The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-06-22 00:00:00, page 1

THE RHODE-ISEAND AMERICAN/
AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
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■■■.... ■ ..•■?■■ 1 .p. .. w
.Also —Hare’s Philadelphia ditto, Es
setice of Spruce, sound Port, long cork
Claret, Madeira, Lisbon, Sherry and a
variety of other Wines; Jamaica Spirits,
St. Croix and other' Rum ; real Cognack.
common French and good Spanish Bran
dy ; Holland and American Gin, West-
India and Anterican Cordials of twelve dif
ferent flavours, Composition for Punch, olu
Cider Vinegar, English Mustard, per lb
Sound Pepper, Sallad Oil, the freshest
at can be obtained ; Spices, a full assort
ment; Turkey Figs, unusually nice ; Frail
do. Prunes, Muscadel and other Raisins
Currants, Almonds, Isinglass, Welsh’s No.
1 and 2 Chocolate, Coffee, Sugar, viz. loaf
powdered, Havana white and brown and
common Muscovado ; Hyson, Young Hyson,
Hyson Skin and a numlrer of other choice
Tdas, per pound or dozen ; Negi ohead
Tobacco, allowed to be superiour; smoking
and chewing do. in papers; smoking Pipes
of d|ferent kngths.
llz* Person* i n town and country in want
of genuine Groceries of any description in
{ eneral ust, particularly Teas, Wines and
.iqjors. are invited to call at the above
w^err l * ,e y may depend on being
« nt fl?y pleased, either as it relates to
priWor quality.
Main-Street, June 8, 1810.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Bill* of the Union Bank, Bank of Alexandria, and Bank of Potomack, 3to j per cent. die,
LOUISIANA TERRITORY.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, . .. . . par.
Bank of Louisiana, - . IQ per cent dia,
The above Pricb-Currbnt v>ill be; carefully corrected every Friday.
Zf’ To' the above Discount there will be a email advance for email eume, and Bills under
3 dollars, not of thie State.
*,* United States and Boston Bills, or Specie, will be given for any Bills received at par,
for half per cent, for sums over g 20—under $2O, 1 per cent, advance-
Any dietant Banting Company, viiehing their Rille to be received al ran, willpleaee to mate
arrangemente accordingly, and they will be duly attended to.
The most punctual attention will be paid to all Letters, (post paid,) addressed to J. B.
Wood, enclosing Bills to be exchanged, and the earliest remittances made to any part of the
"Union, per fret, or not to exceed the tecond mail. AH Bank Notes that he passes will be
WASRAsno good, and should any counterfeit Bills be received in Lettere, they will be
returnedßank Notes examined gratis . Office houre from 6, A. M. to fl, P M.
(Cf Six or seven new -Banks will in a short time have a place in the above Price-Current.—
Their names will be published in a few days, and the States to which they belong.
ExcHAMoa-OrrxoE, Providence, June 22, 1810.
SMITHFIELD BILLS
ARE received for Merchandise at par,
and will be exchanged by the sub
scribers for Bills of the Providence Banks,
at half per cent, discount.
GREENE & CARTER.
June 22. 1810. tf
HIBBERT’s best Brown Stout
PORTER, late Boston importa
tion, just received and fbr sale at the
Store of
JOHN B. CHACE.
THlK’l ¥ Puncheon* oi excellent fla
voured Windward-Island RUM, now
landing from sloop George, Capt. Thomas,
•nd for sale by
wilLiam church.
June 5, 1810.
Bills of the United States Branch, Massachusetts, Union, and Boston Banks, .... Par*
Salem, Essex, Bererly, Marblehead, Newburyport, Gloucester, (Cane-}
Ann,) Plymouth, Worcester, Bedford, Pacifick, and Nantucket L 3-4 to 1 per cent. dis.
Banks • • • 3
Portland, Maine, and Saco Banks, « Ito 1 1-9 do.
HalloweH and Augusta, and Lincoln and Kennebeck Banks, ...... I do.
Penobscot, 25 do.
Northampton, - - . - 20 do.
CONNECTICUT. . . .
Bills of the Middletown, Hartford, New-Haven, Nev-London, Union, > t 0 * cent
Derby, and Bridgeport Banks, 5
Norwich Bank, - - *- L 2 per cent. dis.
Bills of the Vermont State Banks, 95 per cent. dis.
RHODE-ISLAND.
Bills of the Providence, Exchange, Roger Williams, Bank of Rhode-}
Island, Newport, Rhode-Inland Union, Bank of Bristol, Commercial,* ~ Par.
Warren, Rhode-island Central, and Narraganset Banks, .... 5
Washington Bank, 3 to 4 per cent. dis.
NORTH-CAROLINA.
Bills qf the Cape Pear, and NcWbem Banks, - - - 12 1-2 per cent. dis.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, Par.
State, and South-Carolina Banks, ............. - 3 per eent. dis.
OHIO.
MARYLAND.
Bills of the United State* Branch Bank, p gr .
Union Bank of Maryland, Bank of Columbia, Hagerstown, Bank of
Ba ki more, Branch oi the Farmers’ Bank (Jf Maryland, and Mechanicka’ > 1 to 3 per cent dis.
Bank of Baltimore, . j J •
, VIRGINIA.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, • -
Bank of Virginia, .
Bills of the Farmers* Bank, and Bank of Delaware, 2 to fl per cent. dis.
KENTUCKY.
Bins of the Kentucky Insurance Company, 19 1-2 per cent dis.
Bills of the Marietta, Miami Exporting Company and Chillicothe Banks, 20 to 30 per eent dis.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, .. Par.
Merchants, Manhattan Company, Bank of New-York, New-York State,}
Bank of Albany, Mohawk, Farmers’, Bank of Hudson, and Bank 0f>.......... Par.
Columbia, j
\ NEW-JERSEY.
Bills of the Jersey, Trenton Banking Company, Newark BanWng and 7 _
Insurance Company, and Bank of New-Brunswick, 3 ...»...~«-..~...~...M.....rar.
Dills of the United States Bank, Par,
Farmers’ and Mechanicks’, Philadelphia, Bank of Pennsylvania, and ?
Bank of North-America, ,3 rar.
Bills of the Pennsylvania Branch Bank at Pittsburg, ........ 2 per cent. dis.
’ DELAWARE.
J. B. WOOD’S
GENERAL PRICE-CURRENT OF JUVX NOTES, .
AS THEY ARE RECEIVED AT MIS EXCHANGE-OFFICE, PBor ID&HCI, (R. I.)
. NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Bills of the New-Hampshire, ditto payable in Philadelphia, Portsmouth, "> . , „ ..
Union, Stratford, and Exeter Banks, 5- 1 w * ***
Concord Banks, r - 3 do.
Cheshire, Coos, and Hillsborough Banks, ...... ....... fg do.
’ * MASSACHUSETTS.
Volume IL
RUM FX)R SALE.
“TXK NATION WHkCN INDOLSCI TOWAUt A NOTH KB AN KXSIVUAL KAWtAD, OB AN HASITUAL FQNDNKSS, IS IN lOMI DKCRBX A SLA f*.”— WASHLNXS TQAT.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
PENNSYLVANIA.
NEW-VORk.
VERMONT.
JOSEPH S. MARTIN
HAS FOR SALE, XO. 4, BUTLER’S W M AR F,
ST. PETERSBURG clean Hemp,
Russia Duck,
Ravens Duck,
Russia Sheetings,
Old and new Sable Bar-Iron.
February 27, 1810. tf.
• .... 1 per eent. dis.
Respectfully acquaints the pub
lick, that having some time since con
tempiated a removal from this town to
transact business abroad, and made the
preparatory arrangement, has now, in con
sequence of some cither Arrangements, re
sumed his former situation at Store No. 3,
Market-Square, where he is this day open -
ing an .extensive assortment of
English, India and Scotch Goods,
vnicb are just received direct from the
manufactories per ships Cabinet and Ann.
from Liverpool, and are now offered foi
sale cheap for cash. A part of which con
sists of the following articles, viz.
6-qr. 9-Bths and 4-qr. Cambrick Muslin,
Superfine, fine, middling and low-priced
Calicoes and coloured Cambrick,
Ginghams, a great variety ;
Grandurels,
Cotton Kerseymere
Hlue and yellow Nankins,
Fashionable Vesting,
Satteen for gentlemen’s wear, of a new
style ;
Cotton Hosiery,
British Shirting Cottons,
Irish Linens, v
Platillas and Britannias,
Elegant gold indented Walking Dresses,
Tamboured do.
India, imitation and lappet end Scarfs;
Black Lace Veils,
Black Lustrings, Siuchaws and Sarsnets ;
Plaid Lustrings,
Black and coloured Silk Handkerchiefs,
Middling and low-priced Broadcloths,
Ditto Cassitneres,
Superfine. Mack and drab do.
Navy Bine, black and drab Broadcloths of
a superiour quality.
Aho, a large quantity of Towcloth.
May 15, 1810. tf.
CHARLES POTTER
PROVIDENCE, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1810.
AHttren.
“ The only condition required for the
revocation by his Majesty the
of the decree of Berlin, will be a prevfll
From General Armstrong to Mr. Pinkney.
Parit, 25th January, 181 -
Si r—A letter from Mi. Secretary Smith
of the Ist of December last, made it my
duty to inquire of his Excellency the Duke
of Cadore, what were the conditions on
which his Majesty the Einperour would
annul his decree, commonly called the Ber
lin decree; and whether, ifGreat-Britain
revoked her blockades of a date ante *iour
to that decree, his Majestv would consent
to Fevotee the said decree ? To these ques
tions I have this day received the following
answer, which I hasten to convey to you
by a special messenger.
P. S. March 23, 1810. Since the writing
of this letter, Lord Wellesley has sent me
the answer (of the 2d instant) of which a
copy is now enclosed. It was not satis
factory, and I pointed out its deficiencies
to Lord Wellesley i-.i conversation, and
proposed to him that I should write him
another letter requesting explanations.—
lie absented tn this course, and I have writ
ten him the letter of the 7th instant, of
which also a copy is enclosed. His reply
has been promised very frequently, but
has not yet been received. I have reason
to expect that it will be sufficient; but I
cannot chink of detaining the corvette any
longer. The British packet will furnish
me with an opportunity of forwarding it to
you; and I will send Mr. Lee with it to
Paris, by the way of Morlaix. /
I have the honour to be, &c.
Wm. PINKNEY.
The Hon. R. Smith.
bbce/fid ar ru yoary jdjins.
London, \9th, 1810.
Giß—l received on the 12th instant, by
Mr. Powe!, whom! had sent some time
before to France, a letter from General
Armstrong, of which a copy is enclosed ;
and, keeping in view the instructions con
tained in your letter to me of the 11th of
November last, I lave written to Lord
Wellesley, to inquireAvhether any, and, if
any, what blockades of France, instituted
by Great-Britain during the present war,
before the Ist of January, 1807, are under
stood here to be in force. A copy of my
letter to Lord Wellesley is enclosed.
It is not improbable that this official in
quiry will produce a declaration, in answer
to it, that none of those blockades are in
force ; and I should presume that such a
declaration will be received in prance a*
substantially satisfying the condition an
nounced to me by General Arms l rang.
I am not awnre that this subject could
have been brought before the British gov
ernnWnt in any other form than that which
I have chosen. It would not, I think, have
been proper to have applied for a revoca
tion of the blockades in question, (at least,
before it is ascertained that they are in ex
istence,) or to have professed, in my letter
to Lord Wellesley, to found upon General
Armsti ong’s communication my inquiry as
to their actual state. I have, howfver,
supposed It to be indispensable (and have
acted accordingly) that I should explain
to Lord Wellesley, in conversation, the
probability afforded by General Arm
strong’s letter, that a declaration by this
government, to the effect above-mentioned,
would bwjhllowed by the recall of the Ber
lin decrew
I cannot, perhaps, expect to receive
from Lord Wellesley an answer to my fet
ter, in time to send a copy by tire John
Adams, now in the Downs or at Ports
mouth ; but I w ill send it by an early op
portunity, and will take care that General
Armstrong shall be made acquainted with
it without delay.
I have the honour to be, with great con
sideration, Sir, your most obedient humble
servant,
THE LIGHT-HOUSE.
T mb scene was more beautifiil far to my eye,
Than if day in its pride had array’d it;
The land-breeze blew mild, and the azure
arch'd sky,
Look'd pure as she spirit that made it.
The murmur rose soft as I silently gazed
On the shadowy wave’s playful motion.
From the dim distant isle till the Light-House
fire blazed
Like a star in the midst of the ocean.
«
No longer the j®y of the sailor .boy's
WiM he»rd’in his wildy breath’d numbers ;
The sea bird had flown to her wave girded
nest, ,
The fisherman sunk to his slumbers.
One moment I look'd from the hill’s gentle
slope,
(AU hush'd was the billow’s commotion,)
And tho’t that the Light-House look’d lovely
as Hope,
That star of life's tremulous ocean.
The time is long past and the scene h afar,
Yet,'when my head rests on its pillow,
Will memory sometimes rekindle the star
That blazed on the breast of the billow.
In life’s closing hour, when the trembling soul
flies,
And death stills the heart's last emotion>
Q then may the seraph of mercy arise,
Like a star on eternity’s ocean I
Sraportant -Document#,
Poetry.
Wm. PINKNEY.
London, Monday, 2d Jfiril, 1810.
Sir—l had the honour to recede on Sa
turday last (by Dr. Logan in the Bi itish
Packet) your letters of the 20ih January
•nd 16di February.
1 have only time to add that I am fa see
Lord Wellesley to morrow.
Foreign-Office, March 27th, 1810.
Sir—l Jiaye die honour tn acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 7th inst.
requesting a further explanation of my let
ter of the 2d, concerning the blockades of
France instituted by Great-Brißiin during
the present war, before the first day of Jan
uary, 1807.
The blockade, notified by Great-Britain
jn May, 1806, has never been formally with
drawn ; it cannot therefore be accurately
stated, that the restrictions, which it es
tablished, rest altogether on the Order of
Council of the 7th of January, 1807 ; they
are comprehended under the more exten
sive restrictions of that order. Nu other
blockade of the ports of France, wßs insti
tuted by Great-Britain between the 16th of
May, 1806, and the 7th of January, 1807,
excepting the blockade of Venice, instituted
on the 27th of July, 1806, which is still in
ford*.
I Ireg you to accept the assurances of
high consideration, wkh which I have the
hraiour to be, Sir, your tnosi obedient, hum
bl* servant,
“ I have the honour to enclose a copy of
Lord Wellesley’s reply to my letter of the
7th' instant, respecting the British block
ades of France Irefore the Berlin decree.
“ I do not think it of such a nature as to
justify an expectation that .General Arm
strong will be able tn make any use of It at
Paris ; but I shall nevertheless convey to
him the substance of. it without delay.”
ences are correct, and, if correct, in wha
respects they are so.
I have the honour to be, with the high
est consideration, my Lord, your Lord
ship’s most obedient, humble servsnt,
(Signed) Wm. PINKNEY.
The mott noble
Mt Lord—l have had the honour to
receive your 'Lordship’s answer, of the 2d
instant, to my letter of the 15th of h*t
month, conceroiug th* Mockades of France
instituted by Great-Britain during the pre
sent war, before day of Jqpuary,
I infer from that answer that the block
ade notified by Great-Britain in May, 1806.
from the Elbe to Brest, is not itself in
force, and that the restrictions, which it
established, rest altogether, so far as such
restrictions exist at thisf ime, upon an Or
der or Orders in Council issued since the
first day of January, 1807.
I infer also either that no other blockade
jtf France was instituted by Great-Britain
during the period above-mentioned, or
that, if any other was instituted during that
period, it is not now in force.
May I beg your Lordship to do me the
honour to inform me whether these infier-
Extract of a letter from Mr. JPinkney to
Mr. Smit hr, dated March 27, 1810,
Foreign-Office, March 2, 1810.
Sir-—I have the honour to acfciiewkdge
the receipt of your note of the 1 sth ultimo,
wherein you request to be inform* d whether
any, and if any, what blocktdes of France,
instituted by Great-Britain during the pre
sent war, before the Ist dav of January,
1807, are understood by his Majesty’s gov
ernment to be in force ? I have now the
honour 1 to acquaint you, that the coast,
livers and ports from the river Elbe to
Brest, both inclusive, were notified to be
under the restrictions of blockade, wi'h
certain modifications, on the 16th of May,
1806; and tlrit these reatrk'Jons were
afterwards comprehended in the Qrder of
Council of the 7«h of January, 1807, which
order is'still in force. .
I have the honour to be, with great con
sideration, Sir, your most obedient, humble
servant,
(Signed) WELLESLEY.
William Pinkney, Esq.
(( OPY.)
Great Cumberland Place,
7th March, 1810.
revocation by the British government of
her blockades of France or part of France,
(such as that from the Elbe to Brest, Btc.)
of a date anterieur to that of the aforesaid
decree.”
1 have the honour to be, with very high
respect, &c.
(Signed) JOHN ARMSTRONG
(COPY)
Great Cumberland Place,
February 15, 1810.
My Lord—ld pursuance oft he intima
tion which 1 had the honour ttfghe to your
Lordship a few days ago, I beg to trouble
your Lordship with an inquiry, whether
any, and if anv, what blockades of France,
instituted by dMJ. jpi Jtfe-
sent war, before the Ist* day of January,
1807, are understood by his Mnjesty’s gov
ernment to be in force. lam not able at
present to specify more than one of the
blockades to which this inquiry' applies;
namely, that from the Elbe to Brest, de
clared in May, 180 d, and afterwaids tins
ited and modified ; but I shall be much
obliged to your Lordship for precise "In
formation as to the whole.
I Have the honour to be, with the highest
consideration, ity Lord, your Loidshjp’s
most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) Wm. nMCNEY.
The moat noble
The Marquis W< Healey, Wc. Ifc.
(Signed) WELLESLEY.
William Pinkney, Eeq. life. Uc. &c.
The Marquis Wclletley, Ifc. life. Uc.
I have the honour to be, with great con* fl
sideration, Sir, your most obedient humbfa fl
servant. ■
-*i « „ fl
The Hon. Robert Smith, life. (Fc. fl
Geqero/ I
to t tel) like of Cadore, dittednPari* 2l«F 1
Febryp>y / 1810. » K
The Sinister PlenipoteVtiary of the'fl
Uniled States his the honour io submit to
his Excellency the Dote ofeCadnrf the I
enpy of a letter his instar# t%c<iifed fr-m 1
Bayonne and begs from him. Kift-xphnatiotj I
<>f the circumstances mciHhwl in if, ' I
” The Ministerial Mu'rr d,'fa fl
of the sth inst. Is m rjKd nt St. XJ
.mgroJE r|
qn. stert d Am< > tcaii t’.itgoe!,. to Barn/no, I
to be (faced in 'he Custoff -llvusq tbvrv<— i
This C'ys is publick at Sr, Seb stian ; but I
wh ais not so as-yet, is, that salpv <>r- I
del says— I
l‘ Ist, That those .Cargoes are to he?fan( 1
to Brtvontie. the cmnmodiits .pt -1
which they fare cornpvsea may Utv«- roofa
from English cpmmetcy jdr from ijje Ara?
ducc of the atfil of the United Stairs.
" 2dly That they unt to the
Custom House of that plhAe to be sold
there.” Sf
The Minister I’l. nip< tenferv •ff • tr» >
hh Excellency the aasuxaiflkp|, hishigh '
consideration.
(Signed) JOHN '4|#tt>Tll()NG>
General Jrmetrofur fb Mr. Smith. * I
$ ParH, 18th lBio, 1
I wrote a few lines to you yesterday aty
nouncing the receipt and inn mission o(<
copy of the Duke of Cadore’s note tome fl
the 14th inst.
After much serious reflection J h >vq
thought it best to forbear aJj aotid>
sent «f the errours, as well of facPps of ar
gument, which may be foqnd iu the
ductory part of chat note; to thq
Minister at his word; to entej" at once
upon the proposed negotiation, aud, ti>r
this put pose, to offer to him a project fat
renewing the convtn’ion of IBOQ, ’•
This mode will have the advantage nf
trying the sincerity ol the overtures mnde
by him, and perhaps of <|rawing from him
the precise terms on which pis master will
accommodate. If these be such as wq
ought to accept, we shall have a Treaty,
in which neither our rights nor our wrongs 4
will be fk.rgtrtt n; if otherwise, there wilt *
be enough, both < f time and occasion, to (fa
justice to their policy and our owr fu Hilm -—*
1 have the Honour to he. Sir, with very
g> eat respect, your most obedient and very
humble servant. ’
(Sigwd) JOHN ARMSTRONG.
Honorable Robert Smith.
Extract of a letter to the tame from the
tame.
”10th March. I have at length receiv
ed a verbal message in answer tn my note
of the 21st ult. It was from the Minister
offoieign relations, and in the following
wools: “His Majesty has decided loseit
the American property seized in Spain,
but the money arising therefrom shall re- ‘ •
main in depot.” This message has given oc •
casion to a letter from, me, marked No. 2.”
(No~)
Farit, 10th March, 1810.
Sir, I had yesterd ty the honour of re
ceiving a verbal message from your excel
lency, stating, that “his Majesty had de- *
cided, that the American property seized /
in the ports of Spain should be sold, but
that the money arising therefrom should
remain in depot.”
Qn receiving this information twoques
tiohs suggested themselves—
-Ist. Whether this decision wqß, nr was
not, extended to ships, as well as to car
goes ? and
2d. Whether the money arising from the
sales which might be made under it, would,
or would not, be subject to the issue of the -
pending negotiation?
The gentleman charged with the deli
very of your message not having been in
structed to answer these questions, it be
comes my duty to present them to your ex
cellency, and to request a solution of them.
Nor is it lets a duty, on my part, to ex
amine the ground on which his Majesty
has been pleased to take this decision,
which I understand to be that of reftrital,
suggested for the first time in the note you
did me the honour to write to me on the
14th ultirao. In the 4th paragraph of this
note, it is said, that “ His Majesty could
not have calculated on the measures takea
by the United States, who, having no
grounds of complaint against France, have
comprised her in theii acts of exclusion,
and since the month of May last, have pro
hibited the entry intn their ports of French,
vessels, by subjecting them to confiscation.
It is true that the United States have
since the 20th of May last forbidden the
entry of French vessels into their harbours
—and it is allo true that the penalty of
confiscation attaches to the violation of
this law. But in what respect does this
offend Franct i Will she refuse to us the
right of regulating commerce within our
own ports f Or will she deny that the lav
in question is a regulation merely munici
pal? Examine it both as to object and
means—what does it more than forbid
Ametican ships from going into the ports
of France, and French ships from coming
into those of the United States? And why
this prohibition ? To avnidlnjury and in
sult ; to escape that lawlessness, which is
declared to be “a forced consequence of
he decrees of the British Council.” If
then its object be purely defensive, wbat
are its means? Simply a latif, prevtoesly
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