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9 Our accounts from Spain, which are to
the latter part of August, say that great
■ apprehensions existed at Madrid, of a plot
r of the Spaniards to seize King Joseph. A
patriot party was said to have rushed at
4 one time as far as the gates of the city, tn
consequence, it is asserted Joseph is to re
turn to France, and Spain, to be divided in
to four parts, and given to the French Gen
erals Sebastiani, Smilt, Junot, and Belliard ;
Massena to have Portugal. An expedition
of 3090 Spanish troops sailed from Cadiz,
( August 23. It was reported they had been
landed at Moguer. \
Bonaparte, by a decree dated August 28,
commands, that if. any vessel shall enter
the ports of France with passengers on
board that have hut come from England,
suah vessel shall be subject to seizure and
confiscation, as well as any cargo she may
ccpvey. How will this affect the vessels
with French passengers, carried into Eng
land for examination ?
Danish folly and injustice.
The brig Hannah, direct from Boston
for Riga and a Market, has been condemn
ed by the Danes; the Prize Court pro
noencing it impossible to cross the Atlan
tick Odtan without a chart of the same,
-v and that it is equally impossible to cross
'said Ocean without the aid of a sextant.—
The brig had neither; The American
Captains, at Christiansand, all certified,
that they “ had frequently made voyages,
from America to Europe, without either
the chart or sextant, and were folly per
suaded, that every seaman, with common
nautical talents or skill, who has ever
crossed the Atlantick Ocean, cannot hesi
[ _ tate to subscribe to the same.”
LiyxapqoL, September 12.
The Russians are said to have been
recently repulsed by the Turks before
* ■ Scfiumla.
X. The King of Naples had collected 1140
boats for troops, and 100 gun-boats, for an
expedition against Sicily. The English
have taken or destroyed more than 300 of
the former, and 30 of the latter.
General Crawford, it is said, has resigned
his command io Portugal.
Twenty sail of the French flotilla pre
said to have escaped from Boulogne har
bour, and the remainder are ready for sea.
Spain, his Majesty feels It to be his duty,
according to every obligation of justice and
good faith, to discourage any proceeding
which may have the effect of separating
the Spanish Provinces in America from the
Parent State in Europe ; the integrity of
tha Spanish Monarchy upon principles of
justice and true policy, being not less the
object of his Majesty than all loyal and pa
tfidtick Spaniards. '
‘Uf, however, contrary to his Majesty’s
most anxious wishes, and as he still con-
•• His Majesty observes with satisfaction,
from the papers which have been ti anauiit-
pressors, may look to America as to their
natural asylum, and may preserve the re
mains of a monarchy for their unfortunate
Sovereign, if it shall ever be his lot, under
such circumstances, to recover his liberty ;
his Majesty in thus explicitly declaring the
moti- s and principles of his conduct, dis
claims every view of territory or acquisition
for himself.
tinues to think, well founded expectations,
the Spanish dominions in Europe shall.be
doomed to submit to the yoke of the com
mon enemy, either in consequence of actual
force or of any compromise which may
leave to them only the semblance of inde
pendence, an event which his Majesty, re-
lying on the tried energy and patriotism of
the Spanish people, can in no degree con*
aider as probable, his Majesty will feel
himself bound by the same principles
which have influenced his conduct for the
two last years in the cause of the Spanish
Nation, to afford every assistance to the
Provinces in Americu, which may render
them independent of French Spain, may
afford a place of refuge to those Spaniards,
who,, in disdaining to submit to their op-
a ' '' Jil
BOSTON, October 30.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND. •
By the ship Superlodr, Captain Delano,
which arrived yesterday from Liverpool,
the Courier and Sun, (London papers) of
the 13t bof September, were received.
{ London, September 8.
Mr. Pinkney’s despatches from Paris
fontain no information of the restoration
tf American firofierty.
September 13.
and as any reasonable hope can be enter
tained of ultimate success to their cause in
SPANISH AMERICA. ,
Jieetract from the Ojfteiat Declaration qf
Hit Britannick Majeety,jrelativt. to the
Devolution at the Carractu, communica
ted to the Sfianieh Government.
The great object, which his Majesty
hot had in view from the first moment
when intelligence was received in thia
coantryof the glorious resistance of the
Spanish Nation against the tyranny and
usurpation of France, was to assist, by
ry means in his power, this great effort of
a brave, loyal, and high spirited people,
and to secure, if possible, the independence
of the Spanish Monarchy in all parts of the
world.
** As long as the Spanish Nation per-
severe in their resistance to their invaders,
The Legislature nf this State convened
in this town on Tuesday last. The House
of Representatives made choice of the
Honourable William Jones, Esq. as
their Speaker, and Thomas Buxgess,
Esq. as their Clerk. Both of these gentle
men are Federal Republicans. The former
was chosen without opposition, and Mr.
BUrgess, by a majority of four, over Mr.
Wheaton, the democratick candidate.—
The Legislature have been principally
confined to business of a local nature. On
Wednesday both Houses joined for the pur
pose of trying petitions. After sitting three
hourt on this business, James D’Wolf, a
Member from Bristol, motioned that the
votes for Representatives to the 12th Con
gress be delivered to the Committee ap
pointed to count them. We are sorry to
notice the mistake of the Honourable Mem
ber, in supposing the House to be in Grand
Committee. We attribute h, however,
more to the want of thought than to the
lack of informaiiod. This gentleman has
On Tuesday last, Mr. Ethan C. Briggs,
and Mr. Thomas Wright, sailed from this
town, in an open boat, for New-Shoreham,
in company with another of a larger size.
The wind being very high, the boat which
Mr. Briggs and Mr. Wright were in was
probably upset, as she has not since been
heard of. By this melancholy accident,
two respectable citizens of that town, have
come to a premature end ; and two large
families are deprived of the best of parents,
society of valuable citizens, and the pub
lick of two worthy characters.
led to him, that the proceeding* in the
Catracas appear in a great measure to
have originated in a belief, that lir conse
quence of the progress of the French ar
mies in the South of Spain, and the disso
lution of the Supreme Junta, the cause of
the Parent State had become desperate.—
He trusts, therefore, that as soon as the
actual state of things shall have been cor
rectly known in that quarter, the general
acknowledgement throughout Spain of the
Regency, and the unremilted exertions of
the Spaniards in defence of their country
under that authority, the inhabitants of the
Carracas will be induced to return to their
connection with Spain as an integral* part
of the Spanish Monarchy.
“ His Majesty is led more particularly
to entertain this expectation, from the con
sideration that the Regency now establish
ed at Cadiz appears to have adopted the
'same wise and generous principles, with,
respect* to the Provinces in America, as
were previously adopted by the Supreme
Junta, in establishing the connection be
tween every part of the Spanish Monarchy
upon the most liberal footing, in regarding
the American Provinces as integral parts
of the empire, and In admitting them in
consequence to a place in the Cortes of the
kingdom.
“ His Majesty feels confident that the
same generous and enlightened policy
which has dictated these measures, will in
dued the government of Spain to regulate
the intercourse of the American Provinces
with other parts of the world, upon such a
basis as will contribute to their growing
prosperity, and at the same time augment
all the advantages which the Parent State
may justly expect to derive from them.”
King Murat had finished hls/erre of
the invasion of Sicily, and had returned to
Naples.
The election of Marshal Bernadotte, as
Crown Prince of Sweden, it was said, had
occasioned a strong sensation in Russia.
On the 30th August, orders were given
at Tonningen for the seizure of all Ame
rican vessels found there.
“ In consequence of a paragraph which
appeared in the Farit Moniteur, declaring
that the French Certificates of Origin,*
which are now found on board every Ame
rican vessel are false, (the French Consuls
in America not having granted them for
several years,) the brig Hannah, Dennis,
from Boston, William Deblois, Esq. super
cargo, and Messrs. T. C. Amory & Co.
owners, was yesterday condemned here.
There is no doubt that all the Americans
who have them will share the same fate.”
Mr. Wild, who arrived here yesterday
from Cadiz, informs, that the Salsette Brit
ish frigate, of 38 guns. Captain Bathurst,
had arrived there from Malta, and brought
a report that Lucien Bonaparte (who has
resided for years near Rome,) bad thrown
himself, with his immense property, into
the hands of the English at Malta,
Extract of a letter from Mr. Jtonu
Jojrz>, at Chrittiantand, in JVbrWoy.
Yesterday afternoon, Captain Davis, from
London, politely favoured us with papers
to the 21st September. They are many
days latest, but as usual, latterly, barren
of events. The Portuguese and Spanish
articles they contain, are not so recent as
our own.
ProWence,
FRIDAY, NO MEMBER 2, 1810.
• This Certificate was signed by M. Giraud.
NEWPORT, October 31.
FROM CADIZ.
October 31.
“ August 8,1810.
. On Monday next the election of a Mem
ber of Congress for Bristol District, (Mas
sachusetts,) will come on. We feel a deep
interest in the event of this election. That
our fellow citisens in that district will pre
fer the unqestionable integrity and shining
talents of Mr. Wheaton, the federal can
didate, to the total want of both hk his op
ponent, we can hardly doubt. We have
read with pleasure an energetick and man
ly appeal to reason and facts, written on
the occasion by a citizen, who signs him
self- “ An Elector," and which we think
must convince every one whose mind is
often to conviction. We regret that our
When the effervescence of party has
raised to conspicuous stations in govern
ment, those who, were justice done to their
merits, would grace a Friday’s procession
to J'yburn, the measure of duty will per
mit us no longer to neglect, anheeded, those
villanous arts by which they have elevated
themselves to notice ; and we are by ne
cessity drawn to animadvert upon actions,
which had they failed of their intended ef
fect, would scarcely have met the glance
of publick contempt. We Were led into
this train of thinking upon remembering
that his Honour the Liautenant-Govem
our to now in town. 'Qte many frauds
which this man has played off, to keep the
federal majority ofLittleXoAipton from en
joying their suffrages, ought to excite the
detestation of every trirtehu to* elections.
After Mving by mobs, perjury and the
corrupt decision of a democratick repre
sentation, once gained the ascendency in
his native town, he has continued to bold
it by the like means to the present time ;
though there to beyond doubt a federal ma
jority of fifteen or twenty in the town. The
Town-Clerk,,is one of his creatures; and
has been known to throw out a large num
ber of legal votes, in order to elect his
master for Moderator. The master when
elected, throws out legal votes in order to
put in deputies from among his retainers;
and at the town election he takes particu
lar care to decide the election in favour of
his own candidate for the office of Clerk.
In this manner does he continue to outrage
every principle of justice, to maintain his
standing with his party. He foments quar
rels among the people of the town, and
takes advantage of these feuds to further
his plans. If the weather is pleasant on
the day of election, so that the old men go
generally to meeting, he sends some of his
understrappers among the crowd to begin
a riot, from which fighting may ensue ; and
during this the business of the meeting is
suspended, until the old folks are tired out
and return home; and to crown all, if the
election is disputed before the Assembly,
he wipes off the blur by a positive oath.
How can we wonder that his townsmen call
him by so appropriate a name as Mahomet,
when he mobs them atvtowa-meeting, sets
them together by the eass with hia lies,
laughs at them for their credulity, and
swiAss them out of their rights before
the Assembly t The oath which he took
before the Assembly last spring, would
without doubt furnish an ample field of in
vestigation for a grand jury hfo Honour
should remember, that justice txouch
slow is sure.
\ t I* *1 1 ~ "
certainly bernTteo Mg temmnant with
lighiativa g—jHlagp to» w toow when
the Houses may be eaid be |n Grand
Committee. Although M*D*Wolf toop
posed to us In political aeatlments, we can
not forbear taking a Ettke notice of him »•»
our paper. We have been gratified with
only one speech from him at this session.
In that speech, (which related to the choice
of a Committee to count votes.) we are
happy to say, that elegance td language,
accuracy ot thought, correctness of ar
range meat, and cogency td reasoning, were
happily blended; As an orator and logi
cian, Mr. D’Wolf standq unrivalled. Al
though hia arguments are not exactly suit
ed to the vulgar . eat rf a New-England
man, yet they are admirably calculated to
suit the refined notions of a Virginia slave
holder. We know not which most to ad
mire, his talents and. information as a
statesman, his/uety as achHstian, hia ur
banity as a citizen, his patriotism as a de
mocrat, or his humanity an u slave trader.
His manners are fascinating, his voice
commanding, his gestures graceful. His
speeches are comprehensive, and he gene
rally embraces the whole view of a sub
ject in a few sentence*, Jbf fine, did Mr.
D’Wolf reside in aq ATrfean clime, it
might fit 18M tor-wns‘bußHepteMe. Nee- <
withstanding all these' queries, the ene
mies of Mr. D’Wolf havqattempted to
asperse his character. As to evidence of
his humanity, 1t is said Mr. XFWolb once
threw a negro overboard m aider to mrue
her from dying.
' The Committee appointed to count the
votes for Representatives toGongress, have
not yet reported. The Senate could not
join in Grand Committee yesterday. A
caucus of the democrats was bold last
night. We therefore expect the report
will be made this day.
If our information be correct, an investi
gation into the election of the Little-Comp
ton members, and the conduct of Jamis
Aldrich, the Glocester Bank Director,
will come before the House of Representa
tives to-morrow.
ed upon year after year, to remove the
mild, candid, upright Strong from the of
fice of Governour. So loud was the clam
our that they did at length actually believe
they laboured under some grievous oppres
sion ; Their minds were disturbed with im
aginary evils : They saw visionary crowns
and felt ideal chains: 7’Ary removed Gov
ernour SrnoHG. Then indeed the glori
ous day of pure republican rule com
menced ! and how did it progress? The
faithfol and honest Jackson was removed
from the Treasury, to make room for a
dear friend of the people. The democrat- ,
ick Skinner was his successor: He plun
dered the Treasury of upwards of fifty,
thousand dollars of the people’s money,
which has never been replaced and pro*
bably never will be. Barnabas Bidwell
loved the people better than he loved his
life; he wrote inflammatory pamphlets
and enasplained of Federal Wtoaaton,
Federal knavery, and Federal wickedness:
He was made Attorney-General, and of
coarse, ex officio, guardian of the publick
morels. After defrauding the publick of
Urge sums of money, he committed forge
ry to conceal bis fraud, and fled to escape
the punishment ofhis forgery. Such have
been the effects of democracy in the Nat
tioaal and State governments.
“Your active and strenuous exertions
are expected at the approaohing election.
There are some, who seem at all times to
despair of the publick safety; and sup
posing it impossible to obtain all, think it a
matter of no consequence to obtain a part.
Separate from the obligation which every
one to und<r to do his duty to his country,
and leave the consequence to his Gqd, eve
ry prudent man will deem it an object of
the first consequence to obtain the elec
tion of as many Federal Members as pos
sible. The repeal of the odious and ob
noxious Embargo and Non-Intercourse
laws, was effected by the exertions of the
minority in Congress. The voice of a for
midable minority, speaking io the dignified
tone of resentment, for a Commerce de
stroyed ; a people oppressed, and a Consti
tution violated, will be heard even in the
strong-holds of power. It may stay the
hand of the oppressor'! It may rescue the
victim marked for sacrifice!
“ A number of citizens who have serious
ly considered the situation of their country,
and the causes which produced it, have de
termined to support ,tho Honourable LA
BAN WHEATON, of Norton, aa the
Candidate to represent this District in the
next Congress. He to the present Repre
sentative, and has ably and faithfully
served the District in that capacity. He
has the sagacity to perceive the tendency
of measures, and the eloquence to persuade
and convince Others of their good or ill.ef
fects. The pledges he gives you that he
will not betray his trust are great, they
are his property, his family, and his
fame. AN ELECTOR.”
The Democrats, while they glory in the
all-conquering power of France, and would
prostrate every thing at the foot of the Im
perial Throne, endeavour to make it be
lieved that they are the only real friends
of liberty and National Independence, and
that the Federalists are their enemies, and
advocates for monarchy. But let us hear
the language of these loVers of liberty and
independence.
We have been favoured with a view
of the address of Holland to the Emperour
of France—lf •tver Holland could renounce
its political existence with GLORY, it
must have been on such an occasion”!!l
Did Federalists ever use such sycophan
tick language towards Kings and conquer
ors ? Yet such are the words of Mr. Bent
ley, in speaking of the late transaction, in
which Bonaparte wreeted from the Dutch,
(for they did not renounce it,) their “ po
litical existence." This is not all: had
they been conquered to the blessings of a
republican government, there might have
been some plea for the violence done them;
but they are now merged in the grand mil
itary despotism that e:aends overwenti
nental Europe ; and Mr. Bentley, in wind
ing up his reflections on the fate to which
they are doomed, says,
“le a monarchy, they have much to
hope from a spirit of enterprise, and the
talents of a great Emperour and nation"! 11
And such he may also say of America,
should her indeMpdence be likewise wrest
ed from her by napoleon, the great object
of Bentley’s praise and adoration—that
from a monarchy, and from a great Em
perqur, we had much to hope, fee.—Can it
then seriously be thought, that men who
entertain such sentiments, and hold such
language, are friends to republicanism f
The supposition is absurd. Salem Oat.
We understand that the Roman Catho
lick Diocess of Baltimore, which compre
hended the whole of the United States, is
now erected into an Arch-Bbhoprick, and
that four new DiocctiM are established
’’Let us now come home to our own
State. The people of this State were call
limits will not admit of the whole address.
We republish for the perusal of our pa
trons, that pert of it which relates more
particularly to the local politicks ot Mas
sachusetts, and hope it will be read with
attention by every one who wishes to come
at the truth.
SAMUEL AMES,
No. 1, Wetbosset-Stmkzt,
Has imported direct from the M innfw
tories, and is now opening for sale, the
following GOODS:
SEVENTY Pieces of Broadcloths, su
perfine, middling and low-priced;
50 Pieces of Cassimeres, superfine, mid
dling and low-priced ;
40 Pieces of Yorkshire Plains,
100 Do. Bombazets and Wildbores,
90 Pair of Blankets, from 5 to 12-qrs.
50 Pieces ot Flannels, assorted colours
and prices;
50 do. red and green Baizes ;
Which, with his Stock on hand, com
prises a complete assortment of Goody,
suited to the season, which he will sell rt
wholesale or retail, at prices that cannot
fail to please purchasers, for cash or ap
proved credit.
November 2, 1810.
MOLASSES.
A CARGO of two hundred and forty
Hhds. of HAVANA MOLASSE*,
far sale on liberal terms—delivered at any
navigable part of the town, if applied for
immediately, before other arrangements
are made.
within its former limits, which are to bo
■Suffragans to the See of Ifohitnurc; three
of the Bishops of new Diocesses are .4
now to be consecrated—the Right Rsvf
Dr. Egan, Bishop of Philadelphia, on Sun
day, October 28th, and the Right Rev. Dr. . j
Cheverus, of Boston, on Thursday, Novem
ber Ist, the feast of all Saints.’ Both, these
Consecrations will be celebrated in St. Pe
ter’s Church. That of the Right Rev. Dr,
Flaget, of Bardstown, (Kentucky,) will be
on Sunday, November 4(h, in St Patrick's '
Church, Fell’s Point. The late Right Rev.
Dr. Concanon, Bishop of New-York, which
gives title to the other new Diocese, un
fortunately died before ho could take pos
,e,*ioo - Fed. Rep,
marries,
In this town, Mr. John Loriko, of Bos
ton, to Mias Hahbiot Homans, of Be
verly.
tort,
At North-Providence, on Monday morn
ing last, Mrs. Anne Whipple, widow of
the late Mr. Jonathan? Whipple, aged 91
years, 6 months and 7 days.
Xmeruan marine Etet. , ;
FORT OF PROriDEjVCIL,
November 2, 1810.
ENTERED,
Ship— Charlotte, Cooke, Liverpool?
CLEARED,
Brig— Delight, Whipple, Rio Janeiro.
Schooner— Silvia, Lewis, Alexandria.
Sloops—Juno, Comstock, New York;
Folly, Brown, do. Ruby, Fenner, Albany.
The brig Telegraph, Bishop, of this fo *
arrived al Charleston, (S. C.) OctobefteßL
in 8 days from Newport. '
Boston, October
An American brig, from Naii'uclfeoaßHF
oil, for London, was sent into Frajrcff/iiS'
September, by a French privateer. ,
The wreck of a Spanish armed briijjF
from Spain to Porto-Rico, with wine, spe
cie, &c. was fallen iu with by schooner
Agnes, Stanwood, of this port, (from Lis
bon, arrived at Alexandi ia.) and her 4ap- J
tain, mate and 7 men taken off She had .-*
lost 28 persona. Those saved hud b» en 72
hours on the wreck, without food-
i THE fist-s ding Schoor-
_jfoajk>er BELVIDERE, Elijah
BaKwf.a, Master, will sail
9H9SM on or about the 20th instant.
For Freight or Passage, (having good ac
commodation*,) apply toBKNJAMtN
ford, or the Master on board, al Captain
Bullock’s upper Whart
JWvearter 2, 18ip.
Fdk Baltimore,
THE Schooner FLORA.
John Anthony, Master, win
aN ** *° N * X( I J Vs. For Freight
or Passage, (having good ac
commodations.) apply .to the Master on
board, at Butler's Wharf, or to
For Charleston, (S. C.) or Savan
nah, (Georgia,)
Washington Benevolent Society.
’T'HE Members of the Washington
A Benevolent Society are hereby
requested to attend an adjourned Meeting
of said Society, at Washington Hall,
THIS EVENING, precisely at 6 o’clock.
Business of importance will be laid before
the Society.
Ay order of Jabbz Bowsw, Prtoident,
JOHN HOLROYD, Secretary.
November 2, 1810.
ONE Half of a two story House, with a
Bern, Shoemaker’s Shop, Currkt’s
Slug), Beam-House..Bark Store, and about ■
two acres of Land, situated a mile and A
half from India Jjridge, on the great mad
leading to being a very eligible
stand for a Tanner and Currier, having a
constant stream of water running thn««i*h
the premises, and abiut fifteen Tanncl’s
Vats, all in gixxl order. Conditions of sale
liberal, and made known by applying to
THOMAS BURGES*.
November 2, 1810/ .•
WILLIAM TAYLOR.
November 2, 1810.
BLODGET & POWER.
November 2, 1810.
FOR SALE,
BY THE SUBSCRIBER,