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The Providence Journal.
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TOWN AND COUNTRY ADVERTISER.
Published on WEDNESDAYS, by JOHN CARTER, JUN. Printer of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES for the State of RHODE-ISLAND, &c. At the NEW PRINTING-OFFICE, West Side of the great Bridge, PROVIDENCE.
[No. 149.]
WEDNESDAY, November 4, 1801.
[Vol. III.]
COURT MARTIAL.
From the PALLADIUM.
TRIAL OF CAPT. LITTLE.
We present our readers with the sentence of the Court Martial in the affair of Captain Little, and the letter of the Secretary of the Navy, approving the same. As the defence made by Capt. Little's counsel, Mr. Otis, contains a statement of the evidence which was not disputed at the time of trial, we have obtained a copy of it, which precedes the sentence.
THE DEFENCE.
MR. PRESIDENT, and GENTLEMEN of the COURT,
UPON a view of the evidence exhibited by the prosecutors of Capt. Little, I am unable to discern the least foundation for impeaching his conduct as an officer, or as a man. I therefore dispense with the examination of any witnesses in his favour, except those who have been adduced to invalidate the testimony of those whose manifold contradictions would alone deprive him of all credit. It would betray a want of confidence in the candour and discernment of the Court, to occupy their time in the examination of witnesses to refute charges, which are entirely unsupported; and an undue anxiety in behalf of Capt. Little, to presume that any other justification of his proceedings can be necessary, but what is already established by the witnesses for the prosecution.—From these considerations, though surrounded by credible persons, who were spectators of all his transactions in relation to the Berceau and her crew, which were all public and undisguised, he cheerfully forbears to call them into Court, and rests his defence upon the utter deficiency of the evidence produced against him. Nor should I, upon an ordinary occasion, deem it incumbent upon Counsel to make any remarks in exculpation of a defendant against whom no accusation is supported by a shadow of proof. But when the most audacious practices have been employed to ruin the reputation of a brave officer, who, like yourselves, was engaged in our revolutionary conflict, and was distinguished as a man without fear, and without reproach; when efforts are made to tear from his brow his last and most verdant laurel, by men, whose patriotism is manifested only by the malignant ardour which precipitates them into projects to deface the character of their own country, its fleets and officers, and to gratify the pride, the passions, and even the freaks of another nation; when, finally, by an incessant din and clamour, continued for nearly twelve months, those men have at length so far deceived the administration, as to attract its attention to their wicked calumnies, it cannot be expected that I should sit down in silence, and suppress all allusion to these circumstances, and without some few comments upon the nature of the charges and of the evidence adduced against Capt. Little.
An attentive perusal of these charges shows, that they are all comprized in one; that of mal-treatment of his prisoners. It might indeed seem, upon a cursory view, as it has been intimated, that the charges contain something more, viz. an allegation of actual embezzlement by Capt. Little of certain of the prize goods, with an intent to defraud the government; but I must insist that no such charge is even specified by the government. The distinction is obvious between a secret taking of goods from an individual with an intent to defraud the United States, or the capturing crew, and the public seizure of property without any design of converting it to one's own use. The first is an offence prohibited by law; the last is no offence in itself; but if accompanied by a cruel and inhuman mode of proceeding, the cruelty and inhumanity may deserve censure, while the act is intrinsically right and justifiable.
As government, therefore, may prosecute for every fraud or embezzlement of prize goods; so it may forbear to prosecute, when the fraud appears to be dubious, or of a trifling and insignificant nature. In the present instance, it does thus forbear to prosecute for any direct injury sustained by itself. It lends its authority to prosecute a complaint, exhibited by individuals for injuries done to them, and which implicate the national honour. As the charges, therefore, now stand, if no individual has been injured by Capt. Little, he could not be convicted, even though it should appear that the United States, or his crew, had sustained a damage by his procurement; and that other charges might be framed against him, this Court being expressly precluded from trying any charge not specified in the order of arrest. This distinction, however clear, is of no moment to Capt. Little, except as it conduces to simplify the question before the Court, and to place the enquiry upon true principles.
It being, then, a question merely of mal-treatment, exercised towards prisoners by Capt. Little, I beg leave, without a particular recital of the articles, to consider the instances wherein the mal-treatment is alleged to have consisted, and whether Capt. Little is personally responsible for any of them, if they actually occurred.
The instances of ill-treatment are reducible to the following items; 1st. Taking money from the prisoners; 2d. Taking other articles; 3d. Indecent conduct in searching the prisoners; 4th. Cruelty in the mode of confining and supporting them; 5th. Kidnapping a part of the crew.
1st. With respect to the money, the facts are undeniably proved to be, That three several searches were made of the officers and crew of the captured vessel; the first, on board the Boston, the day following the capture, on the quarter deck; the second, upon other persons in the same ship, on the fore-castle, a few days subsequent to the first; and the last, on board the Berceau , about fifteen days after the capture. These searches were made in presence of all who chose to inspect them. The orders of the Captain were to take money, and all iron instruments, but to leave one hundred dollars to each commissioned officer, and fifty dollars to each warrant officer. Thus far, it is agreed, the orders were obeyed, and thus far only would Capt. Little be responsible, had his officers exceeded their authority. To this general seizure of the money, Capt. Little made another exception, which may illustrate that part of his character which has been held up to public view as sordid and avaricious. He restored to the unfortunate Capt. Senes all the specie in his trunk—a sum which he thought too liberal, which he received with tears of gratitude, and afterwards, when no longer a prisoner, mentioned with high encomiums on Capt. Little. A testimony, this, honourable indeed to Capt. Little, and outweighing a thousand peevish censures and bitter invectives of subalterns and sailors. The money thus taken was carried immediately into the wardroom, counted, put into a cask, with the account of the whole, locked up, and afterwards, to a farthing, delivered into the hands of the marshal.
2dly. Besides money, some of the persons employed in the search collected, at various times, eight or ten watches, all silver, but one or two, that were either gold or gilt, one or two gold rings, some other gilt rings, a half dozen silver buckles, a few quadrants and spy-glasses, all of which might possibly be worth one hundred and fifty or two hundred dollars. The watches and other trinkets were also carried, forthwith, to the ward-room, and as some of the witnesses think, were also put into the keg. However this might be, it appears from the schedule which George Little exhibited to Capt. Little, that these things were not noted. No traces appear to this court of the subsequent disposition of these few articles, but there is not the least room for a suspicion that Capt. Little ever received one of them into his possession. It might, however, be conceded for the sake of argument, that these baubles were seized and actually divided among the officers of the Boston, without any regular return or memorandum, still no offence would be committed within the meaning of any one of the charges, no injury would be thereby done to the prisoners. By the right of conquest all property belongs to the victors; even clothing and baggage. This is evident, from the ordinary stipulations of garrisons and armies, when compelled to capitulate; from the examples of towns and countries, given up to plunder. The conqueror has a discretion what to take, and a prisoner, on his own account, has no cause of complaint for any loss which he sustains by authority from his captor. He has no right of property, but merely a right of humanity, to be clothed and fed. The law prohibits individuals from pillaging a prisoner of any of his effects, but the commanding officer may decide and seize what is superfluous; and property, thus taken, cannot be deemed that species of pillage which the articles of war aim to prevent. Watches, rings, buckles and plate, may be deemed by a conqueror mere superfluities. They may, accordingly, be seized by him for the use of the captors, who are amenable only to the government of their own country for the disposal of them. Whatever becomes of the booty is indifferent to the prisoner; his loss is not aggravated in any event. It may also justly be doubted whether, regard being had to the general usage of belligerent nations, these trifling toys, thus taken from the person, are within the description of those effects, the taking whereof from the prize-ship is prohibited by our law. But it suffices to glance at this position, the assumption of which is not essential to Captain Little's vindication. If the trinkets were not seizable of right, his written orders did not authorize the measure. If they have been since embezzled or lost, he never received them into his custody, nor, as I contend, did he ever see them; for the testimony of Mr.
Haswell to his being in the wardroom, when a part of them was displayed on the table, evidently refers to the period mentioned by Messrs. Soley and Bradford, who testify, that Capt. Little was not in the wardroom, and Mr. Haswell, who was then sick and wounded, and out of his birth only a few moments at a time, and who cannot swear to the presence of any other person, is probably mistaken. But whether present or not, the entire property was left in the wardroom in the custody of the officers. Whoever had access to the cask which contained them, Capt. Little certainly had none; the only return made to him was an account of the cash, which has been produced in court, sworn to by the Clerk, and proved to compare with the return of the Marshal of the District. Thus Capt. Little, if culpable in any view, would deserve censure, not for receiving possession of these things, but for omitting to receive it. It was not his duty, however, to do more than he did. You, Gentlemen, have better information upon this subject than I can pretend to, and I submit to your opinion, whether it be practicable for the Captain of a frigate personally to superintend, search and seize property with his own hands, to take an account of it when seized, or to keep it in his custody. Like all men in superior stations, he must depend upon the fidelity of his subordinate agents; they hold their commissions under the same authority with himself, and in the present case the officers might fairly be presumed to be checks upon each other. After issuing discreet and legal orders, it is impossible for the best officer, consistently with other duties, to descend to minutiae in carrying them into effect.
3dly. The next enquiry relates to the mode of conducting the search. In this respect the accusation of the prosecutors is highly aggravated and discreditable to men holding military commissions. These officers have stated in the public papers, and repeated on the present occasion in the articles of charge, that they were all examined in those parts, which delicacy forbids to name, in pursuit of money. This is false as it respects both officers and men; the former of whom opened and shut up their own trunks, and delivered their own money, and the latter were examined with much less rigour than their conduct would have justified. Two men only, of their own accord, pulled down their trowsers by way of insult, the rest were ordered to unbutton their waistcoats; and when every device was employed to conceal effects, when bandages were tied round their bodies, money sewed up in their cloaths, shoes and buttons, hid in balls of wax, soap, barrels of sugar, in various, and in short in every place adapted for concealment, what a picture is exhibited of the insolence and arrogance of these men, who have raised such a clamour in the country, and involved the government in such heavy expence, because their brawny bodies were not handled with all the delicacy and decorum which would be proper in a maid of honour undressing a Queen.
4thly. The next instance of cruelty is stated to consist in the mode of confining and providing for the prisoners. This charge, however, is candidly abandoned, and it is conceded that they experienced every possible kindness, consistent with their situation, and fared equally with our own officers and sailors. The ample and uniform evidence in this particular, contrasted with their complaints of being grievously shackled and put upon allowance, discovers the spirit of exaggeration and malice, which characterizes every part of the accusation.
5thly. The same tone and temper are manifested in the charge of appropriating, or in other words kidnapping, the black citizens of the republic. The allegation is destitute of all colour of truth. One boy only was recommended to Capt. Little by Capt. Senes, and taken as his servant. He was carried with his own consent into the country, where he remains, happy and attached to Capt. Little and his family, and perhaps in as fair a way to become a useful and honest man, as he would be at Cayenne or St. Domingo. In these times too, as American property is no longer lawful plunder, a French negro may even grow rich in Marshfield as rapidly as he could in the West-Indies. The boy, however, is free, and can go or stay. He has never been demanded by any officer of the French nation.
I have thus taken a survey of this grievous accusation, and of the evidence produced to support it, with all possible brevity, and at the same time with as much attention as my leisure, since the adjournment yesterday would permit. My reluctance to delay the Court, or to request another meeting, has induced me to submit this defence without the slightest revision, and I will close it with a few general observations.
All, who are conversant in Courts of Justice, are daily witnesses of prosecutions arising from the spleen, the resentment and malice of mankind. But in all that have occurred under my observation, I recollect none founded upon so flimsy a basis as the present.
It is, indeed, a case of a most singular complexion, and, I believe, unprecedented in the annals of naval or military history. A number of prisoners, citizens of a nation, which, for ten years, has subsisted upon the indiscriminate plunder of all other nations, by sea and by land, whose Buccaneers have stripped our citizens of uncounted millions; being legally captured by an American ship, within a months after their arrival in port, begin to publish charges of high misdemeanors against the officers who took them; these invectives are repeated and circulated with industry, by those friends which that nation finds in every country, prompt to proclaim her rights and vindicate her wrongs, but slow to feel and to resent the outrages offered to their own countrymen. The Executive Government is at length deceived and induced to consider it a national concern. A Court Martial, consisting of respectable officers, is convened at great trouble and expence, and upon trial it appears, that the defendant has conducted towards his prisoners with the most perfect humanity and kindness, and with not less integrity towards the Government and his own crew; that no cruelty or unnecessary severity has been exercised, much less sanctioned; that the Captain of the prize, the most proper organ and judge of the pretensions of his own crew, has lavished encomiums upon his polite and humane deportment; and what is most remarkable, that after a capture of a large and valuable ship of war, and among two crews, consisting of several hundred men, upon the most severe and extraordinary scrutiny ever instituted, all that is pretended to be missing are a few paltry watches and trinkets, which were probably were plundered from our own citizens or others, and not one of which ever came into Capt. Little's hands, or was submitted to his inspection. On the contrary, he relinquished to the French Captain a sum more than equivalent to them all.
If, upon charges originating in such sources, and supported by such evidence, a naval commander is thus exposed to vexation, expence and dishonour, great patriotism and fortitude will be requisite to induce men of honour and independent principles to encounter these dangers, more formidable than they can meet in battle, and which do not exist in the service of other nations; they are not sure of victory, when their enemy is vanquished, but are liable to be led captive by their own prisoners, in their own country.
It is, Mr. President and Gentlemen, with you, under these circumstances, to secure to Capt. Little the only consolation which he is capable of receiving. By the forms of proceeding in Courts of Common Law, the honest innocent man, even after an acquittal, is sometimes confounded with an equally unfortunate, though less deserving character. The concise and icy verdict of not guilty is common to both, and is all that either can obtain. A court of honour is competent to do more than this; to approve as well as to acquit; and I persuade myself that this court will delight in this occasion of doing justice to a brave and meritorious brother officer. Acquainted with the embarrassments and vexations incident to naval command; with the passions of the human heart, which appear in all their unpleasant varieties in the crew of a large ship, you can decide whether Capt. Little has betrayed a want of humanity and discretion. Realizing the multiplicity of avocations, the incessant care and exertion, unavoidable by a commander in a long cruise, after a bloody conflict, with a dismantled prize in tow, you can judge whether he has been culpably deficient in vigilance, or ought to be responsible for the conduct of others; feeling as men of honour and of spirit, you can appreciate his sensations at these dishonest attempts to cover him with ignominy, and sacrifice him to the rancour of men, who with the same pleasure would see your epaulets torn from your shoulders, and this ship brought a wreck under the stern of that * which flaunts her colours in our view.
In making this defence, I have carefully avoided every expression of censure and reproach against the administration, by whose order the Court is instituted. No wonder, with the unwearied pains which have been taken, that the Executive Officers should be deceived, and I willingly impute their orders on this occasion to a sincere desire to rescue the honour of our Navy from reproach. Their promptitude, however, in pursuing this investigation, affords a laudable example for the French Republic, in the coffers of some of whose Naval Commanders, upon examination, would be found, not merely a few contemptible baubles, but an accumulation of all the American spoil, which avarice, directed by fury, has been able to extort from the opulent merchant, the sailor, the fisherman; from the proud ships, which deepen with the wealth of India, and the shallow craft that scudded from their pursuers with the gleanings of poor industry. Should this example
* The Berceau .

scuse the rulers of that country to imitation and to justice, then indeed will an important benefit be derived to our nation.
THE SENTENCE.
Sentence of the Court-Martial, pronounced in the trial of Capt. George Little.
The Court, having heard all the evidence, and prisoner's defence, and maturely and seriously considered the whole, are unanimously of opinion, that the charges are malicious and ill-founded.
The Court do, therefore, unanimously and honourably acquit the said Capt. GEORGE LITTLE of the several articles contained in the charge against him; and he is hereby fully and honourably acquitted accordingly.
Dated on board the Constitution, Sept. 7, 1801.
(Signed) S. NICHOLSON, President , SILAS TALBOT, STEPHEN DECATUR, ALEXANDER MURRAY, EDWARD PREBLE, JOHN MULLOWNY, THOMAS ROBINSON, HUGH G. CAMPBELL, CYRUS TALBOT,
GEORGE BLAKE, acting as Judge Advocate on the occasion.
THE LETTER.
Navy Department, Sept. 25, 1801.
THE Act of Congress for the better government of the Navy of the United States, declares, that no person of the Navy shall pillage prisoners on board a prize, on pain of such punishment as a Court Martial shall adjudge. In the foregoing case, among several unimportant informal allegations, there is a charge of pillage exhibited against Capt. Little, and it was for the trial of this charge, principally, that the Court Martial was constituted. Not only the honour of the nation, but the honour of this officer, was deeply implicated, and therefore called for such a solemn investigation. In this trial, it was the government, that was the party prosecuting. The prisoners were only as the informing witnesses in a criminal prosecution. These prisoners, in legal contemplation, are not, neither were they, in the contemplation of government, considered parties. They could not have been in any degree benefited by a sentence against Capt. Little; because a Court Martial is not competent to decree a restoration of any property alleged to have been pillaged. It is only competent in such a trial to pass a sentence of acquittal or punishment.
The evidence adduced in this trial clearly proves, that the prisoners on board the prize have been pillaged. It is apparent, that watches, rings and buckles, constituting a part of the dress of the prisoners, have been pillaged from them by some persons belonging to the Boston frigate; that these articles, at the time of taking them, were not deemed, even by the persons who took them, lawful prize; that they were not reported to the officers of the Admiralty Court as prize, to be adjudicated and condemned; that they have not, at any time since, been produced; and that no kind of satisfactory information has yet been given respecting them. But from the face of the proceedings of the Court Martial, it does appear, that the orders issued by Capt. Little were perfectly correct and legal; that he was not, in any degree, a party in this mean and disgraceful pillage, and that the charge against him has no evidence, positive or presumptive, to support it. I, therefore, do approve of the sentence of acquittal pronounced by the Court Martial on his trial.
R. SMITH,
Secretary of the Navy.
The foregoing are true copies from the originals on file in the Navy Department. CH. W. GOLDSBOROUGH.
Late Foreign Intelligence.
By an arrival at New-York.—Dates to Sept. 6.
LONDON, September 6.
YESTERDAY upwards of 6000 letters, brought from Egypt by the Spider sloop, were delivered from the post-office. Our letters by this conveyance do not contain any intelligence of importance, being dated previous to the fall of Cairo. They reiterate the reports, communicated by way of Rhodes and Constantinople, that the garrison of Alexandria was severely pressed by want, and that many of the inhabitants had been expelled from the city, and conducted in the night across the old port to the neck of land which forms the Lake Mareotis.—The occasion of this measure is variously stated; some of our letters imputing it to a conspiracy amongst the natives to surrender the city to the English; and others, with more probability (considering the strength of the garrison) to a desire on the part of the French Generals to reduce the consumption of provisions, by the removal of all unnecessary hands. Some of these people have been conducted to the British camp, and make the most melancholy representations of the situation of the inhabitants of Alexandria, who are destitute of every thing, and from their supposed disaffection to the French, treated by them with extreme indignity and oppression. They state the Republicans to be discontented, and only held to their duty by the expectation of succour. They were informed of Gantheaume being on the coast, and elated by the circumstance. The failure of his enterprize, it was expected in our fleet, would conduce to the surrender of Alexandria.
The French had constructed strong batteries on the bank of the inundation made by the English; and our people had in like manner
lined the opposite shore. We have some gun-boats on this lake (which in one part is three miles broad) by means of which we could throw shells into Alexandria; but as the so doing would only injure the wretched natives, without annoying the French to any essential extent, our commanders have humanely desisted from using these vessels. The ordinary depth of water in this extensive moat is about four feet; but it cannot be so drained as for a long time to admit the convenient passage of troops; and we apprehend that the siege, should Menou have sufficient supplies to enable him to hold out, will be prolonged by the impediments which this inundation will present to our operations.
The moat extends from the lake Mareotis to the sea, in the direction of Aboukir, within about two miles of Alexandria, and on the eastern point runs close to Cleopatra's Needle, which is within the French line.
Sir R. Bickerton, with three sail of the line, including Le Tigre, had on the 18th of June rejoined Lord Keith off Alexandria; on hearing that the enemy's fleet had appeared to the westward, his lordship dispatched this little squadron along the coast to intercept them, reserving only four sail of the line to continue the blockade of Alexandria.
Sir R. Bickerton, on reaching his station, sent a brig in shore, when our people were informed by the Arabs that the French had been there ten days before, and had plundered them of every thing worth carrying off. After an unsuccessful cruise, the gallant admiral returned to Alexandria.
Our fleet, at the date of these accounts, was perfectly healthy, and well supplied with provisions, and our army, possessing a profusion of every necessary, was much more healthy than could have been expected from the nature of the climate and services.
Yesterday dispatches were received at the admiralty from Admiral Cornwallis. By the same conveyance we received letters from the fleet to the 30th ult. at which period our force comprised 27 sail of the line, twelve of which were two deckers. The enemy's fleet, consisting of 35 ships of the line, were in the outer road at single anchor, and in appearance ready for sea.
Lord Nelson on Friday evening continued in the Downs. His lordship has, during the last week, been joined by two more bomb-vessels and several gun-brigs, which have been equipped in the Medway for the purpose with great dispatch. Independent of the vessels off Boulogne and the Flemish coast, his lordship has under his command, in the Downs, the Amazon, Alkmaer, Leyden, York, Iris, and Anson; Eugene, Garnet, Diligence, and Gier, sloops; Zebra, Vesuvius, Volcano, Terror, and Discovery, bombs; Nancy, and Victoria, fire-ships; Plumper, Bold, Defender, Minx, Ferreter, Eclipse, Tygress, Bruiser, and Snipe, gun-brigs, with some hired cutters.
In the late attack, the principal loss sustained by our people was from the enemy's musketry; they fired from the shore in platoons, at a distance in most cases not exceeding forty yards. In fact, our brave tars got so close to the enemy, that amongst all the wounded landed at Deal, there was but one ball to extract, the others having gone through. The torrents of shot that fell on this occasion almost exceeded credibility. A midshipman killed in one of our boats, a very fine young man, named Gore, had five balls through him, three of which passed through his head: most of the oars were splintered, and in Capt. Parker's boat, 27 out of 30 men were wounded. One man belonging to the Leyden succeeded in loosing the foretop sail of a brig, but in coming down was killed, and became so entangled in the netting, that every attempt by our people to cut him out on their retreat was ineffectual; with this exception, however, they brought off their dead.
Amongst the wounded taken to the hospital at Deal, was a man who lost the entire of his face, from his eye-brows to his under jaw, the ball or splinter having carried away his eyes, nose and cheeks—he however lived for four days in this condition, in perfect possession of his senses; on entering the hospital he took off his shoes, washed his hands, and tied his own neckcloth, and in speaking on the subject of his misfortune, he only regretted that he could not live to see the success of the enterprize.
Domestic Intelligence.
SAVANNAH, October 6.
Count Augustus De Grasse, son of the late Admiral De Grasse, who has resided in Charleston since the revolution of St. Domingo, has arrived there; after being detained on board several days by Gen. Mousse, he got permission to land, and was immediately put in possession of his plantation, and as many of his negroes as could be found.
NORFOLK, October 12.
INFORMATION TO MERCHANTS. It is indispensably necessary that all Captains of vessels bound to sea, should carry with them a Certificate of Property , attested before some Notary Public in the district wherein the owner resides; many instances have occurred where vessels captured on suspicion, and which would have been cleared if the Captains had possessed this paper, have been condemned solely for want of sufficient proof of property. Capt. Elliot, who has favoured us with this information, asserts, that his vessel would have been condemned at Jamaica, had he not sworn in court before the Judge, when sitting on the trial of his vessel, that the ship was his own property. A copy of the form of the certificate is left with the printers, for the benefit of those concerned.
PHILADELPHIA, October 20. SPANISH AGGRESSION.
The Spaniards alledge that Gibraltar is in a state of blockade, therefore they have a right to capture our vessels bound thither. It was to have been thought that the magnanimous Dons, who have so often been shut up in their own ports, would have known better what is required to constitute a blockade. A few timid gun-boats, it is true, infest the vicinity of Gibraltar; but is this blockading? When the Spanish and French fleets appeared off there, what was the conduct of this blockaded port? A force was instantly dispatched against them, engaged and chased them into Cadiz.—And yet say the advocates of plunder, Gibraltar is blockaded by the Spaniards!
But it is not true, that the vessels captured were in the predicament stated. They were not bound ultimately to Gibraltar, nor was Gibraltar legally in a state of blockade. Our vessels bound to the Mediterranean, aware of the rupture with the Barbary powers, merely touched at Gibraltar to obtain advice as to the piratical cruisers, to enjoy the benefit of convoy. In those cases, where they may have been directly bound to Gibraltar, they were by no means legal objects of capture.—If the Spaniards, after declaring the port blockaded, had warned our vessels not to enter, and they, after this notice, had persisted in the attempt, there might have been the appearance of plausibility for the seizure. But no such thing has been pretended.
We are disposed to hope, that this atrocious conduct on the part of an ally, will not fail to produce, in the administration of our country, a spirit of enquiry and reprimand.—That, regarding it as a high duty, they will promptly exercise their constitutional functions in the support and vindication of our rights as a commercial and independent nation.
October 21.
The Eastern Water Pier of the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge was on Saturday last exposed, from the bottom of the river, to the view of the President and Directors of our company, and a great number of other respectable citizens. The coffer-dam was pumped out, for the purpose of examining the work, and the part of the bed of the river, contained within the dam, laid entirely bare.
This is the first undertaking of the kind ever attempted in America. It has been completed in six weeks, from the laying the first stone. Many difficulties have attended the execution, especially in the coffer-dam, all of which have been happily surmounted.
The foundation of this extraordinary work has been laid in a rapid river; and the masonry carried on, without interruption, in a depth of water of from twenty-two to twenty-four feet. The lower course of stone is bedded, and dowelled or bolted with iron in the solid rock. The exterior courses, of cut stone, are laid in terrace mortar (which is found to be already completely indurated under water) and clamped horizontally at the joints with iron. The filling of the interior is composed of immense massive stones, many whereof weigh from three to six tons; well bedded in mortar of common lime and sand, and grouted. The ends are semi-circular. The piers sixty-eight feet six inches long, at the foundation; and twenty-eight feet eight inches broad. It diminishes by steps or offsets, whereof there are three, until it takes the dimensions, which appear above water, of sixty-six feet six inches in length, and twenty-five feet in thickness. There are four strong chains of iron stretched across the pier, at proper distances, bolted and worked in with the body of the masonry.
It is now raised three feet eight inches above common low-water mark; being the height of the spring of the intended arches. The coffer-dam will be removed, and the pier left, through the winter, in its present state.
From the perfect success attending this new and arduous part of this great and useful enterprize, we anticipate the satisfaction of seeing this important erection completed. The experience gained, in the progress of the present coffer-dam and pier, will enable those who direct, and those who execute the future work, to perform their respective duties with facility, and a solid prospect of stability, and economy in expenditures.
Every person of intelligence who has viewed the pier, is convinced of the practicability of a work, concerning which doubts have heretofore been entertained. It is allowed to be a masterly piece of workmanship, not exceeded by any in Europe.
The circumstance of accomplishing an entire foundation on a rock, at so great a depth, is uncommon in any country. The failure of many bridges has occurred, from a defect in this particular. Most foundations of piers, even of the most noted bridges, are artificial, either in the whole or in part.
The plan of an elegant bridge, and of this pier, composing a part of it, was furnished by the celebrated Mr. Weston; well known in this country, and in England, as an Hydraulic engineer, of extensive science in this branch, and long practical experience.
October 23.
IMPORTANT.
We understand that the Chamber of Commerce of the city of Philadelphia, having presented to the President of the United States a remonstrance on the subject of depredations, committed and threatened from the Spanish port of Algeciras, have received from the office of State official intimation, that the interests of the United States, thus suffering, will engage the immediate attention of the President—that he will order without delay the proper representations and demands to be made to the Spanish
government; and will take into consideration, with the solicitude due to the object, how far any other measures, within the authority of the executive, may contribute to arrest the progress of so serious and so unwarrantable an aggression on the lawful pursuits of our commerce.
SPANISH EQUITY.
It is not in the seizure and condemnation of our property only that the Spaniards evince their hostility to us. We are informed, from various sources, and upon the most unquestionable authority, that the quarantine regulations to which our vessels are subjected in their ports, are made the instruments of great loss and vexation to our merchants. A vessel belonging to this port, on arriving at Cadiz, was ordered to a quarantine of six days. Much anxiety was evinced on the part of the captain, either on account of the season or the state of the market. This was perceived by the superintendents of the port, and instantly converted to the purposes of injustice and extortion. The quarantine was protracted to thirty-six days! The captain, observing the object of this manoeuvre, preferred paying the "wages of corruption" to the sacrifice of his owner's interest, by such an unwarrantable delay. By advancing the fees of villainy he was permitted to enter!
It may be proper to add, that during this transaction, a Danish vessel, direct from Lisbon, where infection prevailed, was unmolested in her voyage.
Extract of a letter from Malaga, to a merchant in Philadelphia, dated August 9.
"There are now six American vessels in Algeciras. Three of them have been condemned. Among the number is the ship Molly, Flinn, of Philadelphia."
October 27.
Health Office, October 26.
Resolved, That the restrictions on the trade between this city and the cities of New-York, and Norfolk in Virginia, be discontinued. The Board having received satisfactory information of the decline of the Fever in those places.
By order of the Board, CORNELUS COMEGYS, President.
NEW-YORK, October 22.
Information is received by Capt. Richards, arrived at Philadelphia, from Surinam, that the British merchants had petitioned the Governor to restrict the American trade with that place, to flour, fish and lumber; which, on account of the great glut of the market, was granted for the term of six months. Molasses was 20 Rivers per gallon, British government bills 16 per cent. advance, dollars 33 and 1-3d advance.
Yesterday the Mayor of this city called a meeting of the Common Council, to take into consideration and regulate the price of bread. Though the price of flour has experienced a reduction of 3 or 4 dollars per barrel within a few weeks, yet the price of bread continues stationary, and bears no proportion to the flour. The evil demands a prompt and effectual remedy, and that is about to be applied.
Jonathan Bayard Smith, Esq; is elected, by the select and common councils, Mayor of the city of Philadelphia, in the place of John Inkkeep, Esq; declined.
October 29.
The Mayor having collected the opinions of eighteen Physicians, of most extensive practice in this city; has the satisfaction of announcing, that they all agree in declaring the late alarm to have been infinitely greater than the danger would warrant; most of them asserting, that no disorder has prevailed but the usual autumnal fever; none pronounced it to be infectious, and all but three uniting in the opinion, that such of the citizens as have removed, may with safety return.
This, together with the official advice which he has received from Philadelphia, of the renewal of the intercourse between the two cities, affords the Mayor an opportunity of congratulating his fellow-citizens on the return of a state of things, which he is warranted in believing nothing but an unreasonable panic has interrupted.
Mayor's Office, October 28, 1801.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Greenville County (North Carolina) to the Editor of the Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Eagle.
"It is probable you have, before this time, received accounts of the alarming drought, that has entirely blasted the hopes of the husbandman, in some parts of the southern States. It extends from James River, in Virginia, entirely across the Carolinas and Georgia, and is in breadth upwards of one hundred miles. The inhabitants of Cumberland and Prince Edward counties, in Virginia, through which I passed in my way out, will be in a very distressing situation for want of bread, great numbers of them not receiving one grain of corn for the subsistence of their families or stock. They have not had even a refreshing shower since before the harvest, which was in the latter end of June. This I had from several persons living in the counties above mentioned. To complete the misery of their situation, a very mortal dysentery rages among them, which carries off great numbers daily, particularly of the younger class. I am happy, however, in stating, that from the luxuriance of crops in other parts of these States, the scarcity of corn, so necessary an article of diet in the southern States, will in some measure be supplied, although at a dear rate. It is not, however, the white inhabitants of these counties who claim so much of my pity at this time; it is their miserable slaves, whose

allowances at best are but scanty, will now be considerably curtailed by their unfeeling masters, incapable of just reflection, as well as callous to every sentiment of humanity, think they can subsist, to use their own words, upon "anything." What I have said upon this subject relative to Virginia, I give you from my own knowledge and observation, and you may consider it as strictly true; the other is from information, which I believe to be equally true. The crops in this county have a fine appearance, the weather being in general pretty favourable."
SALEM, October 23.
The single county of Essex, in Massachusetts, can at this moment bring a more efficient force into the field, than the whole State of North-Carolina. A writer in that State says, there are not 10,000 good muskets and bayonets in it.
BOSTON, October 29.
Extract of a letter dated Malaga, August 26. "This year you will receive a very short supply of new fruit, as on account of quarantine, which is still in force upon all vessels from the United States, few American vessels have ventured this way."
Mr. Murray, the American Negotiator, has returned to the Hague, from Paris.
Four British frigates have arrived in the Chesapeake from Halifax.
VARIATION CHART.
Having purchased one of Mr. Churchman's Universal Variation Charts, and made use of it, on my last voyage to Liverpool, as far as I was able to bring the principles to the test, I found it correct; and would recommend it as useful, to all my brother navigators.
TH. DINGLEY.
Ship Juno, in the Harbour of Boston, Oct. 27, 1801.
COMMUNICATIONS.
It must be disgusting to every individual, who has marked the enormities of the French Revolution, and the shameful vindication which a party in this country attempted, to hear some of those very vindicators talk of their superior humanity. More French blood has been shed by Frenchmen than by the forces of the powers with which France has been at war. But those internal tyrants who rendered Gallia a slaughter-house of human victims, were successively eulogized by the democratic papers.
Among the charges brought against the federal administration, to lessen its popularity, was, the establishment of a navy—now we are told (by those who exhibited the charge) of the immense service of our little navy. We are happy in the preservation of every portion of American property; but that, yet preserved from the Tripolitans by our navy, will bear no comparison with that saved from Frenchmen by our navy.
The inconsistent democrats are every day proving that they tolerate no sort of Republicanism, but that which they give name to. Formerly they complained that federalists alone were preferred to offices; but now, not only democrats are exclusively appointed, but federalists are dismissed to make room for them. This temper has discovered itself with respect to very humble offices in New-York and Pennsylvania—and we have lately heard that the democratic assembly of Vermont have been actuated by the reprobated principle in choosing a clerk.
October 30.
A letter from Gibraltar, dated August 15, says, an attack from the French and Spaniards is expected. Spanish depredations on the American trade continue. Lieutenant Mayley, who commanded the United States schooner Experiment, is a prisoner at Algiers. The Tripolitan Admiral has offered his vessels for sale at Gibraltar, but has been unable to dispose of them. The governor has refused a supply of provisions to his vessels. A Tripolitan cruiser was in chase of an American ship, which it was supposed she took.
A motion has been made in the Circuit Court at Philadelphia, for a new trial in the case Hollingsworth vs. Duane.
October 31.
Yesterday the Hon. John Adams, late President of the United States, entered into the 67th year of his age; when the "Winlow Blues," commanded by Captain Messinger, paraded in honour of the day. We have before had occasion to notice the accuracy and vivacity with which this corps executes all the exercises required by discipline; we have only to say, that it retains its well-earned reputation undiminished.
Capt. Thomas Stutson's company also paraded in honour of the day.
The Circuit Court of the United States is now in session in this town.
Archibald Roane, Esq. is elected Governor of Tennessee, vice John Sevier, Esq.
Thomas Johnson is appointed Collector of Savannah, vice James Powell, Esq. dismissed.
NAVAL OFFICERS.
Now retained in service; with rank as follows, viz. Commodore John Barry.—Captains Samuel Nicholson [Superintendent of the Dock-Yard at Boston, 1200 dollars per annum, in addition to pay as Captain.] Richard Dale, Thomas Truxton, Stephen Decatur, Richard V. Morris, Alexander Murray, Daniel M'Neil, Thomas Tungey [Superintendent of the Dock-Yard at Washington, salary as above.]—George Crofs, Samuel Baron, George Little, John Rogers, Edward Preble, James Baron, William Bainbridge, Hugh G. Campbell, Richard Darby.
Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, two stables, the property of Ezekiel Price, and Rufus G. Amory, Esquires, were con-
fumed by fire, with their contents of hay, grain, carriages, and one horse. It is not known by what accident the fire took.—The inhabitants were extremely alert; and the houses being very dry, the wind brisk, and the wells low, the danger was threatening; but the well-arranged exertions made, confined the destruction to the above buildings.—Our Roxbury friends were in town with their engine at a very early moment.
HINT.—In Europe, persons are prohibited under severe penalties carrying into any Stable, &c. a light, unless inclosed in a lantern, having an inch of water, at least, at the bottom of it.
William Stevens, Esq. is appointed a District Judge, in Georgia.
John Oakley, Collector of the port of Georgetown. This appointment is said to be an evidence of the same spirit which dictated that of Mr. Bishop. The merchants of Georgetown, we understand, are made unhappy by the measure. The public receive no peculiar benefit. It is very unfortunate that the will of the people should be construed to demand, that an unnecessary attack should be made on the feelings of the merchants of Georgetown and New-Haven. If the citizens of the nation were asked individually, whether they were very much concerned respecting who might be Collector at New-Haven, or at Georgetown, three fourths would answer, "It was a matter of perfect indifference—to honest men were employed. The will of the people seems a mere pretence, which one President may use one way, and another in an opposite, and will be oftener employed to excuse an unconstitutional or tyrannical act than in any other way."
Infallible Cure for the Hooping Cough.
Dissolve a scruple of salt of Tartar in a gill of water; add 10 grains of Cochineal finely powdered, sweeten this with fine sugar; give to an infant the 4th part of a table spoonful four times a day; to a child of 2 or 3 years old one half a spoonful, and from 4 upwards, a spoonful may be taken; the relief is immediate, and the cure in general within 5 or 6 days.
Providence,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4.
The General Assembly of this State adjourned on Saturday last, to meet at Providence on the last Monday in February next.
COMMUNICATION.
The extraordinary Resolutions passed by the General Assembly, respecting the Governor, Supreme Court, and other constituted authorities, were presented by a member from Newport, on Saturday, just before the House adjourned. They were strenuously opposed by the Federal members; Judge Dorrance's publication was read before the House by request of the Newport members. Judge Dorrance then requested the liberty to prove the charges therein alleged against the Governor, on the floor of the House. This was refused. The vote was then carried in favour of the Resolutions, by the usual majority of Republican members.
On Friday last, the Hon. JOHN ADAMS, late President of the United States, entered the 67th year of his age. The day was noticed in this town by a display of an elegant standard at the great bridge, and a ball at Mr. Aldrich's hotel in the evening. The College edifice was also handsomely illuminated.
Thursday the 26 inst. is appointed to be observed, in the State of New-Hampshire, as a day of public Thanksgiving and Prayer.
General Dearborn, Secretary at War, arrived at the City of Washington on the 16th ult.
The United States frigate Essex, Captain Bainbridge, from July 28, to August 27, 1801, convoyed through the Straights of Gibraltar, from different ports in the Mediterranean, 24 American vessels; the aggregate of whose cargoes amounts to 359,500 dollars; number of seamen, 257.
The number of Deaths at Norfolk, from Friday, October 16, at 12 o'clock, to Monday, October 19, at the same hour, were Five.
His Majesty's sloop of war Pheasant, of 18 guns, Capt. Carew, arrived at Halifax, on the 10th of October, from a cruise in Boston Bay.
The Editor of the Washington Federalist proposes, in a few days, to lay before the public, proof, derived from Mr. Gallatin's office, that the accounts of T. Pickering are all settled—that he never used one penny of the public money—and that there is not the least evidence or suspicion of his having misapplied the public funds.
The Bridge over Taunton River, between Dighton and Berkely, which was commenced on the 1st of July, has been completed. The wood-work of the bridge is about 18 rods in length, and the causeway appertaining there to about 20 rods.
Abraham Bishop has written and published a long piece against the New-Haven merchants. It is but doing justice to the President's character for reflection and decorum, to believe, that, after reading this attack, he
will agree in the merchants' opinion of Abraham.
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Theodorus Bailey, Esq. is elected a Representative to Congress from the District of Dutchess, State of New-York.
Under a New-York head of Oct. 22, we observe the following account of the capture and condemnation of the schooner Polly, (Mr. John O. W. Carpenter, supercargo) belonging to Mr. C. C. Olney, of this town:—
Mr. Joel Bradford (late mate of the schooner Polly, of Providence) arrived here in the Golden Grove from Porto-Rico. He informs us, that the schooner Polly, bound from this port for St. Thomas, was captured on the 7th of August, by a row-boat mounting one twivel, under Spanish colours, and manned with 20 Frenchmen, armed with knives. The Polly was carried into a small uninhabited part in the island of Porto-Rico, and after the most barbarous and inhuman treatment, the crew were sent off without a cent of money. As a pretext for the condemnation of the Polly (which took place on the 30th of August) these piratical scoundrels swore in the most bitter manner, that if the supercargo, John O. W. Carpenter, did not swear he was an Englishman, and that the property was English, they would cut his throat—to save his life, this oath was taken, and the vessel condemned. The property, however, was bona fide American. Mr. Bradford further informs, that he left at Porto-Rico the schooner Two Sisters, Tatem, and sloop Two Brothers, Bliss, belonging to Philadelphia, waiting for new trials, on oaths which had been obtained as above stated.
MACHINE FOR DRYING GRAIN.
A Mr. David Elliot, of Maryland, has obtained a patent for a machine for drying grain, which he describes in an advertisement in the following manner:—
The advantages of this machine, he flatters himself, will be found very superior to any other method that is now in use; the expence of erecting to dry for three or four pair of millstones, will not exceed 150 dollars, and when used by manufacturers of flour, or malters, may be worked with very little expence or manual labour; the grain is dried by passing through a current of heated air, that carries off the musty taste that corn frequently has by laying too thick in granaries or vessels, without altering the colour of the flour, and will render it capable of being kept almost any length of time without scouring. From actual experience it is found, that one cord of wood will dry from 2500 to 3000 bushels of grain; and to those that are engaged in manufacturing of corn, flour, or dry malt, the saving in labour and fuel will be found very great, independent of another advantage that this machine has, that it may be used in a mill or warehouse without danger of fire.
ENGLISH CLERGY.
From a French Paper.
The Clergy of England are well informed, hospitable and generous; they love their country, and are a powerful support to the laws. Notwithstanding the difference of opinions, they received the French Clergy with a truly christian charity. The University of Oxford caused an edition of the New Testament in Latin, according to the Roman version, to be printed at its own expence, and distributed among these poor men, with this inscription—"For the use of the Catholic Clergy exiled for religion." Nothing can be more delicate or more affecting; it is, indeed, a noble sight for philosophy to behold, at the end of the eighteenth century, the Clergy of the Church of England offer a hospitable reception to Popish Priests, permitting the public exercise of their worship, and even the establishment of some religious societies. How strange are the vicissitudes of human affairs! The cry of a Pope! a Pope! caused a revolution in the time of Charles I. and James II. lost his crown by being attached to the Catholic Religion. Those who are frightened by the title of a religion alone, are ignorant of the human mind; they always behold that religion such as it was in the ages of fanaticism and barbarity, without reflecting that like every other institution, it assumes the character of the age through which it passes.
The English display great pomp in their religious festivals. They even begin to ornament their temples with pictures. They have at length begun to perceive that a religion without worship is but the dream of a cold enthusiast; and that the imagination of man is a faculty which should be nourished as well as his reason.
Married,
At Raynham, Mr. Eliphalet Williams, merchant, of Boston, to Miss Malanfa Williams, second daughter of Capt. George Williams.
Died,
At Marietta, on the 30th of September, Col. Robert Taylor, formerly a worthy citizen of this town.
At Claverack (New-York, on the 20th ult. William Y. Burrough, aged 34 years, formerly of this town.
At Charleston, S. C. Mr. Charles Gladding, aged 27, a native of this State.
"At Rehoboth, Mrs. Ethy Lake, relict of the late Mr. Joseph Lake, aged nearly 86 years. She bore a tedious indisposition of 11 years with Christian fortitude and resignation. She was many years a member of the Baptist Church, and her loss is regretted by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance."
At Newport, Mr. Constant Bailey, in his
84th year.—Mrs. Mary Estlin, widow of Capt. Peleg Estlin, in her 74th year.
At Putney (Pennsylvania) Capt. Judah King, in the 37th year of his age.—For many years a nautical commander from the port of Rochester, Massachusetts.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, in General Assembly, October Session, A. D. 1801.
FORASMUCH as several Publications have of late been made, in a certain newspaper, printed at Providence by BENNETT WHEELER, called the United States Chronicle, calumnying and defaming the Governor, Supreme Court, and other constituted authorities of this State, one of which publications was subscribed by JOHN DORRANCE,
Resolved, That in the opinion of this General Assembly, the said publications tend to discredit this State abroad, and to disquiet the good people of the State, by weakening public confidence in the constituted authorities thereof.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this General Assembly, His Excellency the Governor, the Supreme Court, and the other constituted authorities of this State, are well entitled to the public confidence, and have deserved well of their fellow-citizens, by a faithful and meritorious execution of the trusts reposed in them by the people.
Voted, That the above Resolutions be published, for three weeks successively, in all the newspapers printed in this State.
A true Copy: Witness, SAMUEL EDDY, Sec'y.
FLAX-SEED.
THE Subscribers want to purchase a quantity of Flax-Seed, for which they will pay cash on delivery, at their store, opposite the Providence Bank; where they continue the PAINTING BUSINESS, and have for sale, Linseed Oil, Spirits of Turpentine, and a general assortment of Painter's Colours, dry or ground in Oil; Painter's Brushes, Tools, and Camels Hair Pencils of various sizes.
Colours prepared at the shortest notice, and all favours gratefully acknowledged. GRINNELL and TAYLOR.
November 4.
FRAUD!
TAKEN from the Chaise-Box of the subscriber, while the chaise stood near her house, in the fourth-west part of Rehoboth, a PALL, made of superfine black broadcloth, measuring about three yards and a half, with a green oil cloth for a case, marked P. L. with white thread or silk; it was trimmed with black serret, and had two or three small holes worn through it by lashing. Whoever will give information of the person who has thus defrauded a number of individuals who purchased it, shall be thankfully rewarded for their kinkness. ANNAH BROWN.
Rehoboth, November 4.
NEW CASH STORE.
William James,
Near the Long-Wharf, and directly opposite Dr. GEORGE W. HOPKIN's at the sign of Hippocrates' Head, has just received an extensive assortment of
ENGLISH GOODS,
Suitable for the present and approaching seasons;—among which are,
SUPERFINE, middling, and low priced Broadcloths Forest Cloths, Ratteens Serges, Kerseymere Swan-downs, Coatings Bookings, Fearnoughts Flannels and Baizes Mens silk and worsted Hose 10, 9 and 8-4 Rose Blankets Wildbore, Poplins Cambletteens, Russells Durants, Tammies Shaloon, India Cotton English and India Checks Linens, Cambricks Copperplate Furniture, Calicoes Twill'd, black, blue, and olive coloured Velvets Camels Hair Shawls Silk do. Cotton do. Black Barcelona, Bandanno, and Romal Handkerchiefs Flag and check do. Corded and plain Mullins Jaconet and Cambric do. Black Laces and Edgings Ladies Cotton Mitts Fancy Beads Mens Castor Hats Modes and Sattins A great variety of Fur Trimmings, &c.
ALSO,
An assortment of HARD-WARE, &c. &c. November 4. 2 m.
A Man Servant wanted:
ONE that is capable of attending on a small family; and can bring good recommendations. To such a one, generous wages will be given.—Enquire at this office. November 4.

Selected Poetry.
VERSES, ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY, ON HER WEARING A WIG.
YOUNG Daphne walks in fashion's train, On her the goddess, light and vain, Bestows the rainbow graces; For fee! the strange fantastic fair Conceals her own long flowing hair, And shines in borrow'd tresses.
Whene'er she leads the sprightly dance, The rosy-footed hours advance; Yet, should Old Time move faster, And thin the hair which now she hates, How would fair Daphne blame the Fates, And mourn her sad disasters!
Fashion! I own thy sov'reign sway, Yet here thy influence seems to stray Beyond all mode or measure; Strange inconstancy of the brain! That what to lose would give such pain, To hide, should give such pleasure!
ANECDOLE OF DR. SHEBBEARE.
A SCOTCHMAN one day bragging in Shebbeare's company, that it was a countryman of his that had the hon- our of inventing the Compass; Sheb- beare took his part against the rest, who differed from him, and said he could fur- ther tell them the occasion of it. The Scotchman seemed much pleased at hav- ing so good an advocate, when Shebbeare proceeded as follows:
"Whilst a Captain of a ship was coast- ing it with all that caution which was necessary before the invention of the com- pass, a storm suddenly sprang up, which drove him out to sea. Not knowing where he was, and expressing his concern for the safety of the ship, a Scotchman, who was among the crew, bid him not be under so much uneasiness, for he could at least tell him in what direction they were. "Well, that will do something," says the Captain. "Then here it is, mon (says the Scotchman, pulling a louse out of his head, and placing him on a sheet of white paper) watch that fellow's motions weel; for I'll be d—d if ever you saw a Scotch louse, that did not al- ways travel South."
FOR SALE, A Quantity of the best JIRKED BEEF, from Buenos-Ayres; ALSO, A few bales of Horse Hides, Sheep's Wool, and Tallow, at the store of JOHN INNES CLARK. October 28.
For Wilmington, N. Carolina.
THE SCHOONER DELIGHT, JOSEPH B. COOKE, Master, now laying at the Long Wharf, will sail in 6 or 8 days. For Freight or Passage apply to the master on board. October 28.
For Charleston (S. C.) THE SLOOP DEBORAH, STEPHEN HATHAWAY, Mas- ter, now living at Godfrey's Wharf. For Freight or Passage apply to the master on board. October 28.
Just Published, and for Sale by J. CARTER, at the Printing-Office opposite the Market, and by JACOB RICHARDSON, Esq; at the Post-Office in Newport.
THE NEW-ENGLAND ALMANACK, OR,
Lady's and Gentleman's DIARY, for the Year of our Lord 1802. By ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, Philomath. Containing, besides the usual astronomical Calculations, a Variety of Matter, useful and entertaining. October 28.
FOUND, on the 21st inst. in the Main- Street, in this town, a BAG, containing a number of pounds of Coffee. The owner may have it by proving property and paying charges. Apply to ISAAC EVELETH, jun. October 28.
FRESH FLOUR. Now landing, and for sale, by Malachi Rhodes and Son, A lexandria superfine and fine Flour Pilot, Navy, and Ship Bread They have also for sale, Turks-Island Salt Molasses, by the hoghead Antigua Rum, by do. October 21.
Washington Academy.
At a meeting of the Trustees of Washington Aca- demy, held at South-Kingstown, on the 16th of September, 1801.—Voted and Resolved, THAT the Treasurer be, and he is hereby directed to call upon the sub- scribers to this Institution to pay up their sub- scriptions to him; and also, that he pub- lish a notification to this purport in the New- port Mercury, and one of the Providence newspapers.
Voted and Resolved, That in consequence of an examination into the expenses already ac- crued, and what probably must be expend- ed before the Academy-buildings are com- pleted, it is found that they considerably exceed the amount subscribed; it is therefore thought proper to call a general meeting of all the subscribers to this institution, in order to consult upon the best mode of raising the money so deficient; that the said meeting be held at the Academy the first Wednesday in November next; and that the Treasurer give notice thereof in the Newport Mercury, and one Providence newspaper.
Agreeable to the above resolve, I hereby earnestly request all delinquent subscribers to make immediate payment.
ROBERT ELDRED, Treasurer. North-Kingstown, October 16. N. B. The next meeting of the Trustees will be on Wednesday the fourth of Novem- ber next, agreeable to adjournment.
Nathaniel Croade and Co.
THE subscribers having purcha- sed the Oil Works on the East side of Pawtucket Falls, four miles from Providence (R. I.) have enter- ed into co-partnership, under the above firm, for conducting the same; and now inform the public, that par- ticular attention will be paid to any demands, in their line of business; and to render it more commodious, they have established a store near said works, which is furnished with a complete assortment of English and West-India Goods, where orders addressed to NATHANIEL CROADE and Co. will be carefully attended to.
NATHANIEL CROADE, ELIPHALET SLACK, EBENEZER TYLER, OLIVER STARKWEATHER. N. B. Cash given for Flax-Seed. Oil and Oil Cake for sale. Pawtucket, October 21.
Amos T. Jenckes Has for sale, on liberal terms and credit, entitled to debenture, 29,000 lb. Java Coffee 6,000 do. do. Sugar 5,000 do. heavy black Pepper October 21.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been appointed Exe- cutrix to the Estate of ISRAEL SHELTON, late of Providence, deceased, and has taken upon herself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs. All persons having demands against said estate are requested to exhibit them for settlement; and all persons indebted to said estate are called upon to make pay- ment. ALMY SHELTON, Executrix. October 21.
TO LET,
A CONVENIENT Tenement, a few doors north of the Episco- pal Church. For particulars, en- quire of ANNE KEENE. October 14.
LOST, about one o'clock on Sunday last, between Mrs. Welcome Arnold's and the head of Power's Lane, A black lace Veil. Whoever will give information of the same, to the Printer, shall be satisfactorily rewarded. October 14.
Take Notice.
WHEREAS the Freemen of the town of Providence, in town-meeting le- gally assembled on the 25th day of August A. D. 1801, ordered a tax of 16,600 dollars to be assessed on the ratable property of the inhabitants and others owning such property in said town, and the subscriber having been appointed collector of said tax, and also of the State tax of 3434 dollars and 73 cents, ordered by the General Assembly at their session in June last; requests all persons to call on him and pay the sums assessed on them respectively, on or before the first day of December next. And for the purpose of re- ceiving said taxes, the subscriber will attend at the office of Samuel W. Bridgham, Esq. opposite the State-House, from the 21st day of November, to the 1st day of December next, Sundays excepted, from 9 o'clock till 11 A. M. and from 2 to 4 P. M. A deduc- tion of three per cent. will be made to all such as call on the subscriber and pay the same by the time above mentioned. JESSE WHITMORE, Collector. October 14.
Benjamin Thurber
Has just received, and now open- ing for sale, at the sign of the Bunch of Grapes, No. 30, William-Street, a com- plete assortment of
Fall and Winter Goods,
Among which are the following articles. SCARLET, blue, black, and London brown Broadcloths, Caffer- meres, Elastics, Forrest Cloths, blue, green, and London brown Serges; plain, stri- ped, and Plouced Coatings; Fearnought, for great coats; yellow, red, black, and white Flannels; ditto Baizes; cotton and worsted Hose; Swansdowns; Eng- lish, India, and Italian Lutestrings; black and coloured Satins; Modes, Sarfene, fashionable fancy check Ribbons, black and coloured silk Shawls, Bandanno and fancy silk Handkerchiefs.
A large assortment of Camels hair Shawls, Muffin and chintz do.
A large assortment of high and low priced fashionable Calicoes, blue, pur- ple, and red Copperplate; long and short silk and cotton Gloves, plain and striped Russells, Durants, Moreens, Shalloons, Rateneys, plain and striped Wildbore, Bengals, Crapes, linen Pocket Handker- chiefs, black and white Laces and Edg- ings, India Cotton of various prices, Muf- flins, Muslins, and Dimities, black and olive coloured men's Velver.
A large assortment of new-fash- ioned Hats and Bonnets, Straw Trimmings, Cotton do. and a large assortment of Muffs and Tippits, and Fur Trimmings for cloaks.
A complete assortment of Look- ing-Glasses, Patent Lamps, brass and iron Candlesticks, house and floor Brushes, Coffee Mill, Flat Irons, London and Bris- tol Pewter, Knives and Forks, Table and Tea Spoons, Shovels and Tongs, brass Kettles, Cotton Wool, warranted Spanish Float and French Indigo, glass, China, and self Ware; new-fashioned Tea-Pots, Cotton-Wool Cards, and other things too numerous to mention.
All old friends are invited to call and see for themselves, and whether they purchase or not, they will be waited on with pleasure. The above articles will be sold at the lowest advance for cash. October 14.
A Pocket-Book found.
FOUND, a few days since, on the road from Boston to Providence, a small Red Morocco Pocket-Book, containing sun- dry Notes of Hand, in favour of BENJAMIN L. HALL, to the amount of a considerable sum; and several other papers of small con- sequence. The Pocket-Book, Notes, &c. are left at this Office, where the owner may receive them, by proving property and pay- ing reasonable charges. October 14.
DANCING, MUSIC, and FRENCH LANGUAGE.
M. CARPENTIER
INFORMS the Gentlemen and La- dies of this town, that he intends opening a DANCING SCHOOL. He flatters him- self that by his manner of teaching, those who may attend will acquire in a short time the graces necessary to this art. For the terms, apply at Mr. Aldrich's Inn, where the School will be opened twice a week, at five o'clock in the afternoon.
N. B. Those who may wish to learn Music, or the French Language, with its true pronunciation, will be taught at their respective places of above. October 7.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the subscriber has been duly appointed Executrix to the Estate of ZACHARIAH ALLEN, late of Providence, deceased, and has taken upon herself that trust, by giving bonds as the law directs. All persons having demands against said Estate, are requested to exhibited them on or before the 4th day of May next; they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of said Estate. And all persons indebted to said estate, are called upon to make payment. ANN ALLEN, Administratrix. October 7.
A good Farm for Sale,
AND to be sold on liberal terms. Said Farm contains one hundred and twenty acres of Land, with an elegant two story Dwelling-House, and a Barn, and is well proportioned for mowing, pasturing and woodland, with orcharding sufficient to make forty or fifty barrels of cider annually. For further particulars, enquire of the sub- scriber on the premises. THOMAS BUGBEE. Woodstock, October 5.
NOTICE.
WHEREAS my wife, PRUDIA, having conducted herself very unbe- comingly in all respects; I have resolved to live with her no more, and caution all persons not to trust her on my account, as I will pay no debt of her contracting. EBENEZER ROBINSON. Coventry, October 20.
NEW GOODS.
Freeman and Bartlet
Have just received and opened for sale, at No. 1, Cheapside, a large assortment of Fresh Fashionable Goods, suitable for the present and approaching seasons, among which are,
LONDON superfine and low price Broadcloths, plain, ribb'd and silk strip'd Caffermeres of the newest fashion, striped Elastic, Orleans Stripes; common and superfine Serges, Plains, Forest Cloths, Velvets, Thick- setts, and Genoa Cords, of various colours; Rateneys and Naps of the newest fashion, for fartouts and spencers; common and superfine Lambkin, for ladies coats; Blankets from 6 to 12 quarters; Baizes, Flannels, spotted Swanskins, Coatings, Toilanet and Swansdown Waistcoatings, of the newest fashion; Fearn- oughts; plain, ribb'd, and patent Worsted Hose; Ladies black do. plain, laced clocks, ribb'd, and figur'd Silk Hose; Ladies Cotton and Silk do.
A great variety of Ladies fashion- able Dunstable, chip, cane, Leghorn, and other Bonnets and Hats.
Men's, youth's and children's coarse and fine Hats.
Chintzes, Calicoes, white and co- loured Cambrick Muslins; plain and figured jacquet and sheer Muslins; coloured and white Camels Hair Shawls, with netting fringe, and satin borders; plain and figured Marceilles; Cotton and Linen Checks, Wild- bores, Russells, Birds-eyes, Camblets, Cam- bleteens, Calimancoes, Durants, Tammies, Jeans, Moreens, coloured Cambrick Shawls, Silk Shawls, Bandanno and India Silk Handkerchiefs, Crapes, Gauzes, Lace Veils, Scarfs, black cotton and other coloured Gloves, silk Gloves, Ribbons of the newest tip; Glove-Ties, Velvet Bindings, Silk, Oiled Silk and Linen Umbrellas; Sattins, Pelongs, Sarcenets, Modes, Laces, Edgings, Tapes, Bobbins, Pocket Handkerchiefs, Sus- penders, Ladies fancy kid and Morocco Shoes, Linen, India Cottons, very low; Russia Sheetings, Ravens Duck, Oil Cloths, Pins, Bindings, Ferrets, Morocco Pocket-Books, and many other articles in the Dry Goods line, too numerous to mention.
A L S O, A few hogheads of 3d proof W. I. Rum; Pepper in bags; fifteen bags of Coffee; a few firkins of excellent Butter; Cassia; Tobacco in kegs. October 7.
A large range of Stores
TO BE SOLD OR LET, A LARGE range of Stores, for- merly the property of Messrs. JOSEPH and WILLIAM RUSSELL, merchants. They are, perhaps, better calculated for Wholesale Stores or Auction-Rooms, than any in Provi- dence. Enquire of the Printer. September 9.
LOOKING-GLASSES.
THE subscriber has just received an assortment of Elegant Gilt-Frame LOOKING-GLASSES, with glass pannels, and ornamented tops, of the latest fashions, as low as can be bought in New-York or Boston.—Prices from 20 to 60 dollars the pair. SAMUEL AMES. July 29. '12 w'
GROCERIES,
Just received, and now ready for sale by Samuel Brown,
A little north of the State-house, Providence. Among them are the following, which are genuine:
WEST-India and New-England Rum Cherry Rum Brandy and Holland Geneva Loaf and brown Sugars Hyson and Bohea Tea Coffee and Chocolate Pepper, Allspice, fresh Raisins, Cinnamon, Cassia Buds, Pearls, &c. &c. ALSO,
Drugs, Medicines, Painters' Co- lours and Dye Stuff; all of which are to be sold on the most moderate terms.
He will let the Store Chamber of the store he occupies.
Ornamental Painting and Gilding of various kinds, executed with ac- curacy and attention; and as favours thank- fully received. August 26. 6w.
Take Notice.
THE Copartnership of RICHMOND and KING is dissolved this day, by mu- tual consent. All persons having accounts open with said firm, are requested to exhib- it them for settlement; and all indebted are desired to make immediate payment to the subscribers. JOSHUA RICHMOND. JOHN KING.
Said RICHMOND has for sale, at the Store next south of Capt. Moses Lippitt's, sixteen Hogheads of good flavoured St. Croix Rum, and a few Barrels of Windward Island Sugar; all of which will be sold low for Cash or approved Credit. September 30.