Oracle post — Portsmouth, N.H., 1804-09-04 00:00:00, page 4

A brandy merchant, who had just received
intelligence of the failure of a house which Rood
indebted to him upwards ofc 2000 dollars for
rum and brandy, coming into company, appeared
somewhat deje&ed; whereupon one of the gen
tlemen present asked him if he was not well—
6'O yes," replied another, "he's very wel, orly
Le has loft his spirits."
One day lali week a tailor belonging to a man
of war at Plymouth bad leave to go on Chore ;
but, having staid much longer than the allowed
time, he received a ffiarp reprimand on his re
turn. Jack's reply was, that he, was very forty,
but that he had taken a dill) (a kind of chaise
used about Plymouth) for the purpose of making
the urmoft hade ; but that the coachman could
not give him change for half-a-guinea, and
therefore he was obliged to keep him driving
fore and aft between Plymouth and Dock, till
he had drove the half guinea out ! Unfortunately
for poor Jack, it so happened, that when the
half-guinea was drove out, he was set down at the
spot whence he started, and bad just as far to
walk as though he had not been drove at all.
Lon, pap.l
' The Doctor was writing his Enquiry (into the
prescc state of polite learning) in a wretched dim
room, in which there wasbut one chair, & when lie.
fron& civilitv, offered it to Ids visitant, himself was
obliged to sit in his window. While they were con
versing, some one gently tapped at the door ; and
being desired to come in, a poor ragged little girl
Os very decent behaviour, entered, who, dropping a
curtesy, said,“ My mamma sends her compliments
and begs the favor of you to lend het a chamber,
pot full of Coals.",
But scenes like these were at that time familiar to
Goldsmith. In hispoems is the following descript
tion of an Author's bed chamber, "in which he has
been more than supposed In manv cf the particulars,
to havegiven a faithful rrnfrentanou of his own,
" Where the Red lief, faring o'er the way,
Invites each palling stranger that can pay,
Where Calvert's butt and Parlon's black champaign.
Regale the Drabs and bloods of Dtnrydane ;
There in a lonely room, from bailiff s shag.
Th^ Muse found Scroggen stretch'd beneath the rag ;
A window patch'd with paper, lent a ray
That dimly (hew'd the Rate in which he lay;
The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread
The humid wall with paltry pictures spread;
The royal game of gaofc was there in view ;
And the twelve rules the royal Martyr drew ;
The Seasons, fram'd with lifting, found a place.
And brave Prince William Ihew'd his lamp-black face ;
The morn was cold, he views with keen desire
The rusty grate unconscious of a fire :
Wuh beer and milk arrears the frieze was fcor'd,
And five crack'd tea-cups drefs'd the chimney board ,
A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,
A cap by night—a stocking all the day.
D'lsraeli's muse betrays a felicity of fancy peculiar
to herself. Let the following beautiful metaphors
serve as specimens, wliich so forcibly describe the
different situation of a genius witAjand without pat-
ronage.
AS some light wave, that finds no calm repose,
Still urg'd from rock to rock, in madness glows ;
Lo from the wild-infracted passage fled,
It steals in murmurs to its desert bed 1
So let himfy whose soft and injur'd mind
Has strove with * human rocks —u world unkind !
AND I have seen believe the moral tale,
,4 bent bough wandering with the various gale ;
The smiling meads, the laughing valies fly,
And seek the stream, with faded leaves to die,
When lo ! a genial earth the plant receives,
And o'er the pilgrim breaths a youth of leaves.
So oft some wanderer pale, whose hopeless eye
Carr see no soul-lov'd friends, or sees them fly ; ,
Has found, by time and chance, new pleasures rise,
And felt the refuge sweet of kinder skies,
* Casuists may here employ their dexterity in in
vestigating this question, viz. Whether the expres
sion, " human rocks," is meant to apply to the
head or hearts of the patrons of science I
—COD : : : -:':- ^ O-:::-: : :et- —--
«ft FROM A LATE ENGLISH PUBLICATION,
The abode of genius, though humble, is always in
teresting, and the contemplation of it is calculated
to impress pleasing sensations on the mind. What
numbers flock to Strafford upon Avan, to view the
'spot and trace the steps wliich Shakespeare trod 1
and who would omit to visit Chalfront, in Bucking
hamshire, the low-roofed temporary residence of
Milton, still in being ? Pope's Villa at Twickenham
is the delight of every person of taste ; and Stoke
Pages, the retreat of Gray, where he wrote his ad
mirable Church-yard Elegy, and other works, will
long attract the notice ofmusing “ melancholy."
With awful Veneration then we trace
The steps which he so long before had trod :
With rev'rend wonder view the solemn place
From whence his genius soar'd to Nature's God.
The humble residence of Goldsmith, were he me
ditated Oil The Traveller, and wrote The Vicar of
Wakefield, is a spot consisting of the dwellings of
industry and indigence, and known by the name of
Green Arbour Court, Little Old Bailey, in tile vi
cinity of Snowhill. To this place Dr, Goldsmith re
moved late in 1758, of early in 1750 ; “ for a friend
of his paying him a visit in the beginning of March
in the latter year, found him in lodgings there, so
poor and miserable, that he should not think it pro
per to mention the circumstance, if he did not con
sider it the highest poof of the splendor of Dr
Goldsmith's genius and talents,that by the bare ex
ertion of their powers, under every disadvantage of
person and fortune, he could gradually emerge f-on
such obscurity to the enjoyment of all the comfort:
an I even luxuries < t life, and admission into the best
societies in London,
^”i!iq!^^
The Medal Reversed.
PORTR Y.
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^ NO TICE&
New-Hampshire Gazette-Office and
Bookstore,^/? EMOTED.
OTHE Subscribers inform the public, they have
REMOVED the Neve-Hampshire GAZETTE
OFFICE and BOOKSTORE,—likewise, their
West-India & GROCER Y-STORE, to that new
and commodious brickstore in Marketstreet, oppo
site Messrs. H. & B. Penhahow's Hardware store,
Where they have for sale,
W.I. Goods and Groceries ;
^o—Books and STATIONARY.
INPRINTING of all kinds executed with neat
ness, and at short notice.
PEIRCE, HILL & PEIRCE.
Prizes. Dollars
1 of 10,000 Dollars is 10,000 ;
1- 2000 do. .. 2009
4 - 1000 dm - 4000
7 ^ 500 do, - 3500
50 - 100 do. - 5000
50 ^ 50 do. - 2590
100 • 30 do, - 3000
100 - 20 do; - 2000
3500 ^ 8 do. - 28000
——=— • __—^
3813 . 60,000
12,000 Tickets, at 5 Dollars.
Subject to a deduction of 12^ per cent, on payment
of Prizes.
Capita! Prizes determinable, on the following davs<
The first drawn Plank on the first day shill be
entitled to receive 500 Dollars,
First drawn oil the sth, 1000
First drawn on the 10th, 1000
First drawn on the 15th. 1000
First drawn on the '2oth, 1000
First drawn on the 25th, 10,090
First drawn on the 30th, 2000
Four hundred Tickets shall be considered as one
complete days work ; and the fortunate Blanks
shall be determined at that rate of drawing, whether
a greater or less number come obt of the Wheels ih
cue, or more days.
1 o those who are impressed with the important
object for which tliis Lottery was granted, little need
be said by us, to insure thelr continuance in well
doing.
To fortunate Adventurers, we are brief to de#
Clare, that no Lottery whatever, holds out a fairer
chance for gain, than this—presenting so many
capital Prizes, compared with the small number of
Tickets, and determinable on the fairest principles#
THOMAS THOMPSON, ,
THOMAS MARTIN, < Afana^ers.
ELIJAH HALL, ) 3
Jin early day will be appointed for drawing.
Portsmouth, July 24th, 1804.
A Convenient Shop, near the Parade—an Excellent
Stand for English or Hard Ware Goods —Rent
reasonable—Enquire of the Printers. [pd.]
RUN-AWAY fiom the fubferibq, an ap
prentice boy named WILLIAM CAL
DEN, light complexion, light bair, about five
feet eight inches high; had on a white fbort-jacket
and brown overhang. Whoever will take up said
boy, (hall have Oh e Cent, and no charges paid.
All Persons are sordid tufting him as they would
avoid the Law.
EZEKIEL KNOWESS.
Candia, July ±B, 1804.
T-'HE fu bferiber presents bis humble acknow.
I' e g me nts to his good customers and the
Public in genet al on bis route, for the many fa
vors he has received fi om them—He likewise in
forms them that be expects to bring his business
to a close in the line of a Pod-Rider on the thir
tieth of September next, and as it will be indif
peofably necelhry for him to fettle his accounts
before he leaves the route, on account of his liv
ing in a remote part cf it, he therefore lequefts
Hs good customers who are indebted to him
for newspapers, to make preparations to balance
their accounts previous .0 the twentieth of Sep
tember next, which Will enable him to balance
accounts with his ( reditofs. He flatters hifofelf
th# none will neglect this seasonable and friend
ly Notice ! !— if there fhoald be any such, they
cannot think themselves injured if they are call
ed upon by an Attorney, no excuse can be re
ceived. STEPHEN WORTH.
August 20, 1804.
BY Virtue of a Licence
from the Judge of Probate, Will be fold
at Public Auction, on the 14th day of September
next, on the fpdt, so much of a certain Lot of
Land lying near Greenland meeting house, be
longing to the estate of MARK JUNKINS,
late of Greenland, deceafi:d, as will amount to
the sum of One Hundred and Twenty Dollars.
ANNA JUNKINS, Administratrix
AN experienced, sensible, and intelligent au
thor who has attentively searched in the
remotest causes of disease to which the human
frame is liable, has given it as his opinion, that
nineteen of twenty diseases may be cured by a
judicious use of Bathing. And that it is a pre
servative of health ; as well as a lengthener of
life.
It is a fubjed of plea Cure and gratification to
the inhabitants of this town and its vicinity, that
bathing machines, for both sexes, are
now completed and ready to receive vifftorl
Tickets of admission, 25 cents single, or 5 for a
dollar, may be had at C. PEIRCE's, Book
-store, Daniel street, Portsmouth, from five
o'clock in the morning until 9 in the evening §
and Should his store at any time be Rut, they
may be obtained at his hottfe. Aug. ?§.
TUR MANAGERS OF
Piscataqua Bridge Lottery,
offer to the Public the following
SCHEME
For the SECOND CLASS.
Notice to AIL
Serious Notice.
To be Let.
THE Lodges in the United States who may
please to patronife the fubferiber's propof
' ed Edition of Preston on Masonry, are refped
fully informed that said werk is committed to
the press, on a beautiful type, and an excellent
paper ; and will be completed agreeable to the
original prcpofals, in the month of Oftober.
It is earnestly requeued that all fubfeription
papers, may be returned through the medium of
the Poll-Office, by the firft of November, (and as
much earlier as possible,) when the right of fub
fcribirg will be closed ; and all Volumes then
unfubfciibed for, will be holden at an advanced
pr ce.
Diie& to the subscriber, at Portfmoutb, New-
Hampfoirc.
CT Brother Masons are requeued to insert this
advertijement in their refpeßive papers.
George Richards, P. G s.g.l.m.
^^.^,^^.^-^^.H 14 14 44 H-44^^-H^-H-H- &.-_++.
Portrait Painting.|
Hits imported by the latef arrivals, a gen
eral assortment of
Fashionable Goods
> among which are,
THE best London Superfine, black,
blue, mixed & drab BROAD CLOTHS;
Double milled Caffimeres: black and olive Vel
vets ; twill'd Nankinetts ; Dimities & Mufli
netts; Lawn, Cambrick, & Sarfnett Muslins ;
Imbofs'd Cambrick; ; Colonade and Tambored
Muslins ; Book & Jaconet Muslin, and Muslin
Shawls; Plain & Figured Chintzes ; Best Lon
don made Hatts of the latdft fafhion.
' a complete affirtment of
Irish Linens & Sheetings,
with a large aflortment of other Goods as usu
al—all which will be fold cheip, by wholesale
and retail, for cadi, or liberal credit, at his
Brick Store, No. 10 Market freel.
20,000 yds. good Tow-cloth
wanted. Portfmoutb, Ma, 5, 1803.
JU)T ARRIVED, and for sale,
The cargo of the (hip Zephyr, confining of
Coufe white file of M.y
Salt, Gin, and Linseed Oil,
Apply t> EDWM CUTTS.
1•'" «—♦«»—
ffrHE Subscriber begs leave to inform the In-
I 1 habitants of Portsmouth, that he has com
menced LIKENESS PAINTING at the bouse
Jof Mrs. Greenlkafe, in Pleasant-street, where:
|he will be happy to receive any commands in the:
jline of his profession.
I A Specimen of his work may be seen byj
iany Person who will honour him with a call.t
WILLIAM JENNYS.|
+Portsmouth, August, 11, 1804.1
*_________.- tt+M+t+M+tttt# +t
Jiist rtceivedfroni the Distillery di Charleston,
and for sale by
J. Langdon, jr.
ROSIN ; Spirits Turpentine ; black and bright
Varnish ; warranted of the first quality—a large
supply of wliich articles will be kept constantly on
hand at the distillery prices.
Bow-Street. August 28.
Fresh Alexandria, Philadelphia, and New-York
Superfine and Fine FLOUR;
Ship STUFF;
Few bales COTTON;
Hyson TEA ; Souchong do; RICE;
New-England NUM in bbls.
Flat and square IRON ; STEEL ;
SPIKE RODS, &c. See. &c.
Portsmouth, Augns£4, 1804 ~
Malaga Wine &c.
THIRTY quarter casks of Malaga Wine of
an excellent quality—Also, a few small
Chests of SOUCHONG TEA, warranted co be
sf the best kind, —and Englilh wrought Nails,
foi sale by Edmund H. Quincy, at the hea'd of
Jacob Sheafe Esq's. wharf; Water-street.
^gnfl, 28, 1804.
Qrtsmouth Salt Works.
NOTICE is hereby given co the Proprietors
of the Portsmouth Salt Works that a
meeting is to be holden on Monday, 10th Sep.
teniber next, at 7 o'clock, P. M. at Major Wal
ker's Inn in Portsmouth, sot the purpose of
voting a farther affefTment,to complete the works.
By order of the President and Directors,
BENJAMIN LEVERETT, Clerk.
ortfmouth, 10th August 1804.
'REMOVED.
HAS just received a large assortment of
India Cottons,
some of which are of a very superior quality
June 16, 1804.
Stephen Hardy,
HAS removed next door tojW. and C. NiflL,
where he has for sale a large assortment of
Jewelry, & other Fancy Goods.
Just received one half dozen of PLATED CAS#
TORS, and one elegant plated EGG FRAME—
All of the above articles will be sold low for eash.
][HE Subscriber dilutions
all Persons against purchasing a Note, signed.
by himself and payable to Samuel Willey of
Concord, for FIVE DOLLARS, dated some time
in February, %804—For which Note no value was
received. JOSES PHILBRICK.
August 4, 1804.
India Cottons.
Spring & Summer Goods
Edward Parry
FOR SALE BY
Waldron & Holman,
Preston & Masonry.
B. BRIERLEY,
„ A large afortment of
Linens ; (heeting Linens ; Brown Hol-'
land ; Checks : Threads; embroidering and o*|
ther Sewing Silks ; Bindings.
! A variety of <
§ White & chintz Bed Lace, Cords and
§ Tassels ; —Table Cloths all fives , Dapers, force
, a yards wide, Napkins ; yellow and green
I vas. — Fashionable gilt, plated & common But- 1
' tons ; Reel Knee-buckles ; Epaulets ; fiver Thio
bles : Watch chains, Seals and keys ; Pins;
iMen's and boys Hats.
I Tommies ; Durants ; Calimancoes ;
[ Shalloons : Ruffels ; Moreens : Taboreens ; Flo*
;dentines : Ladings ; Sattinets.
i India Cottons; India chintzes ; blue
Gart ahs ; blue and yellow Nankeens ; Mad ass \
Long Cloths.l
Carpets (Aid Carpetings
'Port/mouth, May 26, 1804.
Improved Patent Bedstead
I qrHE SuDicribers having observed
? A. and experienced many inconvenience^ anen
ding the fixing, putting up, and taking down that|
necctUry Article of Furniture, the FED teaD,
have invented an improvement to remedy tbult in
conveniences. Being equally appiebk to com
mon Bedftcads, with lacking buttons, as to m^el
costly ones, they persuade themselves it will meet
with general approbation. It would exceed the ,
imits of an advtrtifement to be particular in de
scribing the ftruaureand advantages It n\v,fci.l
}fice to lay, the Bedhead is firmly fa texedafl
, the corners, without the troublesome opcode con-:
trivance and use of (crews. It may becably put
up by one perlon, and little more time is required
' fur taking it down by mu person, than would bey
necessary for putting upand taking down the leaves^
of a Dining Table. Theft advantages are obvious
io an article whi. h requires frequent examination
and is frequently removed, but the special advanbH
tages in c f -of Fire will be perceived at once by 1
those who have been obliged to remove and fave l
furniture on such occasions of hurry and difireh— 1
The subscribers flatter themselves that an invents 1
combining simplicity, ufefuioefe, and cheapness 1
will be encouraged by a generous Public.
The right for making rod vending the above 1
Patent Bedstead, may be purchased, on appli*l
cation to either of the fuldcnbtrs at Portsmouth ■
New-hampthire
Ward Gilman, )„ . ,• I
'(latentee^ n
Wihiiam jackfon,,|
Por'fmocth, May 12-
is published every Saturday morning for the tow#
and vicinitv, and
THE ORA CiN POST k
ever*. 'Tuesday morning for the Country, by
William add Daniel Treadwfll,
at their Bc< k and Stationary shop, corner of Cour 1
and Buck-streets, Fartsmonth, Ntwhamfchire^
Terms, 150 cents per annum, 50 cents paid in ad
rance—Punctually forwarded to all parts of tail
Sta e, and the District of Maine.)
New Goods#
Peter Coffin,
Hasjuft irecited per the flip Kingflonfrrf,
London, an addition Afupph of
Fancy & other Goods,
which completes bis summer zffortnient; among which F'
SUPERFINE London BROAL#
CLO THS of the most fafhionabie colours#
Habit Cloths ; Caffimeres ; silk Florentines.
A great variety of
F^fhionabie Waistcoating ; Fustians)
Jeans ; Cotton CaCimers ; plain, twil'd and fils
Nankeenets ; Thicks ts ; Velvets ; worded and
silk Plulh ; silk Velvets.
Alarge affirtment of
Chintzes & Calicoes ; printed Cam
bricks; chintz ?< dimity Furniture : Coperplat€
Furniture ; Muftinets ; Dimities.
A great variety of
Book, jacconet & cambrick Mullins ;
elegant India Muslins ; black and color'd Sati
net Cambricks ; black Ginghams ; muslin Hand
kerchiefs ; cambrick Shawls, embroider'd and
fring'd ; chintz and purple shawls [linen, cotton;
bandanna and black silk Handkerchiefs ; filK
Shawls. A great variety of
„ Luteflrings ; black double Sarfenets ;
elegant plain and check Italian" Srtlenes ; Fa 1 -
ian Silks; Modes ; Satins ; color'd Sarfenets ;
Tiffanies ; black and color'd Cfapes ; black
cypress, netting, crape and plain Gavzes ;
Milliners. A large afortmeht of
Thread Laces and Ihdgmps ; white and
Nacfe filk,Laces ; black Lie Cloaks A drawl,
wide black Laces for clocks end ?a^E ;bhek
Turkey Gauzes; black St^Ge Lace Veils Cane
teff elegant. Agrout va-Pfof
Cane, willow, chip, yeoman and Don
ftable Bonnets and Hats; fercy Flowers and
Wr< :aths ; black and fancy Fea'i^rs ; tafhibn'
able Fans feme very Lega^; crape, glaz'd ahd
common black Fans, Paraiba cde and without
walking Canes ; Umbrillas; kid and morocco
Shoes ; Rofetts. Agreat variety of
Ribbons; cottonand silk G >wn Trim
irtgs ; Gown Buttons; gold and filler Laces
and Fringes ; gold and silver Cords ; color'd
Cords ; cotton and silk Girdles; Straw Trimings.
Men's and youth's cotton, hemp, thread
and silk Hose ; women's cotton and silk Hose
fonie with lace clocks ; women's plain, picnic
and vandyke silk Gioves ; black and color'd silk
Mitts ; cotton Gloves rand Mitts ; kid Gloves ;
men's beaver, wafli leather, thread and silk
Gloves ; Stock Stiffeners ; cotton & silk Braces.
THE PORTSMOUTH ORACLE