The gazette. [volume], October 15, 1798, Image 4

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POETRY.
Far THE GAZETTE.
A NEW SONG. j
^TT. heroes who’vc fought in America't caufe,
And vtntui d your lives to eftabiifli her Lxm ;
Once more tire bright goJJefi of frteJm* proclaims,
\miir lwotdo muff not red if you value your claims ;
For France by faljk liicrfy having grown crat'd,
Iu building air-cajlla her people’s amaz’d
By /rani they hive anjttcr'J, by ftrjty wot,
What by courage a id arms they ne’er could have done ;
Their a.-t and intrigue quire luccefsful have grown ;
French fmJvn on wings of an eagle has flown .*
They proffer their friemdjhip, prouaicn and arms,
Enticements they pra&ife like rattle inalce’s charms ;
When conlummatc their plans, thcy’ie ne’er at a ffcud,
But force aan'rihmtitetj or deuce uri in hand.
With JkiU diplomatic, they drove to elude
Our En'o-tyt o‘ Peace, and our Congrefs delude ;
But wifdora will fandiion the laws of our land,
V hild Adams at head of our Congrefs fha:l ftand ;
zeal patriotic to fcrcen us from harm,
Hi!! the heart of each grateful American warm .*
With pious devotion to Power Divine,
He'll trufl for annoyance of their bafe defign j
The God of oar father* a b clung bedows ,
Iti t;rcat WasniHc rov the difmay of our fees ;
Our people unite \ and him at the head
Of our armies, proud Frante we ne’er need to dread ;
For cooqued we arm not, our motives dull be,
To let the world know that As*rrica’s ran.
A. P.
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Earthquake.
The fon of a Merchant in Birming
ham, who happened to be at .Sienna,
Tufcany, ducing the late earthquake
there, has written the following account
•f it.
“ Sienna, Sunday, May 27, ’98.
** Yederday, at ten minutes paft one,
the mod terrible earthquake ever felt
in Sienna took place. I was writing
in my room with Mr. H. when on a
fuaaen a moft violent concuflive and
reverberative motion almoft threw us
down, and afFeded us like an eledric
fhock ; the fervant who was with us
actually fell. It Lifted half a minute,
and then the moft tremendous noife
was h ard from the bowels of the earth.
Aware that it was an earthquake, I
cried out, run, run ; our rooms were
inftantly filled with duft, and the mor
tar and bricks fell about our ears. Oa
defcending, we found all the city in
conftemation, the ftreets full of duft
and fallen chimnies ; and almoft the
tirft objed 1 faw was a poor man wal
lowing in his blood, who had been J
thrown down from a ftaffold, The
ftreets refounding with the cries of wo
men half diftraded, while the men were
engaged in colleding their flragglei
fannies. I foon returned into the
houfe, and found our walls all cracked,
brick floors burft afunder, windows !
f broken and torn open, and in (hort,
almoft uninhabitable. We then went
to the public walk called the Lizza, j
where was collected a vaft concourfe of
people and carriages, all exhibiting in- j
defcribable fcenes of pain and mifery.
The earth on the walk was much crack- j
ed, and all the houfes in the city fplit I
almoft from top to bottom. Returning
again home, we determined'to go to
lady Carolina Spannochi’s when a fe
cond (hock made our room creak like
a veffel in a (form. We found lady C.
in the utmoft diftrefs \ a wall had fal
len upon her eldelt fon, and twelve
others of the fcholars in the college of
the city ; his bruifed arm had been
taken oft', but it was not expected he
would live. Every where as we re
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turned to our lodgings, we heard the
cries of diftrefs, and at half pall eight
o’clock we heard a third (hock, more
dreadful than the former, determined
us at all events to quit the city. We
pa fed the night on numbers of fofas,
chairs, matreffes. See. feeling an alinoft
continual vibration of the earth. In
ihe morning we returned to the city,
and found it almoft depopulated. The
people were on the Lizza, under a kind
of tents; the rich there, have no oth'"
habitation than their tents. The
churches arc all damaged and nvafs faid
in open air ; indeed none of the pub
:ic buildings can be faftly ufed. Sienna
appears to be ruined: another (hock
will raze it to the ground.”
By the laft accounts, fmall (hocks of
an earthquake (till continue to be felt
from time to time at Sienna, from
whence a great number of inhabitants
have fled to Leghorn.
Rational Opinion.
££ IT mull be great perverfenefs and
depravity in any, who can reprefent
the late a&s of Government and the
neceffarv meafures of fed defence taken
by Congrefs as a coalition with Great
Britain. It may be ufeful, however,
to analize our ideas upon this fubjett.
If bv a coalition with Great Britain be
j
meant a return as Colonies, under the
government of that country, l declare
1 know no individual in America w ho
would confent to it, nor do I believe
that Great Britain would again receive
us in that chara&er. Sure I am it
would be in her the blinded policy ihe
ever conceived ; for (lie has already the
moft incontedible proof that ihe cannot
govern us. If by a coalition be meant
a perpetual alliance, offendve and de
fendve, can it be fuppofed that two
thirds of the Senate of the United States
would advife or confent to it without
necellity ? Beddes, is any one certain
that Britain would agree to. it if we
fhould propofe it ? I believe Americans
in general have already feen enough of
perpetual alliances. Nevertheless, if
France has made or (hall make herfelf
our enemy, and has forced or Avail force
upon us a war in our defence, can w«
avoid being ufeful to Britain while we
are defending ourfelves ? Can Britain
avoid being ufeful to us while defend
ing herfelf, or annoying her enemy r
Would it not be a want of wifdom in
both to avoid any opportunity of aiding
each other ? [john adams.J
Ufeful Extra Sis.
Every common failor knows, that a
fmali quantity of lime put into a water
calk, will preferve it fweet thro a long
voyage in a hot climate i while the
fame quality of water, in a fimilar calk
without lime, will in a fliort time be
come rotten and offenfive both to the
tafte and fmell Some have with much
advantage thrown quick lime into their
wells when the water has become bad,
and thereby rePiored it to its ufual
fweetnefs. If lime preferves or reftores
fweetnefs and wholefomenefs to water,
does it not follow, that by a judicious
application, it will preferve the air
fweet and falubrious ; both are fluids,
governed by liniilar laws
Is the authority of Darwin of any
value in a phyfioligical fubjeef ? He re
commends a frequent ufe of the hot
bath as one means of preferving health
and prolonging life. What does ex
perience lay ; the heakhielt and molt
robull, the longelt lived and moft cheer
ful people of Afia are the Americans,
who ufe the het-bath in all of the year,
but more particularly in the w'armelt
weather. Europeans who live in Alia
find its advantages, and thofe who have
conftantly ufed the warm bath have al
ways efcaped ficknefs of every kind, but
what they may have contracted from
excefles or imprudence of another kind.
All the countries in warm latitudes of
Europe and Afia have hot baths, which
are rarely ufed but in the hot feafon ;
thofe who bathe are rarely affe&ed by
the plague, which is ufally confined to
the poor who are either too lazy or too
indigent to keep themfelves clean in
perlon or apparal.
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Scraps for Amufement.
THE French Count Rochefoucault,
after complaining in fevere language
ot his hard*fortune, in being fwindled
out of the gleanings of his property in
London, obferved, “ Well, after all,
the fharper had feripture authority for
his conduct-—/ was a Jlranger? and he
Torr me /av
The Egyptians in their feafts ufed to;
carry about the dried anatomy ot a naan
in a coffer, net fb much in memory oi
Ofiris, (lain by Typho, and in a chert
cart into the fea •, but that being inflam
ed with wine, they might mutually ex
hort one another to the ufe and enjoy
1 ment of thefe prefent good things, be
caufe crc long all of them would be as that
fke.eton.
A gentleman farmer, observing to
one of his threihers, that he had been
informed another farmer’s labourer
had threflied out a load ot corn between
fun and fun ; the rurtic replied, then,
me after, it muft have been one offojhua's
days, when be commanded th zun toftond
ftill.
K=smra
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Frugality.
Certain young men l eing reproved
by Zeno for their prodigality, excufed
themfelves, faying, 44 They Had plenty
enough, out ot which they did it.”—
44 Will you excufe a cook,” faid he,
tc that fliould over-falt his meat, becaule
he had itore of fait s'*
A good layer up makes a good layer
out, and a good Iparer makes a good
fpender.
Balance your expences by the juft
weight of your own eft ate, not by the
poife of another's [pending.
It is good advice of the philofopher,
meafure the ftone by your rule, not
your rule by the "ftone.
Take Notice.
CTrayed or Stolen out of;
the pafture of the Subfrrbejr in Hebron, on the
15th day of September laft one
Dark bay Horfe,
twelve year* old, with a ftar in bis forehead, and ma»k- •
ed with the fadd!e on each fide rf his ba«.k—and one
Black Celt,
two yean old. with a biafe in her f?ice and both hind
f et white.—Whoever will take up faid Horfcs, and
Thieves, if ftolcn, (hall be handfomelt r. warded by j
giving information to the Subfcriber in Hckroa, or to ■
Captain WILLIAM WEBSTER- of Gray
WILLIAM CLARK WHITNEY.
Hdrom, October 5th, 1798. -
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10 Dollars Hazard.
CTRAYED or STOLEN (fuppofed
O to be ftulen) on Thurlday tb- roth u t a HOPiE, j
of a light red colour a little intcrmiicd with white, !
with a light coloured mane and tail light on the
fl^nk of each fide ; both fore feet fplit near the fork of
he (hoe He had on a new fiddle with • blur fa die*
cloth, trimmed with a butTcoo) r—black ft.rrups, and
a br;dle.
vVhoever will take up faid Horfe,
org ve information of him, fo that he may be receiver
ed, (hall receive the above reward if ftoica, an addi
tional reward will be given for the thi<f
EPHRAIM SANDS.
Buxton, 0Bober 3, *98.
Juft Publifhed,
By David Weft, BoJlony
Numbers 6 & 7 of Count RimtORo’s
ESSAYS; or 1 & 2 of vol. 2d.
Thefe numbers, containing 310 pa
ges Letter Prefs, and 8 copperplate en
gravings, will be given to fubferibers in
boards, at 1 dol. 37-- cents, which, when
compared, will be found cheaper than
the former numbers of this valuable
work. BoQoji, Sept. 20.
'•
FOR SALE, at .
jofeph Warren's Book-Store,
Fipo-jlrect, Pi)rt!and9
PAPER, of all kinds, #
Paper Hangings,
American Coaft Pilot, 2d edition,
argely improveJ*\vith Revenue laws,
kc.
Robifon’s Proofs of a Confpiracy.
Sept. 10, 1798.
A Horjl* for foie•
A good likely Horse, about
four years old, that trots handfomely and has a
good carriage, m iy be purchafed on good
terms, bjfc applying to this oftice.
Odiber 8/A.
For fale,
^ w- A good fami
ly COW. Enquire
of the Primer,
_:i_i_x _ Off jO-.r 8, j7()3•
Clothing Mill.
TIIK fubfcriber informs the public,
that he has taken the CLOTHi NG MIL',
erect id by Mr. Rust, in RuP.field, in the town .
Norway ; and fliall commence the bufmefs of (aid M 1»
by thc'middle of October next, whc thole who w. i
pleafc to favor him with their commands, may dept ..
;;a the greatcfl: difpatch aud punctuality
SAMUEL MERRILL/
Biddeford. Sept. 17.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non
refrdent pfopr ctcrs pf lauds, lying in the town t
Durham, in the county of CumhetlanJ, that their lan<
a.e taxed in the S:ate, fovrn andCoumytax, for the ya.
1797 and 1798, aud committed to me the fubfeuher t„
cot led., viz.
"tate.toun, & aunty tax
N» Utr. No. Acret. JJt C. j) (
Proprietor* £ uy 100 I 30 j
unkn.».n 114 100 I 30 j 4
Samuel Rofs 143 loo l 30 1
Unknown 136 60 73 $.
Ditto No. unknosvn JD 65 ^
Unlefs faid taxes, wiih intervening
charges are paid to me the Subfcrib r. on or before the
fifth day of Dt.ember next, fo much of ftid land* w.ll the l
be foid at Public Vendue at the dwelling houfc of JG-,V
SEPH PROCTOR, innholder in faid Durham, at to
o’clock in the forenoon, as will pay laid late* a*.l
charges.
JADES DYER, Colle&or.
Se&l'mber #6, 1 79^
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. *** The file of the following land,is
pojlponed till the 6th of February next.
i^HE nonrefident proprietors of the
feverai lots of land lyiug in the town of Poland,
-n the county of Cumberland, are hereby notified, that
the fame are taxed for the State, County and Town
taxes in the bids committed to me t ie S bicriber i®
coikek, for the year i 797* m the refpeelivc fum» kw
lowing, viz,
FIRST DtVISION.
State '-ef Conn- Delinquent
No. Lott, A"* Airtt. ty tax. Town tax. Roedtxa.
Ctr. M. Ct>. M. Ct*.
43 7 2 ‘3 2 30
66 100 96 17 6 40
62 joo 96 17 6 40
40 *00 72 13 2 3*d
79 TOO 48 8 8 20
53 100 48 8 8 V)
57 50 2 4 441^
20 100 24 4 4 10
26 100 96 17 6 40
54 *00 72 13 2 30
96 100 72 *32 30
68 100 72 *32 3D
SECOND DIVISION.
65 100 96 17 6 40
21 100 96 17 6 40
3 too 24 4 4 10
7 'GO 48 8 8 20
142 TOO 48 8 8 to
148 GO 7 » *32 )<3
»o 6 100 48 8 8 23
14s too 96 17 6 43
96 100 24 +4 l9
30 too 72 »3 2 33
56 *co 72 *3 2 to
*4* *-o 7 2 13 2 33
23 70 62 12 2 29
8j 100 96 17 6 43
89 ico 9 6 *7 6 43
128 100 24 44 IO
153 ico 96 17 6 40
107 *00 48 8 8 23
‘35 *00 96 17 6 40
*27 100 24 44 IO
93 100 24 44 ,3
1,0 *00 1 4 44 13
129 >Q||| 24 44 ,3
*M ICO 2 4 44 ,3
*5 *0 7 2 *32 30 4
3* too 4 8 8 8 20
62 100 96 17 6 40
i°5 100 * 2 4 44 10
J 7 *00 72 13 2 30
44 »oo 48 8 8 2»
5* *oo 48 8 8 2®
76 IOO 24 44 ,3
6 100 2 4 4 4 10
*44, 50 4 *8 8 8 2D 1
if no perfon fha!l appear to cRfcharge
faid taxes and all ncceflary intervening charges, on or .
before Wednekay the filth day of February, 1799, at 9
o’clock, a. m fo much of the laid lots of land as*will j
be iuJfifcicm to dikharge the fame, will then be fold at I
Pubhc -.uclou, to the bigheft bidder, according to ’!
law, at the home of D.tNIEk JACK OxN, Imiholder, j
in fakl Poland.
JOHN T. MERRILL, CMatr.
P.fo-J, Septemfr l/f. 1798.
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