The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-02-09 00:00:00, page 1

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tVk GENERAL PRICE-CURRENT OF BANK NOTES,
f X THEY AHA EEOE..ED AT HIS t.XCH.I.VG S-WICt, P.0, /D .» C E. (H. IJ
' A. mhw-hampshire.
BnWtoCthe New-Hampshire, ditto payable in Philadelphia, Portsmouth, > jto 2 per cent. dis.
Strafford, and Exeter Bank*, - * ' * ? 6to 10
CpncorlJ Banks, . ... 60 to 70 do.
Chcdnre?£oos, and Hillsborough Bank*, ... - I
MASSACHUSETTS. ,
Bill* of the United State* Branch, Massachusetts Union, and Boaton Banka, ... - *r.
« i c.«rw~Rir>rjlv Marblehead, Newburyport, Gloucester, (Cape } I
Bedford. P-idek,..nd N-ufcf —1 l-2p.r«nl d».
Banks, - " ’ ' ' .iio to 2 do. I
Portland, Maine, and*B*co Danka,, - • • •• • • ' * ' «to 8 da
Hallowell and Augu»U,\«nd Lincoln and Kennebeck Bank*, to £
Penobscot, .... *’**'**.*.".* 20 do.
Northampton, • •. • .* . . . .....*. . no demand. I
Berkshire Bank, * - • t", . I
CONNECTICUT. •;
I "*“* Bills of the Middletown, Hartford, New-Haven, Norwich, New-Lon-> i, 2 i per cent. di*,
don, Union and Derby Bank*, ‘i 1 to 2 per cent. di*.
Bills of the Bridgeport Bank, . •»
. VERMONT.
Bill, of the Vermont StAte Banks, per cent dm.
RHODE-ISLAND.
Bills of the Providence, Exchange, Roger William*. Bank of Rhode-}
Island, Newport, Rhode-Island Union, Bank of Bristol, Commercial, > Par.
• Warren, Rhode-Island Central, and Narraganset Banks, .... J
Smithfield Union Bank, . . • • • • 'l I’s » n 2 do
Washington Bank, 11-2t02 do.
Farmers’ Exchange Bank 4
KENTUCKY.
Bills of the Kentucky Insurance Company,2o per cent. dis.
NORTH-CAROLINA.
BUI* of the Cape Fear, and Newbern Bank*, * 12 1-2 per cent. dis.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
Bill* of the United States Branch Bank, ’ ’ * ’ ™
State, and South-Carolina Bank., *5 to 6 per cent. di*.
OHIO.
Bills of the Marietta, Miami Exporting Company and Chillicothe Banks, 20 to 30 per cent, dis
NEW-YORK.
Bills of the United States Branch, Merchants, Manhattan Company,Bank}
of New-York, Nsw-York State, Bank of Albany, Mohawk, Farmers A 1-2 to 1 per cent. dis.
Bank of Hudson, and Bank of Columbia,J
NEW-JERSEY. - ,
Bills of the Jersey, Trenton Banking Company, Newark Banking and? 34t0 j ccnt . dis.
Insurance Company, and Bank of New-Brunswick, ... - J
’ ’ ’ z PENNSYLVANIA.
Bill* of the United States, Farmers’ and Mechanicks’, Philadelphia,) Mto cent dif .
Bank of Pennsylvania, and Bank of North-America, 5
Bills of the Pennsylvania Branch Bank at Pittsburg, • •10 per cent. dis.
DELAW \RE.
'Bills’ of tlie Farmers’ Bank, ami Bank of Delaware,2 to 6 per cent. dis.
MARYLAND.
Bills of the United State* Branch Bank,• - • • • - • • - - / Par-
Union Bank of Manland, Bank of Columbia, Hageratown, Bank of}
• Baltimore, Branch of the Farmers’ Bank of Maryland, and Mechanicks’ £ 1 to 4 per cent. dis.
Bank of Baltimore,•••[•• J
VIRGINIA. >
Bilb of the United Stales Branch Bank, . Par.
Bank of Virginia, X * ' * 2 per cent. dis.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. dL
Bilb of the Union Bank, Bank of Alexandria, and Bank of PotomacW „ 3 to 6 per cent. dis.
LOUISIANA TERRITORY.
Bilb of the United States Branch Bank, -’.. . - - Par.
Bank of Louisiana, er Cent '
The above Pricb-Currbnt will be carefully corrected every Friday.
- qJ. To the above Discount there will be a small advance for email sumd% Wt Jhlb under
5 dollars, not of thio State. . - , , .
• • United States and Boston Bills, or Specie, will be given for any Bill* at par,
for half per cent, for sum* over R 20-nnder g 20. 1 per cent, advance.
Any distant Banking Company, wishing their Bills to be received at par, will please to make
arrangements accordingly, and they w'Hl be dulyattendedto. ~ x . j. 1 n
The most punctual attention will be paid to all Letter*, (postpaid,) addressed to J. B.
Wood enclosing Bills to be exchanged, and the earliest remittances made to any part of the
Union per first, or not to exceed the second mail. All Bank Notesthat he pusses will be
warrantbd noon, and should any counterfeit Bill* be received in Letters, they will be
returnedßank Notes examined ghat is Office hours from sunrise until sunset.
Exgha.ngb-Ofvice, Providence, (~B- LJ February 9, 1810,
WHEREAS at the Court of Common
* Pleas holden at 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 Providendt, in
the County ot Providence, Labourer, who
has obtained the benefit of arkact, passed
in June. A. D. 1756, entitled “ An Act fot
the Relief of Insolvent Debtors,” and the
several acts in aid thereof, and distribute
the same among his Creditors, agieeably
to the provisions of said actsNO I ICE
Is therefore hereby given to the Creditors
of the said Gardner, to exhibit to us, ot
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-
CYRUS CLEAVELAND,
DANIEL HAYFORD, jun..
JESSE MAY.
January 30, 1810.
THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN,
AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
' ' .. TH ,,, T ,OH WHICH A. A. .
„ ■ PROVIDENCE, jPRZZMrr FEBRUARY 9, 1810. , ; Number 33.
Volume 11. ' : „ - ■ —r~ ■ ' ~
Copartnership dissolved.
THE Copartnership between bTtt*
and Hu mt was dissolved on the 3d
instant, by mutual consent.
* S y MARK sterr
SETH HUNT, jun.
February d; 1810.
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 hereby
given to the Creditors of the said Bat hr uni
Round, to exhibit and prove to us their
respective claims against his said Estate,
witbin nine months from the 28th day of
September last, or they will be precluded
agreeably to said act. .
‘ JAMES WILDER,
HUGH PRAY,
, DUDLEY WADE.
Gix enter, January 29. 1810
NOTICE.
FOR SALE AT AUCTION,
On MONDAY the 12th of February on the
Premises, nt 11 o’clock, A. M.
THAT valuable Lot, with the House,
Stores 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
b <ck about 150 feet, to the new street laid
from Market-street smith.
One quarter part of the Spermaceti
Works, with the Buildings ami Utensils
at present on the premises, bounding west
erly on Muddy Dock, southeastwardly on
the Channel, eastwardly on a Gangway,
and northwardly partly on the Estate of
the late Col. A. Atwell, and partly on a
Gangway. This situation is capable of
greater improvements, as respect Wharf
ige and Building Lots, than any other in
-hat part of the town.
Conditions of sale may be known at the
Office of Henry Bowen, Esq. or at the
t ime and places of sale.
Januan/ 30, 1810.
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. I'anm-ry lately occupied by Dexter
ind Samuel Thurber, jun.
Tillson Aldrich,
Dixter W* Samuel Thurber, jun.
They have Jor eale,
500 best Carolina salted HIDES.
January 26, 1810. -
Stale .of Rhode-Inland und Providence
Plantation!.
Ff.bhuany 3, 1810.
’VHE Creditors of William Hillings,
' of Providence, Coppersmith and Bra
zier, are hereby notified to appear, if they
shall think fit, at the General Assembly
tn be holden at Providence, on the last
.Monday of February instant,then and there
tn shew cause, if any they may have, why
lih petition for the benefit of pissed
in June, 1756, for the Relief of Insolvent
Debtors, ought not to be granted.
SAMUEL EDDY, Scc'ry.
Also,
H\S just receive’! u couaiderable addi
tion to his assortment of Goods, con
-isting of long and short white and coloui tc
Kid Gloves, Gentlemen’* Beaver ditto ;
prigged, leno, lace, net and hail-irtom
Muslins ; Bandano and Madras Handkert
chiefs, superfine Broadcloths and niillei.
Cuasimeres, black Italian Crape, Umbrel
las, fine Linens, Shirting Cottons, Cam
hiick Muslins, very cheap Russeb and
( alimancoes, black and bottlegreen Tabb'
Velvets, Bearskin Trimmings, India Cot
tons and Checks, and almost fveiy othet
article usually kept in a Dry Goods Store.
February 6. 1810- 6t
F.v " lie", by the -urvi' ityg I’artnersof
SAMUEL G. ARNOLD & CO.
O>’E Hundred rtuirv ol Frnne Upland I
divorgia CintArti, 14 '’ *
30 Bales of Se i-Island do.
28 do. New Orleans Cotton,
40 Tons ofSt. Petersburg!! clean Hemp,
12 do. Kentucky Hump,
20,000 Wt of KeAtucky Hempen Yarns.
■4OO Bolts of first quality Russia Duck,
200 do. Raxeue Duck, I
100 do. Russia Sheeting,
A few Casks of Russia Swines Bristles,
first and second qualities J
A few Rusaia Feather Beds, and Bales of
Russia Glue, f ,
35 Tons of Old and NeW Sable Russia
Bar-Iron, <
20 Tons of English Iron, q**orted ;
4000 Bushels of Liverpool coarse Salt,
30 Crates of assorted Liverpool Ware,
100 Hhds. of Kentucky Tobacco of an ex
cellent quality,
150 Barrel* of Kentucky Pork,
A quantity of Tea Sett* and a few Dining
Setts bf China,
jy* Exchange 011 Londo# at short sight,
in sums to suit purchasers.
February 6, 1810.
To be sold at PuHick Auction,
on the premises, on the
13th of March next, a: 11 o’clock, M.
’THAT valuable Real Estate, consisting
r of a HOUSE and LOT, belonging tv
the Estate of the late Capt. Jonathan
TheaDowell, deceased, pleasantly situ
ated on Weybosset-street, adjoining the
estate of Mr. Samuel James.—Conditions
made known at the tine and place ot sale.
MarTha Treadwell, Executrix.
February 6. 1810.
T'HE puimck are hereby informed, that
r the Bills of the Smithfield Union
Bank will be received by the subsetibers
dt par, in any business transacted with
them ; and that, from their acquaintanc.
with the Directors of that Hank, and their
knowledge of their paying Specie, on de
mand, for all Bills presented, they will
exchange Providence Bills f<»r Smitlifieicly
at 1-2 per cent discount. This will ob
viate the inconvenience attendant on theii
not being, depositable, and greatly lessen
the discount given on those Bills, which
has been stated 2 or 3 per cent, under par.
The 1-2 per cent, is merely lor a remune
ration of the expemtf of sending them
home.
grebse& CARTER.
February 6, 1810.
A YOUNG MAN, from England, who
fur the last six yeais has had the
man igemeut of a large Cotton Factory in
Manchester, (Eng.) and who from his ex
perience feels confident that he can g> ve
,-very satisfaction. He possesses an inti
mate acquaintance with the Spinning and
Chrding Business, and wkh all parts of the
Machinery. A line addressed to J- B. und
left at the Office of The American, will
meet with every attention.
February 6, 1810.
IN consequence of the misf<>» tunes of the
Purchase rs of the Rmode-Isl and Coal
Lottery the Second Class will not be
drawn agreeably to the scheme. The sub
scriber therefore deem# it his duty, having
sold-a great number of Tickets in the above
Loner-, to inform all persons who pur
chased Tickets of him, that he will receive
them back, and return the Canh or other
Ticket' for the same, on ‘J e ™ n^ OOD
Lottery and Exchange-Office,)
Providence, Jan 30. 1810. j
THE Subscribers, Executors
bmphd jist will and teatanient of
Joseph EoovShipwright, deceased, hav
ing given bond a» the law direct#., request
all persons who are indebted to the Estate
of the deceased, to make immediate pay
ment ; and those who have demands against
it topresent them for payment.
THOMAS TABER, > Execulort .
JOHN ANDREWS. s**“ *
Agreeable to the last will of thedeceased,
the Executors offer for sale on accommo
dating terms and credit, his Mansion-House
and Lot on Eddy’s Point, standing on the
corner of Ship and Eddy’s streets.
.dLsa,
His two Ship-Yard Lots opposite the
mansion-house. As the Lots are so well
known, the Executors conceive a paiticu
tar description in this advertisement unne
cessary. .
January 30, 1810. ”•
IMMEDIATE employ will be
given ton white W’OMaN, (whose re
commendations are for a faithful discharge
of her duty,) in a family «>f only four per
sons, and he r w ges one dollar per week.
Inquire at the American Office.
January 30, 1810.
SMITHFIELD BILLS.
S. N. RICHMOND
PUBLICK NOTICE.
WANTS EMPLOY,
A DYING CHRISTIAN.
Hum! hush! my friends, why stand you
round me weeping !
You shock my fortitude, too weak already j
Save that dear infant, he may long be useful—
My day is over:
With pleasure, and with pain, I in retrospect
<ee my past life—l view a thousand bailiffs,
Yet here and there a man that, when an orphan,
Fed at my table.
Love, uncreated Love’s mysterious mantle.
Woven to cover naked human nature,
Hides what the child, the youth or man Las
acted,
That age would blush at.
Indulgent Hteiven, not greater was thy glory,
Thv power and wisdom, sung at the creation,
By morning stars, than fourscore years’ expe
rience
Proclaims thy goodness.
If in the nurse’s arms we are not smother’d,
Yet soon or late death will rock o’er the crudle,
As here the young—there the old infant tumbles
Into bis coffin:
Good night, my friends! when this last nap is
over,
(I rest in hope,) awaking from my slumbers,
I shall rise and wish you a good morning,
In life eternal.
T h E resolution from the Senate approving
the President’s conduct towards Mr. Jack
son, the British Minister, being under dis
cussion, Mr. QUINCY, (of Massachusetts,) ,
rpse, and said, it is not my intention, Mr.
Speaker, to offer any common place apo
logy for the few observations I shall sub
mit to the house oq the subject now under
consideration. Such is the character, and
such lire consequences of these resolutions,
that no man, who had at heart the honour
ukl happiness of this country,ought to con
tinue silent, so long as any topick of illus
tration is unexhausted, or any important
point of view unoccupied
It is proposed, Sir, that this solemn as
sembly, the representatives of the Ameri
can people, the depositary of their power,
«nd in a constitutional light, the image of
their wisdom, should descend from the dig
nity of its legislative duties, to the task of
uttering against an individual the mingled
language of indignation and reproach. Not
satisfied with seeing that individual prohib
ited the exercise of his official character,
we are invited to pursue him with the joint
terrours of legislative wrath; couched
in terms selected to convey opprobrium and
infix a stigma. “ Indecorous," “ tnso
lence," "affront," "more insolence"
"more affront," "direct, firem- dilated
insult and affront," " disguises, fallacious
and false i" these are the stains we are
I called upon to cast; these the wounds we
are about to inflict. It is scarcely possible
to comprise, within the same compass,
more of the spirt of whatever is bitter in
invective and humiliating in aspersion.—
This heaped up measure of legislative Con
tumely is prepared; for whom ? for a pri
vate, unassisted, insolated, unallied indi
vidual ? No, Sir. For the accredited minis
ter of a great and powerful sovereign,
whose character he in this country repre
sents, whose confidence he shares; of a
sovereign who is nyt bound, and pet haps
will not be him in mis
conduct but wlJ|HMkby the highest
obligation|^^^H^Wm l,)Sl
sive political
wrongs, his person
or reputation ; that what
ever treatment he sHWI receive shall not
exceed the measure of justice, and above
all, that it does not amount to national in
dignity.
Important as is this view of these reso
lutions, it is not their most serious aspect.
I This bull of scarcely less than
papal, is to be fulminated in the name of
the American people, from the high tower
of their authority, under the pretence of
asserting their rights and vindicating their
wrongs. What will that people say, if,
after the passions and excitements of this
day shall have subsided, they shall find,
and find, I fear they will, that this resolu
tion is false, in fact; that a falsehood is the
basis of these aspersions Upon the charac
ter of a publick minister f What will be
their just indignation, when they find na
tional embarrassments multiplied, perhap*
their peace gone, their character disgiaced,
for no better reason, than that you, their
representatives, follow headlong a tempo
rary current, insist on making assertions,
a. they may then, and 1 believe will realise
to be. not authorited by truth, under fir-
HOUSE OF HEPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, December 28.
MR. GILES’S RESOLUTIONS.
Conor m.
Pottip.
cumstunce# and in terms not warranted by
wisdom.
Let us not be deceived. Itiswo slight
responsibility w< : ch itls house is about to
assume. This is not on* U." those holliday
resolutions whidh frets and fumes its hour
upon the stage and is forgotten forever
Very different is its character and conse
quences. It attempts to stamp dishonour
and falsehood on the forehead of a fotxign-.
minister. If the allegation itself be false,
it will turn to plague the accuser. In its
train will follow severe retribution, per
haps in war ; certainly ih additional em
barrassment ; and most certainly, in worst
of all, the loss of that sentiment of self
esteem, which to nations, as well as indi
viduals, “is the pearl of great price ;**
which powur cannot purchase/ nor gold
measure.
In this point of view all the other ques
tions which have been agita'ed in the
course of this debate, dwindle into utter
insignificance. The attack or defence of
administration, the detection of fault, or
even the exposure of crime are. of no im
portance, when brought into competition
with the duty of rescuing this house and
nation from tht guilt of asserting what is
false, and inking that falsehood the basis of
outrage and virulence. 1 avoid? therefore,
all questions of censure or reproach, on
either the British Minister or the Ameri
can Secretary of State. 1 confine myself
to an examination of this resolution, parti
cularly of the first branch of it. Thisis
the foundation of all that follows. I shall
submit it to a rigid analysis, not for the
purpose of discovering how others have
performed their duties, but ollearning huw
we shall perform ours. The obligation to
ttuth is the highest of moral and social dui
obvious and only safe course, in a case of
such high responsibility, is first to form a
ties.
It is remarkable, Mr. Speaker, that of
all tffe gentlemen who have spoken, no
one has taken the precise tei ms of the re
solution as the basis of his argument, and
followed that course of investigation which
those terms naturaWy preset ibe. Yet the
distinct idea of the assertion *ve are about ,
to make, and then carefully to examino
how that assertion i» supported, if support
ed at all, by the evidence. With this view
which it is proposed for our adoption, and
make it the basis of my inquiries.
“ Resolved by the Senate ami House of
Representatives of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled—Thkt
October, 1809, aedaddressed to Mr. Smithy
Secretary of State, conveying the idea thae
the Executive government of the United
States had a knowledge that the arrange-
I recur to the resolution, in the form in
ihe expressions contained in the official
letter of Francis J. Jackson, Minister Ple-
nipotentiary of his Britannick Majesty near
the United States, dated the 23d day of
ment lately made by Mr. Erskine, hV prede
cessor, in behalf of his government, with
the government of the United States, was
entered into without competent powers on
the part of Mr. Erskine, for that purpose.,
highl) indecorous anti insolent.”
This part of the resolution, it will not be
denied, is the foundation of the whole. Fot
if no such ” idea was conveyed” in the let?
ter of the 23d of October, then there could
he no “ repetition** of that idea, in the let
ter of the 4th of November ; and if in the
former part of his correspondence Mr.
Jaeksm had made qn such “ insinuation,”
then the assertion in this letter that he had
made none, was perfectly, harmless and
justifiable. This part, therefore, includes
the pith of the resolution. If we analyse
it wr shall find that it contains two distinct
assertions—First, that the expressions al
luded to cmvey ft certain idea—Second,
that this idea, so conveyed, is indecorout
and insolent. Here again We are enabled <
to limit the field of our investigation. For,
If no snch idea, as is asserted, was convey
ed, then the inquiry, whether such idea it
indecorous and insolent, is wholly super
seded. The true and only question, there
fore is, whether the exfirettiona alluded ft,
do convey the aaaerted idea. I place the
subject in this abstract form, before the
house, to the end that, if possible, we may
exclude all those prejudices and partiali
ties, which so naturally and Imperceptibly
bias the judgement. In the light, in which
it pow stands, it must be apparent to eve
ry one, who Will reflect, that the que*
tion has so far, as It respects the principles
on which our decision ought to proceed, no
more to do with the relations bet wee*
Great-Brhain and the United States, Shan
it has with those between the United States
and China; and has fio more connexion
with Mr. Francis J. Jackson and Mr. Ro
bert Smith, than with the late Charles of
Sweden, anti thf LXikeof Sudermania.—-!t
ia a simple philotaftaal disquisition, which