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Church-Street, London, for the amount.—
"Ou application to the Duke of Manchestt'
for the arrest and delivery of Brown, he
stated the case to “ be one for which ht
did not think he could interfere With pro-
A warrant was obtained from the Mayor
to apprehend and bring Brown before him;
bat jt was not of authority sufficient to
search for him, nor could one of that de
scription be obtained. The bills are ad
vertised and information has been trans
mitted to our Minister at the Court of
St. James, to endeavour to stop the pay
ment of them. -In this our agent at Ja
'tnaica seems inclined tn believe he will
Succeed. A tew days before the departure
of the 65 from Jamaica, Brown sent word
to the Commercial Agent of the United
States, that he should prosecute him for
defaming his character by the advertise
ment he had inserted in the newspaper.
Messrs. Dicks, Orr and Clark, a house
of great responsibility in Jamaica, seem
anxious to do every thing to stop the pay
ment of the bills, in order that he may be
enabled to refund the money now in their
hands.
proceeded to Hampton, where she now
lays, and is undergoing every requisite
. necessary for a complete privateer.
solution. Mr. Gahdenier defended the
giund he bad taken with* firmness and
ability. He was supported by Messrs. Ma
con and Stanford. Mr. Stanford moved to
have the resolution lie on the table for con
sideration. This motion was lost. »At 3
o’clock the question on the resolution was
taken by yeas and na> s, and lost—7 to 106.
Mr. Montgomery from the committee to
whom was referred the petition of the
Stockholders of the B*>uk of the United
States, reported favourably.—The report
was referred to a committee of the whole
to-morrow, and ordered to be printed.
A message from the President of the
United States was received and read
The message covered a number of commu
nications from the Secretary of State, made
in compliance of the call of the House by
.Mr. Mosely's resolution passed some days
since. The communications consisted of
a correspondence between Mr. Smith and
Messrs. Pinkney and Armstrong, with
sundry letters from American consuls in
Europe and forged papers, purporting tb
be papers of American vessels. The docu
ments were read and ordered to be print
ed. The House adjourned.
A villain named Allen Kennedy, who
owned the felucca previous to her arrest
by this vessel, has received from Brown
about 2700 pounds sterling, which he says
is to indemnify him for the vessel and car
go—.yet it is pretty well known the latter
' dhl not belong to him.
He told me that Brown was at a private
boarding-huuee at the west end of the town;
bat be would not inform me what house,
and added, that as they were countrymen,
he would not inform against him. This
fellow offered the bills after they were ad
vertised at a discount, to the drawers,
which was rejected with indignation.
No doubt Brown was in Jamaica when
I sailed. WM. CARTER, Jun.
Commanding Gun-Vessel, No. 65
The commander of the Felucca, Watson,
Claimed protection as a British subject.—
He was taken before tbv Assistant Judge of
the Supreme Court and tried. The Judge,
John Jaques, F.sq. after hearing the cause of
his detention, ordered the Marshal on back
of the writ of habeas corpus, to remand higfe
The officer who had charge of him cow!
not immediately convey him on board, Jx
cauxe he had to attend an election,
confined him in prison, and Watsot* at
tempted to escape. He then put him in
the stocks. Unfortunately Judge Jaques, a
candidate for the assembly, and the ad
verse party seised the opportunity of ex
citing the clamour of the mob, by repre
senting a British subject confined to be sent
for trial to a foreign government. This
placed the Judge in a singular dilemma.—
He must either release Watson or lose his
election-he chose the former.
On the arrival of gun-vessel, No. 65, at
Port Royal, Brown was at Kingston. He
had deposited about 100,000 dollars in gold,
In the hands of Messrs. Dicks, Orr and
Clark. The vessel arrived late in the
NEW-ORLEANS, January 24.
Yesterday arrived Gun-Vessel, No. 65,
from Jamaica, via Havana.—We are in
debted to Captain Carter for the follow
ing communication:
evening and early next morning he applied
to those gentlemen and obtained bills drawn
them in their own favour and blank
endorsed by them on David Dicks, Esq.
BALTIMORE. February 34.
FHANCR AND SPAIN.
By the schooner Fawn, Captain Young.
It this fbrt yesterday in SS day*
NORFOLK, February 17.
FRENCH PRIVATEER.
We are informed, a vessel of the burthen
of from four to six tone, was lately pur
chased in this Borough, by some french
man, and after the necessary xeffiments,
cleared out Tor Charleston. Tw vessel,
Imdead of steering for her destined port,
25p ttje JBafliS.
from St. Sebastians, Paris papers to the
middle of December have been received.
The official account of Napoleon's divorce
from Josephine, together with the formal
proceedings of the French Senate on the
subject, have been published. It is added,
that Bonaparte is to marry the Emperour
of Russia’s sister, and that he will settle a
large sum, (some say 4,000,000 livres or
800,000 dollars,) on the old Empress, to
whom he allots a magnificent palace, with
the title of Empress Queen. Reports in
France, that the intercourse with the Uni
ted States would be speedily opened, had
knocked down the price of cotton. Ac
cording to these French papers, the war
continued between Russia and Turkey—the
Russians had defeated the Grand Vizier in
Moldavia—French troops were said to be
on their march for Spain—Bonaparte was
expected at Bayonne, to which city his
brother Joseph would come from Spain to
see him. The President's Message, (by
the Camilla from New-York,) had been
received at St. Sebastians.
which demanded early attention, have pre
vented us from a prosecution of the charge
that it is the settled, systematick and uni
form design of our democrats to change
our present republican form of government
for a monarchist one. All argument on
this point that an alliance with France at
the present crisis would establish a mon
archy, is surely superfluous. The confed
erated slaves of Bonaparte, in Europe,
falsely, though pompously denominated his
allies, are examples by which we may still
profit, if we are not wilfully blind. A con
tact with him is a leperous touch to the li
berties of a nation. Our rulers know this
fact, it is written in sunbeams, and those
>vho affect to disbelieve it wilfully doubt
the evidence of their own senses. Now,
speaking as men of plain, common, unso
phisticated sense, we will ask if it is possi
ble to impute to patriotick motives a wish
to see an alliance between America and
France? Is it in the nature of thingseven
possible that good can result to the United
States from such a confederacy, when eve
ry other nation has fallen the victim f Can
we belive that Divine Providence will work
a miracle to favour the dubious patriotism
of our democrats, and destine us as the only
solitary exception to the ambition of Bona
parte ? Our Cabinet, with a full knowledge
of all these facts, and we conscientiously
believe for the purpose of their accom
plishment, have left no Kone unturned, no
mean and despicable artifice unadopted,
no stratagem unessayed to inflame the pub
lick indignation against England, because
they know that the inevitable effect <f
such a fiolicy it alliance with France.—
Shall we call to mind the dismissal of Mr.
Jackson for an insult not to be found in his
letters—the solemn mummery of Mr. Giles
in his resolutions, who had the art to ob
tain for that falsehood a Congressional en
dorsement ? There has been no system of
neutral hostility pursued from the begin
ning to the end of Mr. Jefferson's course of
diplomacy. It has all been directed to one
point* 1 an alliance with France, and Mr.
Matron is now running identically the
‘samneourse. Bonaparte knows all this,
Jfhd d k detested hypocrite thus boasts of
the Uttess of his policy in a letter which
he addresses to the mean and dastardly
Alexander, published in our last; "the
United States are on the worst terms with
England, and seem disposed sincerely and
seriously to approximate to our system.*'—
We believe that our official patriot John
Q. Adams, Minister to the Court of Russia,
is capable of adding a commentary note on
the monosj llatfle " our,” and shew its pre
cise meaning, in language far more plain
than he used when he defended the Em
bargo. Now, if an alliance with France
is replete with all the dangers we Have
stated, if it is but another and a more fash
ionable word for slavery and death, are
we to inform our countrymen there is no
danger, when Bonaparte himself tells us
that this event is on the very eve of its ac
complishment ? Shall we say that the term
ally is not so degrading as that of a vassal,
for no other reason under heaven, than be
cause the alphabetical letters that compose
them are different ? If such is the opinion
of our countrymen, they well deserve to
suffer all the miseries of an alliance with
Bonaparte, for it will require all that to
convince them of their danger. When the
declaration of Bonaparte that " the United
States are about to approximate to his
system,” is cited, the*tiemocrats say that
such are tie declarations, but not ours. In
reply, it is only necessary to observe, that
an alliance with France has been constant
ly recommended in all the democratick
papers; that they speak the same lan
guage with Bonaparte ; that Congress is
governed by the same party, and that all
such measures tend to give to the line of
conduct recommended in Duane's prosti
tuted Aurora, the force and sanction of a
law. Both parties wish the alliance, or
both, in other words, wish the prostration
of America.
Mr. Findlay, • resplendent jacobin from
Pennsylvania, in a 4«bat« in the House of
Several
Probtbence,
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1810.
above our control
Representatives, had the honesty to Confess
that he should not have advised the intro
duction of Giles's resolutlous; that he could
not approve them; but added, that he
should vote for them, because they were
ofifiosed by the minority. Why will not
the other gentlemen of th it party have the
same honesty, and confess they will fly io
the face of their own consciences, and
violate what they themselves believe and
know to be the interest of their country,
merely because their political
warn them of their danger? "Such are
thy gods, O Democracy !”
It gives us cordial satisfaction to find
that the proposal thrown out in our last, of
having a large and respectable Library
and Reading-Room, meets with so general
'and unexpected a concurrence. An oppor
tunity is now open for those who posses*
property, to apply it to its noblest use, the
improvement of the human mind. To all
adventurers of this kind, we will say with
an ancient Poet, “Pergite Graii."
In the Senate of the United States, Feb
ruary 22, Mr. Macon's Bill was taken up,
and a motion to recommit it was lost—
-11 to 20. The question on its final pas
sage was then taken in the affirmative—26
to 7; and was on the same day sent tn the
House of Representatives. In the House
of Representatives a motion for postpone
ment was lost—49 to 72. Sundry motions
were made for adjournment, and one at
length prevailed—ayes 61, noes 57.
The bHI as it now stands, prohibits all
publick vessels belonging to Great-Britain
or France from entering the harbours of
the United States, subject' to certain speci
fied exceptions; prescribes the punish
ment of those who shall aid the infrac
tion of this provision; repeals the act to
amend and continue in force certain parts
of the act entitled " an act to interdict the
commercial intercourse between the Uni
ted States and Great-Britain and France
and their dependencies, and for other pur
poses.”
This will, in all probability, end Mr.
Macon's" restrictive energies'—to use a
phrase which Jefferson and nonsense war
rant.
Mr. Fulton, not being permitted to enter
the Capitol with his eloquence and ma
chinery, exhibited them to the populace in
the street. In firing off his harftoon-gun, the
said harpoon flew the wrong way, and pass
ed within three inches of the head of one
of his assistants, a corporal of the troops;
whom it would inevitably have killed had
it Kruck him. In plain truth, Mr. F. fail
ed completely in his experiment, and Con
gress were fortunately saved from the dis
grace of setting apart their splendid
hall and a solemn day for the exhibi
tion of the most ridiculous " quiz,” and the
most miserable mess of “ fudge,” that
ever a philosophical projector displayed.
The bye-laws of the city forbidding the
firing of guns in the streets, and inflicting
a pretty serious fine for transgression,
some of the municipal officers attended
with pen, ink, and paper, to take down
the names of the actors In this glorious
scene of the " Freedom of the Seas,” in
order to lead to the introduction of these
champions of neutral rights, at the bar of
one of the neighbouring Justices of the
Peace!
Thus endeth Mr. Fulton's first “ Lec
ture" at the seat of government, " accom
panied with models and demonstrations."
Freeman't Journal.
Slo^fin— Little Sarah, Eldridge, Alex
andria ; Flora, Gorton, do. Phebe, Rhode*,
Plymouth, (N. C.) Fame, Walden, New-
York ; Alonzo, Westcott, do. Minerva.
Bllven, Newport; Hannah and Nancy,
Wardwell, Bristol.
• CLEARED,
Shift— Fame, Gardner, Havana.
ScAooaer—Topaz, Talbot, Plymouth,
(N.C.)
Sc hooner— Minerva, Rhodes, Alexan
dria.
i7~At the electioneering campaign now
advances, our friendt are detired to for
ward their piecet at an early hour. Unless
this it done, it will not be possible for us,
C considering the scantiness of our help,)
to gratify either their withet or our own.
Whatever it in type mutt be publithed, or
it it to much a dead loss on our hands
Pieces forwarded at an early hour shall
meet with prompt and respectful attention.
At Taunton, on the 23d uIL Mrs. Jr hu
sh a Hodcks, in the 76th year of her
age, relict of the late Captain Abijah
Hodges. In the variras discharge of her
religious, social and moral duties, she was
an highly exemplary character. In her
death her children have to mourn the loos
of an affectionate mother, and the neigh
bourhood a kind friend.—" Blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord."
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American Marine
TORPEDOES AND HARPOONS.
From Washington, February 19.
PORT OP PROVIDENCE,
Marc* 2, 1810.
ENTERED.
Stools—Shepherdess, Bliven, Newport;
Two Friends, Wood, New-York; Provi
dence, Currie, do.
STATIONARY.
Superroyal, Royal, Medium, Demy,
Foolscap, Letter and Draft Paper; Pen
knives,Quills, Inkpowder, Inkstands, Sand-
Boxes, Wafers, Pocket-Books, Pencils,
fee. fee.
FRESH FLOUR.
Amasa and William H. Mason
T_T tVE just received, now landing, from
the Schooner Minerva, 500 barrels of
superfine Alexandria FLOUR, which they
offer for sale on reasonable terms for cash
or approved paper.
They i have alto in Store,
St. Petersburg clean Hemp,
Russia Iron of a superiour quality,
Ravens Duck,
Hyson and Souchong Teas, on liberal terms.
FOR -ALEXANDRIA,
i THE Sc hwn«r MINER-
W *M Ba *l * n “bout a week.
For Freight or Passage, ap
■MIiMKn ply to
AMASA and WILLIAM H. MASON.
WTio want to fiurchate.
Stone Lime, Potatoes, Apples and Cider,
for which cash will be paid on delivery.
March 2, 1810.
GREENE and CARTER
Will well at their Office, TO-MORROW,
3d instant, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
ONE Thousand lbs. of best Smyrna Rai
sfos, in Frails ;
4 Bales of Corjts,
8 Bags of green Coffee,
40 Boxes of Chocolate,
20 Bolts of Ravens Duck,
20 Kegs of Ginger,
5 Bales of Upland Cotton,
1 Pipe of Spanish Brandy,
1 Hhd. of Rum,
Furniture, &c.
March 2, 1810.
WOOD AT AUCTION.
WILL BE SOLD AT PUBI.LCK AUCTION,
On SATURDAY the 10th of March inst.
if fair, if not the next fair day, (Sunday
excepted,)
Blank Books ruled and bound to any
pattern—Old Books re-bound.
Wanted, a Journeyman Book-Binder.—
One whois a workman, may receive con
stant employ and liberal wages, by apply
ing to JOHN BREWER.
N. B. None but a good workman need
apply.
March 2, 1810.
COTILLION SCHOOL.
THE foomtu COTILLION SCHOOL
X will be THIS AWNING at Mr.
Smith's Hall.
March 9, MIO.
" A French privateer is said to be com
mitting depredations oq thy coast of thia
inland, to windward of thia She is stated
to be a remarkable fast sailing schooner,
and plunderKand destroys 1 every thing she
takes. Report this day says she has lately
taken and plundered a valuable laden
American vessel from the eastward, but I
cannot discover the source of the report,
and presume it to be groundless.
" The United States brig Vixen arrived
here the sth, and proceeds to New-Orleans
to-morrow.
Ship Isis, Donnison, of this part, was left
at Cadis January 3.
Ship Neptune, Staples, 83 days from Ice
land, is below,
T* HE WOOD on ten acres of woodland,
1 belonging to the Estate of the late
Chhistophkk Bnoirtf, of Smithfield, de
ceased. Said land lies within four and a
half miles of Providence, and is covered
with a very thrifty growth of Chesnut and
oak, of suitable sizes for ranging timber.
It will be sold in one acre lots, on a liberal
credit, and the purchasers allowed until
the first of April, 1811, to get the Wood
off—Sale to commence on the premises at
two o'clock in the afternoon.
as complete an assortment as was ever of
fered in this State, consisting of Legdgers,
from one to seventeen dollars; Journals,
Day, Waste, Invoice, Record, Letter,
Note, Receipt, Bank, Memorandum, Cy
phering and Writing Books of various sixes.
'l' HAT he has removed to a Store a
* little south of the Baptist Meeting-
House, lately the Dwelling-House of Mr.
Thomas Arnold, Cheap-Side ; where those
who are in want of Books, Stationary, or
Binding, are respectfully invited to call.—
Having lately received a large addition to
his former Stock, he is now enabled to
offer for sale a very handsome assortment
of Books, in the different Branches of Li
terature.
SCHOOL BQOKS
of every kind, by the groce, dosen, or sin
gle.
Arw- Tori, February 26.
Extract of a letter from Havana, dated
FLOUR.
BLODGET 8? POWER,
Offer, on accommodating terms,
THE Cargo of the Brig Industry, Capt.
Gladding, just arrived from Akxan
tria, say
900 Bbls, of fresh superfine Flour.
March 2, 1810. St.
REMOVAL.
JOHN BREWER
Informs his Friends, and the Publick,
Executrix on said Estate.
March’S, 1810,
SAMUEL ARNOLD, Attorney for
Elizabeth Brown,
BLANK BOOKS,
BOOK-BINDING.
the Sth inst.
I CIRCULATING LIBRARY—*,!
Book and Paper-Hanging Store.
HUN-TOM and Jtm/lOMT,
•At the State lately occupied by ’•«
DCARBOMG
AVE established a CIRCULATING ,1
LIBRARY—BOOK and PAPER' -
HANGING STORE. , T
The Circulating Library has bee* con
siderably enlarged. To Mr.
Catalogue they have added two thousadi
volumes of Novels, Romances, History,
Magazines, Ac. TTieir Library has been
selected from several others, lately pur- <
chased, and the collection of Novels and
Romances is extensive. Every new work
of merit will be received for circulatfas *S
soon as published—Books loaned on rtm
usual terms.—A Catalogue will shortly W
printed.
/’or safe ae above,
A well chosen assortment of BOOKS ha
the various branches of iiteratuMw'bhflL *
SCHOOL BOOKS of every k 1 ndwwiny
wanted, by the dozen or single, 'll m one
which are Alden’s Ist, 2d sad 3d Part*
Webster’s Spelling Hooks, Dabol*s Arft-h
-metick, Morse's Geography, Murray’s In
troduction, Reader, Srquel and Grammar*
Testaments, Bibles, Bcc.
1 he ST ATIONARY Department Is tar
nished wi<h et erv article usually called
tor, as Cap and Pot No. 1 and 2 WNUow
; best {English Wove, hat-pressed*
gilt and Common Letter do. elegant n-nl
common Penknives, imported QuiHaEM&f
Powder, Waflers, and beat English
Pencils.
Al*o far eale, Ar
FAMILY BIBLES, with and withtgft
Plates, elegant and common editions, at
various prices. SEAMEN’S BOOKS, a»
Bowdhch's Navigator, American Coast
Pilot, Ac.
Their assortment of PAPER HANG
INGS consists of several thousand rolls of
imported and American patterns. Lately
received from Hartford, (Con.) one thixr
sand rolls of the most fashionable figures*
with wide and narrow borders, which can
be sold unusu illy cheap A variety of low*
priced figures, from 2s. to 3s. per ruik
Litteral discounts to wholesale purchasers*
March S, 1610. fis.
~’ FOR SALE, ~“
On ter me very accorumtdating',
ABOUT seventy acres of LAND, ad
joining the farms of Messrs. Seth
Hunt and Daniel Evane, east pari of
Gloucester, about 12 miles from Provi
dence. One third part of said Lind is*
well wooded, principally with nak, chesnttt*
nid walnut, the remainder improved ns 1
meadow, pasture and tillage—all well
fenced. Any person wishing to punch is.
may know the tennis by calling on the sub
senber, in Providence, or Mr Daniel
Evans, near the premise r.
West-India Goods, or Real E ••ntr %
Providence would ba j t
• Atsisxc* is tlie temple of Minerva,
who wss reported to be the daughter of Jupi.
ter—bom without a mother—*l it 'Goddess off
Wisdom and liberal arts. She invented spin,
ning, weaving, making and colouring doth*
building of towers, forts and castles. Having
had her birth in Jupiter’s brain, a fort well
fortified, she lived in perpetual virginity,
*I ’ HOSE Gentlemen who have sub*
* scribed, or are willing tn sulu.cribe,
for Shares in •* Thr Provjdkncb Athe
naum,”* or *• Social Library and
HiADiNO-RroM," are requested tn meet
at the State-House in Providence, THIS
DAY, the 2d of March, 1810, precisely at
ten o'clock ii< the forenoon, for transacting
business very interesting tothat Institution.
March 2. 1810.
LOST,
ON Monday last, on Mr. CsuxckV
Wharf, a SILVER WATCH, mark
ed on the head of the pendant R. M. with A
Silver Chain and Key, and a large Finger-
Ring on the chain. Whoever has found
the same and will leave it at the Office of
the American, shall be handsomely re
warded.
March 2, 1810.
'T’HE Subscriber wants a Ten
-K ant for his Farm in North-Provi
dence, to manage it nn shares.
JAMES B. MASON.
March 2, 1810.
State of Rhode‘lsland,
PaOVIDRMCB, SC.
Clerk's Office Suftreme Judicial Court,
Febraary, M, A. D. MIO.
\I7HEREAS ASklima SpkaoVK, of
»’ Gloucester, in the County of Provh
dence, Wife of Michael Sprague, hat
lodged her petitknUn said Office, praying
for certain reaspnstherein stated, that said
Court would pass a Decree of Divorce, ■
rendering null and void the Bond of Matri
mony subsisting between her and her said
husband:*— Notick la therefore hereby*
given to the said Michael, to appear, ifhe
think fit, before said Court, at the term
thereof, to be holdtn at Providence, with
in and for the county of Providence, on thn
third Monday of March next, then and
there to shew cause, if any he have, why*
the prayer of said petition should not be
granted.
W. R. DANFORTH. Clerk.
< Copartnership dissolved.
*T*HE publick are hereby informed, that
* the Copartnership of Jofut Harvcad,'
jun. and Atizabcth, his Wife, is this day
dissolved by mutual consentWe there
fore hereby forbid all persons trusting either
of the said Arm on account of ths other, on
any conditions whatever, as We aiw data*,
mined
ELIZABETH HaRWQQD,
March 3, MIO.
J .* 4 .‘* • ■ # J
T ’-W
Jllto for tale s
300 lbs. of Sheep’s Wool, W«-,t i :fjt
Goods, and Country Produce, for cash r»-
liberal credit, tu those who hi ihr
of paying their notes when due.
March 2, 181 a
NOTICE.
WALTER PAINE.
«u