The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-03-21 00:00:00, page 1

Pots : Pocket-Books ; Suspenders ; Gold Laee ; brass
Handirons, Shovels and Tongs ; Windsor Soup ;
© staich ; HainPowder ; warranted vmuqum
Blacking ; Scotch and Maccoboy many
ober articles, too numerous to particularize.
The Watch Repairing Business is carried
on as ustal—Also manufactures Silver and Goid
Work, and Jewelry, ig!be highest perfection. Fila
groe sand Pearl Work. - Hair Work—Elastick, diffcr-
Gt duro. round, octagon, and flat lace shapes.
“The highest prietmn for old Gold and Silver,
agrecable to its sta
“Me thanks bis friends for their custom—and will
s!l those articles at a very s:inall advance.
Newport, Jun. 24, 1818,
NIC HOLAS GEFFROY, informs
N his Customers and Friends, that he has just
received froarithe manufactories in Europe, an as
sortment of LOOKING-GLASS PLATES, as former
ly, which will be ready, for sale in a few days, as svon
. as they can be fited in frames.
| Ao ot hind—
A complete assortment of Cutlery ; Tea-
_ The p?r is printed omce a week, st 2 Jdollars a
year, one half in advance, '
Advertiscments conspicuously inserted, at the rate
of 1 dollar and 50 cents a square, for three wecks—
smaller on¢’in the sume proportion. '
» / ‘
Printing, in ail its variety, executed with accuracy
and despatcli’. Orders “espectfully svlicited.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED ON WEDNESDAYS,
OUI the 17th of April next, will com
‘mence the Drawing of the |
sroß’ ? e x::cgt.woz LO‘I‘!‘E;BY. e
n g - OL'W xodlgn m
bstiagey H’“ 'm ?—::‘enﬁy“hé rono'in‘ an’
- Bof 25,000 Dollars
4 1; ” 10-000 e
, : :2,?0030 k 3 TR
#oD mm
s }M'q-"ft' - )
. Besides u.tmu swaller Prizes. Less
than two and a half Blanks to a Prize.
Lottery and Exchange Office,
- Orders for Tickets and Quarters in the a
bove lottery,the sale of which has been unusually brisk
will be promptly attended to at the above Office—
where mtu in this l.om‘a\vill‘b’e id, and Orders
m all the hrapches of the Lottery and Exchange Bu
siness, executed upon as good terms as at apy Office
in this Suate.
An extensive asseriment of - Groceries, at his store, No.
104090 Ch\;mb&meﬁ wxi, o ‘
o) and New England .~ §&7
Coglmtk a‘r:d Span:.&b_g;ﬂy and Qwa;qu.
Madeira, Bherry, Lis d other WINES.
White and w&%v‘ﬁxpi’
boaf and Lamp tto.
Batavia and West India Coffee,
Ijysan, Young Hyson, Hysonskin, } '
Cumpoy, Bm’xochong', éongo, and Bohea TEAS,
Cowmgmon, Cloves, Cassig, Ginger .
Mace, M:hm-p;s, &’epper,’ Pimgft;, } SPICES.
Sperm. mould und dipt Candles.
Londgw and Awcrican Porter.
Spanish and American Cigarrs.
Muscatel, bloom and cask RAISINS.
- Molasscs, Flour, Chocolate, &e¢.
)&l i e 111080 s igierne
40 Crates assorted China and Earthern Ware.
8 Tierges Glass Ware, assorted.
Liverpool and blown Salt,
40 Tons English Tron, various sizes. .
The dbove, with u variety of other articles,
too nuinerous to be inserted, are offered for sale, at
wholesale and retuil, on terms unsually favourable,
sOr GABY .1l 10 ol anla 9 |
Newport, Mapch 14, 1810. .
ESPEC IFULLY informs his friends, that he
R has on hand—
A quantity ol cxcellent cedar Clapboards,
eeclar &h!‘.’ F.l' Shingics, Md’, Pw“,
Joist, ke, ke. '
Which be will sell cheap, at his stand on SIER.
BULNE's Wisad, Now. 1o
hii” ~ Jtthe héad of Broad Street,
AN AT XA Rk R
O’NE hundred bushels Borden’s Grass
y 'Seed. ‘v .
70 bushels Hepd’s ditto.
10 bushels Red Igp ,dirq. :
1200 wi. Red clover ditto.
- Looking-Glass Plates, Jewelry; €.
.2 large assortment of Groceries, among which are :
/200 wt. Souchong Tea, very cheap.
1000 wt. Coffee.
1000 wt. good Butter, for fumily use.
Newport, March 14, 1810. .
‘No. 1.
JOSIAH C. SIIAW.
Newport, March 14, 1810, .
GROCERIES
No. 118, THAMES-STRELET.
George W. Martin,
HAS FOR SALE,
W
DRAWING APPROACHES,
William Douglassg
BY WILLIAM SIMONMNS,
DANIEL SHLELDON,
ALSO, FOR SALE,
NEWRORT, R. L
No. 15, MiLL-STREET.
Hay Seed.
TERMS.
120—
28 of 500 Dollars
30 - 200 -
0 - 200 vl
100 -9, "84 &
200 - W s
-c/zea_p.
RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
Next comes on the carpet the famous Jv,
Jacksop—selected, 1 vlt-"vmg, in conse
quence of his eminent services at Copenba
gen. Both the selection and his lnbﬁﬁ?w.
conduct, add insult to injury, Aund, sir, I ye
gret to bave seen that l{c bad wpologists on,
this fleor, I regret to have seen men, that
call themselves Americans, stend vp in the
face of the nation, und jostify the indccoroui‘
and impertinent conduct of this Copenhagen '
champion. " Sir, had those gentlement exerts|
ed their ingenuity to so great an extept, i,
defence of their country’s vights, in justifica
tion of the open, manly, and spirited conduet |
of the Executive, as they did by their sophis
tical, fine spun arguments and special plead
ings, in order to screen this legalized spy
from censure, and to excuipate the Britisia
from the charge of perfidy, so justly atteched
to the disavowal of Erskine’s arrangement, '
they would have deserved well of their couns
try ; they would have reccived the nuiversal
plaudits of all true Americans, The ery
would have been, well done thou good and
faithful servant. But, sir, they have drawn
the line, and he that is not for me is against
me. 1 should not be surprized il they were
to meet the indignant apd upiversal frowns
of all wrue Americans. |
Well, sir, what have we ohtained through
all this scuffle 2 Nothing but losses, crosses,
disappointments, and insults, have been the
result, yet agrecably to the dectrine of some
geutlemen we have no cause for war ; and |
am not certain, if Limight judge from what 1
have seen and heard, that that natien could
commit an act, be it ever so oppressive and
glaringly’ rOAqnaiNe, that would be deem
ed a cause of war, by some gentlemen. It
bas been repeatedly suid on this floor, that
the embargo, this politkdwqﬁ,c ‘that
the federad pamty expected to ride to ‘),ov
er, has brought ruin-on the country ; that it
has been as destructive s the devastations of
war. I acknowledge that ‘it has been sensi
bly feltin many parts of the continent, but it
was principally among the-farmers and ‘tet
chanicks : yet they bore the privations con
sequent on oyr situation with*manly clicet [ui
ness. The losses thut happened among the
agriculturalists ‘have been ulmost incaicu
lable ; yet they bore it with fervtude; ruther
than truckle to those lawless depredators,
But, sir, lam afraid this is an inauspicious
time. I am afraid we are about to give
up, by a fuls¢ step, ‘that national rcspcctiﬁi:i
ty, and with it liberty and independence.
For, siv, if you wont delend your rights, but
will surrender them at plgasure, your inde
pendence is not worth a straw. - Yes, siey 1
am afraid we are about to abandon national
honour--pusiianimously.to give up impostant
rights, which was obtained by the bléeod :&d :
heroick exertians of our ancestors, and hafd
ed down,to us in their purity, and which is a
duty incumbent on us to trangmit to posteri
ty unsuiligd ; .or why that apathy, in not re
senting with ‘becoming dignityy - injary vand
wsult ; and apply the praper qorrective en-,
ervgetically. . Sir, I beg gentiemen to pause,
to look well before them,as-one false step
might sink them into the ditch of degreda
tion, might leave a stain on your national
character that time would not obliterate—for
the moment that you retrogade or abandon
the stund government has. taken, that mo
ment your. shake hands with infamy, crime
will become familiar. Government ought to
deliberate maturely before: they take a stand ;
but when that stand is. taken; it ought ngver
to be abandoned, while they -have the power
of resistance. v wd v.hn
We have the power,we have the resources.
And, Sir, 1 have no hesitagion in saying, that
our countrymien possess the valoury then why
not prepare 8 exercise it in defence of our
inberent rights 7 Why suffer some of the im
portant appendages and immunities, attached
to government, to be wrested from our hands
with “impunity 7 Will not pusillanimity at
tach itself tothis Kind of conduct ? Believing
as I do, sir,'that we have nothing to expect
from a goverument that is ever prepared to
flatter, and ever prepared to defrand ; and
when ready precedents may be found to sapc
tion the most glaring enormities, 1 deem it
advisable, yes, sir, essential, to prepare for
the worst ; for in my mind it is almost inevit
able, that our difficulties will evenmtuate in
war, unless we are determined on submis
sion ; and to say the best of the bill under
consideration, it is backing out, tantamount
to s@bmission. Sir, we have been struggling
for a series of yeurs, against opprécsion as
cruel as absurd. We have seen that it was
'not in the fortuitous accidents of the ‘imes
that our troubles hud théir origin, but in
a systematick Lostility manilested ever since
Americ: obtained her independence. Sir,
perilous time like the present, is not the time
Hor Auericany w 0 be hackward in speaking
their seutiments, it is not only the time to
speak out, but to act with energy and decision
uiicss we are datermined o barter our nation-
. ON THE BILL
CONCERNING COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE
WITH GHEAT-BRITAIN AND FHANCE,
AXD FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
R
American Tongress.
MR. DESHA’S SPEECH, .
NEWPORT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1810.
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[ Coneluided.]
~ Mr. Speaket, T venture to pronounce, that
your embargoes, non-intercourse, or contmer
cial restrictions, that are now under consider
ation, (which, instead of resistance to oppres
sion, have net only humility, bot imbecility
~depicted in their countenance) ot uny coun
tervuiling decrees that you muy adopt, will .
"prove measurably inefficient as a coercive
system. While the British bave possessions
contiguous to the United Stutes, it wilibe dif
ficult to enforce them ; they will be unavail- |
“ing. The quack may talk of a cure, but the |
-disease will continue to burn like a covered
fever, until th ‘cause is removed. 1 re,‘?cat ,
ity sir, your countervailing regulations will be
diavailing while the British have Canada or
a Nova Scotia, on the continent of Anierica.
You must mwg&? catse if you expect to
fferform a cure § then why hesitute g Why
t,!?&n-‘in all pnw?:qmmt happen; and I am
tot make preparations to meet the event,
afruid, st no ve?‘ shstant period ? And, sir,
iidependent ‘of 'these corisiderations, they
will'always have ‘it in their pewer ﬂgpp‘«z
gﬂ'ty strife in the coumr{, by blowing th
ames of disaffection. Whereas, on the con
trdry, if you determine on this point, their
eufmissaries that it is presumable, are '[;liccd
ini sl the principal”sea port towns, for the
p(u‘ro:e of fomenting division, and diffusing
their baneful principles, will in casc of a
straggle, find thelr “situation extremiely un
‘contfortable, and will retive with their Pando
mw*: their S.c..ho.el"lrl ‘“rhﬂtwi”‘d’
will become cautious, they ‘Wil find'it théit
interest, instead of reviling government, to
either join the national staundard or to be neu
tral, lest sanguinary vengeance should be the
result. ' Then, sir, why hesitate in striking at
the root of ‘the evil 2 Why not take prepata
tory steps, in order that the measares may be
comnmiensurateé o the end? Itis not, sir, be
cause I think we want territory, that T would
recommend preparatory measures -to mect
this event ; no,'sir, we have a sufficiency of
territory, but itis becavse I think we need
not calculate on a redress of griévance, with
out the adoption of ity or some thing calculat
ed to operate on the fears or interest of our
enemies, for certainly we “have seen enough
to convince us, that'we have nothing to ex
pect from their justice. ‘
#l character for a poor shackied commerce,
or, in other wourds, for pecunicr{ interest,
brought about by mercantile cup dity : in a
word, we must lay aside our temporising and
prepare for war. [ repeat it, sir, you must
Prepare for war, if you expect peace or jus
tics, immediate war is not iny meaning : my
meaning is, sir, that we should make the ne
cessary preparati.ns to meet the event, be-
Meving that our differences must inevitably
eventuwte in a struggle. And, siry, when 1
Speak of prepuratory weasures a large regu
lar army or an expensive navy, is no part of
my mesming. We may with safety confide
the honour and welfare of the ration to the
nutional militia or volunieers, and in case it
should be found necessary to oust our com-
Mon enemy (om their north American pos
sessions, the lutter will be all-sufficient ; and
finally, wili be the meuns of conducting valor
to victoty. And, sir, in an army of this cast,
composcd of the yeomanry of the country, no
danger is to be apprehended from the mach
inations and intrigues of designing demago
gues, love of conntry can pever be eradicated
from their hearts, 4
I will be told, no donbt, that the taking of
Canada will be ap arduous undertaking, that
it will be Qt%?n}é‘d with the loss of blpod and
treasure. Sir, I acknowledge that it will be
qnead;"d.}y‘i(b’m haps both the loss of blood
and treasur mJ there is no man that wouid
be more dam’@g,pf. the blood of his fellow
men, or the expenditure of treasure than I
would be : bmmﬁving as I do, that there
are no means which we have in our power to
adopt, so likely to ensure success in bringing
sbout reparation for damages, and placing
commerce on reciprocal fepting, as much as
I regret the mecessity of being, forced into
this alternative, I will encounter it; I wiil
make preparations to meet the e\\'e“tt‘pg!icv;
tng thit of subinission obe inevitable. Sir,
my voice has hgpetofore been pgainst war, I
was lor maklligf"thc last alternative, so as
to preserve national honour. But; sir, when
that is to be the sacrifice, I will say, war. And
sir, I am satisfied there is patriotism enough
in the country to mget danger in the wmaost
frighsful shape, vather than truckle to any ty
ranty and particularly our deadly foe ; the o
pinion of the genueman from, Vipgini, (Mr.
Sheffey) to the contrary notwithstanding, who
msinuates that they would npot support you in
war, il yoa‘touch theie pockets ; at least 1
can without hesitation vouch for these that 1
have the honour to represent, they possess
patriotism, atid are ready to encounter any
difficulties rather than the honour of the na
tion should be compromitted. And, sir, it is
not of the fair weather kind of patriotifm, it
is of a kind calculated to stand the most stor
my seasons. And, siry Fbelieve I speak the
sentiment of the Kentuckiaps geverally. |
trust in God, that if we should betray the
trust reposed in-us by not takjng the nccessa
ry step (o vindicate our honggr, and te pre
vent important gppendages negessarily attach
ed to government, from being wrested [rom
our hands, thst our people in whom the pow
er rests will apply the proper corrective. Sir,
the eyes of the nation are upon us ; they ex
pect something from us ; our conduct wiil
be particularly scrutinized ; and should we
act so unwoﬂ{ii!y as to suffer our rights and
naticnal cheracter to be prostrated, we may
~when it cowes in "éompe:}l:ion with the na
tonal respectability, or the § ood of the com
munity at large, it ought to be pliced in tie
buck grotnd, to be deemed but of secondary
consideration. We never din be at a loss for
resources while love of couptry prevails—all
deficiencies will be made up without the ne
cessity of resorting to intertiul taxes, as some
contemplate. The o\?sting { tyranny from
the north will be productive of good {&Vmo
ther wav. Immense sums hijve'heen expei.
ded—yes, T may siy millions in fbrdlcat&ns,
in our ports and harbours, fur the defence of
our seaport towns, and millons more no
doubt wiil be expended in the| sume way, if
we persist in our mdﬁ'poun- . Whereay
if you deprive your enémies of |} safe port oy
harbour on the continent, it will |be " impossi
ble to suppose that they can tuke voyage of
three or four thousand miles, an 'hovfr‘\on
our coasts in order to bLombard lour towns
without having some glacc. to refit in be&;t
they return. [ shall be told that it would un
safe to cohnect those people with the United
States ; that it will have a tendency to dis
tract our national councils. Sir, I “wisk not
to try the experiment if it can be yveided. I
wish to muke it the list resort—but admit
ting we are necessarily forced intg this mea
sure, 1 should not apprehend an{ material ine
jury could result frbm it. Those people are
like ull other mankind, fond of civhl liberty ;
andy 1 presuine, m? are not in a stato of
barbatity, perhaps, not more o than '_wwm
mericans were pt thd‘céihtpqwfg eht, of the
revolutionary struggle, or when we got clear
of the shackles o?d, tism, !ﬂ}, I make
no doubt, if you b{ pmp\\dtldn declare youy
intention is to give them civil liberty~to ¢-
mancipate them' from theit: chaing 'ﬁ 10 suf>
et them to participate in governmient, bug
they will vally round your lt%i' e ?. '
ands, that the cq‘é'ﬁt%v{uﬁf %aly self-con.
quered. And, si,thie same objection would
huve applied with equal force 10 the I.ouisias
i, 3t the time of the ‘seavinion. of
‘.cbum?. for it is %I,‘G,.'“.‘ ble, thay those ruis.
L i pesha . il of cnvin 44
liberty, r: those raise u‘thﬁ | "de \DO- :
tism ; and, sir, the o bjection might be. :‘
ted by suffering them to remuin for som
time as territoriul gov'gmmemj,lund whe adoj;
tion of mild und lenient laws, for ihe, gt
- ment; calcutated to endeur them to xom
X L ad bol
. Mp. Speaker, as to the first two sections of
the bill pow under considesation, that go "t
the €xclusion of foreign armied vessels' frony
agy. waters,d am an advocate frrand weve they
not coupled with such exceptionable matter,
1 showld with cheerfulness give them my sup
portlor I hold it ascorvect doctrine, that for
cign arped vessels ought never o be' admir
ted inte our watersy unless we had a navy e
ble to cape with them. But encugh has been
said on that-heud, A reference to the: jours
. nals of the summaer session will shew. that ¥
stood in the mineority of filtéen to one hun+
dred, against the admission of armdd vessels
into our waters, the balance of thé. billy the
eleventh section exceptudy goes to the depriv<
g eur encmies. of a purt of the currynm 3
Now, siry, how will this operate, lf they choose
1o eountervail ! Lhey can make Halifax the
part that you are to carvy the American pro~
ductions w and make it the place of exchunge,
whichryou will agree toy it 1 might judge
from the cowrse you. are _how pursuing,
where you will rveceive their mamlfucwrfs,'
and they your productions—then you will
have only the carrying to Halifax, and the
will have it from. thence, Andy sir, with
their ascendengy: ot sea=wthey b- ve the power
to enforce it==and, sir, what tl3cn yvi" becoaner
af your carrying trdde, for: which you are pow
- muking so grest aysacrifice I But, siry whke it
fow granted, as some suppese that they will
not cauntervail——are not geatlc nen apprized
that not more than about one fifiieth part of
the tonnage is carvied in British .bonéms!‘
Do not gentlemen know that the Brivish mer
chants are a cool calc al-tinz peopley, much
attached to interest-and that Gearly ull the ex
ports from Brituin to Americ v are shipped in
American bottoms, owing 10 the difference in
duties, Now, siry I appesl Lo gentlemen’s
candor, to say if they really think, that 10 ob
tain the carrying of übout one fiftieth part of
the tonnage, is worth making such a sacrificd
fore—the repedling of sthe non-intercoursey
the only thing what stands between Americay
and disgrace—=national dejsradation. This
measure mighe perhiups do for a permanent
arra'ugc ment, or at Jeast a pietof it ; but not
as u measure of resistance«—ihe 11th section
repeals the non-intercourse. Sify if you ave
' determined not to advance, i the name of
Grod, Leep your ground. Do net by ah ineau
tious step, suffer your national character to
dwindle into insignificance. | Suffer your non
intercourse to continue. If it is deéfedtive, »-
'mend it ; you hdve the power. “Stop the
' holes in it and prevent the morcantile ecls
from slippling through. IT this .cunnot be
~done by paper regulation, tpra the energies
of povernment towards enforcing it? Dont
~suflfer your inherent rvights to be wrested
from your hands with impnnity, and your nu.
tional honour to be prostrytedrat the feet of
intrigue and rapacity. Siry let it be remen.
beredy that I am in favour of adhering sysie
matically to the non-intercourse, at lcast oy
expect to be hurled from o
miny, and have to encoun
frown of an enraged people
penditure of treasure that s
much alarm in the minds
tion of mild und len
v seats with igne
cr the indignunt
. Asto the ex
pems to create so
some gentlemen
Val. 2.