The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-02-27 00:00:00, page 3

December 9.
f '*» We received this morning some Dutch
papers to the Ist inst which contain the
address of the Dutch Legislative Body to
Louis Bonaparte upon his departure for
Faris, with Louis’s answer. The former
argues the necessity of fresh finaWcul bur*
thens, and expresses a wish for the speedy
return of a sovereign whom they venerate
•a a King, and love as a father. The an
niversary of Bonaparte’s birth*d?y is al
luded to as the cause of Louis’s journey to
.Faris, but there is not a single word in
praise ot Bonaparte.
Louis Bonaparte, in his answer says,
* Y«u know. Gentlemen, in what difficulty
, the existing state of commerce and navi
gatiiHi has placed u»—you arc acquainted
with the parttanlar situation of the nation
in this respect, and how delicate these af
fair* are. In the hope that a short absence
will be use to I to the State, we yield to the
wish of the Empcrour, our Bi other, to see
Us. Our absence shall be short, and we
• promise, to return time enough to termi
nate, before the Ist of January, 'he busi
ness rela ive to the finances of 1810.”
There is eetiikg 4» this speech to coun
tenance the Maa of a change in the gov
ernment of Holland. ,
\ According to lettep received by the
Maha Mail from Palermo, the progress of
the Russians against the Turks has been
so rapid, that Constantinople has faller,
into their hands, and the grand object of
the Enspreaa Catharine's ambition has
thus been accomplished. But this intelli
gence we do hot believe—the Paris papers
i would have boon the first to announce so
important an evpst; and indeed the infor
mation received by the way of Vienna is
xnoffc recent than that which has arrived
from Palermo. Not that there seems to
be anjbsierious obstacle to the advance of
the Russians to the Turkish Capital, unles>
Bonaparte, reserving the capture of it for
himself, sends an order to the Empemur
of Russia to suspend his march. The Rus-
■ sians were at the date of the last accounts,
engaged in the siege ot Bilistria, and mefr.t,
after its surrend. r, to proceed to Adriano
ple^—Basilico the Messenger had reachec
Palermo—h« describes Constantinople t<
tie io the greatest confusion in consequenct
of the successes of the Russians. Mr
Adair has deemed it necessary to retire
for safety on board a frigate.
’ FLAG OF TRUCE,
MXh other; that there to a fa
the Ministry, and that all is perfect an*
archy, The folly and absurdity of that
Cabinet arc beyond description. .They
have recently occasioned the destruction of
from 25 to 30,000 men in the moot horrible
country in the wot Id; it would have been
Just as well to have thrown them into the
•fa; so pestilential arc the marshes of
Walcheren! In Spain they have lost a
very considerable number of men. Gene
tai Wellesley has had the extreme impru
dence to couftnit himself in the heart of
Spain with 30.000 men, having on his flanks
tbiVe armies consisting of 90 battalions,
and from 40 to 50 squadrons, whilst he
had in his front' tht army commanded by
the King, which was of equal force. It is
difficult to conceive such an act of pre
sumption. It remains at present to be as
certained who are to succeed the late Min
istry.
, “ The United on the worat
terma nrith England, and aeem diaftoaed
aincertly and aerioualy to ofifiroximate to
aw ayatem. x
NEW-YORK, February 22. •
yesterday “A paragraph frtan
*8 Philadelphia Gazette, bat we have
A Flag of Truce arrived on Saturday,
pear Dover and Calais, and landed Mi.
Mayntz, an Austrian Messenger, the same
person, w* believe, who has before visited
this country in th* same situation. Mr.
Mantel the agvAt for prisonerv; accom
panied him immediately for London, where
be arrived yesterday. The general opin
ion is, that the despatches contain the let
ters of recall of PrinceStahrembergh, the
Austrian Minister at this court, and the
official notification of the treaty between
France and Austria, and the consequent
oessation of all intercourse between the
Utter antkthis country.
Mr. Canning is said to have expressed
considerable surprise, and even dissatis
fac'ioo, at the readiness manifested by
Lord Wellesley to supply his place in the
Foreign Department.
Letters of the 29th ult have been re
ceived from Holland, which state, that
King Louis bad set off for Paris, and that
the King of Bavaria has arrived in that
city. Napoleon’s new title, it is said, will
toot be Emperour, but " Autocrat al the
West.” •
Earl Bathurst yesterday resigned the
seals of the foreign office, and they were
given to Marquis Wellesley, now Secretory
of State for foreign affairs. It would thus
Hem, that the idea of restoring Mr. Can
nlng,'and of the removal of the Etfrl of
CamdMtiaatihdoned, at least for the pre
sent.
M I pray God, Monsieur my brother, to
have you in his high and holy keeping.
•• NAPOLEON.”
Uchocnbrvnn, October 10,1809.
(Signed)
London, December 7.
On Friday evening last, Mr. Ogilvie
delivered at Mr. Ammidon'e Hall, an Ora
tion on the advantages of a Publick Libra
•y, and amused the audience by sundry
Recitations. The delicate state of the Ora
tor’s health was incapable of bearing out
'he energ) which the occasion demanded,
•.nd seemed to hang like a dead weight on
his exertions. This contest between ge
nius and corporeal imbecility, though it was
not sufficient to shew every nerve, limb
and muscle of his energy, with distinctness,
was still sufficient to arouse and awaken
admiration and delight. ■“ Herculem ex
argue,** was with us an involuntary ex
clamation. The various sources of fash
ionable and innoxious pleasures were paint
ed with a rich and glowing pencil; and
while the mind was charmed with the
spectacle, it was immediately summoned'
<>ff to contemplate the proud ascendancy
of letters. The rights of literature were
maintained and vindicated in the midst of
powerful rivals, and our bosoms recognised
their justice. Mr. Ogilvie generously
appropriated the profits of the night to
wards the establishment of a Publick Li
brary in this town. We speak w ith con
siderable confidence when we assert that
this act of disinterested benevolence will
speedily be followed by others. It has
long been a desirable thing to have a Pub
lick Library and Reading-Room in this
town, and it has been a point to which our
humble labours have been heretofore de
voted. We are happy to find that the
respectable, opulent and patriotick mer
chants of this town are disposed to lend their
aid to an institution of this kind ; aqd we
are persuaded that next to the pulpit, there
is not a m««re powerful advocate for the in
tegrity of publick morals, than a Library
judiciously selected. There is a delicate
and mysteiioua sympathy between pubiick
taste and publick morals. WhaU ver serves
to corrupt the one, corrupts also the other-
We learn from New-Orleans, that Brown,
Mr. Jefferson’s Collector, who absconded
with 150,000 dollars of the pubiick money,
after arriving at the Island of Jamaica,
bought bills on London to the above
amount; after which he engaged his pas
sage for England, but the vessel left him.
Thus disappointed, he offered the bills for
sale considerably undew par, but a pur
chaser could not be found. Brown justifies
himself by declaring that the 150,000 dol
lars which he took, wjp /usi the sum out
of which his government cheated him.
ttrong end seifaf reasons for believing that
Dr. Logan’s voyage to England will be a*
harmless and useless as his former patriot
ick mission to the French governments—
Our cabinet is too acute, and that of Eng
land too enlightened, to entrust their in
terests in the hands of volunteers.—Ae
quid nimit.
The British packet Express, sailed yes
terday morning at 10 o’clock, with a fine
gale from N. N. W. Among the passen
gers was Dr. Logan, who is going out, it is
said, to settle all the disputes between the
United States and Great-Britain !! I
Now due, the December and January
packets. There is now no British packet
in port.
Yesterday the schooner Four Brothers,
Captain William Molloy, arrived here
from Cadiz, whjph place she left the 22d
of December. Captain Molloy informs us,
that on the 21st of December there was a
report that the French army had advanced
within seven leagues of the Sierra Morena,
which during the day was several times
contradicted; but on the morning of the
22d he saw a letter from a gentleman at
Seville, mentioning particularly that the
French had approached near the Sierra
Morena, but that, in consequence of the
insurrection in Navarre having taken a
formidable appearance, they were obliged
to make such large detachments to that
quarter, as to prevent their further ad
vance at present.
The Sierra Morena is a chain of moun
tains, enclosihg and forming the natural
barrier aud defence of the south of Spain,
or kingdom of Andalusia.
The ship Romulus, Capt. Lufkin, arrived
here yesterday, in 51 days from Lisbon.—
She brought despatches for oor govesp
meift from "his ExcellertCy /ohn Q. Adam's,
our Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court
of Russia. These despatches with private
letters that came by the Romulus, were
forwarded by Capt. Blachler, of Marble
head, who had arrived at Lisbon from St.
Petersburg. Dates of private letters arc
up to November 8»h.
Navarre is to the north, adjoining France,
and contains the strong posts of Pampelu
na, Bcc. in possession of the French.
Captain Molloy has favoured us with a
number of Seville papers, in which ■ we do
not find any thing important.
The Honourable General Assembly
of this State commenced their session in
this town yesterday.
Prouiftnce,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1810.
BOSTON, February 24.
SALEM, February 23.
■From Cadfk.
Those who have children beep to shine in
the opulent ranks oT the community, Are
bound to use every exertion in their power
that their progeny shall not hereafter sully
the splendour of their names, nor disgrace
the elevated station of their birth. Where
fortune has been penurious and niggard in
the dispensation of her favours, an oppor
tunity will be opened by an institution of
this kind, for honourable ambition to copt
and to overcome the frowns of that capri
cious deity. To the rich, to the poor, and
in fine, to every Class of society, a Pub
lick Library will be an invaluable benefit.
There is no legacy which a parent can
leave his child equivalent to this, and it is
our duty while the glow of enthusiasm thus
kindled remains, to make one vigorous ef
fort for its continuance. We are not to
be told at the present day for the first time
that a people unenlightened can never be
f> ee.—This solemn truth is written in the
destiny of almost ail nations who have pre
ceded us in the career of existence—Ex
amples qo awful should admonish us that
the time is not to be neglected in the ex
ertion of every means In our power to
avert an evil so deeply to be deplored. As
to Mr. Ogilvie, it is not our duty to re
cord his panegyriefcw and should we at*
tr opt it, the task Is'alreMfy anticipated.
sensations of his own heart constitute
the best.
Whim » louse, grave as a Spaniard,
stalked across the plate oißritish Royalty,
just as his Majesty was loadfog the glitter
fog surface of It with a large slice of the
toast beef Af Old England, Peter Pindai
tells us, nothing could exceed the heroical
auger of the illustrious monarch. He im
mediately promulgated an order of council,
directing that the whole race of these re
bellious insects should be expelled from and
out of the royal residence, excepting Only
such as might be found peaceably inhabit
ing their Majesty’s and the Princely heads
of their own legitimate grogeny. This de
cree was rigorously executed, and all the
grooms, footmen, cooks, scallions, and all
the gentry of the royal kitchen were forth
with shorn, shaven, and scrubbed in soap
•nd sand, until not a lock of hair was left
upbn them to be a residence for one of these
■caitiff insects. This anecdote came to my
recollection while reading thg patriotick
effusions of “ A Citizen,** in the Gazette
of the 17th instant. The writer gets quite
is angry as his Majesty, and almost as rea
sonably, with s race of despicable animals
who prowl round the place where he buys
his provisions, and sometimes dare to lay
'.heir greasy paws on ducks and chickens,
and affront his better stomach by compell
ing him to buy and cat them “ at second
hand.’* This he calls by the hard name of
forestalling, pronounces it oppression to the
poor and an evil worthy to be dignified by
i legislative correction. It has been true
tor more than a thousand years, that when
a man wishes any mischief done, he always
wants it done for the benefit of the poor.
A thousand examples of this might be ad
duced from history and daily experience, but
one is enough. When a certain Jew wanted
a commission on the sale of an alabaster
box of ointment, he declared it was a waste
to apply it to a pious use when it could
be sold for more than a hundred pence, and
might be given to the poor. If “ A Citi'
ten** is really grieredleast this buying up
poultry in gross and selling at retail should
deprive the poor of the benefit of roasted
ducks and turtties, he would help them to
something like a substantial remedy if he
would enable them to see a good fat piece
of boiled corn beef smoking on the table.
I am however willing to consider this thing
seriously with thia Citisew. I agree fore
stalling was once sn offence at common
law in England, nor will I say it is not at
this day ; but I will venture to affirm that
since the 12th of George 111. there has not
been a prosecution for that offence. If such
common law exists, it exists anfoogst the
records of other times together with the
law against witches and gypsies. The na
tion has out grown them, and they are
hung op like the garments of some of their
old kings, very decent things for their time,
but totally unfashionable and out of use at
the present day. The old common law
grew oat of the condition and circum
stances of the people at the time when it
originated. The whole country was di
vided into Lordships. Thosp who lived
within each territory were vassals to those
who owned the soil. The Lori) at each do
main erected a castle for his own resi
dence in some pare of It He a&d his war-
Whenever Farmer Lincoln writes hr
seems to declare Irreconcilable hostility to
common sense. He has what Horace some
where calls the “ cwriotafelicitaJ* in thc
expression of nonsense. In his late an
swer to an address of a democratick com
mittee, after an avowal of his political sen
timents in terms so sublimely unintelligible
that all explanation only makes them worse,
he declares that hjs last breath shall be
employed in a prayer for their success.—
This is one of his clumsy dashes at the pa
thetick, and 'has at least as much impiety
as elegance. The stake firetext ef pledging
our last breath as evidence of our present
sincerity, excites no sensation but con
tempt.
COMMUNICATION.
like retinue passed their time in the chase,
or in martial exertions. To build his cas
tie aud to supply its Lord and lilt followers
with their arms and ornaments required
the aid of many and various artificers.—
These, therefore, naturally collected them
selves together and formed small villages
in the neighbourhood of these castles. In a
short tithe fairs or maikets were establish
ed in these villages, to which the vassals ot
the domain came to sell their produce, and
the villagers and household servants of the
Lord came to purchase. As both the sel
lers and buyers were his vassals, and he
himself was one of the greatest purchasers,
it soon become a rule for him, by his stew
ard, to regulate the days on which the fair
or market should be open and the price at
which every thing should be sold. Hence
it is that when statutes came to be enacted
•is declaratory of the common law upon, this
subject of forestalling, the head man in
each town, that is the Lord, .should see
that every thing should be sold at a reason
able rate. It is not wonderful that this
matter should employ the serious considera
tion of more than one citizen, for it has been
irn times before a British Parliament, and
during the reign of five different sovereigns
no less than nine statutes were enacted
against teia grievout offence. It is need
Iras to state the provisions ot these statutesi
inasmuch as the tenth British law on that
•abject has repealed them all, an gives u*
i. fair view of the present English notion <4‘
rhe old common law doctrine of forestall
>ng, and the statutes made in aid of it.
This statute was enacted in the 12th of
George 111. and is certainly a full answer
to all “ A Citizan” has said or can say on
the subject. I therefore beg leave tn quote
the preamble and repealing clause—
“ Whereas it has been found by experience
that the restraints laid by several statute*,
upon the dealing in corn, meal, flour, cat
tle, and sundry other sorts of victuals, by
preventing a free trade in the said commo
dities, have a tendency to discourage th<
growth and to enhance the price of tht
same, which statutes if put in executioi.
would bring great distress upon the inhabi
tants of many parts of this kingdom, and
in particular upon those of the cities <>t
London and Westminster:—lt is therefor*
enacted that the 3d and 4th Edw. 6. c. 21—
the sth and 6th Edw. 6. c. 14—the 2d and
3d Philip and Mary, c. 3—the sth Elisa
c. 5 and c. 12—the 15th Car. 2. c. B—and
so much of sth Ann, c. 34 as relates to
butchers selling cattle alive or dead witbin
London and Westminster and within 10
miles thereof, and also all acts for the bet
ter enforcement of the same, being detri
mental to the supply of the labouring and
manufacturing poor of this kingdom, shall
be and the same are hereby declared to
be repealed.” THE POOR.
-
From Washington, February 15.
Mr. MACON’s BILL,
At Shaftsburg, (Ver.) on the 25th alt.
Mr. Nbrbmiah Salisbury, of Warren.
At Havana, Mr. Join HoasxWßbL,
formerly of Warren. «,
tZ* Tbe **•* Aeu/ior/ Mercury states
the number of deaths io (bat town, accord*
At Warren, on the 17th instant, Miss
PxtsciLLA Kelly, daughter of Mr. Dan
iel Kelly, in the 28th year of her age.
At Newport, on the 11th instant, Mrs.
Elizabeth Arnold, in the 73d year of
her age, wife of Col. Thomss Arnold.—
On the 23d instant, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hadwen, relict of Che late Mr. John Had
wen, in the 73d year of her age.
At Berkley, (Mass.) on the 22d instant,
Simeon Burt,' Esq. in the 67th year of
his age. During life he uniformly sustain
rd the character of an honest and useful
man. The religion of Christ, which had a
salutary influence upon his heart
afforded him unspeakable comfort In a dy
ing hour, and smoothed his passage to the
grave.
In this town, cm Sunday evening last,
Mr. Samuel Whittemore, of Roxbu
ry, (Mass.) to Miss Rebecca Gulliver,
of MHtox. ♦
Will, as Ariel predicted, pass the Senate
in some shape or other. But it begins tn be
suspected that the “ pith and marrow” of
it, the restrictive part, will be struck out.
Of this Ariel doubteth. But there is no
doubt that British and French armed ves
sels will be excluded from ports,
and the non-intercourse lew repealed. As
Ariel had ascertained that the bill had re
ceived the sanction of the Cabinet, before
it passed the House, it was predicted that
it would pass both Houses, and it would cer
tainly have passed the Senate without ma
terial alteration, had it not been so Inng de
layed. Freeman*e Journal.
We invite the lover» of the Muaee
to the Banquet frefiared fur them in the
firet fiage of our f after thit day. There
it a tendemeet and delicacy in the linet
equally honourable to the head and to the
heart.
At Scituate, (Mass,) Reverend SjlfutL
DtAMt, as colleague with Reverend Dr.
David Barnet.
wa O
I&arrieb,
<orbatntb,
Vieb,
inf to Dr. Kino's bill of mortality, 'for the
ear 1800, to amount to 48 males, and M
females—total 109.
American Marine list
PORT OF
February 87, IflUk
ENTERED,
Hope, Killcy, Tappahannock * Farmutq
Anthony, Cayenne.
Sloofi— Esther, Kpap, New-York.
CLEARED,
Schooners—^ Rambler, Martin, Savmntohj
Harriet, Grafton, Washington, (N C»)
Sloofie—- Rolla, Earle, Charleston | Eilaju
Currie, New-York ; George, Bowen,
mouth, (N. C.)
SMITHFIELD BILLS
ARE received for Merchandise at (Nir« ■
and will be exchanged by the sab- 1
scribers for Bills of the Providence Banhe*
at half per cent, discount.
GREENE k CARTER,
February 27, 1810. t£
FpR ALBANYT" *
1 T,,E remarkable fet-Mlk
lngsk»pSALLV,Wli,Lfllit
EffidKSJr Hu, L • Master, w ill sail about
mUMMBbb the Joth of March nett. For
Freight or Passage, (having excellent af*
connoodattaris,) apply at the tttord of Fla
lbo Hull, or r to the Master oabeardL
lying at John SaMn's Wharf,
February 27, 1819.
For sale by he subscriber, at hi*
new Bake-Koise, back <4 hi» dwelling,
and next door nest of William Jdhks.
E*q. '
THREE Hundred Barrels of Pilot tad
I’Navy BREAD. Abo, 100 Half Bar
rel* of CRACK.! RS, warranted equal M
quality to any in ide in this town.
Pilot Bread, 8 5 pec Hundred*
Naty, 3 50 do.
Crackers, 8 do.
GEORGB WEKDEK
* February 27, |Bl>. if.
Social C Hillion School.
THE third *>CIAL COIfLLIOIC
SCHOOL v ill be holden FO-AfOß*
ROW RKEJWJ T 7, at Mr, CdxT’s HaiL
formerly Mr. Aid ichTk
February 27,. 1 810.
OAK-PLANK WANTED
WANTED, 4uoo Feet of sodboied-ufk
inch OAK/ PLANK. Apply to IM t
subscriber, at EdßyS PbhA
JSAN TMUBMRsNo. ,
, ZeMwiry Jir, •* v.J
Abt»- York, Februatyll,
By the arrival this morning of the ship
Amazon, Capt. Turner, in 3> days Yrotn
Tonningvn, we have received the follow*
ing interesting intelligence
•SAt^s—Charlotte, Cook, Wilmington,
(N.C.) Patterson, Pearse, Bristol.
Schoonert— Delight, Eddy, WilmingtiNk
(N.C.) Topaz, Talbot, do. Diadamia ana,
as qoming from Eneland.
AU property arriving in neutral vessels
is taken and held by the government fof
farther investigation.
The ship Indiana, Hull, of Baltimore,
and Ocean, Aikins, of New-York, wore
lost about the first of Jauuifry, at the mouth
jf the Eider—most of the cargoes Jos4—
Hunds S'tived.
Three Americah.vessds had beentelitff
by the Danish government, they having
been denounced by the American Consol,
The ship of New-York,
"•as lost at the same place? about the 7ti
of December.
The ship Oriental, of Baltimore, war.
driven ashore at Heligoland, the vessel ajxi
moat of the cargo lost—also an AmeriCatk
•chooner, (name not recollected,) totally
••rst at the same place—hands all pre*
served.
A > unts were received at Tonfifogea*
•»f the loss of sixty -two vessels on that
coast, within four months.
Schboner FARMER and Cargo
at AUCTION.
BLODGET 8c POWER
WILL SELL AT AUCTION, '
THIS ZMY, TvßtDir, I'mvßnr 27,
at half past twa o‘<Uockf P. M. on But*
lar’s Wharf,
THE Cargo of the Schooner Fanner,
from C*| emw, consisting
100 Hhds. and Tierces of bast retailing
Molasses,
90 Bags of Cocoa,
30 do. of Ch> rride Cotton,
1.00 lbs. of do. Cloves,
24<j0 do. of old Copper.
JI. SO,
*H»e Schooner FaAMFJL
as she arrived from tew, 93
to "'’ burthen, m remarhidM
■WBfif* swift sailer, sails new, and
can be sent to sen at a trifling txp« iiK«
IX/" Conditions liberal at the sale.
BLODGET &) POWER,
February 27, lilO.
Ship D( laware, Capt. Gill, from T<
uingeti, for Philadelphia, i» raken and'ear
• ied into Calais,
Ship William, Capt. Snow, from New-
York to Tmntagen, is taken and carried
mtn Dover.
JOSEPH S. MARTIN
HAS FOR SALE, No. ♦, BUTLER'S WHAIf;
g r. PETERSBURG <Uam> H«mo
Ravens Duck,
Russia Sheetings,
Old and neat Sable Bvr-fron,
February 27, 1110. tf.