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The Resolution was captured on the 19th
of November, and the Drury much about
the same time, in the latitude of Madras.
The particulars of the landing of the
french at Tappanooly, which have trans
pired since our last publication, place the
national character of that people in the
roost unfavourable light.
Not satisfied with sacking, burning,
nay literally rasing the settlement to the
ground; they appear, by the treatment of
Mr. Hayes, assistant to the resident, to
have lost sight of all the duties of humani
ty » •nd the measure of cruel policy, to
which they had recourse, hoping to effect a
disclosure of what they termed the treaor
cache, shews, in the most forcible colours,
the venality of those rapacious adventurers.
BOSTON, June 9.
/TEW SPAMS ft STATES.
Accounts to the 12th of May have been
received from Laguira, in the Spanish co-,
hwy of CarracatM—At that time the revolu
ticnary government was quietly proceeding
in the new otganixadon of the State. The
•• hutefiendenta” appeared’ solicitous of the
friendly countenance and a free intercourse
with the United States; and had sent two
agents to Washington, who sailed on the
11th of May, for Baltimore.—The duties
on Im/torta had been lowered to 161-2 per
ceot.'and Exfiortt to 12-12, beside a reduc
tion of the cuetomaryivaluation.
Other accounts state, that the new Gov
ernours do n<< with for Independence, but
have adopted their measures tq guard
against French treason and influence, and
to preserve the province for their kidnap
ped King Ferdinand VII. now held a pri
soner in France, in violation of Laws of
Nation* and the rights of humanity.—
Great unanimity prevails in the province.
The French turies do not exceed 100.
The Legislature of New-Hampshire,
wore organised on Wednesday last. The
Hon. Mr. Plummer, was chosen President
of the Senate, and C. Cutts, Esq. Speaker
of the House.
The British Packet Princes Mary has
arrived at New-Vorfc, from Falmouth
She brings London dates to 23d April only.
It is satisfactory, under every circum
stance, to observe, that the casualties on
board the Victor were so few and trivial;
two men only having been wounded during
the action, which is said to have been main
tained for the space of 35 minutes.
The Minerva, it appears, fell in with
the enemy on the 22d of November, at 4,
P. M. when both frigates came to close
action, which was continued upwards of
3 hours, when both ships withdrew, to pre
pare for a renewal of the combat, which
re-commenced nest day, a little before
noon. In the second attack, the com
mander of the Minerva is said to have dis
played great judgement and resolution,
and being ably supported by his officers
and men, the enemy suffered severely be
fore the Minerva struck. Captain Ignacio
is reported to be among the wounded.
It fell to our lot to be the first to an
nounce the capture of his Majesty's sloop
of war Victor, the Portuguese frigate Mi
nerva, and the countty ships Resolution
and Admiral Drury, by'the French frigate
La Be Hone, commanded by Captain Victor
du Party. •
In the capture of the Victor, the nation
al honour loses nothing by the event; whilst
the length of the contest, under so great a
disparity of force, and the gallant, though
unsuccessful attempt to carry the enemy
by' boarding, shew what might, and we
entertain little doubt, would have been
effected, had the shattered state of the
Victor enabled her gallant crew to carry
oa tha plan, no ably conceived by their
leader, into execution.
Don 801 l Ivor, Dow Ores,/ Don Vriante,
and Don Tinveo have arrived at Baltimore
from Laguira. Probably two of them are
agents to our government.
In consequence of the dissolution of the
Junta in Spain, a new organisation of the
government of Cuba ba* taken place in
Havana. Reform of some of the absurd
restrictions on commerce is expected
among the primary results of the revolu
tion. So be it.
Jehabnd Goodwin, Esq.Sheriff*of the Coon
.tv of York, for the escape of Jeremiah
Clarke, Esq. late Collector of the Customs
for the port of York. The Plaintiff’s writ
conuim-d tiro count*- -one charging the
Sheriff with negligence in doty ; the other,
with hability through the insufficiency of
the gaol The defence vn ably stated
in the afternoon by Messrs. Emery and
Whitman ; and pn Friday morning, the
Attorney :<»r Goverhmefit, (S. Lee, Esq.)
closed the cause by an argument of three
hours length. The Hon Judge Sc wall then
In a dear and impartial manner summed
up the evidence to the Jury, after which
they retired, and at the opening of the
court in the afternoon returned a verdict in
favour of the defendant.
By Captain Hinkley, of the brig Reaper,
which arrived yesterday from Calcutta,
we were favoured with paper* to Janua
ry 26.
fir trial the action of the United State* vs.
Calcutta, January 26.
By the latest accounts from the seat of
government it appears that our President
is about sending another despatch vessel to
Prance to congratulate the Em per our no
the consummation of his nuptial, and bring
to Mrs. Madison a slice of the imperial
cake. The President and hie Secretaries
want some more positive evidence of the
For some weeks past we have received
no foreign intelligence, and nothing within
<>ur own craintry has transpired worthy of
notice. The arrival of the John Adams is
daily looked for, as by her we may receive
intelligence interesting and important from
both England and France. The pipliml
narias of a treaty with England are ex
pected by this ship, and further documents
respecting the disposition of France. Bo
naparte will not, however, relax the stern
decrees under which his leisures have been
made, and our property in the North of
Europe will not escape his nervous grasp
Our Executive arc approaching a crisis
which will call their boasted energy into
action.
At a meeting of the proprietors of the
Providence LrcsuM, on Saturday last,
the following gentlemen were elected offi
cers for the ensuing year -
James Burrill, jun. Esq. Preaident.
Thomas Burgess, Esq. Treasurer.
Mr. John H. Clarke, Secretary.
Paul Allen, Esq. Librarian.
Directors.— Thomas P. Ives, Esq.
Nathaniel Searle, jun. Esq. Wil
liam Wilkinson, Esq. Samuel G. Ar
nold, Esq. Rev. James Wilson, Rev.
Henry Ebes, and Tristam Burges,
Esq.
It is with more than ordinary satis*
faction that we announce the appoint
ment of TRISTAM BURGES, Esq.
to deliver the Anniversary Oration in
this town, on the Fourth of July next.
The length to which the dominant party
in Massachusetts will go, may be perceived
in their late elections. When such men, as
many of them, are preferred to moderate
democrats, who were candidates—well
may the Secretary emphatically exclaim—
God eave the Commonwealth! Martin
Kinsley, elected a Counsellor, when Benja
min J. Porter was a candidate I!!
The numerous predictions of the imme
diate subjugation of these interesting sec
tions of Europe have not, thank heaven,
yet become history. By Captain Pratt we
have received Lisbon papers to the 94th
April, which state, that the French had
not then executed their threats to enter
Portugal:—That Cadiz had not fallen
That the Patriots had even obtained some
advantaged-evidence of their unsubdued
condition—in several provinces-That the
French tygers had again been compelled
tody from the rich province of Valencia :
That a party of Patriots had taken advan
tage of the absence of the marauders from
Castile, and had advanced to Aranjuez,
within a short distance of Madrid, and
made some prisoners That they Were
advancing their cohorts (not armies) upon
the besiegers of Cadis, with which city
they had opened a communication That
in short, in all quarters a depredatory war
fare was carried 0,1 small bodies against
the French foraging parties, and posts of
communication; and that the Patriots were
in good spirits, and had not loot their confi
dence in eventual success. God grant the
full fruition of their expectations. We
knew implicit reliance cannot be placed
evert in the best corroborated accounts of
Spanish and Portuguese affairs in their
papers; but the recent tardiness of the
French in many provinces; the slow pro
gress of those hovering around Portugal;
the sombre style of some of the latest
French official letters from Andalusia—
the cessation of the sprightly bulletins; the
acknowledged impoverished state of the
provinces which have been overrun by the
French ; and the continual arrival of fresh
reinforcements of the British army in Por
tugal and Cadis—induce a hope of the ex
istence of a stronger germ of Spanish op
position to the French myrmidons, of
greater resources, and more obstacles to
the entire subjugation of the.peninsula,than
most of the accounts from thence have in
dicated. It is possible the Patriots though
they write well, may Jight badly. But if
any evidence of their spirit can be collect
ed from the addresses and essays In their
gazettes, their inveteracy against, and their
determination never quietly to wear the
yoke of French slavery, is inexterminable.
It appears in those writings that the blood
of myriads of Spanish and Portuguese Pa
triots, shed in defence of their children,
altars ,and firesides against their lawleu
invaders, is continually ascending to Hea
ven in fervent prayers for the frustration of
the most cruel invasion and bloody despot
ism which ever afflicted a people, or
brought down the vengeance of a just God
on the heads of the Tyrant and Usurper ;
and that their prayers are sometimes
heard.
\ SPAIH AND PORTUGAL.
ProinDence,
TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1810.
This tyrant Bonaparte, like all those
who have gene before him, has defeated
his own projects by impatience and ** reck
oning without his host;” and he has cer
tainly calculated too much upon his Ame
rican pensioners. Instead of temporising
and giving time to his agents that they
might by falsehoods work up the Ameri
can people to a pitch of resentment against
England that would end in war, he has
peremptorily demanded it, and not only
insulted the nation in his language, but
seized in the face of a solemn treaty, twen
ty millions of our property ; burnt our ships
at sea, and imprisoned our ciltoens I This
conduct has b :come so serious and so pub-
After a series of the most degrading in
sults, after a succession of the most wanton
spoliation, after a course of piratical ag
gression unparalleled in the history of na
tions, and when our government tamely
“ licked the hand” that inflicted this in
justice, the letter of Champagny ought to
give no astonishment! When our govern
ment not only studiously withheld from the
people these enormities, but were in fact
the tyrant's apologists upon all occasions,
well might he direct his minister to tell
Armstrong we had neither “ energy nor
honour !“ Bonaparte’s view, it is now at
length admitted on all hands, was to kick
us into a war with England, that he might
make us in the first instance the medium
and the engine for grasping South-Ameri
ca and the mines of Peru ; and then (as he
has successfully managed in Eyrope) turn
round and close his grand design of uni
veraal dominion, by a subjugation of the
United States. With dispassionate men
the evidence which this Prince of villains
has furnished, can admit of no other con
struction. That the administrators of our
affairs should for eight or ten years be blind
to his views, with so many instances of his
merciless cruelty and avarice, is indeed
“ passing strange but that they should
co-operate in crushing England, the only
power to stem his career or to save this
country, is a species of crime heretofore
unknown to Americans.
While the seaboard, this season has been
nearly parched up with drought, the interi
our has received plentiful supplies of rain :
In some places in* such quantities as to oc
casion much damage. Near Walpole, (N.
H.) on the 3oth ult. several mills, dam*,
bridges, Tan-Works, and a Carding-Ma
chine and clothiers’ Works, were carried
off by a sudden freshet, occasioned by an
unexampled fall of rain for two or three
hours. Ihe cornfields and gardens also
experienced great damage. ibid.
Prom a Dublin paper of May 3.
Rotterdam is crowded with French sol
diers, agents and custom-house officers, all
sedulously employed in suppressing com
merce, in which they are unfortunately
but too successful. The nature of the bu
siness, arising from the peculiar circum
stances in which the Dutch traders were
placed, had compelled them to have re
course to an extraordinary method for con
ducting it. It was the custom of their
agents to stipulate, for a certain percent
age, to deliver the merchandise contract
ed for, free of all risk, at the London cus
tom-house. The remuneration was lately
16 per cent, but in the present state of
things, 50 percent, would not compensate
the agents, for the risk they would have to
encounter.
We stated several days ago, that Mr.
Yorke was to go to the Admiralty, and
Lord Mulgrave to the Ordinance—the lat
ter appointment has taken place, and the
commission to the former effect is in pro
gress.
<■ THE JOHN ADAMS.
We still remain without information of
the arrival from France of this long looked
for despatch vessel. We cannot account
for her delay, unless on the suspicion that
the “great,” the “supereminent” Napo
leon has laid his itching palm on her too.
It is very true *• his equal for robbery “ is
not to be found in the annals of man. Other
monarchs have pilfered, but— at a robber,
“he is supereminent.” He is indeed “a
prodigy of human nature” in this particu
lar. Cent.
It is expected that his Excellency Fran
cis James Jackson, the British Minis
ter, will arrive in town this evening from
Boston, on his way to New-York.
hostile disposition of his Majesty, and pro
bably will receive another sweet, dose from
the Due de Cadore. The sequestration of
eur property, and the insulting ribaldry of
the Emperour's Minister has not, it seems,
worked conviction on their philosophick
minds. Beau Dawson must be sent to
figure at the toilette, and present our re
publican compliments with bended knee
in the drawiug-room of the Empress. No
diplomacy esn be in view, or this milk-slop
would never have been appointed to the
miuion. The Due de Cadore will dress a
slice but little suited for an American
palate. The President may by this time,
however, have improved his taste.
Alexander Townsend, Esq. has
been appointed by the Selectmen of the
town offfloston to deliver an Oration before
the inhabitants of that town on the anni
versary ol American Independence.
WANTED,
A CONVENIENT TENEMENT for
a small family, near the Court-Hoot -.
Inquire at The American Office.
June 12, 1810.
A RUNAWAY!
T) AN AW AV from the subscriber, on the
6th instant, s bound Apprentice, by the
nimeofMATUkss Hopkins,aged seven
teen years. Whoever will uke up said
Apprentice and return him, shall receive
Jroe Milla reward.
Mesters of vessels and others are
hereby cautioned against trusting or har
bouring him on penalty of the law.
THOMAS CHACE.
June 12. 1810. *
TEN Hhds. of Molasses, 25 do. of choice
Antigua Rum, 12 do. of New-Eng
land ditto, 1 Pipe of 4th proof Cognack
Brandy, 4 do. of Ist and 4th proof Spanish
do. 3000 Wt. of Coffee, 1000 do. Cocoa
Shells, 1000 do. ground Ginger in kegs,
500 do. Cassia, 2000 do. Pepper, 600 do. of
Pimento, 2000 do. Loaf Sugar, 3000 do.
Bohen Ten in whole, half and quarter
Chests; 40 Chests of Hyson, Young Hyson,
Hyson Skin and Souchong Tea ; 5 Bbls of
Muscovado Sugar, 10 Boxes of Havana
byown do. 10 Boxes of 7 by 9 Window
Glass, 40 do. Smyrna Raisins of an excel
lent quality ; 25 do. of Spermaceti Can
dles, 10 do. Chocolate, 20 dozen of Sutton
manufactured Scythes, of the approved
stamps; 3 Kegs Neats Tongues, 50 Firkins
of Butter, 40 small do. of Lard, 150 Bar
rels of mess and prime Pork, 50 do. of do.
do. Beef, &c. &c.
June 12, 1810. - 'Bw.lw.
The British ship Albion, Kilby, from
New-Brunswick, was fallen in with 10th
March, lat. 37, lon. 42 ; she had been dis
masted and upset 37 days before, during
which period 10 out of 13 of her crew died
of hunger, not having had any provisions.
The survivors, (the Captain and two
others,) had received their support from
chewing the bark of a spruce spar, and
had been without water 4 or 5 days.
Ship Samuel, of Nantucket, is supposed to
have been lost near Trinidad, an uninhabited
island in the Southern Ocean, from some dis
coveries made on the island in December last.
Mr. P. W. Snow, Dr. J. Van Laffatt,
and Mr. Henry Hoppin, who went out in
the Baltick, remain at Canton to transact
business.
Brig— Hiram, Oldridge, Matanzas.
Arrived on Saturday last, ship Baltick,
Captain Aborn, in 133 days from Canton.
Left at Canton, ships Dromo, Woodward,
of Boston, ready to sail; America, Ma
thews, of New-York, do. In which Mr.
Stephen Dexter and Mr. George Jenkins,
of this town, were to come passengers;
Ocean, of Philadelphia, to sail in two or
three days; Rapid, Daire, of Boston, to
sail in twenty days; Hamilton, of New-
York, in twenty days; Pearl, Vancover,
of Boston, and several others, time of sail
ing uncertain. Captain Aborn spoke no
vessel on his passage that has not arrived.
lick, the administration would not hazard
their power any longer to extenuate it.
Smith the printer, for the first time, has
now told the truth to the poblick as to the
sets of the Emperour Napoleon, but he has
not told us the amount of our losses ! Ho
nor has he told us why the aggressions of
France were not made known sooner.—
Why his very paper was till now the vehi
cle for apology for France, and for crimi
nation of England ? The people ought to
know and will know these things. It is
made the duty of government “ to provide
for the publick welfare,” and there ii just
cause of complaint when in a lawful com
merce our merchants were not warned
of a danger which the Executive knew
hung over them, and when also the gov
ernment papers were studiously anxious to
conceal the outrages of France
and to misrepresent and exaggerate the
accounts from England. I say our Em
cutive will have to answer for thia shame
ful neglect of duty ; and the losses and ruin
which have become so enormous and fatal
to the country, are justly attributed to that
cause! Ind. Amer.
At Londonderry, (N.H.) Mr. Samuel
Wallace, aged 15 years and 6 months,
to Mrs. Betsy Coffin, a blooming widow
of 57!
W,
In this town, ou Saturday last, after a
long indisposition, Mr. William Brown,
aged 24 years. His funeral was attended
on Sunday by a numerous train of friends
and relatives.
At Havana, on the 10th ult. Mr. Wil
liam Bowen, of Warren, in the 27th
year of his age.
In this town, on Sunday evening last,
by the Rev. Dr. Gano, Captain William
Rodman, to Miss Lydia Bishop, both
of this town.
At Boston, Mr. George Lyman, to
Miss Elizabeth Gray Otis, daugh
ter of the Hon. H. G.Otis.
“American Marine tint.
SAt/t—Baltick, Aborn, Canton.
Schooner— Rambler, Martin, Savannah.
CLEARED,
TAFT & WATERMAN
HAVE FOR SALE.
PORT OP PROVIDENCE,
June 12, 1810.
ENTERED,
jftarrieß,
I—o
\XTHEREAS the Freemen tit the town of
▼ ’ Providence, In Town-Meeting legal
ly assembled, on the 9th day of June, 1810.
ordered a Tax of TWENTY THOU
SAND DOLLARS to be assessed on the
rateable property behmging to the inhabi
tant! of eaid Providence: Notice to hereby
given to all concerned, to exhibit to either
of the subscriber* a true and just list of all
their property taxable in saidtown, within
ten dayt from the date hereof, as the lav
directs. WILLIAM RICHMOND,
WILLIAM LARNED.
JOHN F. SHELDON.
NOTICE TO WEAVERS.
THE Subscriber wishes to put out COT
TON YARN, of various kinds, to
weave. Apply at the Store q>|»osite Mr.
S. N. Richmond’s, Cheap-Side.
JOSEPH S. COOKE. Agent for Lyman
Cotton Manufacturing Comftany.
PON SALK AS ABOVK,
COTTON YARN, ami COTTON
MANUFACTURED GOODS.
June 12, 1810. tf.
THK MOST WORSHIPFUL
EPHRAIM BOWEN, Jun.
Ghand-Masts*.
THE Annual Meeting of the Gra/wi
Lodge of the Mott Ancient and Hon
ourable Society of Free and Accented
Matone of the State of Rhode-leland and
Providence Plantation*, will be hoklen in
Newport, on Monday the 25th iosMnt,
at 9 o’clock, ln order to transact th*
necessary business, and to celebrate the
Festival of St. John the Baptist ; when
and whore the Officers and Members there
of, and also the Members of the Lodges
under its jurisdiction, and visiting Breth
ren, are invited to attend.
By order,
OTIS AMMIDON, Grand Scc'ry.
June 12, 5810.
Prizes subject to 15 per cent deduction.
Tickets and Parts toi sale by G. 8c R:
Waite, No. 64, and 38, 'Malden Lane,
New-York; and No. 17, North Second-
Street, Philadelphia.
£7“Orders for the above Ticketsand
Parts will be received by J. B. Wood, Pro
vidence, (R. I ) who will pay all Prize*
obtained at his Office. Orders enclosing
the cash, float fluid, duly attended to.
Present price of whole Tickets, 85 50 •* '
Quarters, 1 50
But will soon rise.
■New-York, June 8, 1810.
PUBLICK NOTICE.
ALL pernona who purchased Ticket* in
the “ Newport Methodist Cma
pel Lottery" of the atibacriber, ar* re
queat* d to retnrn them and receive their
money back, aa the Lottery will not ba
drawn.
J. B. WOOD.
Exchange-Office, Providence, 7
June 12. 1810. J
5,378 Prises.
12,622 Blanks.
18,000 Tickets only.
,V 7. ',l
NEW GOODS, ' '--i
BLODGET & POWER |
Will sell at Auction, TO-MORROW, J
June 13,1810, to commence at 0 o’clock* «
A. M. and continued at 2, P. M.
T 'HE following fresh imported GOODS*
* of the latert and most approved de
scription, in lots large or small, to suit the -
convenience of purchasers— at credits un
commonly long— ,•
10 Bales of Bafts*, Comas,
Mamoodies, &t.
2 Ditto fine and medium Broadcloths,
2 Ditto do. da Cauimeros,
1 Ditto Scotch Carpeting,
2 Ditto Rubsia Diapers,
3 Cases of Tabby Velvets, *
1 Ditto Velvets and Cords,
2 Ditto Britaunias,
1 Ditto Nankinets and Grandurells-,
2 Ditto brown Cottons,
1 Ditto Vestings,
1 Ditto Crapes,
2 Ditto black Sonnets,
1 Ditto Hats and Jockies,
1 Ditto Dowlas,
2060 Pieces of yellow Nankins, .
500 Ditto blue da
4 Trunks <4 Ginghams, assorted; J
3 Ditto Furniture Calicoes,
8 Ditto 3-4 and 4-4 do. .
3 Ditto white Catfibriciv
1 Ditto black <to.
2 Ditto Cotton Hosiery,
1 Ditto Jaconet Muslins,
1 Ditto Shirting Cottons,
1 Ditto Shawls, *
1 Ditto Women's Shoes.
ALSO,
, Linens, Bindings, Hair Cords, Estopillat,
Cambrick Handkerchiefs, Madras do. seed
ed Muslins, Linen Cambricks, and a vero
considerable variety of other articles, cal
culated to make up an assortment. It id
conceived so favourable a chance for ad
vantageous purchases has not nor will not
occur this season, and purchasers are
strongly solicited to attend seasonably.
BLODGET & POWER, Auetioncert.
Received since the above 1 , very exten
sive additions, making inclusive the largest f
and most valuable assortment ever ex
posed for sale in this town.
June 12, 1810.
THE next Grand Lottery that drawe
worthy of notice, is positively to com
mence in October next, in Philadelphia.
Scheme of the Vine Lottery.
1 Prize of 812,000 is 812.008
1 do. 8,000 8,000
1 do. 4,000 4,00®
2 da 2,000 4,000
1 da 1,500 1,500
8 da 1,000 8,000
10 do. 500 5,000
10 do. 300 3,000
12 da 200 2,400
30 do. 100 3,000
102 do. 50 5,100
200 do. 20 4,000
5,000 do. 6 30.000
June 12, 1219.
GRAND LOTTERY.
NOTICE.
8 90,00(r