE, black, mix'd and drab Su
perfine Broad-Cloths ; and Cassimeres ;
* . b^t superfine white and figured Marseilles and
> Jean Vesting.
a copfiiete assortment of
Cobweb, tfun, fprig'd and collonade
Muslins ; gland and undress plain, white and col
or'd Cambricks and Book Muslins ; Dirhity and
Musliuetts ; cambrick and muslin Shawls ; black
a^ white Laces and Edgings, (very cheap ;)
,:mn and 'twilled Nankeens &jeans and Fustians ;
^k Gloves and Mitts ; Latfs silk and cotton Hose ;
m elegant assortment ts dress silk Hats and Bon
^ us ; Chintzes, of every description, from Is 6, to
,• P er yard ; Irish Linens and Sheetings; Table
Cloths and Diapers, remarkable cheap ; black
Florence Silks ; black Modes and Sattins ; Cali-
Buncoes ; Russels, Durants and Tammies ; Shal
kins, &c.
~ Wanted—lo,ooo yards of good Country
CLOTH ; for which any of the above articles will
be exchanged at cash price. \
Portsmouth. Mav JR. I'os.
India Cottons.
A few bales oflndia Cottons
for sale by JAMES SHEAFE.
May 13.
_- —^ LE , _
~^^^ The HOUSE
>^^| and LAND wnere the fuh.
'"''" now lives, being two
L^, one fruiting on B^ad.
ftreer, one on Jeffery frat,
„ by „ feet each.
ALSO
Uis Land in Daniel-street,
I'? feet fron', convenient for two Lots, with the
1^ building now on it. The above will, he told
«id? or in parts as may suit the purcba.
' -, if not fold by the ibtli June next, the whole
wbe to le'.'
JACOB WALDEN.
RMfmouth, M>y i 6, iSpfr,
Cane, willow and draw Bonnets and
Hats ; fancy Flowers and Wreaths ; Feathers ; a
variety of Fans ; Parasols with and without walk
lag canes ; cotton and silk Umbrellas ; a great
viriety of black and fancy kid Shoes ; Rosetts.
Superfine, middling and low pric'd
B rt oad Cloths ; Cassimers ; Fashionable Waistcoat
% ; Jeans ; Fustians ; Cotton Cassimers ; Patent
buff Nankeens ; black and colored Nankeenets ;
Thicksetts, Velvets.
Has just received per the shifts Galen, Packet
and John Adeems,from
England ; a great variety of
Fashionable, Fancy & Staple
. GOODS;
which are now opening Viz—
A great variety of
/-CHINTZES and Calicoes; Chintz,
U dimity and copperplate Furnitures; Musli
nets ; Dimities.
Book, jaconet, cambric and lace
^^usli^s ; color'd sarsenet Cambricks ; muslin
handkerchiefs ; linen, cotton, bar,n; : ,; airLh^^
luftnngs ; Italian and Florence Silks ;
black, white and green double Sarsnets ; India Per
sians ; Modes ; Sattins ; Tiffanies ; black and
color'd Crapes ; black and whiteParisnet ; Gauzes ;
Milinets ; black Cypress.
Elegant white and black lace Veils,
from 3 to 15 dollars ; blk. lace Cloaks and Spen
cers , wide black Lace for Cloaks and Shawls ; a
Urge assortment thread Luces and E' ings ; a
variety of Ribbons ; cotton and silk gown Trim
ing ; gold and silver Trimings ; Fringes; silk
Cards ; cotton and silk Girdles.
—A great variety —
Men's and youth's cotton, hemp and
silk Hose ; women's white, black and color'd cot
vn Hose ; women's white black, a^ s ' ate silk
Hose ; some with lace clocks ; women's plain
pc-nic and vandyke silk Gloves and Mitus ; cot
1a Gloves and Mitts ; kid Gloves ; mens' heaver,
woodstock, thread and silk Gloves ; stock Suff
erers ; cotton and silk Braces.
Vol. XVI.]
Peter Coffin
NEW GOODS.
OF ALL THE f ITtOXS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY, RELHION AND ^RAIITY ARE INDISPENSABLE SUPPORTS.— WASH INGT^N.
(fr<T^ A ft 1? 'BACnv
VIA nvjuib^ ruo&
NJQTICE is hereby given, that the
I^ Portsmouth Bath will be opened on Wednes
day afternoons, and Thursday, and Saturday after
noons and Sunday mornings—Tickets may be had
Ofc Mr. Charles Peirce's Bookstore, Daniel-
Street, at the Gazette Office, and at Mr. Jonathan
Mendum^ shoe-maker's ^hop, in Vaughan-street,
opposite the mansion house of the late Judge PICK
£rxkg, and near the Bathing-House.
A Patent right of the above Machine
acknowledged by competent judges to be superior
on many accounts, to any in the United States, will
be disposed of, if desired, for the County of Suffolk
in Massachusetts, and for the State of New-Hamp
shire. N. B. One man wist cut 40,000 Brads in a
day by said machine. ~ May 4.
DAVID MORSE, informs the Pub
lic, that Letters Patent have been granted
him by the President of the United States for a
new invented Machine, by which he manufactures
Hinges, Nails and Brads of all sizes, which he will
sell wholesale and retail, at the lowest prices, at his
Manufactory, on the head of Captain Obadiah
Horton's wharf, near Merrimac-street, a few
rods below Market street, jVewhuryftort,inhere or
ders will be respectfully received, and promptly
attended to.
SHOE S,
Boots, Hats,Trunks,&t.
He has just received a quantity of Sole,
Skirting, and Upper
Leather.
A few M. Shingles, and
White Ash STAVES and HEADING
for sale, as above.
May 17.'
Crates of assorted WARE
to suit country customers, put up at the shortest
notice, cheap for cash or approved credit.
Bow-street, May 17, 1805.
Newy&pfo:,: ;
Just received and now opening by
Benjamin Swett,
Num. 8, MARKET-STREET,
A handsome assortment of
Springs Summer Goods
WHICH wil be sold so low for cash, as cannot
fail to meet the approbation of those who
may please to favor him with their custom, among
wh ; ch is a large assertm tof fashionable SILKS.
Portsmouth, May 11, 1805.
Spring Goods.
Joseph Haven,
No. 1, Merchant's Row,
Has just received a general assortment of
European & India Goods,
Suitable to the season, comprising almost every ar
ticle usually required in a Piece Goods Store ; all
which he offers for sale at the most favourable
terms.
i^lle has a new supply from New-York, of
American Beaver Hats,
of a very superior quaiity. May 6, 1805.
Robert M'Cleary,
Has removed from the shop in Colonel Gains' house,
to the Store lately occupied by Mr. Lapish,
next door to Mr. Weeks, corner of Mar
ket-street, where he has for Sale, (as
usual) an assortment of
that will be sold as cheap for cash, as can be bought
at any Store in town. 4so,
A large supply of Linens by the piece,
from 2s to 6s. per yard ; also Silk Umbrellas by
the dozen or single—A few dozen Cotton Ufnbrd
las, &c. kc. May 4f1805.
OLIVER BRIARD r^fpe&fully in
forms his friends and Customers that he has
just received a large and very general assortment of
Spring Goods, which he is now selling very cheap,
at his store No. 2 Merchant's Row, Fore-street.
May, 4 1805.
Ebenezer Thompson,
DIREC r front the Manufacturers, a general
" assortment of Crockery Ware—among which
are, some very elegant Gold and White, and Blue
and Gold TEA SETS from 1756 to 245. per sett ;
Gold and White JUGS from ls 3 to 756 a piece ;
Blue Printed Ware, among which are some large
and handsome EWERS and BASONS.
Crockery Ware.
.4 handsome assortment of
SPRING & SUMMER GOODS,
Patent Hinges, Nails and
Brads.
Portsmouth Bath.
Nathaniel Dean,
NEW GOODS.
New Goods.
REMOVAL.'
JUST RECEIVED BY
Just received by
TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1805.
'Set you down for a crown ! Lord love your hon
our, its the heaviest burthen a man can bear ;
there is not a man in a million could carry the
weight of one so well as our King—God prosper
him ! Because, why ? he's made of staunch stuff
—a good heart and a clear conscience ;—and that
there sort of ballast won't let a man sink, if even
the d—l sat upon his back. No, no, master, no
crown for you, depend upon it, in this world, what
ever you m tv get in the next."'
The fribble shook his wanghce at the sailor, tel
ling him he was an impudent rascal-eand if he did
not go about his business, he would have him taken
up as a nuisance."
Jack burst intoa lend laugh.
'lf that noisy, vulgar, sailor fellow is gone," said
a Bond-street lounger, 'set me down for a crown.'
Jack, who still loitered on the step, distinctly
hearing his character called in question, popped in
his head, while he clung to the door-post, as he
would to the main-mast:
“ If your honour takes me aft, d'ye see, you'll let
yourself down —and as to your wanghee, Jack Lash
cm has felt the smart of too many cannon balls, to
fear the sting of a musquito, so that's all a hum and
a buz, d'ye see. No, no, I'll fighter you, with all
my heart—but may Inever taste-grog if Tdisgrace
m, jacket by fighting with you, and so your ter
tmt."./
The lounger, ' unable to . stand Jack's rhetoric,
glided away, to make room for other charita
ble enquirers ; as the sailor's loud harangue had
Thus had I counted six guineas subscription in
the course of twenty minutes, and had felt six times
as many pangs of delight from such unexpected
success ; when a solitary sixpence, dropt from the
rough hard finger of an English sailor, (who had
called in to purchase a silver thimble for Poll) claim
ed pre-eminence of the whole golden tribute.
" What !" exclaimed he, as he listened to the'
tale ; " what turned mad from being true-hearted,
and that to a sailor ? Smite my timbers, if sucli
a vessel ought to founder ! Poor soul, her main
stay was too light to weather the storm, I suppose;
and, as the gentleman tells us, what with having
but a shattered rigging and no ballast, the winds
handled her too roughly, and cracked her top-masts
Lord what a lubber that thought makes of me ; sets
my brimming eye-pumps at work, some how just,
as fa, I was parting from poll. Rot ye, get out !"
continued he, dashing off a tear on the cuff of his
jacket ; "you don't ^ht to souse a sailor's glims,
'cause as how lie has enough of salt-water ; but so
long as he never disgraces his element, it will never
disgrace him. Well, ^od. send the little ship
wrecked frigate afloat once more ; for if the Gov
ernor, aloft heeds the hearty, blunt prayer of a
sailor, she'll tack about yet, and mice port with
the best of them, for all she lost her anchor in a
hard gale."
'Bravo, my fine fellow !' exclaimed I, involunta
rily ; 'Heaven grant the wishes of thy worthy heart
may prevail!"
'Huzza !' replied the tar, waving his hat over
his head as he brushed through the library, leaving
that trait of virtue behind him that will ever con
secrate his remembrance in my bosom.
1 popped into the library, where, to
I my m^ ^ft s satisfaction, I beheld many sub
scriptrj nip: 'portion to the liberality and ability
the roerokart & >nor.
VHentcated in apparent ruminition over a new
pubiic^mil ,Idafir opportunity of making ma
ny usctTr.3er%atbis.
The fizzing gla sofa certain peer firs' applied
itself to Inc contribution-board.
" H !'wha.! Crazy Jessy !—How's this ?
.Hey ! J A sort of a maniac ? Any old tabby
gone it hey, c .^. ? P op her into Bedlam,
that's *^ tj^ v - It i' had been a fine young
o.v aih^/Nr^ Forth yr u.
tion."
" How—love, say you? Ah ; young, beautiful
—hey ! Why, these are strong temptations on the
claims of benevolence ; though, by Heavens, a
pretty woman in distress bears a universal pass
port with me. —Come here's five guineas.—-Poor
Jessy !—A pretty romantic name, that. Then
turning to Lady Barbara Amazonia, “ Charming
Bab," said he, “ won't you be charitable tins even
ing, to a sweet love-lorn cottager ?"
" Not I, indeed," replied her Ladyship ; “ I
have no loose cash to foolaway. Love and mad
ness is a pretty fictitious story ; I have no opinion
of such chimerical brains ; they could never have
been worth saving, jf the power of love could so
"easily derange them.—Poor, simple wretch.—So, I
suppose, she picks sfews, and weaves her Lubin's
name in worsted, Ip ! ha \—truly comical. A
pretty Canterbury tale. Bless me! I had almost
forgot my otto of roses-—let me have two drops in
this pearl case."
The order was obeyed—the case was returned
and Lady Bab chucked down Iter guinea for the
precious bargain, although she had no loose cash to
fool away as a tribute of compassion.
What an involuntary sigh escaped me, as she
passed by, With confident gaze and sneering audac
ity, while a young widow, with the modest dignity
of an angel, enquired, in thf softest plaintive accent
" Who this poor maniac yas ?"
" A cottager, Madam, possessing the virtues of
an angel, under the garb of poverty ; the loss of
her lover, who was a faithful sailor "
" No more ! Heavens ! no more !" exclaimed
the beauteous widow. “If my mite can relieve a
fellow-sufferer," and she laid her delicate hand on
the contrasting sable crape that shaded her bosom,
" accept it, with the united prayer of restoration
for that peace, which an excess of sensibility can a
lone be capable of producing.
Oh ! what a tear sprang from that heart so ex
quisitely attuned to pity—l saw it fall— I saw it
glisten on the crape. Ah ! 1 could have idolized it
—blessed contrast, adorning the human heart with
an unsullied gem.
" She is perfectly so, your Grace, young, beauti
ful as an angel : and what wilt probably more in
terest the feeling your Grace so eminently possess
es, love is alone the source of her mental derange
ment."
Sentiment and Humor.
From the Pedestrian.
THE SAILOR'S SIXPENCE.
" There is another ground, on which you are
called upon to give most liberal damages and that
has been laid by the unfeeling vanity of the defend
ant. This business has been marked by the most
elaborate publicity. It is very clear that he has
been allured by glory of the chace, S c not the value
of the game. The poor object of Vis pursuit could
be of no value to him, or he could not have so wan
tonly ahd cruelly, and unnecessarily abused her.—
He might easily have >^pt this unhappy inter
course, an unsuspected secret. Evert if he wished
for hurt elopement, he might easily have^o contriv-
H it, that a place of her retreat would be profoundly
Undiscoverable : yet though even Wy expence, a
point so tender to his delicate sensibility nf conceal
ing, could not be a one-fortieth of the fest of pub
lishing her, his vanity decided him in ffivor of glory
and publicity. By that election he has in fact put
forward the Irish nation, and its character, so often
and so variously calumniated, upon its trial, before
the tribunal of the empire ; and your verdict will
this day decide, whether an Irish Jury can feel with
justice, and spirit, upon a subject that involves con
jugal affection and comfort, domestic boner and re
pose—the certainty of issue—the weight of public
opinion—the gilded and presumptuous criminality
of overweening rank and station. I doubt not, but
he is at this moment reclined on a silken sopha, an
ticipating that submissive and modest verdict, by
which you will lean gently on his errors ; and ex
pecting, fi om four patriotism,no doubt, that you will
think again, and again, before you condemn any
great portion of the immense revenue ofa great ab
sentee to be detained in the nation that produced it,
instead of being transmitted, as it ought, to be ex
pended in the splendor of another country. He is
now probably waiting for the arrival of the report
of this day, which I understand a famous note-taker
has been sent hither to collect. (L:t not the gen
tlenran be disturbed.) Gentlemen,let me,assure vou,
it is more, much more, the trial of you than of the
noble Marquis, of which this imported reorder,
is at this moment collecting the materials. His no
ble employer is now expecting a report to the fol
lowing effect ;—"Such a. day came on to be tried at
Ennis, by a special jury, the came of Charles
Ma«sv, .against the most noble, the Marquis of
Headfort."
It appeared that the plaintiff's wife was young
beautiful, and captivating. The plaintiff himself.
'Nothing can be too thin to be fashionable, and
charity's garb is, in general^ never superfluous.'
said a dry old quiz.
'Decency's a beggar,' retorted she, searching to
the bottom' of her lons pocket for a bright half
guinea ^'there's my mite. I pity the girl's mala
ay, but the cause is really disgusting to my ear.',
" Keep thy extorted boon, insensate heart,"
thought I—" Jessy's thankful tear woula freeze up
on the marble breast, tliat ne'er wds warmed by pi
ty's genial glow."
Elie clock now struck ten—the company were
grumbling over the rafle table, in the high bustle of
departure—and now well satisfied with the success
of my eccentric fancy, I wove knee and elbow in.
unison with the motley, discontented group, till I
passed the door, and crossed over to the hotel
where my rumination over my glass of port soon'
convinced me, tliat to know the world, you must
mix with every class of society—and that it affords
as useful a lesson to peep into the slang bagnio
cellar of St. Giles's, as the refined court of St.
James's.
" To which or what coalition of human virtues
is Jq^y indebted ? ' said I, leaning back in my chair
with folded arms. “ What urged the tribute of
the peer ?—Libertinism. What instigated the wid
ow's mite f—Heaven-born compassion, for she had
learnt to suffer. And what seduced the sailor's
hard earned sixpence ? —Generosity and true be
nevolence. What drew forth the lounger's idle
crown ?—llas! -twas the tribute of vanitv at the
shrine of fashion! While the old maid's hoarded
halt guinea dropped from her reluctant finger, to
mitigate a multitude of sins, sacred to the hapless
victim ofa passion, to which she ever was, and will
be, a stranger."
—^^ ^
Extract from Mr. Curran's Speech on the trial of
Lord Headfort.
[This was an action brought by the Rev Charles
Massy, to recover damages for the seduction of his
wife and the consequent ruin of her reputation and
his peace]
[More biting sarcasm and keen satire have seldom
been uttered, than the foliosuing. It seems as if
Lord Headfort was more actuated by vanity
than real gallantry, and, like all old fools who
take it in their heads to befrisky in thefrost ofage
had more an eye to the reputation, than to the
pleasures of gallantry. —Turpe senilis amor is a
true saying. His lordship though the wretch
felt not far others, has been made to feel by the
scourge of Curran, If he be not hardened to all
sense of shame.] Char. Cour.
excited much curiosity in regard to the origin of
the subsect, “ Hkve you subscribed to crazy Jessy ?:
became the watch-word cf the evening. ''
''Lord, are you in the mad subscription ?" ask
ed the chcre emie of a certain dasher, addressing
herself to the Marquis of Squander, as she trained
her silver lawn across the library.
" No, 'faith, Belle, I'm not quit mad enough yet
to be dished by a spiritless hoax.". ° ' '
. "Pooh ! pooh !" whispered she, with languish
ing leer, " 1 shall throw in nW guine<ico support
my own consequence and character ; and if you do
the same, you need only make an extra bet on your
next favorite sporter, at Newmarket. Come, come
appearence is every thing in our line."
Away flirted the silver train to the croucied coun
ter.
" Set down Lord Squander 's name in this mad
subscription, and take another guinea for mine ''
. "J° th s^^^^. ^ the master
, # ..fr-^e^.^ ^ v ;„;^, &
°” c % the question puzzled and confounded he- !
" Shall I add both subscriptions in the name of
Squander, Madam ?" repeated he.
" Yes,yes," replied she—" as isa joint concern,
that name will do v well as other."
" Aye, aw, perfectly so," answered the Mar
quis, and off brushed this pair of licentiates.
'Well, charity covereth a multitude of sins, to be
sure,' said a little pious virgin, passed the age of
temptation ; "out, in my opinion, its a mighty thin
covering for bare-faced deeds.'
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