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J. B. WOOD’S
' GENERAL PRICE-CURRENT OF BANK NOTES,
AS THEY ARE RECEIVED AT MIS EXCHANGE-OFFICE, PAOriDEttCB, (R.7>)
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Bills of *££*£ ln Ph,laddpM *’ Port,n^ uth ’J ..1 to 2 per cent dis.
Coo"uhl’lfortto, - • 6 do.
Chestefe, Coon, and Hillsborough Banks, * - 75 do-
L MASSACHUSETTS.
Uffls of the United States Branch, Mteaachteetts, Union, and Boston Banks, . . - . Par.
.Salem, Essex, Beverly, Mwbfehe**!. Newburyport. Gloucester, (Cape-}
Ann,) Plymouth, Worcester, Bedford, Padfick, and Nantucket 14 per cent. dis.
< Ranks, J
Portland, Maine, and Saco Banks, • I 1-2 to 2 do.
Hallawdl and Auguste, and Lincoln and Kennebeck Banks 5 do.
;r Penobscot, • • • - -26 do.
Northampton, ....... no demand*
z - CONNECTICUT. , K
i Norwish,
doo. Union, Derby, and Jlftdgvpart Banks, ........ 5
VERMONT.
Bib oftte Vermont State Banks, 15 per cent dtp*
RfIODE-ISLAND.
Bills of tba Providence, lathange, Roger Williams, Bank of Rhode-}
Island, Newport, Rhode-Island Union, Bank of Bristol, Omnmeacial, > ...,_~.-....~._..~—..Par.
Warren, RhodeJaland Central, and Narragaftset Banks, * . * * j
Washington Bank, - per cent. dis.
KENTUCKY.
Bills af the Kentucky Insurance Company. ...,•-•••• 12 1-9 per cent dis.
NORTH-CAROLINA.
Bflle of tbe Cape Fear, ahd Newbern Banks, -....••••12 1-2 per cent. dis.
I SOUTH-CAROLINA. ’
Bib of the United States Branch Bank, Par.
State, and South-Carolina Banks, . 3 per cent. dis.
OHIO.
BiDa of the Marietta, Miami Exporting Company and Chillicothe Banks, 15 to 20 per cent. dis.
NEW-YORK.
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 Batik of> ............... -Par.
• Columbia, }
NEW-JERSEY.
Bids of the Jersey, Trenton Banking Company, Newark Banking and ? .
Insurance Company, and Bunk of New-Brunswick, . .' • - • J
PENNSYLVANIA.
Bib of the United States Bank, Par.
" Farmers’ and Mechanfcks*, Philadelphia, Bank of Pennsylvania, and 7
Bank of North. America . . $ Pttr -
flffia sf the Pennsylvania Branch Bank at Pittsburg, 2 per cent. dis.
‘ ; DELAW ARE.
Bib ofAe Farmers* Bank, and Bank of Delaware, 2to 6 per eent. dis.
’ MARYLAND.
Bib of the United States Branch Bank, Par.
Union Bank of Maryland, Bank of Columbia, Hagerstown, Bank of}
Baltimore, Branch ol the Farmers* Bank ef Maryland, and Mechanicks’s.l to 4 per cent. dis.
Bank of Baltimore, - ' 1 • j
. VIRGINIA.
Riboftb United States Branch Bank, P , Par.
■* Virginia, .......... 2 percent, dis.
‘ RVs ef the Union Bank, 3 to 6 per cent. dis.
LOUISIANA TERRITORY. <
■ Bib of the Lfaitod Staten Branch Bank -(• • - ..... Par.
Rank of Louisiana, 10 per cent dis.
The atove PaiMrCteiRRNT w»7Z de carefully corrected every
(p*To the above Discount there will be a email advance for email eume, and Bills under
5 dowers, net <f thio State.
United States and Boston Bib, or Specie, will be given for any Bib received at par,
for haH per cent, for sums over £ 20—under 020, 1 per cent, advance.
Xny. dietant Banting Company, viehing their Bille to he received at FAR, willpleaot to mate
0 arrangements accordingly, and they. will be duly attended to.
The most punctual attention will be paid to all Letters, (post paid,) addressed to J. B.
Woon, enclosing Bills to be exchanged, and the earliest remittances made to any part of the
Union, per Jfrer, Or not to exceed the eecond mai1.........AM Bank Notes that he passes will be
warranted ooow, and should any counterfeit Bib be received fn Letters, they will be
returned. Bank Notes examined oratis... Office hours from sunrise until sunset.
ExcHAWOR-Omcx, A-oviJenoe, fF.I.J April 13, 1810. '
School for Young Ladies.
THE Subscriber respectfully inform*
hi* friends and the publick, that hr
proposes, in the course of the approaching
Summer, to open a SCHOOL for YOUNG
LADIES, at his dwelling-house in Provi
dence ; where he will tench SfielUng, Read'
big, Writing, English Grammar, Comfio
tilion, Arithmetic* : And, without any ad-*
ditional ex|>ense, those who are sufficiently
advanced in the above studies, shall he
Caught the use of the Artificial Globe,, At
tronamy, Geography and Hittory. The
delicate state of his health having rendered
this arrangement necessary, he hopes for
the-kiud patronage of those parents who
, prefer to send their daughters to a School
exclusively for Females.
i MOSES NOYES.
Afiril 3, 1810. tf.
READ THIS !
BEAL ESTATE AT AUCTION".
On SATURDAY, the 21st instant, at 11,
,'A. M.wiil be snld, without reserve* on
the premises, for the Bills of either of
tht Banks in this town,
THAT weli-oullt and elegant three sto
ry BRICK HOUSE, and LOT, be
longing to 1. OIBkNWOOD, in Westmin
ster-Street, near the Theatre, measuring
• 38 feet souare, on the corner of two stjaotr 4
The Lot Is 40 feet front and rear, and
100 feet deep, and may be farther enlarged
by purchase. It Is undoubtedly a healthy
aituatkm, and commands a most beautiful
. prospect. It Is insured for £ 3520 at 7 per
cent. A warrantee deed and possession
will be given in a few days after the sale,
* at which time the money must be paid-
LIKKWtSK,
A body PEW in the First Congregation
al Mrrt inr
GREENE ft CARTER, Auctioneer,.
Afiril 10, 181 a
JOSEPH 8. MARTIN
■as roa sals, Na 4, butlbb’s wsab/,
ST. PETERSBURG clean Hemp,
Russia Duck,
' Raven* Duck,
Rusaik Sheetings,
Old and new Sable Bar-Iron.
Pirdnrary 27, IB 10. tf.
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Volvm* U. . W PROVIDENCE, FKfDAV, APRIL 13, 1810. Nvm»k fl.
A FEW Boxes of Silks, put up in small
Packages to suit purchasers, consist
ing of
Black Satins,
Ditto Sinfhaws,
Lustring, black and green;
Black and coloured Sarcenets,
Black Silk Handkerchiefs, plain and
fringed;
Coloured do. handsome figures;
Black and coloured Silk Crapes, (or Chow
Shaws,)
Black and coloured Sewing Silk,
Ponpes, Concans, Dimity Satins and Silk
x Camblets;
Narrow silk Ribbons, or Ferrit;
One Box of Ladies Tortoise Shtil Combs,
Company and yellow Nankins, in Boxes of
50 and 100 pieces each ;
Blue do. in Pwckages of 25 pieces each,
A few men’s Plush Silk Hats,
Hyson, Hyson Wkln, Young Hyson and
Souchong Teas.
All the above articles are fresh and new,
just received by the ships Ann and Hope,
Capt. Olney, and Hunter, Capt. Pinel, di
rect from Canton—for sale by SAMUEL
ABOHN, at the Store back of his house,
in Broad-street.
Afiril 10,1810. tf.
For SAVANNAH, (Georgia,)
i THE Schooner Ram BLAa,
‘LJwffisyy* J».»sa Martin, Master,
will sail in eight days. For
nMiKe Freight or Passage, apply to
the Master on board, at Mosxs Eddy and
Brother’s Wharf.
Afiril 10, 1810.
BUTTER and NEW RICE.
JACOB SOESMAN
.Offers for sale, at his new Store, apposite
Mr. Asa Ames’s, Weybooset-Street,
THIRTY-fiv« Hundred weight of new
BUTTER in Kegs of 25 to 30 lbs.
10 Whole and 15 Half Casks of NEW
RICE.
Expected by the first arrival from St.
Bartholomews,
100 Hbds of retailing MOLASSES,
xJ Hhda. of RUM.
Afiril 3, 181 a tf.
Silks, Nankins, Teas, &c.
StoiSinal ftottrp. I
7b the Xditore tf The BhotMeUmd American. \ >
QENTLEMEK,
Yoe 'may put the enclose<ehbor in the pa
per or in the Are, as you pyrite. The former
will not flatter me, becatep ho candidate
for poetical feme, and the l|b* will not morti
fy me, because the piece bettg sidy throe days II
old has not been seen by Spy person living,
myself excepted It wm kMfeded to shew to
what extent an ardent hteigination may to
wrought up, when the mind few been poisoned
by early impressions. Tfe tell is much More
common than is generally tfao«|ht, end although
it dom not frequently Ntetote
here related, yet I am of opinion that there are
bet fow persons of warm, imagination who do
not feel the dfect of some extravagant fancy
that has emanated from sown In the cra
dle. I could quote many examples from among
the greatest men that have lived, h appears
to me tpat parents ought to be as particular in
chocelng a Nurse for their children, as they
would in selecting a preceptor for them after
wards. I am acquainted with several young
lacfies who have extracted a considerable por
tion ofHhis poison from the froth of modem no
vels. Nothing h more common than to see
them at the age of fourteen «r fifteen weeping
for whole days together over some cobweb ro
mance of a haunted castle and marrow bones.
Tim GOBLIN QUEEN, on the
BEAUTIFUL MAID.
jt BALLAD.
AV ERBE the dark telling Hudson throws
fretful its wave'
On the rocks that project in his flood i
There lived a divine, truly pious and grave,
Who anxiously sought to reclaim and to save;
And his name was Alfhevs the good.
The partner that charmed him in early life,
Long since in the earth bad been laid;
But still there remained for the loos of his wife,
One only lov’d daughter, the joy of his life,
Elvxba, the beautiful maid.
The rose in ita pride had no hues like her cheek;
The violet, no blue like her eye:
The one was transparent, was glowing and
steok;
The other, tho* voiceless, such languiqje would
That the swains aS reply’d with >«tgh*
'be her-mind was yet formed, in her infkntine
yeaiw,
By the crown that it wore on |ta*head.
And then she would tell, how in dead of the
night, \
Each spirit is freed from its chain ;
How mournful they ramble envelop’d in white,
Till the crow of the cock, ere morning is light,
Remsnds them to prison again.
Such tales often heard, on tbs maid had itn
preas’d
Of the fate of the aoul a diatruat;
A sad superstition pervaded her breast,
For she fear’d that tbe spirit could never find
rest,
When the body was laid in the dust.
Tho’ her form waa adorn’d with each delicate
trace,
And gentleness liv’d in her mind;
Tho’ ador’d by the world for her beauty and
grace.
Yet love in her bosom could never find place;
Twas a temple to sorrow consigned.
Yet sometimes a joylteam would tight up a
smile,
Her fancy was oft led astray:
For the nurse would awaken her juvenile fears,
By telling what sign in the candle appears,
Ere the soul can be taken away.
And she told her oft times of the ghosts that
were seen
While her mother lay sick in her bed <
How a ghastly grim spectre array’d tike a
queen,
Had appealed on the wall, and made frightful
the scene
And expressive illumine her eye i
But a stranger so vsgrsnt, not long could be
guile i
Like a dove that alights from his journey awhile.
Then launches again to the sky.
One night as she lay, while with thinking op
press’d,
A moon-beam play’d bright on the wall;
At times twss o’enhadow’d by clouds in the
, west,
It trembled through foliage, seem’d never st
rest, ,
Till darkness succeeded to all.
From this, sad reflections arose in her mind
Of the changes of fate here below j
Like the moon-beam that flutters on wings of
! the wind,
Our joys are o’erefouded, nor virtue can bind,
Till ti»e darkness of death ends our woe.
All the while, on the Wall she kept fastened
her eye.
Till reflection was followed by fear i
Her bosom seem’d stifled with omoy a sigh,
And she gat’d, and she gat’d, and she could
not tell why.
Till her eight was bedimm’d with a tear.
At length, while site steadfastly gas’d on the U
place,
A vision arose to ter view;
At first, a dim fight without form, without tr»ee,
Alternate a tyger, a coffin, a face i
And then *twaa a grave broken through.
Still intent on the grave, she saw with affright
In the bottom a carcase was laid; *
By degrees it kept changing, grew plainer to
sight i
Around all was dark, but the spectre was white;
Tufas the form of a beautiful maid.
beet then it stood, and tbe grave disappear’d.
The face seem’d tio look like ter own;
She call'd •' whD is there ;• no answer was
I ‘listed; ■ ’■ c ■ L
Ono hand held a dagger, that hand was up
rear*d,
And its head was adorn’d with a crown.
But still it kept changing in form and in face;
Deeper sunk were the eyes in the head;
More deadly, more dim, they kept sinking
apace,
Till at last of their balk there remained not a'
trace,
But a dark gloomy hole in their stead.
Around their deep sockets, a rim of bright fire
Gave no light to the hollows within ;
The flesh on ita visage all seem’d to expire;
The lips were dissolving, the teeth still entire
with horrible grin.
The gems in the crown that it wore on ita head,
Added dread to the .terrible shade;
For each was an eye-ball, fresh pluck’d from
the dead,
With a ghastly dim glare they were fix’d on
the bed,
Where the trembling Elviba was laid.
From the point of the dagger she saw the blood
drip
In a scull that adhered to the wall.
Ail at once from its posture the ghost seem’d
tn leap,
Nor tables, nor sofas, impeded ita step,
It appeared as it passed through them all.
Elviba half dying with terrour and dread,
Cri’d aloud with a scream of despair
On this side, on that side, she oft turn’d her
head;
She drew o’er her visage the clothes of the bed,
But still the grim vision was there.
In a swoon the fair maiden forgot the grim
shade i
With her fimey the vision had fled.
Herself like the ghost of the beautiful maid.
All lifeless and wan, on the pillow was laid,
Afray’d in the garb of the dead.
Insensate all night, she awoke with the mom;
Animation, not life, was renewed)
For the gem of existence forever was gone,
Reason died in the conflict, the maid then for
lorn,
A victim by fancy purr-ued.
When night o’er the world, drew her thick
woven pall,
Elvira was trembling with dread;
She still saw the spectre that gleamed on the
wall,
The rim of bright fire round the eye without
ball,
And the crown that it wore on its head.
From the maid’s blooming visage the rose fled
away,
And the lily was teen in its place;
Her cheeks grew more hollow as flesh felt de
cay,
Her eye-balls kept sinking by day, and by day,
And death seem’d to five in her face.
Her poor weeping father attempted refief,
But alas! his endeavours were vain;
He tried all his powers to solace her grief,
To shew the true cause, and confirm her belief.
But the demon was fix’d in the brain.
Not long was Elviba a slave to the sprigbt;
Death came tike a friend to her aid;
He spread o’er her eye-balls his mantle of
night,
And all who then saw her, shed tears at tl.e
sight
Of the ghest of die beautiful mud.
Her father soon follow’d, unwilling to stay.
When bis last only hope was no more i
The grief of his losses soon swept him away,
With a soul ripe for Heaven, he welcom’d the
When his journey so painful was o’er.
His mansion is desert! to ruin consign’d,
No voice is now beard in the hall;
At night, when the asoon in the west has de
clin’d, 'tfgt
Her beams as they bum through the clouds
and the wind
fltill tremulous dance on the wall. H.
It is the utmost folly to immagine that
the Emperour of the French can harbour
any dispositions favourable to the republi
can institutions of the United States, or
Chat tboee institutions are not rather the
abject of his jealousy and hatred. The
temper and character of the mao out of the
From the Connecticut Couraxt.
Bonafiarte'e natural antipathy to Com-
merce and Commercial Katione.
jaaijstrllaup.
question, his faZrrrs; binds firm to cruah ,
•he spirit of freedom wherever it exists.*— ' ‘ «
As be has established a despotism then
strout in ks nature and magnitude, by ■
rooting every tcpwbllck and destroying
every vestige of freedom upon the cent!- I
nent of Europe, (except with the patriate
of Spam,) so he cannot but hate those na
tions, not yet within his grasp, which still
enjoy political rights ; he hates them, and M
naturally muat hate them, from a jealous ■
apprehension that they may in time, by one
mean or other, breed discontent, and oc- ’ , . I
cation insurrections among his own vaa- * ■
sals. He has pot forgot surely, tltot thf H
flame which overspread France and con
sumed its monarchy, was caught from thia $
country ; not can he be without some ap* ■
prehensions, that what has happened once ■
may happen again; that if this be suffered fl
to become a vastly great and powerful na*- I
tion under a republican form of govern- ■
ment, it possibly fnay be the means, at 1
some future period, of destroying the new I
dynasty of France, as heretofore it was the
means, Indirectly of destroying the altL— I
Bonaparte necessarily must hate I
licans as ouch, and wish to exterminate I
them, from the same motive that impels the I
Virginians to be. jealous of free negroes an! I
expel them from their State ; that U, lest I
they should infect the minds of their own I
slaves with “ whim whams” about liberty. I
Nor can the Emperour of the French I
have in reality any more liking to the com- |
metce of nations, than to their political I
freedom. Thia again necessarily reaolt's ,fl
from the peculiar circumstances and situs
tion in which he stands, as an absolute des- I
pot, who holds in shackles a hundred mill- I
ion people, and whose object it is, to bring I
them to patient unrepining slavery, Com- I
merce is, In part, the root, and sap, and ]
fruit, of the tree of liberty. As k has scat
tered the seeds and principles of freedom
from nation to nation, so it is the nurse and
preserver of freedom. Commerce never
did, nor ever can subsist and flourish in any
great degree among nations under despot
ick governments; by reason that such
governments never fail to shackle and op
press it with restrictive regulations, and
also because despots are ever jealous of a
free lutißnivHsl intercterae between otMr
nations and their own people, as tending to
innovation and thus endangering the sta
bility of their systems of tyranny. Froth
the ancient Carthagmian< to the present
day, all nations famous for their commerce,
have enjoyed a large portion of political
freedom ; of which, in many instances,
commerce itself was the cause or occasion,
the cherisher and preserver. And can
Bonaparte, knowing this, knowing the his
tory of mah as thoroughly perhaps as any
one now living upon the earth, can he be •
friend to commerce, or can he view great
commercial nations without jealousy ?-»-It
is impossible.—He actually hates the Eng
lish, not merely from a jealousy of their
power, but because they are a free people
and a commercial people, whose familiar
intercourse, in trade, with his vassals would
tend to breed amongst them discontent and
insurrections. He hates tho American re
publicans for tbe same reaons ; though It
would seem that his team, at times, gets
the better of his hatred. Upon tbe whole,
it is an unquestionable fact that the French
Emperour has an antipathy to commerce
and to commercial nations.
Besides all this, the present habits of the
French people are utterly anti-commercial. - i
They are a nation of warriors, nursed In
blood, inured to arms, and accustomed to
carnage and plunder.—Could they be easi
ly transformed into honest, industrious and r J
quiet merchants and traders, mecbanicks
mnd husbandmen ?—Or would the officers
of Bonaparte's armies, (themselves alotie •
amounting in numbers to a large hoot,)
would they be content to tiieath their
swords, and industriously pursue quiet oc
cupations of life f No; conquest and car
nage io their element; and even though
Bonaparte shetoid bd witling hereafter io
stop and repose himself, a current that he
could not resist would press him onward. |
There is the highest degree of probability
that the French will continue for a very
long time to come, like tbe old Romans, a
military aftd' anti-commeroial nation ; that
they will aeell their living and their wealth
from conquests and by oppressing and
fleecing their vassal allies, ratter than
from any honest and peaceable occupatloM.
Judge then, mhat freedom the oda
other nations woNkl enjoy, if the French
should become masters of the watery olk
msnt. They tjgie now alaaost all that foils • j
within their : then would they gfnp < .
and seise every thing.
FAotr nrt
It is possible tMatifet floctueflons of pef
.«lar opinion in Mafoachinetts may be
urged by illuatured oteorvers, e<efltedMg