The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-09-14 00:00:00, page 1

J.. 8. WOOD’S
GENERAL PRICE-CURRENT OF BANK NOTES,
AS THBY ARB RECEIVED AT HIS EXCHAMi E-OEFICK, PROVIDENCE, (R. I.j
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Bills of the w-Hampshire, ditto payable in Philadelphia, Portsmouth,) i, o .
Union, Str ** .rd. and Exeter Bank*, - - • J ...J to 2 per cent dis.
toncord Banks, 2to 3 do.
Cheshire, Coo’s, and Hillsborough Banks, ............ IS do.
• MASSACHUSETTS.
Bills of the United States Branch, Massachusetts, Union, and Boston Banks Par.
Salem, Essex, Beverly, Marbleiiead, Newburyport, Gloucester, (Cape- 1 )
Ann,) Plj runuth, Worcester, Pacifick, Nantucket, and Hallowell > 3-4 to 1 per cent. dis.
and Augusta Banks, ....... .... J
Portland, Maine, and Saeo Banks, . 1 do.
Bedford, aiA Lincolw and Keimebeck Banks. ......... 1 do.
Penobscot 30 to 35 do.
Northampton, - , -20 do.
CONNECTICUT.
, Bills of the Middletown, Hartford, New-Haren, New-Londcn, Union,) .. . , j-
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.
, RHODE-ISI.AND.
Bills of the Providence, Exchange, Roger ’Williams, Bank of Rhode-')
Island, Newport, Rhode-lsland Union, Bank of Bristol, Commercial, > .....Par.
Warren, Rhode-lsland Central, and Narraganset Banks
Washington Bank, --3 to 4 per cent. dis.
, KENTUCKY.
Bills of the Kentucky Insurance Company, - - - - - 12 1-2 per cent dis.
NORTH-CAROLINA.
Bills of the Cape Fear, and Newbern Banks, 10 per cent. dis.
SOUTH-CAROLINA. ‘
4 Bills of the United States Branch Bank, g . ....... ........ Par.
(, State, and South-Carolina Banks, 3 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 .- .. Par.
Merchants, Manhattan Company, Bank of New-York, New-York State,)
Bank of Albany, Mohawk. Farmers’, Bank of Hudson, Bank ofCo- > Par.
lumbia, and Mechanick’s Bank, j
NEW-JERSEY.
Bills of the Jersey, Trenton Banking Company, Newark Banking and) p
Insurance Company, and Bank of New-Brunswick, 5 “ Par *
PENNSYLVANIA.
* Bills of the United States Bank, Par.
Farmers’ and Mechanicks*, Philadelphia, Bank of Pennsylvania, and ) _
Bank of North-America J •—••••“ - Par.
Bills of the Pennsylvania Branch Bank at Pittsburg, 1 per cent. dis.
DELAWARE.
Bills of the Farmers* Bank, Bank of Delaware, and Bank of Wilming-) _, . ...
ton and Brandywine, 6 j 2 to 4 per cent. dis.
MARYLAND.
Bills of the United Stdtes Branch Bank, Par.
Union Bank of Maryland, Bank of Columbia, Hagerstown, Bank of Bal-)
timore, Branch of the Farmcrs’Bank o> Maryland, Mechanicks’Bank Clto 2 per cent. dis.
of Baltimore, Formers’ and Commercial Bank, and Franklin Bank, j
S VIRGINIA.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, - Par.
Bank of Virginia, and its Branches, 1 per cent, dis
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Bills of the Union Bank, Bank of Alexandria, and Bank of Potomack, Ito 2 per cent, dis
. LOUISIANA TERRITORY.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, .......... ..... p ar .
Bank of Louisiana, . . . 10 per cent, dis’
(O’To the above Discounts there will be a imall advance for small sums, and Bills under
5 dollars, not of this 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.
Jny distant Banting Company, wishing their Bills to be received at par, will please to mate
arrangement! accordingly, and they will be duly attended to.
Tl»e 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, perjfvt, or not to exceed the second mai1........ A1l Bank Notes that he passes will be
WARKAN rao good, and sltould any counterfeit Bills be received in Letters, they will be
returned. Bank Notes examined gratis Office hours from 6, A. M. to 6, PM.
Price of Stocks—Providence, (R. I.)
Six per Cent 100 ccn t.
Three do 63 ( ] 0
State Notes, Fluctuating.
Providence Insurance Shares, - - . . . . . 8o 10 per cent. a<ly.
Washington, do. do. ....#. . . . 16 alB do. do.
Hope do. u do. 12 1-2 do. do.
Marine do. do 20 do. do.
Providence Bank, do. 18 a2O do. do.
Exchange do. do 18 a2O do do.
Roger Williams do. .do. 25 do. do.
Course of Exchange—Foreign Bills.
Bills on London, at 30 days, . . . f Cash J - 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 sight, 1-2 a 1 per cent. dis.
do. on Philadelphia, do. do. ....... do. do.
do. on New-York, do. do w do. do.
do. on Philadelphia, 60 days do. - • *1 0 2 per cent. do.
do. on New-York, do. do. do. do.
Premiums of Insurance.
To any port in Great-Britein, . • . 3a 3 1-2 per cent.
France, ..... R o Insurance. • •
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.
Within the Streights, not higher than Sardinia, .... 9 do.
Without the Streights, 4‘ do.
To the Brazils, 3 1-2 a 4 do.
Lisbon or Cadiz, 3a 3 1-2 do.
Africa ... without the Streighte, ... 4 do.
•h Madeira, a 3 1-2 po.
Canaries, 1-2 a 4 do.
Cape de Vcrds, he. . . . * 3a 3 1-2 do.
Persia and India, 6a 7 do.
y *— China, - - . . 5 do.
West-India Islands generally, . 2 1-2 a 3 do.
Coastwise, per single r • lai 1-2 do.
Discount Days.
At Providence Bank, Monday,
r- Roger Williams Bank, Wednesday.
Exchange Bank, . . • Friday.
dff The above Prtcz-Currzht, Stacks, Exchaxgz, Ac. are corrected every Friday, by
J. B. WOOD, who negotiates Stock, Bills of Exchange and good Rotes, at the shortest notice.
~’ SMITHFIELD BILLS
ARE received for Merchandise at par, and will be exchanged by the subicribers for
Bills of the Providence Ranks, at half per cent, discount.
GREENE de CARTER.
fit ember 14, 1810.
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THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN,
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“THI NATION WHICH INDULGES TOWABDS AN HABITUAL HATRED, OR AN HABITUAL EOHVNESS, IS IN A SLA WjiSHIAHi TOJV\
Volume 11,
PROVIDENCE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1810.
Par.
CARPETS.
JUST received, a large assortment of
CARPETS and CARPETINGS.
jfLSO,
A large as«>rii*Mnt of ♦
INDIA COTTONS.
All of whidh will hr sold remarkably low,
by JOHN R. CARPENTER.
Ao. 8, Market- Square, 7
SefUember 11, 1810. 5
FOR SAVANNAH, (Georgia,)
i THE staunch new Brig
LEANDER, Benoni Cooke,
Master, will take freight by
•itenrsßß** the fit fit, and- positively sail
vn the fifh of October next, wind and
weather permitting. For Freight or Pas*
sage, apply to
JOSEPH MANTON, or
TRUMAN BECKWITH.
Sefitemher 11, IHIJ.-
for sale by
CHARLES POTTER,
No. 3, Market-Square,
MANDARIN Camblet for vesting,
Long and short white and coloured
Kid Gloves,
Linen Cambricks,
Black and white Lace Netting for Veils,
with a variety of other Fancy Goods.
JILSO,
20 square Bales of Upland Cotton,
15 round do. do.
20 Bales of Towcloth,
1 Bale of blue Gilla Handkerchiefs,
1 do. Sooty Romain,
1 do. Mazapore Chintz, dark coloured and
different patterns ;
1 Bale of Jallapore Hannahs.
four last mentioned Bales are
on exportation.
Bales of Cullapatta Baftas, AUibad Em
erges, Chandpore Cossas, Alibad Chow
dergerries, Mow Hannahs, &c. &c.
LIKEWISE,
Chests of Hysuti, Young Hyson and Sou*
chong Teas, for sale on a liberal credit.
St/it ember 11,- 1810.
FOR WILMINGTON, N. C.
I UTTS. THE Brigantine HIRJM,
Spooner Ruggles, Mas
ter, will sail by the first of
October. For Freight or Pas
sage, apply tn the Master on board, or to
WALKER HUMPHREY,
South End.
N. B. She may be chartered for said
port on very relsonalile
September 11, 1810.
N. B. Those indebted to them, whose
notes or Recounts are due, are requested
to call and settle the same before the test
of October; as all their demands, without
discrimination, will then be left with an
Attorney .‘or immediate collection.
MOULTON & JACOBS.
September 11, 1810.
For CHARLESTON, (S. C.)
. THE Pafket Bl '« TELE
f’EAPH, JVhj/ramW Biahofi,
Master, will sail the 2Jth
&MMW instant. For Freight or Pas
sage., apply to Charles W. Tilling
hast, or (he Master, at Bishop’s Wharf,
South End,
St fit ember 7, 1810.
DRY GOODS AT COST.
THE Subscribers, about relinquishing
their business in this town, offer, at
wholesale or retail, their entire STOCK
L\ r TRADE at prime tost.
For Wilmington, C.)
i ’I’.HE staunch and fast sail-
uTY-ijY Schooner FREEDOM,
njOPiffiJr positively sail by the first
■flj rifliKCe day of October. For Freight
<>r Passage, apply to Stephen Arnold,
(West-Side;)
Notice to Blue Dyers.
RECEIVED this day 1600 Pounds of the
very first quality of BENGAL INDI
GO, which will be sold at a very reduced
price, on approved credits of 2, 5 and 7
months. Apply to
GEORGE W. HOPPIN;
Who has <>n hand, as usual, a general
assortment of Drugs, Medicines and Dye
Stuffs, for sale on the most accommodating
terms
September 11, 1810.
On Allen’s Wharf, near the Episcopal
Church, Providence,
J 7 IFTEEN Hogshead* of sweet-flavoured
4 Pipe* of Ist proof Spanish Brandy,
3 da 2d do. do. da
1 do, 4th do. da do.
Barrel* of Havana white Sugar,
Do. do brown do.
White Syrup,
Colouring for Spirit*,
1500 Wt. Sugar Loaf Blue Paper.
Xujrue/ 28, 1810. tf.
WHO HAS ron SALK,
Twenty-Nine Bales of prime
UPLAND CO 1 TON.
September 4, 1810. tf.
A YOUNG MAN WANTED
To take charge of a Grocery-Store.
ME who understands account* and can
bring good recommendations, will find
suitable encouragement by applying at The
American Office.
September 11, 1810.
FOR SALE BY
THOMAS VOAX,
1 he we have received will
never cease. The intellectual flame, which
hath begun to burn, will never be extin
guished. Uphelduby the Almighty power
of the Crea'or, all the myriads of souls,
that now are and which shall begin to ex
ist, will exist forever. We shall always
be active minds. We shall always know,
understand, desire, love and feel aversion,
and be happy or miserable. We shall al
ways belong to an innumerable company of
beings, who stand in relation to each other,
and feel a mutual influence of minds, pro
ducing peace or sorrow. Although the
creature will ever be dependant on the
will of a sovaeign Creator and Judge, and
infinitely small compared with him; still
there is something great in the contempla
tion of a mind, that is active, happy or mi
serable, and immortal. Who that realises
himself thus immortal, and to have a part
in the great scenes opened to our under
standing by revelation, can refrain from be
ing solemnized ?
This eternity, which is before us, will
be a most pleasing state of existence, or one
most sorrowful. How ardently do we seek
tor the happiness, and how cautiously avoid
the misery of a day or an hour, those small
points of time into which present duration
is divided! The immediate prospect of
pleasure or pain, though for the shortest
seasons, charms or terrifies us. We trem
ble at the thought of bearing heavy pain
for single hour, and the prospect of it
will, to a degree, unman the firmest mind.
Those who have no just apprehensions of
eternity are still exceedingly afraid of the
few hours pain there is in the death of a
corruptible body. How much more terri
ble would it appear to us to spend the whole
life which we have here on earth, in a state
of misery ? Every man would tremble at
the thought! Every man, if his tender mer
cies were not converted into crpelty, would
weep over a fellow-creature, if he knew
this to be the case'. But all these illustra
tions fall infinitely short of the awful, the
glorious subject we are considering.
The pleasures or pains of a day, a year,
or even of a whole life, vanish in compari
son with eternity. As the duration of a life
on earth cannot be brought into just terms
of comparison with eternity, so neither can
its pains or pleasures. We may thus gain
a weak illustration of the subject; but it is
done by showing the disproportion to be so
immense, that no just terms of comparison
can be instituted. Think then, O reader,
of thine own ways as leading to an eternity
of blessedness or misery. These ways which
are begun on earth, must be eternal in
their progress and in their
Neither will the happiness or the misery
of the eternal existence be stationary,-
Which* «ver it may be, it will be ever in
creating. There will be an increase, a
perpetual increase of the capacities of the
mind to reccive.pleasure and to suffer pain.
In that state the mind will be filled with
one or the other. By an increase of capa
city, the time will come, when every mind
now on earth, will be ca|wble of more plea
sure or pain, in a duration equal to one of
our hours, than could, with our present
capacities, be crowded into the whole life
The following verses were written by M astbr
Payne, and directed to a young lady in Vir-
ginia, an acquaintance of the aulhour. [Miss
Mayo.]
Last night, while restless on my bed
I languish'd for the dawn of morrow t
Soft slumber sooth'd .my aching bead,
And lull’d in fairy dreams, my sorrow.
I stood in that serene retreat,
Which smiles in spite of stormy weatlier;
Where flowers and virtues elust’ring meet.
And cheeks and roses blush together.
When soon, twelve sylphlike forms, I droam'd.
Successive'on my vision darted}
And still tbe latest coiner seem’d
Fairer than she who just departed.
Yet ONE there was, whose azure eye
A melting, holy, lustre lighted ;
Which censur’d, while it wak’d the sigh,
And chid the feelings it excited.
" Mortall” (a mystick speaker said)
For The Rhodb-Islanb American.
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS HINTS.
No. XXXIX.
ETERNITY! ETERNITY! !
“ In these the sister MONTHS discover I
“ Select from these the brightest maidl
“ Prove to the brightest maid a lover.” x
I heard, and felt no longer free,
From all the rest I gladly sever;
And in perennial joy, with thee,
Dear M AY—O I could reside forever!
FROM THZ INDZFZNDBNr AMBRICAN.
Pottrp.
4®oral.
of man on earth; and still this will be but
the beginning of an infinite aeries in the
growing capacity to be pained or to ba
happy.
It may he questioned whether the nations
which France ha* subjugated, have been a
more equal match for her than the same
nation* were for the Roman empire. It is
frequently said that thry have ; but I doubt
whether the assertion in well founded. It
is true, that Europe is infinitely more civil
ised now, than it was 1800 year* ago, and
that the art of war, rtnd the means of in
ternal and external defence are far better
understood now. But it is also true, that
France is a much mote powerful nation,
and endowed with vastly more strength
than Austria, Spurt, Italy, Prussia, and
Holland ; in juat a» great a firofiortion
at Rome formerly Was. The conquest of
Europe, although un the whole a greater
work and a greater event, now, than II
was eighteen centuries ago, has not really
been accomplished with greater-difficulty.
The French are a* much better soldiers
than the German* and Spaniards, aa the
Romans were than the ancient Gau's and
Briton*. To be sure, the French have
practiced art* and intrigue* of a peculiar
kind to ensure their conquests. The In
fluence of jacobinism amtfag the nation* of
Europe, has effectually prepared them to
be subjugated. And Bonaparte has in uu-
I' * Mr. Bulks, I think, doe* not say it
O creature, although thou art but a crea
ture, all this is before thee ! Thou canst
not conceive the immensity nf bliss or won
for which thy mind is brought into exist
ence by the creating God ! Ono
or the other of these is to be thy lot. If it
be of good, thou wilt doubtless choose it.
If it be evil, thou canst not escape! Thou
art now, and foreVer shalt remain in th*
hands of an Almighty Creator He look*
with infinite view over a countless num
ber of spirits iike thine own, and all are
like thee to be happy or miserable. The
greatest possible quantity of happiness is
the object of his love, and he will not
be moved, either by thy supplications nr
moans, partial for the benefit of an
individuanptß injury of the whole. And *
the only way for any to be happy, consistent
with the good of Christ’s kingdom, it to be
perfectly reconciled to the character, gov
ernment, purposes and agency of the self
existent, hidependent and immutable Je
hovah, to whom belongs the kingdom, the
power and the glory forever.
F«OM VHS fBDJtHAL HBPUBLLCAM.
REFLECTIONS.
DURATION o» THE FRENCH EWPIBEj
Before the French revolution, Europe
exhibited a very different spectacle from
what it does now. Its governments were
all of them vastly better than they now are.
The work of improvement ’was very visi
bly going on in all of them; and many nf
them promised to become in the course of
tltne, very temperate and well regulated
governments. Providence, however, has
pleased to put a stop to all this, by a suc
cession of the most wonderful revolutions
that the world ever witnessed, . France,
into whose government the revolution has
infused such a martial spirit and so much
energy, has been the instrument of these
changes. Reformation and improvement
was the first object which the leaders in
that revolution, had in view. Finding, how- x
ever, that their visionary schemes must
fail; that the wandering delirious hopes
which they had indulged concerning the
future happiness of their country must be
extinguished ; that the people of France,
instead of living under a republick, must
have a strong energetick governmt nt estab
lished over them; they began to frame
plans of national aggrandizement.* This
I am persuaded, was not the Jirat object
which they had in view. Those men were >
not foresightod and comprehensive enough,
to see that, the state nf anarchy which pre
vailed from ’9O to ’95, would eventually
and of course, give rise to the establish
ment of a despot ick government. They
were so miserably defective in mind and
talents, as not even to understand that fun
damental maxim in politicks, that govern
ments must ultimately grow out of the state
of society where they exist. We are te
attribute the French revolution to nothing
else but the influence of infidelity and jaco
binism among tbe people. The course of f
things, was very widely different, how
ever, from what was expected. A despot
ism. instead of a republick was established ;
a government which, as I have already re
marked, is, in an eminent degree, fitted for
conquest.
Strong’a Sermons.
Friday, 14th Septeiwbk.r, 1810.
JWcellanp.
Number 95.
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