The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-08-31 00:00:00, page 1

THE RHODE ISLAND AMERICAN,
; * AND GENERAEpABVERTOfcR • . -
“THB NATION WHICH XNDULGKS T.QWARDI ANOTHER AN IMR/riMA UftU, OR i J« tN DECREE A *
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Volpke 11. PROVIDENCE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1810. 4 ' , Npmim 91.
J. B. WOOD’S
GENERAL PRICE-CURRENT OF BANK NOTES,
AS THE! ARE RECEIVED AT HIS EXCISING E-OFFICE, PROVIDENCE, (R. I.)
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Bills of the New-Hampshire, ditto payable in Philadelphia, Portsmouth, ) . . «, ...
Union, Strafford, and Exeter Banks, J~* to 2 P er cent <“’•
Concord Banks, 2 to 3 do.
Chesliire, Coos, and Hillsborough Banks, 4. - 75 do.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Bills of the United States Branch, Massachusetts, Union, and Boston Banks, .... Par,
Salam, Essex, Beverly, Mki-mehead, Newburyport, Gloucester, (Cape- - )
Ann,) Plymouth, Worcester, Pacißck, Nantucket, and Hallowell >3-4 to 1 per cent. dis.
and Aitgusta Banks, - - ••••>
Portland, Maine, and Saco Banks, --••••-••• • 1 do.
Bedford, and Lincoln and Kennebeck Banks. 1 do.
Pcnobsco*, BO to >35 do.
Northampton, V -20 do.
CONNECTICUT. |
Bills of the Middletown, Hartford, New-Haven, New-Londcn, Union,) A., , ...
Derby, and Bridgeport Banks, J 3-4 to 1 per cent, dis,
Norwich Bank, 1-2 per cent. dis.
VERMONT.
Bills of the Vermont State Banks, • -25 per cent. dis.
RHODF.-ISLAND.
Bills of the Providence, Exchange, Roger Williams, Bank of Rhode-)
Island, Newport, Rhode-Island Union, Bank of Bristol, Commercial, >
Warren, Rhode-bland Central, and Narraganset Banks, . . . . j
Washington Bank, 3 to 4 per cent. dis.
KENTUCKY.
Bills of the Kentucky Insurance Company, 1-2 per cent. dis.
NORTH-CAROLINA.
Cills of the Cspe Fear, and Newbern Brinks J 10 per cent. dis.
SOUTH-CAROLINA. 1
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, ................ p ar .
State, and South-Carolina Banks, per cent. dis.
OHIO.
Bills of the Marietta, Miami Exporting Company, and Chillicothe Banks, 15 to 20 per cent. dis.
NEW-YORK.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, - - p ar .
Merchants, Manhattan Company, Bank of New-York, New-York State, - )
Bank of Albany, Mohawk, Farmers’, Bank of Hudson, Bank ofCo- JPar.
Jiunbia, and Mechanick’s Bank, y
NEW-JERSEY
Bills of the Jersey, Trenton Banking Company, Newark Banking and) _
Insurance Company, and Bank of New-Brunswick, J ............ ~ Far.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Bills of the United States Bank, Par.
Farmers’ and Mechanicks’, Philadelphia, Bank of Pennsylvania, and) ..
Bunk of Nortli-America, ..J * ttr ‘
Bills of the Pennsylvania Branch Bank at Pittsburg, 1 per cent. dis.
DELAWARE.
Bills of the Farmers’ Bank, Bank of Delaware, and Bank of Wihning-) ... . ..
ton and Brandywine, . . . 6 j 2 to 4 per cent dis.
MARYLAND.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, p ar
Union Bank of Maryland, Bank of Columbia, Hagerstown, Bank of Bal- - ) i
timore, Branch oi the Farmers’Bank of Man land, Mechanicks’ Bank C,l to 2 per cent. dis.
of Baltimore, Farmers’and Commercial Bank, and Franklin Bank, j
* VIRGINIA.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, p ap
Bank of Virginia, and iti Branches, 1 per cent, di-.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Bills of the UWon Bank, Bank of Alexandria, and Batik of Potomack, Ito ? per cent, dis
LOUISIANA TERRITORY.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank
Bank of Louisiana, . jq p er cent. dis.
<7 To the above Discounts there will be a small advance for email sums, and Bills under
5 dollars, not this State.
•• United States and Boston Rills, or Specie, will be given for any Bills received at par,
for half per cent, fur sums oyer under £2O, 1 per cent, advance.
Any dietant Banking Company, viiehing their Bills to be received at tar, will please to make
arrangement! accordingly, and they viill be duly attended to.
The most punctual attention will be paid to all Letters, (post paiM.) addressed to J. B.
Wood, enclosing Bills to be - exchanged, and the earliest remittances made io any part of the
Union, per first, ot not to exceed the second mail. All Bank Notes that he passes will be
WARaAKTRD good, and should any counterfeit Bills be received in Letters, they will be
returned Bank Notes examined okatis ..Office hove from 6, A. AL to 6, PM.
Price of Stocks—Providence, (R. I.)
Six per Cent. - - • 100 per cent.
Three do. 63 do.
State Notes, Fluctuating.
Providence Insurance Shares 8 a 10 per cent, adv
Washington, do. do.„ 16 alB do. do
Hope do. do J 2 j. 2 do do
Marine do. do. ' 20 do. do
Providence Bank, do 18 a2O do. do 1
d ,°’ 1« a2O do. do.
Roger Williams do. do. 25 do do
Course of Exchange—Foreign Bills.
Bills on London, st 30 davs, - - - fCashf - - 4 per cent. dis.
do. do. 60 do. ... do. ... 41-2 do do
do. do. 90 do. - . . do. ... 5 do.’ do.’
do. on Amsterdam, 60 do. • . (Per Guilder ) - - None,
do. do. payable in London at 60 days, - . . None,
do. on Hamburg, payable in do. at do None'
INLAND BILLS.
Bills on Baltimore, 30 days tight, - . ... . . 1-2 .i 1 per eent. dis.
do. on Philadelphia, do. do. - - • . . . . do> d() .
do. on do. do. . . • . . . do do
do. on Philadelphia, 60 days do. - - - - . . . 1a 2 per cent. do.
do. on New-York, do. do. - ... I ... - do. • do.
Premiums of Insurance.
To any port in Great-Bi itain 3 a 3 1-2 per cent.
—• France, ..... ATo Lieurance. ...
Sweden or Denmark, nominal.
Russia (in the Baltick) out and home, - . . . . . 22 1-2 a 25 do.
Archangel, out and home, - • . . . . . . 10 al2 do.
Within the Streights, not higher than Sicily, ..... 10 do.
Witlun the Streights, not higher than Sardinia, «... 9 do.
Without the Streights, 4 do.
To Ihe Brazils 3 1-2 a 4 do.
~ Lisbon or Cadiz, . 3a 3 1-2 do.
Africa ... voithout the Streighte ... 4 do.
Madeira, 3 o 3 12 do.
Canaries, 3 1-2 u 4 do.
Cape de Venls, be . . . 3a 3 1-2 do.
Pei sia and India, 6a 7 do
China, I. 5 do.
West-India Islands generally, 2 J-2 « 3 do.
Coaetvciee, per single risk, . . . . i. . . . 1a 1 1-2 do.
Discount Days.
At Providence Bank - ( Mond
Roger W.lhams Bunk, 4 ' Wednesday.
Exchange Bank, . . ... - . I Frida ' #
Stocks, ExcHaxgb, Ac. are corrected every Friday, by
J. B. WOOD, who negotiates Stoeko, Bille of Exchepge and good Rotee, at the shortest notice.
LOTTERY N'OTICE.
THICKETS in the “ tVaohingfon Monument Lottery” (8 50,000 highest prize) rise
M to 811150, and also Tickets rise in the” fine Lottery” (812,000 highest prise)
to 6: 50, on the first of September nexC
yfugusfSl, 1110.
United Brother’s Society.
THE United Brothers are hereby
notified, (hat on TUESDAY the 4th
of September, nt 2 o'clock, P. M. theie
will be a DISPUTE between Brs. Apf le-
Tm» Downer and Henry K. McClin
tock, in Brown University Chapel, in com
memoration of the Fourth Anniversary of
the Society.
ICT On Thursday next! ! Good
PREVIOUS to that May, secure a chance
X (for an addition,<O >our wealth,) at
£4 for Whole, and 8112 1-2 ferDuarters
of Tickets in the *•
Lottery” which peskWcly comniencO
drawing; and on Fritiau they r/«etoB<
25 for Whole and 8)45 for Quarters.—
ZJo not delay, but be uffanddoing. Tickets
andQuar’ets (or sal* by J. B. WOOD,
who pays cash for <ll prizes obtained at
his Office, as soon asdrewn.
> Tueoday, jfugutt ■, 1810.
Molasses and £ugar for sale.
LANDING from brig Venus, Captain
Car/ientcr, front Hgvann, 200 Hogs
head# of retailing IftHatmes, 70 Boxes of
Brown ?ugar, of an OMOknt quality.
I For sale by
william Church,
CARLO & JOSHUA MAURAN W
South End.
August 28. 1810.
I— —U -
FOR SALE BY
THOMAS VOAX,
iOn Allen’s Wharf, near the Episcopal
Church, Prpyidence,
JP IFTEEN Hogabeddi of sweet-flavoured
4 Pipes of Ist proof Spi oish Brandy,*
3 do. 2d do. < io. do.
1 do. 4th do. ’ |o. do.
Barrels of Havana whne Sugar,
Do. do brown do.
White Syrup,
Colouring for Spirits,
1500 Wt. Sugar Loaf Paper.
August 28. 1810. |
Good Goods,find Cheap,
SUITABLE FORYTHE SEJSOJV.
EMERSON
Two doors from the Bridge, West Side,
LTAVE just received additional sapplies
**■ of Rending and Lynn manufactured
SHOES, comprising a variety of the most
elegant and fashionable kinds nuw worn.
ALSO,
Ladies’ long and short Kid and York tan
ned GLOVES, very beautiful;
Gentlerueiu* real superfine Beaver and
and Buckskin
White and slate Cottooand Worsted Hose,
A few pieces of elegant white Cotton
Laces, from is. 6. to &. per yard,
Ribbons and Tapes, sofae extra fine and
nice;
Pins. Combs. Quality Bindings, Italian
& c W fcl Sttk9 ’ Wack !Bf^ ,B^ cdtolourt ‘
t 7“ All the above Goods, procured with
cash, are selling remarkably low.
.August 28. 1801. 4t.
Lace Shades and white Silk Lace,
WATSON & GLADDING
HWE this day received a tew elegant
black SILK LACE SHADES and
wnite plain LACE for VEILS.
August 28, 1810. •• tf.
...fart
Notice to Cotton Spinners.
WANTED, IMMEDIATE L Y,
AMAN to superintend a department
in a Cotton-Mill, and a Mule Spin
ner, to whom liberal encouragement will
be given. A hue addressed to N. R. and
left at the Post-Office, will be attended to.
August 28, 1810. tf.
State of Bhode-Island, fcfc.
Providence, sc. .
Clerk's Office tf the Supreme Judicial
Court, August 27, 1810.
WHEREAS Penelope West, ofScl
tuate, in the County of Providence,
Wife of Hiram West, of said Scituate, has
filed her Petition in said Office, praying for
divers reason# therein stated, that said
Court would pass a Decree of Divorce,
rendering null and void t>«e bonds of Matri
mony, subsisting between her and her said
Husband, and grant her such alimony as
shall Mem jqat:—Notice is therefore
hereby given to the said Zfinpn West, to
appear, if he think fit, before said Court,
at their term next to be holden at Provi
dence, on the third Monday of Septamber
next, and shew cause, If any,he have why
the Prayer of said Petiikm should not be
granted.
JOSEPH RANDAL, Clerk.
To be sold at private Sale,
'T’HE House in which the subscriber re
• < sides, and the one adjoining, in West
minster-Street and on Sugar-Lane, near
the Theatre, and opposite Captain Gus
tavus Taylor’s. Also, a Share in the
Ohio purchase. Likewise, a Share in the
township of Navy, Vermont. All of which,
or either, will be sold on reasonable terms;
which may be known by applying to the
subscriber.
Bu order of the Society,
DANIEL WARDWELL, Sec'ry.
Brown University, ?
August 28, 1810 5
SARAH SMART.
August 28, 1810.
Max.
To the People of the United States.
1 he National Intelligencer, the great po
litical organ of the administrations of Jef
ferson and Madison, has manifested great
apprehension In consequence of the publi
cation of No. VII. of these letters, and has
attempted a formal refutation of it. In
point of style too pure for the pen of Jef
ferson, too elevhted to have been written by
the common paragraphists of Washington
City, and indicating, when it isconsidered
M** which we
confess was a very severe one, much more
of the manner which naturally results from
the spirit of a gentleman, than any other
democrat in the United States would be
likely to display, it is natural to ascribe
this performance to the present President
of the United States. But whether it be
the production of Mr. Jefferson, .of Mr.
Madison, of Mr. Secretary Smith, of Mr.
Granger, or of Mr. Smith, the Editor of
the Intelligencer, is quite immaterial, as it
is presented to the publick with all the
“ form and pressure** of an official vindica
tion of the last and present administrations,
now well known to be completely amalga
mated and identified, in respect to our
foreign relations, against the charge of
French Influence. Although the writer of
these letters can never descend to notice
the miserable Insects which sometimes
buzz about his ears, yet he can with credit
enter into an argument with the Admin
istration, and will aUopce take up the
guantlet which it has thrown to him.
" This in an extract from the treaty.—
Under the circum . nces, the question said
to have been asked by General Armstrong
waa (If asked) a superfluous one ; but, hav
ing )>ecn asked, no other answer could have
been returned by Talleyrand consistently
with truth, but if we went to war with
Spain, France, (agreeably to her treaty,)
“ could neither doubt nor hesitate.” She
could not but have taken part with Spain,
or hare violated a mtrt solemn treaty.’’
Admitting, with much candour, tjie per*
feet correctness of every fact which was
stated in No. VII. administration contends
that it could only be criminated by one of
those facts, and that one it attempts to ex
plain away. This explanation is attempted
in the foliewing manner:
“ Who is there so ignorant as not to
know that in the treaty of alliance betwe*eu
France and Spain, then existing, there was
contained an article, precisely applicable
to this case >' The whole world knew that
in that treaty, after speaking of the rela
tive good offices to be performed by each
nation to the other, there was the following
at tide:
“ The required power shall likewise fur
nish, on the demand of the requiring power,
within the term of three months from the
requisition, eighteen thousand infantry and
six thousand cavalry, with a proportiona
ble train of artillery, to be employed solely
in Europe, or in defence of the colonies
which the contracting flowers ft assess in
the Gulf <f Mexico.**
trangbb! if by worldly views
Thy heart it dead to love's control,
If feeling’, fever nurs'd with dews
* The rood of passion in thy soul;
Turn from this grave thy sullen head,
For this is pity’s holy shrine;
The lilies that surround the dead
Would shrink from such a hand as thine.
But if thy breast, with ardour warm,
Beats to the thrilling glance of beauty j
If thou hast knelt to woman’s charm,
With all of love's enraptured duty—
Then, stranger, pause and linger here,*
For love and pity seldom sever;
And frame the sighs to passion dear
Where Eliza sleeps, alas! forever.
maid, within thy gentle breast
Affection bloom’d, Oh, how sincerely!
And why did fate, with frown unblest,
Break a fond heart which lov’d so dearly;
For cold beneath the western wave,
Her lover found an icy pillow ;
No flower to deck his lonely grave,
No death shroud but the foaming billow.
The spirit of the mom had sighed,
Delighted, o’er the rose’s bloom.
But sorrow came, with withering stride,
And swept its beamy to the tomb.
Stranger! if love awake your sighs,
And love and pity seldom sever;
Pause where that rose of beauty lies,
Where Eliza sleeps, alas ! forever.
FROM THk FREEMAN’S JOURNAL.
Letters upon French Influence.
THE TOME OF ELIZA.
Fbom thb Columbian.
jjaistceHanp.
Patfrp.
What does administration mean by THE
WHOLE WORLD I Will it a»y «hat five
hundred peraons in the United States knew '
that such an article existed, as it has here
(undoubtedly) extracted from a copy which,
has long been locked up in one of its secrec
bureaux f The writer of these letters cer- ’
tainly knew of this treaty, and contem
plated it as a proper subject of remark In
the course of his labours. And he is by no
means sorry that Administration has drawn
his attention to it thus early.
Administration must have learned item
Vattvl, whose work, in to the
profound learning of our prCTtmL SedlhMfy 1
of State, oa displayed in his corresMfik
deuce with Mr. Jackson, a RepresentaSv* i 1
from Connecticut (Mr. Pitkin) sarcastical- *
ly called “ a sort of text book** for our gov- I
ernmeNk that it Is cue thing for a Milan f’
to be obliged by treaty to furnish certain
auxiliaries to another nation, and quite a ?
different tiling for a nation to *• make a !
common cause with another, and enter io- ‘ s I
to a society or war, especially with a i
nation which “ the whole world knows” to ■-
have no will of its own, and to be in fact ' r
though not in name a province of that pow- L
er that " neither doubts nor tn „|
“take part” in its quarrels. Had Ivar' ‘j
taken place between the United States and £
Spain, and had France furnished lo Spain 1
the auxiliary force stipulated by treaty, 4
this would, not, by the principles of the (tor
of nations, have produced a war between *
the United States and France. Besides, |
the troops were “to be employed solely I
in Europe, or In defence of the colonipe;
which the contracting powers posses* In' '
the Ou If of Mexico.” To a war defensive . i
on the part of the United States, or offihi
sive elsewhere than in Europe or the Gulf
of Mexico, the stipulation would not ba >
applicable. Knowing, as ■Administration' \
did, that this article of alliance existed
and that its terms would not admit of no
more than one construction, why did it >
ask the French government what would bo
its course in case of a war between us and I
Spain ? Because it wished tn ascertain <
whether France would stop at the point in
dicated by the treaty,, or would in fact,
acting upon the principle that there was
“ no Spain,” make the war her own.—•
Having ascertained—if indeed it can be
said to have ascertained what it well knew
already—that France would make war dp
on us if we made* war upon Spain, and
having ascertained also that France want
ed money, administration determined to
buy off, as one would say in common life,
by paying eight millions of dollars fora
boundary to that country for which it had
paid fifteen millions without a boundary.
This is the long and abort of the whole bu
sinass. The statement, therefore, that,
this threat on the part of France, accom
panied with a gentle hint that money
would be acceptable, influenced Adminis
tration to abandon the idea of honourably
maintaining our rights against that power,
(remember there was no SftainJ influ
enced it to succumb to that power in a most
mean and base manner, and influenced,
it to conceal the state nf our foreign rela
tions from thx People, remains uncon
tradicted. Had France said, “If you go
to war with Spain, we shall do no
than furnish her, agreeably to treaty, 1
with 18000 infantry, 6000 cavalry, and a 1
proportionable train of artillery,” as little |
of a soldier as the commander in chief of ■
our armies and navies was, it is perhaps *1
but common charity to believe that he I
would have contented himself with giving d
up all our claims for Spanish and French
spoliations, and with relinquishing West- ,
Florida and the immense region between
the Colorado and the Rio Bravo, which ’
countries he claimed as a part of Louisia
na, in order to obtain a boundary for the '
“ string of land” that would then be left to
us. Will any man now doubt that Admin- I
istration acted under the influence of a feay '
of France ?
Administration has tacitly admitted, (it > I
could not possibly have denied,) the whole !
of the facts stated in Na VII. It has ad
mitted that it had known for yea* that
France managed all the concerns of Spain ;
that Thomas Jefferson had been informed
by his agents abroad that it was the policy
of France to reserve Spain for events ; I
that he falsely stated to Congress that it ’
was the policy nf Spain to reserve herself
for events; that oar Ministers had of- I
fered to relinquish all our claims for Span- *
ish and French spoliations ; that, in as- l
serting that France was dtsftosed to effect ■
a settlement between us and Spain, he H
way either g*Uty of asserting another grass |
falsehood, or of intimating to Congress in a
a moat artful, but most moan manner, J
that money must be paid to France, aa (
her terms were “ analogam” to those (pe- 1
cunlary) terms which oyr Minister had j