The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-02-16 00:00:00, page 1

GENER AL PRICE-CURRENT OF BANK NOTES,
AS THEY ARB RECEIVED AT HIS AXC/WAIGf/t-OZ'/'ZC'A, PtOriDtMCi, (H: IJ
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Bills of the New-Hampshire, ditto payable in Philadelphia, Portamouth, k 4to 3 <W|t dit-
Union, Strafford, and Exeter Banks, J
Concord Banks, - «to 10 do.
Cheshire, Coos, and Hillsborough Banks, .......... 60 to 70 do.
a i • MASSACHUSETTS.
Bills of the United States Branch, Massachusetts, Union, and Boston Banks, .... Par.
Salem, Essex, Beverly, Marblehead. Newburyport Gloucester, (Cat* ?
Ann,) Plymouth, Worcester, Bedford, Pactfick, and Nantucket V. 1 1-2 per cent dis.
Banks, ***•?. . ,
Portland, Maine, and Saco Banks, \ 2 • • 1 1-2 to 2 do.
Hallowell Augusta, and Lincoln and Kennebeck Bank*, ... 6to 8 do.
FenoUeot, -- - ' 50 to 75 do.
Northampton, 50 " o ‘
Berk.ture Hank, • no demand.
CONNECTICUT.
BUI* ef the MiddWtown, Hartford, New-Haven, Norwich, New-Lon.? bSto t rfia.
don, Union and Derby BanM> . • • • J -
' Bafa of the Bridgeport Ihnki 1 to 2 per cent die.
VERMONT.
NFAV-JERSEY. .
Bill* of the Jersey, Trenton Banking Company. Newark Banking and 7- . . „
Insurance Company, and Bank of New-Brunswick,J 5-4 to 1 per cam. dis.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Bills of the United States, Farmers’ and Meeh snicks’, Philadelphia, 1 . . • ..
Bank of Pennsylvania, and Bank of Nucth-America, . . . - . j Mto 1 P* c *" t
Bill* of the Pennsylvania Branch Bank at Pittaburg, •10 per cent. dis.
DELAW \RE.
Bills of the Farmers* Bank, and Bank of Delaware, ••••••• 3to 6 per cent, dis
MARYLAND.
Bills of the United State* Branch Bank, • p ar .
Union Bank of Maryland, Bank of Columbia, Hagerstown, Bank ofT|
Baltimore, Branch of the Farmers’ Bank of Maryland, and Mechanicks’ > 1 to 4 per cent. dis.
Bank of Baltimore,
VIRGINIA.
Bill* of the United States Branch Bank, Par.
; Bank of Virginia, 3 per cent. dis.
♦ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ™
Bank < AJrwdHa, and Bnnk .'K
♦ T LOUISIANA TERRITORY.
Bill* of the United States Branch Bank, - • - • - -
Bank of Louisiana, . . .
The above Psics-Cvmrb*t w<7< be carefully corrected even FriHgy. ■
(jJ*To tbo above Discount there will be a email advance for ranw, and Bills under
S dollars, not of thie State-
*,* United States and Boston Bills, or Specie, will be given for any Bills received at par,
for half per cent for sums over ft 20—under ft 20, 1 per cent, adtant*
Any diet ant Banting Company, wiehing their Billt to be received <t has, willpleaec to mate
arrargemente accordingly. and they will be duly attended to.
Tlie most punctual attention will be paid to all Letters, (post paid.) addressed to J. B.
Wood, enclosing Bills to be exchanged, and the earMbt remittances nude »o any part of the
Union, per fret, or not to exceed the eecond Bank Notesthat he passes Mill be
warraxtkd good, and should any counterfeit Bills be received in Lettere, they will be'
returnedßank Noles examined omatis Office houre from tunriee until euneet.
ExcHANGEDrrics, Frovilence, fR-I-J February 16, 1810.
Commisliioners , Notice.
: • r T'HE subscribers being by the Honours
JL blc Court of Probate appointed Com
|| jnissioners to receive and allow the claims
of the Creditors against the Estate of Capt
John F. Far, ’ate of Providence,deceased,
represented insolvent, give notice, that six
months from the Jth instant are allowed to
the Creditors to bring in and prove their
claims to either of us.
JOHN CARLILE, ? C om’ra
BENJAMIN CLIFFORD. 5
All persons indebted to said Estate are
requested to make immediate payment to
ABBY FRY, Administratrix.
February 13, 1810.
Bills of the Vermont State Barics, 20 per cent. dh.
RHODE-ISLAND.
Bills of the Prmidence, Exchange, Roger. Williams, Bank of Rhode-}
Island, Newport, Rhode-bland Union, Bank of Briatpl, Commercial, >
Warren, Rhode-bland Central, and Namgansct Banks J
Smithfield Union Bank, per cent dis.
Washington Bank, " 3 do.
Farmers’ Exchange Bank dead!!!
Bin* of the Kentucky Insurance Company, 20 per cent. dis.
♦ NORTH-CAROLINA.
Bill, of the Cape Fear, and Newbern Banka, 12 1-2 per cent. dis.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
Bitts of the United States Branch Bank, - Par.
State, and South-Carolina Banks, 5 to 6 per cent. dis.
foh sji.f., nr
RICHMOND & ANDREWS,
F.FTY Hhds.of N. E. KUM, which can
De delivered at Warren, Bristol, or
Newport, at the shortest notice.
They have in Store,
50 Boxes of 7 by 9 Glass,
30 Ditto of 8 by 10 do.
30 Cratefc of Liverpool Ware assorted,
Sweden and English Iron.
1 February 12, 1810.
NEW YORK.
Bills of the United States V anch, Merchants, Manhattan Company, Bank‘d
of New-York, New-Y.frk. State, Bank of Albany, Mohawk, Farmers’, > 1-2 to 1 per cent. dis.
Bank of Hudson, and Bank of Columbia,J
B LODGE? and POWER
HWEjusl received a parcel of PUIMJC
UPLAND and SEA-JbLAND < o'l -
TON, for side on accommodating terms.
February 13,‘l<;|0. 6t.
On the top of Constitution Hill.
subscriber informs his friends, and
the publick, that he has engaged one
of the best I lense Shoers in this state, and
continues tn carry on the BLACKSMITH’S
BUSINESS, ia all its branches, with neat
ness add despatch. Those who wish to
have their Horses or Oxen Shod in the best
manner, will do well to call at his Shop.
North End, near the town-pump, adjoining
the Hav-Scales. He will Shoe a Horse for
One Dollar, and a Yoke of Oxen for Two
Dollars, ready money—and all other work
' in his line will be done equally cheap/
NEH EMI AH SWEET.
February 13, 1I1&
OHIO.
Bills of the Marietta, Miami Exporting Company and Chillicothe Banks, 20 to SO per Cent. dis.
Volume 11.
THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN,
COTTON.
“TUB MATIOM WHICH IMDULGtS TOWARDS AMOTHBH AH HABITUAL HATHBD, OH AH HABITUAL AQMDHtSS, IS IM SOMt DtOBKK A SLAVE."—
J. B. WOOD’S
KENTUCKY.
A PERSON acquainted with
* aiding and Spinning Cotton will
meet employment, by applying at Miv
Ogden’s Shop in Providence.
RICHARD HARRIS.
February 13, 1810.
MAN SERVANT.
Xl7 \NTED in 4 .small iainilv, a black
▼ » MAN SERVANT. One who can
produce food recom inebriations will meet
with liberal lnquird at the Office
■/ the America*.
February 13. 1810. tf.
Pay attention, and read for your interest.
AARON PIERCE
RESPECTFULLY inform# hi# friends,
and the publick In general, that he
11# con»tantly on hand a general
iient of WALKING SHOES of the best
qimlity, which will lie sold lower than can
>e purchased at any other store in Provi
dence.
February 9, 1810. Bt.
NOTICE.
THE subscribers. Executors of the last
Will and Testament of SAMUEL
WHIPPLE, deceased, hereby give notice
to all persons having demands against the
Estate of the said Samuel, to exhibit
the same for payment. All persons in
debted to said Estate are requested to
make immediate payment.
EPHRAIM TALBOT,
JOHN WHIPI LE, jun.
TO LET,
The Dwelling-House, with a spacious
Garden, formerly occupied by the said
Samuel, in the North Part of the town.
EPHRAIM TALBOT,
JOHN WHIPPLE, jua.
February 9, 1810.
A BARGAIN.
FOH SALE,
THE noted WEST FARM, containing
Two Hundred Acres nf the best Land
in the County fur pasturing, tillage or
grazing. There is on said Farm a very
extensive Orchard, and the Buildings are
large and convenient. For particulars, ap
ply to EDWARD DEXTER.
January 19, 1810. tf.
- ..... P»r.
... 25 per cent. dis.
f to 0 pse cent. dis.
AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
PROVIDENCE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1810.
Jar.
Copartnership Formed.
r FHE subscribers have commenced busi
ness under the firm of
TAFT & POTTER,
4t their new Store in Coventry, about one
quarter of a mile west from the Coventry
Cotton Factory; where they have a good
assortment of WEST-INDIA anti DRY
GOODS, and COTTON YARN, while
and blue, for sale.
(t/* They put out Weaving of different
kinds, and carry on the HLUE DYING
BUSINESS.
STEPHEN TAFT,
HENRY POTTER.
Coventry, February 8, 1810. 6t
THE Copartnership between
I ÜbHM.tN him! MoULiUN w»i
diasulvcd OU the sth mutual COO
bent. AH |>eiw>n» hating any demand
against the lit tn are requested to nreseut’
them and receive their p*y ; and all those
who are indebted to them are called upon
to settle their accounts.
MATTHEW 8. CUSHMAN,
tr The GUN SMITHING BUSINESS
will Ik continued at their shop by Mat
thew S. Cushman, who solicit* aeon*
tinuance of former patronage.
February 9, 1810.
n.h.’n »t»e *M»tl»i«ig P'Vtnct * <4
SAMUEL G. ARNOLD & CO.
On E Hundred Bales of prime Upland
(Georgia Cotton,
30 Bales of Sea-Island da
2b do. New OrleanaCoCtoQ,
40 Tons of St. Petersburghclean Hemp,
I'2 do Kentucky Hemp,
20,000 Wt. of Kentucky Hempen Yams,
400 Holts of first quality Russia Duck,
200 do. Ravens Duck,
100 do. Russia Sheeting,
A few Casks df Russia Swines Bristles,
first and second qualities;
A few Russia Feather Beds, and Bales of
Russia Glue,
35 Tons ?f Old and New Sable Russia
Bar-iron,
20 Tuhs of English Iron, assorted ;
4000 Bushels df Liverpool coarse Salt,
SO Crates of assorted Liverpool Ware,
100 Hhds. of Kentucky Tobaccp of an ex*
celknt quality,
150 Barrels of Kentucky Pork,
A quantity of Tea Setts and a few Dining
Setts of China,
(7* Exchange on London at short sight,
in sums to sulf purchasers.
6, 1810. ,
. ../-UK SALE, „
EDW ARI? DEXTER,
Twenty chest* Vw# h»*uu Tea,
20 da pf Hyson do.
6u Chest* of Hyson Skin do.
20 do. of Souchong do.
10 Roxe* of do. do.
HAS just received a considerable addi
tion to his-Qssortnient of Goods, con-
Matine of long and short white and coloured
Kid Gloves, Gentlemen’s Beaver ditto;
sprigged, leno, lace, net and hail-stone
Muslins ; Bandano and Madras Handker
chiefs. supeifine Broadcloths and milled
' Casshneres, black Italian Crape, Umbrel
las, fine Linens, Shirting Colons, Cam
brick Muslins, very cheap Russels and
< alimancoes, black and bottlegreen Tabby
Velvets, Bearskin Trimmings, India Cot
tons and Checks, and almost every other
article usually kept in a Dry Goods Store.
February 6, 1810. 6t.
Copartnership dissolved.
THE Copartnership between STEER
and Hunt was dissolved on the 3d
instant, by mutual consent.
MARK STEER,
SETH HUNT, jun.
February 6, 1810.
30 Hhds. of Molasse* of a superiour quality
A few Bags of Pepper,
16,000 Wt. of Offer, entitled to debenture ;
A tew Cask* of Madeira, Teneriffv and
Lisbon Wine of a superiour quality ;
A quantity of Carolina Floor-Boards,
A quantity of do. Timber and Joist,
.54 Dry Hides.
January 19, 1810. -ft
A few Boxes of
To be sold at Publick Auction,
on the premises, on TUESDAY the
13ih of March next, at 11 o’clock, A. M.
THAT valuable Real Estate, consisting
x of a HOUSE and LOT, belonging to
the Estate uf the late Capt. Jonathan
Trkadwkll, deceased, pleasantly situ
ated on Weybosset-street, adjoining the
estate of Mr. Samuel Jwhtea^—-Conditions
made known at the lime and place of sale.
Mattrfts TasADUtLL, Executrix.
February 6, 1810.
A YOUNG MAN, from England, who
for the last six years has had the
management of a large Cotton Factory in
Manchester, (Eng ) and who from his ex
perience feels confident that be can give
every satisfaction. He possesses an inti
mate acquaintance with the Spinning and
Carding Business. and with all parts of the
Machinery. A line addresaed to J. B. and
left at the Office of Tee American, will
meet with every attention.
February 6, 1919.
for retailing,
1 Hhd. of Havana white Sugar,
CROMWELL MOULTON.
WANTS EMPLOY,
S. N. RICHMOND
Sometime since ■* published an Ital
ian Sonnet, and requested of some of our poet
ic* 1 friends an English version. One version
has already appeared, and a correspondent has
now obliged us with another. The reader, by
comparing the following with the original, will
fold that the Poet baa improved the sense of
the original.
SONNET.
Of human things, tlieir fortune ontheir fate.
1 ask’d of Tim a i tell me, for whom was made,
This structure, which thy hand, in dust has
laid:
I moi'* as on the moulder’d pile I sate,
. He answer’d not i but spreading on the air,
i Hi* rujwd pinions, fled, and left me there. '
1 turn’d to Fam* i do thou the tale unfold i
Historian of the deeds, and days of old :
He answer’d not; but cast upon die ground,
A tearful eye, and breath'd a sigh profound
-1 saw Oblivion, step from stone to stonei
Declare, said I, its history unknown:
When, and for what, and whom, was the de.
sign: *
It matters not, said he, enough, that now, *tis
* ussae.
For the Rmode-Island American.
moral and religious hints
Na XXVI.
. IT Hr It TUB 818 LI HAftD?
It is hated by none except the wicked.
And they hate it, because by its pure and
clear light it renders their wickedness very
apparent. The light of divine truth shines
into the consciences of men and discovert
•he iniquity of their secret desires and mo
tive*. However unwilling men may be to
see their sins, and to have them seen by
others, the bible declares that they shall be
brought, not only into their own view, but
intn the view of the assembled univet se.—
As the wicked are displeased with what
detects their sins, they are displeased with
the bible. The brightness of its light so
exposes the sins of their hearts and lives,
that they have no place of darkness, where
they can hide themselves. Since the light
of divine truth is painful to the unholy, they
attempt, in various ways, to extinguish or
obscure this hateful Ibtht. Some flatter
’ihfmselvcs th nt the whole bible is a cun
ningly devised fable. Others suppose that
a great part of it is false. Others obscure
the light of divine revelation, by denying
Its important doctrines and duties. They
reduce the light of Christianity to the dim
ness of heathenism ; and when so obscured,
, they can endure it. For then the charac
ter and the purposes of the living and true
God ; the purity and extent of the divine
law ; the deprat ity of the human heart,
the trangressor’s desert of endless punish
ment, and the humbling conditions of sal
vation through the cross of the Lord Jesus
Christ, do not pain the eyes and wound
the selfish feelings of sinners. When the
‘light of divine truth is so obscured, in
•he remaining* darkness of ignorance and
errour, the wicked, though they are the
enemies of God and are under the curse of
the law, appear to themselves to be Chris
tians, and imagine they are entitled to eter
nal life. In the darkness of ignorance and
errour the unholy choose to walk; for it
hidea their own characters, and flatters
their pleasing delusions. “ Light is come
into the world, End men love darkness
rather than light, because their deeds are
evil. For every one that docth evil hateth
the light, neither cometh to the light, lest
his deeds should be reproved."
I hope this motion which is intended to
make this law permanent, will not prevail,
and that we shall adopt the amendment
proposed by the gentleman who reported
this bill, limiting the duration of the law
to the end of the present session, then if
it passes, it will immediately relieve the
country from the operation of the present
nun-intercourse, and give the present in
tended restrictive system an opportunity of
dying a natural death.
* It has really appeared to me, from the
[The following are the remark* ui Mr.
POTTER, (of Rhode-lsland.) upon the
Navigation Act, on a motion of Mr. Rhea's
(of Tennessee,) to strike out lhe clause
limiting its duration.]
Ma. Sraauia,
commencement of this debate on this bill,
that we were legislating entirely for the
very areh merchants and the great capi
talists, and that the great agricultural in
terest was hardly thought of, and that the
farmets had hardly a single solitary friend
in this house.
ANTHROPOS.
Friday, 16th February, 1810.
Original Poetrp.
Congreil.
«t > t •«rk« • »
XDoral.
Being a farmer myself, and my estaUl 1
being principally in land, I must claim thf I
indulgence of this house while I* slate thf ■
operation of the whole of the restrictivn * 1
systtm on that class of the people.
When theembarg > was first laid it raised ■
the prices of all foreign produce and met* I
chandise ift the hands of the merchants 1
from twenty to fifty per cent, and it re* I
duced the prices of the produce of the I
farmer much in the same proportion ; the |
farmer being obliged to buy of the mer- I
chant the necessaries of life at their own I
price, the merchants awning the floating I
capital of the country and having the man- < 1
agement of the banks, by .stopping new' i
discounts, checking in notes already due, I
and collecting their own debts, court put> |
chase the produce of the farmer athfs own I
price, and aril his goods in the same way, I
and by the time the merchant had sold hit I
merchandise at great profit, ami bad poo- *
sessrd himself of the produce of the farm*
er, the embargo is then taken off tnd thn
merchants given an immediate opportunity
to ship the produce thus purchased to very
great profit; theh the settlement with Mr.
Ei vkine gave them another opportunity t*
import foreign produce and merchandise
to very great advantage, but ncsooanr had*
they done this than the dismissal of Mr.' 1
Jackson* took place, which gave then*
another opportunity to put an enormoo*
profit on their last importations, and
another opportunity to depress the price nt '
the produce of thirf country', and to put*
chase it again very low, and now a* soon
as they have got thia year* crop ready M
ship, -the non-intercourse is IqJm rt pealed*
which will give them another chante tn
ship the hard earnings of the fa: mer its
very groat profit, and again to impot t more
foreign merchandise to sell at their uWn
price, and by the time the merchants can. ’ \ i
make one voyage under the Contemplated. ' J
law, the English will retaliate, which will
again raise their goods in their hands, the
ptior friendless farmers, doomed by those
laws to slavery and puserty, go to work,
and raise an<htr crop, and by the lime:
the merchant hath bought it again very,
cheap, the farmer* and commou people
will be so oppressed and distressed by thia
system that Congress will be compelled to
repeal the contemplated law, but the mer*’ ’ 3
‘ chant will httve again Mid his merchaadlM
aod have another opportunity of shipping
the hard earnings of the farmer for another
year. Thus, Sir, you are enabling the rich
merchant and great, capitalist, who al
ready have ton much money for their own
benefit, or for the good of the ptiblick, vho
are praising this system because it ope
rates exclusively in their fatour, *yhn are
’ very rich already, and whose avarice in
crease* with their wealth to enrich them*
selves beyond all former example* from a,
class of people whn I presume will not re
main silent under their sufferings much
it. We all agree that the non-interconrse
that passed this house withunt a
advocate and has not at this time any gfh
th*mai> willing to own he had any thing IB
do with it ought to be repealed, ft per*
finite the exportations uf our produce to*
neutral ports, and prohibits the importa
tion of British goods: hut, Sir, they find
their way into this country ; the duties are
sufficient to indemnify against all risk; and
if Bonaparte, with his decrees, hk armies,
with all his powers and severity, cannot
keep British goods out of hh dominions,
from clothing hts army, ner even off of hH
own back, 1 believe withkuch an event at
sea-coast and frontier as we have. ngetbeF
with the customs, manners, and habits «f
the people of this country, wl’h sech other
inducements as they have in point of in
terest, that it m in vain for as «o attempt te
keep them out of thiacmralty. Why sljuid
we suffer aU thort ptbmttam ead metric-
longer. This, Sir, is the true operation
of the system, and many people would say*
that those merchants whox business it la
to buy cheap and sell dear, are not so
much to blame for taking those advantagee
of the lime*, as the government is fog
giving them au opportunity to do 11, and
the people for continuing men in power
who thus oppress them.
Notwithstanding all your restrictions and
prohibitions, ail our surplus produce has
found its way to a foreign market to great
advantage after it has been bought of the
growers of it for a very small price, and
English goods have found their way into
this country without paying any thing to
wards the support of government, and th#
merchant's capital in the United States it
now as great as ever it was; it is naif
changed from the correct merchants who
have been against this cystetn and thE
farmers, to those of great capital, who
while they'have pretended tn be in favouf
of this system have been trading ail tho
time and have made immense fortunes by
Number 35.