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Small ec M'.Nlsl'i,
fVc received ti si* ;> G!u •! • , c'ptarn
At .veil, fvr ni J , \c*'| •
Forty-two tierce.*i,f ILivein* x(*
Superior double BROW N STOUT;
\V hicii, with fifteen c is!-, \ n fine -
TI*ED KKGLfoH ALE, i miilf: c ■ :gn
meut, iitr the brig Luna, enm on S;n t from
N'cw-\ork, thqy otter for bait or lv .enable
t; rms, ‘ or cash.
Doctiubtr ij—MO
[ ——tw.. ar
Ladies Mantles, &c.
A soorrb a..fcortiuept. of Lillies 1 awn-Colored
mantles
L.v'-c Satin *ud bilk I’ELIC LS and SI’EN
< KKS „ , .
“Ditto Cloth and ’ .issimcrc (lit* ,
Llcgaut embossed Velvct TiUMM IN’G.S
■ ntftv wpeiifng on t.ic Hay, one door nos
Messrs. L. BV.xi.h, by
W. J. K A. Weyinan.
November *24—131
FOR SALE,
2> pieces COl I’ON BAGGING
. . cask. Lnduu Lrov.n btout i
H ditto liibbcrt’s PORTER
JO ditto M ilien’s j
MADEIRA WINE, in pipes, halfpipes and
q uarter casks
tjCIGILY ditto in ditto
30 kees i 1 —a GUN POWDER ; and .
WOULLN6, GRfUdLiULb & PROVISIONS.
Peter Mitehel.
December t. l->4.
NOTICE.’ “
The Copartnerfljip ot ttv- fuo cribors, tratifjAing
buiiuetl under (he ti m ot
BELCHER fcf PHELPS,
-Cvyocd on the fnti ts hcpumbei 3t.
William Belcher,
Charles I*. Bheips.
Cotton, October 10, 18U7.
WILLIAM, BLLCHER,
T firms Inb friends, that he ontinues to tranfaifl
BUiINL S ON COMMISSION, ami tenders nis
ferv'ces in ibat line
Boston, O&obcr 10, 1807—123—m0
A Wet N.urse wauled;
1 r ■ .inn lucral wages and punctual par
at -i!t, by the week or mouth, nuy be expected.
A, | t) the printers,
i.'cce nber 1. —r —Ml
Commission Sc Factorage
BUSINESS.
THE fubferibrr having large and convenient Store,,
on the wharf adjoining James Wallace, ciq offers bis
it tvices to In’s friend, and the public, as a COMMIS
SION MklbCH.kN 1’ and I AC TOR.
Thomas Lawrence.
October 5...111
Thomas Storr,
HAVING taken part of tbs (lores occupied by
Jam*9 Jounsion jun. eq. begs leave to tender hq
•Trvitct to htsli lends and the public, as a
1’ UCtOl’ es. Com iii.cn .. i .Merchant.
Should he be entrull and with the disposal of any part o
their Crops, he (later, liimleif by Ins alfidu.ty and uni
remitted a'teutioii to their interetii, to merit a continu
ation oftheir favors. October 1 ’OB
REMOVAL.
GEOUCiE BUCHANAN IE CO.
have removed to the store
Adjoining M’Leod’s Vendue-Room,
NEAR THE MARKET SQUARE,
IN here \ !jy continue selling
Their STOCK- of GOODS,
At Cost and Charges.
November 19 129
REMOVAL.
THE have-removed to the large” done
building, on Taylor &x \. uuoiuiu’s wh “f; where
they arc no,v receiving a principal part of their
Fall Supply of ;ox is,
By the America, captain Nu tint ...ml the Alcxan
m h Urn it ton, captain Cai.iaUan, from Liverpool,
and for faie by
James Sc Cos.
September 26. i_m 100
NOTIC E.
The copartner i. p of Paul J. Vai. cotton
uti<l Benjamin V allot ton, hoot ami shoe
makers, will . \pire on the first dav of Januavv
next; hv mutual consent. Ml persons having
de nands against the concern, are requested t ’
present them ; and those indebted, to make
.immediate puy.m at to lU:.\j.uus V.ui.ot
?- n, !i > is authorised to settle any business
r-'.atii e thereto.
P. J. \ allotton.
Benjamin Y allotton.
December 3—lea
Benjamin \ allotton,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
Kt. pv c.tfiilir informs his friends nnd the pnb
“l general, th it tie intends continuing the
*• D’AsiUes.. i. a'! its various branches, at
t termer vand, opp site the Exchange. He
v recet’ e and execute, any busi
n’* 5 - s h ‘ s lU\ Juri p-rten. hiiiisc if, by atten
tmo to business, to tOcih aAure of patronage.
D--ecmUr'd-i35 * *
Sampsons Memoirs.
FROM THE AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Mr. Sampson, of this city, counsellor at law,
has just published his memoirs in an octavo vo
lume. l hc.se memoirs, written in a familiar
atid agreeable style, arc highly entertaining and
instructive. Mr. Sampson is one of'he very
many Irish patriots who for their political opi
nions and conduct have suffered persecution,
imprisonment, and exile. ‘J he work “abounds
with curious anecdote, facetiously told. The
follow ing excellent letter to a “ noble lord,”
tepfete with wit and satire, will give the reader
a tolerable correct idea of the superior merits
oftlie woik, and the pleasantry of the amhor.
The readei will perceive that Mr. Sampson was
/icrmitied to choose the United States as the
place of his exile.
“ A letter from New-York, to the right hon.
lord Spencer, hL Britannic majesty’s prii>'.-
pal sc : el in of state, for the home departnu
“ My lohd—According to ygur orders, I
was landed in this city on the 4th of July, 1806,
by captain Sutton, of the Windsor Castle. 1
was sorry his majesty’s ministers had judged it
unsafe that, 1 should be seen at Halifax, as I
needed to i ecruit my health, audio reinforce
my principles. I feared to distress your lord
ship’s humanity with the account of uly suffer
ings, or I should have written sooner. My first
sickness was the yellow jaundice, of which I
nearly died : I .was afterwards seized with the
rheumatism, and nearly lost my limbs. lam
now thank God, in good health and spirits, and
shall take every means of showing myself grate
ful for past favors.
‘ The day I arrived, they were commemo
rating their independence—carousing, singing
republican songs, drinking revolutionary toasts,
bonfires blazing, cannons firing, and huzzaing
Jar liber . y / !
I was in expectation that the lord mayor
would have brought the military, and fired on
them ; out the mayor is not a lord ; and I was
informed he was seen drinking with some of
the soldiers. They were also making an out
cry about a Yankee sailor, called Pearce, that
was killed off by captain Whitby. lt"is a pity
we hadn’t them in Ireland—we might have ten
thousand of them shot in a day—and not a
word about them.
“ I would have gone to the barracks myself
to inform against them, hut there was no bar
racks. The soldiers live in their own houses,
and sleep with their own wives. Nay moic—
they have counting houses, clerks, ware houses,
ships, coaches, country seats—the like was ne
ver seen amongst common soldiers.
“ I asked, if there was no clergyman that
was a justice of the peace, to head the military J
They she wed me a bishop, a mild venerable
looking old gentleman, that would ijot know
which end of a gun to put foremost; jfitter to
give a blessing, than to lead a corporal’s guard—
no vigor—-energy, A id they say the clergy
don't act as justices in this country. Indeed,
the: clergy here arc not like certain clergy—as
your lordship shall judge.
“ There is not a clergyman of any descrip
tion in xew-York,nor, as lar as I can .learn, in
all America, that can lead a concert, or play
upon ihc fiddle, or that daftees or manages an
assembly, or gets drunk, or rides in at the death
of a lox, or that wears buckskin breeches, or a
I nulled shirt, oi sings a bawdy song, or keeps a
mistress. All they do, is to—marry the
young peoplc.cluisr.cn their children, visit the
sick, comfort the afflicted, go to church, preach
twice of thrice on a Sunday, teach the living
how to lire, and the dying how to die ; they are
pure in their lues, uncorruptible in their mo
rals. and pie.ico universal love and toleration ;
and wnat is more unaccountable, they have no
tv tiles, and they live hi the yqry midst of their
congregations If I might be” bold to suggest
my thing, and it would not be counted over
zealous, 1 c.oviid wish there was a good book
written ■ against this abuse of tythes ; and, I
think, my iordf tnwt Anacreon” Modfe would be
a very proper person : ii would be a good means
of fircvm iag ?ihigra>ion.'-■ ■’
■ “As to the government: at the head of it is
I an old conn'ry,philosopher. I wish your lord
-1 ship could get a sight oi” one of Ins shoes, and
quarters up to his and tied with leather
thongs, lie has neither chamberlain nor viee
chambetiain, groom of the stole-nor of the bed
chamber, master oT the ceremonies, not* gentle
man usher ol the p ivy chamber, nor black rod,
nor groom, nor page oftlie privy chamber, nor
page oi the hack stairs, nor messenger To his
robes—he has no robes—nothing but red
breeches, which are now a jest, and icahread
bare one. No laundress for his body linen, nor
st arc her. nor necessary woman, fie wijl.tJk
with any body, like the good rratnred’Vicar of
akrfi. Id It the stranger talks better than
him. he is willing to learn ; if h- talks better,
he is wilting the stranger should profit. He is
a simple gentleman every way, and’ keeps his
over: r onset nee, and his ow n accounts—pays his
own debts,’ and the nation’s debts ; and has
hoarded, op eight null; and.a half :.f dollars in
the treasury. Your lordship will smile at such
an oddity.
“ “'e do all we can to shake him—we do all
we can to vVx him—He is like a wise old Der
visc. He will not be shaken—lie will not be
vexed— -no will not be moved. It he gets up,
wc sav he is too tad. Ii he sits down, we say
he is too short. If we think he will go to war,
we say he is too bloody. If we think he is for
peace, we say he is a coward. If he makes a
purchase, we say he ought to take it by force.
It he will not persecute;wc'siiv he hu K no ener-
EV- if he executes the law, wc styhe is a iy-
think, my lord, with great deference,
that * good London’ quarto might be written
and thrown at his heal, lfc has no guards nor
battle axes, and dodges all alone upon his old
hor£C, from the /iresiJent’t ho::.e to the cr.pitol.
“There might be an engraving, to shew him
hitching his to idle to a peg. The stranger in
America, might write the book ; but he need
not call himself the stranger, it appears clour
enough from his works. 11 it could be possible
to confine those works against emigre ion to
home circulation, it would be better. They ap
pear rather ridiculous in this country ; for they
know here, as well as your lordship, that peo
ple are the riches of a nation. 1 would humbly
recommend a prohibition of their exportation.
If Mr. Parkinson writes any more, would your
lordship have the goodness to let him know,
that there has been no yellow fever since I
came to America—but that in return, the cata
dids have created great distuibance ? A good
work against the cutadicls, might prevent end
geation. Tell him, if your lordship pleases,
that the butter is not bettpi than when he was
here ; and the pigs remain unreconciled to the
peaches The timothy-grass grows straight up,
and so does the duck-grass—apropos—the
ducks here, go on the water like those of En
gland ; but they swim hardest against the
stream. Twelve barrels of plaister in Massa
chusetts, go as far as a dozen in any otner state,
and there is but one bead upon a stock ofvvhea ;
and the grass grows rankest in the wet ground.
A work of this nature, may serve to prevent the
lovers of good butter anil pork lrojii coming to
America, and prevent emigration. They boil
their cabbage in fresl) water, and throw the
water out,
“ All the other departments are as ridicu
lous as the executive ; and one of his majes
ty’s cream coloured Hanoverian horses, “has
more servants than their secretary of state.
They have no lords nor beggars. We must
try to have beggars. A little work upon that
might put things in a strong light. 1
“ Their judges are .without wigs, and their
lawyers without gowns. This might he called
baldjustf c, and stinted eloquence.
“■ i here is no energy in the execution of the
law. One constable with a staff will march
twenty prisoners. Your lordship knows a coun
try, where every man has a solaicr to watch
him with a musqdet. ‘
“ The government here makes no sensation.
It is round about you like the air, and you can
not even feel it. A good work might be writ
ten upon that to prevent emigration, by shew
ing that the arts of government are not known.
“ There are few shew men or mountebanks
—a proof of a dull, plodding people, all being
about their own affairs. “This might be stated
to prevent idlers from coming. But as there
is little temptation for that class it is not worthy
a hook.
“ They have no decayed nor potwclloping
boroughs, whicWendevs their parliament a stiff
machine. “Their candidates are not chaired,
and throw no sixpences among the mob. This
might be used to prevent the emigration of the
mob.
“ 1 don’t like their little one gun ships of the
lino. If they arc so wicked when they are lit
tle, what will they be when they grow big ?
“ 1 believe Dcckturto be a dangerous man
—I had it from the ex-bashaw of Tripoli; and
Treble, I fear, is as bad ; though the bashaw
did not tell me so. However, if we don’t come
near them, they can do us no harm. I hope
your lordship will not count me over zealous in
my remarks, and that they may not be consi
dered altogether unworthy of your lordship’s
wisdom. Your lordship having been first lord
ol the admiralty, is the best judge of gun-boats.
“ “The inventions of this people are becoming
every day more alarming. They sold their
card-making machine to the English for twen
ty thousand pounds sterling l and now they say
they can make one for Jifhj guineas. Might
not some addresses be ad\ isable from the Man
chester sustain weavers ?
“ They have made a steam boat, to go against
wind and tide, seven miles in the hour, an
alarming circumstance to the coach-making
trade. A work might be written against the
emigration of coach-makers, and entitled, w*
steam boat.
“ The burning of Patterson mills, was very
fortunate ; but the eastern and southern manu
factories would require to be burned.
u It is time the country was taken out of their
hands. They are committing daily waste upon
the woods, and disfigure the face of nature
with villages, turnpikes and canals. They are
about stopping up about two miles and a half
of sea, which they call the narrows, though I
endeavor to persuade them of the advantage of
st free passage for his majesty’s ships of war up
to this city, and put before their eyes the exam
ple ofCopenhagen.
“ The Chesapeake business has burst the
bubble, and shews that many of those we count
ed upon here, are .Americans in their hearts, and
will not do any serious mischief to their own
country. Their vvranglings, I fear, are like
those of our own whig and lory, and will profit
us nothing.
“ But there is yet a means left. And if your
lordship will send me a hundred thousand pounds
by the Windsor Castle, I shall lose not an in
stant to set about it. It will, I hope, be no ob
jection to my project, that it is anew one ; the
more so, as the old ones, have not succeeded
very well. I should glory, my lord, to be the
author of a species of civil war and discord i/et
unattempted, and thereby recommend myseli
to the honorable consideration of his majesty’s
ministers.
“ There exists, my lord, in this nation, a la
tent spark which requires only to be fanned
It ibis be done with address, we shall have a
civil war lighted up in this country, which will
not be easily extinguished— lor the contest will
be between the two sexes. If we once can ge’
them into separate camps, and keep the wat
afoot for sixty years, there is an end of the Ame
rican people.
‘.‘.The matter is biicfly this:—The men
sir.oak tobacco. The ladies will not be smoakcd.
They say tliey did not marry ror come into the
world to be smoakcd with tobacco, The men
say they did no: ma ■ v nor come into the world
to be scolded, and they wili be masters in their
own houses. They are both in the right—
they are bc'h in the wrong. .Neither is right
nor neither is wreng, according as the balance*
of power-can be managed by a cunning hand.
And under the cover of this snioak, much ex
cellent mischief may be done for the seryice of
.■his majesty; and the war, which will be mem
orable in future history, may be called the
■ tgar war. We have at once, in our hands,
thiee principal ingredients of civil war; fire,
snioak and hard words.
“ We might coalesce with our magnanimous
allies, the tqvanva, on the western frontiers, and
a diversion or, the Chesapeake, would complete
the whole. And I should not despair of march
ing a column of ladies, by the next summer,
into Virginia, and laying the tobacco plantations
waste ivith fire and tow.
“ One great advantage of my project, your
lordship will please to observe, is this—that
whether it succeeds or falls, tuke.it at the very
worst—supposing it to end as it began, in smoak
—it would have a result to the full as favorable
as other projects which have cost old England
fifty times die sum I ask for. The very smoak
ing of these ladies would boa great point gain
ed ; lor they have arrived at an insolent pitch of
beauty ; and it will be in vain that we should
deter the connoisseurs and -virtuosi of mir do
minions from coining over here, by holding
out that there are no statics nor pictures, if we
suffer them to preserve such exquisite models
ot flesh and blood, from which goddesses,
nymphs and graces, may be imitated. A few
refined souls would prefer cheeks of brass, and
eye-balls of stone, to the dimple of nature, and
sparkling glances of the laughter-loving eye.
But the muss of mankind will be ever vulgar;
for them canvas will be too fiat, and marble too
hard; and flesh and blccft will carry off the prize.
“ It is true, my lord, that the same arts are
not yet so advanced in this country, as in those
farther gone in conn option and luxury. Yet it
is mortifying to see the progress the young and
fair ones are daily making in those delicate ac
quirements which give lustre to virtue, and
embellishes good sense. Those arts which
have r.ow the charm of novelty, and the grace
of infancy, cannot fail to improve in a soil where
living beauty triumphs; where the great scenes
of majestic nature invites; and where history
points the eye of the poet, the painter, and the
speculator, to the virtues of Washington, and
the plains of Saratoga and York Town. But
one who passes for having good sense, avowed
to rue some time ago, that he would rather see
a well clad and active population, than the fin
est antique groupes of naked fawns and satyrs
with a lazareni populace. /And a thing that has
raised great wonder in me, is this, that some
of these fair headed dryadcs of the woods, have
manners more polished than the shining beau
ties of your splendid court. Where they got
it, or how they came by it, I know not; but on
the chaste stem of native purity, they seem to
have engrafted the richest fruits of foreign
cultivation. And as the ladies in all civihaeit
nations will, covertly or openly, have the sway,
I think, these dangerous persons ought to be
well watched; and lam not indisposed, my
lord, to keep an eye upon them, provided I
may be encouraged by your lordship,s. appro*
bation. I shall not, then, regret the situation
in which it has pleased the wisdom of his ma
jesty’s councils to have placed me, and I shall
labor to the end of my life, to make a suitable
return.
u ln this view, I think it right to mention,
that the young ladies have imbibed Preach,
principles; some of them Can express any sen
timents grave or gay, by a motion of the head ;
speak any language with their eyes, and tell
an affectionate story, with the points of their
toes. Those cotillions, my lord, are dangerous
jr.novatiotis.
“Tt is, for the reasons I have mentioned,
extremely important, that Mr. Weld, and the
anacreontic poet, should -write down the Ameri
can ladies. The kind and frank hospitality they
received from these unsuspecting fair ones, has
afforded them an opportunity ot taking Nimble
re-uenge, worthy cf their masters. And if the
finest genius, like the fairest beauty, is to be se
lected for prostitution, little Moore is the roan,
“ But if this system of detraction be followed
up, you will do well, my lord, to keep ycur Eng
lishmen at home. They will be very liable,
coming over with such notions, to be surprised
—perhaps put in -voluntary .chains. It has al
ready happened to more than one of my ac
quaintance and may beful many more.
“ There need come no more with toys from
Birmingham. There is one Lang staff here
that has done them mischief. He gives him
seif out for gouty, and sits writing in an elbow
chair. When the fit leaves him, he announces
it in the newspapers, and appoints an hour for
his visits ; all floods are thrown open and scouts
sent out to watch for him. He runs about in a
yellow coatee ; and in the course of the morn
ing, will have kissed the hand of every pretty
lady in the town. It provoked, pie to see a lit
tle fellow lie in a lady’s work basket, and make
laughing sport of grave men. And it makes ir,c
more mortified, at my own growing corpulence
lest my bulk should be no recommedation in
the eyes of the fair, whose favor is the chief
object of my wishes; I shall therefore, before
the evil grows worse, go irhmediately to press,
be squeezed into the genteelest'foVm I can, and
hen pay mv respects to the ladies, and to your
lordship —Meantime, *
I have the honor to he, v with all due grati
ude for past favors, my lord, your lordship’s
inch obliged, and verv devoted humble scr-
William Sam?so.”