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much room to fear that one of tM great I
belligerent* of Europe will attempt to lay
violent hands upon the provinces, to the
incalculable injury of the United States.—
Indeed I verily believe there is a strong
pa/ty in that country in favour of its pupil*
age to a measure which could not be effect
ed without a noble and manly struggle by
every real American within the province,
aided by hundred •» from without.
“ It would be in vain for our government
to fortiid the interference of its citizens; ]
their interests and their feelings are too
strongly enlisted to be kept quiet specta
tors of such a struggle I During the late
troubled state in that quarter, numbers of
territorians were daily crossing and re
crossing the line in anxious expectation of
some military employment! The Conven
• tionalists will again meet in Convention, in
a few days, at Baton Rouge, and I think
one of their first measures will be to adopt
a constitution, bottomed upon their decla
ration of independence ; and in all pruba
bility they will set on foot an expedition
against the Spanish garrisons on Mobille
and Pensacola. Notwithstanding these
avprt acts of self-government, 1 am well
convinced that the Conventionalists would
promptly and joyfully acquiesce in any
claim of dominancy which the United
Slates would set up. /'*
“ But upon this subject you will proba
bly be much better informed, in a short
time, by’a messenger who will be sent by
the Convention to our government.”
December 5.
Accounts from Porto-Rico to the middle
of November, mention the arrival of a
squadron from Cadiz, of three sail of the
• line, (one English.) a frigate and a sloop,
bound for Havana ; and that the troops
which sailed to suppress the Insurrection,
at Caraccas had been mostly killed.
French “ Tribute'* and " Licenses." \
Bonaparte has decreed that American
vessels shall not carry colonial produce to
his dominions, unless duly licensed by him ;
and it is a well known fact, that for one of
these “ licenses." I tely granted to an
, American vessel at Nantz, (and which
license is good for one voyage only,) not
less than eighty Napoleons were paid into
. the French Treasury, besides fees. Now.
though these facts are well known to all
the officers nf ou< independent government,
and their scribblers, we do not find one of
them, lately so boisterous on the subject,
who raises his voice or moves his pen
against this ” badge of colonial slavery »•”
this •• unjust tribute to a foreign nation."
No! France and Napo’gon have done it,
and they are dumb. And yet this same
Napoleon very consistently prates of the
freedom <f the seas, End "free shifts
making free goids f* and these same dumb
gentlemen pretend to be exclusive/iarnote,
and great sticklers (or impartial neutrali
ty’
About 200 citizens of New-York have
given a publick dinner to General Arm
strong.
Colonel Covington, of the United States
•rmy, who lately took post near the Florida
lines has returned to Fort Adams, and has
there superseded Colnnel Cushing in the
command.
Captain Ayres, arrived at New-York,
left Port-au-Prince Ist November, Informs
that Christophe had recently been on the
plains of Port au Prince, and scattered
Proclamations offering rewards, and hold
ing up other inducements for Petion’s sub
jects to join him..
ken. There were also 80 officers among
the prisoners. We are sorry to learn, that
Colonel Trant found it impossible to pre
vent the exasperated peasants from plun
dering and exercising acts of violence on
some of the Ft*enehmen; and states the
victims to their resentment at from 600 to
Colonel Trant’s official letter of the re
rapture of Coimbra, h is been translated
for and published in the A/t-w- York Even
ing Pott. It is dated Coimbra, October 7,
and states, that the capture was made by
his division only. He marched from Minil
hada at midnight, surprised the French
piquets, and entered Coimbra by two op
posite gates. The French resisted about
an hour ; but the French officer finding
the city in possession of the Anglo-Portu
guese, proposed a capitulation; which Co
lonel Trant replied to, that he could admit
no other proposition than that of surren
dering at discretion, promising them, how
ever, to protect them from the insults of
the peasants. They then sun endered—
Colonel Trant states the prisoners at 5000
—4OOO were marched to Oporto, accom
panied by Colonel Trant’s division, to pro
tect theih from the animosity of the coun
trwneople, which was excited against them
to a gr«*t degree. 3500 muskets were ta*
ken, sad distributed to the peasants; a
number of oxen and sheep were also reta-
800; but that after the first movements,
he succeeded in rescuing them from insult.
General Miller and Colonel Wilson enter
ed Coimbra the 7U>. Colonel Trant adds,
•• I must observe that nothing can exceed
the state of misery in which I found this
city. The enemy not content with having
sacked it throughout, and plundered it of
every valuable that could be found, bad
RECAPTURE OF COIMBRA.
» W '
I Mt fire to tome bouses, and piled up in the
erects, in the greatest disorder, all tbv
provisiohs which their army could not take
| with it; for which reason it could not be
expected that near 800 soldiers, natives ot
this city and its neighbourhood, accompa
nied by their miserable relatives and ac
quaintances, could be patient witnesses of
a scene of devastation, in which their pro
perty had been destroyed In a manner so
unjust and scandalous.”
The papers received from various quar
ters, since Tuesday, furnish nothing of an
important nature. The following articles
from the Boston Centinel, are the most
interesting we have to lay before our read
ers this day. *
We have no later news from Europe
than published in our last. Some of the
particulars of the war in Portugal already
known, have been corroborated by an in
telligent gentlemen who has arrived at
New-York, in the Mount-Hope, from Lis
bon.
It appeared established as a fact, that
the Anglo-Portuguese army had taken a
stand at which to meet the attack of the
enemy, should he choose to make one:
But at the last date, there were no indica
tions that Massena would speedily make it.
If a cause were required for the tardiness
of this usually impetuous captain, it might
be found in the weakness of his present
torce to command success; and that he
was waiting for reinforcements from Spain;
and it is within the scope of probability,
hat the bridge which it was said he was
making preparations to throw over the
Tagus, was to facilitate the junction ot
I these reinforcements. Events in the inte-
i iour of Spain indicated the march of troops
towards Portugal. The garrison of Mad
id h id been so weakened by detachments
from it, that the intrusive King had deem
ed it unsafe to* remain there, and had pro
ceeded to Arragon, and according to some
accounts, to France. If the account by the
Mount-Hope of the recapture of Seville be
correct, it was probably in consequence of
the departure'of Marshal Mortier there
from, with the French battalions of his
corps, reinforced by the detachments from
Madrid, and from the besiegers of Cadiz
Some time must elapse before these corps
could effect a junction with Massena ; and
in the mean time we do not think Lord
Wellington in sufficient regular strength
to risk a general attack. Though hunger
the allied lines to supply themselves in
Lisbon, well informed men have confident
probibence,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1810.
may possibly induce them to break through
hopes that want and the elements wil
compel the invaders to abandon their un
righteous enterprise, and kave the penin
tula in peace.
The report of the retreat ofthe French,
which was current on the Ist November,
may have been occasioned by the retro
grade march of Loisson towards Tomar.
A friend from New-York has favoured
us with Lisbon papers to the 22d October.
They are full of the official papers which*
we have before received. The refugees
from the interiour in Lisbon are provided
by government and a liberal subscription,
and are placed in families as boarders and
assistants.
Since writing the above we have infor
mation of the arrival of Captain Cor|is, at
Gloucester, from Lisbon, which he left the
2d November. We have not received any
papers; but an intelligent gentleman in
Gloucester writes thus:—“ As respects
the fate of Portugal, there is no doubt of
the English and Portuguese holding it as
long as they see fit to defend it. The
French army is said to be in a state of
starvation. The junction of the Marquis
Romana’s corps of 15,000 with Lord Wel
lington’s aimy is confit med.”
Letters from Lisbon say, that the rein
forcements (principally volunteers) which
have joined the allied arm/ have swelled
it to 90,000, and even to 100,000. This
may be exaggerated. The French line
was about 20, the allied army about 16
miles from Lisbon. Flour was 8 20, rice
7 50, corn 2 50, and on the rise.
Notwithstanding the near approach of
the session, but few Members of Congress
have yet reached the city. We at present
know of the arrival of no other Members
than Messrs. Gaillard, Pope, Gilman, De
sha, S. Smith, Rhea, (T.) and Garland.—
The almo<4 unprecedented continuity of
falling weather has no doubt impeded the
travel of those residing at a distance.—
Owing to this circumstance we greatly
doubt whether cither House will form a
quorum on Monday.
The Vice-President of the United States,
we learn, has arrived here ; as also has
Mr. Morier, the British Charge des Af
faires.
We hold it a truth, rendered sacred by
the records of history, that no politician,
however cunning or profound, can long
pursue a crooked policy without being dis
covered.
LATEST FROM LISBON.
From Wathington, November 30.
USEFUL MEMORANDA.
Mr. Jefferson followed this intricate and
devious track, for eight years before he
was fairly detected, and finding his guilty
purposes made naked to the publick view,
he retreated from office, having first no
minated and secured the choice of a succes
sor pledged to follow the same path. Mr.
Madison being untried, and no extreme
prejudices existing against him, he was
selected by Mr. Jefferson to be the pliant
tool to carry into execution plans not ripen
ed before his election. How far he has
acted after Jefferson’s heart, the Russian
mission, Erskine’s arrangement, Jackson’s
dismissal, the ship-trap proclamation, flee.
Bcc. furnish the mosj striking evidence.
It is well to recall, fpm time to time,
the putlick attention to certain facts and
circumstances oi publick notoriety, which
help to delineate the characters and illus
trate the views of such men as Jefferson
and his pupil.
Mr. Jefferson, on ascending the presi
dency, announced to the people, that un
less they could take a view yf the whole
ground, they would be often liable to mis
take the policy (f pubtick measures. This
was to prepare the nation to submit to a
system of concealment, mysterious acd
juggling; until he thought fit .tofurnish a
clue to the labyrinth. How systematical
ly and undeviatingly be acted uptohis first
| intentions, the history of his administration
shows. A ,
It is well known how perseveringly he
withstood every attempt made by Con
gress, to force him to withdraw the thick
veil with which he concealed his policy
relative to France. The time never ar
rived, during eight years administration of
government, when it was proper to give,
even the representatives of the nation, a
view oj the whole ground. The uniform
and studied suppression of information,
proceeded from a belief that even demo
crats were too honest to support him, if
his plans were understood. The motive
was sufficient, but the calculation was er
roneous. Mr. Madison is supported by
them, even now that the veil is rent, and
French influence glares in th? preamble
of every important act of government.
Federal Republican.
We learn from Marietta, that on the
10th November the Ohio was so low as to
Ire almost impassable for keel boats ; on the
13th it was almost full banks, having risen
about 30 feet, and it was feared would in
undate the upper point of Marietta. Ihe
Ohio tide had backed up Muskingum River
12 miles; and several New Orleans boats,
in a fog, were hailed some distance upon
the Muskingum! Much produce, which
had long been waiting, was embarking on
the Ohio. The commenced
rising on the 10th November, and in 36
hours rose a perpendicular height of 20
feet; on the l>th it was nbt known to be so
high before for over 20 years. Accounts
•if floods in various other parts of the coun
try, are received ; much property destroy
ed
K letter from Belfast, (Ireland) of 10. h
October, advises against shipping Flax
seed there at any price ; there being, it is
calculated, 18,000 hogsheads of domestick,
and 21,000 of foreign, remaining on hand,
since last year, and which will be found to
be nearly a full supply.
In this town, last evening, by the Rev.
Mr. Wilson, Mr. Nathaniel Bastow,
to Miss Sophia Chaffee, daughter of
the late Mr. Amo: Chaffee.,
At Beaufort, (S. C.) on the 11th ultimo,
Mr. William Coddingtow, of New
port, in the 25ih year of his age.
At Notfolk, Mr. Bknjamin Billiwgs,
of Newport, in the 45th year of his age.
In Sterling, (Connecticut) Mias Esthxb
Smith, aged 34.
American marine lift.
Brig— Aheona, King, St.,B»rtholomews.
Sloqfit— New York,Currie,New-York;
Lydia, Arnold, Alexandria.
The brig Zerviah, of this port, was left
at Lisbon November 2. to sail for Alexan
dria in 10 dayk; Morning-Star, to sail for
Providence in 10 days ; and ship Friend
ship, to sail for Savannah In 10 days.
Left at the Balize. November 12, the
long-boat of ship Bourdeaux-Packet, from
Cape-Antonio, (W. end of Cuba,) with the
captain and crew of the ship, having been
cast away, and vessel and cargo entirely
lost; several other vestseis (names un
known) were cast away at the same time.
The United Stales gun-boat No. 3, W.
Sinclair, commander, arrived at New-
Yoi k on Tuesday morning, in 2 days from St.
Mary’s—some of the casks which wen on
board of gun boat No. 159, (reported some
time since as missing.) have drifted on
shore near St. Augustine, «nd there is
scarcely a doubt but that all who were on
board perished.
PORT OF PRO7IDENCE,
COMMERCIAL.
j&arrteb,
FLOODS.
w <»a—
CLEARED,
Dbobnbbb 7,
Boston, December 9.
The United States schooner Enterprise,
had arrived InvHamptqn Roads, 28th ulti
mo, with loss of mainmast. A ship, bound
up the bay, was seen same time, with loss
of all her masts.
Bug Sally & Betsy, Captain Crock
er, from Boston, for Havana, was driven
ashore at Cuba in the October gale. Ves
sel an*d cargo totally lost. A schooner
loaded with lumber was lost near the same
place, and all on board perished. Captain
Crocker has reached the Havana, and was
to take passage to Boston in the brig Tele
graph.
The hull of brig Rufus King, lumber
loaded, has been fell in with off the West
ern Islands.
The schooner Humming-Bird sailed from
Port-au-Prince, for New-York, about 34
days since; considerable insurance has
been made on her in Boston.
The schooner Maria-Louisa, said to
be released at Bourdeaux, belonged to a
French house at New-York.
The American ship Orion, (the proper
ty of Mr. John Latour, of Philadelphia,)
Captain Brown, sailed from Philadelphia
on the 17th and left the Capes on the 21st
ult. bound for Havana, with a cargo of
flour, lumber, fee. On the 24th, she ex
perienced a severe gale, which continued
without intermission, accompanied by hazy
weather, in which the sun was not seen,
and on the 28th was unavoidably driven on
shore on Pelican Key, which can only be
attributed to the irregular and powerful
setting in of the currents, as the master
supposed the ship to be at the time con
siderably distant from any land. Jacob
Carter, of Philadelphia, late mate, and
three seamen were unfortunately drowned;
the master and remainder of the crew
fortunately got on shore at little Guana
Key, where they experienced every hos
pitality from Mr. Jacob Adams and his
family, and were taken off by the schoonei
Plan, Thomas Saunders, master, of Har
bour Island, in which they arrived here oi
Tuesday last, much bruised, naked, and it
every respect in a most distressed con
dition.'
The schooner Convention, (the property
of Mr. Elam Gibbs, of New-York,) Cap
tain Allen, sailed from New-York, on the
17th October, for Havana, laden with flour,
beef, pork, &c. immediately after leaving
port experienced severe squally weather
and was cast away on Bonefish Key, Abaco,
on the 24(1i, where the captain and crew,
the supercargo, Mr. Chaplin, and Mr. Na
than Johnson, a passenger, all landed,
whence they were taken off on the 30th and
arrived here three days ago—very little of
the cargo has been saved.
The American schooner Elizabeth-Ann,
(the property of Messrs Noyez Lowell and
Co. of Portland,) Captain Blake, sailed
From Port-au-Prince, St. Domingo, on the
7th ult. experienced the same gales and
boisterous weather, and on the Ist instant
was cast away at Abaco Keys, near the
Elbows; the vessel and cargo totally lost,
Moses Lenscot, mate, and William Hug
gins, George Kersey and James —, mari
ners, were drowned, as also all the passen
gers, Mr. William D. Smith, of New-York,
M. Bissou, (a Frenchman,) and 2 coloured
women and a little girl. The master and
remainder of the crew saved themselves
on the rocks, where they remained three
days, and then were taken off by a little
vessel called the Polly, belonging to Mr.
Jacob Adams, of little Guana Key, and
carried to that Key until the weather mod
erated; very kindly treated by Mr. Adams,
and his family, and afterwards brought to
this port where they arrived much distress,
ed on Tuesday last.
POSTPONEMENT.
THE Sale of ENGLISH GOODS, by
B. & T. C. Hoppin, advertised in
the first column of this day's paper, to
take place on Tuesday, the 11th in
stant, is unavoidably postponed to TUES
DAY, the 18th instant, when it will posi
tively take place.
tJ" Sale to begin at 10 o'clock, A. M.
and continue at 2, P. M.
December 7 , 1810.
COTTON.
Just received by the Brig Governour Hop
kins, Captain Benoni Cooke, from Sa
vannah,
THIRTY-NINE Bales of Upland Cot
ton, part of which is of a very superi
our quality, selected from the new crop ;
and three Bales of stained Sea-Island Cot
ton—all of which will be sold on favoura
ble terms, by
CHARLES POTTER.
7, 1810.
RESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies
and Gentlemen of Providence and its
vicinity, that he has for sale an assortment
of BEAVER HATS and BONNETS, of
the latest fashions and very nice. Like
wise, low-priced Men's and Boy's Hats;
Hats Dressed in the neatest manner at
the shortest notice.
Wanted, as an Apprentice, a Lad, from
14 to 16 years of age.
Cash, and the highest price, elven for
all kinds of Hatting and Shipping Furrs.
N. B. All indebted to him, by Note or
Mook-Account, are requested to make im
mediate payment, and those with whom
he has Accounts open, are requested to
adjust them the present month.
December 7, 1810.
Nassau, (N. P.) November 8.
LEMUEL VINTON
Merino Sheep at Auction.
TO MORROW, th. 6th instant, will be
sold at Publiek Auction, without resrrv a
tion, at the Barn Yard of Samuel Night
ingale, Esq. in George-Street,
SIXTY full-blooded MERINO SHEEP,
about half Raps and half Ewee, (being
l»art of the cargo df the ship Nancy, Cap
tain Rodman, from Villa Real,) of the In
funtado Flock, accompanied with docu
ments to prove the same, and arc pro
nounced by the best judges the finest lot of
Sheep that have yet been seen io the coun
try. • •
N. B. Conditions will be liberal end
known at the sale. Sale to begin at eleven
oiclock in the forenoon.
B. & T. C. HOPPIN, Auctioneers.
December 7, 1810.
SALE AT AUCTION.
TO-MORROW will be sold at Auc
tion,
THE stanch Ship Nax-
CT » burthen 191 -ft tons,
with her Appurtenances,
stows 1875 Barrels, and sails remarka
bly fast. v
Sale James Brown’s Wharf,
at 11 o’clock, A. M.—Conditions, ap
proved endorsed notes at 4, 6 and 8
months.
GREENE Ic CARTER, Auctioneers
December 7, 1810.
For SAVANNAH, (Georgia,)
, THE stanch new Bi is
HOPKINS,
KAThMjp Bknoni Cook. Master, fm
wEtftMNSsin tended as a regular trader,}
will sail in 8 days. For Freight or Passage,
applv to Stephen H Smith, or
COOKE & BRQWN ; .
Who offer for sale, now landing from
the brig Governour Hopkins, 14 Casks of
PRIME RICE, from Drakie’s Mills.
December 7, 1810.
FOR CHARLESTON, (S. C.)
THE s * oo p
LA, John Earlb, Master,
CTUjypJp will sail on Tuesday next, •
JrxwAdM the 11th of December. For
Freight or Passage, apply to WILLIAM
Holroyd, George & Olive* EaAle,
George Holroyd,dr on board,at Earle*s
Wharf, South End.
N. B. A few Tons of Lignumvitx for
sale by George Holroyd.
December 7, 1810.
On Allen’s Wharf, near the Episcopal
THIRTEEN Hhds. oi good flavoured
Rum,
7 Pipes of Brandy,
4 do. American G in,
3 Quarter Casks of Malaga Wine,
1 Barrel of Cherry Rum,
6 Chests Souchong Tea,
5 Half Chests do. da Baltick’s cargo*
2 Chests of Hyson da
Loaf Sugar,
Havana While Sugar,
Colouring for Spirits, &c. &c.
December 7, 1810.
4Vrifford*s Writing Copies.
Just received, and for salt- by William
Wilkinson and Henry Cushing,
(Price thirty-one cents,)
(( A NEW PLAN OF WRITING CO
x*. PIES, with Accompanying Expla
nations and Remarks, written, design
ed, and systematically A.
Wrifford “
Perhaps no Writing Copies, ever intro
duced, are so well calculated for the use
of Schools, as the Set now offered for sale.
They are the same as used by the autbour
and others associated with him, in pro
ducing a complete change in a person’s
hand-writing, by the use of a few lessons.
These Copies were published but a few
months since, and are already the only
ones used in a considerable number <f
the Schools in New- Hampshire and Mas
sachusetts.
December 7, 1810.
THE subscribers having formed then*-
selves into a Company to transact bu
siness, undef the firm of the Prov«dence
Dye-House Company, have engaged Mr.
War burton, (a partner,) an experienced
Workman from England, to superintend
their Dyeing. They have also appointed
Mr. John Wilson, their Agent, and duly
authorized him to conduct the business io
behalf of said Company,
BENJAMIN DYER,
CHARLES DYER,
ELISHA DYER,
CHARLES WARBURTON,
OLNEY DYER.
December 7, 1810.
To Agents of Cotton Factories
and others.
THE Providence Dye-House Com
pany will Dye-Yarn and Cloths, of
all colours, warranted to be done in the
best manner, and at reasonable prices.—
Payment for Dyeing will be wholly received
in Yarn. From the very general satisfac
tion they have already given, they flatter
themselves no one will be able to excel
them in handsome or substantial colours.
They have on hand, for sale» a large as
sortment of WEAVING YARN, of vari
ous colours; and calculate to keep them
selves well supplied with all descriptions
of DYED YARN.
TO WEAVERS.
COTTON YARN put out to weave at
the Company's |St<>re, In the Dwelling-
House of Mt. Elisha Dyer,'in Westmin
ster Street. Great encouragement given
for Weaving fine numbers.
JOHN WILSON, Agent.
December 7, 1810.
DOLLARS.
A PREMIUM given for Spanish milled
DOLLARS by
J. B. WOOD.
December 7,1810. tf.
FOR S kLE BY
THOMAS VOAX,
Church, Providence,
NOTICE.