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Whether Cook quitted his friends, or bis
frfcnds quitted him does not appear; but
in consequence of his information, 65 of
them against <4, who were not to be quit
ted by him, voted to postpone the di»-
cussion upon the question. These are piti
< ful shifts to prevent relieving the people
from the burthen of this destructive maa
sure. But they are determined to defeat
the bill for repealing the non-intercourse if
possible. Every thing Is attempted togain
time- they make hng, tiresome, and dis
gusting speeches. When they are at a
loss to know what to say, they drink wa
ter—and in the course of one of their long
I _ talks, they will drink as much water as a
\ hay fed horse in a day. They talk
about injuries done us by foreign nations—
L the beauty and wisdom of the embargo
- and non-intercourse—and the great good
A those measures have produced. One of
i the orators exclaimed “ Have they not
t developed our resources?” I know not
what idea be could have Tad—they cer
tainly have developed our want of re
sources. For additional taxes are to be
laid, and four millions borrowed, or the
* wheels of government must stop. Not one
of them pretends that there is any prospect
of continuing, the non-intercourse after tha
end of this session.. They well know the
Senate would not agree to it—Unit they
seem as if they chose to keep it on to have
something to talk about. When they are
asked why it is not as well to repeal it at
this fime as to let it expire with the session,
they shake their heads, look wise, and say,
because the federalists, will laugh at us,
. and ask what good it has done.” And
there seems little doubt of the fact, that it
would long ago have been repealed if it
had not been foe apprehensions of this na
ture.
** P. S. The House have just taken up
the . question and* voted to adhere—67 to
58. So the bill h lost, and the non-inter
coursc remains until the end of the ses
sion!**
■ April, 9.
FROM CANTON
We have been favoured by Captain
Brum, of the Chinese, with the following
memorandum
“In passing Lintin, we observed five
Portuguese ships of war, (fitted from Ma
cao,) blockading a squadron of Ladrone pi
rates between Lintin and Lanton, it was
said the squadron consisted of nearly 300 sail
of Junks. The Chinese at Canton were
. making preparations to go against the La
drones, having built about fifty large Junks,
which together with their former fleet, and
the equipment of the Nancy of 20 guns,
and the brig Elisabeth, Captain Magee,
(an American,) of 18 guns, which vessels
the Chinese purchased, It was expected
they would he able to guard the towns in
the vicinity of Canton, and protect the
chop boats that piy with cargoes from
place to place. The Ladrones have re
cently destroyed several villages in the
vicinity of Canton, and generally put their
inhabitants to death ; they also have avow
ed their intention of taking Canton, as soon
as the shipping had left Whampoa—but
it was generally believed they would not
attempt it.
” Many of the officers of the English
East-India Company’s military in India,
bad arrived at Canton, having left their
regiments through dissatisfaction. Some
of which applied for passages to America
in the Chinese. The differences which
existed between the English and Chinese,
owing to the expedition against Macao, un
der Admiral Drury in 1808, was settled in
November last and (h«it* trade was going
on as before.
of a favourable change, the military authori
ties were giving orders to confiscate Ameri
canvproperty at St. Sebastians ;—nnd by
from Naples, of the Ist, we find that
similar measures were taking there.”
Thus a new and shameful instance of
French perfidy is added to the list, already
almost infinite.”
BOSTON, April 9.
A dreadful accident occurred at Liver
pool on the 15th of February, at the Parish
Church of St. Nicholas, a few moments be
fore divine service ; the keystone of the
toWer gave way, and the N. E. corner
thereof, comprising the N. and E. walls,
with the whole of the qptoe came down,
•nd with a tremendous crash broke through
the roof, falling along the centre aisle, till
it reached near the Communion rails, and
jts fall, carrying whh it the whole peal of
bells, the W. gallery, the organ, and Cler
gyman’s reading desk, totally demolished
them. Many of the congregation were
buried in the ruins, 19 of whom were dug
out dreadfully mangled.
FRENCH PERFIDY.
. Extract if a letter from London, Janua
ry, 23, [Evening.]
On ’Change, I received a letter from
Paris, (of the 16th instant,) which says,
Th* following is an extract from a Lon
don paper, called “ The Day," a violent
opposition print:
Londom, January 20.
We have repeatedly alluded to the de
spatches found on board a vessel bound
from France tn America, and transmitted
fro our government. Their contents have
” Whilst the civil authorities gave us hopes
. .’W T ■ v..-
fT .* t■ r ’ - A * ■ ■’■ u**nF*''
now transpired, and they are found to re
late, as we stated we expected they would,
to a treaty proposed to the government of
the U. States, the articles of which had
been drawn up by General Armstrong, and
M. de Champagny. It appears that the
French government, availing themselves
of our differences with America, and the
dismissal of our minister, consented to make
such concessions as could not fail of grati
fying the pride, whilst they tended to pro
mote the interests of the American nation
No doubt, therefore, can be entertained of
the line of conduct which the latter will
adopt, should a copy of the intercepted
despatches reach the President before an
attempt to settle our differences has been
made. It is probable that several copies
were sent by different vessels, but it idbot
likely that the latter will be able to elude
the vigilance of our cruisers. The de
spatches consisted of three distinct inclo
sures. The first was addressed to Mr.
Madison; the second, to his Secretary,
Mr. Smith; and the third, to General
Turreau, the French Ambassadour in
America.
This statement which has been com
municated to us through a most respecta
ble channel, proves that all the "reports
spread concerning the conclusion of a de
finitive Treaty between France and Arne
rica are false. Terms, it is true, ha vs been
proposed, with the concurrence of the
American Minister, but they have not ye’
received the sanction of his Government,
to whom they are most probably unknown
They have been submitted, we understand,
to Mr. Pinkney, but undoubtedly attendee 1
with proposals from our own Administra
tion which may over-balance those of the
French Emperour. America, notwith
standing the extent of her territory, an<’
the increasing numbers of her population,
is so weak a power, that it is truly aston
ishing its friendship should be so assiduous
ly courted by the two mightiest nations in
Europe. The present unexampled state
of the political world ; her situation, which
places her beyond the reach of Napoleon’s
armies, and the very weakness of her navy,
which creates neither jealousy nor appre
hension among us, but above all, her system
of neutrality, have contributed to raise her
to a pitch of momentary greatness, which
will cease as soon as she shall have de
clared herself. She now stands the arbiter
between the conquerour of the European
Continent, and the Queen of the Seas, if
she join us, she merely loses that fleeting
and useless dignity, whilst she retains her
independence and commercial prosperity.
If she embrace his cause, she must shortly
sink into hh slave, resign all her trade and
navy into our hands, and witness the deso
latioo of bar cities, and the destruction of.
her barbonrs,
We have, sometime since, submitted to
the consideration of our countrymen sun
dry arguments why we deemed it apparent
that it was the indefatigable, uniform and
steadfast design of our democrats to estab
lish a monarchial form of government in
this country. Their disposition to increase
the power of the Executive to a degree
greater by far than some of the Kings of
Europe; their unbounded and unshaken
confidence in the person who is raised by
their arts to the Chief Magistracy of the
nation; their marked partiality for the
worst of ruffians, Bonaparte ; their acqui
escence to the most sanguinary and ty
rannical laws, under whose dominions the
very name of liberty was a burlesque;
the temper and tone and open confession of
those Editors who have espoused their side
of the question, have all been distinctly
stated for the reader’s consideration, as
symptoms of a monarchy fa embryo. We
will now add another proof which to us, con
sidering the zeal and alacrity with which
it has been advocated and carried on, sa
vours strongly of monarchial attachments.
We will begin by stating the grand distinc
tion between a republican government and
a monarchial one, and which it is the du
ty of every one who has sworn to support
the constitution of our country, to preserve
inviolate. The right oj electing our own
officers, it a right enjoytd in if purity on
ly in republican governtnentt. A man, by
mingling with the common mass of the peo
ple at*seated intervals, and being elected
by them again to office, furnishes where the
suffrage is free '.he, strongest of all proofs
that his political actions correspond with
the will of the people. Whenever power
is' abused in republican governments, the
people have a free and easy method of ap
plying a remedy by the election of some
rev person to office, who possesses more
their political confidence. In short, a
republican government, without election, is
<!•* r.right nonsense, s thing which cannot
possibly exist, ft follows then that any
means adopted to prevent this free suffrage
in our citizens, deprives a republkk of its
greet and characteriatick benefit, and leads
us to elect to not men congenial to,,
but absolutely hostile to our wishes. In
ptocess of time election thus abused, thus
turned from its natural purpose, becomes
a curse Instead • blessing which the
people are induced quietly to surrender
Protofbenre,
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1810.
up when they find it capable of such gross
Misapplication—when they find that they
have elected men to office in whom they
never had any confidence. The evil which
makes elect ion coutemptible, results from
those artifices by which we are coeened
into the choice of a man to office inimical
to our wphes. When this is done our fel
low-citterns are disgusted with the right of
election, and ready to adopt another sub
stitute.
In France, that inexhaustible fountain
of all democratic^**examples, as soon as
the government assuihed a democratick
form, so soon did the jacobin societies at
tempt, and finally succeeded in influencing
the right <f election. They at last became
more formidable than the representatives
of the people, who administered the gov
ernment, and dictated their own measures,
chose their own mrn and compelled them
to pass laws of their own enacting. They
attended in the gallery of the halt where
the convention sat, and overawed all deli
beration. They elected to the government
of France alternately a Robespiere and a
Ma rat, from wljost bloody tyranny the peo
ple wearied with such democratick bless
ings. sought repose at last under the miH
monarchy of Bonaparte. They found that
the right of election under such a tyranny
was worse than an hereditary monarchy,
and they adopted the latter as the lesser evil
of the two. From this example, so recent
• before our eyes K we request onr country
men to pause and determine for them
selves this question, whether all societiea
instituted fbr‘ the purpose of influencing
the right of election does not aerve to pave
the way for monorchia! eatabliahmenta ?
Whether they are not built on the aame
basis with thoae which deluged republican
France in blood, and made even the mon
archy of Bonafiarte a blessing ? Whether
they will tamely confide in thoae who con
federate and adopt measures which deluged
one refiublick in blood and eatabliah-d a
monarchy, and may now by the same
means eatabliah another f
The True American Union Prox.
PROX OF
General Officers Jbr 1810.
HIS EXCKLLXNCY
JAMES FENNER, Esq,.
goyehnour.
THE HONOURABLE
SIMEON MARTIN, Esq.
lieutb ha Nf- g orehgo u a.
SENATORS.
MOSES UPPITT, Esq.
, OF PROVIDENCE.
IAMES RHODES, £s<u 4. .
OF WARWICK.
DANIEL BABCOCK, Esq.
OF HOPKINTON.
•RICHARD STEERE, Esq.
OF SMITHFIELD.
WILLIAM WATERMAN, Esq.
OF JOHNS TON.
WILLIAM REYNOLDS, Esq.
OF BRISTOL.
JOHN COOKE, jun. Esq.
OF TIVERTON.
OLIVER GARDNER, Esq.
» OF NORTH KINGSTOWN.
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER, Esq.
- OF NEWPORT
JEREMIAH BROWN, Esq.
OF SOUTH-KINGSTOWN.
SAMUEL EDDY, Esq.
SECRETARY
JAMES BURRILL, jun. Esq.
A TTOR NET-GENERAL
CONSTANT TABOR, Esq.
GE NERAL-TREASURER.
* In the room of John West cotti Esq.
who declines serving.
ii
MASSACHUSETTS SENATE.
We are satisfied, from the returns of
votes, that at Ike commencement of the
ensuing session, the Senate will be com
posed of twenty federal, and nineteen de
mocratick Senators. The vacancy is in
Bristol district; where, we lament to state,
the scattered federal votes in one town
wduld have elected the other federal can
didate. We anticipate there will be some
di' « ilty in organizing the Senate; and
unni it is organised, the business of the
State cannot proceed, nor can the votes for
Goverjrour, be opened or counted.—
This will only happen should the House
be democratiek ; and the vacancy in the
Senate should be filled nr the democratick
c.'tudidatd. In that event, tfye Senate will
be equally divided twenty to twenty. The
party then which permits one of the Mem
bers to.take the chair, will become the mi
nority ; as the President cannot vote unless
when the Senate is equally divided. If the
House should be federal, and the federal
candidate in Bristolelected, there will be
no difficulty in the organization ; as the
Senate then, exclusive of the President,
wilt be twenty federal to nineteen demo
crat iek.
Front the above facts It will be seen,
that th* federal towns are called upon by
•■very principle of patriotism, and are--
gard for the dug despatch of publick busi-
h -» 7 f s' , '.v ■' f <
nets, to do their duty* in the choice of Re
presentatives. Centind.
THE Subscriber wishes to let the front
ROOM over his Store, being one of
the best -.tands in thia town for an Attor
ney’s Office—at a low rent.
He hat on hand, at utual,
A general assortment of ENGLISH
GOODS, suitable for die season— cheap
at utual.
JOHN R. CARPENTER.
Ao. 8, Market-Square, >
April 13, ISIQ. J
“ Revolutionary officers, whose white
hairs and scarred bodies, bear testimony to
tlpir hard duty in the service of their coun
try, have been branded with the name of
'lory, by young men, who were not born
when the persons they stigmatize were ex
posing their bodies to the point of the Brit
ish bayonet. Men who have not resided
fotoyears in the country have been heard
the epithets of Tory and British
Partisan, against those veteran soldiers,
who when England was endsavouring to
rivet her chains on us, stood in the breach,
and faced the flash of the British cannon.
The term has been applied to men who
marched at the side of Washington in the
most disastrous days of our dubious war
fare—against men who, in the face of a
superiour army, without clothing, and
sometimes without food, in the hour of tri
bulation, and, in the moment of peril,
breasted the shock of war, and stood un
appall’d amidst the din of battle. Against
men, equally superiour to British violence
and British corruption.
. “The authour of these remarks has
heard at the polls of an election in New-
York, Edward Dunscomb, an old Ameri
can officer, called Tory, by a boy of six
teen—He has heard, in what is misnamed
the republican party, a baker, who was
during the war a sergeant iu the British
army singing the praises of liberty, and
challenging men for Tories, whose ances
tors died fighting by the side of Washing
ton on the Plains of Monmouth, and under
Greene, at Eutaw.”
The returns of votes from 387 towns in
Massachusetts, give Gerry a majority
of 1888.
The following unquestionable facts are
stated by a writer in the (N. Y.) Orange
County Patriot.
LOT AT AUCTION,
To be Bold at Publick Auction, on SA
TURDAY, the 26th of May next, at 12
o’clock, A. M.
A LOT OF LAND, containing about
one acre, with a Dwelling-House and
other Bui’dings thereon standing, situated
in North-Providence, adjoining the land of
Nicholas Brown, Esq. formerly owned by
Mr. Abner Salisbury ; about one mile from
XVeyboefPt Bridge. Conditions will be made
kmffito at the time and place of Sale.
W A. DRAPER, efaftoffrer.
April 13, 1810
In this town, on Sunday morning last,
by the Rev. Dr. Gano, Mr. Edenezer
Frothingham, of Boston, toMiss So
phia Smith,daughter of the late Captain
Simon Smith, of this town.
The French privateer schooner Le Revenge
tie Cerf, Captain Bonne, of put
into this port on Thursday, cruise, in
order to get a respite from her ” useful la
bours” in “ burning, sinking and destroying.”
We understand that she has made several cap
tures, and that she has now on board a valua
ble quantity of dry goods, plundered from cap
tured vessels. Whether these vessels were
all, or any part of them Americans, will proba
bly never be known, as the ocean, on the new
French principle, like the grave, hides all its
secrets from the publick eye. It is asserted,
however, that all the vessels captured were
Spaniards —Le Revenge de Cerf, is a small
pilot-boat built vessel, mounts but two or three
small guns, and has afout forty men. '
Brig— Economy, Smith, Alexandria.
Schooners— Minerva, Potter, Alexan
dria ; Murre, Brattell, Havana; Lydia
and Margaret, Arnold, East-Greenwich ;
Stephen Fulford, Fagan, Plymouth, (N. C.)
Sloops— Becca and Betsy, Pearse, Bris
tol ; Eliza, Currie, New-York; Friend
ship, Bradley, Savannah; Rolla, Earle,
Charleston; Alonzo, Westcott, New-York.
CLEARED,
The ship Pntterson, Pierce, from this
port, has arrived at Savannah. In two or
three hours after anchoring in Savannah
river, she was struck with lightning; her
mizen-mast was shattered to pieces, and
sotge of her crew were knocked down and
stunned by the shnek.
• Charleston, March 27.
On his pa-sage from Canton to Liver
pool, Mr. Hugh Harris, of Newport,
aged 23 years. He has left an aged mother
and sisters to mourn his loss.
kmerkan marine lijrt.
PORT OF PROVIDENCE,
At Hartford, (Con.) on the 2d inst. Miss
Maria Kjlbourn, daughter of Captain
Samuel Kilbourn, aged 18 years.
Sloop— PoTy, Brown, New-York.
jßarrteb,
TO LET.
ENTERED,
April 13, 1810.
COTILLION SCHOOL.
T HE tkntb COTILLION SCHOOL
will be THIS HKHJV7HG at Mr.
Smith’s Hai l.
April 13, 1810. •
State qf Khodr-Itland and Providence
Plantaportt.
Apmf I. 10, 1810.
THE Creditors of Mask Stbmhb, of
Providence, In the County of Provi
dence, Merchant, are hereby notified V>
appear, if they shall think fit, at the Gene
ral Assembly to be holdrn at Newport, on
the first Wednesday of May n«xt, the 6 and
there to shew cause, if any they may feat ti
why his petitfan for the benefit r< an act,
passed I* Jane, 1786, entitled, *• An Act
for the Relief of Insolvent Dakota,” wnht
nm to be granted.
SAMVEL EDDYf *cVy.
MOLASSES AT AUCTION.
THIS DAY, ft iday, April 13, at Mr. Cy*
rus Butler’s Wtyrf, the cargo of the
Scho-mer Mur re, Prince Lovell, Master, *
Irom Havana, consisting of
XTINEIY-ONE Hhtls. } superiour re- "
X 41 Tierces, C tailing MO-
6 Barrels, } LABSES;
Anti 3 Barrels of COFFEE.
Conditions of Sale will be liberal.' I
and commence at 10 o’clock in the forenoon. «
Alao, at \2 o'clock, aa hbave%
THE SchoonerMUßßßE.
as she came from sea, bur
\yf-rrarMr , * len 8 2 tons, built of live oak ..
iilSUi • and cedar, sails well, and h "
an excellent sea boat.
B. 8c r. C. HOPPIN, Auctioneers.
April 13, 1810.
♦. FOR SALE BY
EDWARD DEXTER,
FOURTEEN Thousand Wt.of beat Por
to Rico green Coffee, entitled to deben
ture ;
25 Hhds. Molass< ,
150 Boxes of SpWmaceti Candles ■ <
A few Bales of Sea Island Cotton,
82 Bales of prime Upland Cutton. ~
58 Casks of fresh Rice, Ja
20 Chests oi Souchong Tea, 1 \
50 Boxes do. do. x
15 Chests of Ifyson do.
5 Ditto Young Hyson do.
5 Ditto Hyson Skin do.
50 Demijohns,
30 Quarter Casks of Malaga Wine, of an
excellent quality ;
Madeira, Lisbon and Teneriffe do. per '
Pipe or less quantity;
50 Barrels of Prime Pork,
12 do. of Beef,
A nine inch Cable, and a number of sa
cond-li nd Sails;
A quantity of Carolina Pitch, Tar and
Flooring Boards. • '
April 10, 1810. tf.
COTTON AND RICE.
*T»WENTY Biles of UPLAND CO’F-
TON, ten Casks of Hit E. of a good
quality—lot sale cheap, andon accommo
dating terms, at the Store of
THOMAS JONES.
April 13. 1810.
For Sale, or to Let,
And possession givea the first of May,
A THREE story House, Barn and Hay-
Scales, at India-Point, now occupied
by Mr. Elisha Brown. For irrmu, apply
10 SAMUEL ALLEN.
Who haa for sale at hit Store, South End,
50 Hhds. of best Surinam Molasses, for
retailing;
30 do. N. E. Rum,
4000 Wt. of Cayenne Cotton,
7 Tons of Bar Iron,
3 do. Whale Oil, &c. *
April 13, 1810.
NOTICE. \
’T'HE Creditors of the Estate nf Pkleo
1 Wood, deceased, are informed, that
the Court have extended the time for re
ceiving the claims against said Estate, to
Saturday, May 26, 1810.
EBENEZER TIFFANY, 7 n ,
WILLIAM READ, J Com rt '
April 13, 1810.
THE Members of the WHARF ASSO
CIATION are notified to meet at
Messrs. B. & T. C- Hoppin’s Store-Cham
here, (Market Wharf.) TO-MORROW
the 14th instant, at lo o’clock, A. M. to
decide on such measures as mqy be laid
before them by the Standing Committee
and others, and to confirm the following
vote, passed at their last meeting:—
“ Voted, That at and after one hour from
the time appointed for any annual or other
general meeting, seven Members of this As
sociation shall be a Quorum.”
JOSEPH S. COOKE. SePrv.
April 13. 1810.
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