Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), 1802-12-11 00:00:00

Rhode-Island Republican.
AN INDISSOLUBLE UNION OF THE STATES, IS ESSENTIAL TO THEIR LIBERTY AND EXISTENCE.—WASHINGTON.
Published weekly, by OLIVER FARNWORTH, (Printer to the STATE, and of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES,) Thames-Street, NEWPORT.
William Moore, jun. & Co.
HAVE FOR SALE, At their STORE on the Ferry Wharf—a general Assortment of GROCERIES, SHIP CHANDLERY, HARD WARE, &c.
40 Hhd. good retail- ing MOLASSES, Holland GIN, West-India RUM, BRANDY, Leaf & brown SUGAR, Hyson skin, Sonohong, and Boha TEAS, COFFEE, GINGER, PEPPER, IMEN- TO, STARCH, CATTLE & N.Y. SOAP, MUSTARD, COPPERAS, Sherry WINE, Malaga do.
LIKewise, A great variety of DRY GOODS, suitable for the season. Newport, Dec. 4. 1802.
DR. GUSTAVUS BAYLIES, OF BRISTOL.
Has just received, for Sale, an additional assortment of genuine DRUGS & MEDICINES. ALSO— SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, ELEGANT Amparating Instruments, (of the latest Improvement.) Ditto, Trepanning ditto, Brass Pipes, Ivory Syringes, &c. &c.
LIKewise, a few modern Medical Books, among which are, James Latta's PRACTICAL SYSTEM OF SURGERY, illustrated with Cases on many of the Subjects, and with Copperplates—3 Vols. Townend's GUIDE TO HEALTH, Dervieu's ZOOMOMIA—3 Vols. Barferius, on Medicine—a work of very considerable merit, containing a Course of Lectures delivered by the Author, which were translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brewster, and published in the English language at Edinburgh, in the present year—4 Vols.
Dr. BAYLIES likewise respectfully acquaints his friends, that he continues the Practice of PHYSIC, MIDWIFERY, and the various branches of SURGERY. November 29. 1802.
ON Tuesday, the 14th inst. at 10 o'clock A. M. will be sold at Public Auction, (if fair, if not, the first fair day) a variety of household Furniture, viz. Beds, Blankets, Chairs, Tables, &c. &c. Also, 1781 Dolls: 77-100 6 per cent. Stock of the United States. 1175 Dolls. 15-100 3 per cent. do. 847 Dolls. 9-100 6 per cent. deferred, do. 157 Dolls. 45-100 5 per cent. Stock of Massachusetts. GARDNER & DEAN, Aucts. Newport, Dec. 4. 1802.
HEAR YE! To be sold, and possession given the 25th of March next, One Hundred and Fifty acres of Land of the first quality, lying in South-Kingstown, (Bolton Neck)—about half a mile south of Gardiner's Ferry, commonly known by the name of the Bonnet farm—and is bounded as follows: Westerly, partly on the Westquogue pond; partly on land of Simeon Potter, and partly on land of George Brown: Southerly, on the ocean: Easterly, on the Narragansett Bay, and Northerly on land of the subscriber. Its local situation is far preferable to any in said town. It is well watered in six divisions, with double walls. For fishing and fowling, none is superior in the State, the pond abounding with perch of an excellent kind, and fowl of a great variety. The beach affords an inexhaustible source of sea manure, such as rock & ribbon weed, and sea currit. There are two living springs of water on the premises. An indisputable title will be given, and the mode of payment made easy to the purchaser: The terms may be known by applying to JOHN GARDINER. South-Kingstown, Dec. 3. 1802.
For Sale, by the Subscriber, JAMAICA RUM by the hoghead, Ditto SUGAR by the hhd. or barrel, Ditto MOLASSES, all of 1st Quality. JOHN MEIN. Church-Lane, July 12, 1802.
FOR SALE. THE real estate of Peleg Allen, late of Middletown, deceased, (about four miles from the State house in Newport, adjoining the road,) consisting of between fifty and sixty acres of land, with a dwelling-house, other buildings, and a good orchard thereon; well watered; good meadow, pasture, and tillage land, natural to Barley.—Possession will be given the 25th of March next. The terms may be known, by applying to either of the subscribers. ELIZABETH ALLEN, THOMAS C. ALLEN. Middletown, Dec. 3. 1802.
John R. Shearman Has received his supply of FALL and WINTER GOODS, Comprising purple kid and silk GLOVES and elegant silk HOSE. Newport, Nov. 27, 1802.
NEW GOODS. ROBERT LAWTON INFORMS the Public, and his Friends in particular, that he has just received, at his Store, opposite Mr. Townend's Coffee-House, Thames-Street, an elegant Assortment of Fashionable Dry Goods, adapted to the season—too numerous to particularize in an advertisement. Those who will please to call at his Store, he flatters himself, will find an assortment to purchase, as he is determined to dispose of them at very reduced prices. N. B. He has also just opened for sale, a quantity of best Irish Linen, seven eighths, and yard wide, by wholesale or retail.—Likewise, a beautiful assortment of Luederling, very cheap. October, 23, 1802.
Green & Tillinghast, HEREBY inform their old Customers and the Public in general, that they have just received a large Assortment of Fall & Winter Goods, which they are now selling at the most reduced prices at their Store, by Wholesale and Retail. Newport, Nov. 1, 1802.
William Douglass, At the Head of Broad-Street, HAS constantly for sale, a general Assortment of West-India and other GOODS. Likewise— 600 weight best Fleece WOOL, and 1200 wt. New-Milch CHEESE, Cheap for CASH, Or West-India Goods. Newport, October 2, 1802.
TO THE PUBLIC. Newport Long-Wharf, No. 12. CONSTANTLY on hand, and for Sale, prime Pork, Mefs and prime Beef of the first quality, repacked in the best order, suitable for domestic or foreign use.—Gentlemen desirous of being accommodated with the best of provisions, by calling at said Store, will meet the greatest encouragement, and the smallest favor gratefully acknowledged, by KEYES & BRIGHAM. Corned and fresh BEEF of the first quality, at said Store, constantly for sale. November 5, 1802.
CASH, PAID FOR LINEN & WOOLLEN RAGS, BY Christopher Olney, & Co. Delivered at their Mills, or at their Paper Warehouse, WHERE they have for sale, at wholesale & retail, all kinds of Paper, viz. Foolscap Writing-Paper, No. 1 and 2.—Vellum Letter do.—Pot do.—Wrapping do.—Bonnet do.—Clothier's do. 1st quality.—Sheathing, with and without Sand.—Book-Binder's Boards.—Candle Paper, and Sugar Loaf Blue. ALSO, A complete Assortment of Blank Account and Record Books. LIKewise Account Books made and ruled to any pattern, to suit the purchaser.—A complete Assortment of School Books, and Stationary of all kinds, &c. Also, Warranted Chocolate, by the Box, or pound, Cocoa Shells, by the Bag. N. B. Wanted, one or two Boys, from 12 to 14 years of age, as Apprentices to the Paper-making and Clothing business.—To such great encouragement will be given. Providence, Oct. 26, 1802.
LAMP-BLACK, (of the best quality) FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
SAMUEL VINSON, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends, and the public in general, that he has just received by the last arrivals, a large and well chosen assortment of GOODS, suitable for the season; to enumerate which, would be tedious. Those who will favor him with their custom, may depend on having them on the lowest terms. He has likewise received a variety of Muffs, Tippets, and Fur Trimmings.—Also, a small box of elegant JEWELRY, Consisting of Ladies Necklaces, Ear-rings, Hankerchief Pins, Brooches, Bracelets, & Lockets, of the most fashionable kinds. Newport, Nov. 12, 1802.
NOTICE IS hereby given, to all persons having any demands against the estate of Captain JOSEPH CONGDON, late of Jamestown, deceased, to exhibit them; and all persons indebted to said estate, are called upon to make payment to MARY CONGDON, of Jamestown, Executrix to said estate; or to EBENEZER SHEARMAN, her lawful Agent, at Newport. November 22, 1802.
FOR SALE, BY JOSEPH BRIGGS, 30 Barrels best N. Y. Superfine Flour. 15 bbls. Beef and Pork. 2000 Weight best Green Coffee, by Wholesale or Retail. A few Casks of SHERRY WINE, of an excellent quality. Newport, May, 29.
HOLMES WEAVER, CABINET & CHAIR-MAKER, HAS for Sale, a number of pieces of the most Fashionable Furniture, As Cheap as can be purchased, of equal elegance. Newport, Nov. 15.
To be Sold, A NEW BRIGG, now on the stocks, and will be ready to launch in the month of December ensuing—burthen one hundred and fifty tons. She is built of good materials and by experienced workmen, and will bear the strictest examination. For terms, apply to STEPHEN WILCOX, or NATHAN POTTER. Westerly, (Pawcatuck) Nov. 26, 1802.
For Sale at Public Auction, ON the first Monday of February next (weather permitting,) unless previously disposed of at private sale, a new two story Dwelling-House, with four rooms on a floor, with a Lot of Land, 60 feet front, situate on Spring-Street.—Also, a two story Shop thereon, calculated for a dwelling-house with a Cellar under it. GARDNER & DEAN, Auctioneers. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802. N. B. Any person wishing to purchase at private sale, may know the terms, by applying to ROBERT LAWTON, jun. living on the premises.
To be Sold or Let, A WELL finished Dwelling-House, situated on Thames-Street, opposite Mr. Robert Stewart's—Also a new Store, adjoining the yard and garden, with a good well of water.—If not immediately sold, the Shop, with some part of the House, will be to let.—The situation, both for health and business, is not inferior to any in town. Conditions may be known, by applying to HENRY G. CHAMPLIN. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802.
Gold & Silver Smith. THE Subscriber Respectfully informs his friends and the Public in general, that he has taken a Shop belonging to Mr. Jonathan Marsh, directly opposite the Post-Office, where he carries on the GOLD and SILVER Smith, and JEWELLERY Business, in all its various branches.—Those who may favor him with their custom, may depend upon punctuality. Constant attendance will be given, and the smallest favors most gratefully acknowledged, by the Public's humble servant, JOHN SNOW. * * Cash given for old Gold and Silver. Newport, Sept. 25, 1802.
For Sale, TWO House-Lots, 143 feet front, with a Dwelling-House, Stable, Chaise-house, Wood-house, & Crib, thereon standing; and a well of good water in the yard, with a pump therein. For terms, inquire of the subscriber, living on the premises. JOSEPH MARTIN. Newport, Nov. 20, 1802.
To be Sold at Public Auction, ON Monday the 20th of December next, at 10 o'clock A. M. (if fair weather, if not the first fair day,) unless disposed of at private sale before: That pleasantly situated FARM in Middletown, late belonging to Beriah Anthony, deceased, containing about 50 acres of Land, with a Dwelling-House, Barn, Corn-house, and other out-buildings thereon. There is two good Apple Orchards on the same, and other Fruit Trees—Two wells of water, one of which never fails; said Farm, lying on the main road from Newport to Howland's Ferry, and about 3 1/2 miles from the State House. ANNE ANTHONY, Administratrix. Middletown, Nov. 18, 1802. Conditions to be made known at time of sale.
CLARK BLISS, INFORMS his friends, and the Public, that he has removed from Bangor's wharf, to the dwelling-house belonging to Capt. Caleb Gardner, in Thames Street, formerly occupied by Capt. Wing Spooner—where he has for sale a General Assortment of West-India Goods: Among others, are the following articles, viz. Brandy, West-India Rum, 4th proof do. Gin, New-England Rum, Wine of different kinds, Molasses, Loaf & Brown Sugars, Coffee, Tea of various kinds, Chocolate, Raisins, Pepper, Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Flour, Rye and Indian Meal, Butter, Cheese, Soap, and Candles; various kinds of Glass Ware, Beer Ware, Knives, and Forks, Jack Knives, Pen-Knives, large and small Spoons, Chest Locks and Files, Clocks and Tin Ware, Axes, Hoes and Shovels, Men's and Boys' Shoes, Corks, Brimstone, Lampblack, Stone Lime, Lamp Oil, Powder, Shot and Flint, Puffing Lines of various kinds, Leads, and Hooks, deep-sea Leads and Lines, Bellows, metal Tea Pots, writing Paper, wrapping paper by the ream, Bed Cords, Log Lines, Marlings, Seamed Chuffs, Oak Kegs holding from one quart to six gallons, Buckets, Coffee and Pepper ready ground for use; and a number of other Articles not mentioned.—Captains of vessels, and others, may be supplied on the shortest notice, and every favor gratefully acknowledged. Newport, May 7 1802.
For Sale, by the Subscriber, that Valuable Real Estate in THAMES-STREET, CONSISTING of a Dwelling-House, 37 feet by 32, almost new; with a good Cellar; paved Yard, and good Well of water, with a Pump therein; together with the Garden, Wharf, Stores, Stable, Chaise-House, &c. belonging to the same. Likewise, a large Garden Lot, on the Hill, 126 feet on John Street, and the same distance extending to Leven-Street.—Also, a good second hand Chaise, Two Horses, one Yoke of Oxen, and an Ox-Cart.—Likewise— A quantity of LUMBER; consisting of clear, and merchantable Pine Boards, Spruce Boards, Joist, Laths, and a few North-Carolina Cedar Shingles. JOSEPH LY. Newport, Sept. 17, 1802.
FOR SALE, And possession given on the 25th of March next, A LARGE and valuable tract of LAND, in Hopkinton, adjoining Wood-River.—Containing about Seven Hundred Acres; known by the name of the Ellery Land, and now part of the estate of Col. GEORGE IRELL, deceased. About Two Hundred acres of said land is cleared, and fit for tillage or meadow. The remainder is mostly covered with Timber of the best quality for ship plank, &c. An excellent stream of water runs through said land, whereon a Saw Mill may be erected at a small expence. The terms may be known, by applying to either of the subscribers. NICHOLAS TAYLOR, JOHN IRELL. Newport, Oct. 23, 1802.
For Sale on Reasonable terms, A Quantity of Window Frames and Sashes, for 7 by 9 and 6 by 8 Glass. Enquire of the Printer. Newport, May 21, 1802.

TEXT.—“Some measures (of the civil administration during the period when I was President of the United States) were the effects of imperious necessity , MUCH AGAINST MY INCLINATION . Others were the measures of the Legislature , which, altho’ approved when passed, were never previously proposed, or recommended by me. Some of them left to my discretion, were never executed, because no necessity for them, in my judgment ever occurred. Let me add one observation more. Under the continual provocations breaking and pouring in upon me from unexpected as well as expected quarters, during the two last years of my Administration, he must have been more of a modern epicurean philosopher than I ever was or ever will be to have borne them all without some inconsiderate expressions , at times of unutterable indignation . I have no other apology to make, to individuals or the public.” JOHN ADAMS.
HAVING assumed the consideration of certain sentiments of Mr. Adams, which we took pains to introduce at length, at the beginning of our last number; it was thought expedient to make a preparatory statement, before we entered on the task, in order that the issue might be fairly taken, and that no quibble should frustrate the object proposed. It was certainly an object of primary magnitude, that of evincing by the clearest evidence, that even Mr. Adams with all his fervor of “Nobility” about him, has publicly, and solemnly spoken in terms of harsh censure, and crimination, against the administration which he himself conducted. Is it not so? Let any one read the paragraph above alluded to, and say. He unequivocally states, that some of those measures were the effects of imperious necessity, and much against his inclination ; that others were the measures of the Legislature, which he never recommended : And he had like to have said that some of them were too bad to be executed . It was impossible for him, circumstanced as he then was, to have given a more decided opinion. He was then surrounded by a throng of exclusive federalists, who had been gorming him with their flattery. They had just finished their saturating eulogium upon his past conduct, and public life, particularly that part of it which related to his Presidency. He was impressed with the fulsome absurdity with which it was pregnant, and in return spoke the language of his heart, as fully as he could. It has been remarked that he never appeared to speak with more honest sincerity; and it is believed the propriety of that remark will be obvious to every one.
Suppose the tables were turned, and the federalists had a similar opportunity of animadverting upon such a conceit. When would there be an end to their clamors? Loud, thundering exultations would have broke through the hemisphere; and all the elements of nature have shook, and trembled, as by the dire eruption of some burning mountain. But it becomes a republican to treat his adversary with candor; and though he may have blundered and fallen, to make no other use of it than what nature, and reason, and truth and justice would suggest.
It is not necessary to say any thing more to enforce the opinion which Mr. Adams has given relative to the deficiencies, and deformities of the old administration. It certainly can require no comment to show that he has unequivocally pronounced it both profligate, and corrupt.
But it is remarkable with what subtle adroitness he seems to plead for himself. As much as to say that it is in vain to attempt to save over and disguise those measures by a specious phraseology, & an obstinate perseverance in our own wrongs: They were indisputably bad: But the odium of them ought not to attach to him, because he was but one of the many who were concerned in them, and they were much against his inclination. “Some of them (he says) were the measures of the Legislature:” A very plausible, and becoming “apology” indeed, for a President of the United States! The measures were bad, he confesses: But he did not “propose or recommend” them; he only ratified, confirmed, and approved them, when they were passed. Just so it would be with a boy who was charged with a mischief in which he had been concerned with another. He would be ready by an involuntary impulse to pass the charge on to the shoulders of the other: It was not me; it was Harper, and Hamilton, and Tracy, and Ois, and Dana, and Dayton, and Griswold, and Rutledge, and Bayard—a set of mercenaries, and political traitors. But after all, Adams had a hand in it, and was a principal abettor. Alas! those serpents tempted him, and he did eat of the fruit that the Constitution, and his duty forbade him to touch: That fruit:
“Whose mortal taste Brought death into the world and All our woe:—”
The fruit of treacherous transgression: And, like the unfortunate mother of sin, he has been banished from the garden of Eden, to tread the painful walks of dismal solitude, strewed with the thorns of repentance, and remorse. We are happy to observe these symptoms of it in him, however unavailing they may be “to individuals, or the public.” Though they cannot operate to recompense the people for the wrongs they have sustained; yet they may work a lasting benefit to himself in preparing his immortal part for the mansions of the blessed, in the boundless realms of futurity.
We will now undertake to consider the force of the arguments which go to exonerate and justify himself. They must of necessity partake of a personal nature; but they shall also partake of liberality.
It will be necessary, in pursuing our observations, to turn to the Constitution. We there find it prescribed (Art. 1. sect. 7.) that “every bill, which shall pass the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States. If he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their Journals, and proceed to reconsider it.” Hence it appears that the President is invested with certain powers, and duties, distinct from, and independent of the Legislature: That he is erected as one branch of the Government; and is placed alone, that his acts may be attended with more deliberation, more critical caution, and circumspection. If the fury of faction should infest the most popular branch, and pervert the objects of its institution, by occasioning measures incompatible with, and destructive of the rights, and liberties of the Citizen; if that factious fury should invade the Senate, though constitutionally considered as possessing more stable gravity, and settled wisdom than the other branch, and less liable to be hurried away “at times of unutterable indignation;” if they should imbibe the rage of party zeal, and run with the storm: Still the Constitution contemplated a remaining hope—that of the suspensive veto invested in the President. To him alone was confided the powers and the dignity of a distinct department. In him one third part of the legislative authority was invested; at any rate until a reconsideration of the other branches had given time for the turbulence of passion to subside, & they were admonished of the rashness of the measure proposed. To him, therefore, in times of indignation, were the eyes & expectations of the people directed, as the sheet anchor of their political safety. Elevated in situation, dignified in attitude, and independent of local frowns; apart, and free from the vortex of cabal and intrigue, with an ample and correct view of the true interests of the country, and an heart found with laudable affection to promote, and preserve them, he should stand the last fortress of defence to the hopes and confidence of his constituents. How miserable the fault, then, to hold up the aberrations of the Legislature as an “apology” for his own back-slidings & detection: Thus acknowledging himself to be the weather vane of faction; the mere pointer of intrigue.
What is his boasted system? That of three branches: A system which he has labored over many a dreary page to uphold and defend. On what ground? Because he says they are admirably calculated to “check and balance” each other. But where was the “check,” or the “balance” during the time of his administration? Did not the three point the same way, and run together the course of usurpation? It was then in his power to have tested his own theory; but he was not so much of a modern epicurean philosopher. The times were indignant: Different principles were brought to conflict, and strive together: It was not prudent to act an open and manful part, until it was decided which should finally prevail. He may know by this time, but his day is over.
Mr. Adams has even gone so far as to attempt to apologize for certain “inaudacious expressions.” Now he had dug the “hole” for his “nobility” before those “times of unutterable indignation;” that is, before he became President; or else one would be inclined to suppose that he intended to include it. It will much more readily admit of an apology, than many others he has furnished: But he ought to have particularized those which he meant to apologize for, to the end that we might know how far they were pardonable; and not to have taken them in a lump, as a Friar would the sins of a penitent. But what were those times which he mentions in apology for “inaudacious expressions”? It seems they were times of fervid animosity, of “unutterable indignation.” Common sense would dictate that such times require the more caution: And that an unguarded petulance is never more censurable; because it is then apt to involve the most deplorable consequences. The centinel is not suffered to sleep on his post: And the general who would rave, and froth in the field, is not fit to command.
One observation more, and we dismiss the subject. Mr. Adams seems disposed to impute the follies of his conduct to the terror &asperity of the times. On the other hand, we impute the terror of past times to the follies of his conduct. Which is the fairest imputation? Agreeably to the doctrine preached by the federal papers nowadays, a President of the United States has the power of modelling the times, and making them what he pleases. “Those (they say) are Jefferson times ,”—by way of disparagement to Republicanism, because by the restoration of peace in Europe, commerce has, in some measure, been retarded, and the business connected with it has slackened: Of course those must have been Adams’ times ; and he, in answering the address, has found fault with his own image; or what is infinitely worse, pleaded his own mischiefs as an “apology” for his irritations, and imprudence. It sootheth to say, that out of their own mouths they stand condemned.
SEVENTY-FIVE.
GRAND CANAL.
Among the many grand projects in which the French government is now employed, the most gigantic, and at the same time the most useful, is the attempt to make the Rhine communicate with Paris. The canal will be from sixty to seventy-two feet in breadth, and ten or twelve feet deep. It will cost government only a few grants, from which no revenue is now raised. Citizen Prault St. Germain, the planner of this project, offers on the contrary a credit of twelve millions of livres, payable after the execution and accomplishment of the plan. Hereafter a communication may be opened between the Rhine and the Danube, which will afford the means of travelling from Paris to Constantinople in a boat, just as people travel now from Paris to St. Cloud.
It is also asserted that a junction of the Rhine, with the Marne and the Seine had formerly existed; and that in the year 885 some of the northern nations came by this canal with 700 sail to lay siege to Paris!
WASHINGTON-CITY, Nov. 26.
We are informed that the Executive has received advice, that the port of NEW ORLEANS has been closed against foreign vessels from the ocean, including American, and that the right of depositing American property there has been prohibited, without any other establishment being assigned in lieu of it. The right to export property before deposited was excepted from the prohibition. These regulations, so contrary to our treaty with Spain, were published at New Orleans, by the Intendant, on the 17th October last.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Scotland, to his friend in Pittsburg, dated May 10, 1802.
“In a nation have the friends of rectitude and integrity suffered more than in this, from that vile spirit of persecution. With regard to public affairs, the field is too ample for me to enter upon, especially on such a remnant of paper. Those of Britain in particular, are too bad to be touched. “We look back without satisfaction, and forward without hope.”
“I now rejoice, most sincerely, to find your country directed by that celebrated man, who has resolution to put into action those principles of the most enlightened policy, which, in the present depraved condition of mankind, have by many, even enlightened men, been deemed impracticable; that of procuring to the community the greatest possible happiness, at the least possible expence; and he who has boldness, and without hesitation or trepidation, laid the axe to the root of those tremendous overgrown trees, peculation and corruption.”
“In this country, he who could seriously talk of the practicability of such things was derided, and almost considered as insane, until Jefferson verified them to the admiring world at large, and upon the most extensive scale.”
NEW-YORK, December 6.
The fast sailing English ship Richard, captain Perrin, arrived at this port yesterday in 42 days from London, and 30 from the Lizard Point. She left London on the 16th, and the Downs on the 24th October, bringing papers to the 21st.
In addition to the articles subjoined from papers to the 16th (with which General Lyman has obligingly favoured the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser) a Gentleman who came passenger in the Richard informs us, That the English Government had ordered a number of men of war to be in readiness for sea, that several had sailed from Portsmouth, supposed to be destined for the Mediterranean; and that the interference of the French Government in the affairs of Switzerland excited in the minds of some politicians an apprehension of a renewal of hostilities between France and Great-Britain.
Commerce in England rather languid.
American Produce generally low.
Extract of a letter from Trenton, dated Dec. 2.
“The Legislature of this State rose this morning, without choosing a Governor or Senator, or passing a law for holding an election to choose Representatives for this State in the Congress of the United States.”
A writer in a late Charleston paper asserts, that hundreds of Africans have been clandestinely imported into and sold in S. Carolina the present year—and expresses a hope that the Legislature of that State will lay a duty of 32 dollars per head and open the ports for the importation of negroes.
The following paragraph is from Dr. Rusa’s celebrated piece on the mode of Education proper in a Republic:
“A Christian cannot fail of being a Republican. The history of the creation of man, and of the relation of our species to each other by birth, which is recorded in the Old Testament, is the best refutation that can be given to the divine right of Kings, and the strongest argument that can be used in favor of the original and natural equality of all mankind. A Christian, I say again, cannot fail of being a Republican, for every precept of the Gospel inculcates those degrees of humility, self denial, and brotherly kindness which are directly opposed to the pride of Monarchy, and the pagenantry of a Court. A Christian cannot fail of being useful to the Republic, for his religion teacheth him, that no man “liveth to himself.”—And lastly, a Christian cannot fail of being wholly inoffensive, for his religion teacheth him, in all things to do to others what he would wish, in like circumstances, they should do to him.”
ANECDOE.—From the Pittsfield Sun.
When Judge WASHINGTON was lately in Connecticut, he observed in a circle of gentlemen, of both political parties, that the opposition papers contained such abuse of administration as ought not to pass without punishment; that although he was himself opposed to President JEFFERSON in politics, he thought it unforfeitable, that a man of such exemplary morals, and such purity of private character, especially when vested with the chief magistracy of the nation should be treated with so much personal insult and abuse; and that it ought to be the subject of legal animadversion. The Post-Master-General, who was one of the company, said he could point out a more effectual method of remedying the evil; and being asked what it was, replied, do you sit, and Judge LAW, who was also present, sit down and write to the editors of such abusive papers, to discontinue sending them to you, so long as they continue to insult and abuse the President. That would produce a greater and better effect, than any judicial correction, which your honors can inflict, and at the same time not endanger an infringement of the freedom of the Press.
On the 5th Sept. a most melancholy catastrophe happened at Madeira. The Aurora, a Portuguese ship of 550 tons, having 40 casks of powder on board, blew up and only two poor fellows escaped of 34 souls on board. “The scene during the night, was awful, but at daylight, it was truly horrid. The poor souls were lying in every position on board the wreck; some without legs, arms, and others actually roasted on the flames,—18 bodies only, were found. It is the prevalent opinion, that the act was designedly perpetrated by one of the sailors, who had sworn vengeance against the Captain, for having confined him for mal-practices. The wretch was sufficiently desperate, to sacrifice his own life with his ship-mates, from motives of private resentment. The ship and cargo was estimated at £60,000 sterl.
NEW GOODS.
To be sold at WILLIAM PECKHAM’S HARD WARE STORE, by PECKHAM & MASON, A fresh supply of GOODS, &c.
BRASS KETTLES , warming and frying pans, block tin tea-pots, London and common pewter, fashionable table and tea knives & forks, iron and block tin table and tea spoons, bits and iron coffee-mills, brass and iron candlesticks, brass and iron headed shovels & tongs, polished and japanned snuffers, carving knives and forks, butchers’ and table steels, flat irons, brass and iron headed hand-irons, patent lamps, looking-glasses, glass, china and brass supporters, sieves and sieve bottoms, house and heater brushes, house, clothes, curriers, shoe and boot brushes, tailors and clothiers thers, calile & common scissars, brass and iron nose bells, brass and steel open top thimbles, sail-makers, faddlers and taylor’s needles, paper and pound pins, high and low priced razors with cases, hooks, oil stones and straps, razor hooks, clock nails and bakes, large & small scale-beams, brass scales and weights, flyleards from 25 to 300 wt. currier’s knives and steels, haute, shears, cow and sheep bells, men and boys hollow-iron leaves, old and new fashioned brass and iron knockers, brass and iron thumb latches and catches, finished and common lock-locks, by the dozen, double bolt and common padlocks, spike and nail gimlets, box and brass sliders, gunner rules, plated stirrups, bits, spurs, pickles and tips, horse chaise, and cart whips, bed screws, covers and keys, pincet and common brick and plastering trowels, faddlers fleamers and creasing irons, brass & white bellsows nails, rat and mouse traps, files and pencils.
Best Kenyon flutes, whet & set, mill, pit, croissant, wood, hand, pannell, scimitar, sack, Dovetail and keyhole saws, anvils, long and short beech and hand Vices, plain stocks and irons, copper’s compasses, vices, bits, axes, adzes and plain irons, elastic belt steel and iron nitting needles, black cattle carver’s tools assorted, carpenter’s bits and bite stocks, ship and common screw and pod augers, assorted, from 1/4 to 2 inches; English and American Gades and shovels, snap and spring tobacco boxes, pistol and hanger blades, gun and pistol locks, flints and steels, drawing knives and spoke shaves, bar-iron, nail rods and plates, German, bilister, Crawley and cast steel, thick and thin sheet iron, cart, waggon and chaise boxes, with a large assortment of hollow ware;—sheet lead and shot, wool and cotton cards, ivory and horn combs, black lead pots and crucibles, weaver’s flays and cane poles, sewing and faint twine by the dozen.
Also, striped & plain hair sheeting, red, crimson, blue and white, wide and narrow bunting, buff, mixed and blue broadcloths, fine yellow canvas, for lamps; No. 12 assorted threads, by the pound; ontney, pepper and spice; tea, coffee and sugar; hogs skins, seal leather and sheep wool.
It would be too tedious to mention all the articles in the Store—with all those who are in want of any article in the Hard Ware line, to call & see for themselves; they will be waited on with pleasure, whether they purchase or not.
CASH given for Bees-Wax, Babbery Fallow, old Copper, Brass, Pewter, & Lead.
All Persons indebted to the firm of PECKHAM & MASON, are earnestly requested to make immediate payment, as the term for which they entered into Copartnership expires on the 1st of February next.
Providence Dec. 9, 1802.
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WILLIAM HELME
Respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, THAT having employed an experienced Workman from New-York, he has for sale, at his Manufactory on the Point (by the large or small quantity) mould and dipped tallow Candles, hard and soft Soap, warranted to be of equal quality to any imported.
Newport, Sept. 3, 1802.
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Public Entertainment.
THE subscriber informs the Public that he has opened a House of Entertainment in Water-Street, in the town of WARREN, sign of the Ship; west of Cole’s Inn.—Constant attendance will be given, and every attention paid to Ladies and Gentlemen, for their accommodation, by the Public’s humble servant, PRESERVED ALGER.
October 23, 1802.
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For Sale, by the Subscriber, BETWEEN one and two thousand weight of Oakum, which will be disposed of, either in large or small quantities, as may best suit purchasers.
CASH, and the highest price, given for old JUNK, as usual. JOHN WILLIAMS, Keeper of the Work-House. Newport, Feb. 12.
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THOMAS PAINE, To the Citizens of the United States.
LETTER THE THIRD.
To elect, and to reject, is the prerogative of a free people.
Since the establishment of Independence, no period has arrived that so decidedly proves the excellence of the representative system of Government, and its superiority over every other, as the time we now live in. Had America been cursed with John Adams' hereditary Monarchy, or Alexander Hamilton's Senate for life, she must have fought, in the doubtful contest of civil war, what she now obtains by the expression of the public will. An appeal to elections decides better than an appeal to the sword.
The reign of terror that raged in America during the latter time of the Washington administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped in mystery to me. That there were men in the government hostile to the representative system, though it is now their overthrow, was once their boast, and therefore the fact is established against them. But that so large a mass of the people should become the dupes of those who were loading them with taxes, in order to load them with chains and deprive them of the right of election, can be ascribed only to that species of wild-fire rage, lighted up by falsehood, that not only acts with reflection, but is too impetuous to make any.
There is a general and striking difference between the genuine effects of truth itself, and the effects of falsehood believed to be truth. Truth is naturally benign; but falsehood believed to be truth is always furious. The former delights in serenity, is mild and persuasive, and seeks not the auxiliary aid of invention. The latter sticks at nothing. It has naturally no morals. Every lie is welcome that suits its purpose. It is the innate character of the thing to act in this manner, and the criterion by which it may be known whether in politics or religion. When any thing is attempted to be supported by lying, it is presumptive evidence that the thing so supported is a lie also. The flock on which a lie can be engraved must be of the same species as the graft.
What is become of the mighty clamour about French invasions and the cry that our country is in danger and taxes and armies must be raised to defend it? The danger is fled with the faction that created it, and what is worst of all the money is fled too. It is I only that have committed the hostility of invasion, and all the artillery of pop-guns are prepared for action. Poor fellows, how they foam! They set half their own patiens in laughter; for among ridiculous things, nothing is more ridiculous than ridiculous rage. But I hope that they will not leave off. I shall lose half my greatness when they cease to lie.
So far as respects myself, I have reason to believe and a right to say, that the leaders of the reign of terror in America, and the leaders of the reign of terror in France, during the time of Robespierre, were in character the same sort of men, or how is it to be accounted for, that I was persecuted by both at the same time. — When I was voted out of the French Convention, the reason assigned for it was, that I was a foreigner. When Robespierre had me seized in the night and imprisoned in the Luxembourg (where I remained eleven months) he assigned no reason for it. But when he proposed bringing me to the tribunal, which was like sending me at once to the scaffold, he then assigned a reason, and the reason was, "for the interest of America as well as of France." — Pour l'intérêt de l'Amérique autant que de la France. The words are in his own hand writing and reported to the Convention by the committee appointed to examine his papers, and are printed in their report, with this reflection added to them, "Why Thomas Paine more than another? Because he contributed to the liberty of both worlds."
There must have been a coalition in sentiment, if not in fact, between the terrorists of America and the terrorists of France, and Robespierre must have known it, or he could not have had the idea of putting America into the bill of accusation against me. Yet these men, these terrorists of the new world, who were waiting for the joyful news of my destruction, are the same banditti who are now bellowing, in all the hackneyed language of hackneyed hypocrisy, about humanity, and piety, and often about something they call infidelity, and they finish with the chorus of crucify him, crucify him . I am become so famous among them they cannot eat or drink without me. I serve them as a flanking dish, and they cannot make up a bill of fair if I am not in it.
But there is one dish, and that the choicest of all, they have not yet preferred on the table, and it is time they should. They have not yet accused Providence of infidelity. Yet, according to their outrageous piety, she must be as bad as Thomas Paine; she has protected him in all his dangers, patronized him in all his ways, and rewarded him at last by bringing him in safety and in health to the promised land. This is more than she did by the Jews, the chosen people, that they tell us she brought out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage; for they all died in the wilderness and Moses too.
I was one of the nine members that composed the first committee of Constitution. Six of them have been destroyed. Scythes and myself have survived: He by bending with the times and I by not bending. The other survivors joined Robespierre and signed with him the warrant for my arrestation. After the fall of Robespierre he was seized and imprisoned in his turn and sentenced to transportation. He has since apologized to me for having signed the warrant, by saying, he felt himself in danger and was obliged to do it.
Hershel Secheles, an acquaintance of Mr. Jefferson and a good patriot, was my supplian as member of the committee of Constitution, that is, he was to supply my place if I had not accepted or had resigned, being next in number
of votes to me. He was imprisoned in the Luxembourg with me, was taken to the tribunal and the Guillotine, and I, his principal, was left.
There were but two foreigners in the Convention, Anacharsis Cloots and myself. We were both put out of the Convention by the same vote, at the same order, and carried to prison together the same night. He was taken to the Guillotine and I was again left. Joel Barlow was with us when we went to prison.
Joseph Lebon, one of the vilest characters that ever existed, and who made the streets of Arras run with blood, was my supplian as member of the Convention for the department of the Pas de Calais. When I was put out of the Convention, he came and took my place. When I was liberated from prison and voted again into the Convention, he was sent to the same prison and took my place there; he went to the Guillotine instead of me. He supplied my place all the way through.
One hundred and sixty eight persons were taken out of the Luxembourg in one night, and a hundred and sixty of them Guillotined the next day, of which I now know I was to have been one; and the manner I escaped that fate is curious and has all the appearance of accident.
The room in which I was lodged was on the ground floor, and one of a long range of rooms under a gallery, and the door of it opened outward and flat against the wall; so that when it was open the inside of the door appeared outward, and the contrary when it was shut. I had three comrades, fellow prisoners with me, Joseph Vanhulle of Bruges, since president of the municipality of that town, Michael Robins and Basini of Lovain.
When persons by scores and by hundreds were to be taken out of prison for the Guillotine, it was always done in the night, and those who performed that office had a private mark or signal by which they knew what rooms to go to and what number to take. We, as I have said, were four, and the door of our room was marked, unobserved by us, with that number in chalk; but it happened, if happening is a proper word, that the mark was put on when the door was open and flat against the wall, and thereby came on the inside when we shut it at night, and the destroying angel passed by it. A few days after this, Robespierre fell, and Mr. Monroe arrived and reclaimed me, and invited me to his house. During the whole of my imprisonment, prior to the fall of Robespierre, there was no time when I could think my life worth twenty-four hours, and my mind was made up to meet its fate. The Americans in Paris went in a body to the convention to reclaim me, but without success. There was no party among them with respect to me. My only hope then rested on the Government of America that it would remember me. But the icy heart of ingratitude, in whatever man it be placed, has neither feeling nor sense of honor. The letter of Mr. Jefferson has served to wipe away the reproach and done justice to the mass of the people of America.
When a party was forming, in the latter end of seventy seven and beginning of seventy eight, of which John Adams was one, to remove Mr. Washington from the command of the army on the complaint that he did nothing, I wrote the fifth number of the Crisis and published it at Lancaster (Congress being then at Yorktown in Pennsylvania) to ward off that meditated blow; for though I well knew that the black times of seventy six was the natural consequence of his want of military judgment in the choice of positions into which the army was put about New York and Jersey, I could, no possible advantage, and nothing but mischief, that could arise by distracting the army into parties, which would have been the case had the intended motion gone on.
General Lee, who with a sarcastic genius joined a great fund of military knowledge, was perfectly right when he said, We have no business on Islands, and in the bottom of bogs, where the enemy, by the aid of its ships, can bring its whole force against a part of ours and shut it up . This had like to have been the case at New York, and was the case at fort Washington, and would have been the case at fort Lee if General Greene had not moved instantly off on the first news of the enemy's approach. I was with Greene through the whole of that affair and know it perfectly.
But though I came forward in defence of Mr. Washington when he was attacked, and made the best that could be made of a series of blunders that had nearly ruined the country, he left me to perish when I was in prison. But as I told him of it in his life time, I should not now bring it up, if the ignorant impertinence of some of the federal papers, who are pushing Mr. Washington forward as their stalking-horse, did not make it necessary.
That gentleman did not perform his part in the revolution better nor with more honour, than I did mine, and the one part was then as necessary as the other. He accepted as a present (though he was already rich) a hundred thousand acres of land in America, and left me to occupy six foot of earth in France. I wish, for his own reputation, he had acted with more justice. But it was always known of Mr. Washington, by those who best knew him, that he was of such an icy and death like constitution, that he neither loved his friends, nor hated his enemies. But, be this as it may, I see no reason that a difference between Mr. Washington and me should be made a theme of discord with other people. There are those who may see merit in both, without making themselves partisans of either, and with this reflection I close the subject.
As to the hypocritical abuse thrown out by the federalists on other subjects I recommend to them the observance of a commandment that existed before either Christian or Jew existed:
"Thou shalt make a covenant with thy senses." "With thine eye, that it beholds no evil."
"With thine ear, that it hears no evil." "With thy tongue, that it speaks no evil." "With thy hands, that they commit no evil." If the federalists will follow this commandment, they will leave off lying.
THOMAS PAINE.
Federal City, Lovell's Hotel, Nov. 26, 1802.
NEWPORT, Saturday, December 11, 1802.
The jacobin " ex officio " paper in this town, seems still to growl about Mr. Rutledge. The paragraph copied into their last number, from the National Eger , shall be noticed by us in a proper manner next week. Want of room has precluded the appearance of our remarks which were prepared for this day's Republican.
The New-York " Evening Post ," has lately undertaken the defence of Mr. Rutledge, who has been solemnly charged with forging two Letters to the President of the United States. The same paper has since undertaken the defence of Vice-President Burr, who has been charged with setting on foot a negotiation with the federalists to deprive Mr. Jefferson of his election. We have all along strove to preserve a favorable sentiment of the Vice-President, and have eagerly caught at every circumstance which could operate in his favor, the more so because he is wholly indebted for his present consequence to the unadulterated energies of sound-hearted Republicans. But when we behold him brought down to the level of Hamilton's Evening Post , and there yoked with John Rutledge, whose guilt is so apparent; when we observe the same efforts employed to exculpate the one as the other, it certainly argues ill in favor of Mr. Burr, and renders appearances respecting him exceedingly suspicious and equally.
The Tuesday's jacobin paper has mentioned "the silence of the Boston Chronicle," as favorable to their ill-fated cause. We therefore extract the following from the Chronicle of the 3d inst.:
"We have not interfered in the controversy between Mr. Rutledge, and others, on certain forged letters addressed to the President; but the omission has not arisen from our being satisfied that the charge is without foundation."
"If the editor of the Palladium will condescend to inform the public, whether John Rutledge, Esq. said in the newspapers to be the writer of two forged letters, addressed to the President of the United States, is the same gentleman who, in the beginning of the last summer, wrote a letter which found its way into the Courant , stating that a caucus was held at Washington, where Gov. M c LEAN, WM. DUANE, and a number of other individuals therein named were present; — which statement has since proved to have been a sheer fabrication — then one of the writers in the Chronicle will give an opinion whether the FORGERY in question ought in justice to be put down to the account of Mr. Rutledge; and whether this pretty trick may fairly take rank among the numerous federal deceptions practiced upon the good people of these States."
We copy the following from the American Citizen , printed at New-York, of the 3d inst.
"RUTLEDGE'S LETTERS."
The prattling dastard who edits the Evening Post , affects triumph on the subject of the letters said to be forged by Rutledge. To-morrow, notwithstanding the inconsiderate concession of the Eger and the Morning Chronicle — whose Editors appear to be entirely ignorant of the grounds of the controversy — we shall resume the discussion. This will be done, not with a view to cover with blushes a mean and malevolent opponent, who is insensible to shame, or to gratify a spirit of useless strife, but to place the matter, as far as testimony in our possession will enable us, on a correct and solid foundation. We hesitate not to give it as our decided opinion that Rutledge is guilty of the forgery ascribed to him. We have seen the forged letters; carefully compared them with notes written by Rutledge at various times and on various subjects, and the result is a full and entire conviction that he is the writer of the forged letters. This subject is of much more consequence than is at present imagined by the community at large. There are good grounds to suspect that Rutledge has for two years back been guilty of these base and dishonorable practices. It is to be hoped that Congress will canvass the subject. The dignity of the chief magistracy ought not to be thus sported with. It may be that the forged letters will be laid before Congress. The measure would be just and expedient; and the result without doubt will be the expulsion of Rutledge from the House; for no man can examine the letters without a full conviction that he is the writer of them. Considering, therefore, of what importance the matter is to the Union, and that it may become a subject of solemn national investigation, our subscribers will not think the Citizen misemployed by further remarks on the subject.
Extract of a letter from Chichester, North-West territory, Nov. 4th.
"The Convention yesterday agreed, with but one dissentient vote, to come into the Union, and to form a Constitution for the State. You may judge of the politics of the "SEVENTEENTH STATE," by the elections for members of that body; 26 republicans, 7 federalists, 2 doubtful. Our representative to Congress, and our two members of the Senate of the United States, will undoubtedly be republicans." The new State is named OHIO.
Messrs. John Milledge, David Meriwether, Peter Early, and Samuel Hammond (all Republicans ) have been elected to represent the State of Georgia in the House of Representatives of the United States. — And the Legislature of Georgia have since elected, by a large majority, John Milledge, Governor of that State. We need scarcely add that Mr. Milledge's politics have been uniformly republican.
Gen. Samuel Smith, of Maryland, is elected a member of the Senate of the U. States, vice Mr. Howard, a federalist, dismissed. — What intolerance! On this event we have again to congratulate our Republican friends. It is but a short time since Maryland had two federal representatives in the Senate, which she has now exchanged for two Republicans.
MARRIED — On Thursday evening, by the Rev. Mr. Eddy, Mr. Ephraim Safford, of Tiverton, to Miss Hannah Lawton, daughter of Col. Giles Lawton, jun. of Portsmouth.
DIED — In South-Carolina, Mr. Calhoun, member of the Senate of the U. States from that State.
In this town on the 25th ult. Mrs. Alice Whallings, widow, in the 79th year of her age. — On Saturday morning last, Mrs. Sarah Robinson, wife of Capt. Robert Robinson, and daughter of Mr. Samuel Congdon of South-Kingsville.
At Bristol, in her 17th year. Miss Sophia Bourn, daughter of the Hon. Benjamin Bourn. — On the 20th ult. after a short & distressing illness, Mrs. Susannah Monroe, wife of Capt. Bateman Monroe, and daughter of Mr. Job Durrance, of Portsmouth, in the 28th year of her age. She was amiable, possessing a sweetness of disposition and brilliancy of imagination, which, with her personal attractions, rendered her highly engaging as a companion; and was endowed with those virtues which secured the heart and rivetted the attachment of husband and friends. Long, long shall memory on thy virtues dwell, And long lament the stroke by which she fell.
METEOROLOGICAL TABLE.
Fahrenheit's Thermometer — 1802.
   ° ° ° Winds. Weather.     26 50 51 SE SE Cloudy Cloudy   27 43 46 N N Do. Fair   28 40 42 NW NW Fair Fair   29 48 46 Do. N Fair Fair   30 46 50 N SE Fair Fair  
CUSTOM-HOUSE.
District of Newport, December 11.
   ENTERED. From     Sloop Montezuma, Cole, New-York   Abigail, Bliven, Do.   Friendship, Sandford, Do.   Maria, Melme, Do.   Semiramis, Justin, Do.   Eliza, Bliven, Do.   Schooner Hope, Davis, Do.     CLEARED. For     Sloop Earl, Swift, Charleston   Sally, Burk, Wilmington   Schooner Adventure, Cozzens, Do.   Brig Polly, Lawton, Charleston   Sloop Lark, Wickes, Savannah   Cornelia, Brown, New-York   Two Sisters, Earl, Do.  
JOHN M. MANSFIELD,
At his SHOE STORE, corner of Church Lane, Thames-Street.
KEEPS constantly for sale, a general assortment of warranted SHOES, among which are a beautiful variety of the most fashionable Kid Slippers for Ladies, just received. — Also, A fresh supply of Morocco Shoes; Ditto, with cork soles, male plain & to lace — Florentine Shoes — Gentlemen's fine & common Shoes — a large assortment of men's and boys' thick do. — Children's do. of almost every description. The smallest favor will be gratefully acknowledged.
Newport, Dec. 10, 1802. 115119
TO THE PUBLIC.
Newport Long-Wharf, No. 12.
Keyes and Brigham,
Have constantly for sale,
PRIME and mels PORK — prime mels, mels and prime BEEF, of the first quality, re-packed in the best order, suitable for domestic or foreign use. — Also, by the keg or box, LARD, first sort — refined mould tallow CANDLES, first quality; ditto ditto — No 1 and 2 Bar SOAP. — Likewise, corned, and fresh BEEF. December 10, 1802.
TO BE LET,
AND possession given immediately, a convenient two story Dwelling-House, on the Long-Wharf, but a few rods below the foot of the Parade. For terms, apply to WILLIAM RYAN.
Take Notice.
WE the subscribers, having been appointed by the Court of Probate for the town of New-Shoreham, Commissioners to receive, examine, and adjust the claims of the creditors to the private estate of Nathaniel Briggs, late of New-Shoreham, deceased, represented insolvent; — Give notice to all persons having demands against said estate, to bring them in to either of us, at our respective dwellings, within nine months from the date hereof, being the time allowed by said Court.
JOHN GORTON, } Commis-
NATHANIEL G. SANDS, } sioners.
N. B. All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment, to BATHSHEBA BRIGGS, Admin ix , New-Shoreham, Nov. 26, 1802. 115

The AMERICAN PATRIOT'S Prayer. By THOMAS PAINE, Esq. Written in the year 1775.
PARENT of all, omnipotent In heav'n, and earth below, Thro' all creation's bounds unspent, Whose streams of goodness flow.
Teach me to know from hence I rose, And unto what design's; No private aims let me propose, Since link'd with human kind.
But chief to hear my country's voice, May all my thoughts incline, Tis reason's law, 'tis virtue's choice, 'Tis nature's call and thine.
From fair freedom's sacred cause, Let nothing e'er divide; Grandeur, nor gold, nor vain applause, Not friendship false misguide.
Let me not fashion's partial hat Pursue to this Land's woe: Nor grasp the thunder of the state, To wound a private foe.
If, for the right, to with the wrong, My country shall combine, Single to serve th' erron'ous throng, Spite of themselves, be mine.
One federal alarm passeth away, and another cometh. Some thousands of French negroes, a few days since, were declared to be landed at Carolina. This was a pretty electioneering trick, especially when it had the countenance of a Great General, who declared in company with Laco that he believed the account was true. We have now a new story on the anvil—Tom Paine, the infidel. Alas! his religion come to this low ebb, that one man alarms two or three thousand Clergymen, who are paid by their respective parishes to maintain the truth of the Gospel! These Clergymen not only receive a handsome salary for their services, but have the word of God to sanction their confidence, that the gates of hell, much less Tom Paine, shall not prevail against it.—The people of England and France will laugh at our folly, when they find that Tom Paine, the infidel, has alarmed the whole body of Christians throughout the United States. If the Christian Religion stands on so slender a foundation, the professors of it, at least, are the most miserable. [Bost. Chron.]
One of the last Liverpool papers contains an advertisement, by authority of the church wardens and overseers of the poor, giving a description of no less than twenty nine husbands who have run away from their wives, and left their families chargeable on the parish.—In this list there are six tailors & five shoemakers. In the description of the runaway wives there is only one of a ruddy complexion, and he is a blacksmith. The parish offers a guinea for apprehending any one of them, but none of the wives offer a penny.
John A. Shaw, & Co.
INFORM the Public that they have taken a Shop next door but one North of the Coffee-House, where they carry on the HAIR-MAKING BUSINESS in all its Branches. Likewise all kinds of Hair Work & Gold Cyphers neatly executed. They have for Sale, English and Geneva gold & silver Watches, Gold Necklaces, silver tea and table Spoons, salt, mustard & pepper Spoons, soup and punch Ladles, sugar Tonges, large & small Looking Glasses, dressing Do. tea Trays, Waiters & dressing Cases, plated, wooden, and Britannia Castors, Britannia tea and coffee Pots, Gentlemen's and Children's belt & common Hats, Salpeters, Knives and Forks, brass globe & common Handirons, Shovel & Tonges, brass and japanned Lamps, elegant plated & brass Candlesticks, dart and common Cans, horse & chaise Whips, ladies do. Scissors, Pen-Knives, Snuffers & Trays, powder Boxes and Puffs, Razors in cases and without, shaving Boxes, and Windsor Soap, Cream Balls, writing Paper, Dutch Quills, Spanish Segars, Maccabau, Rappee & Scotch Snuff, Starch, Purple Brown, together with a complete Assortment of Jewellery & Perfumery.—They Also carry on the GOLD & SILVERSMITH'S Business: Cash given for Old Gold and Silver. Punctual attendance, and the smallest favors gratefully acknowledged. Newport, Oct. 2. 1822. 92tf
NOTICE.
ALL those who are indebted to THOMAS A. GREEN, or to JOHN MOSHER, and Co. either by Book or Note, are hereby notified, that the accounts and notes are lodged with the subscriber for collection—and are earnestly requested to make immediate payment, and prevent unnecessary cost. EDWARD HEMPSTEAD. Newport, Oct. 29. 1802. 92tf
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers, Executors of the last Will and Testament of Samuel Sanford, of Newport, deceased, call upon all persons having any demands upon the Estate of the deceased, to exhibit them; and all persons indebted to the said Estate, are called upon to make payment, to SAMUEL VERNON, SAMUEL VERNON, jun. VALENTINE WIGHTMAN. Newport, Oct. 14. 1802. 92tf
FOR SALE, The Snow Mary, LYING at Mr. John C. Scott's wharf—one hundred and one tons burthen, two decks, may be put to sea at a small expence. About 10 tons of Fusile, and 22 tons of Canneachy Wood, now on board her. For Terms apply to SIMON DAVIS. Newport, Oct. 2. 1802.
EUROPEAN & INDIA GOODS, Benjamin Thurber Has just received, and is now opening for Sale, at the sign of the Bunch of Grapes , No. 30, WILLIAMS-STREET, A complete Assortment of FALL and WINTER GOODS , Consisting of RED , blue, black, London brown and mixed broadcloths; plain & striped Cassimeres; blue, green & London brown Serges; spotted & striped elastics, plains, forest cloths, from the highest to the lowest prices, Rattinees very cheap, coloured and clouded coatings, light do. black, red, yellow and white Flannels, do. Baizes, fashionable Sarsdown, black and olive plain & striped Velvets, safe Blankets from 6 3/4 to 10 3/4, worsted and cotton Hosiery of every description. A complete assortment of New and Fashionable, blue and tea ground CALLICOES, low priced do. red, blue, and purple COPPER-PLATE, chintz and purple Shawls.
INDIA COTTONS , by the piece or yard very cheap; English Bed-ticking. A complete assortment of coloured Camel's Hair SHAWLS, white do. high and low-priced; Bandana and checked silk Handkerchiefs, pocket do. Linens, 4-4 wide, Diapers, black and coloured India Sattins, coloured Lute Stripes, Italian do. silk and cotton Gloves, cotton Mitts, Sarfets and Modes, pelong Sattin, Persians of all colours, Bengals; Cambricks, Jacquet and book Muslins. Fashionable Dunstable, straw, Leghorn and chip BONNETS, and Straw Trimmings, Glove Ties, fancy Ribbons, black and white Laces & Edgings, white cotton fringed Shawls, Dimities & Muslinets, silk Crapes, Wildbores, Russias, Moreens, Durants, Shalloons, Rattinees, and striped Russells.
A large and complete Assortment of MUFFS & TIPPETTS, and fur trimmings, of various prices, very cheap. Ladies Morocco, Cloth and Leather SHOES, children's do. oil Cloths, brown Holland. A complete Assortment of LOOKING GLASSES; new fashioned Tea-Pots, China Delf, Crockery and glass WARE; London and Bristol Pewter, Knives & Forks, iron and brass Candlesticks, patent Lamps, iron and block-tin Spoons, cotton Wool. Warranted Carolina, French and Spanish flat INDIGO; Saws & Tonges, Japan Waiters, warming Pans, brass Kettles, &c. &c. The whole forming a general assortment, much too numerous to particularize in an Advertisement. They are offered for sale at the most reduced prices for CASH. Providence, Oct. 23. 92tf
WHEREAS the Court of Probate of the town of Newport, have allowed six months longer for the Creditors of the estate of Charles Laffelle, late of Newport, Merchant, deceased, represented insolvent, to bring in their claims:—Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against said estate, to exhibit them for settlement; and all such as are indebted, are earnestly requested to make immediate payment to SIMON DAVIS, Adm'r. Newport, Aug. 18. 1802. cvi
LUMBER. THE subscriber having entered into Copartnership, under the firm of Sheldon & Ruggles, would respectfully inform the public, that they have taken Wickham's wharf, next southward of Col. Sherburne's, where they have for sale on reasonable terms, a complete assortment of Eastern and other Lumber—such as merchantable pine Boards & Plank, clear Boards, clear Joist—merchantable pine Do. square Oak-Timber, pine Do. spruce Do. Oak Joist, Hemlock, Do. spruce Do. Bireb and Beech 3 inch Plank for bedheads; red Cedar, locust and white cedar Posts, for garden fences; Cedar & Pine Clapboards; good Kennebec and other shingles and Laths, &c.—Lumber of any dimension or kind can be procured from the Eastern country at short notice. They also have for Sale, West-India Rum by the Hogshead or Barrel; New-England do. Sugar by the Hogshead or Box; Molasses by the Hogshead; Cordage of all sizes by the cwt. or smaller quantity; Nails of all sizes; Pitch, Tar and Turpentine, &c. &c. DANIEL SHELTON, BENJAMIN RUGGLES. Newport, May, 15. 1801. 6tf
Just Published, and for sale at this Office, by the gross, dozen, or single. The Rhode-Island ALMANAC For the Year of our LORD, 1803. Containing a variety of matter, useful, instructive, and entertaining. Great allowance will be made to those who purchase large quantities.
Nathaniel Nason, INFORMS the Public that he has commenced the TIN PLATE Working Business, at the house occupied by his father David Nason, nearly opposite the foot of the Church-Lane, where all kinds of Tin Ware are manufactured in the best manner, and at the shortest notice, of the best materials. All orders for any kind of Tin Ware, executed immediately. Constant attendance given, and the smallest favors acknowledged. Newport, June 27. 1802. 92tf
Hard Ware Store. THE Subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has just received by the latest arrivals at Boston from Liverpool, a general assortment of HARD WARE, direct from the Manufacturers, which he will offer for sale, in Providence, at the Store of Mr. Isaac Pitman, directly opposite the Baptist Meeting-House, by Wholesale only, upon as reasonable terms as can be purchased at New-York or Boston.—They are now opening, and will be all opened in a few days, by HENRY GREW. Providence, May 21. 1802. 87tf
To be Sold, A LOT of Land, containing upwards of 3 acres, fronting Tanner & Warner Street, with a House, well finished; paved Cellar; and never failing well of water. Also, a Stable and Chaise-House.—Likewise for sale, a Lot, fronting Broad-Street and Tanner Street, with a large commodious Dwelling-House; Shop, Stable, and Chaise-House. For terms, apply to OLIVER READ. Newport, March 20. 1802. 77tf
A Good stand for Business. To be Sold, and possession given immediately, a Two Story Dwelling-House, with a convenient Shop, situate on the North side of Banister's wharf, next below Mr. Godfrey Weymouth's. For terms, apply to the Subscriber, on the premises. ANDREW BAKER. Newport, Sept. 17. 1802. ciiif
TO BE SOLD, A FARM, LYING in Exeter, State of Rhode-Island, about 4 1/2 miles from Wickford, containing 180 acres of good Land, with two Dwelling-Houses, and other out buildings. It may be purchased together, or in separate divisions. Payment will be made easy.—Also, A share in the Ohio Company, containing nearly Twelve Hundred Acres of excellent Land. For further particular, apply to PARDON TILLINGHAST. Exeter, Feb. 25. 50tf
Nicholas Webster, INFORMS the Public, that he has opened a GROCERY STORE in Broad Street, in the house, late the property of Mr. Caleb Earl, where he has for Sale a general assortment of WEST-INDIA GOODS . Among others, are the following articles: Rum, Brandy, Gin, Cherry-Rum, Molasses, Flour, Rye and Indian Meal, Teas of various kinds, Coffee, Chocolate, Raisins, Currants, Pepper, Ginger, Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Butter, Cheese, Candles, Onions, Tobacco, Snuff, Powder and Shot, Lamp-Oil, Loaf and Brown Sugars, &c. &c.—ALSO, A general and extensive variety of Crockery and Hard Ware; Men's and Women's Shoes, &c. &c. with many other articles, too tedious to mention; all which will be sold at the most reduced prices. Newport, Nov. 21. 1801. 60tf
Thomas Voax, At his Sugar-Refinery, South end of Thames-Street—Has constantly for Sale, SUGAR Refiner's MOLASSES, of an excellent quality, in Hogsheads, Tierces, and Barrels, or by the Gallon; LUMP SUGAR (very cheap for the quality) by the single lump, or larger quantity.—Also, Loaf SUGAR, by the Loaf; White Syrup, and Vinegar, by the Gallon.—He also continues to take in Brown Sugar, (to Manufacture into Loaf Sugar,) on reasonable terms. Newport, Oct. 7. 1802. cviif
TO BE SOLD, ON the 15th day of December next, (if fair weather—if not, the first fair day)—at 2 o'clock P. M. at public auction, unless previously disposed of—all the right and title which John Manchester, late of Middletown, died seized of, in and to a certain Dwelling-House and yard thereto adjoining, late the property of Isaac Manchester, deceased—situate in said Middletown; consisting of the great room, stove bed-room, north-west bed room, and the north-east quarter of the cellar, and north-east quarter of the house yard. Sale to be on the premises. The building is valuable, and convenient for a small family; and is really worth the attention of any that may wish to buy; who, if they choose to purchase at private sale, are invited to apply to the subscriber, who will give a good title. Conditions will be made known at the time and place of sale. SARAH MANCHESTER, Adm'r. Middletown, Nov. 10. 1802.
FOR SALE, HALF of a Body PEW, No. 80—situate on the West Aisle very near the pulpit, in the Rev. Mr. Bradley's Meeting House.—For terms enquire of the Printer. Newport, Oct. 23. 1802. c8tf
W. R. WILDER, BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, Has Removed to the Store next Door North of Messrs. Gibbs & Channing's, WHERE he offers for sale, many thousand Volumes of BOOKS, in the different branches of Literature—together with almost every article in the Stationary line, wholesale and retail.—Also an elegant Assortment of Gentlemen's HATS, from 75 cents to 6 dollars and 50 cents. Newport, Aug. 21, 99tf
NICOLAS GEFFROY, Watch-Maker, in Newport, Has constantly on hand, an elegant assortment of warranted, and common English, and Geneva Watches and Time-Pieces, which he will sell on reasonable terms. He also carries on the Goldsmith's & Silversmith's Business, in all its branches, and likewise will make, or repair, any kind of Jewellery, in the neatest fashion. He has likewise for Sale, Wholesale and Retail, all kinds of Jewellery, imported and of the latest fashion; officers' gold and silver epaulets; plated and brass candlesticks; plated and silver tea-pots; darts, small swords and hangers; plated bits, stirrups and spurs; tea-trays; castors and irons, flasks and tongs; cutlery ware of all kinds; night and day spy-glasses; ladies and gentlemen's pocket-books; dress-glasses; suspenders; trusses; horse-whips; razors; Hopkin's famous razor-strops; best Beaver hats; perfumery of all kinds, from London and Paris; hair-powder; starch; barley-sugar, and sugar plums; Spanish Segars; best Mikado & Scotch snuff; and a great variety of other articles, too numerous to insert in an advertisement. Newport, May 13. 1802. 19tf
Sail Making. THE subscribers having entered into partnership, under the firm of Spooner and Dunham, hereby inform the Public, that they carry on the Sail Making business, in its various branches, at their Sail Loft, on the wharf of the late Gen. John Malbone, at the South part of the town. Those who may favor them with their custom, may depend on punctuality and dispatch. All favors will be gratefully acknowledged, by WING SPOONER, 2d. CHARLES C. DUNHAM. Newport, April 3. 1802. 79tf
FOR SALE, BY Jacob Richardson, At the Post-Office, a great variety of Books and Stationary; among which are, several new publications, viz. A VIEW of the Political conduct of AARON BURR, Esq. Vice-President.—Wood's Correct Statement.—Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales.—Also, Adams' Four Letters, being an interesting Correspondence between JOHN ADAMS, late President, and SAMUEL ADAMS, late Governor of Massachusetts.—Life of General BONAPARTE—& An Antidote to JOHN WOOD's Poison.— Likewise may be had at said Store, a large Assortment of House Paper, and Borders. N. B. It may perhaps be unnecessary to inform the Public, that he has lately made an addition to his Circulating Library of "many thousand Volumes of BOOKS, in the different branches of Literature." To be sold at above, a few TICKETS in the Providence Baptist Meeting-House Lottery. August 21. 1802. 99tf
THE Court of Probate for the town of Newport, having appointed the subscribers commissioners, to examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of WALTER EASTON, late of said Newport, deceased, represented insolvent; and twelve months being allowed for that purpose:—Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against said estate, to bring them in to either of us, within said time, or otherwise they will be precluded according to law. EDMOND TOWNSEND, } Commissioners. THOMAS PECKHAM, } All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to MERIBETH EASTON, } Executrix. DAVID BUFFUM, } JOHN SLOCUM, } Newport, 4th Mo. 5. 1802. 82tf
FOR SALE, THE Sloop HARRIOT, 20 months old, now lying at Captain Caleb Gardner's Wharf, Eighty-one Tons burthen; may be put to sea at a small expence.—Also 18 Hogsheads and 15 Barrels Hispaniola Coffee; about one Ton Campeachy Wood; 10 Tons of Lignumvita, and 28 pieces Mahogany—now on board said Sloop. For terms apply to SIMON DAVIS. Newport, Nov. 5. 92tf
Entertainment, BY RICHARD BARKER, at the House formerly occupied by Capt. Robert S. Potter, sign of the Anchor, a little south east of the State House, where Ladies and Gentlemen may depend on being accommodated to their satisfaction. Punctual attendance will be given, and all favors gratefully acknowledged by the public's obedient servant, RICHARD BARKER. Newport, April 2. 1802. 79tf Blank Deeds, and Justice's Writs, and Executions, for sale at this Office.