Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1803-05-07 00:00:00, page 1

MAVE FOR SALE,
At their STORE on Banifter’s Wharf,
BA‘() WN SUGAR, by the barrel; Hibberd's
Brown Staut ; Rasfins per cafk ; Moilaffes by
sbe bog ficad ; Flonr, by the barrel ; Mowld and
Dipr Candles, by the bax ; Irom Caborjes ; and
Zenuine SPA VISH SEGARS.—ALso,
LIQUORS, of the be? kind, a
gexeral Affirtment—and warious sther Articler
wm tbe Grocery Line——a complete Affortment ?
avlich they propofe to be conflantly fupplied witk,
8- MASTERS of Packets, Paf.
[rreers, Fe. may be fupplied at faid Store, ox
the phorteff Notice—with any Jrticle they may
quant—"3 their favors grat-fully ackmsawledged.
GREEN CHAIRS, per Dozen——
—Midlings, per bufpel or barrel.—~Qnions, per
Hundred banches, or fmaller quentities—LO AF
SUGARS, and a varicty of the beft of 1 EAS.
Newport, Dec, 18, 1502, . 3tf
HONEY, b/ the barrel or gallon
w=Neav.Yor# Scap, by the box—Negro-Head To
bacco—Beft 4th proof Jamaica Ram ; [vom Stoves
~Sali-Peter'd Hams—Loaf Sngar ; Butter, and
Hyg's Lavd, Ze.—-Lakrwisk, X
6 pint Decanters—6 half ping d 0.—12 Wine
Glaes—6 Sale Cells,
15 Boxes fluted Glalh Ware, each coataining,
400 hait-piot Tumblers—2 quart Decanters,
‘4 pint d0.—~4 halt pint ditig-—36 Wine
Giafles—6 Sale Cells,
50 Pipes Weel, Gin.—g catks White Leads |
30 quarter cafka of Pitol Powder,
4 calks Shot, of various fizes,
3 dito Linfeed Oil,
300 Dutch Checfes, weighing 18 & 21 Ibs, cach,
200 (12 hottle) empty Gin Cales,
Newvpart, Taw. 20, 1801,
SIMEON MARTIN,
SIXTY Hads. good retailing Molaffes,
Twa ioas Hat, Club, and Halbeck Steel,
Twenty boxes browa Havanea Sugars,
Two thoufand bathels Exuma So't, fuitable for
pork, beef, and fith, - Alfo,
Tup received from Amflerdam, per ip Eagle,
( Dawiel Auftin Mafler)
35 Boxes plain Glafs-Ware, each containing 8o
ftraws of half-pint Tomblers, 10 per firaw—
LINEN & WUOLEN RAGS, BY
Chriftopher Olney, & Co.
Delivered at their Mills, or Paper Ware-Heufr,
\V HERE they have for fale, at whelelale &
refail, all kinds of Paper, viz. Fooll
eap Writing Pajer, No, 1 and 2,~Vellom Let.
ter do-—TPot do,.—Wrapping do.—~Boanet do,
—Clothies"s do. 1t guality.—Sheathing, with
and without Sand.—Book.Binder’s Boards,—
Candiz Paper, and Sogar Loaf Blue.—aLso,
A complete Allortment of BlanK Account
and Kecord Books.—~LIKEW ISR
Account Books made aud ruled to any pat
tern, to fuit the purchafur.—A complete Aﬂ)f":t
ment of Schnol Books, & Stationary of all kinds,
dlfa, Warranted Chocolate, by the Box,
o 1 poand, Cncon Shells, by the Bag.
N. ~ Wanted, one or two Boys, from 12
20 14 years of age, as Apprentices to the Paper
making and Clothing bufigels,—To fuch great
encouragement will be given,
Providence, O, 26, 1802, =4ft
30 Barrels beft N. Y. Superfine Flour,
A few Hoglheads of good retailing
MOLASSES. Alfs, a few Cafkseof
SHERRY WINE,
of an exceiient quality —very cheap for Cath,
Neavpire, May, 2q. gott
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N O LICE is hereby given to all perfons have
ing any demands againft the eftate of
Qliver Kead, Inie of Newport, Mariner, de
cealed, 10 exhibit them to the fabferiber for fer.
tlement ; and all thofe any wile indebted to faid
eftare, are herchy called upon to make imme.
diaie payment to MARY READ, 4dnin'x,
Newpart, Aoril g, 1803, 132 3=
m
DKH‘"I’EI) slhre on Rofe Ifland, fome
time fince, alarge oak BOAT, aboat 12
or 13 feet keel, good and foand. Whoever
wii prove prope:*y and pay charges, may have
her again by applying to
RICHARD WHITE.
Rofe. I ard, April 16, 134
F UST reccived and for fale at this Office, a
] beantiful afortment of PAPER.HANG.
’NG 3, with a great variety of elegant Borders,
which will be fold at the Faltory prices—from
%3 0 15/, per Roll,
HOUSE PAPER
John & Henry Cahoone,
0 sPOR SALE, O
Br YOSEPH BRIGGS,
FOR SALE, BY
Pablithed weekly, by OLIVER FARNSWORTH, (Printer 10 the drave, and of the Laws of the Unireo Staves;) 7bemes-derect, DEWPORT,
AN INDISSOLUBLE UNTON OF THE STATES, 1S ESSENTIAL TO THEIR LIBERTY AND FXISTENCFE , v WASHINGTON,
fr22¢F
This being the cafe, the only relief that
could come muft arife out of fomething brigi
nating in Eatope, that would, in its confequens
ces extend to America, It-had long bren my
opinion ‘hat commerce contained within ifelf
the means of its own protection ; bot as the time
for bringing forward any new fy ftem is rot al
wavs happeuing, it is neccffary 10 warch its ap
proach, and lay hold of it before it pafies away,
As foon as the late Einperor Paul of Ruffia,
abandoeed his cosligion .iarE:.hM and g&
wewe & bewirat power, this chifis of time,
alfo of circumftance, was then arriving ; and |
employed it in arranging a plan for the protee
tion of the commerce of neatral nations doring
war, that might in its operation and confequen
ces, relieve the commerce of America, ‘The
plan, with ihe pieces sccompanying it, confifted
of about 40 pages. The citizen Bonneville,
with whom [ lived in Paris, tranflated N into
Freoch, Mr. Skipwith the American Conful,
Joel Barlow, and myfelf, had the tranflation
rinted and difiributed 24 a prefent to the toreign
‘K‘!iuiﬂcn of ail the neutral nations then refident
in Paris. “This was in the fummer 1800,
Lerrer Tas Sixti. .
THE malignant mind, Dke the jaundiced
eye, fees every vhing thiough o falfe me.
dium of its own creating, The hghe of Hesvenr
appears ftained with yellow to the difflemperad
fight of the one, and the faiveft ‘attions have e
form of crimes in the venomed imagination of
'be O'hcro :
For feveral monthe, both before and »fter
my return to America in Oct, lait, the apoltate
papers, fliling themfelves Federal, were flicd
with paragraphs and cflays rcﬁlﬁl loteer
from Mr, Jefferfon 1o me at Pans j and thoogh
sone of them knew the contents of the leteer
nor the occalion of wrirting it, malignity tauphe
them 10 fuppofeit, and the lying tongee of .
juftice lent them its aid,
That the public cay be no longer impnfed
upon by Federal apoftacy, 1 will mow publith
the letter and the occafion of ity being writien,
, The Treaty negociated in England by Jnhn
Jay, and racificd by.the Wathingtes Adannnitra
tron, had fo difgracetolly furrendered the right
and treedom of the American flag, thar zil che
commerce of the United Srates on the occan be
came expoled to capture and (vifered in confe
quence of it, The duration of the treaty was
limited to two yeaes after the war ; and confe
quently America conld not dariog that period,
releale berlelf tiom the chains which that creaty
had fixed upon her,
To the Leaders of the Federal Fallion,
[Here follow the Avticles (10 in mumber)
which bave already beem prven te the public. ]
The foregoiog nlan, as I have before men.
tioned, was prefented to the mivifiers of all the
neutral nations then 1o Paris, 1 the fummer
1800. Six copies were given to the Ruflian
General Springporton, and a Reffian pentleman
who was going to Peterfburg took two exprefl
ly for the purpofe of putting them into the
hands of Paul. I fene the original manufcript
in my cwn hand writing, to Mr. Jeficrfon, aed
alfo wroie him four letters dated the Ift, 4th,
6th, 16th, of Oftober 1800, giving him an ac
count of what was then going on in Eavope ref
peling neutral commerce,
‘The cafe was, that in order to compel the
Englih Government to acknowledge the rights
of neurral commerce, and that free f(hips make
free goods, the Lmpersr Paul in the month of
September following the poblicaiion of the plan,
fhot all the ports of Roflia again® Eogland,
Sweden and Denmark did the fame by their
ports 5 and Deomark fhut ep Hamborg, Prufha
fhat up the Elbe and the Wefer, The ports of
Spain, Portogal and Naples were fhut up, and,
in geoeral, all the ports of Lialy, except Venice,
which the Emperor of Germany beld ; and had
it not been for the untimely death of Pawl, a
lew of watien:, founded on the authority of na.
tions, for eftablifhing the rights of neatral com
merce and the freedom of the feas would have
besn proclaimed, and the government of Eng
land mof have confented to that law, or the
ration mult have loft its commerce ; and the con
fzquence to America would have been, that
foch a law would in a great meafure, if not ean.
tirely, have releafed her from the injures of Jay's
Treaty.
It was entitled Mari Time Compacr,
(in French Paze Maritime) being an UiN
ARMED ASSOCIATION of Nations, for
the protation of the Righ's and Commwercs of
Navons that (hall be Neotral in time of War,
Of all thefe matters Tinformed Me. Jeff 1.
fon. ‘This was before be was Prefiden:, and
the letter he wrote me after he was Prefident
was in anfwer 1o thofe | bad writren 1o him &
the manufcript copy of the plan 1 had feat him.
Here follows the lotter,
To the Citizens of the United States,
THOMAS ‘PAINE,
AND PARTICULARLY,
Wepbington, March 18, 1301,
Drar Six, A
\'uar-ktmd‘)&m I}, 4th, 6th, 16th,
came dely 0 hund, and the papers which they 1
covered were, accordiug to your peammflion, |
publithed io the Newa-papers sod in & pamph.
let aod uncer your cwnrame. ™ Thele pepers '
contain précilely our priociples, and’'-d hope ‘
they wxgeuuny recognized heve, Derer- |
meined a 9 i &ve 1o wavid, of pflibley wvafirng the
tenpivs of sur prople in avar and doluition, awe ‘
Soall averd saplicc ting enrfeloer wirh Ihe paroces,
of Exrepeyeven in fuprort of priuciplet gobrbreve,
mean 19 putiue. They bave Ji movy cthev intes
refls differghi from cuns dat e my! aviid being
emtarglod W tbens. We . beliuve «we can enforce
thefe provcidles ar 1 onvfelves by peaccable means,
#ite that woe ave iikely to Gave owr public Cosne.
cils detachred feowm Jevcign adesr, The return
of cur ertizins from the pbreaxy ints avbich vbey
bad beex woverpbt, paridy by sll cordv in France,
parily by astifices pradiyed ‘I” them is almefl en
tive, and avill, Ilelivve, ‘becume quite fo. -Bt
thefe detaile, 100 minute ahd long for a letter,
will be better developed by Me, Dawfon the
bearer ob {:‘io. ¢ member of the late Congrefs, 10
whem 1 seler you for them, He goes in the Ma.
ivland floop of war,which will wana few days ac
Havie to jeceive his totters 1o be written on his
arrival at Paris, Yoo expreffed a with 1o gera |
|\aﬁ'.l§3 10 this country in a public veflel, Mr.
Dawfon is charged with orders 1o the capiain
ot the Ma '!tmf’, to receive and accanmodare
you back iz you ¢an be ready to depart st fuch
a hort warning, Robert R, Livingfon is ap
polm‘ Minilter PknimWaty go \he republic
of Fux. bot will not jeave this, nll we re.
ceive the wnlication of the convention by Mr,
Dawfon. 1 amin hopes you will fiud ve re
turoed generally 1o fentimente worihy of former
tuness ko thefe e will_be your gl 1y 10 have
- fleadily labored and withras much ot as any
I man liviog, “That you way long live to con
~tinue your ufeful labors and to reap the rewund
- in the tulnefls of nations wmy fincere pray.
er. t #ffurances ol my bigh dlzem and
affeq attachment,
R . THOMAS JEFFERSON,
This, Citizens of the United States, isthe
letter about which the leaders and tools of the
federal fattion, withcut knowing it contents ot
the occafion of writing it, have wafled fo ma
ry malignant falfehoods, | 1t is 2 lecer, which
on account ot its wile economy aod peacesble
principl®, and its forbearance to reproact,, will
be reed by every good man and cvery goud cinie
sen with pleafure ; and the faction, morsficd at
its gppearance, will have to regret they foreed it
into publication. ‘The leatt atoncment they can
now offcr is to make the letter as public as ihey
have made their own infamy, and learu (o lie no
mote,
The fame injuflice they thowed to Mr,
Jefferfon they thewed 1o me, I had employed
myfelt in Earope, and at my own expence, in
forming and promoting a plan, that weuld, in
its opeiation, have benefited the commerce of
Amcrica, and the faClion hese invented and cir
culated 2o accovnt in the papers they employ,
that | bad given a plan 1o the French for bumne
ing all the towns on the coat from Savacnah to
Baltimore, Were Ito profecote them for this
(and I do not promife that I will not, for the
hbexty ef the prefs is not the liberty of lying)
there s not a federal Judge, not even one of
midoight apponitment, but wult, from the na.
ture of the cafe, be obliged to condemn them,
‘The faltion, however, cronot complain they
have been reftrained in any thing, They have
had their foil fwing of lying vncontradiéled ;
they have availed themfelves, wnoppofed, of all
the arrs Bypocrily could devife; and the event
hae been, what inall fuch cafes it cver will,
and ooght to be, the ruin of themfelves,
‘l?w charaéters of the la'e and of the pre.
ferr Adminifirations are now fufficiently maik
ed, and the adherents of each keep up the dif.
tin€tion, The former Adminiftraiion rendered
itl-1f notorious by outiage, coxcomical parade,
falfe slazmm, a cvntinuurincnafc of taxes, and
an unceafing clamour for war ; and as every
vice hasa virtue oppofed 1o i, the prefent Ad
minifiration moves in the dire@ cootrary lines
The queftion, theietore, at eiettions is vot pro.
perly a gueftion wpon perfons, but cpon prine
ciples. Thofe who are for peace, moderate (ax
es, and mild government, wiil vore for the Ad.
minifteation #m condofts irfelt Ly thole prine
ciples, in whatcver bacds that Adainiftration
may be. i
There are in the United States, and par.
tienlarly 1n the middle Siater, feveral religions
fects whofe leading morl principlesis Paace.
It 3 theretore im o fihlg thae foch perfons, cone
filenily with the di€raies of thae principle, can
vote for an Adminifleation that is clameroes for
wat, When meral principles, rather than jer.
fons, are candidates for power, to vote is 10 per-
* The pian, evirh the pap ri accomponying
it nwere pubighed by 5. H, Smuth of toe Eederal
Cige i }
form a meral duty, and not 1o voie i 10 veg.
et aduty, g
‘T'hat perfons who were hunting sfier placs
es, offices, and Comtratls, fhouid be advocares
for war, taxes and exiravagance, is not 10 be
wondered at; bot that {0 Jarge a portioa of e
people who had nothing to depend upon hos
theie indultey, and no other public profpeét bat
thet of paying taxes, and hwering the burden,
fhould be advogates for the fame meafure isa
thoughtleffoefs not eafily accoonted for. Bot
reaton b recovering her empire, and the fop of
delulion is cleariag awwy.
‘ THOMAS PAINK,
Bovdenton, on the Delgware,
N, Jewey, dprid 11, 1503.}
No. L
EXPENBNCE is the great teft of humaa
attions. Wuh ber affittance we draw (it
final conclufion which farishes all @ Which, not
unfreguently , ovesturns the reafoning ol fchools,
phitofophy and politics, She proves that the
greatelt abilities, united to the fich education,
and atded by the friftet habits of induttry acd
attention, are not always egoal 1o the lafk f
combining in one view, all 3\o& fally and i
camflances that have » natoral conpedlion with
the fubject, When fhe anttions an 281, 10 Ifae
fon againft it is vain, When fhe retofes her ale
feot 1o a meafore, the motive whigh induced it
may be pure; ber the meafure itfelf ezanot ba
a wile one, Her counfels ought obe lifleacd
10 by all ¢lafies, from the wan who acquires be
P Rl
. H :“.” . by
adord no aid, douhts .rik and diverfities ¢
opinion exift, ) his was the cafe when the laft
Congrefs, at ity Reft {effion, repealed the Tiitere
nal taxes, and re-eflablithied the old judicial fyfe
tem, by abolithing the one pafled in Febroary,
1801, Thefe meafures were approved by threce
fourths of the people ; a refjeclable portien of
the remaining fourth refofed ihcir affenr, 'This
clafs have one common intcreft with the vation 3
their wifh is to prefecve the conßitotion, the
laws, and the liberty of the conatry—l (peak
oot of the leaders of oppofition,
A government, which yields prote@ion,
and übitains from opprcflion, which maintaing
order, and fecores hiberty, which preferves the
nationzl faith, and pra&ices economy, whofe bae
s in the people, and whofe object is their hape
pinefls, is the great defideratum,
I'he laws obye€ied to, have londg fince gone
into operation ; the cvils preditled have net
heen realifed : Expericnce proclaims their vas
lue ; and the murmon of dilcoatent are dying
away., The time hias arrived whean it has bee
come the duty of the peaple to re.eonfider the
obj:€tions, and decide upon their validity,
We were told that by abolifhing the late
judiciary fyflem we ihould loofea the bands of
civil fociety, deftroy the conlitation of oue
country, auddelfat tie operatiors of juftice,
Put the fyftem was abolifhed —the bands of foe
ciety are not loofened —peace, order, and hape
pinefs psevail —the confiretion retaing ity youthe
ful energy—the Judges of the Sapreme Court
bave fanétioned the law——and juilice is fully ate
miniflercd as heretoore. All the purpoles of
fociety are aniwered—an important conftitee
tional principle fettled—and an exjence faved
eqoual to the fupport of fome of the Siate gove
cinments,
We were told that by abolifhing the inter~
nal taxes, we fhould defiroy the nation’s credit,
violate its faith, dry wp its refources, and e
prive the government of the meaus of fopport.
Eut by the economical arrangement of the gov
crnment, the reductions of expenditure exceed
the rede@ions of revenve, moge than 200,000
dollars ; thus the people were relieved from an
poal taxes amountiog to near a million of dol
lars, and from ali this delay, expence apd embar.
raflments arifing from the whor: fyfiem of ine
ternal taxation, and the government is on faler
ground than the preceding adminiftration,
The oppufition has eadeavored to excite
popular difcontent on accovat of lepealing the
excile on c:miaﬁ:s and domeftic refined fugar,
After baving themiclves doubled the taxes ooa |
{alt, tea and brown fugar, while they were in
power, afice having ridicoled the li,:lm of the
people for years, aiter beftowing on them every
epithet which they had genios to invent ot
knowiedge to’borrow, when they no longer
goide the helm of State, mue attemeed 10
paim themlielves opon the ic, ny the. chame
pions of the rights of the people, and the advoe
¢ Where Liberty is—there is my Coontry,®
From the Navionat INTELLIGE X TR,
OF THER
PRESENT ADMINISTRATION,
4d VINDICATION
OF TH»
MEASURDRES =«
By Arcernvon Sronir.