The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-09-04 00:00:00, page 3

ffrotolbence,
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1810.
- FROM GOTTRJVBURG.
Captain Forbes, in the Sylph, from Got
tenburg, in 42 days, informs that—
The High Marshal had been massacred
by the people at Gottenburg, being sub
pected of having been accessary to the
death of the Crown Prince.
The British Consul’s functions ceased at
Gottenburg r *the 29th of June, by order of
the Swedish government, and agreeably
tothie treaty with France.
Mr. Robert Dickson, wh» had usurped
the powe* of acting as American Consul,
was laid to be an agent of the Governour
of Anhalt, and Concerned with him in seve
ral privateers.—-This contributed not a
little-to exasperate the Danes against
Americans'*;, In of its being
discovered, that t>e laid Dickson had no
authdrkfU aCt/s Consul, a meeting was
Wield by the Americans in port, and a let
ter addressed to Mr. D. pointing out the
' impropriety of his Opening despatches from
our government, and likewise the perni
cious tendency conduct would have, in
administering an office Be was in no wfiht
entitled to the possession of*
, The British Admiral on the station, re
fased to give convoy instructions to Any but
vessels having license, but observed, that
be conceived himself bound to protect all
American vessels that chose to join the
convoy; and should protect them accord-
- The Editor of the New-York Evening
Post has received a file of the Altona Mer
tcury. A Stockholm article, dated the 22d
of June, gives an account of the assasaina
i’ tion, hg an infuriated mob, of Count Axel
Van Vermin, Marshal of the Empire, on
Suspicion of having been accessary to the
• Meath of the Crown Prince. This act was
pet rated on the first intelligence of the
death of the Prince, and his body being
brought into the city.—The Marshal’s
coach was attacked, and beat to pieces
be fled, was found, dragged into the mar
ket-place, a la mode de Francoise, abused
and murdered. The King soon after ar
rived? and the exercise of the military
force was necessary to the dispersion of
the ( mob; some of whom were killed, and
others imprisoned. A*. Y. Ev. Post.
democratick majority in the House was 4
i. at the next aenion there will be a federal
republican majority of 4.
The following is a statement of th# num
bar of Representatives in the several coun
ties in tbia State, viz
Federal.
/Providence, 6
♦Newport, 14
/Washington, 8
Kent, 8
Bristol, 2
ty ulndlßpaaparte so liberally bestows on
Tij MB thenAod demecrate who are so kind
as tofr IMbbnnquer them. The people
Of bailed the French as their de
liverers from tyranny, and the harbingers
of freedom. Thev4tavc now the trial of
that'(dud of freedom which Frenchmen
jan give them.
Tlir following article we find in the Lon
don Morning Chronicle of the 15th of June
last. Sellis is the man who auempte’d to
murder the Duke of Cumberland, . >d not
succeeding, murdered hrtnself.
Skllis. —We have just heard that twn
persons Ih'» come forward to depose, that
Sellis was fralet to Mr.-Church, formerly
M. P. and who left this country for Ameri
ca ; and while he was at New-York, Sellis
was suspected of nn intention to assassinate
that gentleman. Mr. Church had been
robbed of five hundred dollars, and one
night when he was dozing in his arm chair,
(in which he always slept, not using a bed,)
be was roused by the opening of his cham
ber door, and the appearance of a man soft
stealing in. The man on perceiving
that Mr. Church was awake, suddenly re
treated, but thit gentleman suspecting that
it ,was Sellis, had him taken up for the
fobbery, and h| underwent an examination
before the Magistrates at New-York.—
The result we do not know, but he was dis
charged from Church’s service- One of
the persons who have deemed it their duty
to give their testimony on this occasion, is
said to have been Mr. C’s Butler, and the
other a maid servant in the family, and
who is now in the same situation at Mr.
Aiderman Combe’s.
The Newport Mercury, after giving the
remit of the late election, observes, •• this
happy result we do not attribute to a change
of aentihient. It is only the tree, real, in
herent sense of the People brought out into
light and action. This State Is, and has
been, federal; but it is too true that Fed
eralists heretofore have been passive and
snphte. Alarmed at the fatal crisis of opr
pabiick affairs; indignant at the attempt
to impose on the People such n.en as were
the dtffmcratkk candidates; Influenced by
t It was stated at Copenhagen, that Mr.
Diekaon, being possessed of the secret marks
papers, had fabricated Registers,
kc. for English ships.
' 38 34
At the last session of the Assembly the
Democratick
16
6
6
9
4
Qukry—ls there not a material vari
ance between profession and practice,
when an officer of so elevated a grade as
** the Secretary of the State,” who is also
a professor <f the gospel qf Christ, can
lend his aid to the political aggrandise
ment of Congressional candidates, who are
notoriously sceptical, if not avowedly deist
ical in their religious belief ; and that too,
when the opposing candidates are general
ly acknowledged to be the faithful advo
cate* of that very gospel ?
doubts existed as to those countries which
were nominally independent of the two great
belligerents, against whom both acts had in
appearance been directed. It was finally set
tied that certain ports of Spain, those of Hol.
land and Naples, were net included in the pro
hibitions of the latter act. Th| incorrectness
of this determination, events have fully, and
too many, very fatally demonstrated. Of this
fact the democratick papers have become sensi-
He, and are now endeavouring to throw the
whole Gallatin, although there is
abundant evieNK to shew that the other mem
bers of the government accorded with the Se
cretary of the Treasury, of which any one may
be satisfied by referring to the correspondence
between Mr. Erskine and our government, for
that Minister had been ordered to complain of
the construction.
Bidwell’s retreat has not yet been disco
vered. We learn, that his Excellency the
Governouron Friday received a letter from
him, without date or place ; in which he
merely says—” Sir, I resign my office of
Attorney-General; and am your unfortu
nate humble servant, Barnabas Bidwell."
We understand the Hon. Perrz Mor-,
ton, Esq. has been nominated by the Gov
ernour, to fill the office of Attorney-Gene
ral for the State, in the room of Barnabas
Bidwell, deeerted.— *
When Congress found it necessary to raise
the embargo, and substitute the non-intercourse,
disputes we leave to be settled or discussed
through the demoeratick papers. But we would
wish our readers to attend to the manner in
which the scandalous aggressions of the French
government are noticed by the demoeratick pa
pers. We do not And any of those lofty senti
ments which run threwgh t’.nse papers upon
the slightest affront from Great-Britain. In
defiance of truth, they most impudently affirm
and repeat that " France and Great-Britain
equally violate our neutral rights.” Although
there are an hundred facts to disprove this
assertion, it is repeated .and repeated, until a
great portion of the people believe it to be
true, and to aid the imposition, men whose
characters and situations ought to place them
above the arte of deception, are not ashamed
to assist in the delusion. We are not afraid to
aay, that during the continuation of the prohi
bitions imposed by the non-intereyurse, not
fewer than one thousand of our vessels have
entered tl>e ports of Lisbon, Cadis, Syracuse,
Ac. where if the British hid been so inclined
they could have seised our ships add cargoes,
but not one has been molested —other facts
could be mentioned. Look to Naples, Hol.
land, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, be. and then
say •* That France and England equally violate
neutral rights." It is thuf by confounding
right with wrong, that our differences with
Great-Britain are fomented. We are not satis;
Has. the Secretary, whose duty it is to
announce the publick Celebration of the
Commencement of Brown University, and
to notify the Candidates for admission, of
the time and place of their examination,
resigned hie trust f or has be, in the bit
terness of his gall, suffered a late political
discomfiture to interfere with the dis
charge of an official duty, with a view tu
introduce confusion and disorganization in
the literary ranks ? Is such a “ procedure”
manly or praiseworthy ? -
As the customary notification of the Ap
proaching Commencement of Brown Uni
versity has not been officially given, we
would mention that it will be celebrated in
the usual manner, to-ffiorrow, in the First
Baptist Meeting-House, in this town.
From the Boston Gazette 9/ yesterday.
NEW-HA MP SHIRE ELECTION,
Our accounts from New-Hampshire are
still flattering. We have the returns from
60 towns, in addition to those before re
ceived, in which there is a considerable
Increase of federal and decrease of demo
cratick votes. We have seen several let
ters from intelligent persons in that State,
stating the highest probability of the suc
cess of the federal ticket for members of
Congress.
It' is not, however, either our duty or inten
tion part in disputes, which have arisen
between members of the administration. These
ientiments of esteem fur their own worthy
and universally respected candidates; ac
tuated by gratitude far ffieir publick ser
vices, and in particular their recent pa
triotick efforts, as far as in them lay, to
save the country from disgrace and disas
ter, the Federalists, acting on the pure and
u A <ed principles of Republican Federal
ism, have roused themselves un the late
occasion. They have been successful—and
will always be successful, if they be only
but at attentive and vigilant as their cause
is good, and their objects*are honourable
and important.”
COMMUNICATIONS.
ANOTBX& QUKRY.
VERBUM SAT.
In a very short time Mr. Bidwell would
have been a Judge of the Supreme Court
of the Ityka-i States, and the democrats
would then have told us, *' Judge not, lest
ye be judged.” Some wicked wags have
expressed a wish that the developement of
his crimes had been delayed till he had oc
cupied that high and honourable station.—
But it would have been too much. How
ever grceidhp triumph which it would
have given us over that mean and wretch
ed democracy, which elevates to power and
honours “ all that is little and low and mean
among us,” as Lord Bolingbroke would
say, it would have betn so horribly dis
graceful to 'qur Country, that we cannot
think how lately it was .among the number
of probable events, without the most “shud
dering recollections.” Freeman's Jour.
In an inflated address, published in a late
National Intelligencer, General Wilkinson
. has made an appeal to the people of the
United States, upon the subject of his per
secutions. In consequence of the publica
tion of the evidences of his guilt, as col
lected by tite committee of Congress, the
General says he shall present the only de
fence in his (lower to offer, and if in thC
course of the exposition which has been
forced upon him, he should be obliged to
inflict wounds, where he •• has been de
sirous to spare feelings, the duty which he
owed to the character of a soldier, to his
name and family, and the sense of wrongs
muft/xense him.”
He complains of the nature of theqf pub
lications, of the injustice done him. nf the
inability of any character to withstand such
insidious attacks. ** My cause,” says he,
“ is the cause of all, and if the measure of
injustice aimed at me be suffered to pre
vail, who among you will be safe, from
the most exalted to the most obscure ?”
What virtuous citisen can endure such
impertinent arrogance f Wilkinson com
plain of injustice ! He who seized Without
authority or justice, undfending individuals
in New-Orleans and transported them to
the seat of government. Wilkinson com
plain that he is prejudged ! He who with
out any proof but his own suspicion or per
haps to screen his own infamy, declared
those individuals to be traitors who were
afterwards found guiltless, and having ex
hausted their substance in waiting the ter
mination of. their confinement, were re
duced to abject poverty and overwhelming
distress. Wilkinson complain of inculpa
tory testimony ! He who was instrumental
in preventing those very Individuals from
being heard in their own defence.
Notwithstanding the glaring inconsis
tencies of this creature, he certainly ought
not to be treated unjustly. Let us hear
him: and though as to him no proceedings
can be wrong, yet for the dignity of the
laws, he ought nut to be prejudged. Wil
kinson now finds •• we still have judgement
here,” and that—
fled with demanding what is evidently reAsaaa
ble and right from that nation, but we mix
in our demands that which is at beet ques
tionable. Rsfslb Ledger.
DOCTOR BIDWELL.
The “ fugitive and vagabond” Attorney-
General of Massachusetts, was LL. D.
that is to say, Doctor of Laws. He was not
the first LL. D. it la presumed, who was
guilty of fraud and forgery. He was upon
the point of becoming D. D. also, that is to
say, Doctor of Divinity. For a long course
of years he had been picking dollars and
cents out of the publick chest, ty little and
little, as Horace picked the hairs out of his
horse’s tail, and at the same time had uni
formly affected the most rigid and exem
plary piety. When the democrats were
reproached jvith placing confidence in hu
moral and irreligious men, they would in
stinctively point to Doctor Bidwell, and ex
claim, behold the peerless paragon of piety
and virtue! To men of common minds and
common principles, it is inconceivable how
such abandoned beings can pray and
preach, and impiously participate in the
solemn institutions of Christianity. Every
act of external religion is, in them an
abominable and blasphemous insult, and
outrage offered to the Autbour ef all Good.
And one such son of Lucifer will make
more proselytes to the doctrines of Thomas
Paine, than could be made by a thousand
Thomas Paines themselves. Doctor Bid
well was, as Voltaire would say, a man of
no genius;” that is, a man of not much
genius, but he was a man of indefatigable
industry, and of course of very considera
ble acquisitions. He had long been in full
practice as a lawyer, was independent in
hie circumstances, economical in his habits,
•mt burdened with an expensive family, of
the very highest standing with his party,
and had in fuM prospect before him a seat
upon the bench of the Supreme Court of
the United States, and at some future day
the Vice-Presidency, and would even have
become President, If it could (be possible
for the Virginians ever to suffer a northern
man to fill that Station. Under this moat ex
traordinary coincidence of circumstances,
his deep and foolish depravity is one of the
strangest things In the wbple history of the
human character.
Even handed justice commends the ingre
•• dient s
" Of the poison’d chalice tn our own lips."
JUDG E~NO T—BID WELL.
Arrived at this port, on Thursday last,
brig Alonso, Anderson, of Boston, 14 days
from Havana.—Left there, Augirst 14th,
ship Hope, 43 days passage from Provi
dence ; brigs Mary, Sea lien, for Salem, in
4 days; George. Lovell, for this port in 8
days; Havana Packet, Price, of Boston,
discharging; Vulcan, Thomas, da
At Havana, August 10, Flour was 8 36,
very scarce; Rice 8 s«—Very few Ameri
can vessel* st Havens.
JTNO HAS FOR SALK,
Twenty-Nine Bales of prime
UPLAND COTTON.
September 4,1810. tf.
For Wilmington, (N. C.) %
J-WFV. THE staunch and fast sail-
Sooner FREEDOM,
positively sail by the first
JGQQKow'in of October. For Freight
nr Passage, apply to Sterner Arnold,
(West-Side;)
It has become so much a custom to as
cribe in unbounded panegyrick to the dead,
virtues and talents which their lives did
not exhibit, that an impartial notice of the
character of this gallant officer, maybe,
perhaps, classed by those who knew him
not, among such unmeaning and prostituted
eulogiums—yet it is due to the cause of hu
man nature, that such an example should
not be unknown; and it is essential to jus
tice, that such virtues should be embalmed
in the memory of his countrymen. One,
therefore, who knew, and X trust appre
ciated his worth, may be permitted to bear
to it, thia tad and sincere testimony.
At an early age he entered the navy,
then rising into eminence, and soon distin
guished himself by that spirit of subordina
tion, which beat displayed his future fitness
to command—though by nature violent in
his passions, his affability and gentleness
endeared him to all—his heart was noble
and liberal as the day, and to distress “ his
pity gave ere charity began.” His cour
age when aroused, was dreadful as heaven’s
vengeance; to the vanquished, bls mercy
was gentle and reviving as its dews. It
would exceed the limits of this pAagraph,
to follow him in his caredr of honour
bright indeed was the path, though full of
danger. He was enamoured of glory, and
at the price of his best blood was admitted
to her embrace—nor did his health ever
recover from the multiplied wounds, which
sealed his victory over the pirates of Tri
poli. In private life, his modesty but ad
ed lustre to his other virtues; ever care
ful to avoid any mention of hie own exploits,
and shrinking from the most justly merited
eulogiums, he was always the first to ob
serve and to applaud the merits of others.
He was cherished by his friends with no
common affection, and his sincerity justi
fied its warmth—but he is gone, and to
them are left unavailing regrets—yet long,
very long, shall he be remembered ; “ re
corded honours shall gather round his mon
ument, and thidken over it; it is a solid
fabrick, and will support the laurels that
adorn is.” N. Y. American Citizen.
In this town, oa Sunday evening last,
after a lingering illness, which she bore
with great patience and resignation, Miss
Tkmplk, eldest daughter of the
late Mr. James Temple, In the 16th year
of her age.—ln this young lady were ex
emplified, in a striking degree, all those
endearing qualities of the heart, that ex
cited in the breast of all her acquaintance
the most poignant grief at her early exit
“ But dry your tears, the wintry blast of death
” Kills not the buds of virtue t no, they spread
“ Beneath the heavenly beam of brighter suns,
” Through endless ages, into higher powers."
Sloopt —Juno, Comstock, New-York ;
Thetis, Child, Warren.
Ship Algeria, from New-York, for St.
Petersburg, was captured May 14, by a
Norway privateer, and sent into Forsendi,
at which place were eight American ves
sels waiting trial.
Newport, September 1.
He finds that even tn this world the
scriptural expression is true; ” with what
soever measure you mete, it shall be mea
sured to you again.”
Freeman's Journal.
wo*.
Her funeral will be attended this after
noon, at 3 o'clock, at the north end, where
her friends and acquaintance are requested
to attend.
Sloops—-Potty, Brown, New-York; Ann,
Comstock, do.
CLEARED,
At Newport, Mrs. Elizabktb Cox
nkll, widow of the late Captain Walter
Cornell, in the 58th year of her age.—Mrs.
Sabah Gardiner, consort of Mr. Albert
W. Gardiner, and daughter of the late
Captain Job Howland, aged 34 years.
At Wrentham, (Mass.) on Saturday last,
Captain Joshua Grant. His death was
occasioned by a fall from a hay-stack on
Monday preceding. On Sunday his remains
were interred, followed by a numerous
train of weeping relatives and friend*.
On board the United States brig Vixon,
of which he was commander, Lieutenant
John Tripfx, on his voyage to New-Or
leans.
American tßartne “liftt.
PORT OP PROVTDENCR,
SEPTEMBER 4, 1810.
ENTERED,
Prohibedce Cfieati ’
TT HIS EVENING. September 4,
A will be presented Cotzsbux’s
brated Comedy of
THE BIRTJf-DAY, ,
RECONCILIATION.
(For character*, fee- •«« Bills.)
To which will be added a ComickOpera,
called the
AGREEABLE SURPRISE. .
The Curtail! will be drawn up, and the ’
Performance commence at Half past 7
o’clock precisely.
F7*Tickets to be had, and Places in the
Boxes taken at the Office in Front of the
Theatre, from 4 o’clock, P. M. to the rising
of the Curtain.
September 4, 1810-
To be sold at Publick Auction,
THIS DAY, the 4th of September, at
the Store lately occupied by Mcaara.
Williams & Bullard,
A LU their STOCK in TRADE, consist
-CX ing of GROCERIES, CROCKERY
WARE, «tc. &c.
Also, at the fdace,
1 Chaise and Hamess,
1 Sleigh,
2 Eight Qay Clocks, with Mahogany cases,
2 House Lots, situated on Federal HUI.
Sale to common .e at 10 o’clock, A. M.
GREENE fit CARTER, AuctUneers.
September 4, 1810.
Dry Goods at Auction.
B. & T. C. HOPPIN
Will sell at Publick Auction, on FRIDAY
next, the 7th Inst, on extenaive credits,
THIRTY- Four Packages of Dry Goods,
4 Bales of real superfine Broadcloths,
1 Trunk of Printed Handkerchiefs,
2 Cases of Cambricks,
6 do. Calicoes,
5 do. light
1 do. dark do.
1 Bale of Shalloons,
1 Case of Durants, '
2 do. Calimancoes,
5 do. Bombazets, .
1 do. Black Satins,
1 do. Canton
5 do. Scotch Threads,
A few pieces of elegant Marseilles Waist
coating.
07* Bale at 10 o’clock.
B. &T. C. HOPPIN, Auctiontars. j
Likewise, on TUESDAY, the lUh inst. **
as above,
5 Pipes of real Holland Gin,
50 Boxes of New-York Soap, *
20 da Chocolate,
40 da Spanish Cigar ra,
IS do. Tinplate,
12 Tons of bar, square, round and flat
Iron;
15 Tons of Rod Iron,
1000 Wt. of Bristol Steel, >' - “ -
10 Boxes of Sheet Iron,
3 Hhds. of 4th proof Jamaica Rum, "
4 Barrels of Coffee,
3 da Loaf Sugar, J- *
5 Boxes of Spermaceti Candle*,.
10 Barrels of Meas and Prime Fosfc,
sda Itaefi , _
1 Old Cable,
Several spare Sails, for a Brfe uf ISO toffi.. $
B. & T. C. HOPPIN, AuctiiuerS »
September 4, 1810.
AT AUCTION, ’ 1
On Tukssat,September 11. at 11 o’clock,
A. M. at BuUocFs Wharf,
. THR Brig DR-
LIGHT, burthen 131 tons,
can be sent to sea with a tri
dlMMKe fling expense. Sails, Cables
and Anchors sufficient for an European
voyage at any season; sails remarkably fast,
and carries p large cargo. Inventory may
be eeen by applying to Richmond Bul
lock or Richmond 8c Andrxws. Con
ditions of sale, 4 and 6 months, fog approved
security.
September 4,1810.
NEW STORE,
THE subscriber having taken the new
brick Store next door east of the Cus
tom-House, for the purpose of rending
GROCERIES of the first quality, at re
tail ; and being determined to acquire the
reputation of selling goods low, respectful
ly solicits the pstrouage of the pu blick.—
Among many odier articles, he has the
following, vis:
Cognac Brandy,
Old Jamaica Spirits,
Antigua Rum,
Madeira,*l
[ wiNEs =
Port, J
A’variety of Cordials,
Brownstout Porter,
Cask and Box Raisins,
Nutmegs,
Allspice,
Pepper,
Hyson,
&"r , TEAs ' ■
Bohea,
Loaf and brown Sugars,
Allum, Copperas and Brimstone;
Powder and Shot,
6 by 8 and 7 by 9 Window-Glass.
Likcwisey at wholesale,
10 Quarter Chests of Bohea Tea,
10 Kegsof Boston inspected But
ter, and
A few Bags of Pepper.
All the above Groceries are warranted
genuine, and if any prove otherwiae, after
purchaved, they will be received back and
the money refunded.
JOHN P. JONES, 2d. ’
September 4,1810.