The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-06-01 00:00:00, page 1

NOTICE.
THE publick are hereby informed that
the Copartnership of COOKE and
ELLIS, (Taylors.) was dissolved by mu
tual consent, on the S4th instant.
THOMAS COOKE,
CYRUS ELLIS.
• J?©-* THE beautiful fast-saline
end staunch Sloop JUNO, as
GAAAyr she now lays at their Wharf.
NBMBKb She is remarkably well found
and well calculated for a regular Packet
between this and the Southern States, hav
ing excellent accommodations for Passen
gers.
May 29, 1810.
A general assortment of Books in the
various branches of Literature.
Subscriptions received for the Quarterly
and Edinburgh Reviews, now re-printing
in New-York.— Alto, for Hume’s History
of England, with Smollet’s and Bisset’s
continuation down to the year 1801—five
volumes are already received.
PRINTING INK,
for sale as above.
May 29, 1810. tf.
B. & T. C. HOPPIN
Just received at the Book-Store of
HENRY CUSHING,
Sign of the Bislx and Anchor, No. 2,
Mfßxxr-SgiMWt,
A HANDSOME assortment of Carey’s
4-to Bibles, Octavo do. with and with
out Canne’s Notes, common School do.
Carey’s and Hudson & Goodwin’s editions.
Constantly for tale, at above.
School Books, Blank Books, Quills, Pen
knives, Ink-Powder, Inkstands, Pocket-
Books, &c. dec.
ALSO,
J. B. WOOD’S
GENERAL PRICE-CURRENt OF BANK NOTES,
AS THEY ARE RECEIVED AT HIS EXC Hdl-NXi E-OFFICE, PJtOFIDB NCB, (R. I.)
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Sills of the NeW-Hsmpshire, ditto payable in Philadelphia* Portsmouth. ) . „
Union, Strafford, and Exeter Banks, • ••••••-.. f per cent dis.
Concord Banks,.4 . . •.. . 3 d 0
Cheshire, Coos, and Hillsborough Banks, 75 do.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Bills of the United States Branch, Massachusetts, Union, and Boston Banks, . . . . par.
Salem, Essex/Beverly, Marblehead, Newburyport, Gloucester, (Cape- 1 )
Plymouth, Worcester, Bedford, Pacifiick, and Nantucket C .......1 1-2 per cent . dis.
Portland, Maine, and Saco Banks, - 11-2 to 2 do.
Hallowell and Augusta, and Lincoln and Kennebeck Banks, 3 do
£ en °S* c °t> do.
Northampton, - 20 do.
CONNECTICUT.
Bins of tilt Middletown Hartford, New-Haren, New-London, Union, > „ .
Derby, and Bridgeport Banks, 1 5 3-4 to 1 per cent. dis.
Norwich Bank . 1-2 per cent. dis.
VERMONT.
Bills of the Vermont State Banks, - - r *25 per cent dis.
RHODE-ISLAND.
Bills of the Providence, Exchange, Roger Williams, Bank of Rhode- - )
Island, Newport, Rhode-laland Union, Bank of Bristol Commercial. C
Warren, Rhode-Island Central, and Narraganaet Banks, . . \ " u -
Bank, pef cent. dis.
KENTUCKY.
Bills of the Kentucky Insurance Company,l2 1-2 per cent dis
' n . NORTH-CAROLINA.
Bills of the Cape Fear, and Newbern Banks, 12 1-2 per cent dis
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
BiUs of the United States Branch Bank, d
Stale, and South-Carolina Banks, ’» ' '„ * ,
’ 3 pe r cent. di t>
„ OHIO.
BiUs of the Marietta, Miami Exporting Company and Chillicothe Banks, 20 to 30 per cent dis
• „ , r NEW-YORK.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank,
Merchants, Manhattan Company, Bank of New-York, New-Yprk State, - ) rMr '
Bank of Albany, Mohawk, Farmera’, Bank of Hudson, and Bank ofC P„-
Columbia,C * nr '
NEW-JERSEY:
Bitts of the Jersey, Trenton Banking Company. Newark Banking and)
Insurance Company, and Bank of New. Brunswick, .•.- . J •■—•—• •••—■Par.
- ,u PENNSYLVANIA.
Udis of the United States Bank, - . . . -
Fartnen and Meeh snicks’, Philadelphia, Bank of Pennsylvania, and)
Bank of North-America,. . 7 . C .....Par.
BiUs of the Pennsylvania Branch Bank at Pittsburg, . 2 per cent dis
.... . DELAWARE.
Bdls of the Farmers'Bank, aad Bank of Delaware, to 6 per eent dis
. MARYLAND.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, »>
Union Bank of Maryland, Bank of Columbia, Hagerstown, Bank ofS Far-
«nl. di..
, • VIRGINIA.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, »
Sank of Virginia, ’. " ' ' F , ar ’
• - • • . 1 per cent. dis.
W n .DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Bills oftht Union Bank, JBankof Alexandria, and Bank of Potomadc, 2to 3 per cent dl«
... ..... .. . U?WSIANA TERRITORY.
Bills of the United States Branch Bank, „
of *•••••• ••«.. . "in" " * **!*.
carefully corrected every Friday. CCnt ’
t /.Mr" 1 ““™ wiU * • & »”"■ Bm.
♦*... Un,te “ States and Boston Bills, or Specie, will be given for any BiUs received at oar
for hall per cent, for sums over g 20—under g 20, 1 per cent, advance. PW '
Any dietant Banking Company, vtiehing their Bille to be received at par vtillbleaee to
actordinand they v>ill be duly attended to. ’ Wll^e<ut t 0 ma * e
rhe most punmiul attention will be paid to all Letters, (post paid,) addressed to J B
Wood, enclosing Bills to be exchanged, and the earliest remittances made 0 any part of the
Union, pernor not to exceed the oecond mail AU Bank Notesthat he passes will bZ
raturo«r rB, B?n O k Notf ,h ° Ukl counterfeit Bills be received in Letter,, thev wiU
B,nk Notes examined gratis. Office hour, from 6, A. Af to 6 PM
• Six or seven new Banks will in a short time have a place in the above Price-Current
Them names will be published in a few days, and the States to which they belong
ExCHAMOK-OrriCß, Providence, (R. I.J June 1, 1810. “
SMITHFIELD BILLS
A HE received for Merchandise at par,
and will be exchanged by the sub
scribers for Bills of the Providence Banks,
at half per cent, discount.
GREENE & CARTER.
.June 1, 1810. tf
May 25, 1810.
' THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN,
AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
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Votpui 11. PROVIDENCE, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1810. s/
OFFBR FOR SALM,
RUSSIA DUCK of the best quality, for
sale by
THOMAS J. ALLEN.
May 2s, 1810. tf.
Copartnership formed.
'T'HE Subscribers have entered into
Partnership, under the firm of
WINSOR & BOWEN,
and intend keeping for tale at their Store,
next door south of the Custom House, a
constant supply <»f GROCERIES and
SHIP-CHANDLERY, at wholesale and
retail. They have landing this day from
sntp Fame, from Havana, good retailing
Molasses, per Hhd. Sugar in Hhds. Bar
tels and Boxes They will receive for pav
for any of the above at tides, good Hoops,
Kedoak Staves, Shooks, Beef and Pork.
ISAAC BOWEN, ion.
IRA WINSOR.
May 29, 1810. Q t<
NOTICE.
THE Subsbriber* hereby give Publick
Notice that they have been appointed,
by the Honourable Court of Probate of the
town of Providence, Commissioner* to re
ceive and examine the claim* Against the
Estate of Mrs. Mary Walcm, late of
said Providence, deceased,
insolvent,) and that six months from the
date hereof are allowed by said Court to
the Creditors of said Estate to bring in
their claims.
SAMUEL CARLILE, > „ ,
JOHN M. PECK, 5 Com rt -
All Person* indebted to said Estate are
requested to make immediate payment to
CYRUS COLE, Jdm'r.
May 29, 1810.
For Freight or Charter,
I THE remarkably fast-sail*
ing Brig PANTHER, Tho*
MAS Laing, Master, bur
iMfafltfis then 850 Barrels, in excel
lent order, and has good accommodations
for passengers. Apply to the Master on
board, or to
JACOB SOESMAN.
May 25, 1810. if.
RUSSIA DUCK.
LOOKING GLASSES of various kinds,
wholesale and retail, very cheap.—
Likewise, a complete assortment of I’hints
and Ship-Chandlery, Water Colours in
boxes, Frosts of different colours, Spirits of
Turpentine, Varnishes, Window-Glass of
every site, with every article generally
kept In a Paint and Ship-Chandlery Store
17* Burnish Gilding, House, Ship, Sign
and Ornamental Painting, executed as usu
al, nearly opposite the Providence Bank
PETER GRINNELL It SON.
May 1' 1819. if,
Looking-Glasses, Paints, Ship.
AMAN that is a good workman at the
Clothing Butinett, and can bring good
recommendations, will find employment by
applying to
STANFORD NEWELL,
Charlet-ttreet, North End.
May 25, 1810.
LT AVE this day received, and are now
opening, a large assortment of STA
PLE. AN I) r ANCY GOODS, comprising
every kind in demand. Additional supplies
are arriving constantly from New-York
and Boston, and vending at a trifling profit,
which makes it an object well worth the
attention of those in search of Dry Goods
to call at their Store, They have a few
Cases of black and coloured Lustrings,
double Florence Silks of the first quality,
India Cottons per bale, piece or yard; su
perfine Spring Broadcloths of all colours,
Linen Cambricks, Linen Pocket-Handker
chiefs, one Case of Silk Shawls, Silk Vel
vet, Cotton Cambricks, cheap ; fancy Mus
lins, Silk and Cotton Hose, Dimities, Bri
tish Shirting, Russia Duck and Sheeting,
per bale or piece, at reduced prices; su
perfine Silk and Cotton Ginghams, Queen’s
fancy Muslins, tamboured Walking Dress
es, long Shawls, Ladies’ Cravats, black
Silk Veils, cut, dot, seeded, loom seeded
and spidernet Muslin ; superfine Colerain
Linens, Britannia Linens per case or piece,
cambrick and common Dimities, black
Crapes, linen and cotton Diapers, Worst
ed Web, superfine mixed, black and
drab Cassimeres ; blue and yellow Nan
kins, Washington Stripes, Cotton Cassi
meiwt, Imperial Cord, Silk Velvets, Bar
celona Handkerchiefs, Madras do. with
every other article, too numerous to men
tion, which are offered at wholesale and
retail, for cash or approved credit.
May 25, 1810. tf.
Fashionable Summer Goods.
WATSON and GLADDING,
No. 7, Cheap-Hide, sign of the Bunch oi
TWELVE Hhds. of sweet flavoured
Hum,
30 Hhds. of retailing Molasses.
2000 Wt. of Coffee,
40 Boxes of Soap,
60 do. Spermaceti mould Candles,
3 Pipes of first proof French
five years old, )
1 Pipe of Holland Gin,
A quantity of Hyson, Hyson Skin and Sou
chong Tea,
For sale on reasonable terms, by
JACOB SOESMAN.
India Cottons, Carpeting, &c.
Just received and now ready for sale at the
Store of
CHARLES POTTER,
No. 3, MaRKHT-SqUARR,
A GREAT variety of India Cotton* of
the latest importations, which are
offered for sale remarkably low among
them are.
Her boom Gurrahs, Mow Sannahs, Ali
bad Emerties, Chittabilly Raftas, Choude
gcrry Baftas, Chandpoie Cossas, &c. &c.
Brussels Carpeting of a superiour quali
ty and various patterns, some of which are
very elegant.
jfLSO,
1 Bale blue Gilla Handkerchiefs, entitled
1 do. Sooty Romal do. >to de-
2 do. blue and white Custak, J benture
20 Casks new Rice,
14 Bales Upland Cotton.
May 25, IB 10. 16t.
B. & T. C. HOPPIN
qffrr Ar pr irAra saib,
nr* WO Thousand Chests of fresh import-
* ed Teas, various kinds;
850 Barrels of superfine Flour, (warrant
ed equal to any for sale in this town;)
60 Hhds. of retailing Molasses,
200 Kegs of Hogs Lard, remarkably white
and aweet;
20 Barrels of Muscovado Sugar,
10 Boxes of Havana white and brown do.
5 Hhds. of Georgia Tobacco,
10 Kegs of Negrohead do.
14 Pipes of real 4th proof Holland Gin,
10 Hhds. of Rum,
6 do. Coffee,
50 i?aXils d do. jetted t<? drawback;
30 Bales of Upland Georgia Cotton,
20 Kegs of Starch,
100 Boxes of Hard Soap,
5 Tons of Sheet-Iron and Steel.
1 ALSO, I
A few Packages of English Spring Goods,
10 Bales of assorted India Cotton,
0 Bales of Duck,
0 Boxes of Company Nankins.
47* B. 8c T. C. Hofpin offer their ser
vices to the publick as Auctioneers, Com
mission Merchants and Brokers.
May 22, 1810.
May 25, 1810.
Chandlery, &c.
Grapes,
But the President, together with the Se
nate, is vested with the power of making
treaties. Treaties require secrecy. Yet
the President has no power to oblige even
the Senate to consider his communications
as confidential. That body must exercise
its own judgement in such a cast. And
the majority has no other right to close the
mouths of the minority than what results
from the authority give# by the constitu
tion to both Houses to ** publish a journal,
'xccfilingtuch fiartt at may in their judge
ment require tecrety. Still a member wf
the minority aught Dot in any common case
It was never intended that the President
should be secluded in a •• Seraglio,” or
shut up with “ Cardinals in conclave.”—
It was not contemplated that a weak,
nerveless, but intriguing President, or any
other President, with a small majority of
obsequious partisans in the Legislature,
should shroud that venerable body in dark
ness, and force the minority to debate and
act, week after week, and almost month
after month, excluded from the light of
popular communication, and almost from
the light of heaven. The framers of the
constitution, clearly did not contemplate
any speh thing as the communication of
•ecret “information” from the President
to Congress, or they would have provided
for the exercise of a power which they
could deem no less important than that
given to the two Houses of Congress to keep
a secret journal.
impure motives., and was the consequence
of disappointment.
The power to give information to Con
gress could not have been intended to mean
the same as to withhold information from
the people. This construction would evi
dently be contrary to the acknowledged
theory of the constitution. It can never be
too much insisted on, by real republicans,
that the constitution is the act of “ We the
People,” and that “ to secure the bless
ings of liberty to ourselves and our posteri
ty,” forms the summit of the climax de
scriptive of the objects for which the con
stitution was ordained and established.
The political system of our country was not
calculated by its authours for the meridian
of a region ruled by a “ dark divan.” It
was meant for a realm of light and lustre.
Hi* conduct, in both those cases, will be
I reviewed at large, and with original illus
trations, in ft>tur£ numbers. A better ser
vice to the interests of political truth, and
of course to those of the “good old Uni
ted States,” can hardly be rendered.
The review will involve a complete de
fence of the “ republican minority,” or de
raocratick seceders from French policy,
tnd will be followed by their acquittal of
the charge, that their conduct resulted from
The constitution makes It the duty of the
President, "from time to time to give to
the Congress information of the state of the
Union, and recommend to their considera
tion such measures as he shall judge ne
cessary and expedient.” This duty Mr.
Jefferson was not very much in the habit of
performing. Or rather, like Mr. Erskine,
he departed from the letter of bis “in
structions,” to execute what he chose to
deem their spirit. The gun<-boat sys
tem, and the project of paying money to
France, as the price of peace, under the
pretence of purchasing Florida from Spain,
were prominent instances of this policy.—
To the PiOfLi of the UniUD &TATKS.
Letters upon French Influence.
No. in.
There, whilst I view the setting sun
Illume the region* of the West,
Well pleas'd to think my labour done,
I Joyful hail the Hour of Rest.
The faithful partner of my life
Appears with smiles to make me blest
1 view with rapture, child and wife,
And we|| enjoy the Hour of Rest
The moments pass in converse sweet,
And whilst I lean upon her breast,
My little prattler seems to greet
With joy the peaceful Hour of Rest.
When forc’d by storm* the bower to fly,
And every warbler seeks its nest,
With me *tis still a cloudless sky,
And still I hail the Hour of Rest.
So, when this transient life is past,
And cold shall be each throbbing breast,
May Virtue lead our souls at last,
To an Eternal Hour of Rest.
>ROM THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.
I to vx, when weary toil is o’er,
To ease my mind, by care oppreat,
To hie me to my fav’rite bower,
And greet the wekome Hour of Rest
THE HOUR OF REST.
JBilcelfanp.
Poetrp.
Wkrr I to select from the pi oceedlnp
of the late Cocgrese, the act which above
conclusively, that the President possesses
wo constitutional rowan, in any
cate whatever, to impose any injunction of
secrecy upon the members of the House of
Representatives.
From this view of the subject it appears
easy to establish, most unanswerably and
than with the publick oae ? How can the/
,be considered as “proceedings” of thd
House at all ? How, indeed, can the House
the right, that the President could com*
municate it to them ?
and Senate in the origination of a t.caty,
especially a treaty totally unconnected
with the legislative power to regulate com*
merce ? Or, if the House could not claim
proceed to act constitutionally upon them t
Did the democrats ever pretend, eVen tai
the days of the famous British treaty, that
a right of co-operating with the President
the House of Representatives could claim
they to do with the constitutional power of
the House to keep a secret journal of its
proceedings? What natural connection
have they with the secret journal rathef
not considered even as appendixes to it. It
the President communicates papers pro*
fessedly relating to the intended orlgina*
tion of a treaty, which papers are not ett
tered on the secret journal, what hart
of the members, they arc printed in dis
tinct sheets, unconnected with the joub
nal, and never considered as a part of k,
to publish any part of the proceedings con
trary to the will of the Mr. Ma
son was censured for publishing the British
treaty, even by some of his own party. But 1
how far do the rights of the President, irt
consequence of the treaty making power,
go to seal the lips of the members of the
House of ? Can he Com
municate what papers he pleases to that
body, and by a nod from his political Olym
pus, impose upon that body the degrading
necessity of being silent as to their Con
tents, at his own discretion ? ft she Injunc
tion to produce a concealment of the sob
stance or the form of the documents, of
both substance and form, or of which, ex
clusively of the other ? Have the members
no right to examine the subject for them
selves, and for an opinion whether the pa- '
pers communicated do or do not belong to
the proper sphere of the treaty making
power? And if the House neglects to tnakd
a decision involving such an opinion, arc
individual members precluded from it, aS
respects the regulation of their own con
duct ? As it is a mere matter of opinfon
how far the House of Representatives pos
sesses any constitutional power of co-opa
tatlng with the President and Bctiate in the
formation of treaties, is not every member
to judge for himself how far he is bound
to respect the opinion of the Executive up
on th.it subject ? I* it not the better opinion
even upon the principles of the democrats
themselves, that the House of Representa
tives have no previous agency whatever
in the matter of treaties, but a power, and
that to be exercised in extreme cases only,
of checking the President and Senate when
they make treaties destructive to the state,
by refusing to make the appropriations ne
cessary to carry such treaties into effect ?
And if this be currecc, what power has the
President to communicate to the House do- '
currents respecting a treaty contemplated
or commenced, and what right has the
House to act upon them in that character?
If such powers and right* exist, are they
unlimited in duration as well as in extent?
Are they to operate upon particular cases,
not only in the present, but through every
future age I Some of these, a* Dr. Frank
lin said to the House of Lords, are dcejl
questions. All of them are momentous. It
would be absurd to contend that the right
of imposing secrecy upon a member of
Congress ceases to operate upon that mem
ber, when he ceases to be a member. lit
that case, it would only be necessary for a
member to resign his seat, to become enti
tled to the privilege of publishing the whole
of the secret journals of the body to which
he belonged. No. Let reasonable construe*
'ions be made io all doubtful cases. So far
as the right to impose the injunction of se
crecy is fairly warranted by the constitu
tion, it must be admitted that the duration
of the obligation resulting from the exer
cise of that right, must depend upon th*
pleasure of the body by whom it is thu*
constitutionally exercised. And it is cer
tain that each House of Congress does pos
sess the right of keeping a secret Journal
of its proceedings. Its power to conceal
political documents, relative to the ” com
mon defence and general welfare,” Is
quite another thing. Documents, especial
ly executive ones, are not regularly a part
of the journal. When printed for the use
NjjTioiUL iMGiurji'vDK.