The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-05-04 00:00:00, page 1

. THE RHODE-ISLAND AMERICAN,
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» May 1, 1810.
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Mau 1, 1810
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240 Casks of new Rice,
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27, 1810. *
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May 1, 1810. ■
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Volume 11.
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at 10 o’clock In the forenoon.
Auction.
WILL be sold at Publick Auction, no
MONDAY, the 7th day of May next
on the premises. Twelve House Lots in
College-street, lying on both sides of the
street.
JOSEPH S. MARTIN-
HAS FOR SALE, No. 4, BUTLER’S WHARF
ST. PETERSBURG clean Hemp,
Russia Duck,
Ravens Duck,
Russia Sheetings,
Old and new Sable Bar-Iron.
February 27, 1810. tf.
FOR 8.1 LF. BY
JACOB BABBITT,
At his Store in Bristol,
’ | Hundred and fifty Hhds. of
A Havana Molasses, new crop ;
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Briatil, April 27, 1810.
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History of New York, &c.
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-ire a few setts of elegant drapery figures,
with top and bottom Borders.
B. & T. C. HOPPIN, Auctioneer».
Afrit 24, 1810.
get & Power’s, haVe just received
. . ■-* . Par,
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......... Par.
PROVIDENCE, FMDAY, MAY 4, 1810. - Numsbh 57.
From the European. Magazine.
y DAMON,
A fastoral ballad,
To the Memory of Mr. P. OGILVIE,
(Son of the Bev. learned and ingenious Dr.
Jomii Ogilvie:)
A young gentleman of the moat hopeful accom
plishments, and the most amiable disposition,
♦bo died in September, 1794, of the Yellow
Fever, at Port-au-Prince, soon after his ar
rival in St. Domingo.
Witnett, at / mourn,
Could wit ar tong elude hit destined am f
•The* Mug 'virtue haunt endears,
ret buried wertA thall justify my tears !
Hannah More.
*1 m |weetest swain young Damo% was,
The pride bf all his kin;
None blither e'er a whistle tun'd,
Or so the heart could win.
Near by the banks of rural Dee
The gentle youth was bom i
And twenty opening springs had seen
The youth those banks adorn.
Their rising hope the shepherds all
With benisons* pursued j
For never was a kinder soul,
Or with more worth endued.
And well their benisons might they ,
Give him where’er he went j
For many a cordial lift, I ween,
To them bad Damon lent
For, yet tho : green and few his years ;
In wisdom he was old i
And many an hoary-headed swain
Admired the tales he told.
In precepts too of letter’d lore
So well his youth dras train'd,
The deepest clerke in all the land
Would scant with him contend.
I.
And deftly on his oaten pipe
He play'd so sweet and shrill,
Scarce Edwin - ) on the banks of Deo
Could boast an higher skill.
Npr was an herb, or eke a
In garden, hill, or dale,
But he with nicest art could cull,
■ And all their virtues tell.
Full many a cheek has Damon dried,
And gladden’d many an heart,
And many a blessing on his name
Approves bis healing art |
For doubly still he with success
In all he did was crown’d:
His kind condolence sooth’d the soul,
His medicine cur’d the wound.
For never heart in others’ grief
A truer part could beari
And want, where wealth could not bestow,
Still had from him a tear.
Yet much his pity wish’d to give,
Tho’ scanty was his store;
Alas ! where nature gave the heart,
That fate should give no more !
Riches to suit his generous wish
He left the vale to gain ;
Eager the blessing to diffuse
O’er all his native plain/
Swift sail’d the bark, and far away
The young adventurer bare,
Far from the flowery banks of Dee,
And many weeping there.
And soon Domingo’s port be gain’d ;
Alas ! unkindly shore !
Woe’s me! the bonny hill of fair
Shall hear his pipe no more! •
Oh ! where were then the cooling gales
That blow on Scotia’s hills ?
Where every healing herb and flowed
That grow beside her rills 1
Oh ! where was every pious prayer
That sped him on his way ?
How, virtue’s guardian angels ! thus
Could ye your trust betray I
Could nought so good a father’s wish,
A .mother’s tears prevent;
Nor all the ardent vows to heav’n
By love and friendship sent I
Cold in a foreign grave, alas!
The lovely youth is laid!
Peaceful beneath the grassy turf
He rests his lowly head !
Yet, tho’ affection drop a tear,—
For what can nature leas ?
“ Let resignation every vain
“ Rebellious sigh repress.”
Then cease, ye parents, cease to mourn j
Why. ye sad sisters I weep ?
He is not dead he only lays
Him down awhile to sleep.
Ye simple shepherds, sigh no more ;
Your kindest, blithest swain,
Tho‘ hell to you no more return,
To cheer the etistom’d plain ;
Oh well is lie! rejoice and sing
And bless the huur has given
• A 'cttif’gt.
f D Beattie.
t He t»at bred to the ttufy of medicine
Poetrp.
M Among the oldest domesticks belong
ing tn the residence, there was an old
game-keeper, of approved and
for whom the deceased young lady had al
ways evinced a great deal of good nature
and partiality. This man expressed a
most earnest desire to meet the pretended
phantom, being convinced he should be
“ A short time after the above adven
ture, a farmer very well known in the
neighbourhood, passing at the close of the
evening, in a path which was separated
from thc gardens simply by a thin wooden
railing, fancied he perceived two coffips,
walking by the side of each other, in one
of the principal walks of the garden
withstanding his fears, he ventured nearer
the railing, and made a full stand, while
the coffins passed on at the distance »f
about three feet from him ; much alarmed,
yet conceiving that it might be but an illu
sion, he ventured to pick up a stone and
throw at them ; when he plainly heard the
sound of the stroke, and the stone rebound
ed back towards him; on this he felt a
cold shivering run through all his veins,
and with some difficulty tottered towards
his dwelling ; fully persuaded that the two
moving coffins were no others but those of
Mile. DeM——, and her father, who had
died a few months before her.
From the Literary Panorama of February.
The following interesting account is
translated from the French papers. It
was originally written by the Editor of the
Fremuthy Journal, published at Berlin
“ I never did give the least degree of
credit to apparitions; but I must confess,
that the occurrence which has taken place
(I may say almost under my own eyes) at
the hamlet of Murowanna Gos sin a, about
two miles from, and in the jurisdiction of
Posen, has completely staggered my form
er resolutions on these adventures.
“ A young officer passing one evening
between the hours of ten and eleven, along
the garden of the mansion house, perceived
at a small distance before him, a lady ele
gantly formed, dressed in white ; he quick
ened his pace to overtake her, and con
ceiving he had met with some adventure
for gallantry, he ventured to seize her by
the arm, but what was his terrour when
he felt nothing but the cold arm and hand
of a skeleton, and saw nothing but a pair
of dim eyes, stern and fixed, while a se
pulchral voice uttered, Should one wo <1
of this meeting escape your lips, death is
youf portion.” The phantom vanishe*'.
and the officer fell motionless t.i the ground
Being found in this state by some passeu
gers, he was the next day conveyed to sur
geon Hahn, who, notwithstanding every
possible attention, gives very little hopes of
his recovery.
*’ About six weeks ago, Mile, de M—,
a young lady, the daughter of a nobleman
who resides in the neighbourhood above
named, met with a violent fall, from which
the most violent consequences were appre
hended. The young lady was about seven
teen years of age, possessing the most se
ductive charms, and above all, celebrated
for her angelick piety. Every solicitation
was made use of to persuade her to call in
a surgeon to her assistance, but all proved
in vain ; and she thus fell a victim to her
extreme modesty and delicacy. A few
days had elapsed after interment, when .<
report was spread about the hamAt, that
her shade had appeared to several of the
inhabitants. Messrs De M—- and some
other young gentlemen, all of them well
educated, and among whom was a young
gentleman who had but just returned from
the University of Gottingen, used every ef
fort to contradict this absurd report; but
it was every day repeated with m< much
obstinacy, accompanied with such particu
lar and singular circumstances, that the
whole family of De M— made np their
mind to quit their seat; neither could any
of the domesticks be prevailed on to con
tinue there. It was generally reported
that every night in the week, but espt
.cially on Saturday night, the most wonder
ful things happened at the mansion house ;
that the deceased was seen there, always
dressed in a different manner, and in the
newest fashion.
So gentle and ao bright a new
Inhabitant to heaven.
If love of him you wish to shew,
Like him aspire to be i
So in some happier land at last
Your friend ye yet may see.
When the Great Shepherd sounds his call
And all the dead arise,
Then crown’d with glory, ye shall hail
Your Damon in the skies.
JUVENIS.
THE POZEJV GHOST.
IDiscellanp.
Although the increase of such facilities
in any of the departments, may be arraign
ed as tending to encourage the impostures
of pretended patriotism, the contingencies
within the province of the Department of
State, afford particularcpportunhle* for pe
cuniary indulgences to favourite#, whether
Meantime, as executive patronage hat
been diffused in ramifications, the manage
ment of employments abroad, has operated
<o draw off money in various rills and
streams from the treasury. Witness the
disbursements for the two descriptions of
foreign intercourse, that are distinguished
as diplomatick or consular • Both are with
in the superintendence of the Department
of State. Accounts of both are made
chargeable for regulated allowances, and
for contingent expenses.
The Department of State, however, is
not the only department, whose field of con
tingencies has been made broad enough,
to admit various irregularities in expendi
tures, and such as might favour specious
disguises and cover abuses to be expected
from want of responsible system, or want
of veracity, or want of honesty. Under
the larger appropriations for contingent
expenses there are In general more facili
ties for covering from the publick eye the
particulars of monies that may be lost to
the publick by ignorance, or negligence, or
mismanagement.
able to detect tne imposture. Having
strolled many evenings about the grounds,
he at length one evening perceived her at
the entrance gate : “ Good evening young
lady,” said he, in a bold voice, and imme
diately walked up to the apparition; the
latter inclined her head slowly, and also
advanced ; the light of the moon affording
a full view of the form of the spectre,
the game-keAper perfectly reecgtiised jiis
young mistress ; she was enveloped in her
shroud ; ner countenance disclosed a pro
found grief; she first raised her hands and
placed them on her heart, and then re
clined her head on her bosom.
The game-keeper attempted to address
her again, but his words expired on his
lips the spectre then approached near*
er to him, when he fancied that he inhaled
a death-like scent; she then placed her
left hand on his, when he gave a horrible
shriek, and all vanished.
- ’’ In the front of the mansion house, at
a small distance, is a brewery. Seven
men, who were at work there, perceived
in the rtiid«t of a pitch dark night, a very
brilliant light at every window belonging
ta the mansion house, which they well
knew had been entirely deserted for neat
three months ; they observed a person ap
proaching the casement in the chamber
wherein it was said the young lady De
M—. had died; and who afterwards
opened it as if to look out j the great bril
liancy of the lights enabled them easily to
distinguish that the person was clad in
■’lack crape, studded with silver spangles,
and from her neck was suspended a small
funeral cross. Her eyes, far from appear
ing dull, sparkled with a supernatural
lustre, and her whole deportment was al
together imposing. Curiosity prompted
the seven brewers to walk towards the cas
tle, when suddenly the lights disappeared,
and the greatest darkness reigned all round
them.
sury.
It Ik one sort of operation, to dam out*
sixteen millions of revenue by embargo and
non-intercourse.
It ia another sort to drain off seventeen
hundred thousand dollars for gun-boats,
and then to establish a further drain of six
ty thousand dollars per annum, so Esto
have the gun-boats go through the procest
of rotting in legalized fashion, by way eff
proving the executive profundity of #ia>
dom—to drain off some millions for recruit*
ing an additional army, and furnishing
uniform clothing not fit for service, and
keeping up the estimates for pay and sub
sistence while the troops are fixed In a
pestilential encampment, so as to deplete
the treasury by means of the horrible waste
'f human lifev
Who will deny matters so notorious at
home?
been further asserted, that the tomb has
neen opened a second time, when the body
was found altogether in a different attitude.
“ I was told, that Mile. De M— had
made a will in favour of the church; but
that her family had strongly opposed the
carrying it into execution.”
From the Connecticut Mieror.
Science (f draining money from the Trea-
“ So many different reports made such
impression on the family of De M——,
that they consented to have the tomb of
the young lady opened ; when it was found
that the left leg was raised, and the right
arm placed upon her head; and it has