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to 53. Four Federalists voted for the bill.
* Oardenier, M'Key, M'Bride add J. Stan
ley. Whether they will vote for the final
passage or not is a question. *
Friday, Januabt 26.
’ [This is the day set apart, agreeably to
. the new rule lately adopted, to consider
bills and reports originating on petitions ]
Mr. Johnson, from the committee of
William Hawkins, and J. J. Dashiel.
The bill for granting compensation to
Isaac *riggs, was taken up and rejected.
Adjourned.
Macon's biH wifi pass to-morrow.
IN SENATE— January 22.
The bill to engage a corps of volunteers
for a short period in the service of the
United States was further discussed, and
on motion of Mr. Smith, (of Md) the fur
ther consideration thereof was postponed
till to-morrow.
January 23.
f The bill authorizing the fitting out, offi
cering and manning the frigates of the
United States passed by yeas and nays, as
follows;
Fees—Messrs. Bayard, Bradley, Bren,
Champlin, Franklin, Gaillard, German,
Giles, Gilman, Goodrich, Gregg, Hillhouse,
Leib, Lloyd, Meigs, Parker, Pickering,
Pope, Reed, Robinson, Smith, (Md.) Smith,
(N V.) Sumter', Tait, and Whiteside—2s.
Actye—Messrs* Anderson, Campbell,
GALLANT ACTION.
The fallowing are the particulars of tin
gallant defence of the American ship Au
hnulpa, Capt Sturgis, of this port, ffiount-
ber foere arrived at Guadeloupe, from
L’Orient, four French frigates with troops
for tub relief of the place, 2 of which effect
- ed a landing of the troops they had on
board, supposed about 1500 men—rthe Brit-
The following bilb were considered in
.committed of the whole, reported to the
House and passed to a third reading.*
A bill extending the right of suffrage in
Madison county, Mississippi Territory, and
authorising the appointment of a judge in
that County.
Th* bill was then ordered to a thh d and
dost reading oa Saturday next; and the
Hoose adjourned.
Tim bill cannot now be amended—it
most pass in its present form or be rejected.
The question on Saturday will be, ** shall
the bill pass F* It will undoubtedly be de
termined in the affirmative—the yeas and
nays will be about as they stand above, 72
BOSTON, January 31.
Letters from Canton, state, that the La*
drone pirates, who have tytherto been kept
peaceable by tribute money, being now
denied of their usual stipend, have com
menced a system of general piracy : That
they had taken an American schooner with
60,000 dollars cargo, in Macao Roads, and
keep the crew for a high ransom; they
demanding 3000 dollars each, as a raneow.
A Bustle at Amelia Island — lt was re
ported at Amelia, on the 12th of this month,
that the Frenchmen, who had been driven
out of Cuba, were collecting forces at Gua
deloupe, to attack Amelia. In consequence
of this the British armed vessels there were
preparing for defence, and appointed a
commodore whose orders were to be obey
ed. A British letter of Marque ship of 28
guns, h<d just arrived from Liverpool.
claims, reported in several cases; the re
ports were agreed to.
Mr. Morrow offered a resolution in sub
etanoe as Hallows: Resolved, that it is ex
pedient to request the President of the Uni
ted Metes tP engage a person to compile a
digest of the laws and resolutions of Con
grete respecting public! lauds; and topro
videfor the printing of copies thereof.
Referred to the committee publick lands
to bring In a bill. *
ish who were in pursuit of them, came in
while they were in port, at anchor, burnt
both and then went in pursuit of the other
two, w)rtcb were in the offing.
The main question, which has been so
ltg>g before the Hoose, was then taken by
ayes and noes, and carried—Ayes 72,
noes 55.
Cbndit, Lambert, and Turner,
NEW-YORK, January 27.
From Washington, January 24.
You will see by the debates of this day,
that several of the southern members have
been furnishing their billets to light up the
Wdr Fire. They talk quite glibly of at
tacking Canada, Nova-Scotia, New-Bruns
wick, and whet not, all at once ; and that
the militia, and the militia alone, shall
serve in the expeditions. Though these
gentfemen have not yet made an offer of
their services, we hope they will volunteer
in the expeditions; and that they be al
lowed to share both the responsibility and
the laurels. But. as the Indians say, the
wood furnished oy these Warriors makes
more smoke than fire. To drop the meta
phor. these war speeches are treated with
grekt contempt from every side the House."
January 29.
Capt. Newell, arrived at Savannah from
St. Bartholomews, left there December 30.
He informs, that abqut the 25'.h of Decem-
Bills for the relief of Daniel Shaddock,
25p the IBailjr.. .
It is a fact much to be deplored, and
ot which we would cordially doubt the ex
istence, if we were not confronted by the
most insuperable evidence, that French
policy has found its way into the heart of
our national Councils, Ail the measures
Congress are now pursuing, though pro
fessedly directed against both belligerents,
are intended and can operate only against
one. Silence in the debates on the subject
of French aggressions, and a perpamal
recurrence to all the injuries, either real
or imaginary, received from England, ac
companied with every artifice that ma
lignant ingenuity can devise, inflame the
passions of an injured, deluded and insult
rd people. At this tremendous crisis,
while the civilised world is trembling on a
pivot, a spectacle, which it is impossible to
contemplate withouthorrour and dejection,
to behold our rulers coalescing with France
and extending every engine in their power
to prostrate the liberties of their country, is
indeed a phenomenon in politicks. Are
our ears still to be insulted with the stale
and frivolous pretext that the liberty of
the seas is her object? Americans be
hold from their own shores their ships in
conflagration—the hopes of the merchant
buried beneath the billows—they bear the
groans of their own countrymen from the
loathsome and pestiferous dungeons of
France, and yet with deliberate and aw
ful solemnity, rush headlong to an alliance
with the power capable of perpetrating
such outrages, almost before the waters of
the ocean have extinguished the flames of
their commerce. It is in vain to reason on
such subjects, argument is appalled, and
we can only ascribe predilections of this
nature to that dreadful and ominous fatu
ity that sometimes seises on the intellect
of a nation when abandoned by Providence.
Is it a light and evanescent matter, that the
scourges of a bloody tyrant are incapable
of arousing alarm ? Does not the very apa
thy with which we forar such ignominy,
clearly import that we have abandoned
that jealous feasibility, which is equally
the guard of publick freedom and of pri
vate honour ? It is not always in the power
of the most high-minded and magnanimous
people to recover their freedom ; but ft is
always In their power to renounce and
abandon it. Providence, in a manner little
short of miraculous, enabled our ancestors
to accomplish the former, and their pos
terity wish equal industry, are attempting
the accomplishment of the latter. We
seem literally tired of the first blessings of
heaven, and even examples, which teach
other persona than sagacious men wisdom,
have been lost upon us.
We understand that arrangements are
making, for the Bills of the “ Washington
Rank,** at Westerly* to pass Ih thin town
at par ; which arrangements wa hope will
take place. *
Oh the 23d tilt. Mr. Maceo, in the House
->f -Representatives, in advocating his bill
restricting commerce, said, "it would
Ing only six six-prenders, at narrated in a
tetter from that gentleman:
Sbptbmbsb 26,1809.
** Your favour of May Ist was hkndeci
me, the 2d Inst fit- Macao, where I wa»
waiting for convoy, and repairing the da
mage sustained' in an engagement with a
fleet of Pirates.
** In the evening of the 2td of August, 1
anchored in Macao Roads, and early on
the 23d sent a boat with my first office*
and four seamen co shore, for a pilot, as is
customary. During their absence, we wen
attacked by twenty-one vessels, called, by
the Chinese, Junks, manned with two thou
sand men, and carrying from four to twen
ty-eight guns each. They first attempted
to board us, which we prevented, 6y cutting
<>ur cable, and setting some sails. They
next endeavoured to set fire to the ship,
and were again disappointed. A constant
firing was kept up, on both sides, for 75
minutes. The great number of men on
board their vessels, induced* belief, that
many Bust have been killed. We have
ascertained that one Junk loot 30 men in
the contest. Our preservation w as, indeed,
almost miraculous—Hundreds of specta
tors were on the neighbouring hills, and
for 41 minutes. Dot one. of tbc>q thought it
even possible for us to escape. I had but
10 persons on board the ship, at the time,
and fortunately, not one of them was
wounded, though many shot struck in al
most every part of the hull, and our sails
and rigging Were much cut to pieces.
“ A few of those Pirates,. (here called
Ladrones,*) have infested this coast for
some time past; within the last two years
they have become very formidable, and are
now supposed to amount, at least, to fifty
thousand men, having 600 vessels, some of
them very large. The government of this
country is so extremely supine in regard td
its enemies, and so arbitrary and oppres
sive to its subjects, that what is now styled
only a rebellion, will probably, in a short
time, become a revolution—lndeed the
rulers have become so venal and corrupt,
that some great change appears inevitable."
* They belong to a cluster of Islands in the
Eastern Ocean, off the coast of China.
ProhiOence,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1810.
M And crowded knees, sit eow’ring o’er the
* Retires, content to quake, so they be warm’d.**
O kt " the blessing qf them that orc
ready to perish come upon us.*’ Who
would not" labour that ho may have to
have as much effect upon both France and
Gieat-Britain as aoypystem we could
adopt hi the present state of things. Gen
iemen talk of war in order to obtain the
freedom of the seas. Can they expect the
freedom of the seas from those who tram
ple upon the freedom of the tend ? Can
they expect the freedom of the tend from
hose who destroy the freedom of the
ocean? Britain and France are almost
equally aggressors. Belting aside the at
tack upon the Chesapeake, I put them up
in equal ground. Gentlemen talk of the
invasion of Canada, Would they sacrifice
our property that floats upon the ocean for
two such countries as Canada? Great-
Britain can soon wrest from us four times
the value of Canada. But the oil! is called
downright colonial submission ! Is it sub
mission to exclude British vessels from our
waters ? It is not. To go to war at pre
sent would disable us from carrying the
war on. It would give to Great-Britain
ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS uf our
property. It is said Great-Britain is fall
ing, and now is the time to attack her.—
But It would not be fair and candid to at
tack her, when we have just tent her a
message of peace, assuring .her, that al
though we have dismissed her minister for
m3ec<sWus MTWadtettr-re-
ceive another. Besides, if Britain be fell-'
ing, there is no need of our assistance to
complete her downfall. Let Napoleon have
the credit of the conquest. It is said now
is the time to join France, aid England is
gone forever. I protest agaimtalAforeign al
liances. 1 will vote for no EurtfMM leagues.
I cannot for my soul understand how the
destroyer of all freedom upon land is to be
come the champion of liberty tpon the sea.
Give him the power upon theune element
which he possesses upon the feher, and he
will be equally despotick."
WHAT CAH WE GAIMBY WAR?
vetted, six thousand ifiore thrown into the
same hopeless situation, and all the rest of
our seamen ruined by the destruction of
their means of subsistence. And what shall
we gain ? We shall conquer Canada and
Nova-Scotia at the expense of twenty mill
ions of dollars, and twenty thousand lives!
Upon no principle under Heaven can we
justify going to war at the present moment
but that of a National Duel. We have
bees greatly injured, but are certain that
the quantum of injury will be increased
tenfold by war. Even tte democrats will
admit that if war be declared, and we
manfully receive a broadside, have one of
our frigates sunk, or one of our towns bat
tered down, we can then make a treaty
with honour. Freeman's Journal.
For the RnoDt-IsuMD Amiricsw.
A HINT TO THE WEALTHY.
This season calls upon us to exercise
benevolence. Sympathy is now more pow
erfully excited than at any other period:
we are enabled more easily to enter into
the feelings of others less favoured than
ourselves. And while we are enjoying
every conveniency and comfort which the
tenderness of Providence can afford, O let
us think of the indigdht and the miserable.
Let us think of those whose poor hovels
and shattered panes cannot screen them
from the piercing cold. Let us think of
those whoscf tattered garments scarcely
cover their shivering flesh. Let us think
of the starving poor, who, after a struggle
which to relinquish, give op their small
pittance of bread to get a little fuel to
warm their frosen limbs.' Let us think of
the old and the infirm, of the sick and the
diseased. When evening draws on, let us
reflect upon the scene so exquisitely touch
ed by the pencil of sensibility.
** Poor, yet industrious, modest, quiet, nest,
•• Such claim compassion in a night like this,
*• And have a friend in every feeling lieart
• Warm’d, while it lasts, by labour al day long
" They brave the season, and yet find at eve,
* 111 clad and fed but sparely, time to Cool.
“ The frugal housewife trembles while she
lights
u Her scanty stock of brush-wood blazing clear,
Certainly not reparation for the attack
upon the Chesapeake. Certainly not the
release of our impressed seamen. Certainly
not an increase of national honour or na
tional wealth. Certainly net an acquisition
of territory, which will nut cost more than
it will come ta
At all events Great-Britain can injure ns
ten times as much as we can hqr. If she
be indeed that unprincipled aibd ravage
power which the democrats say she is, the
proportion will be a thousand to one, for
she can desolate our whole seaboard,, and
dertroy our commerce, not only for a day
or year, but for a whole generation, the
"Quintuple Alliance," notwithstanding.—
But supposing the law to be an haaourabte
one, what must be its operation.lnstead
of supporting our commercial rights, our
commerce will be swept from the ocean.
Instead of getting three thousand captive
But dying soon like all terrestrial joys.
The few small embers left she nurses wffil i
And while her infant race, with outspread
hands
give to him that needeth.** WhowoeMnot
deny himself superfluities, and something
more, that his bounty may visit •• the fa
therless and the widows in their affliction.”
This season is also instructive as an em
blem. Here is the picture of life; thy
flowery spring, thy summer strength, thy
sober autumn, all are hastening into win
ter. Decay and death will soon, very qson,
lay all waste. What provision hast tho*.
made for the evil day ? Hast thou beer,
laying up treasure in heaven ? Hast thui
been labouring for that meat which rii
dureth unto everlasting life ?
f I 'HE Stockholdiis of the
A PnoriDsxca Hat Makvkactvr
l kg Compakt are hereby notified, that
their Annual Meeting for the choice ot
Officers for the year ensuing, will be holder
on MONDAY next the sth instant, in the
Chamber over their Store ; at which time
a Dividend of Profits for the year past wil.
be declared. A punctual attendance is re
quested at 2 o’clock, r. M.
By order of the Board ef Directors,
JOSIAH LAWTON,' Sec'n,.
id mo. id, 181 Q.
Between 3 and 400 acres of well timber
ed WOODLAND, situated near the cen
tre of the town of Coventry ; the whole
making the completest Water Privileges,
means of stock and situation in the state,
for prosecuting the manufacturing business
in several branches. It will be positively
exposed for sale at Publick Auctiox,
either in whole or part, TO-MORROW
the 3d of February inst. at two o'clock,
P. M. when and where Gentlemen of en
terprise are invited to attend. Conditions
will be made known at the time and place
of sale.
By order the Mminietratore, \
GREENE 8c CARTER, .Auctioneers.
N. B. Gentlemen desirous of seeing a
view of the situation, will please to call 01
Messrs. Oatttita and CJKit and view
the Maps.
Pehrstary 3, 1810.
At Newport, on the 25tb uit. Mr. Cnnts-
ToPMgJt JYkatt, of Alexandria, (Vh.) to
Miss HtnnioV Ess Tom, daughter ol
Nicholas Easton, Esq. of the former place.
It is with deep regret we record the loss
of the sloop Industry, Captain Bknks, and
of every person on board, except Charles
Destrow, a seaman, by whose protest it ap
pears, that in attempting to cross Ocra
cock bar, on the 10th ult. in a gale from N.
N. E. tl|e sloop struck, partly unhung her
rudder, and bilged. They at length suc
ceeded in heading her off, and brought her
too with the beat bower, a little without
the breakers; in this situation all hands
were employed in bailing, (the pumps be
ing choa,*ed with coffee,) till the next day,
at 4 o'clock in the morning, when a heavy
sea struck her stern, stove in one dead-
carried away the rudder entire
ly. Perceiving then that the sloop was
drifting, they let go the small bower and.
again brought her too—at 11 o’clock, find
ing it impossible to free the sloop or to make
sail on her with any prospect of reaching
the shore, she being now water-logged,'and
her rudder gone, they all embarked in th«
long-boat, but in attempting to land a few
miles te the south of Portsmouth—the
boat upset, and all in her perished except
the seaman above mentioned, who having
clung to a trunk, succeeded with much dif
ficulty in reaching the shore. The sloop
was owned by Mr. Fowfer of this place—-
The Captain was an old and regular trader
feetween thfo and Ne w-York- _Qf Ca>i RlO
Banks, it is but justice to say, that id can
dour and honesty no one was his superlour,
and that his place will not soon be supplied
by one of equal worth—the other unfortu
nate sufferers, are Stephen Robinson, mate ;
Walter Meaks, seaman; Amos Malden,
only son of Mr. Malden of this place, and
Burr Allen, passengers.
in Providence.
THE valuable IRON WORKS lately
owned by Jacob Greene, Emi. de
ceased, with 20 acres of Land, and a Dwell*
ing-House of four Tenements adjoining, to
gether with a Grist-Mill, commanding the
water from the Coventry Manufacturing
Company's dam, and all the Water Privn
leges necessary for prosecuting the manu
facturing of iron, anchors, smith's work, Ccc
and carrying bn the cotton-spinning
IUSINKJS to the amount of 4000 spindles.
Last evening, suddenly, in the 69th year
of his age, Capt. BtNysMtn Algss, of
this town. His funeral Will be solemnised
on Sunday afternoon immediately after Di
vine Service, when his friends and connex
ions are invited to attend. .
THIS DAY will he Sold at
GREECE 17 CARTER'S Office,
AVERY extensive variety of FUR
NITURE, consisting of Bureaus, Ta
bles, Chairs, Decanters, Carpets, and al
most every article of Household Furniture,
Bcc. &c.
GREENE 8c CARTER, Auctioneers■
February 2, 1810.
Valuable Real Estate and Water
Tne tJHg JbUp-Rwbia, frpm Baltimore,
and brig Economy, from Alexandria, both
of and for Providence, are reported to bi
on shore on the southern coast.— r Cent.
FURNITURE at AUCTION.
Sale to commence at 10 o’clock,
A.M.
Privileges for sal£
At Grrsnk 8c Cartkr’s Auction-Office,
jßarine
Newbern, fN. C.J January 8.
jßarrfeb,
Lirur/si,
GRAND LOTTERY.
100,000 Dollars may be gained
' for the small sum of b 8!501 1! I
T TNJOW COLLEGE LOTTERY No. I.
AJ coMWieuces drawing in the city ot
New-York on the 3d luesday in April
next.
SCHEME.
3 Prizes of 8 25,000!!!!!!
1 ’ 10,000
1 3,000
4 250 Tickets each*
2 2,000
5 1,000
28 500
30 200 •
50 100
100 - 50
200 20
10,500 10 •
The first 4,ooo.Blanks will be entitled to
Ten Dollars each.
Tickets and Parts for sate by G. and R.
Waits, No. 38 and . 64, Maiden-Lane,
New-York; Gkobok Taylor, jun.No.3f,
South Second-Street, Philadelphia.
; £7” Orders for the above Tickets left
with J. B. WOOD, Providence, (R. I.) will
be duly attended to,
Present price of Whole Tickets, 8 8 50
Quarters, - - - - 29*
but will soon rise.
* , •** Adventurers will do well to secure
their Tickets at the present price—delays
are dangerous.
• New-York, January 24, 1809. tf.
NOTICE? ’
THE SINGING SCHOOL of the JWe
cofial Church Society will be hidden
on Tuesday and Sat fed ay Evenings, st*
o'clock, in the Providence Insurance-Office,
Exchange Coffee-Hoyse.
February 2, 1810.
. 4 ■ - - . - —L
PUBLICK NOTICE. **
IN consequence uf the misfortunes of the
Purchase r> of the Rm odk-Is land CoaX
i.oTtiry the Second Class will not bis
drawn agreeably to the scheme. The sub
scriber therefore deems it his duty, having
nold a great number of TicketeMthe above
Itery, to inform all peraoua who pur
chased Tickets of him, that he will receiva
•hem back, and return the Cuefifor othdf
Ticketo for the same, on demand. r
J. B. WOOD.
Lottery and Exchange-Oflce,')
Providence, Jan 30, 1810. >
State qf Rhode-Island and Providence
Plantations.
~ Finutir 1, 1810.
'T’HE Creditors of SratratK Akklr*
A < ar, ot Smithfield, In the County of
Providence, Yeoman, are hereby notified
o appear, if they shall think fit, at the
' rencral Assembly to be holden at Provi
tence, on the last Monday of February inst.
hen and there to shew cause, if any they
may have, why his petition for the benefit
of an act, passed In June, 1756, entitled
’* An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debt
ors," ought not to be granted.
BAMu4* M©Y,
- ' -JAlftfXfY 30, 18JO.
THE Creditors of John .Arnoid, of
Providence, Glacier, are hereby no
tified to appear, if they shall thhik fit, at
the General Assembly to be holdcn at Pro
vidence, on the last Munday of February
next, then .and there tn shew cause, if any
i hey may have, why his petition for the
benefit of an act, passed in June, 1756, en
titled “ An Act for the Relief of Insolvent
Debtors,” ought not to be granted.
SAMUEL EDDY, See’ry.
Fxssvasy 1, 1810.
*T'HE Creditors of Jonathan Wkit-
A ma n, of Smithfield, in the County of
Providence, Trader, are hereby notified
to appear,, if they shall think fit, at the
General Assembly to be holden at Proti
dence, on the last Monday of February
instant, then and there to shew cause, If •
tby they may have, why his petit ion for
the benefit of an act, passed in June, 1756,
entitled "An Aet for the Relief ef Insol
vent Debtors," ought not id be'granted.
j SAMUEL EDDY, &-c*ry.
State qf Rhode- Island and Providence
Plantations. •
TFiRRUARr v 1810.
HR Creditors of Zkkkakiak Bkk
hrtt, of'Footer, in the County of
Providence, Trader, are hereby notified-to
appear, If they shall think fit, at the Gene
ral Assembly to be holden at Providence,
no the last Monday of February instant,
then and there to shew cause, if any they
may have, why his petition for the benefit
an act, passed in June, 1756, entitled
" An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debt
ors, ought not to be granted.
SAMUEL EDDY, Sec*rf.
State of Rho 'e- Itland and Providcnca
January 31, 1810.
THE Creditors of Noan Fisx.nf Scitu
ate, in the County ut PruvKleace, Laa K
Dourer, are hereby notified to appear/it
hey shall think hi, at the General Aiweifo-,
uly to be holden at Providence, on the last
Monday of February next, then and there
to shew cause, if any they may have, why
his petition for the ifenefit ot an act, passed
in June, 1756, entitled ** An Act for the
Relief nf Insolvent Debtors," ought not to
*>e granted. .
• SAMUEL EDDY. Sec’ry.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence
Plantations.
fepnusnr 1, 1810.
THE Creditorsuf RussgLL Drug err, *
of Providence, in the County of Provi
dence, Chaisemaker, are hereby notified to
tppear, if they shall think fit, at the Gene
ral Assembly to be holden at, Providence,
on the last Monday of February instant,
*hen and there to shew cause, if any they
may have, why his petition for the benefit
<>f an act, passed in June, 1756. entitled
An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debt
ors,” ought not to be granted. ’
SAMUEL EDDY. Sec’ry.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence
Plantations.
State qf Rhode- Island and Providence
Plantations-