The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-04-17 00:00:00, page 2

I 'tours of this kingdom under any pretence
I whatever, let the cargo consUt of whatso
f aver it may. The place from whence she
[ may come is of equal indifference i whether
the may not have been in England, or has
| not been visited by the flag of that nation
on her voyage. Such vessels, <m the con
trary, will be permitted to return to Ns
directly, without being allowed to discharge
I even a part of their cargo. The Director
h. * of the Customs « ordered to give the ner
cessary dirvetinus for the immediate and
strict execution of these orders.”
Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, in a
letter to the Dutch Legislative Body, ex
presses astonishment and indignation at the
' French government, for its charges against
: his subjects, “ that they have betrayed the
common cause in their commerce and not
done sufficient for the interest of France.
He promises to labour that Holland may
| • be permitted to exist as a nation. The let-
I - ter is dated February 1. *
A French Imperial Order of January 21,
■ays, Louis Napoleon is recalled from Hol
land, and the country shall be occupied by
French troops.
The French antt-ueutral and anti-com
nercial system is enforced with augment
ed energy.
PUBLICKWNNER.
lord Somerville's Spring Cattle Mew.
After the business of the day on Tues
day, about 360 sat down to a dinner at
Freemason’s tavern. Lord Somerville in
the chair. The premiums having been dis
' tributed, his Lordship among other toast*
gave—” Mr. Pinkney, the American Min
inter, and may harmony al way t prevail
with those who apeak the samp language ”
Which was drank with long and loud
plaudits.
‘‘ Pinkney rose, amidst a thunder of
'‘fipfyause, which for some time prevented
his speaking, he then said—
Mt Lord— l beg your lordship and this
company to be persuaded that lam very
grateful for the unexpected notice which
you and they have been so good as to take
of the United States and their Minister. T
thank you, in the first place, for my coun
try, and I hope I shall not be thought very
presumptuous if led, or even misled, by
thy wishes, to conclude that personal kind
ness may have had some little share in
prompting your conduct on this occasion,
I venture to thank you for myself. I trust,
my lord. It is scarcely necessary for me t<»
•ay how sincerely I join in the wish which
has been so well received by the noblemen
and gentlemen here present, that there
may be perpetual good understanding be
tween Great Britain and the United States
An American Minister has in truth no
merit in anxiously desiring cordial,friend
ship with this country on terms consistent
with the honour of his own, and your lord
ship will allow me to rejoice that there dn
exist on both sides the most powerful and
obvious inducements to cultivate such
friendship. We need not trouble ourselves
' to inquire whether it be true, as some poli
ticians have pretended, that interest is the
only tie of sufficient strength to hold inde
pendent nations together as friends, for we
are fortunately bound in amity by all sorts
of ties, which I fervently hope we shall not.
even if it were possible that we should be
so disposed, be strong enough to break.
No reflecting and impartial man can doubt,
that the true interests of Great-Britain and
America are compatible ia all cases, the
name in most.—A liberal and comprehen
sive view of these can lead to no other con
clusion than that they are calculated t<>
cherish and Invigorate each other. Bu
a sense of this compatibility and identity
of interests, effectual as it ought to be in
communicating a character of steady friend
ship to our relations, ia not the only pledge
of harmony between us; for a thousand
kindly-influences, with which calculation
has no concern, combine to form an auxilia
ry pledge, little inferiour in strength. 1
should hope, far superiour in mow beauty,
lam sure, tn the other. These influences,
my lord, it would be a pleasing, and per
haps not unprofitable task tcAtview in de
tail, and by reviewing, to give them fresh
ness and augmented activity, Iqr the noble
and salutary purposes of peace and kind
ness —But I have already trespassed too
long on your indulgence, if indeed, I have
not trespassed upon that discretion which
so emphatically becomes my situation. I
beg leave to drink the health of your lord
ehip Bcc.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
VViDKiiDtr, April 4.
. C/oNsm*XABLX debate took place thia
morning relative to the Journal, which, on
account of the question of order and ap
peals taken last evening, was found some
.what defective.
When the Journal had been settled, Mr.
Love rose and offered a'resolution rela
tive to the Bank of the United States—be
fcre any question was taken,
Mr. Randolph rose and declared it as
his opinion that the House could not take
up any new business until the business of
last evening should bo completed. Mr.
-LmV* resolution was laid on thetabU .
the House proceeded to discos* the
Congress.
question of erdeiv At half past one they
finished the questions of order, or rather,
u Mr. 80/d called them, of dis-order—
And the Clerk proceeded to count the
votes on the first member of Mr. Fear
son’s resolution—The votes stood ayes 87,
nows 24. The ayes and noes on the second
member stood ayes 78, .noes 31. On the
whole resolution, the votes were ayes 80,
noes 29. A committee of five was ordered*
Mr. Fitkin moved a resolution to appoint
the committee by ballot, and fixlag to-mor
row to make the appointment.
The question on this motion was taken
by ayes and noes, and lost—ayes 52, noes
64.
Mr. W. Alston called up his resolution
to adjourn on the 23d inst. The question
was taken and carried—B4 rising in the
affirmative.
This being the day appointed for private
business, the House went into committee
of the whole, Mr. Desha in the/chair— on
the petitions of John Murray, Lucy Dixon,
Arthur St. Clair, and David Blackwell;
also, on the bills for the relief of Margaret
L'tpsey, J<>hn Thompson, John Minor, and
Muses Young. The committee rose and
reported in favour of the above petitioners.
A bill for the relief of the petitioners was
laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
The bills for the relief of John Thompson,
John Minor, and Moses Young, were or
dered to a third reading to-morrow.
The bill for the relief of William Bay
ten passed through the committee of the
*hole, and was ordered to a third read
ing.
The House then adjourned until to-mor
row.
The following gentlemen compose the
committee of inquiry into the conduct of
Gen. Wilkinson, appointed by the Speaker
agreeably to Mr. Pearson’s resolution :
Messrs. Butler, Champion, Desha, Root
and Pearson..
A letter from the Secretary of the Trea
sury, covering a statement of the expenses
d the army and navy since the year 1789,
agreeably to a call of the House, was read
and ordered to be printed.
Sundry bills from the Senate were read
«nd referred.
On motion of Mr. Rhea, the House went
into committee of the whole on the bill to
establish post-roads—Mr. Basset in the
chair. The committee went through the
consideration of the bill, and the examina
tion of the post-routes as far as the State
of Virginia, when, on motion of Mr. Ran
dolph, the committee rose and reported
pi ogress, and had leave to sit again.
A Message from the President covering
a letter frotn the Secretary of State agree
ably to a call of the House, was read and
ordered to be printed.
Friday, April 6.
The Houk went into committee of the
whole on the report of the committee of
commerce and manufactures, on the peti
tion of George Armroyd and Co.—Mr,
Deshu in the chair. The resolution, which
was favourable to the petitioners, was re
ported ; the House concurred and ordered
a bill to be brought in for the relief of the
said George Armroyd and Co.
[This is a dull day to reporters, as you
will readily perceive—but as it is likely to
he a beneficial day to many old soldiers,
and soldiers* widows and.chiidren, we shall
not complain. I shall close my letter
though the House is yet in session.
[There is a non-descript bill—a substi
tute for the non-int er course, to be report
'd to-morrow or Monday —Macon’s bill
was said to be milk and water. This, 1
am told, is water without milk. I have not
sue* it.]
A Ml concerning the commercial inter -
course between the United States and
Gt eat-Britain and France, and their de
pendencies.
Sect. 1. Be it enacted, (ft. That thr
third section of the act, entitled, An act to
amend and continue in force certain parts
of the act, entitled. An act to interdict
commercial intercourse between the Uni
ted States and Great-Britain and France,
and their dependencies, and for other pur
poses, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. jind be it further enacted, That
all the penalties and forfeitures which may
have been incurred under the act last men
tioned, or which may hereafter be incurred
nnder so much x thereof as is not repealed
<»y this act, and until the expiration of the
•ameAnd also, all the penalties and
forfeitures which may have been incurred
under the act laying an embargo on all
th ips and vessels in the ports and harbours
• f the (United Slates, or under any of the
several acta supplementary thereto or to
enforce the same, or under the act to in
> tfrdict the commercial intercourse be-
Mr. Eppes, from the committee of ways
and means, reported a bill to authorize th**
President of the United States to borrow a
sum of money not exceeding the interest of
the publick debt. Read twice and made
the order of the day for Monday next.
• Mr. Smilie’s tesolution to adjourn each
day until 10 in the morning, instead of 11,
was pasted.
Mr. Macon, from the committee on fo
reign relations, reported the following:—
MACON’S BILL, Ab. 2.
Thursday, April 5.
Saturday, Avril 7.
LOAN BlLL— at last.
tween the United fits tee and Great-Britain
and France, and their dependencies, and
for other purpoaes, shall ba awarded and
distributed, and may be remitted in the
manner provided by said acts respectively,
•nd in like manner as if the said acts bad
continued in full force and effect.
Bee. 3. And be it further enacted, That
in case either Great-Britain or France
shall, before the third of March next, so
revoke or modify her edicts as that they
shall cease to violate the neutral commerce
of the United Blates, which fact the Presi
dent of the United States shall declare by
proclamation j and if the other nations
shall not, within three months thereafter,
so revoke or modify her edicts, in like man
ner, then the third, fourth, fifth, sixth,
seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth sections of
the act to interdict the commercial inter
course between the United States and
Great-Britain and France, and their de
pendencies, and for other purposes, shall
from and' after the expiration of three
months from the date of the proclamation
aforesaid, be revived, and have full force
and effect, «o far as relates to the domin
ions, colonies and dependencies, and to the
articles the growth, produce and-manufac
ture. °f the dominions, colonies and depen
dencies of the nation thus refusing or neg
lecting to revoke or modify her edicts in
the manner aforesaid.
The bill was read twice and made the
order of the day for Monday next.
The private bills ordered to a third read
ing yesterday, were read and passed.
The House resolved itself into committer
of the whole—Mr. Basset in the chair—
the Poet Road bill.
The examination of the bill was contin
ued until the state of North-Carolina, when
the committee rose and reported progress.
UNITED STATES BANK.
Mr. Taylor reported A BILL TO CON
TINUEIN FORCE THE CHARTEH
OF THE UNITED STATES BANK
FOR TWENTY YEARS. Read twict
and made the order of the day for Monday
next.—[We are glad to find Congress at
last invoking Wisdom ; and it is devoutly
to be wished that each individual membet
may be much wiser at the close of the ses
sion than he was at its commencement.]
Adjourned.
At an election held at the Colonie, (Al
bany,) on Tuesday last, for Town-Officers
the whole of the Federal ticket succeeded.
The supervisor, Mr. Winne, carried hi
election by a majority of 37. Last yea
Col. Quackenboss, the democratick candi
date, was elected by a majority of about
20—making an increase In this small town
this year in favour of federalism of nearly
60 votes.
The Senate have passed the resolution
to adjourn on the 23d instant—23 to 7
There is no doubt therefore but an adjourn
ment of the session will take place on that
day.
The London Courier of March 9, says,
the ship John Adams was expected to sail
yesterday from Cowes, and ia to touch at a
French port to take despatches trom Gen
eral Armstrong. It is said she will carry
nut with her the basis on which it is pro
posed to terminate all differences between
Great-Britain and the United States. It
Is stated to have obtained the entire con
currenceof Mr.Pinkney. [We understand
•he John Adams remained in England
when the Juno sailed.]
By the ship Juno, which arrived yester
day in a very short passage from Landon,
papers to March 12, were received.
The Morning Post of March 12, says,
“ We have reason to hope that the negotia
tion between the Marquis of Wellesley and
Mr. Pinkney has taken a favourable turn
<nd thus, we trust, the evident designs of
Napoleon will be frustrated.
An Order of Council has been issued for
continuing open*Che West-India Islands to
• easels from the United States till Decem
ber, 1811, or 6 months after a European
peace if the Colonial Governours think
proper.
The free exportation of Cotton from
England, to places not blockaded is allow
ed.
The subject of Commercial Licenses
has been under consideration in the British
Parliament; and papers relative to the
subject were called for and granted. The
Earl of Lauderdale pledged himself to
prove that the Licences had actually in
jured the commercial interest of the coun
try.
The British have declared the Spanish
ports from Gijon to the French territory,
in a state of blockade.
Two new commercial decrees have re
cently been promulgated in France. The
one has for its object to prohibit all ships
from leaving French ports with corn, un
less half their cargoes consist of wine or
brandy. That of the other is to lay a
double duty on all merchandise brought
by foreign ships into French ports.
Bonaparte has issued a new decree re
lative tn the Press. According tp which,
the number of printers and booksellers is to
25p ttje .mails.
BOSTON, April 19.
VERY LATE NEWS.
NEW-YORK, April 9.
be considerably reduced; those who are
suffered to continue the trade, being bound
to indemnify the persons excluded. The
privileged clam of them are to be supplied
with a license from the Police, upon taking
an oath that they will not print or expose
for sale any work tending to entrench upon
the interests of the State, or upon the du
ties which subjects owe to their sovereigns.
' King Louis, by decree dated at Paris,
February 18, annuls the law establishing
a constitutional nobility in Holland. The
Dutch have still hopes he will be permu
ted to reign. But the Emperour appears in
flexibly opixwed to it.
The Senatus Consultum for uniting Rome
to France has been published. The He
reditary Imperial Prince is to boar the title
of King of Rome.
French troops were marching to occupy
the Hanse Towns, and the Coasts of the
Baltick and Ndfth Sea.
Paris dates in the London papers are to
March 4.
Accounts from the United States to Jan
uary 20. reached England. «
Intelligence from Cadiz is to the 28th of
February. It had nearly 30,000 troops
within its walls, and was well supplied
with money, water and provisions. The
British and Spaniards had/ prevented the
French from attacking the city. Several
forts they had erected had been destroyed
by the ships and gun-boats; and several
successfill enterprises had been made
against parties of them on the main land.
Deputies from Joseph bad been refused
admission at Cadiz, and his Proclamations
burnt by the hangman. The members qj
ihe Supreme Junta are said to have been
trrested. Cadis will withstsnd a long
siege.- In Catalonia, the Spaniards have
gained some trifling advantage. A body <>f
French tooops were near Badajoz, on the
frontiers of Portugal; but we do not find
hat kingdom had been invaded up to Feb
nary 25, although the Duke of Abrantes
on his way to Spain, has arrived at Bay
onne, destined specially to subdue the Por
uguese.
A Paris paper of March 2, contains a
letter from Marshal Soult, with an account
•f the taking of Malaga, by Sebastiani.
Some disturbances preceded the event.
General Cuesta, and the old civil aud mili
tary officers had been seized and sent on
-hip board. A great number of the inhab
itants, marching out, and joining with the
-ountry people had a desperate battle
vith the French, 1500 of them (Spaniards)
sere killed ; and the remainder retreated
into the city fighting, but at length were
subdued. The Fiench acknowledge the
uss of 30 .' There were 25 ships in thehar
hiur. English Goods were sequestered.
The French have imposed a contribution
it Algeziras, at Tariffe and at Seville.
Die British and Spaniards had been suc
cessful In some enterprises against the
French on the main land near Cadiz.
Ciudad Rodrigo was attacked on the 12th
of February by a French Corp* under Ney.
They were repulsed.
The Spanish Army of the centre,, was
beaten and dispersed on the 20th of Febru
ary at Monteson.
In Portugal the British head-quarters
wereatVezin, February 24.
A few additional troops were ordered
from England to Portugal; and Parliament
had made a liberal appropriation in aid oi
the Portuguese.
A letter from Cadiz, February 19, says,
*• A large fleet of American vessels have
arrived with all sorts of merchandise.—
Vessels with provisions are still embargoed.
In consequence of rain we have now an
abundant supply of water.”
A'corps of British troops, which were
sent to take possession of Ceuta, were re
fined admission.
A new organization has taken place of
the Council of State, of Russia. This is
thought in England to be unfavourable t<
the French influence. It was reported a
misunderstanding had arisen between Alex
ander and Napoleon ; and anew war was
expected. It was supposed the sister ot
Alexander had been refused to the French
Emperour.
A Paris paper of March 1, contains a
communication from the Emperour Napo
leon to the Senate, announcing that he bad
concluded a treaty of marriage with th#
Archduchess Maria Louisa, daughter of
the Emperour of Germany.
A vote of censure had been passed by the
British Parliament on the Earl of Chatham,
for making an Improper communication to
the King, and the Earl had retired from
the Ministry. A farther change of Minis
try was expected ; but the Courier Inti
mates that neither the Grenville or Fox
Party will be introduced. Canning is ex
pected to come in again.
The British Ambassadour is said to be on
his return from Constantinople.
The Toulon fleet did not venture to sea,
as*was reported.
The revival of the Kingdom of Poland,
under a monarch of Bonaparte’s appoint
ment, is again spoken of.
A French tribunal has been employed at
Treves to try a prodigious number of per
sons accused of revolt in the department of
Sarre, in which the insurgents had been
joined by the National Guards.
A. letter from Paris, Febriisry If, men
tions the condemnation, by the Council of
* ’ 1
Prizes, of four American vessels and their *
cargoes; among them was ths ship Hen
rietta, (late Nichols) of Boston. Ths same
letter adds, ** There are many Americans
here whose ships and cargoes are gone, past
redemption.”
* Despatches from Mr. Armstrong and
Mr. Pinkney were brought in the Juno.
Extract of a letter from London, dated
“ The news from die north is unfavoura
ble to the prosperity of the American trade.
Napoleon is stretching his powerful arm
along the German coast, and report says,
he means to seizeon Holstein, the better to
intercept aud totally to suppress that
cupidity so eminently characteristick of
trading nations! Thus he means to convert
the whole continent into a virtuous military
government The last symptoms of despair
have succeeded to the hope of release of
sequestered (or in other words confiscated)
mercbandise at St. Sebastians. They
have, by a letter of the 6th, from Paris,
received this day, been ordered to, and
principally arrived at Bayonne, there the
cargoes are mixed without any regard to
parkages, or distinction of property.' They
will no doubt soon be placed in the imperi
al treasury. When will the American
Government believe that Bonaparte is in
earnest ?”
For the two last years, Jamzs Fxnvbs,
Esq. has been elected Gorernour by a ■Urge
majority. The same Union Prox is again of
fered to the freemen of the State; and, on the
present occasion, as on two former ones, it was
presented to hie Excellency for the express
purpose of a*ertaining whether he had any
objection to standing at the head of it. Me ob
jection was made. •
The friends ofmion, all the federalists from
the various parts of the State, then assembled,
by their Representatives in Convention, imme
diately pledged themselves to support tfib Prox.
This contract has been deliberately mane, and
1 therefore, let it be honestly performed.
His Excellency has published a short ad
dress to the citizens i and many inconsiderate
democrats affirm it to have been intended as a
publick declaration that he will not stand as a
candidate in the coalition Prox. Let us remem
ber that honour and integrity must not be aban
doned by us, because our political opponents
,choose to abandon them.
KT* The Freemen of the town of
Providence are requested to meet at
the Town-House THIS EVENING, at
seven o’clock, for the purpose of adopt
ing suitable measures to promote the
success of the American Unibn Prox.
"On the present occasion we have much at
•take. The national government has forgotten
us. Let us not be wanting to ourselves. They
have for more than eight years been ruining
the people. The nation is as poor as an insol
vent debtor. There is no money in the treasu
ry | and yet they have disposed of every thing
on which they could lay tlreir hands. They
have sold our ships of war i they have sold our
bank stock i they have sold immense tracts of
publick land; and the money arising from all
these sales, together with all the revenue from
duties on goods and merchandise, is swallowed
up and gone They have voted to raise a stand
ing army of 100,000 men. This army and even
the Congressmen themselves must be paid by
a dry land tax; or by some duties on the ne
cessaries of life, or by running the nation in debt
With foreign nations we have neither hon
ourable peace nor war. The American flag is
dishonoured, and the American name disgraced
mong all nations. Our government dart not
make peace with England, although tyro mes
sengers have been sent here for that purpose,
and they dare not demand redress from France,
although that nation have taken and destroyed,
or confiscated more than one hundred millions
of American property. (
Bad principles seem in some degree to have
corrupted some parts of New-England. By the
divisions, jealousies and negligence of the fed
eralists, democratick Governours have been
elected in Vermont, New-Hampshire and Mas
sachusetts.
In this spreading deluge of democracy, noth
ing can save our independence and liberty but
the ark of our own State Government. This
can be preserved only by umen, wstohfolaom
and perseverance.
Let every freeman exercise his prerogative.
Let every man vote. One vote makes a majo
rity. That majority may eave our country.
Success will give a proud day to the State of
Rhode-laland. We shall be looked at and ad
mired by all New-England; and every free
man who contributes to thia success will share
in the joy and glory of the triumph.
We have hitherto said but little about
the letter of his Excellency, addressed to
the citizens of this State. We deemed it
of little consequence for which Frox he
voted. No one can possibly suppose that
we ever were ignorant of his political cha
racter. He has always been called a de
mocrat by us; though the Ellery party
have sometimes called him a federalist.
Observing with what avidity the demo
crats have published, and re-published hw
letter, we have been led to give it a second
perusal; but after all, we can discover no
magick about it. The terrour and influ
ence, with which the name of Fxvaxx
i used to he accompanied is gone. We hope
« prohihence.
TUESDAY, APRIL if, 1810.
March 12.