The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-05-09 00:00:00, page 1

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No. 15, MiLL-STrERT.
Advertisements conspicuously inserted, at the rate
of 1 dollar and 50 cemts a square, for three weeks—
smaller one in the same propdrtion. °
Printing, in all its variety, executed with acuracy
and despatch. Orders ~cdpectficlly solicited.
Mens’ Superfine Fashionalle Beavers.
do. fro. with wide Brims.
do. Fashionable Castors and Plated.
do. Youth’s Black and Drab Beavers,
Childrens’ White and fancy colowred do.
These Hats are finished in a stile not inferiour to
those which areimported ; a few fine English Hats,
wnd one case best.—Also, 3 boxes Youth's bluck and
Men's felt Hats, made in Hartford, of a very super
your quality, and some dozens of « very cheap kind,
‘Toew very extensive assortment will
enable them to fumish every kind and price that may
de wanted—as
STORAGE for goods may be had by ap
plving as above. July 29, 1800,
RES!’BCI'FULLY mforms Ins friends, that he
has on hunl—
A quantity of excellent cedar Claphoards,
eedar Shingles, pine Shingles, Boards, Plank,
Joist, ke, ke. '
Which he will sell chicap, at his stand on SYER
WSURNE's Whart, Sov 15,
Havé just received Jrom the bést Jimericun Manufactures
v I CIRIR Sprivg’ sopply of ZeA7S ;
the assoriment is conpleted. These Hats are
made in the best manper, purposcly for this market ;
are warranted ineriour to none manufactured in
America, and not 16 crack or fade. As they were pur
chased 6n the most fovourable terms, they can be sold
cheaper than usual. -
JUST RECHBIVED AS ABOVE,
An additional supply of Paper Hangings
and Borders, among which are many s w fashiona
ble patterns ; few sets elegant drapery, and a variety
ot low priced Paper;.—,ﬂgo, An assortment of Sia
tionary : tmported Quills from 33 cents to 3 dollars
per hundred ; best foolscap No. }, puber ; common
and fime wove hot pressed letter do. ; nik powder ;
elegrant pen knives, lead pencils, wasers, &e. .
A few English Hats, as above. April 17.
Henry Y. Cranston & Co.
H A\VE just reccived, and offer for
sale onvery reasonable terms, at their JAwe-
Bont und Commission sloré—-94, TU.\!ES-STREB)’,
5 ﬁ;::cd()omdtg Gd?. of
10 H'ddo?;d proof W.L Rl_lhl.}
3 ha : superiour quality
5 I VE entire cargo of the ship Laure),
. from Tonningen, entitied to debeviure, eonsis
tog of the following articles eeme.y ;7 oo
g 2 Boxes and Cases Platillas Roy: (os,
12 Boxes brown Hollands.
*3O Cases and Bales Brivumiag,
25 Boxes Creas ala Morlaix.
24 Boxes Dowlas.
1 Box Shirting Linen.
T Box Arabias.
A 1 Box Handkerchicéfl,
16 Boxes Rouand.
‘34 Boxes Lestudos.
14 Cases BEstopillas.
4 Cases Cesarillos, .
' i Box red Platillas,
- Box Coutreo.
2 Buxes white Rolls.
48 Bn‘:ct Osnaburys. ;
45 galco bﬁﬁfmglwp.
4 Dales bugging Linens.
- 19 Baleés Heoden Linen. :
sfnples may be scen by applying ad above. -
Newport, April 4, 1810,
EARL @ ALLSTOWN, i LOPLZ,
DLEXTER, & MILES.
OFFLR FOR SALE,
N. B. He transacts Commission Business.
Those wha are disposed to fave r him in this
lne; may dependon his exertions in their be
halif.
No. 63y Thames-sreet,
HAS for sale—loo bls. Prime Pork war-
R ranted ; Gin, per Pipe. -
‘156 Bales Prime Upland Cotton,
94 . Caski. Rice, . '
170 Bbls. Flour,
22 Hhds. Tobacco, .
6 Mids Aams, ' : R o
40 Pipes Masou’s Gin, :
54 Boxes Brown, . > |
21 Do. White, } Huvana SUGARS:
117 Chests Souchoog Tea,
1V Do. tyson SKin, 50.
7 Do, Hyson, do.
64 Do. Bohea, do.
24,700 lbs. W. 1. and Batavia Coffee.
WIS [ T "
In addition to their former supply of Dry Goods
7 Cases India Silks,consisting of Crapes, Lastrings
and Sewing Sitks.
700 preees Blue Nankins,
320 Do. Compuny Yellow, du.
2 Cases Men's Sattin Beaver HATS.
Newport, April 25, 1810,
18 Boxes, now ope i o—Tor Sale,
Wantun & Rathbone,
LOPEZ DEXTER & MILLD,
AlsoeeAn assortment-of GROCERIES.
No. 8.
DANIEL SHELDON,
QN FUAVOURJLLE TERMS,,
JUSLEIL DBinlisso,
OFFER FOR SALE,
HATS,
April 25.
RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
\ I\IPORK‘:S the publick i gencral, and his friends
Ji particular, that he has opened a smahl-mssort.
ot of the most approved STATION .\.agk::um
- prising, among other, the following articles,
- Paper—<tookscap. pat, dettery gilt ond black
| - edged, of the various descriptions ;
~ Quills, from 75 10 25 cents, per bunch ;-
Pocket Books, from: 83 to g:ewch; ¢ ‘
Penknives, wn assorument ;
Backgammon Tables ;
Scales and Dividers;
Ink funda, Sealmg Wax;
Sund Boxes, Wafers, Ink in Cakes and Powder,
Shaving SGag!;M
Black Lead ils, &c. &e. &e.
Besides a variety of articles too numerous to mention.
.IiSO, FORSJALE,
The Gennine English Permanent Ink, for marking
Linen, and a constant supply of the celebruted thrce
slit metalick Steel Pens—all which will be sold kt the
Boston retailing prices.—CALL AND SEE,
Exchange and Lottery Offic.
o Newporty, Aped Yl IRB], % :
No. 118, Thames-Street,
Howland & Eddy,
OFFER FOR SALE; ON REASONADLE TERMS,
At their Store, No. 71 & 73, THAMES-STREET—
A General Assortment of Grucerics, comprising
every article in that Tine.
THEY HAVE ON HAND,
10 Hiwls. Molasses, and 5000 Bunches Onions.
“ b-iimawxsn_
wy. by the bl. orless quanti
e lhyxn’rea.l Spanish Cil....f,ny'
A qurantity of Cheese, suitable fo.« 3 amily use,
- They transact CoMMlssioNn BUsiNess.
These who are pleased to favour thew in this line,
may Jdepend on the utinost excrtions, o
Algo, Jusi Received.
A guantity of excellent Flax, and 12 box
es superiour Soup—which will be sold at reduced
pr-ecs, for cush.
Newpor(, Dec. 20. -
William Douglass, -
At the hewd ; Broad Street,
HAS FOR SALE,
ON E. hundred bushels Borden’s Grass
Sced.
70 bushels Herd’s ditto.
14 bushels Orchard ditto, :
10 bushels Red top ditto. |
1200 wi. Red cliver ditto.
ALSO, FOR SALE,
Alarge aeve rimeni of Groceries, dmony which are :
1200 wt. Souchouyg Fea, very cheap.
1000 wt, Coffee.
1000 wt. good Ratter, for family use.
J’ST RI.’(.'”BH’ED,
1400 wt. good broken Coffee, and selling 6 pounds
for a dollar. . '
Newport, March 14, 1810,
| :at Store, 91, 7 bames-street.
BL-L\JQ & So bo \\ Lo‘\\ Lch\
HA\" i, just received from N. Yoik,
a great variety of X
. HATS
Made of the best materials. *
Gentlemen’s Beaver, Casior, and Plated
HATS, of all shapes and sizes. Childrens’ HATS,
a great vanety.
The publick will find it for their intefest to exll at
the shove store—where they will find Hats of evedy
price, on the lowest terms, Apnil 11,
At their Livery Stable they will continue
to keep to let, a number of excellent Horses and
Carriages, equal to any ever kept for that purpose
in this town. = Ladies and gentlemen wio may he
willing to favour them with' their custom, shail ree
ceive every attention by applying or sending (o their
Stable. They have fleet horscs, which will be kept
for the purpose of carrying Despatches. Every l!x:-
vour will be gratefully acknowledced by
RICHARD BOAK & Co.
April 25. £
On the Ist duy of Muy, he will tuke into
copartnefship Mr. Witriam Mooxzey, when the
business, after that time, will be conducted wnder
the firm of RICIZARD BOAK & CO. who will keep
for sale, at their stand in Ba neystréet, a pencrul and
extensive assorunent of Saddlery, of every descrip.
tion—consisting of ladies’ and gentlemen's Saddles ;
brass and plated Harnesses ; plain and plated Bridles ;
horseman’s Caps-and Holsters ; Belts and Cartouch.
Boxes; Poetmas,aus and Suddlebags ; Whipspurs,
ko. &c. Trunks repaired ands manutacruréd nlp evee
ry size. Harnesses repaired and cleaned. Work of
every description doiie as übove, ut the shoriest nos
tice.
90 P
kienry Y. Grunston & Co.
HAVE FORSALR ON VENUY ACCOMMODA I .G TLUNS
At their Jiuciion Gnd Comuuesion Sicre,
‘ NO. Y 4, TUAMEISTER 1,
36 Dules Cottun,
10 Pipey Burcejona Brindy
1o Hhds, W, [ Rum,
25 Chests Campoy Tea,
50 Casks I'resh Ruisins,
. 30 Negs Ginger, '
25 Boxes Chocolate,
20 Keps Tobaceo, .
25. Boxes Soup, 3
10 Bbls. Pimento,
20 Bays Cofree,
. 5000 wt. Loaf Sugar.-
Newpert. Dec. 27. . @
R.*spe(-:qu.}' iworms his frieads and
the publick in genéral, the' he hma ve
meoved from bis former stand in Brow Lstreer, to s
shop in Borwel o 62, next to his Stsl e, and neer
the Sobbatariss mecangiouse. He also wishés to
requs® all thosc Who are inacbiéd o han, to muke
tmcdiate pavinent 3 and jikewiee those who have
an, demunds againct Lim,, to exhibit them o like
maliner, g .
New Statiorary Office.
+ Hay Seed.
JOSTIAL C SEAW,
Richard Boak,
NEWPORT, WLUNESDAY, mav 4, 1810.
© An jngenions avnotator has seized upon
one short parssvapiy o 5 indicating the motive
v which this * ploomy ricture of the affuiry
of our countin ™ was dedineted. He suys i
was 10 defer, or mitigare our Jutg by alarming
the honest part of our citizens.
lis titley, “ The Dangers of American Li
borty,” is a misnomer.—The whole scope ol
13 argument is to prove thie position, which
on the Thunksgiving evening of the sumne
vear he wrote i a private letier tb another:
frichde=that American liberty “ was gone ;
never to velurn,
If this was really the motive, (and as the
fairest in fm'?mr of the author’s intentions, 10
which it can be aggribed, 1 have the strongest
inclination 1o believe it) the performance was
ill adapted té the design-for the only possi
ble application to be drawn from it by a ration
al betug, would be, not cxcrtion but despair,
Every principle, every illustrution, evcry in
ference leups the mind irresistibly to the con
clusion, that the miseries of our condition
were be*ond the reach of council ; that the
virtwe und wisdoin of h coimtry were under
thie irretrievable dominion ef its vice and fol
ly ; and that there was nothing left among
the good and great of this nation, but to shew
with what a profusion of rhetorital flowers
they could strew the grave of liberty, and in
How maiy graceful varieties of attitude they
could bite their ehains. Its naturgl efiect
wus, not alarm, but convulsion,
It was not intended by its duthor for publi
cation. In the lctter to the fricod to whom
it hatl been communicated, he expressly says
that ¢ to be of value enough for the author to
own ity he must be allowed ¢me, must bes
tow on it more thought, search for farts and
principles in pamphlets and larger works; and
in short, make it entirely over again.”
I agree entirely with him, that it was not
of value enough for the author.to own it ; and
think that his friends wonid have proved their
affection for him, as well as their respect for
the puMirk,if they had si<wn more deference
to his opinion in this casc, and less eagerness
to spread abroud” their favourite temets.
Whether the pamphlyts or larger works; to
which alone in his temper of mind he would
haye resorted for facts and principles, would
have improved the complexion of bls work,
is not necessary to inquiré---if the only ob
jection against it werve its ,want' of value, I |
should neither complain of the editors, nor 1
present the above extracts to the meditations
of thée publick.—But it contains, upon a sub
je¢t deeply interesting to this country, princi
ples at war with reason, and assertions at war
wish fact. Had these been merely the errors
of Mr. Ames, | would have lamented in 'si
lence the indiscretion of his friends, in expo
sing them to the world, and suffered them to
perish by the natural decays of their own ab
surdity,~But they are not the wanderings of
Mr. Ates’s imagination.~lhey are the prin
ciples of a faction, which has succecded in
obtaining the management of this common
wealth, and which aspired to the government
of the Union. Defeated in this last object of
their ambition, and sensible that the enginc
by which they bave attained the mastery '
the state are not sufficiently comprehensivc ‘
nor enough within their control 10" wield t
machinery of the nation, their mext resort w -
to dismember what they coyld not sway, ana
2, “W is pretty enough te say, the republick com
mands, wnd the dmf ﬂ‘e ;‘cpuyuick dictates obedi
mTelmrt of every eitizen. This is system,
buy, is it gisture ! The' republick jy & creature of; fic
tion ; itis every body in the fancy, but nobedy in the
heart. Love, to be any thing, must be seloct and ex+
clusive. 'We muy s well talk of loving geometry us
the commonweafth." p. 398
4. * 15 there in human affairs an occasion of pro
fligacy, more shameless or more contagious than a
general election 7 Every Spring gives birth and gives
wings to \his efidemak mischigf. Then begins & sort
of tilluge, that turns up to the sun apd air the most
noxious weeds in the kindliest soil ; or to speak sti)l
nmore seriously, it is a mortal Pestilcnce. that beging
with ¥ottenness in the narrow.” - p 415,
5. ' Federalism was, therefore, manifestly founded
o mictate, on the suppesed existence of sulficieng
politreal virtue, and on the permanency s 4 authority
of the publick moiuls.” P 416
Vhese strains of panegyrick wpon repub
licks, and republican institutions, are extract
ed word for word from a dissertation upon
“ the Dungers of American Liberty,” writen
by Mr. Ames, and commuricated in Februas,
ry, 1805, to one of his friends, but never pub
lished unul after his déceuse, in this compila-
Lion. ' J
3. “ It is suid, that in repudlicks, majorities invaria
bly oppress mmorities. Can there be any real patri
otism 1 . Stute, which is thas filled with those who”
exeicise and those who sufler tyvanny ! But hew
much less reason has any man to love that coun:y. in
which the voice of the majority is counterfeited, or
the Vic.ous, ignorant, snd nec({y are the instruments
and the wise and worthy are the victims of oppres
sion ¥ p 413
1 "THERE is « kind of fatality in the affuies of
RRBUB LI CUA. that eludes the for:':?;zt of the wise as
mueh 45 it frustrares \be toils sucrifices of the
paitiot und the hero”
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A LRICAN PRINCIPLLS.
‘ ot
A RLVIEW
GF WORAS OF FISNER AMES.
NUMBER-lIL.
to form a new contederacy, to be under the
~glorious s of protéction. To
prepure the'p ‘ 80 übie
~horrent to the *lm of our
peoplesthe doctripes, with which this volunie
teems, where to be ushered into publick view,
whenever a prospect for ,a\eir favourable re
ception might appear. r. Ames, n writing
these papers, ant) others, published teore his
~death, disclosing not quite so clearly "¢ sys
tem of the parly, was a’ctl& wupder an anfiulse
o which Ae was Aimeelf not aware~But the
period of his ﬂ\hlppcnlng just at @ me
ment of great national difficulty and distress,
the chosen hour was concluded to have wrrive
¢d, when these theories might be circulated
with the greitest effect ; and when disgust at
our popular institutions, contempt “for oue
own country, detestation of France, and sube
serviency to Briwin, might be so mingled up
with the influance of Mr. Awes’s pame, that
the whole would Le swullowed by the publick
without examination, und ull gontribute to the
purposes of the purty. The proceedings of
the state legislature during the present year
have furnished ample proofs, ¢k at these pirine
cifiles have been at the root of their whole
system of measures. Itisalso a fact per
fectly well known that many of these "meuse
ures have been carried by reluctant yotes ;
that many members of the majority have
must unwillingly assented to them ; and on
one occasion when a single spirited member
presumed to have an opﬁ\ion of his own, he
was attacked in one of the presses of the fuce
tion, for during to \hink l}:u' himself. The
legislature of the succeeding year will be of
the same political party as tl‘}e last. They
will not be checked by a chief 11agistrate of
different opinions, and the coubt?' hps been
thretened with no equivocal anticipation of
what will be attempted, ¢ when the whole gove
ernment of the state should be united in one
joint effort, with other states, whose interests
and objects are similar to our own.” It i»
therefore a sense of duty to the country,which
enjoins a pointed attention to the tenets of
this beok, as well as to their practical effects
in the administration of eur affuirs. :
Mr. Ames (says his bio[grapher) was eme
phutacally a reprublican, Let his republicane
ism be tested by these extracts, te which a
thousand others of the same cast of character
might be added. The first extracts declare
thut the affuirs of republicks are governed by
a perverse fatality—=the second, t?:n itis ime
possible to love a republick—the third, that
there can be no such thing as patriotism in &
republick, and least of all in one like Qurse—
the fouith, that our annual elections are a
‘moral pestilence, thut begins with- rottenness
in the marrow—=and the fifth,that the federals
ism which formed gur national consttution
was manifestly founded on a mistake, in sup
posing the existence of political virtue. -
T'he reasoning ih the second deserve pare
ticular notice=—it is impossible to love the ree
publick ; because the republick is a ereature
of fiction ; und because love, to be any thing
must be sefect and ExcrLusive, Instcad of
the republick, let the word be our countryes
the argumem is precisely the same——our
country is a creature of fiction. Our coyntry
comprises the whole wution to which we bes
lung.--'fhc love of our cowntyy, if it be ay
u.inf, can neither be select nof axclusive : it
is the love of the whole commiwity, und
prompts to zcal for the welfare of Jl, vithout
distinction of party or of place. The su.j.
ment of the heart which disowns all love, bu.
such as is seclect and exclusive, is neither
congenial with republicanism por with Chrige
tiunity. Mr. Ames acknowledged the auihore
itv of him whose injunction to his disciples,’
was, “ but'l say unto you, LOVE FOUR BNEs
mil£s.”” Was this select or exclusive !In
truth, this principle of selection and exclusion
in the appli cation of our affections to the po
litica) relutions of society, is a pernicious er
rour of morals as well as of politicks., Mp,
Ames would have found no such doctrine in
Ciceto’s Books of Offices.—~And the conse
quences of this principle arc as inischievous
as its origin is contracted. It is the seminal
principle from which factivn takes its birth,
It 18 this select and erclusive Jove, which
breeds the whimscy, thut theve are scarcely
six hundred out of six millions, who look for
liberty wny where but upon paper. It shars
pens all the wiperitics of party spirit, and
makes federalists and republicans considep
one asother, not as fellow citizens having &
common interest ; but as two rival nations
marshalled inp hostile array aguinst cach other,
Had Mr. Ames, bit given bhimsell vme to
reflect upon his own laboars, he must have
perceived the fallacy of confoanding that sens
timent of social benevolence, which in our
country is properly denominated the Love of
the Republick, with thiat select and exclusive
Rection which belongs to the connections of
domestick life==Parental, conjual, and filial
love, no doubt is sclect and exclusive, yet its
iiv. itations are not in the pa<sion, but in the
objects. The love of the Republick, which
_is the love our cmmtz upon thé same gene
ral foundation of good will, expands with the
“extent of its object, gnd can embrace 1 whole
continent with as much ease as, a single city.
But like all the social virtuas it requires cul
‘ivation, and will not thrivé upon ridicule and
~ontempt.
E lm*:orn‘w passage is with regard to
orinciple, it more 5o than te fourts
' sxtract, in point of facth Wha: must be the
apinfon of respettable foreigners wlo shail
ead this terrible invective aguiust o shoual
clections i—And whst must be i qutpd‘ce,