The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-05-22 00:00:00, page 1

; EXCHANGE .
ON Bostuu *t sight, tor Boston money,
in sums tp accommodate purchasers,
for sate by * „ „
- J. B. WOOD.
PjrcJianre-Office, Providence,!
May 18, 1810. J tf.
TOBACCO AND BEEF
TWEN’f’Y-One Hhds. of prime Fayette
. viiic TOBACCO, .
5D Barrels of prime BEEF, in shipping
order,
For sale by '
AEORN & JACKSON.
Afcy 18, 1310. * • ■•' !: ~ '
WANT to board in a genteel private
family, a Geoltemau and Lady, hi
the ceutr® ot the town. Inquire at the
American Office.
May 18,1810.
THE subscriber, Executor to the last
Will and Testament of Anna Whit
tle, Widow, late of North-Providence,
deceased, having qualified himself as the
law directs, requests all who are indebted
t 6 said Estate to make immediate pay
ment ; and all who have demands against
said Estate to present them to him for set
tlement without delay.
ABRAHAM WILKINSON, Executor.
North-Providence, May IS, 1810.
AVERY valuable FARM, lying on the
section of »he two Turnpike Roads,
leaning Crum Providence to Northampton,
ally one wile east of Honesttwwn Meeting*
oqse, flNoiuiug the town of Sturbridge,
in the count) of Worcester, situated in the
Westerly part of Dudley, containing 150
acres excellently well proportioned lor
Mowing, Ploughing, Pasturing and Wood
land ) through which Farm runs that noted
valuable and lasting river, known by the
name of Quinnabaug River, which has equal,
if not Muperiour accommodation a for a Cot
ton Factory or any kind of Water-Works,
te any in the country. There are situated
on said Farm two Dwelling-Houses, three
Barbs and Out Houses.—All of Which will
be sold on very reasonable tei ins, and a
very liberal ctWd|t given. The purchaser
»uy depend on a very liberal and exten-
Sve subscription to any person who may be
isposed to erect a Cotton Factory on the
above descrlbW'pretnises. Any gentleman
who may please to call and view the above
described situation, may depend on finding
the foregoing statement correct. Inquire
of Dr. REUBEN HARRINGTON, on the
premises.
Sturbridge, (Massj May 16, 1810. 6t.
PROVIDENCE LYCEUM.
THE Proprietors of the Pmovidkncf.
Lycm>m are requested to meet at
the Senate Chamber on FbidaV, the Bth
of June, at 3 o’clock, P. M. to make choice
of Officers, and to transact such other bu
siness a* may be then and there laid before
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g 11. PROVIDENCE, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1810. Nombbh 62.
New Grocery Store.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs
his friends and the publick, that he
has opened the Store recently occupied by
Mr. Asa Handy, directly opposite Mr.
Aaron Man's hard ware stole; where
he has for sale, a genuine assortment of
GROCERIES of all kinds. He earnesth
solicits his friends and the publick to call
and see for themselves, as he flatters him
self that the quality and prices of his ar
ticles will be such as cannot fail to suit
them.
Also for sale.
An excellent Eight Day CLOCK, with
Mahogany Com.
J L gp
Ten FEATHER BEDS, Bedsteads, kc.
(calculated for a tavern or boarding-house,)
all of which Will be exchanged for West-
India goods or country produce. '
JOHN SNOW.
.May 18, 1810. • tf.
Have just received per the latest arrivals
via New-York,
AN extensive and elegant assortment
of FASHIONABLE DRY GOODS,
which they intend selling either at whole
sale or retail at a very trifling advance, for
chsh.
Elegant black Lace Veils from 8 12 to
817; black Lane, very wide and hand
some, 83; white Thread Laces, fancy
Muslins, some new patterns ; Mull Mus
lins figured with colours, for long shawls i
Calicoes, 9d. per yard ; Cambrick Pocket-
Handkerchiefs, 9d. a piece ; a few Hales
of Carpeting, very handsome patterns, st
6*. per yard—with a variety of other arti
cles fanciful and cheap.
May 15, 1810.
SUGARS.
ONE hundred and ten Boxes of Havana
brown SUGARS of a superior quali
ty, just landing, and for sale by
BLODGET ft POWER.
May 8, 1810.
JAMES BURR ILL, Juma
THOMAS P. IVES,
MOSES LIP PITT, yCoftt'lee.
Paul allbn,
C. R. GREENE, J
A/«y 18. IWO. ;
Cheap Goods.
MOULTON & JACOBS
TAKE NOTICE.
FOR SALE,
NOTICE.
In paying the tribute of his highest horn:
age to the wisdom of the amhnurs, and
the excellence of the character of the con
stitution of his country, the writer must
again stop for one moment, to impress upon
the minds of his readers the sincerity of
his present attachment to that glorious in
strument. It cannot be concealed that he
was once an anti-constitutionSlist, in other
words, a French partisan. Noone should
blush to recollect the errours of youth,
when those errours resulted from purity of
principle, and the most ardent wishes for
the happiness of the whole human race
Especially should the recollection be che
rished, when those errours have been dis
carded from reflection and experience. In
political science at least, never to have
erred is never to be wise, for political wis
dom is not inherent in our nature. Ex
perience cannot de ve lope it, but must cre J
ate it, even in the strongest and soundest
minds. Thu writer knows that not only
many of the youth of our country, but some
of the aged also, have abandoned the
strange dreams of the revolutionists of
France, from a perfect conviction of their
futility and fully. V\ e hailed with joy the
opening dawn of what was fancied to be
the coming of days of human perfection.—
We were among the wildest Of all wild
enthusiasts. Compared with the purity of
French democracy, the constitution of our
own republick was deemed a corrupt iwhsa
The course is rendered the more indis
pensable by the peculiar situation of the
writer of these papers.
The constitutional power of the Presi
dent of the United States to imposg upon
the Representatives of the people, and the
light of the majority of those Representa
tives to impose upon the minority, a per
petual injunction of secrecy, in relation tn
matters of great national concern, will
foym the first subject of examination.
The constitution of the United States,
politically speaking, should be ng.«rd<tl
with holy reverence. It is the most illus
trious of ail the monuments of human wis
dom. Plato, Aris'otic, Ciccm, and others,
whose names are written on the list of the
wisest men of ancient times, did but dare
to dream of even a faint outline of our pre
sent political system. Could the genius
and the greatness of the present age have
becu so far anticipated, as to have present
ed to the view of these sages,,a general
idea of the Ameiican constitution, they
would at once have pronounced the system
too pure and perfect ever to fall, in prac
tice, to the lot of human nature. They
would have declared that it was the vision
of a theorist, or a set of theorists; great
-nd magnificent, but delusive and imprac
• icable.
To the People of the Uniied States.
Previously io an investigation of the
origin and character of what has been
deemed by the writer, in common with a
great proportion of hjs count!ymen, to be
the influence of a fear of France, if
nothing worse, operating upon the executive
and legislative departments of the govern
ment of the United States, several intro
ductory, explanatory,and incidental points,
naturally claim consideiation, and demand
attention.
FAOM THE FHHh MAN*S JOVENAL.
Letters upon French Influence.
MY BARBER.
Who is it stands in yonuer shop.
Enticing rough fac’d rogues io stop,
And trimming ybn gay gallant fop ?
My Barber.
Who is it rises every morn,
His fellow-creatures to adorn,
By dint of steel, of soap and bom ?
y My Barber.
Who ia it shaves fbo twice a week i
Takes the rough hair from oil' my cheek*
And makes my chin feel soft and sleek ?
’ My Barber.
Who it it smooths my 'brow of care,
By easing it of useless hairi
Then nibs his soft pomatum there I
Barbe*
And can I ever cease to be
A constant customer to thee,
Who kindly does so much for me ’
My Barber.
“Ah, no, tbe thought 1 cannot bear,
And when again perplex’d with hair,
To thy neat shop will 1 repair,
My Barber.
But rhyming makes the beard grow long,
Come shave me to repay my song,
And all the bristles stull belong
To you, My Barber.
jntsccllanp.
Poetrp.
No. 11.
It w.ere to be wished that the late Presi
dent of the United States, whose power to
close the lips of the Representatives of the
people, upon subjects vital to the indepen
dence of the nation, is about to be question
ed, had in all cases squared bis conduct by
the provisions of that sacred instrument
which he, as well as those Representatives,
had taken a solemn oath of office to sup- 1
port. But alas, he who. while gradually
mounting tbe little steps ofj’ young ambi
tion’s ladder," Was the Irion adroit and
oily of <U th« flatterers of the populace,
since the days of Julius Cesar, was the
most odious despot when in power I He did
hot, indeed, altogether scorn the bate de
gree by which Ilk did attend, for baseness
was the most prominent feature of his
presidential character. In oome instances
positive evidence, in many, strong circum
stantial evidence, will appear in the course
of these letters, should that course be com
pleted, proving that the President of the
United States did carry on a most degrad
ing correspondence with feim whom he
ought to have considered the decided ene
my of his country, did implore mercy of
him when he ought to have demanded jus
tice, and instead of claiming, and com
manding the respect due to the United
Slates, as an independent republick, did
deprecate the wrath of a foreign power, in
a manner the most cowardly, mean, and
submissive. Strong assertions these, but
they shall be supported by arguments
which will not be deemed feeble, and by
the mightier powers of evidence. For the
present we return to the constitutional
question. ' *
Thomas Jefferson Was never sincerely
attached to the 'constitution. One of his
strongest objections to it was, that the Pre
sident might be re-elected ! Strange that
he was not even then calculated to become
[ President himself. But it is possible that
he was at that day an honest man. None
of us need blush at having beet) deceived
by Thomas Jefferson, for he deceived even
Washington. That great and good pa
triot gave him the first office in his power,
and thus advanced him far in the path of
his inordinate ambition. Washington
knew that he had been opposed to the con
stitution, but believed that he had abandon
ed that errour. Bdt Jefferson seemed to
'feet the stings of a guilty conscience, for he
began to vindicate himself before he was
accused. The moment a schism began to
arise in the cabinet, in consequence of the
political differences between Jefferson and
Hamilton, the former wrote an elaborate
letter to the President, endeavouring to
shew that although he had wished for im
portant amendments in the constitution,
yet he list! been upon the whole, friendly
to its adoption. The father of Iris country
was even yet deceived, for he wrote in an
swer, *’ I did not require the evidence of
the extracts which you enclosed me, to
convince me of your attachment to the
constitution of the United States, or of your
disposition to promote the general welfare,
of this country." (See Bancroft’s life of
Washington.) There Is every reason to
believe that one of the great causes of that
schism was a discovery made by Mr.
Hamilton, that the Secretary of State was
holding an improper "language confiden
tial,’’(the reader will recollect that these
are Genet’s own words) with the most out
rageous Minister of France. How far con
duct of this sort was constitutional in an
Ameiican Secretary of State, it is not now
material to inquire. '
The "exclusive republicans”contended,
before their elevation to power, that neither
the general government, nor any of its
branches, could constitutionally exercise
any power whatever, for which they could
not shew a special delegation. It was the
democratick doctrine to discard all powers
by implication. Hence the clamour against
the act establishing the National Bank, and
against the Alien and Sedition laws, as
unconstitutional and deapotick. Tried by
tills test, the President possesses not a par
ticle of authority to close the lips of the
membeh of the legislature, in relation to
any communication which he may think
proper to make to them. He has not only
'the right, but it is made his duty, to com
municate from time to time information of
the union. But the right tobindHhe mem
bers to secrecy in any possible else, is not
to be found in any specifick provision of the
constitution. If it exists at all, It must be
sought for elsewhere.
of aristocracy. Jefferson was believed to
be a greater and better man than Wash
ington. These recollections Indeed can be
connected with no pleasant emotions. Jef
ferson and Washington! Compare tbe ant
with the elephant! Compare the little rill
which travellers denominate the Scainan
der of Homer, with the Danube or the
Mississippi!
“ Every one that has the means of emi
gration, prepares to remove to England or
America, and among those who are inter
dicted from leaving this desolate territory,
bow many have already fallen the victims
of despair.”—“ There is another consider
ation which governments cannot regard
with indifference, and that is the immo
rality, the disregard to good faith and pro
bity, which have made so rapid and alarm
ing a progress, owing to the general dis
tress and misery. The people, hitherto
accustomed to see in their Chiefs a second
Providence which watched over their pros
perity, gave a ready obedience to laws of
which t hpt prosperity was the evident ob
ject. At the present time, a neW law, in
terdicting them from the means of pro
curing a subsistence, strikes them with
stupefaction. The majority of them can
not be convinced of the actual existence of
those prohibitions, and therefore feel no
hesitation in violating them ; and thus the
people are habituated to a contempt of
puhlick authocky. How many culprits
doesnot such a state of things produce?
How many are driven by necessity and de
spair to robbery, theft and swindling; and
from the want of an honest livelihood, be
take themselves to menus the most crim-
FROM A LONDON PAJ*ER.
Blessings of Napoleon's feign.
There has been published at Hamburg
• pamphlet entitled " ’The Complaints of
the People of the Continent on the Subject
tf the Interruptions of their Commerce,
addressed to all the princes qf this Part
tf the World f* in which it is clearly
proved, that the present system only serves
to make us “ independent of the conti
nent,” by forcing us to open new channels
of trade abroad, and enabling us to find
new resources at home. The French po
lice at Hamburg have offered a reward of
600 rix dollars for the discovery of the au
thour, who of course still remains incognito.
We have selected the following passages
as the most striking: “We see that the
European blockade operates with so little
effect upon Great-Britain, that her manu
factures scarcely feel its pressure, inas
much as the demand for them in India and
the two Americas experiences a prodi
gious increase every year. In short, it is
proved by the most authentick calcula
tions, well known to every publicist, and
by tlie reports of the best int'oi med and
most impartial travellers, that industry,
commerce, the publick revenue and pub
lick credit, have not only suffered no di
minution, but have, on the contrary, gone
on in an increasing ratio; that activity,
prosperity and comfort, are conspicuous in
every class of her population ; and that
accordingly, that country can support the
existing state of things on the continent for
ten years to come, or perhaps for a longer
period." In consequence of the inefficien
cy of a land carriage for commercial opera
tions upon a great scale, the authour com
plains, that the farmersand manufacturers
are condemned to see their surplus commo
dities perishing on their hands, and have
no longer any heart, or even so much as a
wish, to cultivate the soil, or to prosecute
their industry. He then dwells on the in
convenience felt from Ute prohibition of
cotton and cotton yarn, dye stuffs and
drugs, and the hardship of not being per
mitted to procure even from America such
of those articles as she could supply.
" These restrictions," he observes," are
not merely injurious to one or two branches
of the commerce and industry of particu
lar states; they extend their baleful ef
fects over the sum total of the happiness
•nd industry of the continent. Every thing
throughout its whole extent is disturbed,
obstructed and oppressed. Harrassing re
gulations, examinations, certificates, tbe
duties levied even on the unpruhibited
merchandise, the excessive augmentation
of the post duties, embarrass and impede
the continental communications from one
European region to another, literary com
munications, and even epistolary corres
pondence between families and individu
als. On the other hand, tbe absolute in
activity to which the maritime states are
condemned, tbe impossibility of employing
their people in the fisheries, divest them of
the habits of their clement, render them
for the future unfit for a sea-faring life,
deprives us of our natural nurseries of sea
men, and reduces us to the impossibility of
one day fitting out mercantile and military
navies, capable of rivaling those of Great-
Britain, whose indefinite superiority is thus
most effectually and for ever secured.”
This interesting pamphlet concludes in
the following manner:—" These consider
ations, which might be easily enlarged up
on and enforced must sufficiently demon
strate, that the continent can no longer
support this stagnation in the ordinary re
lations of life."
“ This situation, it is true, neither pre
sents a terrifick aspect to the nations of
Europe, nor is calculated to gratify our
national feelings. Whatever boasting there
may be about the increase of democracy,
in the country, particularly in the northern
section of the Union, certain it is that it'
never was at a lower ebb at head-quarter*
than at the present moment. One of our
most tealous majority-men observed, In a
speech made some ten or twelve days ago,
that if Congress closed the present session
without doing any thing effectual far the,
honour and safety of the nation, it would
be in fact telling the nation and the world,
that they were unfit to manage the helm,
and that they ought to resign it into other
hands. However I might doubt the cor
rectness of some of the positions which ht
advanced, I had no controversy frith him
about thia, for I believe a more manifest
want of capacity, energy and system, ne«
ver appeared in any publick body. Thn
scheme of embargo, non-intercourse, ficc«
will be suffered to expire at the close of
the session (a long qptetus to it I) and In
all their searches after substitute it will be
found impossible for them to agree in any
thing.
"In the House of Representatives we
have, properly speaking, no majority ; at
least it is all mere haphazard on which
side that majority will fall. There ate at
least three if not four parties in the House
—the federalists, and almut ten or twelve
who do not really assume the name of fed
eralists, but who usually vote with them;
and the remainder, who compose a major
ity of the whole, are divided Into the peace
party and war party. The latter, (which
probably consists of about thirty members,
who cannot deny the reiterated injuries of
the French, nor help acknowledging the
favourable disposition of Great-Britain to
wards the adjustment of our dlffcolties,)
even nt this day advocate,«the only proper
•nal ? Hence proceed false oaths and th*
corruption, a times attempted*
and not always without success, of the very
agents of the prohibitory systent.
"From this it is obvious thatthg meant of
comfort which can still be obtained, must
be concentrated in the miost impure hands,
those of the corrupters end the corrupted t
whilst rigid probity is doomed to fee! all
the pressure of calamity. Princes, fathers
of your people, you who hear their lamen
tations and their groan*—it is you whom
they invoke with their prayers—it is to you
that th£ir hopes look for refuge—you will
become their intei censors ; it is you who
will cany the grievances to the foot oi the
Imperial Throne of the Great Napoleon,
who will enlighten hit religion with regard
to this state of anxiety and distress, which
doubtless, has not hitherto been truly r»*
presented to him. It belongs tohfegower*
ful hand, to his genius, to remove the fet
ters in which we are perishing, and to con •
ciliate his new measures with the accothn
plishment of his grand views. May yon
respectively enjoy the inestimable felicity
of reigning over a people happy, ccntented,
grateful, loyal and virtuous I A blessing,
which is, beyond doubt, the greatest that
Heaven can bestow upon you I"
POLITICAL REVIEW.
The following extract of a letter from •
most venerable Member of Congress to his
friend in Essex, (dated Washington, April
29, 1810,) will be read with interest and
mortification, by those who wish to know
what our rulers are about. Salem Gaz,
** The adjournment of Congress is one
act, if not the only one, during a session
of 156 days, which will meet with the uni
versal approbation of all parties in the na
tion, especially as it is likely to put an end
to all the system of embargo, nan-inter
course, and alt that sort of trumpery,
which has exhausted our treasury, impo
verished our citisena, and broken the spi
rit of the nation. Some of our members ar*,
apparently as melancholy at the thought
that they are likely to adjourn and go horn*
without either war, embargo, non-lnter-'
course, or any blessing of that sort to carry
home to their constituents, as if they had
lost two or three of their nearest friends >■
and indeed tbe situation and feelings of
the present majority in Congress is by no
means an enviable one ; defeated, divided,
bewildered and disheartened—forced to
abandon all their darling schemes of re
sisting aggressions and of humbling the
belligerents, (that is England,) they pre
sent rather a sorry spectacle to the world.
Finding -the treasury exhausted, our little
army almost annihilated by bad manage
ment, and the Spirit of the nation broke*
by a series of preposterous measures, which
instead of operating upon the. belligerents
have only reacted upon ourselves, the war
spirit seems to be considerably broke*
down.