The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-05-01 00:00:00, page 1

•*• Ships in port and their cargoes, ships building or repairing; also barges and other
small craft, with goods on board, may be insured against fire.
Larger rums may be insured by special agreement.—JU buildings in contiguity to
aider IgasirdsusAuildmgs, or ih o<Aer situated dtmtthntnfageousty, will be
charged at an extra prrnnum —The rates may also in tome cates be firofiortionablu
moderated upon timber buildings in the country, or when standing single and detached,
ar attended with circumstances of peculiar security.
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, THE. RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN, .
*• .' r AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. . - " W
Tallow-melters, soap-makers, brewers, vinegar and sweet makers, hemp and flax
dresfers, printing-houses, coopers, carpenters, cabinet-makers, coach-makers, malt
houses, bakers, ship-chandlers, boat-builders, rope-makers, sugar-refiners, distillers,
chymists, varnish-makers, turpentine-works, theatres, and all mills and machinery, are
deemed extra-hazardous, and the rate upon such risks will be proportiouably increased.
CONDITIONS OF INSURANCE.
I. Persons desirious to make insurance on buildings, arqfo deliver in to the Agent
the following particulars, viz.—Of what materials the walls and roof of each building are
constructed—Whether the same are occupied as private dwellings, or how otherwise—
Where situated—Also, the name or names of the present occupiers.
Each building must be separately valued, and a specified sum insured thereon—and
in like manner a separate sum insurod on the property contained therein.
All manufactories which contain furnaces, kilns, stoves, coakels, ovens, or otherwise
use fire-heat, are dhargenble at additional rates.
In the insurance of Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, the building or place in which the
same are deposited, is to be described; also, whether such goods are of the kinds*de
nominated hazardous, and whether any manufactory is carried on in the premises. And
if any person or persons shall insure his or .their buildings or goods, and shall cause the
same to be described in the policy otherwise than as they really are, so as the same be
charged at a lower premium than is herein proposed, such insurance shall be of no force.
11. Goods held in trust, or on commission, are to be insured as such otherwise the
policy will notextend to cover such property.
111. No loss or damage to be paid on fire happening by any invasion, foreign enemy,
civil commotion, not, or any military or usurped power whatever; nor for damage done
by fire occasioned by earthquakes or hurricanes: but this Company will make good
losses on property burnt by lightning. b
° f aCCoUnt *’ wrilteD bills, bonds, tallies, and ready money, cannot
V. Jewels, plate, medals, or other curiosities, paintings, and sculptures, are not in
cluded in any insurance, unless such articles are specified in the policy.
yi. Persons insuring property at this office, must give notice of any other insurance
made elsewhere on their behalf on the same, and cause such other insurance to be en
dorsed on their policies ; in which case each office shall be liable to the payment only of
a rateable proportion of any loss or damage which may be sustained ; and unless such
notice is given, the insured will not he entitled to recover in case of loss.
VII. No order for insurance will be of any force, unless the premium is nald to the
Agent, orunless a sum Iras been advahord, and the Agent has delivered his receipt on
account of the office, and ail persons desirous to continue their insurances, must make
their future payments annually within fifteeh daysafter theday limited by their respec
tive policies, or the same will be void. •
VIII. AU persons assured by this Company, sustaining any loss or damsge by fire, are
forthwith to give notice to the Company’s Agent, and as soon as possible after, to deliver
in as particular an account of their loss or damage, signed with their own hands, ns the
nature of the case will admit of, and make proof nf the same by their oath or affirmation
•nd bv titeir books of accounts or other proper vouchers, as shall he reasonably required ’
and shall procure a certificate under the Winds of a magistrate or sworn notary of the
city or district in which the fire happened, not concerned in such loss, importing that
they are acquainted with the character and circumstances of the person*or persons in
sured, and do know or verily l>elieve, that fie, she, or they, really, and by misfortune,
without any kind of fraud or evil practice, have sustained by such fite, loss and damage
to the amount therein mentioned ; and until such affidavit and certificates are produced
th* loss SMBey shall not be payable; also, if there appears any fraud or false swearing’
the claimant shall forfeit his claim to restitution, or payment, by virtue of his po'.-y.
OL In case anv difference or dispute shall arise between the awured and the Corona
ay, touchinr any or damage, such difference may be submitted to the judgement and
determination of arbitrators, indifferently ehosen, whose awaid in writing shall be con
elusiveind binding to all parties. Anri when any loss or dnoiag- shall have been duly
proved, the Hisured shall receive satisfaction, to the full amount thereof, whhvut allow
ance of any discount, fees, or other deducti<wi whatever.
X. Persons choosing to insure for seven years, will be charged for six only ; alv»
for a less number of years than seven, will be allowed a reasonable disc -mt
Persons desirous of effecting insurances are requested th moke atifdi. utitr. to
Thomas Wilkinson Sattf.rth w At tf, in New-York, who t apfivnhd the Cm- '■
pony s Agent, and is fully authorized to grant P ■heirs on behaffthe Compu-.iy.
PROPOSALS
FBOSf THE
PHCENIX COMPANY OF LONDON
FOR INSURING
HOUSES, BUILDINGS, STORES, SHIPS IN HARBOUR, GOODS,
WARES, AND MERCHANDISE,
FROM LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE.
INSURANCE from loss or damage by fine hath been found a measure of great im
portance to the happiness of families, and has given additional security to commercial
transactions.—The distinguished approbation with which the publick throughout Great-
Britain received the improved system of this office, occasioned frequent application for
the insurance of property in the principal cities and towns in Europe and America, and
induced the Company many years since to extend their plan to the Western Continent.
The Phmnix Company can refer to the unerring test of experience to ascertain their
character; and, gratified by the unbounded confidence they have'obtained upon the
Continent of America, and for the purpose of facilitating to the inhabitants the
effecting insurance on their property, the Directors have lately determined to extend
the sum which they have been accustomed to insure in any single risk, and havreur
ranged rates of premium upon the various descriptions of property, which, they trust,
will be found moderate, just, and equitable,—The promptitude with which this office
has adjusted the claims of sufferers, and the solidity of its funds, are so well known, that
it Is unnecessary to offer more on the subject, than to refer those who desire information,
to the merchants of London with whom they correspond. ,
*** I” lh’ s Office no insured person Is liable to any call to make good the losses of
others; but in case of fire, the sufferer will be fully indemnified by the Company.—The
Company also make good lasses on property burnt by lightning.
Rates of Annual Premiums to be paid for Assurance against Fire.
No. I. ■ v No. 111.
Hazards qf the First Class, viz. Hazards yf the Third Class, viz.
_. . „ . .... „ ,si— Buildings constructed partly with brick or
Brick or stone buildings, covered with tiles, stone and partly with wood; or having
slate, or metal. either of the four walk of frame-work
Furniture or merchandise not hazardous, filled in with brick.
contained in suc|t buildings. Furniture or merchandise not hazardous
For sums not exceeding contained in such buddings.
10,000 dollars in one risk. Hazardous goods, viz. pitch, tar, turpen-
_ . _ , tine, salt-petrC, flax, hemp, oils,, and
25 cents per annum fter 100 dollar,. fa £ od QaBB
. * » Eor tuntB not exceeding
> No. 11. 10,000 dollars in one risk,
Hazards yf the Second Class, viz.' 50 cente fter annum fter 100 dollars.
Buildings having the four walls entirely of jq 0 jy;
brick or stone, carried through the roof, Hazards tf the Fourth Class, viz.
ami covered with boards or shingles. y ’
Timber or slight buildings covered with
Furniture or merchandise not hazardous, shingles, or boards.
contained in such buildings. ( Furniture or merchandise not hazardous,
Hazardous goods, viz. pitch, tar, turpen- contained in such buildings.
tine, salt-peire, flax, bemp, oils, and Hazardous goods, viz. Ditch, tar, turpen
taliow, in buildings of the First Class. tine, salt-peire, flajff hemp, oils, and
• tallow, in.buildinrs of the Third Class.
For sums not exceeding nQt exceeding
10,000 dollars in one risk, i 10,000 dollars in one risk*
37 1-3 cents fter annum fter 100 dollars. 75 to 100 cents fter annum fter 100 dollars.
RZ7* Application in Providence to be made to STEPHAN TiLLiNGH \ST.
Providence, JftrßU, 1810.
Volume Ik
“ THB NATION WHICH INBULQBZ ANOTN KB AN tASIZVAL UAZJIZD, OH AM MNO/rtMI. FONDNESS, IS IN SOME DEGBBE A SLA OB.WASHINGTON.
PROVIDENCE, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1810.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
ESC APED from the custody of the Sob
scrilier, at Glocester. on the morning
of the 21« t iostawt, a young man by the
name of Wilmam Cohnk 14, s> t of OH
ver Cornell, nf said GJocester. Sold Cor
nell Is about 22 years of age, of dark com
plexion, has rather a downcast look, and
is <b<>uc five feet and eight inrhen high.—-
Whoever will apprehend said Runaway
and secure him in the Gaol in Providence,
or retain him tn the sßbtomber in Gloces
ter, sli dl receive the above reward on de
li vet y, with all necessary charges.
THOMAS RROWN, T. Scrg’t.
Glotesfer, Aftri!23, 1810.
School for Young Ladies. '
TO COMMENCE IN THE MONTH
OF MaY.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs
his friends and the pubitek, that ht
proposes, in the course of the month <>f
May, to open a SCHOOL for YOUNG
LADIES, at his dwelling-house in Provi
dence ; whore lie will teasb Spelling, Read
ing, Writing, English Grammar, Compo
sition, Arithmetick: And, without any ad
ditional expense, those who are sufficiently
advanced in the above studies, shall be
taught the use of the Artificial Globes, As
tronomy, Geography and History. The
delicate state of his health having rendered
this arrangement necessary, ho hopes for
the kind patronage of those parents who
prefer to send their daughters to a School
exclusively for Females * *.
MOSES NOYES.
April 2i, 1810. tf.
Messrs. Walker and Kennedy *
TY ESPECTFULLY inform Utair friends
Av an (] the publkk ia general, that they
have taken that central and pleasantly sit
uated House In Pawtucket. lately occupied
by Messrs. Weston, an< Rogerson, whose
they have opened a genteel House of En
tertainment. The strictest and most un
remitted attention will be given to the ac
commodation of such guests as may please
to honour them with their company, and
every favour will be cheerfully received
and gratefully acknowledged.
N. B. S tid Kennedy wishes to take a
Lad as an apprentice to the business of a
•.4 a won.
Pawtucket, Afiril 26, 1810.
Paper-Hangings, Stationary, &c.
WANTON & RATHBONE,
At the Store next door to Messrs,
get & Poweb’s, have just received
from Boston and Hartford,
AN additional supply dt Papeb-Hang
ings and Bobdf.es ) among which
are a few setts of elegant drapery figures,
with top and bottom Borders.
Also, received as above.
An assortment of Quills of a superiour
Quality, from one tn three dollars per hun
dred ; Foolscap and Letter Paper, Ink-
Powder, Penknives, Lead Pencils, &c.
For Sale or Circulation,
• Don Sebastian, er House of Braganza;
Tales of Fashionable Life,
Murmion, by Scott;
History of New-York, &c.
April 27, 1810. 6t.
highest bklder, <m WEDNESDAY the
16th of May, at 12 o’clock,
TT*HE valuable REAL ESTATE of the
x late Joseph Eddy, deceased, con
sisting of his late Mansion-House and Lot.
Said Lot being 40 feet on Eddy’s- street and
95 feet on Ship-street. The House is two
stories high and in good repair, and the sit
uation is not exceeded on the Point.
ALSO,
His two Ship-Yard Lots The first is
bounded on the ftorth side by Ship-street,
the front 49 feet on Eddy’s-street, holding
that width and running parallel with Ship
street to the channel of the river. The
other Ship Yard Lol lies next to the one
described, being 47 feet on Eddy’-street,
and lies in a triangular form. The terms of
payment, and a more particular descrip
tion will be made known at the time and
place of sale, or at any time previous, by
applying to the Executors.
THOMAS TABER, 7 „
JOHN ANDREWS,? Executor »-
April 27, 1810 st.
There will be sold at the premises, on Ed
. dy’s Point, without any reserve, to the
• ' FOR SjtLß BY
JACOB BABBITT.
At his Stsre in Bristol,
THREE Hundqpl and fifty Hhds. of
Havana Molasses, new crop ;
120 Boxes of Havana brown Sugar,
20 Hhds. and 20 jkrrels do. do.
Bristol, April TT, 1810.
On Monday the 7th of May next,
At 11 o’clock, A. M. will be sold to the
highest bidder, without any kind of re
striction or referve.
’T'HAT large, well-flnlsbed and commo-
X dkws DWELLING-HOUSE, belong
ing to the subscriber, now occupied by Col.
William Peck, pleasantly situated on Bene
fit-street, near the Court-House. -
Sale to be on the premises, and the con
ditions will be made know at the time and
place of sale.
ALPHEUS AMMIDON.
April 27,1810. ,
A GREAT BARGAIN!
PUBLICK AUCTION.
ST ATES..... . No. HI.
s.. —ln the course of the observations
which I have thought proper to address to
ytwi, you will perceive that I have abstain
ed from entering into the merits of the dis
pute between Mr. Sinhh and Mr. Jackson ;
Fbom the Spibit of Seventy-Six.
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
Those are the institutions which do hon
our to mankind, and show the active effi
cacy of Christian benevolence.
Silliman’s Journal of Travels.
TursrAY, Ist May, IMO.
When I entered, two blind boys were
playing on the organ and piano, and at my
request, a choir of both sexes performed a
piece-—The Dying Christian’s Address to
his Soul—which they sung to the organ.
This production, in itself very solemn and
interesting, was rendered doubly so by the
associated effect produced by the sightless
choir who performed it, with much appa
rent feeling. Printed papers were distri
buted about the rooms, containing religious
songs appropriate to the situation of the
blind, and holding forth to them such con
solarions as mast be peculiarly dear to those
for whom the sun rises in vain. There was
however, In most of them, an air of cheer
fulness, which served to enliven a scene
otherwise very gloomy. The charity urn
at the door contained this simple inscrip
tion, which must produce a stronger effect
on every mind than the most laboured ad
dress to the feelings;
In the institutym of wjiich I am speak
ing, (hose who have a taste for it, learn
musick, both instrumental and vocal, that
they may be able to obtain their bread by
performing in churches.
In this institution the incurably blind are
received, protected, and instructed in such
arts as they are capable of learning. The
object Is to afford them the metyis of sub
sistence by personal industry, and of amuse
ment under the gloom of perpetual dark
ness. The arts, in the practice of which
I saw them engaged, were of course such
as require no uncommon accuracy, and
whose operations can be conducted by the
touch ; such as knitting, weaving and wind
ing thread, among the women, and making
baskets and cords among the men. Their
prodaoMons were much better than cue
would Imagine it possible they should be,
did not experience prove that the loss of
one sense causes so active a cultivation of
the rest, that they become more perfect
than before. How else can we account for
the acuteness of hearing, which enabled a
particular blind man, by means of the echo
produced by his whistling, to decide when
he was approaching any object of some
magnitude; or, for the delicacy of touch
which led the blind Mr. Jay to discover by
feeling, the place where the two pieces of
an ancient mahogany table were joined,
which multitudes, for a succession of years,
although in possession of all their senses,
had sought in vain to detect.
CANZONET.
THE LADY WHO SWORE BY HER
EYES.
By Stsangfoxd.
W hen the girl of my heart is on perjury
bent,
The sweetest of oaths hides the falsest intent,
And Suspicion abash’d, from her company
flies,
When she smiles like an angel—and, swears
by her eyes.
For in them such magick, she knows, is dis
play’d, -
That a tear can convince, and a look can per
suade i
And she thinks that I dare not, or cannot re
fuse*
To believe on their credit-whate’er she may
choose.
But I’ve team’d from the painful experience of
youth,
That vehement oaths never constitute trothi
And I’ve studied those treacherous eyes, and
I find ,
They ate mutable signs of a mutable mind!
Then, dear one, I’d rather thrice rather be
. Ifeve
Whste’er you assert, even though to deceive,
Than that you “ by your eyes* should so wick
edly swear,
And sin against heaven—for heaven is there !
Fob The Rhode-Islakd American.
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS HINTS.
No. XXXII.
" bemembeb the pooh blind,"
THE ASYLUM OF THE BLIND.
jUlsfctllanp.
Psetrp.
jtßoral.
and If you deign to bestow a thought on the
motives, or intentions of an obscure writer,
perhaps you may have conceived that I
have deferred this great point for the test
effort of my strength. Be nut alarmed,
Sin—nothing is further from my intention
than to add another stone ><> the huge py
ramid of dullness and folly which is des
tined to mark this memorable event I Wot' .
I even on the floor of Congress—a privi
leged man—l should sebrn to take so un
fair an advantage of my immunity as, after
rummaging the library for huge extracts
from Grotius and Puffendorf, and Vicqut
fort.and Martens, and Bynkershoek, piece
out witl/Sbraps from Smollett and Tristans
Shandy—•• Like a patch'd dog hole, ek'd
with ends yf wall*— to work the whole up
into a speech of eighteen or twenty co
lumns of the National Intelligencer, to the
great edification of the readers that
sprightly and ingenWi* publication I Qt)
Who doe* |pt feel* the UjaHlty of th( sit
uation of the unlte(!p]| <cbairman of the
committee of the whole, Mhh that so witti
ly described in the Rolliad, where the
Speaker of the House of Commons is com
pared to Prometheus, whose overgrowing
liver is devoured by a vulture,
* Th*re” Pitkin, ° cits, and oh unhappy fate I
“ Must sit forever Uiro’ the long debate t
.** Like sad Prometheuc fasten'd to nia
“ In vain he looks in pity to the clock i
" While, Vulture like, the dire Buffoon ap
peal's
“ And far more savage rends his suffering
ears.”—f' c)
Be assured, Sir, that I feel not the small
est d*sire to participate in this discussion.
After the rapture of the Chesapeake, and
the insolent official menace* oiF France—
when our minister at that court has been
compelled to declare, “ that to appeal to
our treaty with the French Emperour as
to the tew of nations, would.** after the con
duct of France towards his government,
be literally appealing to the dead ;** my
mind refuses to embrace the invisible, im
palpable point of dispute between Mr.
Smith and Mr. Jackson.—And let .b tell
you, Sir, that a breach between the United
States and Great-Britain, at this time, grow
ing of a punctilio of etiquette, or these
refined and wire drawn distinctions and im
plications of the law of nationa, (confess
edly a dead letter as to France,) will, after
what baa pasted, carr” on the face of it
the damning evidence of the treachery, by
which it will have been effected. Your
orators have been peculiarly happy in some
of their learned researches. Tristam Shan
dy, a most noble example of plagiarism,
(d) and levity, leading to no possible con
clusion, is most appositely quoted. Susan
nah and Dr. Slop are the best authorities
that could have Ipen adduced in support
of slip slop arguments, upon points which
coMMoif sense— “ although no science,
fairly worth the seven”— disdains to notice,
unless by her contempt. It Is a flimsy con
troversy, at which end we shall break the
Lilliputian egg, which, broken at either,
is utterly worthless to men qf ordinary
stature and dimensions. Never was so shal
low an artifice resorted to, to cover a frvod.
You are not ignorant, Sir, that your minis
ter of state and his birther, (not to mention
other members of the family compact,) la- . y
bour under something more than imputa
tion of publick peculation to a vast amount.
A war with England, [to say nothing of*
other objects,] would at once smother all
inquiry into this subject. Thus the robber
when he has rifled the house, is tempted
to commit arson to conceal the burglary,—
Do you know, Sir, that the people of Nor- ‘ 1
folk say, that about a fortnight or three
weeks before the rupture with the British
which affected so suddenly tW
price of our produce, General Smith sen*
duplicate adv ice-boats to England—that
one of them put in at Norfolk for some re
pairs, that she was repaired with the ut
most expedition, and that the agent who
went out in her, refused to take a single
letter from any person in that town. Ara
you apprised, Sir, that you are, at this mo-
( a J The writer would not be understood
to include in this description, all the speeches
delivered on this occasion; for to be candid,
he has not read one-tenth part of them. He
did road one or two, however, which in hie
humble iudgement had considerable merit;
and would have had more if they had been less
prolffick.
, [f b J 1» »• uncertain whether the writer twra -
alludes to the clock that ought to be in the
house, money having been ropeatedlv voted for
that object, long ago,) or to the little substitute
with which some charitable person kindly
furnished the assembled wisdom of the land.)
C ej Th* organs of Mr. ■ [supposed to
mean Mr Vamum] aro not supposed to be of
so delicate a texture as tfi receive much dam
age from operations of rfof Hadi and, more,
over, it is imagined that there is no punish
ment which could be inflicted on the ror» of '
that honourable genthwmn, for which he would
not consider six extra dollars, per diem, OB
ample compensation.
Cdj See Ferrier’s Ulustrotige* of 9te>B*k
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