The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1803-01-06 00:00:00, page 4

THE
AmerigaW Patriot's PRAYER.
By Thomas Paine, Esq —in 1775.
PARENT of all—Omnipotent
In heaven and earth below,
Thro' all creation's bounds uvfpent,
Whose ft reams of goofoef flow :—
Teach me to know from whence Irofe,
And unto what defign'd;
No private aims let me propofa
Since link'd with human kind.
But chief to hear my country's voice, 1
May all my thoughts incline,
Tis reaforis law, tis virtues choice,
Tis nature's call and thine.
Me from fair freedom's sacred cause,
Let nothing e'er divide ;
Grandeur, nor gold, nor vain applause,
Nor friendjhip falk misguide.,
Let me not factions partial hate
Purful to this Land's woe:
Nor graft)the thunder of the fate,
To wound a private foe.
If, for the right, to wijh the wrong,
My country Jhall combine.
Single to serve th' eron'ous throng,
Spite of themselves, be mine.
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fa- What !—Tom Paine, the infi
del! make this Prayer! Yes —
and let the believing federalifts make a
better—if they can.
Pleating Hiftory.
PEROUROU :
Or, The BELLOWS MENDER.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
[Continued from No. 96 ]
AFTER disposing of all my pro
perty for which I had ,no imme
diate use, I was master of ten
thousand crowns. It was an
nounced that we were going to
have a war with fame of the prin
cipal powers of Europe. In con
sequence of this, with the assist
ance of my friends, I made a bold
speculation, the failure of which
would involve me in poverty and
wretchedness ; but, if fuccelsful,
would increase my wealth four
fold/ While my commercial con
cerns were going on with the
greatest secrecy, my hiftory be
came the fubjea of public con
versation. From her reclule fit
nation in the monaffery Aurora
indignantly exclaimed against me
and my friends. The want of
address in attacking the engrav
ers, by not putting the laughers
on her fide, was to me a great
advantage, because their own in
terests obliged them to undertake
my defence. Aurora infilled that
our marriage should be let aside.
The abbess of the convent to
which the had retired, refpeaa
ble alike for her birth and good
nets of heart, did every thing in
her power to favor my wife's re
solution. Added to this, Auro
ra's father had his protestors and
friends, and we seemed to be me
naced with defeat on every fide,
the scandal of which would in
deed fall upon the engravers, but
the most fatal and deftrudive
consequences on myfelf alone.—
In the mean time, they amuled
themselves with observing Auro
ra's pride becoming its own pun,
ifhment, by the noise and talk
the affair made. But all their
moment did not foften the rig
id process of law. An order wag;
iiflued for my arrest, <and its er
ecution was prevented solely by
my concealment. The case was
called before the court for a hear
ing.
Aurora had requested a guard
to attend her to the very tribunal
where our marriage was either to
be declared null or valid. There
she made her appearance in all
her luftre of beauty, which a
natural modesty made still more
charming. Scarcely ever did a
lawsuit attract more auditors.—
Her lawyer plead her cause with
such a flow of eloquence that he
was several times interrupted by
the tears and emotions of the au
dience. The feelings of the jud
ges were such, that it appeared
their sympathy would evidently
influence their sentence ; when
the engraver, who had wished to
be Aurora's husband, perceiving
that no one role up in my de
fence, asked permission of the
judges to speak in my behalf-
Leave was accordingly given him
that it might not be laid, I was
condemned unheard. He told
them my whole story in a few
words, in which he was lavish in
nothing io much as in my praiie
—He, however, confeffed, that
the circumstances attending~my
marriage were such as mightjuf
tify the judges in declaring the
-marriage void. He then paused
for a moment The
most profound silence prevailed
in the hall, when addressing him
felf to Aurora he said, " Perhaps
madam, nature did not intend
you for a bellows mender's wife,
but she, nevertheless, obliges you
to be the mother of his child f--
Can you, by insisting to be set
free from your present engage
ments, proclaim before this hon
orable court the illegitimacy of
your offspring ?, —" No, no,"
exclaimed the trembling Aurora,
melting into tears. The fpe&a
tors, with emotions no less vehe
ment, cried out with one voice,
" No, no I"
This exclamation of maternal
affection decided the case: the
judges declared the marriage va
lid, because the contraa was
signed with my real name. They
added even, that our conditions
in life were pot so unequal as to
juftify a dissolution of the mar
riage contraa. But, in order that
the viaory of a'mere fortune
hunter might not be too ntorti
fiing, they prudently declared
that my wife was at liberty to re
main in the convent, which she
had chosen for a retreat, from
which her husband should have
no right to reclaim her, nor pro
secute her, under pain of corpo
real punishment—that the infant
should be baptifed with my name
-=but that I should have no au
thority over it.—Aurora left the
court with a shew of triumph,
followed by the crqud, who were
loud in their praises of the facri
fice she had made to prevent her
child bring exposed to the ridi
culeofthe malignant. Such was
the result of this, famous suit.
'Juftices Blanks
•For Sale at this Office.
' \f
Edward Parry,
INFORMS his friends and cuftom#
ers, that he has returned from Eu
' rope with a very large assortment of
GOOD S,
Which was purchased from the man
ufadurers, and which he will fell, at
small advances, for cash or approved
credit, by the package, piece, Or re
tail ; and assure, those who have mo
ney co dispose of for any articles in
his line, that they will find it to their
advantage to call at his shop.
HIS STOCK CONSISTS OF
150 pieces of fuperfine and low pric'd
fashionable BROADCLOTHS,
from 6s. to 40s. per yard.
200 pieces Plains and Forest Cloths.
50 pieces Superfine Coatings, Rat
teens and Lambskins.
40 pieces blue, red and green Serg.
es and Fearnoughts.
35 ps. Fafhiopab!e Caffimeres, from
6s.<o 21s. per yard.
50 ps. fafhionable Swanfdowns.
; 150 pieces Bazies and Flannels.
, 200 pair Role Blankets, all sizes.
j2OO pieces Durants, Tammies and
I Moreens.
I 100 pieces Rulfells & CallimancoCT
1150 pieces Wildbores, Camblets, and
ICambletteens.
j 40 pieces Shalloons and Antiloons.
I 40 pieces blue and black Velvets and
Corduroys. / #
!50 pieces Florentines & Lastings.
!200 pieces Irish Linens & Sheetings.
■ 1000 groce fafhionable and common
Buttons.
I 10,000 yards fafhionable Chintzes &
Copperplate Furnitures.
1 600 yards Dimities and Muflinets.
; 4000 yards fprig'd and tambor'd Mus
lins, from 3s. to 245. per yard.
1000 yards Cambriek, Jaconet and
Book Muslins.
600 yards English Bed Ticks.
I 1200 yards black Modes & Sattins,
;200 yards Pelicee Silk.
30 dozen Men's Beaver Hats, of the
latest fafhion.
20 dozen Ladies'Beaver Hats, some
of which are very elegant.
30 dozen fafhionable Ranalloy S raw
Hats and Bonnets—Trimmings.
50 dozen Camel's Hair, Silk, Muslin,
Cambrick and Chintz Shawls.
100 dozen of best Jersey and Wilt
fhire Men's Knit Stockings, superi
or to any ever imported.*
100 dozen Ladies' Cotton and Silk
Hose, Gloves and Mitts.
2 Trunks of fafhionable Muffs and
Tippets, Fur Shawls & Wadding:
A large aflortmeut of
Ladies' London made Shoes, with wa.
ter, proof soles to fit.
An elegant assortment of
English and French LACES and
EDGINGS.
Il large afortment of/
Bed Laces, Fringes and Tassels.
English Patent white and coloured
Sewing Cotton Thread.
Water-proof UMBRELLAS.
20 bales 15 thread Cod Lines, Sew#
ihg Twine; Herring Nets, and Pa- (
tent Shoe Thread -
With a general aflortment of
Other GOODS, as ufuak
Pot and pearl Affies
and Flax Seed, will be received in
pay. Market-Street,
. Portsmouth, Nov. 23.
Drrigs and Medicines.
G GRIDLEY has forfait, & theJlort
of Jacob Abbott, Esq.
A General Assortment of GENUINE
DRUGS and MEDICINES,
A MONG which are a variety of PATENT
A MEDICINES-which he ,HHUlvery
low for ready pay. Praaitioners will be sup.
plied at a very fall advance from the Boftoo
prices.
Concord, Dec. 46, 1802.
EPHRAIM CARTERS Estate.
ALL persons indebted to the cf
tate of Ephraim Carter, late of Concord
in the county of Rockiogham and State of N.^
Hampshire, yeoman, deceased, are difired to
make immediate payment to the fubferiber,
I Executrix to the Left Will end Teftameat of
said deceased And all persons having any
demands on said estate ere desired to exhibit
'the fame for fettfewent.
DORCAS CARTER, Executrix.
Corcord, Dec. 27th, ISO 2. 99)
To be SOLD, or LET,'
; The Elegant and Convenient
S TAN D
FOR BUSINESS,
IN front of the Meeting-House in )
Concord, Newhampfhire, on the
great road which leads from Boston,
Salem, Newburyport and Portfmouth\
to Dartmouth College, and the Lower
and Upper Coos—conlifting of about
if acre of land, on which is a Dwell,
ing House, and Store, fronting East
and North on the road, 52 feet each
way, a good Well of Water, a Barn,
and other outHbufes, an excellent
Garden, and about 20 Apple Trees.
" For further particulars, inquire of the
fubferiber, living on the premises.
JACOB ABBOT.
Concord, Dec. 15. 1802. §7
'^—ll—>•■■»> ■in.. >■■..wh ft Qu —
CAS TO R.
FOR SALE,
B, Benjamin Kimball, jfun.
At his SHOP in Concord,
A Large quantity of excellent CAS#
TOR— also, a general assort
ment of HAT TRIMMINGS—
AND A QUANTITY OF
Good Sheeps WOOL,
suitable for (pinning.
Cafo, and the btrbeft price,
given for all kinds of FURS.
gr. Wanted, an Apprentice to the
Hatter's Business, a lad from 13 to ig ™
years of age.'
Dec. 15, 1802. g7
A Man wanted.
Wanted to Hire, immediately,,
A Trusty MAN—to wc^k about a,'
house and barn.. Enquire of the prin
ter of this paper. Good Wages.
FOR SALE, As AUCTION,
on Saturday the Bth January 1803,
at 2 o'clock P. M.
The School-House «
at the South part of the Main Street
in Concord. The sale will be at said
House, which has a strong frame, and
can Be made convenient for a mecha#
nic at a small expense, and permission
to remove the fame in March will be
giveg. Dec. 16. 1802.
fo^ DUN.[
WOOD—WOOD—WhiIfI this cry
is universal amotg Printers, surely the
Patrons of this Gazette will save the
Editor the pains of cold fingers ! and
the cry of—WOOD—WOOD!
I J^NCE MORE=our cnJlomer3 on"
the Northern route, are informed
that the^r accounts are in the hands of
Mr. Blafdel, the Mail Post, ready for, _
fettlcment to No. $5, after which num.
her they willaccount with the Pofl.
far Their attention will greatly oh
lige their humble Servant, The Printer.
0- All kin& of Produce wanted
in payment for Newspapers.
FOR SALE, CHEAP,
A good Mare, with a •
SINGLE SLEIGH, Harness, &c.
The Mare is only 6 years old, found 1
wind and limbs, newly (hod, and fita
for immediate use, ——Sold only for
want of emploj'. The Mare and
Sleigh will be fold feparate/y or,to
gether—fit Enquire of the Printer.