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if there be not bappioess ffinommunioo wjtb
| thee, hi the enjtymnfo ot tty *
the p:M»peCt of t»oU.»l2ing My fortK*
in a better alate, wrere-can Wfpphwta be
found in the universe ? If he be not happy
whose tine are pard’Ntcti, whose cense fem <
)• purified, whose feet are directed in the
W way to heaven, who then can be happy ?
It he be not happy whose nature hi reno
vnted, whose rebehlous passleorare sub
* dudd, Whose heart is attached to the truth,
who then i»f .If he be not happy whew
miod is tfuligh'.eoed, Wtyse wUI is inclined
tb goods whoet eoul fa» employed in the ecu
taiHpftKfen of dHine gfottes, whpthtn it?
It he be not happy who hat the bible fo? kto
. rale, the HUy Spirit for his guide, an£s
and mintatera tor his attendants,
fafe companions, heaven for bis end, yi
God himself for hb portion J ah, if suo»
not happy, then there b no
ktb only a name; and the whole uuivetac
ia,4rtwis'd to darkness and misery . Bar
> the cbrieunn doe* experience s joy, sad'
that of the potest, of the sublimett, of the
noblest kihd. M Hb soul dwell* at ease.
The peace of God. that puaseth all under-
Maading, kecpeth hb heart and mind. He
gforics even hi tribulation, and
hope of the glory of God.** The world
st «ift)io »*b» troubles may assail, enemies may
M'"*' qftpese, a thousand difficulties may arise ;
hpt when the soul prospers, all is well,
thine it is, O adorable Emmanuel, to
-keep the feet of thy saints; thine to sup
port them in the trying hour; thine to
iuspue them with holy joy ; and thine, at
last, toqrown them with eternal glory,
O consider, then, what an invaluable
blessing b spiritual prosperjiy. What is
every other kind of prosperity when com
pared with this ? What are riches, health,
fame, friends, power, grandeur, victories
or even human learning and splendid ta
lents ? These may elate, but not sanctify.
They give influence q* er others, but bow
little over their possessors 1 They rate high
in the estimation of men, but how insignifi
cant in the sight ot God! They ate as
biasing meteors ftfrlhe foment, but how
so<« extinct! While the prosperous Chris
tian is a sun that shines forever.. Ah ! hb
soul outweighs them all. Behold him, and
you sec more ff Gnd, of heaven, of true glo
ry, and of solid fiapp|pess, than in al! the
world beside. Learn, then, reader, to seek
this. You may be a Christian, it is true,
but nut a prosperous one. Be not content
with just being alive; with having a small
share of health; with just Shing able to
maty out that the vjtal spark exbt% though
it be low. Act with your soul as you would
with your body, that it may be.stroog, vi
gorous and hewttty. Lrve.epon the whole
some food the gospel affords; use the spi
ritual exercise it prescribes; avoid thecon
tagious air it prohibits, and watch against
those evils it point* put, and which patu
rally tend to prevent growth and strength,
energy and action in the best of services.
. . * Buck on Religious Experience.
Friday, 19ih SBPTKMBBK, 1810.
Happy, my dear friend, is the present
moment. Though separated by a few miles,
lhe feelings of our nature tell us we are not
yet strangers. How pleasing is the mo
ment devoted to a hasty sketch of our feel
ings co a ft lend. How pleasing to reflect
th-.it our whole souls can be poured into a
few lines of unlaboured scribbling. My 1
dear friend, the privilege is great; and we
will imptove it. It was not till yesterday
that 1 teachtd this place. It was evening,
and I was much fatigued. I immediately
retired to lodgings; and therefore had no
view of the town till this morning. You
wish a description of it. As yet I have
seen but little of it iqinutely. Something,
however, I have seen. The general site ot
the town is not.very beautiful. The land is
uneven, and the village wants concentra
tion. Few settlements of the kind are less
compact. At a few rods distance from the
centre of the town you find orchards, pas
tures’, and fields of grain. At ten limes
lhe distance you see streets crowded with
houses. At the former you hear the looing
of herds, and observe the patient toil of the
husbandman; and at the latter the din of
pavements and the mingled murmurs of me
chanical industry with her thousand hands.
But though the general situation is not the
most favourable, many portions of the town
are uncommonly pleasant. Northeast of
the centre of the town rises a hill to a great
. height of elevation. Its eminence above the
. centre is several hundreds of feet, and its
ascent very steep. Near the summit of
this are several seats beautifully conspicu
ous, and commanding extensive views of
the town. Descending from the summit
south, we find an extensive area nearly
level, and still far elevated above the river.
Here also are several very elegant seats,
out of many whose situations have more
thA> ordinary pleasantness. This part pro
mises hi be at some future time the most
S|>lendi<l and delightful section of the town.
Descending west from this elevation, we
FOR THK RHOna-ISL*AND AMERICAN.
ORIGINAL LETTERS
TO A FRIEND IN THE COUNTRY.
Ab. L
Providence, October 12,1810.
IBiacellanp.
The case was solemnly argued in March
last, and as in the opinion of the court, it
turned on the new question, of the effect of
the American and British Abolition Acts
on this species of contraband commerce,
when brought before a Court of Prise, the
case on account of its importance, has since
stood over for judgement. Several other
cases of American slave ships, have also
stood over as depending on the same gene
ral question.
Oq Saturday the judgement of the Court
wasefolivered by Sir William Grant, the
Master of the Rolls, nearly in the following
terms:
This was a vessel under American co
lours, with stores from Africa, captured in
December, 1807, in the WestTndies, and
carried into Tortola. The claimant pre
tended that she was bound tp Charleston,
South-Carolina, where the importation of
slaves continued to be lawful to the end of
that year ; bat having been detained on the
coast, and there being no prospect of reach
ing Charleston before the first day of Jan
uary, 1808, the period appointed for the
cessation of the Slave Trade m every part
of the United States, by a Law of the Gene
ral Congress, the Master of necessity, bore
away for the Island of Cuba, there to wait
orders from his owners-
It was contended on the other band by
the captor, that thb statement was a mere
pretence, and that in truth the original
plan of the voyage was a destination to
Cuba, which whs unlawful, under the Ame
rican laws, long previous to their general
abolition of the Slave Trade.
Admitting, however, the case so told, it
Was strenuously contended forthe claimant,
that a British Court of Prise had no right
to taka any cngaiestoce of Atsericawmuni
cipal law, an* as no belligerent right Of
rills country had been violated, the proper
ly ought to be restored to the neutral own
er* A series of precedents seemed to sup
port thb doctrine.
The ship weecondemned at Tortola, and
the enslaved Africans were, according to
our Abolition Apt, restored tn their free
doom; but the claimant appealed, and the
liberty of the Africans, as well as the pro
perty of the ship, depended on the issue of
this appeal.
** This ship must be considered as em
ployed at the time of capture in carrying
slaves from the coast of Africa to a Span
ish colony. We think that this was evi
dently the original plan and purpose of the
voyage, notwithstanding the pretence sei
up io veil the true intention- The claim
ant; however, who is an American, com
plains of the capture, and demands from
us the restitution of property, of which he
alleges that he has been unjustly dispos
sessed.
In all former cases of this kind which
have come before this Court, tha Slave
Tsudo ssoo MsUe tu con sitter si ipus very dif
ferent from those which belong to it now.—
It had at that time been prohibited, (as far
as respected carrying staves to the colo
nies of foreign nations,) by America; but by
our own laws it was still allowed. It ap.
peared to us, therefore, difficult to consider
tbe prohibitory law of America in any
other light than as one of those municipal
regulations of a foreign State of which this
Court could not take any cognizance.
** But by the alteration which has since
taken place, the question stands on differ
ent grounds, and la open to the application
of very different principles. The Slave
Trade has now been totally abolished by
this country, and our Legislature haa pro
nounced it to be contrary to lhe principles
of justice and humanity. Whatever we
might think as individuals before, we could
not, sitting as Judges iq a British Court of
Justice, regard the trade ia that light while
our laws permitted it. But we can now
••sert. that the trade cannot, abstractly
ipeaking, have a legitimate, existence.
Ox Saturday, the Lords Commissioners
of Appeals la Causes finished their
Sittings for the Session, and previous to
their adjournment, they gave judgement in
Various reserved cases of great importance.
Ood.ef them especially, which wo have
much pleasure in reporting, was of the
greatest interest to the friends of liberty
and humanity, and its decision was such n
we doubt not will give great end equal sat
isfaction in. this Country and America.
Case.pf the A media, James Johnson, master.
jsE fcinetyal tMWji'dßßMWcbl on- j
rrprise; and berk Hjfofr I a wew scene,
fttyuty of Wtaatton awvMßoßt is here
tost; and the diimisffiffim el taste, with 4
few exceptions, yicM to the. sober and un
‘tn posing proportions of simple utility. On
the west bank of the river the site is more
-*qtkabie. It has a very good degree of
pleasantness from thb quality, though its
eant of elevadoa forbids extreme beauty.
Jne street, re using in a right line from
the bridge, b particularly pleasing. On
the whole, many sections of the town are
highly delightful to the eye. Perhaps to one
longer familiar with the place they would
appear still more engagbg<—Brt enough,
my friend. 1 tire you; and confess am my
self fatigued. Retnesaberaie with affection,
assured I shall ever be resp—tfulfy ‘
your most cordial friend, PHELO.
i i emioreau
Front the London Courier of-August 4-
PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.
Official intelligencedias been received
that on the 10th June, (O. S.) the Russian
Commander in Chiot attacked the Grand
Vizier (Pehltvan Aga,) on the heights of
Schumla. After an obstinate resistance,
the Turks were driven under the walls of
the fortress, with the loss of three colours.
Our right wing having occupied a height,
the Turks made many unsuccessful efforts
to retake it. Oa the Uth they renewed
their attack on the height, but consamed
the whole day in desperate but unavailing
efforts General Lewh and Prince Teubez
koi formed their troops into hollow squares,
and compelled the enemy to retire to their
entrenchments with loss. During these at
tacks 5000 horse rushed upon our left wing,
but were repulsed and driven back upon
Schumla, We have lost 1000 men, and
Major General Potondopolo, who was kill
ed by a cannon baU. .The enemg's joss
Was uncommonly great.
, _Oh the 16<h June, a change of’ ftoitiun
by General Zysyre W, wear Warm, occa
furious attach on Mr troeps, who
enemy with the greatest bra ve
after a harjd fought battle of eight
lhe Tdrkish hordes to fty
to the fWess, with great loss. On the
18th June( General Lewis took Oshum. On
the 21st General Woinow fell upon a body
of 2000 foraging cavalry, and obliged them
to fly with the loss of 200 killed, and 3 offi
cers, and 100 privates made prisoners.
,i We congratulate the friends of the op
pressed African* on this important and
most satisfactory judgement. It gives a
death blow to the most active contraband
dealers in humasi blood oa the coast of
Africa, and removes oneM the greatest
obstacles to the effectual execution of our
own laws for the Abolition of the Slave
Trade.
“Wltyn I pay abstractly qpaktag, I
r Mat this ceffiaVy has ffn rjgty id
control any foreign Legislature thit may
thitffi St to dbeent from thb doctrine, and
to permit to its own subjects lhe prosecu
tion of this trade': but we have now a right
to affirm that piima facie the trade b ille
gal, and thus to throw on the claimants the
bui den of proof tha’t, in respect of' theta, by
the authority of their own bws, It is other
wise. As the case now stands, we think
we are entitled to say, that a claimant can
have nt right upon principles of universal
law, to claim the restitution in a Prise
Court, of , human beings carried as his
slaves. He must shew sntne right that has
been violated by the capture, some proper
ty of which he has been dispossessed, and
to which he ought to be restored. In this
case, the laws of the claimant’s country
allow of no right to restitution. The con
sequence is, that the judgement must be af
firmed.*.
General Suhoto, Who passed the Danube
tbe sth, to join the Servians, has taken the
fortress of Persa Puhnka.
** The vessels provided with licenses may
proceed direct to their port of destination
in France, without being liable to he ques
tioned for having been visited by English
men of war or privateers. They .r. ay even
laud in a port of England the whole, or
Notwithstanding the accounts from the
army, the Sultan is not dejected, but every
effort is making to reinforce. the Grand
Visier. A fleet of 16 sail of the line will
proceed with all possible despatch to re
ceive the troops coming from Asia. A
Vienna article mentions, that the Grand
Sultan had declared the emfiire to be in
danger, had hoisted the standard of Ma
homet, and called ufion all the true Mus
selmen to fy to arms.
On the 23d June, General Kamenskoi
took post on the road leading from Schum
la to Cohstantinofite.
It is said the Diet have made choice of
the French Prince of Ponte-Corvo (Berna
dotte.) as Crown Prince, or Heir Apparent
of Sweden, and that the choice will be an
nounced the 21st. Among the advantages
expected from this election, will be a loan
from the Prince of 8,000,000 of dollars, at
a low interest; and tha anticipated re
covery of Finland. a,
GOTTENBURG. August 20.
Intelligence has just been received that
the Prince of Ponte-Corvo has been elected
Crown Prince.
FRENCH LICENSED TRADE.
General Molitor has given to the Cus
tom-House Officers, M the rivers Elbe,
Weser and Jade, copies of Imperial In
structions respecting vessels having French
licenses. These instructions contain 11 ar
ticles. They prescribe, that every vessel
must have them ; and must sail from Ham
burg, Bremen or Lubeck, for Dunkirk,
Nkntz or Bourdeaux. Sixty francs per tnn
must be paid for a license. The 6th article
says.
fweign StnteHfgenre,
Received by an arrival at Salem, from
Liverfiool.
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 3.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 25.
WAR lAC TURKEY.
OREBRO, Augnst 17,
AFFAIRS OF SWEDEN.
Mr. Brown, the late Collector at New-
Orleans, and who absconded with a large
sum of the publick money, and escaped to
Jamaica and England, has arrived in
Washington ; and the National Intelligen
cer announces, that he “ came here volun
tarily and expressly for the purpose of sur
rendering himself to government.** fly” A
letter from Waahington on thia aubject,
aaya, ** Brown'a arrival haa oceaaioned
much afieculution: Some circumatancet
relating to hia afifiointment by the immacu
late Jefferaon art revived :--and “ there
by hanga a tale,'* which I hofie aome mem
ber of Congreaa will haveafiirit and fierae
verance enough to have unfolded. Cent.
PHILADELPHIA. October 13.
The Select and Common Councils were
organised yesterday. George Bartram,
Esq. was elected President, and Thomas
Bradford, jnn. Esq. Clerk of . the Select
Council; and Horace Binney, Esq. Presi
dent, and Samuel Holmes, Clerk' of the
Common Council.
( NEW-YORK, October 10. .
Captain Mariner, who arrived this morn
ing from Port-au-Prince, informs, that a
terrible battle took place there on the 24th
of August last. Christophe had collected
all his troops from the out posts, with a de
termination to take the town of Port>*»
Prince by coufi de main. He commenced
the attack at 12 o’clock at night of the
24th of August, and the battle lasted until
8 o’clock next morning. Hia force con
sisted of about 2500 of his best troops. Pe
tion met him with only 1500 ; but notwith
standing the superiority of Christophe io
numbers, he was completely defeated.—
600 of his men were killed, among whom
On Saturday last was committed to the
gaol in this city, under a warrant from
Jartes Bentham, Esq. James Warren Oli
ver, for robbing the Mail of the United
States. It appears that Oliver had been
employed in driving the mail stage between
Georgetown and Santee Ferry for some
years past, and that he was considered as
among the most confidential drivers on that
line. Three mails sent from this city on
the 6th, 22d, and 29th of August last, for
Fayetteville, were discovered by the Post
master at that place to be missing; as was
also the mail which should have reached
thia city on If th'September. 'These
facts having come to the knowledge of the
Postmaster in this place, he communicated
the same to Mr. Cotton, the
This latter gentleman, who displays a
highly laudable zeal in the execution of the
duties of his contract, from certain circum.*
stances, suspected Oliver to be the person
guilty of the robbery ; and as he had just
set out, under leave, on a journey to visit
his relations iw-North-Carolina, Mr. Cot
ton determined on immediately pursuing
him, and with the assistance of some of the
contractors and others he was enabled to
overtake him a few miles this side Raleigh,
in North-Carolina. When he was over
taken, about six or seven hundred dollars
were found upon him, a part of hte plunder*
He has since made a full coofessiou of the
facts attending his robbery.
The Barron De Kolii, who attempted to
carry off Ferdinand VII. is now in London.
It appears from French official papers,
that Bonaparte has sent nearly 400,000
men into Spain ; and 200 millions of francs
in money, (about 37,000,000 dollars.) He
appears to pay dear for his whistle.
The King of Prussia has disbanded one
half of the remnant of his army. He will
probably soon be disbanded himself, with
the other halt He deserves no better.'
The French Moniteur, with its usual re
gard for veracity, states, that in the affair
of the 24th of July, General Crawford lost
430 killed, 800 wounded, and 400 prison
ers ; but takes special care not to state .the
French loss.
The tale King of Holland has been ex-'
tremely ill at Toplits. A deputation from
Holland has repaired .to Paris and thank
ed the Emperour for denati<maUzing their
country, and making Frenchmen of them.
And Napoleon has given them a gracious
answer, in which he taiprtMts his disap
pointment in his Brother Vouis.
smß itart •» Mty may ihtak pMpor, of
their cargpt wHhoqt being qMstictted (tar
Jtovflsg louffitod ip England."
Licensed vessels taay enter the abMff
French ports loaded or in ballast; battheir
loading must ba of materials of the north,
useful to the marine, or with such produc
tions of the soil of Germany and Poland, as
are usually permitted to be imported into
France. They may load out with wines,
brandies, French manufactures 'and pro
duce, excepting grain and flour. A license
is valid only for one voyage. Vessels sail
ing from HaaabMg, Bremen or Lubeck
with timber, and articles fdr bhip building,
are permitted to apply to the French Cus
tom-House Officers respecting the disposal
of their cargoes.
CHARLESTON, October 1.
ROBBERY OF THE MAIL.
WASHINGTON, October 12.
SOMETHING EXTRA.
25p the jßaflf.
LONDON? August 30.
Extract qf a letter from an American gen
tleman at Kiel, dated \7th August, tp
morher in af the
latter place on the 19th, by a ship in 40
hours from the former,,
** There Is a now decree and a promise
.of anew system of oprrutions respecting
trade by the neutral flag. It is dated sth
August, and is to-take effect the Ist No- '
vembernext. It permits all importations
by neutrals into the Empire except manu
factured Goods, on paying the duties af
fixed to a tariff made fur the purpose, and
which I copied in my last, to which I refer
you.”
pend on American commerce for their
plunder, and that tbpy rarely attack a .
British vessel, as tbehr object is booty rather
than fighting.'. Autl to cap ths climax of
iniquity and impudence,, the very' goods
.plundered from Americans arc often smug
gled into our ports andeold to our citizens,
to the disgrace of outlaws and manifest in
jury to our revenue. The slave trade, eon
.trary to the l»w» of God and man, is still
carried on, and slaves are daily smuggling
into the southern States, in violation of hu
manity as well as oqr law*, We are hap
py to find by the papers from the south
ward, that the officers of government have
lately been rpused.frqm .their supineness in
this respect; that they are now vigilant in
the exercise of their duty ; and that ener
getick means are taking to prevent dis
graceful piracies <m our coasts, as well
as the smuggling of slaves into our terri
tories.
Last evening, between 9 and 10 o’clock,
a mors destructive fire occurred at Brook
lyn, opposite this city, than was ever be
fore witnessed in that village. It origi
nated in a Pottery,occupied by Mr. Secour ;
and consumed that building, together with
the extensive Store belonging to Joshua
Sands, Esq. a Bakery, occupied by Mr.
Robert Nicholls, and three or four small
buildings, occupied as offices or stores.
Mr. Sands’s store contained about one
thousand bales of cotton, and a quantity of
hides to the value of 15,000 doHars, very
little of which has been rescued. The
cotton and hides belonged to a number of
merchants in this city.
With the bakery was destroyed a small
qusntity of flour and about one hundred
loads of wood.
. A schooner lying at the wharf, loaded
with shingles, was several times on fire,
but by the asslscaooe of lhe floating engine
from thh city was preserved, after losing
about 100 dollars value of her deck load.
The Freeman’s Journal of yesterday,
says—’* We have seen a gentleman just
arrived from Vera Cnia, (Mexico,) who
informs, that the Viceroy of Mexico had
supplied the Governdur of Maracaybo with
money; anna and ammunitkm, for the pur
pose of resisting the rebels of Carraces,
whom it was detmmined to reduce to sub
mission. The Bulwark 74 gun ship was on
the eve of sailing for Spain with the depu
ties on board from Mexico to the Spanish
Cortes, and was to touch at the Havana
to take on board the deputies for Cuba.
The Mexicans bad despatched two ships
laden with guo-powdor, (manufactured in
Mexico,) as a present to the Spanish Patri
ots of the mother country, and bad sub
scribed 2Q 000,000 of dollars to ba sent to
them shortly.” .
■ On this subject, the Aurora of yesterday
sayaw" We have not, as yet, been able to
procure authentick returns of the number
of votes for the several candidates. Enough,
however, haa already been ascertained to
render it certain, that the federal ticket
generally has succeeded in the city and
county of Philadelphia* and county of Dela
ware.”
We copy the following from a North-
Carolina paper M show the effects of that
mighty blessing enjoyed in the touthem
pans of the United States; the inestima
ble advantage of slavery.
Wilmington, October 2.
About eleven years ago, a white man
came to the house of a free coloured wo
man, named Fanny Larrington, living on
the sound, in the neighbourhood of this
town, and requested her t 4 lend him «ome
The publick have long been acquainted
with the piracies which have bedn carried
on in our southern walers, by a set of
marauders who l pretend to commit their
depredations under French commissions;
It is well known that those vessels tiavq
been fitted out .in our own ports, and it is , *
thought that many nf them are owned In
whole or fa part by American citizens. It
is also well known that these vessels de-
were 2 Mawbafo, (Bass.aad Manne,) 2
j other Marshals were and taken
prisonsys.k-400 muskats were picked op
after mu battle. Prtioo’s loss was only
ab<ui 60 mgn. Five of Christophe’s barges
in attempting to go into the harbour of the
Mole, were attacked by 4 of Petion’s, com
manded by a lad of about 18 years of age,
who took 4of them. The other escaped.
PIRACIES AHD SLAVE TRADE.
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
FIRE AT BROOKLYN.
FROM MEXICO.
October 12.