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

J. B. WOOD’S I
GENERAL PRICE-CURRENt OF BANK NOTES,
AS THEY ABE RECEIVED AT HIS EXCHANG K-OFFICE, PKOrWEKCE t (H.IJ
N RW-H A MPSHTR E
Bills of the New-Hampshire, ditto payable in Philadelphia, Portsmouth,? jto 3 per cent dis.
Union, StraHbrdumd Exeter Banka, , A j
Concord Bajlks - ™
Cheshire, Coos, and Hillsborough Banks, • • .60 to 70 do.
, MASSACHUSETTS.
' Bins of the United States Branch, Massachusetts, Uniy, and Borton BankaPar.
Salem. Essex, Beverly, Marblehead, Newbury port, Gloucester, (Cape-}
Ann,) Plymouth, Worcester, Bedford, Pacifick, and Nantucket C—l 1-3 per cent dis.
. Banks, - • - " • •* • • • J
Portland. Maine, and Saco Banks, ■ - • ’ * ’ 4
Hallowell and Augusta, and Lincoln and Eennebeek Banks, ... 6to 8 do.
Penobscot,• • UW Jo.
Berkshire Bank, *<no tiemana.
CONNECTICUT.
BMI df the Middletown, Hartford, New-Haven, Nwrwich, New-Lon-? j j eent. dis.
• don, Union and Derby Banks, J* • • \ u-
Bills of the Bridgeport Bank, W * • ' * to *'* P er cent d”’
Bitts of the United States Branch Bank, Par.
Bank of Virginia, i- • 2 per cent. dis.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
jBifUMO <***> B-nfc, Bank of Alexandria, and Bank of FMew**,
~ LOUISIANA TERRITORY.
Bitts of the United States Branch Bank,
Bank of Louisiana,
Bill« of the Vermont State Bank*. '* 20 per cent diat
» RHODE-ISLAND. *
Bills of the Providence, Exchange, Roger Williams, Bank of Rhode
Inland, Newport, Rhode-Island Union, Bank of Bristol, Commercial, >
Warren, Rhode-Island Central, and Narraganaet Banks, .... J
Smithfield Union Bank,-£ per cent. dis.
Washington Bank, 3 ■
Farmers’ Exchange Bank, , . . dead...
KENTUCKY.
B'llja nf the Kentucky Insurance Company 90 per cent dia.
NORTH-CAROLINA.
Bills of the Cape Fear, and Newbern Banks,l2 1-2 per cent. dia.
NEW-YORK.
Bills of the United States Branch, Merchants, Manhattan Company, Bank "7
of New-York, New-York State, Bank of Albany, Mohawk, Farmers’, > 1-2 to 1 per cent. dis.
Bank of Hudson, and Bank of Columbia,J
Bills of the United States Branch Bank,*'
State, and South-Carolina Banks, • • - • sto 6 per cent. dis.
Bills of the Marietta, Miami Exporting Company and Chillicothe Banks, 20 to 30 per cent. dis.
Bills of the Jersey, Trenton Banking Company, Newark Banking and - ) j_4 to j pg, cent>
Insurance Company, and Bank of New-Brunswick, J
, PENNSYLVANIA.
Bills of the United States Farmers’ and Mechanicks’, Philadelphia, 7 to 1 per cent. dis.
Bank of Pennsylvania, and Bunk of North-America, ..•••5 '
Bills of the Pennsylvania Branch Bank at Pittsburg, 10 per cent. dis.
Qjr To the above Discount there will be a email advance for email eume, Ind Bills under
4<Wlars. not of t hie State.
• • United States and Boston Bills, or Specie, will be given for any Bills received at par,
for halt |»er cent, for sums over R 20—under g2O, 1 per cent, advance.
Any dietant Banking Company, wiehing their Bille to be received tat par, willpleaee to make
evrangemente accordingly, and they we>< be duly attended to.
The most punctual attention will be paid to all Letters, (postpaid,) addressed to J. B.
Wood, enclosing Bills to be exchanged, and the earliest remittances made to any part of the
Union, per fret, or not to exceed the eecond mail All Bank Notes that he passes will be
warranted oood, and should any counterfeit Bills lx-received in Lettere, they will be
returned. Bank Notes examined Gratis Office houre from eunriee until euneet.
Exchange-Office, Providence, (R- I-f February 2, 1810.
FOR SALE AT AUCTION,
On MONDAY the 12th ot February on the
Premises, at 11 o'clock, A. M.
THAT valuable Lot, with the House,
Storks and'WHARF, at present oc
cupied by Henry P. Franklin. Said Estate
is the third south of the Market, and mea
sures 40 feet on the Main-street, and runs
back about 150 feet, to the new street laid
from Market-street south.
Byis of the Farmers’ Bank, and Bank of Delaware, 2 to 6 per cent, dis.
MARYLAND. j
Bills of the Usiteil States Branch Bank,• Par.
Union Bank of Maryland, Bank of Columbia, Hagerstown, Bank of "7
Baltimore, Branch oi the Farmers’ Bank of Maryland, and Mechanicks* > 1 to 4 per cent dis.
Bank of Baltimore, }
. One quarter part of the Spermaceti
Works, with the Buildings and Utensils
at present on the premises, bounding west
erly on Muddy Dock, southeastwardly on
the Channel, eastwardly on a Gangway,
Sid northwardly partly on the Estate of
e late Col. A. Atwell, and partly on a
Gangway. This situation is capable of
greater improvements, as respect Wharf
age and Building Lots, than any other in
that part of the town.
Conditions of sale may be known at the
Office of Henry Bow’Nn, Esq. or at the
time and places of sale.
January 30, 1810.
’ Commissioners’ Notice.
THE subscribers, having been appoint
ed by the Honourable Court ot Pro
bate of the town of Providence, Commis
sioners to receive and examine the Claims
against the Estate of Captain Nathaniel
Packard, late of said Providence, de
ceased, represented insolvent, give notice,
that six months from the 15th instant
were allowed by said Court to the Credi
tors of said Estate to bring in their Claims,
and that we will attend at our respective
Stores the time appointed for that purpose.
SAMUEL THURBER,? r ».
JOHN R. BALCH,
All persons indebted to said Estate, are
requested to make Immediate payment, to
SAMUEL M’CLELLAN,
Adminitlralor.
January J 6, 1810.
IMMEDIATE employ will be
X given to a white WOMAN, (whose n -
commendations are for a faithful discharge
of her doty,) in a family of only four per
sons, and her wages or •: dollar per week.
Inquire at the A merkap Office.
January 30, 1810.
VoLUM* 11.
The above Price-Current will be carefully corrected every Friday.
THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN,
AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
.Also,
“ THE NATION WHI
VERMONT 1 .
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
NEW-JERSEY.
del Aw \RE.
VIRGINIA.
. . . . . par.
25 per cent. di*.
OHIO.
THE Subscribers having form
ed a Connection in Business will con
tinue to carry on TANNING and CUR
RYING, under the firm of
ALDRICH and THURBERS,
at the Tannery lately occupied by Dexter
and Samuel Thurber, jon.
Tillson -Aldrich,
DJtxr&R W Uamull TnußßSß,jun.
They have for tale,
500 best Carolina salted HIDES*
January 2fi, 1810.
RROVIDK.VCE, sc.
January 25th, 1810.
TAKEN in Execution, as the
property of Richard Fenner, of
Cranston, in the County of Providence,
Yeoman, at the suit of Benjamin Buatey,
•if Boston, and to be sold at Publick Yen
due, on SATURDAY the 28ih day of
April next, at eleven o'clock, A. M. on the
premises: All the Right, Title and Interest
that the said Richard had at ten o’clock
in the forenoon of the 20th day of January
instant, in and to a certain Lut of Land
lying in High-street, nearly opposite the
new Brick Meeting-House on the west side
of the river in Providence.
There is on said Lot, a Stone Building
erected for the purpose of a Tallow Chand
lery, with all the Kettles and other imple
ments, which will be sold with the pre
mises.
Alto, a very convenient Dwelling-House,
suitable for two families, with a large Store
in front, being a valuable situation for a
trader, not exceeded by any in that street,
having been many years occu, ! .ed by-
Messrs. Manchester and Fenner, and
others, for that purpose.
Conditions of sale will be made known at
the time of sale.
RUM and BRANDY.
BLOQGET y POWER
Uflrr. just landed,
Twenty Pipes of Spanish bran
dy.
17 Hhd«. of ST. CROIX and ANTIGUA
RUM.
January 12, 1810.
,g« TOWARDS ANOTHER AN HABITUAL HATRED, OR AN HABITUAL FONDNESS, IS IN SOME DEGREE A SLAVE."-^WASHIAV f TON.
A. BILLINGS, Sheriff.
9 to d per cent. dis.
PROVIDENCE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1810.
...Par.
'T'HE Subscribers, Executors
A of the last will and testament <>
Joseph Eddy, Shipwright, deceased, hu\
ing given bond as the law directs, reque -
all persons who are indebted to the Estat
of the deceased, to make immediate pay
ment; and those who have demands agains
it topresent them for payment.
THOMAS TABER, >
JOHN ANDREWS, 5 AxefU/ors
Agreeable te the last will of tbe deceased.
the Executors offer for sale on accommo
dating terms and credit, his Mansion-House
and Lot on Eddy** Point, standing on the
corner of Ship and Eddy's streets.
jILSE,
His two Ship-Yard Lot* opposite the
mansion-house. As the Dots are sq well
known, the Executors conceire a particu
lar description in this udvenyement unne
cessary. *■ i ... ....
January 30, 1810. > tf.
WHEREAS at the Court, of Commo*
Pleas holden nt Providence, in and
for the County of Providence, on the third
Monday of December last, the Subscribers
were appointed Commissioners, or As
signees, to receive the Estate of GARD
NER LAWRANCE, of Providence, in
the County oi Providence, Labourer, who
has obtained the benefit of an act, passe(|
in June, A. D. 1756, entitled “ An Act for
the Relief of Insolvent Debtors,” and the
several acts in aid, thereof, and distribute
the same among his Creditors, Agreeably
tp the provisions of said acts NOTICE
is therefore hereby given to the Creditors
of the said Gardner, to exhibit to us, or
either of us, their respective demands,
within four months from the 29th day of
January inst. or they will be precluded ac
cording to the provisions of the acts afore
said.
WHEREAS the Subscribers, at the Su
preme Judicial Court holden at Pro
vidence, in and for the County of Provi
dence, on the third Monday of September
last past, were appointed Commissioners to
receive an assignment of the Estate of
BaThrum Round, who has obtained the
benefit of an act, passed in June, 1756, en
titled “ An Act for the Relief of Insolvent
Debtors,” and distribute the same among
his Creditors:—Notice is therefore herebj
given to the Creditors of the said Bathrum
Round, to exhibit and prove to us, theii
respective claims against his said Estate,
agreeably to «ald act. j
JAMtS WILDER,
HUGH PRAY,
DUDLEY WADE.
Gloceater, January 29, 1810.
A Valuable Stand for an Auction-
Room.
B. & T. C. HOPPIN
OFFER at private sale, <>n ‘reasonable
terms, that valuable STORE, oppo
site Cheap-Side, at present ou*upied by
Mr. Samuel Nightingale, jun. It is one of
the bast stands tor the Dry Goods, Groce
ry, or Auction line of Business in this town.
January 12, 1810.tf.
COTTON and RICE.
LANDING THIS DAY
THE Cargo of Schooner Lucretia, from
Savannah, constating of
50 Bale# of Prime Ufland Cotton, and
65 Caak* of New Rice.
The Cargo of Schooner Belvidere, from
Charleston, consisting of ,
150 B iles of Upland Cottow, and
46 Casks of New Kke ;
And from Sloop Rolla, from Charleston,
.20 Bales of Pi ime Upland Cotton, and
15 Casks of New Rice—
For sa* eby <
ALEX. JONES.
January 19, 1319,
CORN..
NOW landing from the Schooner Ram
bler, from Savannah, Eight Hundred
Bushels cfINIMAN CORN, and for sale
on moderate terms. Inquire at the Store of
THOMAS JONES,
Market-Street.
January 23, 1810.
OFiF.RS FOB SALK,
THE Building next door south of the
Custom-House, consisting of a large
front Shop and four other apartments in
good repair and suitable for most kinds of
business.—Also, a Body-Pew in the first
Congregational Meeting-Hsuse, with an
elegant Cushion and other apparatus there
unto belonging. The price of the Pew,
&c. is 8 100. and for the above described
Building 8250—payable by note at either
of the Banks in this town, with an ap
proved endtfeer, on two months credit.
His House and Lot, where he now lives,
being on the handsomest street in Provi
dence, for $5OOO, on six months credit.
jit which filace may be had, a variety of
Mathematical, Optical and Philosophical
Instruments, Navigation Bunks,Charts, &c.
17* Those Ladies and Gentlemen, to
gether with the rising generation, who wish
to be benefited by a judicious execution of
his profession, as a Dkxtist, will please
to make early application to him at bis
house near the Theatre.
. 6t.
CYRUS CLEAVELAND,
DANIEL HAYFORD, jun.
JESSE MAY.
January 30, 1810.
January 19,,1810.
HEAD THIS!!!
I. GREENWOOD
NOTICE. •
LfKRIVISR,
To the Editore of the Rhode-leland American.
The following is an attempt to answer your
•equest for a version of the Italian Sonnet,
published in your paper of the 23d ult.» It
will be readily perceived the thoughts contain
oo much epigramatick point to admit of har
mony, even with a reasonable poetick license 5
•ill of which have been used in respect to Obli
vion, whether for the better or worse, the reader
will judge.
O Tims! said I, whose all destroying force
Has laid this work in ruins, to whose name
He stop’d not to reply, but held his course
With hastened speed.—l turn’d to Fa mb,
O thou 1 who herald’st all that’s ‘done
Below, cans*t tell ?—her visage flush’d with
* “~lharffe,
And grief and sorrow fell;—but answer none 1
Confus’d with sympathy I felt her flame.
As from the humbling scene 1 turn’d me round,
Oblivion’s shapeless shade approach’d the
place,
With track nor graceful movement, from be
hind
A bank of mist, his wake I seem'd to trace 1
Thou sure ! of equal date, in agony I cri’d,
Canit tell, nor mock my pain.—With mutter
ing voice,
Like distant thunder rumbling, he repli’d,
It nsw is mine— hat been, nor know nor care I
whose
Christian parent* will be careful to
place before their children a pious ex
ample. It is often and truly said that ac
tion* speak louder than words. Children
understand the actions of their parent*, be
fore they have any knowledge of language.
The actions of parents are not only early
and easily understood, but they are long
remembered by their children. We always
remember the conduct of our parents. We
shall always remember what attention
they paid to the holy day of the Lord
Jesus Christ. We shall always remember
whether they read the holy scriptures and
worshipped the living and true God in their
famUies. The words and actions of pa
reuts miskatlw first, the deepest awd the
most durable impressions on th* minds of
their children. The example of parents
will, probably, have more influence on the
present character and the eternal condi
tion of their children, than any other se
condary cause. Those persons, who make
accurate observations on the characters and
conduct of men, or who are well acquaint
ed with themselves, perceive abundant
reason to believe that the example of others
makes a deep impression on the human
mind, and has a powerful influence upon
human conduct. The holy scriptures place
liefore us the example of eminent saints, as
affording the most effectual inducements
to a holy and virtuous life. The glorious
Redeemer endeavoured to influence his dis
ciples to do what was right by making on
their minds the deepest impression of his
perfect example. Hethen said, “ Ihave
given you an example, that ye should do as
I have done to you.” Would parents adopt
the most impressive* and persuasive method
of inducing their children to become reli
gious, they must, in the most careful and
watchful manner, place before their chil
dren, in their own conduct, an example of
the reality, importance and excellence of
For the Rhodk-Island American.
MORAL AM) RELIGIOUS HINTS
No. XXV.
It has always been the felicity of the wise
and the good to benefit mankind by the ex
hibition of example, of which the utility is
great and the species imitable. He alone
is great who envies their felicity, and he is
ungrateful who detracts from their power:
for he who envies their felicity will strive
to obtain it,, and he who detracts from their
power but ill repays them for adorning hu
manity by operose accumulations of wis
dom and virtue.
Christianity. ANTHROPOS.
Friday, 2d February, 1810.
These prefatory remarks, Gentlemen,
Editors of The Rhode-Inland American,
and General Advertiser, were suggested
by the conduct of those, who would fain un-y
dermine by calumny, or obumbrate in
oblivion the resplendent virtues of your,
(and 1 covet the honour of subjoining my)
venerable friend Tosia> Bradford. It
has often given me pain to observe that
perverseness of mind which would not see
his excellence, and that depravity of heart
which could not feel its power.. Until now
To the Editors of the Rhqdb-Island
Gentlemen,
CHRONONHOTONTHOLOGY
Original poetry.
|Bfocellanp.
American.
ID oral.
I had Imped that virtue, like the sun, muat
be seen; until now I had hoped that th*
basest of us were proud of those high
standards of moral worth, wherever they
are found, which rise to vindicate humani
ty ! I did not intend again to wield tn*
avenging pen, and, sure I am, I did doc
foresee that an occasion tike the present
would demand its aid. It is only the reit
eration of a dogma wliith experience had
taught me before, that he who hopes Zoo
much solace in age from the coagulation of
the passions will probably be disappointed,
and that he who foresees much wilt proba
bly leave much unforeseen. >1 have found
it impossible to remain unconcerned, while
1 behold the triumph over wisdom and vir
tue of that profligacy which knows no com
punction and that malignity which know*
no bounds. To sleep on my p<Mrt in the
fortress of the virtues would ill become the
reputation which has befallen me among
my fellow-men, however small in Europe,
Asia, Africa and America—of which the
exaltation would be unbecoming and the
rejection absurd.
Thus publickly to avow, therefore, my
high opinion of the value to the literary, to
the political and moral world, of the sage,
the patriotick and the venerabk Brad
ford, is a duty that I cannot neglect and a'
pleasure that I cannot forego. I cannot but
applaud that nice sense of truth which re
jected the passage of Searson, and I cannot
but envy that warm flow of feeling which
was manifested, notwithstanding the chill
ing obturations of age. He who is indig
nant at falsehood is commonly a lover of
truth, and he who loves what is true is
eager to detect what is false. He who
abandons a station, of which the rank is
great, for reasons of which the weight it
small, manifests a laudable contempt for
the splendours of office and a* laudable
obedience to the nod of true honour. Hg,
who——but he who says too much is an ■p
judicious panegyrist, and he says too mute
who dilates to gratify his own
Time soon dissevers from things the ei*
traneous superadditions of that partiality
which pet haps never failsto magnify, and
it is well if suspicion does not punish our
impudence by an excession from the thinga
themselves. In these cases, therefore, brev
ity is justice, and I will be biief that I may
be just. The important di-coveries in phi
losophy, and in politicks, which this grutle
man hath made aheady, and is making
still, are known to bis countrymen and re
paid with their ingratitude. It is the hap
piness of humanity to become satisfied with
what is unavoidable, and I would commend
it to this g eat and good man, as one which
1 have long since enrolled among the life
guard maxims of my own peace, “ that
cotempora neous undervaluation will be re
paid with posthumous accumulation of
fame.”
Of this gentleman’s publick and private
beneficence it would be almost injustice to
speak. That labour whith cannot add a
brighter polish is at least used in vain, and
that labour which is used in vain had bet
ter not have been used at all. Here let me
call his enemies! here stands the palladi
um of his glory, of which no human power
can defraud him ! If I could separate wis
dom from virtue I would call virtue greater
than wisdom ; for he knows much who
knows how to act nobly, and he knows little
who knows every thing but this.
Thus much. Gentlemen, I thought it my
duty to say in defence of your great and
good correspondent, at a time whfen the
darkest malignity is stealing on his reputa
tion, with daggers envenomed by Satan,
and It would seem, in pursuance of a re
cognisance before him, to execute his worst
commands.
I have yet an interesting circumstance
to disclose. In a recent journey through
the woods beyond Skenectady, and in *
manner benighted by impenetrable infolia
tion, an aged man on horseback suddenly
crossed my path, with his eyes intently fix
ed on something before him, and with an
expression of exultation, mixed with anx
ious earnestness in his visage rather long,
and with a vigorous effort to hurry forward «
a beast rather lean. His hat appeared
very small 4 but I have since considered
that his wig was very large, and that many
things are great when examined by them
selves which are diminished into little
ness near those which are greater.- My
suspicions that it was the great'and good
man himself were strong ; for I remaiked,
that some important subject absorbed his
tnlnd and had almost absorbed bis body.
He who thinks for mankind must think in
tensely, and he whtsahinks intensely must
think away much flesh.
SAMUEL JOHNSON,
Tiers is nothing disgraceful and de-
plorable in the annals of a nation, ns the
prejudices and partialities of it* fulem. s
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