The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-06-20 00:00:00, page 2

AMERICANS 1 jie political order the
Other demispaere bas reduced Spainto be the
vicum of perlldy and oppressiony, and that
pencrous country, conducted from one culame-
Ity 1o wnother, is aiready on the eve ot being
extingashed from the catalogue ol nations,
to ¢xXist only m the memory of men, and m
the anuals of heroism. The relations which
il now"imude us partners‘of her Tute, are to
Le ey or perhaps have ceased, because the
Pow s wulche overruns and - oppresses the
workdy has accelerated the sad catastrophe,
Whicn was to separate forever, one worlkd
frova the other, Euarope,astonished, is sa yet
Irnocant what 18 to beeome her fate, because
til now, shie fixed her eyes on America, des
tined to be the guirantee and the victim of «M
the conventions und treaties by which the
European cabinets have decieved themselves.
Ouraviolubie faith o the King, to our na
tive country, and to that religion we' in come
mon proless, has preserved the sword suse
peaded over Spuny, which Friance had un
:-hc'uhcd against her ; I)clieving thut the cene
quest of her arms wonld necessanily drooy
that of our opinion. Venezueluwus more im
mediate o the fcmcity of the usurper, and
surrownsed with waritinie settement of othe
cr nations ag'nated by different intcrests,
ouzht to frar more for her future fate, ought
to interest herself wore in knowing the des
tiny of Spriit—=she had more means to ob
tain ity and more motives for its preservation,
We have seen that neither our treasure, oul
filality, nor the heroism of brethfen, heve
been able to save them from the oppression
begun by perfidy, and confimed by the union |
of all the disorganizcd elements, conspising
against the poiiient existence of Spain. She
resolved o seperate from her fate, in order
t;pmw'n her awn, and 1o ofler wm asylum
| %fo\l]bw citizens ugiinst the evils that
ﬁvfd’a e them-\&'i"h such holy designe, «he
WK possession of we politicel inde
Such have been the Mncf!ﬂco which af
rected the conduct of the neighbours of Carac
cas the 19th April,when by an equal and shnul
taneous impulse they were' all hieard calling
out for a government that should watch over
their security and tranquility ; twenty foue
hours have been sufficient (o farm this, abol
ah the old government and consolidate the
new oue, without having been noticed—ehay
in}not more than one ovpinion, nor having
any parties and factions nor even that licence
which the mob gets to commit all kinds of
disorders under pretence of the general wel
fard, which the sensible and enlightened class
is animated with, The revolution of Carac
cas will be memorable in ull the histories in
the world, for the moderation and philanthro-
Py which which they joined themselves to
form but one sole family, united by the in
tevestol one country ; for the wisdom witl
which the new government kept and fulfilled
the duty of the august confidence trusted
them by the people ; for the provision which
they insured the publick tranquility.~=They
provided for the security of their property
the regulacity of their exteriour relations,the
communication with their provinces, the se
curtty of the different authoriuies, the exclu-
Sion Of suspicions persons, and the sanction
of the new established powers.
T'hese have been provident cares which
distinguished the politeal independence of
Caraccus, and induced her neighbours to
praise themselves [or the resolution they took
on the 20th, when they saw the publick opin
-lon re-estublished and settled, the chimerical
fe.rs that tumult had cieated in each other,
venquished : every one relieved from his sue
prize, agitation and fatigue ot a day, which
moght have been as dreadful as il those like
ity Lad it not got the happy desipns (tat dis
tinmuishod ity and which will render it ever
memorable, l
Ihe new established government deserves
to huve the confideuce of its constituents——
‘s worthy of it, its members fulfil their du
ties with dignity, they have an inward conli
dences und already depend vwpon that of their
nohghbours and nething must be feared aven
from the estrangers—"ut they know that cir
cianstances have not yet permitted ‘them to
give tne government those corrected and me
didiited [orms which characterize all civil in
stitutions that are the sure guarrantee of the
general will, and which consolidiate and estah
lisa the universal voie of those who huve con
wrinnied to s formaddon tranguility and quiet
ness, which can only produce those combina
tions, have been restored, and the confusion
wilch prevented that meditation requived for
80 Inany intercsisy has ceased. Then before
jealousy comes back again. they are about to
five the new government that provisional
form it ought to have, unti! they have made a
Constitution approved by the national Repre
schiutives, lawfully constituted which will
Sancuomconsoiidate and represent the Provio
ses of Venczucla, with a political dignity in
Uie face of the universe, which shall be or
ganized and governed in a wuy to make her 1
Wmhabitunts happy, which muy be set us a use
ful and decent example in America, und mike
her to Y& respected by the nations with whom
she is o form connexions of recip ecal utili
ty, and show to Spuin that whatever may be
her fate, there is in America a'people capa
ble of mauintaining che glory of the Spanish
e, 10 save the remains ofithut nobie and
gencrous nation, and to render the fute of her
King less fatal, if he should ever recover that
liberty of which be is now deprived.
JOSE DE LA LLAHOSE,
MARTIN TOVAR PONTEL.
Cuiica gue sit videtis : nune quid ugcndunf sit consi
The equse is manifest to you: consider what ought to
be dune,
derate.
MAY 1,
St. Sebastians, our readers will observe, is
at the loot ef the Pyrenees, and therefore ad-
Joining France, and yet fiom that quarter hes
the following statenient been brought by an
American Captuin : He says, that * The wo
men of the country, had, on various oceasions,
procured Jrovisions, cloathing, and numer-
CUS hecessary articles, which, 1 defisnce ot
«ll remonstiunees, tiey daily conveved to
smali'bodivs of patriotick troops, who had
shewn themselves in (he teighbourheod.
This was at length considercd a 9 an ofience
2 I'he detention authorized by a Privy
Councily cannot extend beyond a year, unless
it be wuthiorized by a fresh Privy Councii.
Here fotlowed several articles ordering
exch prison to be inspected once o vear. Eack
Prison is 1o be under the administration of ws
officer ot Gendurmierie ; the gaoler is to be
under bim 3 and it he favours @ clundestine
correspondence, on Ihe part of any prisoner,
ke is 1o be disniissed, and imprisoned for six
months. There are 1o be cight state prisous.
- e
ART. 1. —No individuul sha'l be detained
48 & state prisoner but in virtue of a decision
upen the report of our Grand Judge, Minis
ter of Justice, wpd our Miniscer ol Police, in
a Privy Council, ’
* And that by proceeding to this examinue
tion, by giving the first decisions in a privy
councily and reviewing anew’ every year the
causes of detention, to see if they ought to be
prolonged, we shall provide equally for the
safety of the state and the citizens ! !
** That it is proper to establish, for the ex.'
amination of cach atfuir, legal and solenmn
forms.
“ Considering, however, that it is just to be
assured that such of onr subjects as are de
tained in the State Prisons are detained for
legitimate causes ! ! with a view to publick
intevest, and not {rom private considerations
und passions. \
IMPERIAY. DECREL,. .
* Paluce of" the Thuillerice, Murch 3.
“ANapoloon, Emperowr of ihe French, King of ltaly,
“ drotector of the Confederition of the K,
- Mediator of the Swise Confederacy, &
“ Upon the Report ot our Minkter of
General Police, considering, .
That there is a certan number of individe
uals detained in the Prisons of State, wiom
it is not deemed adviseable either to carryes
fore the Tribunuls or to set at hiberty,
“ That several have at different epodis
made attucks upon the security of the State ;
that they would be condemned by the I'rib.
nuls to capital punishments ; but that super
iwur considerations oppose theirbeing brought
LO L lad, .
“ That a certain number baving been em
ployed by the Police in foreign countries, and
huving been unfaithfuly can nevher be refease
¢dy nor carrvied belove the I ribunals without
compromitung the safety of the stute.,
“ Inally, that some belonging to different
countries that have heen united to France are
dangerous men, who cunnot be brought to
trial because their offences are either poliu
cal or anteriour to the union, amd that they
could not be set at liberty without comproms
itting the interest of the state. \
“ That others, ufter having acted as Chiefs
of Bunds ih the civil wars, have been taken
anew n flagranti delicto, wnd that mofives of
general interest equaily prohibit thei being
carried betore the ITribunals.
“ That several are eitier robbers of coach- ‘
€s or men habituated to crimes, whom our
laws gould not condemn, though they might
have the certainty of their guilt ; und whose
release would be contrary (o the interest und ¢
salcly of society.
Letters have been received from Nurwuy.
which stute, * that all Amcrican ships in the
ports ob that country have been seized and
were in a course of judication ; muny of
them had been condemned upon the most
tifling pretexts.”
We have received some Portuguese pa
pers to the Lith inst. The intelligence they
contain continties to be of a most satisfactory
nature. ‘l'be Spaniards appear to be most
successful in the harrassing system of ware
fare which they huve adopted, and unless the
accounts belore us are entirely destitute of
{oundation, the communications between the
rench ariy in Andalusia and Mudrid, are in
great danger of being compietely intercepied.
Tha van yard oi Daliestero’s army had ad
vanced to the neighbourhood of Seville.
Messrs M’Kenzie and Dickinson whosaile
ed latcly from Piymouth, to Morlaix, to pe
goclate respecting un exchange of prisoners,
have arvived at the latter place. They were
received with every mark of respect, and
immediately procecded on their journey to
Paris.
Amgricays !'—Venczuela is already a
mong the number of the nations of Ameri
ca, and she hastens to make it known to her
necighbours, that if the pew world are unani
mous, they may reach us their hand to main
tain her in the gregt painful career she -un
dertook. Virtue and moderation is at pres
ent her device. Fraternity, union, and gen
erosity, ought to be your’s ; that by the union
of such noble sentiments, the result may be
that great work which is to elevate America
to the palitical dignity that belongs to her.
peundence, which the order of events has ve
stored to her ; and she attwined it with all
the philanthropy, and with all the felicity
‘which ber cause descrved, i
WE NAVE DECREED WHAT FOLLOWS iwee
LATEST FRoM SPAIN.
LONDON, APRIL 24,
TARLR THE VIRST.
APRIL 28,
‘ PARIS, APRIL 4,
Jetter frem Couns Belliard, Governvur General of
' Madrid, to the prince of Newfchate!.
“ T have this instant received o confirma
tion of the intelligence which 1 had the hon
our (o communicate, three days ago, to your
Hishness. The hucricane, which prevailed
from the 7th to the 10th March drove on
shore, near Cadiz, four sail of the line, and
fifty vessels of an inferiour rate, of which we
have taken posiession. Of the persons ship
wrecked we have secured 600, almest all ol
themn English. .
We are extremely concerned to find, that
among otifer melancholy circumstances re
sulting from the late disturbances in the cap
italy His Majesty was rendered so unhappy,
that Re was indisposed tor some duys, and the
cifect was the total loss of his remaining sight
But it is with great satisfaction we add, that
His Majesty is now perfectly recovered, and
wus good heaithas he ever enjoyed. His
Majesty is, however, obliged to avail himiself
of external assistance in his occusionsl waiks,
which was not the case before the unfortunate
events alluded to. His medical attendants
huve, we understand, declared that his cye is
aow fity {or the operation, whenever he feels
humsell disposed to submit to it.
His Majesty the King of Naples has set
off for his States, where, upon his arrival, e
vents of the highest importance will most
probubly take place.
The following is assigned in the Dutch pa
pers as the cuuse of hosulities Letween the
French and Turks—A quarrel took place in
the lortress of Sizey, between the Frehch
troops and the Tuiks, in which the latter
were worsted. The Turks, exasperated by
this eccurance, secretly assembied in great
force, and maebing o sudden onset upon the
French, took 3,000 of them prisoners, whom
they beheaded or impaled. Marshall Mar
wmount, the moment the news reached him,
marched at the head of a'corps, chiefly con
sisting of Croatians, cirried the fortress ol
Sizeg by storm, and put every Turk in it te
the sword.
trom the Court of Vicnna to the British goy
cromenty and add, that Count Metternich.the
Austrian Minister of State, is to e employ
ed on this missien. It is also rumered, that
the Emperour of Austria intends shortly to
visit Puris, accompanied by the Arch Duke
Charles.
By a Royal Order, issued at Berlin, colon
il produce is only permitted to be imporiei
at the ports of Swinemunde, Pollau, und
Memel, where the recessary inquiry into ihe
origin of the goods, is to be made by the
Prussiun Committee of Trade,- juintly whh
the French Consuls ut Stettin, Konigsburg,
and Memel.
A decree of the King eof Westphalia, di
iects the establishment of no less than 12
trigades of Custom House Officers, to carry
Mo execution within his terrileries, the
French Continental system.
Tue Dutch papers reiterate the report that
somae propositions were «bout to be made
Mr. Dickenzon, who accompanied Mr.
Muckenzie to Morlax, is rewurncd, and is
most probuble the bearer of some new pro
position on the part of the French govern
ment. Mr Dickenson, however, i soon to
return to Morluix, to rejoin Mr. Muckenzic.
Austiia,
Jouckin, to be Kingof Poland,
Lugene, to be King of Macedoniy,
Louis Napoleon 1o be King of Bavaria,
Lhe Heveditary Piince of Bavaria to be
King of Hollund and Berg.
Jerome N.poleon, to be King of Wiriem
burgy.
Josepn Nupolcon, to be King of Italy.
Ferdinand IV. 10 be festored 1o the throne
of the Two Sicilies.
The Grand Duke of Buden to be King ot
Swinzert.nd.
The following arrangements of titles and
of dislocations and ereations of Kings, are r:-
fiorted in letters from Germany to have been
determined on between the LEmperours ot
France and Austria ; we give it as it reached
us, without further comment than that some
of the appointments appear to us improbable.
Nopoleon I. Emperour of rrunce, &c. and
King of the Romans. '
Francis II Ewperourof Austria and Fran
conia, und Co-protector of the Conlederation
of the Rhine.
The Archduke Charles, King of Spain und
the [ndies.
The King of Wictemburg to be King of
Westpnaii,
An American gentleman is arrived in town
who lett Paris a few days ago.—Previous to
bis depurture he had an interview with Gen.
Armstrong,Who told him he hud passports in
his pussession to enable hish to leave France
ang that it was his intention to return to A
nmcrica between that time and the first ot
June ; for this purpose he had piurchased an
American sequestered vessel. Mr. A. ex
pressed his opinion, that his departure wouid
not be conclusive of a rupture between
Fravce and the United States, in as mwch as
Mr. Beckwith Livingston was 1o succced him
in his diplomatick character. ’
of much enormity zg¥inst the French Gov
erninent, und a considersble wumber of those
ladies were taken up wnd tried by a Military
T'ribunal, whose sentence consigned 16 1o be
shot ; and the sentence was carried into exe
cution. He saw three of these heroines put
to death, which they endured with wonder.
ful fortitude.” :
The King of Prussia to cede Silesia to
MAY 2.
In 1684, the first place of publick worship,
was the Friends’ meeting-honse, it was built
upon the centre-square. At present, the chy
is divided into 14 wards, and contains, yith
Southwark, the Northern Liberties und Ken
sngton, 124 swreets, (1 lanes, 74 alleys, and °
&0 cours, 13,107 houses, of which 240 were
built iu the year 1809, The shipping that
artived troru foreign ports trom the Sist of
December, 1808, to the st of January, 1810,
were, ships, brigs,schooners, sloops, &c. 550
0 cleared trom the **ih of March 1800, 10
the Ist o d.n. 1810, fou forsign ports, 206
The latter end of the sixth month, called
Juue, 1687, Thomas Hoimes, Surveyor-Gene
raly laid out the City of Philadelphia, on the
spot called by the aborigines, Coauannock
[t consisted of 23 streets from eost to west,
from Front sireet on Delaware to Schayl.
kill, along IHigh-strect, heing 10,578 fcet,
and from north to south, fiom Vine 1c
Cedar-street at right angles, 9 streets. being |
5:253 feet, beside 5 publick sfquares ; frow
which date, all improvement in this circle, « »
takes its rise, ™
In 1678, thelShicld of Stockton. from Hull, *
in Yorkshire, Danie! Towers commanded
anchored before Buriingten, in West-Jersey,
this was the first British ship th 1 sailed up
the river. In 1682, the first house that was
built was the fervy house, on the north-west
corner of Front and Dock-streets.
It is probable we may now have a perind
of one or two years of unrestrained cop -
merce, [ree to the rapacity of Europeun
plunderers, to contraet with the preceding
years, when this comparison can be made,
cach citizen 'can judge for himself, of (I
correctness of the policy that hus been pucs
sued.
We may ask, if American vessels and
property had conttnued to go out, unrestrain
¢d, duiing the years 1808—9, whether we
could expect to have seen such evidences of
the incressimz wealth of our countiy ; whethe
er the probable losses from capture and coyy.
demnation of our vessis and property. woud
not rather have reduced many of our citizers
to want and bunkrnptcy, who now cnjny plen
ty, and in magniticent buildings display theis
wealth ¢
What a comment this on the lamentations
and mouruing of our federal bretimen ! It
this is the awfnl ruin, t7e wide-spread de
strnction which awaits us {rom the measures
of the republican sdministrations, then ought
we to desire that the causes of it may never
be removed.
The frends of American prosperity, wil?
rejoice to see those clear and une uivocal ev
idences of increasing wealth which every
portion of our country exhibits ; and none
more 5@ than those cities which we have been
continuaily told, by our fedeval friends, were
ruined by - those commercial restrictions,
which our general government had deemed
I necessary to lay,
While penning these remarks, we have in
view purticularly, our neighbouring city of
New-York, which at this time.more than any
torgier period, evhibits those evicences of ine
creasing wealth in the immensity of building s
now erccting therey, und wiich wost clearly
mdicate its great prosperity. It is estimated
that six hundred butldings of various kinde
will be erected in that ciry during the present
Sedson, costing i matertals and i<bour not
‘ess perhaps than three milions of dollars,
uedriy or quite the whole of which niay be
considered as arising from the trade and
commerc of the one or tw, preceding years ¢
in other words, as the profits of business done
in that city during the years 18089 ; and
this profit over and above the continual exe
penses ol those who are engaged in carrying
on this trade and eommerce.
The Augustus, Bucchus, wrrived ur Paitis
more on Wednesday last, left Liston April
17. Capt, B. reports, tiat the combined wr
mies on the frontiers oi Puitural 100,000
strong, and the British troops o« 30 00 —~this
ils no doubt an exagrecrition——ric e 1@
the suiling of the Aupustus, Cuiz dotes were
received at Lisbon to Aprii 12, 'he French
were said to have abandongd Pore St Mary's,
The Spuniards were daily stren rhinge then -
selves ot Cudiz and the Islane of Leon, A
canel had been cut about 6 miie s from Cudi,
WlliCh was delended I:y the DBiiiish fleet, Vv
gun hoats ; and on the city sld» Ly heavy .
tillery. At Liston no appre ensions wei o
entcrtained of the surrender of Cudiz,
The Avoustus brought our thiree Hull Lol
Merino Sheep—two rams 2ud cne ewe. 5
wus to have had 28 of them ; Tat they we o
intercepted by the Spaniatds 1 the bovesos
of Portueal.
“ Last cvening arrived at the L zaretts,
the ship Francis, Pickle, 47 days drom Rocie
ele, with 80 pussengers, including the Russ
sian mivistc® and suite. At the time of her
sailing the Jobn Adums was at Gherlury,
waiting orders.
“ A gentleman who arrived at the L.zi
retto, in the scleoner Favouiite, 16 « ys
from Laguirs, writes me that evcery think re
malased perfectly quiet ; and thut the Council
had addressed a letter to the Regency at Cus
diz on the subjeet of the revoiudon, which,
concludes by observiug, that wienever their
sovereign is reinstuted cnd Spain restored to
tranquility, they will be among the fiist to de
clare their loyalty”’
INTTRISTING NOISCELL AN
FOUNDING OF PHILA DELPHTA.
From the (NJ ) Centinel of Freedom.
PHILADELPHIA, JONE IO
NEW-YORK, JUNE 12,